A vampire question....

Angel_Lorena26 · Sep 13, 2009

Someone had brought up a important question that not even I had even thought about.

What would you call a living decendent to a vamopire elder? I have racked my brain trying ot come up with something but i wasn't able to. I even cheated and tried to goggle it and the off chance there might be something but no. Anyways if anyone comes up with anything interesting please let me now

thank you

smcc360 · Sep 13, 2009

How far removed? Child, grandchild, great-grandchild? Or further down?

JoshEllingson · Oct 13, 2009

any person who is not a vampire themselves, but is descended from them would be a dhampir.

ChristineR · Oct 13, 2009

A dhampir is a half-vampire, child (through more or less normal sex) of a vampire and a human. Not all traditions and mythical universes admit this as a possibility, although some do.

If you mean children he fathered when he was still alive, they'd just be grandchildren, great-grandchildren, etc.

Rowan · Oct 13, 2009

I think David Zahir posed this question not to long ago but I can't find the thread.... :Shrug:

ETA: Never mind...there appears to be two threads http://www.absolutewrite.com/forums/showthread.php?t=154868&highlight=dhampir

Cyia · Oct 13, 2009

ChristineR said:
A dhampir is a half-vampire, child (through more or less normal sex) of a vampire and a human. Not all traditions and mythical universes admit this as a possibility, although some do.

If you mean children he fathered when he was still alive, they'd just be grandchildren, great-grandchildren, etc.

Exactly.

If they're 1/2 vampire, they're Dhamphir. If they're just a human descendant born from a human who was later turned, they're human descendants.

Generally speaking, it's usually a vampire male and a human female that produce Dhamphir as most of the lore doesn't allow for a female vampire to carry a living child.

DavidZahir · Oct 13, 2009

Legends are slippery things, not nearly as precise as would perhaps be comfortable.

According to some legends, all descendants of a vampire are dhampir -- and it might not even matter whether they were born before the vampire was turned or not! Depending on the legend.

JoshEllingson · Oct 15, 2009

would the child of two vampires, that have vampire blood in their veins, but have not fully turned, be concidered a dhampir?

DavidZahir · Oct 15, 2009

Depends on the rules you want to write for your vampires.

K.Bristow · Nov 17, 2009

It was always my belief that Vampire women can not produce children as their bodies do not change. If they are forever the age they were when they were turned, then it would seem that no child could be born as their bodies do not have the capacity to change, grow, alter etc.

Menyanthana · Nov 18, 2009

Male vampires shouldn't be able to father children, as they don't produce sperms anymore. However...if you don't try to explain your vampires scientifically, you can do whatever you want.

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