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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guest&nbsp; 85555" data-source="post: 9275355"><p>And to be fair it varies a lot by writer and property. Also the bigger issue here isn’t the theology of souls in vampire movies, lord or books, but the oddness of having the people specifically not have souls. That said Ravenloft clearly has souls as an assumption and it is based on classic vampire works where the soul matters s great deal: the stakes of stories like Dracula and many Dracula movies center not just on loss of life but the loss of your immortal soul. They are trying to save Lucy’s soul when they stake her. I forget how explicit it was in the novel but I believe it was implied Dracula gets his powers from the devil and many movie versions are explicit about that. Again I think this is less the issue here though. You can have a vampire story where they simply feed on Human blood and the writer rejects the soul as an explanation for anything going on. The issue is just specifically having the inhabitants not have soul (which seems to have been done more for game reasons than lore reasons)</p></blockquote><p></p>