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<blockquote data-quote="TheCosmicKid" data-source="post: 6915640" data-attributes="member: 6683613">The way I run it, even if a vampire just &quot;nibbles&quot;, they take something from their victim that doesn't come back. It isn't a natural blood loss to be recovered from with a little bed rest and some extra iron in the diet. That vitality, that capacity for living well and feeling joy, is gone for good, because the vampire has eaten it to fuel their own undeserved longevity.Or perhaps the vampire literally steals years from the victim's life.But the &quot;canonical&quot; vampire fiction of the Victorians had already evolved from that to a fear of corrupting sexual immorality: &quot;The vampires are here to seduce our women!&quot; Van Helsing is a medical doctor, and he speaks of vampirism as literally a blood disease, but in undertones Dracula is far more the depraved libertine than the disease vector.Certainly in the undead pantheon of modern pop culture, the &quot;contagious dead body&quot; fear is addressed to a much greater extent by zombies (or, in D&amp;D, ghouls).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TheCosmicKid, post: 6915640, member: 6683613"] The way I run it, even if a vampire just "nibbles", they take something from their victim that doesn't come back. It isn't a natural blood loss to be recovered from with a little bed rest and some extra iron in the diet. That vitality, that capacity for living well and feeling joy, is gone for good, because the vampire has eaten it to fuel their own undeserved longevity. Or perhaps the vampire literally steals years from the victim's life. But the "canonical" vampire fiction of the Victorians had already evolved from that to a fear of corrupting sexual immorality: "The vampires are here to seduce our women!" Van Helsing is a medical doctor, and he speaks of vampirism as literally a blood disease, but in undertones Dracula is far more the depraved libertine than the disease vector. Certainly in the undead pantheon of modern pop culture, the "contagious dead body" fear is addressed to a much greater extent by zombies (or, in D&D, ghouls). [/QUOTE]

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