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I have done so little with vampires in the World of Aiers.

There's a reason because of that:

I don't know what to do with them. I know I want them to be aierian demons... that meaning, not being actual-demons, but some other creature that poses as demons. And they wouldn't have a lot of powers traditionally associated with vampires...

but right now I'm sleepy to write further... tomorrow I will write some more of my ideas, but for now

Let's discuss about vampires in the World of Aiers.

Do you have some interesting ideas with them you would want to share, before I "contaminate" with my own ideas in this regards?

Edits:

An important part of what I decided among vampires in Aiers was, finally, due World of Aiers being no more only a personal fantasy setting a project, but something a bit bigger, with many other artists and writers deciding to take a part on it, with their own stories and takes.

One thing I hadn't ever considered with the demons of Aiers, who aren't really demons from hell but creatures contained in their soulstones and their soulshard servants, which became a key point in some of the stories of some of these other artists -as Walt-Marsters , theirishdreamer and Shiftingpunk , and some comments of larqven as samples-, was basically the following question:

what would happen if somebody who isn't a constructed vessel of a demon lord, gets a demonic stone?

The first time this question was asked was in a story of Walt-Marsters about the Fall of Roccasone and kanyiko 's character Pumori White Fang, where one of the antagonists characters -a human- had made a pact with the demons to betray his own kind, to ascend and become himself a demon, a host of a soulstone of a bazrrod demon lord.

Originally, I didn't considered this, and my first impulse was to say no... but artistic freedom is important, and specially as the ritual where this union of men and demon stone didn't happened, I decided not to interfere.

Then, inspired by the story of the Fall of Roccasone, theirishdreamer had in a story set in the aftermath of the fall of Roccasone and the invasion of the kingdom of Degoland by the dark legions of demons, other character: an elf sorceress, who had escaped a similar fate. I don't quite remember if this was stated in the story itself, or was part of the comments and discussion with larqven , who pondered how the return of the demons from their exile would mean a lack of constructed vessels / bodies for them, so they would probably try to seize for their own use the bodies of elves and other creatures with magical abilities (maná manipulation).

From this time on, I was open to the idea, and since then, more of such characters and ideas had appeared...

then I thought: to begin with, I have vampires, and have done nothing with them -In an important part, because due many of my internal rules of the setting limiting magic abilities, meant they couldn't do many of the things Vampires are traditionally linked with-. And then, due the creativity of other persons, I have now an idea I hadn't personally considered: non-demonic peoples, non-constructed, serving as vessels to demonic soulstones and shards.

Then I thought... what if I link these two together?

THE VAMPIRES OF THE WORLD OF AIERS

- Of Demons and Soulshards.

The Demons of Aiers, despite their name and their claims, and what had written aierian demonologists aren't real demons from Hell or creatures from other plane, of a metaphysical nature: While there were many discussions about their true nature, and the theological implications if there really existed such things as demons, the Demons of the World of Aiers are energy creatures -living maná-, but who to exist, to be conscious, are linked to the Soulstones.

A demon possessing a Soulstone is what among the daemoni -the demons of Aiers- is called a Bazrrod demon lord, the primogenitor, first of the demons.

But no matter how powerful a Soulstone: without a body, they have no way to enact their will upon the world.

So Demons need vessels for their stones. And these vessels -these constructs-, which can be of bone and flesh -produced by blood wizards- or of iron and oil and other materials -constructed by powerful artificers- can be of all sorts of sizes and forms, limited only in their smallest size to the size of the soulstone, and as big as said soulstone is able to control the body: because of this, demon lords exist of all shapes and forms, with the artists shaping their bodies often taking inspiration from nature, but sometimes as well from terrible imagination...

or from the religion of their enemies, shaping their bodies as the demons and monsters of the legends of others, to inspire fear and command respect.

The Bazrrod Demon Lords can as well produce fragments from their Soulstones: these are the so called Soulshards. Linked to their will, these shards can be given to give live to new bodies and vessels, and in this way are born the Soulshard Demons or simply Demons, second in their rank to the Bazrrods Demon Lords. Created at the will of their Bazrrod Demon Lords masters, these shards can have a conscience, or be dormant, and just be used as a power source.

A Demon Lord can create a soulshard as big and powerful they want, but they have a limit to their creation: as each shard is taken from the soulstone, each shard and each new servant weakens the Bazrrod Demon Lord.

So while initially the demon lords were content with this way to create new servants, as they extended their empire in Aiers -the Demonic Republic first, then the Confederation of Free Peoples, often called the Dark Legion of Demons for it's army-, this system was insufficient.

While their enemies -humans, kanov, elves and dwarves, among others- couldn't destroy neither a soulstone or a soulshard, the physical bodies could be destroyed.

The artificers of the Dark legions where overburdened creating bodies and vessels to try to keep in the battlefield the most soulshards they could, and while powerful, they numbers where limited.

So was necessary a new way to produce vessels, and to expand their numbers, without critically weakening themselves in the process of splitting their soulstones...

The demons of Aiers -who as energy trapped in stones didn't had genders- once more time inspired themselves in the nature: not this time in the shapes for their bodies, but in the function: sexual reproduction.

And so, the Blood Wizards of the Dark Legion will create the first vessels with genders and reproductive capabilities -succubi and incubi-: This will be the origin of the Lesser Demons: lesser demons, because they weren't true demons as they lacked the soulstone or soulshard of the true demons... but they were the children of the blood and flesh of the vessels of the demons... and these bodies -naturally raised-, could as well be used in the same way as the constructions of Blood Wizards and Artificers: as vessels of demons.

But the demons needed time for these new vessels and servants to grow, to replenish their numbers in their wars against the Empire of the Librarians of Dume... then, they considered for the first time in their desperation, what until then had been a taboo among them:

To use the flesh and blood of mortals, as the vessels of their own.

To use the peoples of aiers as hosts of their stones...

and so, the first Vampires would be born.

- The Vampires of Aiers

A vampire in Aiers is the name given to a non-demonic host serving as a vessel to a demonic soulstone or soulshard.

This unholy union can be sometimes very unpredictable, and the extension of the powers of this vampire demon can vary greatly, as not all soulstones and soulshards are equal:

Often in the case of the soulstones of Bazrrod demon lords, the Bazrrod will totally overpower and destroy the will of the host -and any trace of himself or herself, before the union-. But some Bazrrods may be content with sometimes leaving some shreds of freedom to the previous owners of the bodies:

These vampires with a Bazrrod soulstone, would be considered a Bazrrod Demon Lord themselves, and would be able to achieve some of the same great feats of magic -maná manipulation- that Bazrrods can do in other, constructed vessels.

In the case of the of the vampires with soulshards, these as well can have great variation among them, but a key difference is if it's an awaken or dormant soulshard.

An awaken soulshard is a soulshard of a soulstone that have a will, personality and conscience in it's own, while a dormant soulshard doesn't. In the case of a awaken soulshard, there can be on the vampire either the total dominance of the demonic shard, an agreement between the shard and the host, sharing the body, or a perpetual, losing struggle between the host and the shard, until the shard finally breaks his will. In the case of a dormant soulshard, the host doesn't have to fight for the control of his own body, enjoying at the same time the extensive powers that could be granted by a demonic shard... but would always have the danger hanging over his head that the dormant shard could be awoken, either by the will of the Demon Lord that created the shard, or in it's own.

Other problem -specially in bodies of creatures that doesn't have an innate maná manipulation capability-, is that the presence of demon stone in their bodies is poisonous and corrupts the body of the host: one way to deal with this with the ingestion of blood -specially of creatures with innate maná manipulation capabilities as elves and draconids-: it is said that blood can help keep a soulshard dormant, or to avoid the total takeover of an awaken shard. The corruption of the body caused by the presence of an external object as the soulstone could result in some very acute symptoms, such as allergies to some magic-conductive metals, or intense fotosensitivity -but there could be other symptoms, and not always they express themselves equally-.

Taking the bodies of the peoples of Aiers, Vampires would be specially useful to the Dark Legion of Demons as ambassadors, spies and representatives of the Demons in front of other non-demonic peoples, as sometimes was easier for them to deal with humans, kanov, elves and dwarves.

Due their nature of both demons and their former selves, there are many myths and legends about the vampires, and sometimes was difficult to establish what they could and couldn't do, which was more difficult to determine due the various differences of power between different kinds of vampires -Vampire Demon Lords, Vampires and even lesser vampires, the children of the corrupted hosts-, but it was agreed that the vampires, while powerful, lacked the shapeshifting abilities of the Werewolves, and neither they could turn in bats or fog: but for how stealthy they could become, these stories originated. As well, like in the case of werewolves, in many stories the vampires could extend their cursed race by biting, or in other ways, but this wasn't neither the case. While there are vampires who bite to take blood, this wouldn't produce "vampirism" as a curse or a disease, but could result in several diseases or infection, and some vampires do "weaponize" this, but in other cases hygienic habits of vampires may offset this.

In general among the demons, the vampires are some of the less visible of them, as they could much easily blend with non-demon folks.

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Original Description:

I have done so little with vampires in the World of Aiers.

There's a reason because of that:

I don't know what to do with them. I know I want them to be aierian demons... that meaning, not being actual-demons, but some other creature that poses as demons. And they wouldn't have a lot of powers traditionally associated with vampires...

but right now I'm sleepy to write further... tomorrow I will write some more of my ideas, but for now

Let's discuss about vampires in the World of Aiers.

Do you have some interesting ideas with them you would want to share, before I "contaminate" with my own ideas in this regards?

Edits:

An important part of what I decided among vampires in Aiers was, finally, due World of Aiers being no more only a personal fantasy setting a project, but something a bit bigger, with many other artists and writers deciding to take a part on it, with their own stories and takes.

One thing I hadn't ever considered with the demons of Aiers, who aren't really demons from hell but creatures contained in their soulstones and their soulshard servants, which became a key point in some of the stories of some of these other artists -as Walt-Marsters , theirishdreamer and Shiftingpunk , and some comments of larqven as samples-, was basically the following question:

what would happen if somebody who isn't a constructed vessel of a demon lord, gets a demonic stone?

The first time this question was asked was in a story of Walt-Marsters about the Fall of Roccasone and kanyiko 's character Pumori White Fang, where one of the antagonists characters -a human- had made a pact with the demons to betray his own kind, to ascend and become himself a demon, a host of a soulstone of a bazrrod demon lord.

Originally, I didn't considered this, and my first impulse was to say no... but artistic freedom is important, and specially as the ritual where this union of men and demon stone didn't happened, I decided not to interfere.

Then, inspired by the story of the Fall of Roccasone, theirishdreamer had in a story set in the aftermath of the fall of Roccasone and the invasion of the kingdom of Degoland by the dark legions of demons, other character: an elf sorceress, who had escaped a similar fate. I don't quite remember if this was stated in the story itself, or was part of the comments and discussion with larqven , who pondered how the return of the demons from their exile would mean a lack of constructed vessels / bodies for them, so they would probably try to seize for their own use the bodies of elves and other creatures with magical abilities (maná manipulation).

From this time on, I was open to the idea, and since then, more of such characters and ideas had appeared...

then I thought: to begin with, I have vampires, and have done nothing with them -In an important part, because due many of my internal rules of the setting limiting magic abilities, meant they couldn't do many of the things Vampires are traditionally linked with-. And then, due the creativity of other persons, I have now an idea I hadn't personally considered: non-demonic peoples, non-constructed, serving as vessels to demonic soulstones and shards.

Then I thought... what if I link these two together?

THE VAMPIRES OF THE WORLD OF AIERS

- Of Demons and Soulshards.

The Demons of Aiers, despite their name and their claims, and what had written aierian demonologists aren't real demons from Hell or creatures from other plane, of a metaphysical nature: While there were many discussions about their true nature, and the theological implications if there really existed such things as demons, the Demons of the World of Aiers are energy creatures -living maná-, but who to exist, to be conscious, are linked to the Soulstones.

A demon possessing a Soulstone is what among the daemoni -the demons of Aiers- is called a Bazrrod demon lord, the primogenitor, first of the demons.

But no matter how powerful a Soulstone: without a body, they have no way to enact their will upon the world.

So Demons need vessels for their stones. And these vessels -these constructs-, which can be of bone and flesh -produced by blood wizards- or of iron and oil and other materials -constructed by powerful artificers- can be of all sorts of sizes and forms, limited only in their smallest size to the size of the soulstone, and as big as said soulstone is able to control the body: because of this, demon lords exist of all shapes and forms, with the artists shaping their bodies often taking inspiration from nature, but sometimes as well from terrible imagination...

or from the religion of their enemies, shaping their bodies as the demons and monsters of the legends of others, to inspire fear and command respect.

The Bazrrod Demon Lords can as well produce fragments from their Soulstones: these are the so called Soulshards. Linked to their will, these shards can be given to give live to new bodies and vessels, and in this way are born the Soulshard Demons or simply Demons, second in their rank to the Bazrrods Demon Lords. Created at the will of their Bazrrod Demon Lords masters, these shards can have a conscience, or be dormant, and just be used as a power source.

A Demon Lord can create a soulshard as big and powerful they want, but they have a limit to their creation: as each shard is taken from the soulstone, each shard and each new servant weakens the Bazrrod Demon Lord.

So while initially the demon lords were content with this way to create new servants, as they extended their empire in Aiers -the Demonic Republic first, then the Confederation of Free Peoples, often called the Dark Legion of Demons for it's army-, this system was insufficient.

While their enemies -humans, kanov, elves and dwarves, among others- couldn't destroy neither a soulstone or a soulshard, the physical bodies could be destroyed.

The artificers of the Dark legions where overburdened creating bodies and vessels to try to keep in the battlefield the most soulshards they could, and while powerful, they numbers where limited.

So was necessary a new way to produce vessels, and to expand their numbers, without critically weakening themselves in the process of splitting their soulstones...

The demons of Aiers -who as energy trapped in stones didn't had genders- once more time inspired themselves in the nature: not this time in the shapes for their bodies, but in the function: sexual reproduction.

And so, the Blood Wizards of the Dark Legion will create the first vessels with genders and reproductive capabilities -succubi and incubi-: This will be the origin of the Lesser Demons: lesser demons, because they weren't true demons as they lacked the soulstone or soulshard of the true demons... but they were the children of the blood and flesh of the vessels of the demons... and these bodies -naturally raised-, could as well be used in the same way as the constructions of Blood Wizards and Artificers: as vessels of demons.

But the demons needed time for these new vessels and servants to grow, to replenish their numbers in their wars against the Empire of the Librarians of Dume... then, they considered for the first time in their desperation, what until then had been a taboo among them:

To use the flesh and blood of mortals, as the vessels of their own.

To use the peoples of aiers as hosts of their stones...

and so, the first Vampires would be born.

- The Vampires of Aiers

A vampire in Aiers is the name given to a non-demonic host serving as a vessel to a demonic soulstone or soulshard.

This unholy union can be sometimes very unpredictable, and the extension of the powers of this vampire demon can vary greatly, as not all soulstones and soulshards are equal:

Often in the case of the soulstones of Bazrrod demon lords, the Bazrrod will totally overpower and destroy the will of the host -and any trace of himself or herself, before the union-. But some Bazrrods may be content with sometimes leaving some shreds of freedom to the previous owners of the bodies:

These vampires with a Bazrrod soulstone, would be considered a Bazrrod Demon Lord themselves, and would be able to achieve some of the same great feats of magic -maná manipulation- that Bazrrods can do in other, constructed vessels.

In the case of the of the vampires with soulshards, these as well can have great variation among them, but a key difference is if it's an awaken or dormant soulshard.

An awaken soulshard is a soulshard of a soulstone that have a will, personality and conscience in it's own, while a dormant soulshard doesn't. In the case of a awaken soulshard, there can be on the vampire either the total dominance of the demonic shard, an agreement between the shard and the host, sharing the body, or a perpetual, losing struggle between the host and the shard, until the shard finally breaks his will. In the case of a dormant soulshard, the host doesn't have to fight for the control of his own body, enjoying at the same time the extensive powers that could be granted by a demonic shard... but would always have the danger hanging over his head that the dormant shard could be awoken, either by the will of the Demon Lord that created the shard, or in it's own.

Other problem -specially in bodies of creatures that doesn't have an innate maná manipulation capability-, is that the presence of demon stone in their bodies is poisonous and corrupts the body of the host: one way to deal with this with the ingestion of blood -specially of creatures with innate maná manipulation capabilities as elves and draconids-: it is said that blood can help keep a soulshard dormant, or to avoid the total takeover of an awaken shard. The corruption of the body caused by the presence of an external object as the soulstone could result in some very acute symptoms, such as allergies to some magic-conductive metals, or intense fotosensitivity -but there could be other symptoms, and not always they express themselves equally-.

Taking the bodies of the peoples of Aiers, Vampires would be specially useful to the Dark Legion of Demons as ambassadors, spies and representatives of the Demons in front of other non-demonic peoples, as sometimes was easier for them to deal with humans, kanov, elves and dwarves.

Due their nature of both demons and their former selves, there are many myths and legends about the vampires, and sometimes was difficult to establish what they could and couldn't do, which was more difficult to determine due the various differences of power between different kinds of vampires -Vampire Demon Lords, Vampires and even lesser vampires, the children of the corrupted hosts-, but it was agreed that the vampires, while powerful, lacked the shapeshifting abilities of the Werewolves, and neither they could turn in bats or fog: but for how stealthy they could become, these stories originated. As well, like in the case of werewolves, in many stories the vampires could extend their cursed race by biting, or in other ways, but this wasn't neither the case. While there are vampires who bite to take blood, this wouldn't produce "vampirism" as a curse or a disease, but could result in several diseases or infection, and some vampires do "weaponize" this, but in other cases hygienic habits of vampires may offset this.

In general among the demons, the vampires are some of the less visible of them, as they could much easily blend with non-demon folks.

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