Vampires
Vampires are a famous galactic beast not only in the pop culture world as handsome renegades, but also in the historical, mythological and beastological worlds as terrifying monsters that remained the modern galactic community of why they used to be afraid of the dark.
What is it?:
Vampires are often described by most beast hunters as both cunning and sadistic creatures that seem to enjoy inflicting pain and consuming the blood of their helplessly innocent victims, in addition even with their beast nature, vampires are a very intelligent beast race as they utilise tactical thinking, deception and even the mimic of familiar voices while luring/hunting their prey. In terms of appearance, vampires are bipedal rodent like creatures with a set of wings and huge ears for the uses of sonar detect as well as echo location, they also possess a “break away jaw” which is allows them to grip their and most often times, tear their throat out.
Where does it live?:
While most “non-rational” vampires live with abandoned structures, sewers, graveyards amongst other less then desirable places, some are often welcomed or raised within a “vampiric broods”. These Vampiric Broods are similar to the various “God Hunter Tribes”, in the sense that all of them are different, however the bond between those who belong to a tribe is something akin to blood relations. Commonly broods will live in the wilderness mostly within caves, swamps as well as other places mortals dare not to set foot, however there was a curious tale about a rather large vampiric brood that took up residence within a long abandoned tram station. As mentioned above those vampires who are not part of a brood will most often live within places where they aren’t likely to be driven out, within these places vampires will usually start building nests out of bones, sticks and rotting corpses just to name a few.
What does it do?:
Similar to most beasts, the large majority of vampires only really eat, sleep and procreate, and more often then not a beast hunter will be paid enough money to come and kill them, however for vampiric broods, well they have much large ambitions in mind. These large ambitions are most often different with some vampiric broods wanting to simply kill and consume while others would rather just live in peace, however most commonly larger ambitions for vampires often means integrating themselves within mortal society and getting into positions of power that benefit the brood one way or another. Additionally vampires integrating themselves into mortal society’s gave way to the bizarre and down right false claims that holy water, gloves of garlic and a wooden stake through the heart would be enough to kill one of the galaxies most dangerous predators.
How to kill it?:
Whist killing a vampires is for the most part easy if you are well trained, well informed and have no problem taken some damage, the hardest part is killing it before it kills you. Similar to most other spectres and therianthropes, vampires have a weakness to white ash and silver either in the form of bullets or a sword, in additionally vampires also have an aversion to sunlight and can often burn all together if they are exposed to it for too long a time.
Different Types of Vampires
1. Nosferatus- are a highly evolved rational vampires that are both extremely powerful as well as immortal. In terms of appearance, Nosferatus are often described as “civilized” as they are often dressed in only the finest of clothes and will often combine both their beast form and their disguised form to bring about a more “balanced appearance”. Similar to most other vampires, Nosferatus have a pair of wings that allow them to taker flight, however unlike most vampires these wings can be attracted and retracted when in both their disguised form and their beast form. Since Nosfeatus are so rare and mainly who have attempted to hunt them down never come back there isn’t really a lot of information about them, however one thing that is known is this, whist during the collective age there were a lot of rumors about powerful vampires who were attempting to rebuild the old “Vampire Imperium” the first documented encounter of a Nosferatu wasn’t until the middle of the pantheonic age. While it isn’t truly known where Nosferatus come from that hasn’t stop the galactic community from coming up with their own theories, for example “The High Evolution Theory” says that Nosferatus are simply a product of evolution during the cosmic crusades, “The Runaway God Theory” suggests that Akovire’s death and the release of the god virus may have been the cause of their creation, and “The Mattenhawk Theory” suggests that Nosferatus are Vortexons that have simply subjugated the vampire race and now rules it as their masters.
2. Strigos- are unbelievably savage and feral vampires that are feared not only for their ferocity but also their ability to appear and disappear in the blink of an eye. In terms of appearance, Strigos are hunched bipedal vampires that are completely devoid of the intelligence and tactical thinking that most of their race have, but they make up for that with their raw strength, endurance and unusually fast movements, as a final point their faces are sunken, with their skin pulled tightly around the skull and their mouths being unable to be fully closed due to the large amount of teeth and their deformed gums. Uniquely, most rational vampires utterly detest Strigos because of their furiously savage nature and as a result they are rarely ever welcomed into Vampiric Broods.
3. Sasabonsams- are horrific vampires that stalk their prey from higher ground and kill them in such a way that leaves no trace of them left. In terms of appearance, Sasabonsams are extremely skinny, so much so that they are often mistaken for wendigos, unfortunately this confusion is often deadly as both beasts share only their love for mortal flesh. Additionally Sasabonsams possess extremely long razor sharp claws that are used to cut, slice and tear anything that stands in their way, in practices only Deusium has proven to withstand that might of these “hot iron” claws. Mainly, Sasabonsams are found with deep and dense forest or jungles areas as they used the trees to stalk their prey, then they will anchor their feet into the tree branches and hang from it in a similar way to a bat, finally it will sink it’s teeth and claws into their victim with the only trace of them left being a few loud torment screams with not obvious source.
4. Kanattoowats- or more commonly known as “Spider Vampires” are 6 legged furry vampiric creatures that mainly serve as pets or guards for whichever vampiric brood happened to raise them. in terms of appearance, Kanattoowats appear like a cross between a Strigo and an Arachnid, while their bottom half looks similar to that of a spider with it also contain the abilities to produce webbing, their top half appears similar to a Strigo with the pale complexion and the high amount of muscle mass. Additionally instead of having fangs like most vampires, Kanattoowats possess pincers which are used in place of fangs to suck a body dry of blood, but instead of biting the neck, Kanattoowats will instead use their tongues to pierce the victims skull and proceed to drain their blood that way.
