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--- lb:vampires [2025-09-16 09:37:28] – [Chronicles of Darkness] ninjasr
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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 [[playground:myth: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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 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.))
-  * 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.))
+  * 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?\\
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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.