Bloodlines

The Dawn of the Vampire

Credits

Original Stories by Joe Zukoski (Zuk). All rights reserved, on 4/20/2001. All characters, stories, and events belong to Planet Gohan and Joe Zukoski and may be used with permission.

*The Character Seifer Oliviar is trademark and used by Mike Gilday and maybe with used with Permission.

The Use of the Belmont Family, various weapons, and the opening sequence to Bloodlines was exerted from the Castlevania game series by Konami and is copyrighted from their game Castlevania: Symphony of the Night for the Playstatiom Gaming Comsole.

Overview

Ever remember those movies by Universal with Dracula played by Bela Lugosi. Well...it is in no way like that. Those old vampire movies are nothing like the actual one documented by lore of the Romanian people nor by the author of the book, Bram Stoker's Dracula, by none other then, Bram Stoker. This new story takes a more gothic scenery, taking place within the turn of the century in 1897. But it also has time travels to various important points that has much needed info to explain. This tells a tale of a future vampire hunter by the name of John Morris, who becomes an orphan and is taken into the care by Soleiyu, a cleric who teaches him to fight and kill demons of the undead. Adventures continue and unfold with new characters as wild as the Calabro Conversion's.

Lore

Well, some people who knew about this book asked me. What is the real way to kil/hurt a vampire? So i answered that in accordance to the lore by the people who made up the legend to begin with.

• A vampire is subcetible to holy articles (ie: Crucifixes, medals, statues, etc.) And are blinded by a light. Unless of course they are powerful enough that they can blindly incinerate the article, thus making it useless.
• Holy Water, according to lore, when they come in contact with them, is like acid compared to us.
• People say staking is a way to kill a vampire. That is true, provided other things occur. People "stake" vampires to "pin" them to the ground where they cannot get up again. But they have to be staked with in the heart. They can be staked by any sharp object (ie: knives, wooden stakes, spears, swords.) But holy weapons puncture faster and harder.
• If by chance the stake is removed from the carcass of a vampire, it reanimates and feasts again.
• Also, to cut off a vampire's head and place it face down, is another way to kill it.
• Cut off it's head, stuff it's mouth full of garlic and cut of their ears.
• Destroy the coffin (used to power themselves up for the night) by burning it or throwing it in a body of water.
• Fire frightens them, but it may kill them if they were incinerated.

Powers/Limitations of a Vampire.

• Vampires must consume the blood of a virgin male/female once a night or more.
• Biting region is in the neck (common) or the wrist. Because the arteries are there.
• They have the power of the forms of Mist, the Wolf, and commenly known, the bat.
• As some vampires can assume mist form, one of the more unusual transformations. In mist form they are immune to physical attacks, but can likewise not make any physical attacks, motions,etc. Magic can affect them, all forms of magic may hit them and may kill them.
• They have the strength of 10 men
• They can walk in daylight. But they are powerless, and act like normal humans.
• They can be concidered male succubusses. Seducing young virgin females for their bites.
• They can regenerate certain body parts when sleeping in the day time.
• Holy Relics frighten them, garlic offends them as a terrible odor
• If they travel, they need boxes of Earth from their Mother Country to sustain their rest, peacefully
• They can scale walls at lightning speed and silence. Their stealth makes them very dangerous.
• The do have some power to hypnotise a weak mind. But even that has limitations.
• They can be concidered the Knights in Hell's army.
• According to the original lore, it is said that the vampire must be invited in. That is true, the owner of the house must allow the creature in, and from that time forward, it can come and go into that house anytime it wants.
• A vampire casts no reflection in a mirror, because it does not entirely exist in this physical plane, it is more dead then alive.
• Vampires are immune to mundane weapons, excepting holy weapons, magical weapons, or silver weapons. They appear to be hit (i.e. arrows stick out of them, swords cut, etc.) but they are unhurt by such. Openings made by weapons close after the weapon is removed, and they will not bleed. The only other way to kill a vampire is a stake through the heart. Though silver/magic/holy weapons harm vampires, they will not kill them instantly (merely do to a vampire what a normal weapon would do to a human).

How to to become one!

I don't believe the way it's been presented thus far. Being bitten mutiple times and then poof. No, one thing for sure, is that you have to have been bitten once. But then, you must bite the neck/wrist of the vampire and drains small amounts of their own blood to poisen your system. Then you die for a moment, but then are reborn with your new found powers. - Exerted Belief from Interview of the Vampire

But many people also take from Universal Movies and other vampire movies is that: A vampire may drain the blood of human being and once all blood is consumed the victem dies. After burial, the body is not at rest and rises in a reincarnated form of the vampire. This explains the connection to the coffin a little better, how it must rest with the place it died in.