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Inspired by Ford Prefect's thread on vampires, but whereas that's more about the vampire concept in general and how the bloodsuckers are portrayed in fiction already, this thread is more about our own vampire stories and characters that we're planning to write.
The first thing I'm trying to narrow down is what'd make a good real-world setting for vampires. Anywhere with a lot of cities, mountains, forests or bodies of water would make sense practically, while anywhere with a lot of open plains, deserts or sunlight wouldn't. For example, in Australia Melbourne (rain, almost the Seattle of the South), Canberra (ice and cold, also politicians) and Hobart might make decent vampire hangouts, but anywhere else in the country probably wouldn't.
Obviously Eastern Europe is prime vampire territory, particularly Serbia (where the word vampire comes from, though it's in turn derived from the Turkish ubir) and Romania, though large swathes of Hungary oddly enough might be a poor choice what with the Great Plains. Though that does bring up the ideas of Cowboys vs Vampires (Csikos as Hungary knows them), if not Vampire Cowboys.
Britain, Ireland and Russia, the Northern US states and Canada (mainly around British Columbia, the Eastern states and Toronto) could be likely locations too, though anywhere too far north like Scandinavia and you run into the problem of the Midnight Sun in summer, though lots of vampires would have the money to just move away before then.
China, Korea and Japan stand out for Asia, not being too tropical or having too many plains or deserts. New Zealand, the Andean or Amazonian parts of Peru, Chile and inland Brazil might also work, Africa might be way too tropical, sunny or desert-laden though.
Of course, all of that above was just me referring to the more typical stock vampire, not taking account of related regional creatures like the Aswang, Manananggal or Vetala.
The other big vampire idea I had would be a Quest where vampires find the corpses of famous historical figures (and mythical too I guess, since I'm already featuring vampires) to turn them into their ghouls. This would partly be too gain powerful advisers, inventors or bodyguards, but also for perverse entertainment, such as making Attila the Hun and Genghis Khan fight each other just to see who wins, or too see how some ancient figure like say Aristotle or Queen Victoria would react to the modern era.
This got me wondering what historic/mythic figures would work well as vampires (not counting ones already linked with vampires like Vlad Dracula or Erzsebet Bathory, since they're a given), or which ones wouldn't adapt well to being vampires for a 'fish out of water' story. Pythagoras was one I'd thought of, sharing with vampires his big math obsession, or taking a page from Warhammer, maybe a few Egyptian pharaohs or the Chinese Emperor Qin Shi Huangdi who were already obsessed with transcending death?
The first thing I'm trying to narrow down is what'd make a good real-world setting for vampires. Anywhere with a lot of cities, mountains, forests or bodies of water would make sense practically, while anywhere with a lot of open plains, deserts or sunlight wouldn't. For example, in Australia Melbourne (rain, almost the Seattle of the South), Canberra (ice and cold, also politicians) and Hobart might make decent vampire hangouts, but anywhere else in the country probably wouldn't.
Obviously Eastern Europe is prime vampire territory, particularly Serbia (where the word vampire comes from, though it's in turn derived from the Turkish ubir) and Romania, though large swathes of Hungary oddly enough might be a poor choice what with the Great Plains. Though that does bring up the ideas of Cowboys vs Vampires (Csikos as Hungary knows them), if not Vampire Cowboys.
Britain, Ireland and Russia, the Northern US states and Canada (mainly around British Columbia, the Eastern states and Toronto) could be likely locations too, though anywhere too far north like Scandinavia and you run into the problem of the Midnight Sun in summer, though lots of vampires would have the money to just move away before then.
China, Korea and Japan stand out for Asia, not being too tropical or having too many plains or deserts. New Zealand, the Andean or Amazonian parts of Peru, Chile and inland Brazil might also work, Africa might be way too tropical, sunny or desert-laden though.
Of course, all of that above was just me referring to the more typical stock vampire, not taking account of related regional creatures like the Aswang, Manananggal or Vetala.
The other big vampire idea I had would be a Quest where vampires find the corpses of famous historical figures (and mythical too I guess, since I'm already featuring vampires) to turn them into their ghouls. This would partly be too gain powerful advisers, inventors or bodyguards, but also for perverse entertainment, such as making Attila the Hun and Genghis Khan fight each other just to see who wins, or too see how some ancient figure like say Aristotle or Queen Victoria would react to the modern era.
This got me wondering what historic/mythic figures would work well as vampires (not counting ones already linked with vampires like Vlad Dracula or Erzsebet Bathory, since they're a given), or which ones wouldn't adapt well to being vampires for a 'fish out of water' story. Pythagoras was one I'd thought of, sharing with vampires his big math obsession, or taking a page from Warhammer, maybe a few Egyptian pharaohs or the Chinese Emperor Qin Shi Huangdi who were already obsessed with transcending death?
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Well, free idea if anyone wants it.