On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 08:58:55PM +0000, Jon Carey <greyw01f at hotmail.com> wrote: > >However, if we assume that > >Sethra's long life is due in no small part to her relationship with > >Dzur Mountain, we would need to assume that part of the Mountain siphons > >off to those she surrounds herself with. Which, I think, is a > >rather frightening thought. <grin> > come to think of it, what *is* the nature of Sethra's vampirism? > It's just that I'm a bit of a dabbler in the lore of vampirism, and there > are quite a few choices out there. I would assume that it is a combination > of sanguinary/psychic/psionic vampirism, rather than one of those three... We have seen, IIRC, small references to her drinking blood in small quantities and lots of references to her not eating much. We have seen her exceptionally pale. We have not seen any indications of crazed bloodlust. I think Sethra is a vampire by technicality only, and I suspect she sustains herself mostly on magic. Sort of like, "Damn, I'm dead. I think being a vampire would be most convenient; I couldn't stand the zombie-rot, and my bond with iceflame rules out being a lich. " I do not think she is a "psychic" vampire in any sense. -- Matthew Hunter (matthew at infodancer.org) Public Key: http://matthew.infodancer.org/public_key.txt Homepage: http://matthew.infodancer.org/index.jsp Politics: http://www.triggerfinger.org/index.jsp