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 ====== Vampires ======
-**Vampires** are blood-sucking creatures from mythology and folklore from all over the place, though I don't (yet) know where the first vampires showed up...the modern iteration started sometime in the...17th century? I'll have to check.\\
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+<dfn>Vampires</dfn> are blood-sucking creatures from mythology and folklore from all over the place, though I don't (yet) know where the first vampires showed up...the modern iteration started sometime in the...17th century? I'll have to check.
 Oh, right, half-vampires half-humans are called [[playground:dhampirs]].
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 ===== Description & Notes =====
 I'll add their origin notes <del>a bit</del> later. Coincidentally, just like with [[lb:succubus|succubi]], I can rely on //Medusa's Gaze and Vampire's Bite//.
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 ===== Relations =====
 There are a bunch of different vampire-like creatures across mythology, but I'll //mostly// be limiting myself to those I'm going to write include on the wiki.
+==== Iso Onna ====
+This is a Japanese vampire-like woman yokai. More to be added later.
+==== Jiangshi ====
+Chinese hopping vampires. I don't know anything about them, so I need to look into them first.
 ==== Jubokko ====
 The [[lb:Jubokko]] is a yōkai that drinks blood. The twist? It's a tree.
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 It's described on [[https://yokai.com/jubokko/|yokai.com]].
+==== Nikusui ====
+//Another// kind of vampire woman yokai from Japan. Though these ones may be closer to cannibals.
 ==== Succubi ====
 I stated this on the [[lb:succubus]] article, but I think vampires and succubi overlap quite a bit. There was even a point where, apparently, vampires didn't necessarily have to drink blood...but any fluid that comes out of humans. Which, yes, includes //semen//.\\
 At this point, any depiction of a ‘sexy vampire’ is basically a kind of succubus as well.
+==== Vetala ====
+My friend linked the [[wp>Vetala]] to me, suggesting it might be related to a vampire (then immediately changed his mind). I'll check later.
+==== Wendigos ====
+It was told to me by a friend that Wendigos are similar to vampires and...yeah, so I put them here. Though I won't expand on this section for now.
 ==== Zombies ====
-The relationship between [[playground:zombie|zombies]] and vampires is interesting in that, as far as I'm concerned, they're basically the same...except zombies are the lamer version of the vampire.\\
+The relationship between [[lb:zombie|zombies]] and vampires is interesting in that, as far as I'm concerned, they're basically the same...except zombies are the lamer version of the vampire.\\
 Think about it: both are undead monsters that need to feed on the living. Just that zombies are, at least nowadays, tied to disease more than vampires...and vampires are also much stronger than zombies.
 ===== Media Depictions =====
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 Oh, yeah, their feeding is also lethal about 99% of the time. Even if they don't drain you dry, they can leave you with a disease that, y'know, will end you.
 ==== Chronicles of Darkness ====
-In comparison to [[lb:wod|Vampire: the Masquerade]], I think that [[lb:cod|Vampire: the Requiem]] does a better job with vampires. //Masquerade// has more complete and interesting lore, but Requiem has better vampire archetypes, aided more by the mix-and-match nature of the lore.
+In comparison to [[lb:wod|Vampire: the Masquerade]], I think that [[lb:cod|Vampire: the Requiem]] does a better job with vampires. //Masquerade// has more complete and interesting lore, but //Requiem// has better vampire archetypes, aided more by the mix-and-match nature of the lore.
-Now, previously, I didn't think I needed a dedicated section for the //Chronicles of Darkness//, since I assumed vampires were exactly the same between the two gamelines...until I found some stuff while skimming thru Requiem splatbooks that made me pause.
+Now, previously, I didn't think I needed a dedicated section for the //Chronicles of Darkness//, since I assumed vampires were exactly the same between the two gamelines...until I found some stuff while skimming thru //Requiem// splatbooks that made me pause.
 I think there's a very subtle implication that the vampires in //Chronicles// are //not dead// but instead in a strange in-between state. I assume this for two main reasons:
-  * Daeva can somehow have sex without using the Blush of Life.((:fn:>I'm getting this from the Daeva book, where there's a story where something like this ends up happening. I will have to check it again later, though the implication is there because per the character explaining it (the man who decided to sex a vampire), the body warmed up //during// the sex.))
+  * Daeva can somehow have sex without using the Blush of Life.((:fn:>I'm getting this from the Daeva book, where there's a story where something like this ends up happening.\\ I will have to check it again later, though the implication is there because per the character explaining it (the man who decided to sex a vampire), the body warmed up //during// the sex.))
-  * Female vampires can get pregnant //somehow//.
+  * Female vampires can get pregnant //somehow//.((:fn:>This one is more ambiguous because it's obviously unnatural and vampires are naturally sterile.\\ There are slight differences between the editions regarding dhampir, though I'm only sure about one. The only thing made clear about how they happen is that it's ‘unnatural’ with the implication that it's up to the players and Storyteller to figure out the actual mechanics.))
 Neither of those are possible in //Masquerade// (‘sfar as I know).\\
-This kinda implies that they aren't just dead, right?
+This kinda implies that they aren't just dead, right?\\
+Though I did briefly forget that //Chronicles// has a more Lego approach to play and lore...so while the implication is there, it isn't like there is a ‘canon’. I personally prefer vampires as in an in-between state, so I guess they are.
-Anyway, one issue I have is with the sheer number of bloodlines in //Requiem//. I think it enters the realm of unrealistic if we assume they're all ‘canon’...but since //Requiem// and //[[lb:cod]]// have lore that functions like Lego, I assume it's more a pick-and-choose sorta thing, so it's not a big deal. Though it still raises the question of //where//the bloodlines come from and how they form. I don't think there's a concrete answer.
+Anyway, one issue I have is with the sheer number of bloodlines in //Requiem//. I think it enters the realm of unrealistic if we assume they're all ‘canon’...but since //Requiem// and //[[lb:cod]]// have lore that functions like Lego, I assume it's more a pick-and-choose sorta thing, so it's not a big deal. Though it still raises the question of //where// the bloodlines come from and how they form. I don't think there's a concrete answer.
 ==== Daybreakers ====
 [[tmdbm>19901|Daybreakers]] is an interesting example for two reasons. The first is that vampirism is explicitly depicted as a (supernatural) disease. As far as I know, the only other thing that depicts vampirism like this is Plague Inc.\\
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 The premise is that sometime in 2008...I think...a disease started spreading from a bat. I-I know how that sounds, but let's continue.
-The disease turned people into immortal vampires. They could eat and drink like normal (apparently), though they still needed to feed on human blood. Not feeding on human blood makes them degenerate into more bat-like monsters. So...<wrap spoiler>there's some overlap with [[lb:yakuneve]]</wrap>.\\
+The disease turned people into immortal vampires. They could eat and drink like normal (apparently), though they still needed to feed on human blood. Not feeding on human blood makes them degenerate into more bat-like monsters. So...<mark spoiler>there's some overlap with [[lb:yakuneve]]</mark>.\\
 Most of humanity chose to become these inhuman monsters, while the rest didn't. The vampires now rule the world as if little has changed. At this point I realized I'm basically writing a review, so let's not get too into it.((:fn:>I realized that part of this film is relevant to the [[lb:story character]] article, so I'll be writing something at some point.)) The point is that vampires are in charge and actively hunting down the rest of humanity.
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 [[lb:kumoka]] has Sophia and her butler as vampires, though the depiction of vampires is pretty standard.
-There is some stuff later that reveals <wrap spoiler>that the first demon lord was a company CEO who became a vampire prior to getting the job of CEO. Also, vampirism is apparently a disease that people normally can’t get. Sophia is a major exception for being a vampire who is ‘pure’: having been born as one</wrap>.
+There is some stuff later that reveals <mark spoiler>that the first demon lord was a company CEO who became a vampire prior to getting the job of Demon Lord. Also, vampirism is apparently a disease rather than being a trait of a distinct race. Sophia is a major exception for being a vampire who is ‘pure’: having been born as one</mark>.
 ==== Night of the Comet ====
 Yes, seriously.
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 //Underworld// and //Masquerade// have very surface-level similarities, but are quite different. First, vampires aren't dead...vampires are living creatures and, specifically, an immortal sub-race of humanity.\\
 They're immortal, drink blood and can turn others via a bite...and, well, the sun hurts them. They're also directly related to werewolves and exist in a vampire faction, similar to the Camarilla...I guess.\\
-Though there is only //one// faction in this world...though, keep in mind that I only watched the first two films.\\
+Though there is only //one// faction in this world...though, keep in mind that I only watched the first two films.
 The origin story for the vampires is that there was a guy named Alexander Corvinus who got infected with the Plague but, instead of killing him, it made him immortal. He had three sons. One of them was bitten by a wolf, which is where all the werewo- I mean...//Lycans// came from. One was bitten by a bat and that one was responsible for all vampires. Then the last one was just a normal guy.\\
 However, there's a worldbuilding issue here. Vampires cannot be descended from bats because vampire bats don't live in Europe. This is actually an interesting quirk of vampire lore...since, well, as far as I can tell...the connection between vampires and bats is retroactive. Though all that matters is the fact it's a mistake.