Vampires and Death Mana

[[to_xp]Gekko]

since vampires in FFH are not undead and are a product of the body sphere, why do they get access to summoning undead?

 

[Darksaber1]

Because they practice necromancy.

I know, that's a weasel answer, if that isn't it, then I don't know.

 

[mimic]

^^ What he said.

 

[Avahz Darkwood]

just consider them the ultimate goths.

 

[Kyroshill]

FFH vampires to me seem like the ultimate capitalists..... they rise to the top on the backs of those they see as weaker.

If humans are easy to control (and when they get unruly.... well, you know )....

Then mindless skellies and spectres are perfect to send off to do the dirty work of combat, leaving the vamps to come in and feast afterwards.

That's how I see it anyway..... for what that's worth LOL

 

[Grey Fox]

Even tho Vampirism is a perfect representation of the body sphere (the new twisted version which represents Rage, Hate, Anger, and ofc. Strength) I think Alexis used a form of necromancy to actually perform the first ritual in which she became the first vampire. Their adoptive mother is Os-Gabella after all, head of the Sheaim, the masters of necromancy.

 

[MagisterCultuum]

Thematically the Sheaim are not masters of Necromancy, they are masters of Dimensional magic. That involves mostly summoning Demons and Elementals, not animating corpses. They would certainly have skilled necromancers among them as they are basically the only society that encourages the unregulated practice of such dark arts, but it is not their specialty. They only have Death mana to hold the pot fr Dimensional until it is (possibly) reintroduced, bostly because it has the most summons.

 

[Grey Fox]

Yeah, well, of course. But they probably have the best necromancers in the world. If just only counting Tebryn.

 

[loocas]

The vampires produce a surplus of dead bodies. Seems only practical that they would put them to work.

 

[Switchblock]

I agree with loocas on this one, vampires only feast on the blood, not the bodies, so really, what else would you do with a bloodless body?

 

[Monkeyfinger]

They feast on souls actually. Blood drinking is the mechanism by which a moroi becomes a vampire, but once you are a vampire you feast on souls, not blood.

That still leaves plenty of intact corpses to raise skeletons from though.

 

[petcarcharodon]

Though, most vampires drink their victims blood anyway.

 

[Grey Fox]

I think it might be part of the ritual these days.

 

[MagisterCultuum]

I'd guess that the ritual technically doesn't require drinking blood, but that the curse from Lugus that one bring on oneself when he/she performs the ritual causes an powerful craving for the actual blood, just like it causes sensitivity to sunlight.

 

[Avahz Darkwood]

Well on the bright (ahem) side if they didn't want to raise them as undead, they could always feed them to the populous as "strange" meat

 

[Grey Fox]

The name breeding pit takes on a new meaning...

 

[Nikis-Knight]

I always figured that those who knew about vampires, but don't know the ritual, would feast on the corpses of the vampire's victims in the vain hopes that that would do it.

 

[Micky Onimusha]

if they didn't want to raise them as undead, they could always feed them to the populous as "strange" meat

A special Soylent Green resource (+1/+1) for the Calabim?

 

[Thimblyjoe]

A special Soylent Green resource (+1/+1) for the Calabim?

It would probably be more like +1/+1 but they've already got something like that *cough*breeding pits*cough*

 

[MagisterCultuum]

Hmm...what would people think of making Breeding pits act like The Soul Forge, but providing food instead of hammers.