- Location
- Russia
But barghests are dog-like while vargheists are bat-like. It's varghulfs who are somewhat similar to barghests.
Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest
- Thread starter Boney
- Start date
- Fantasy Users' Choice!
Voted best in category in the Users' Choice awards.
Aegon Targaryen
Dragonking of Fuyuki
- Location
- Romania
If "you are what you eat" is literal for Vampires, then what about Abhorash and Zacharias, who ate dragons?
- Location
- Greece
They are called "blood dragons" for a reason, I presume.
Omegahugger
Inattentive Idiot
Presumeably because as the local Vampire Jocks none of them could spell Abhorashian consistently.
Jeopardizer
Stalin and the Secret Police
- Location
- Glorious Frankreich
The blood dragons were an imperial knightly order before Wallach (Aborash's "son") turned them and set the guidelines for further reproduction, essentialy creating the bloodline. So Abhorash technically isn't a blood dragon himself.
And Zacharias was a necrarch, student of Melkior, so not a blood dragon at all.
- Location
- Greece
Fair enough, only lore I know is for this thread and I assumed blood dragons was about vampires who drank dragons.
Sir_Travelsalot
Never wakes up tired.
- Location
- At Home
Their founder did it, and cured himself of needing to drink blood at the same time. He then told his followers that they should seek to emulate him, by becoming apex warriors themselves and also beating down and draining a dragon of blood.
- Pronouns
- He/Him
deathofrats0808
Don’t think of it as dying; just as leaving early
- Location
- Earth
Those of Aborash's bloodline are more correctly called Blood Knights, with the Blood Dragons being the specific order of knights that Wallach turned. At least as of 8th edition, IIRC.
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Mopman43
Mountain-Hermit of Nitpeak
- Location
- Vermont
If we're just sticking to 8th edition, then I don't think 8th edition makes a distinction between the two. In the entry for Blood Knights, it makes no mention of any that didn't come from the tradition Wallach founded.
If we're not sticking purely to 8th edition, then the Bloodline has always been called Blood Dragons, all the way back to 5th edition. Maybe that's more due to Wallach than to Abhorash, but Abhorash hasn't done a whole lot of evangelizing anyway.
- Location
- Washington
The strigoi actually are an argument against that. They do NOT echo the founder of the bloodline and as pointed out in other conversation in this thread don't seem to have originally been particularly animalistic at all. Animalistic strigoi is not some inherent feature of the strigoi bloodline, it is something that developed after the fact.
- Pronouns
- He/His/etc
What does happen if you use the Second Secret on the dhar vortex at the core of a vampire? Other than them trying to stop you I mean.
Sir_Travelsalot
Never wakes up tired.
- Location
- At Home
I have a slight suspicion that the answer Boney would give you is: "Try it and find out."
Mopman43
Mountain-Hermit of Nitpeak
- Location
- Vermont
The vote has not meaningfully moved in days, it's not happening.
It's slowly (Extremely slowly to be fair) moving to overtake Joerg. If it actually does I'd personally drop Deathfang from my vote. If ten or so other people that are voting for both had the same thought process it could make it. So I'd say there is a slim chance it could happen.
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Wow
That's just like how slow the norsican's steppe horses would be at trying to overtake our mammoth! There's no way
- Location
- Before the Ninth Gate
Honestly, if you could drop it and so could others, it getting a lot closer would make people more likely to vote. If it and Joerg get close, maybe vote for it again, but every little bit helps!
NexusEye
Aspiring God
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Question, are there negative effects to letting a Vampire feed on you other than the blood loss? I know some fictional depictions of vampires feed purely on physical components of clood by I've also seen a depiction where the blood was used to establish a sympathetic link to the victim and remotely feed on their mind/soul and was inevitably fatal. I'm not sure where on the scale Warhammer!Vampires lie.
It could happen but it would be a mammoth undertaking.
shepsquared
Erratic Aussie
- Location
- Melbourne, Australia
[X] Deathfang
[X] Attempt to steal the mammoth from the Baersonlings
[X] Asarnil the Dragonlord
[X] Attempt to steal the mammoth from the Baersonlings
[X] Asarnil the Dragonlord
consequences
Not A Nice Person At All
- Location
- Jerkville
New probably vain hope: Boney institutes the 'outside initiated social action' for the last few expedition turns. The first turn is the mammoth.
deathofrats0808
Don’t think of it as dying; just as leaving early
- Location
- Earth
Not that I'm aware.
Mopman43
Mountain-Hermit of Nitpeak
- Location
- Vermont
This is the only thing I could find in Night's Dark Masters (page 112).
(oddly it seems like willing feeding is almost more likely to result in the "strength loss below 10%" bit- unwilling feeding drains 1d10, but willing feeding drains 2d10, with the Vampire choosing which dice to use for the loss- unless they roll doubles, in which case they take the sum of the dice)
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