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 This article collects a number of notes on writing/worldbuilding [[lb:vampires]] (focused primarily on a contemporary fantasy setting). I spun it off from the original article due to how complicated it ended up getting.
-Seeing how this is one of the first such articles, I figure I should explain the purpose. It's mostly me thinking about the //most reasonable results// of a few //conditions//, serving as ‘guides’ or inspiration/notes for...whatever it is I'm writing about.\\
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-In the case of vampires, the baseline would be something like: immortal, hates the sun, drinks blood. Despite how little information that appears to be, we can speculate //a lot// about what they'd actually be like in reality.\\
+Seeing how this is one of the first such articles, I figure I should explain the purpose. It's mostly me thinking about the //most reasonable results// of a few //conditions//, serving as ‘guides’ or inspiration/notes for...whatever it is I'm writing about.
+In the case of vampires, the baseline would be something like: immortal, hates the sun, drinks blood. Despite how little information that appears to be, we can speculate //a lot// about what they'd actually be like in reality.
 On top of that, I'm also thinking about other conditions (like where it's most likely vampires originated).
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+What should be kept in mind is that these notes are a suggestion and not a rule. Vampires not resembling exactly what I'm speculating about doesn't mean the vampires are bad. Buuuut...that doesn't mean that you can just do whatever you want.
+To give a very simple example: vampires need to drink human blood to survive. Thus, it can be logically assumed that vampires would prefer to live in cities, or near cities. But if, instead, it's suggested vampires prefer to live in isolated communities in the countryside...then that just doesn't make sense. Some additional justification //must// be given for why the situation is like this.
-What should be kept in mind is that these notes are a suggestion and not a rule. Vampires not resembling exactly what I'm speculating about doesn't mean the vampires are bad. Buuuut...that doesn't mean that you can just do whatever you want.\\
-To give a very simple example: vampires need to drink human blood to survive. Thus, it can be logically assumed that vampires would prefer to live in cities, or near cities. But if, instead, it's suggested vampires prefer to live in isolated communities in the countryside...then that just doesn't make sense. Some additional justification //must// be given for why the situation is like this.\\
 So that's kind of what my notes are about. Assuming a generic vampire...well, what //would// generic vampires //actually// look like in real life?
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 ===== General Worldbuilding =====