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--- lb:wnotes:vampires [2025-10-18 07:30:49] – [Affection & Intimacy] Added section. ninjasr
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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 =====
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 So this section exists to weigh whether or not vampires would want to maintain secrecy or not.
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 I think the following conditions dictate whether or not they want to stay hidden from humanity:
   * What abilities they possess and how powerful they are.
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   * How much blood they need to survive.
   * Their weaknesses.
+But I think that, in general, vampires would lean towards hiding from humans unless the conditions are especially favorable to them. Whether it's our world or not (though if it's based in our world, they should remain secret if you want things to still line up).
-But I think that, in general, vampires would lean towards hiding from humans unless the conditions are especially favorable to them. Whether it's our world or not (though if it's based in our world, they should remain secret if you want things to still line up).\\
 Let's go down the list one by one.
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 ==== Abilities ====
 What abilities vampires have is something that I generally consider to be unimportant. I say this because the abilities of the average vampire make them exceptionally weak compared to the entirety of humanity. But if vampiric abilities are downright god-like...yeah, the situation changes a bit. Though in that situation I find it most likely for vampires to go extinct together with the rest of humanity (assuming they start out early). I'm defining “god-like” as having no serious drawbacks.\\
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 The obvious solution is that vampires need to drink human blood or only a small subset can drink non-human blood. //[[lb:cod|Requiem]]// and //Masquerade// actually do this as well (kinda), where the more powerful of a vampire you are, the more you'll need to drink human (or later, vampire) blood. At a certain level in //Requiem//, you can //only// drink from other vampires.\\
 I think this is the most reasonable one.
+==== Human Juices ====
+Before I //finally// go thru //Medusa's Gaze and Vampire's Bite// again to double-check, I just need to put this here.
+Vampires – **originally** – didn't just drink blood. I believe that was explicitly established by Dracula. **Originally**, vampires drank/ate many other types of liquids that came from humans.\\
+The only condition seemed to be that it carry some kind of ‘life force’ from humanity.
+You know where this is going, **I** know where this is going...so let's just say it: <fs xx-large>**semen**</fs>.
+Vampires could originally not only drink blood, but semen and sweat and anything else that possibly comes out of a human. Does that include urine? That one is //possible// but I would actually say ‘no’ because it doesn't carry life force. Vaginal lubrication? Probably.
+So, yes, in order to feed herself a sexy vampire waifu could bite you, lick your face and then suck you o– **yeah**.
+Now that I've handled that topic, how does this fit into worldbuilding as a whole? Does it? Well, if vampires can drink more than blood, the situation regarding them changes quite a bit. To the point that it's quite complicated and difficult to theorize about.\\
+Thus, I think it's smarter to just stick to blood. If other ‘human juice’ is considered, it should not be nearly as filling. This is because sweat and...//sexual juices// are a lot easier to come by than blood.
 ===== Contemporary Fantasy Worldbuilding =====
 These aren't sorted alphabetically...but, I //hope// in an order where later entries are dependent on earlier ones.
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 If you're a little lazy, maybe you'd like to refer to this table instead of reading the sections.
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 ^  Origin Point                                                                                                   |^  Oldest Vampire                                                                             ^ Likely?  ^
 ^  Time Period        ^  Geographic Location                                                                       | :::                                                                                         | :::      |
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 | :::                 | Eastern Europe (Romania)                                                                   | :::                                                                                         | ≈        |
 ^  Modern Era         | N/A                                                                                        | At most 200 years old.                                                                      | ✓        |
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 === Start of Humanity ===
 Vampires started around the same time homo sapiens appeared as well, making the oldest living vampire (assuming they're still alive) over or around 100,000 years old.
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 I'm sure I can write something else about this if it comes to mind.
+==== Dracula ====
+I was gonna write something here, but then I realized it would fit better on a [[lb:Dracula|dedicated article]].
+Once I get the motivation to do so, I'll add how Dracula might fit into the picture.
+Oh, right, I remember what it was. I was discussing Dracula just the other day and it was suggested (not by me) that the canine teeth might have come from the //werewolf// side of Dracula, rather than the //vampire// side. That is kinda interesting to think about, though it probably doesn't matter that much.
 ==== Moonbathing ====
 Since the Moon reflects the Sun, it's possible that vampires might feel some kind of warmth (or get a tan) from the Moon. In that case, Moonbathing is totally a thing that could happen.