Canon Q&A With Storytellers

[Robert Pratt]

I know it's been RP'd before - but just thought I'd get the 'official word' on it before it's RP'd again...

Can a wraith possess a human if it had full energy and full anima?

Mystics do it when they come back from the SR as a wraith. So it makes sense that for a short time, a normal wraith could in RP too.

Unless I've said otherwise in the past, wraiths cannot possess the living. They must be very powerful, and concentrate very hard to even be able to interact with anything in the real world.

What do you mean by interact?

[Every]

If a summoner were to summon the wraith of another dead vampire on grid with permission from the player, and then the wraith would be deleted after sometime, would it still be possible to bring that specific character back? Or would that character be dead for good?

I hope that makes sense. o.0

Bringing back dead vampires as wraiths can be done in game using one of the rituals (Raise Wraith) so there's that option. That way, the character would be able to control themselves, but you'd be able to roleplay your character controlling them as a thrall if you like.

Alternatively, you could do it as you said, and you could roleplay (with permission) that the summoned wraith is the dead vampire. When they are deleted, that does not necessarily mean that the original character is dead. You could just roleplay it that they were returned to the SR, and then the original character would be able to return to life as normal, if the player of that character wished. Does that make sense?

It does! Thank you David.

[Vasik (DELETED 5042)]

So... this may be a weird question, but I feel like it could be plausible.
Could male vampires or a male vampire/male human conceive? Could the same happen for females only in some fashion? Since vampires are more spiritual beings than physical, I feel like it could be possible.
A friend of mine suggested possibly doing a ritual to pay tribute to a blood god for whom I don't quite recall a name. Does a blood god that would have such a chaotic interest exist?
This could make for some royally fucked up role play. >3 *devious smile*
No, I don't already have plans if this is accepted. >_> <_< Don't look at me like that!

[Alexandrea]

I asked that awhile ago, seeing as birth control wouldn't work it seemed plausible to me as well. If it's mainly spirit.... but David said no, that the essence of male and female both need to be in the mix. So then... maybe a Mystic that changed bodies to the opposite gender? Hmmm maybe they could even get themselves pregnant!

[Shamus]

What happens to parts of the vampiric body that are removed from the body as a whole?

Blood taken by blood thieves.
Blood splatter from wounds.
Severed limbs.
Parts removed via torture/accident/for fun/etc.

Basically, any part of the vampire, removed from the whole. What happens to it?

After giving this some thought and talking it over with Natasha, we've come to the decision that any body parts removed from a non-killer would vanish in the same way as the vampire's body would vanish if they had died. This might not happen instantly, but the body parts would be gone after an hour.

As for blood, the same rules do not apply.

If parts of the body disappear after a time, then why does the blood not have the same ruling? Both are essential to the body and hold their own properties from the body.

[Elizabeth]

Yeah. So if in a hypothetical scenario...Liz had someone draw her blood unwillingly, they would have said blood for however long until they dispose of it?

>.>

[Robert Pratt]

What's a fade window?

Can people shout through them, hear through them, see through them, etc etc etc

[Monique (DELETED 725)]

If you have 2 vampires in Meaner Things form that are similar animals and they mated, would the result still be a fadebeast or would it be that animal? At the same time, would the female be stuck in form until it's born?

[Cinnamon Cherrywhip]

If a human/thrall dies in RP - can a necro vampire, or one with necro powers, reanimate them and bring them back to life?

Also - if the answer to the above is no,

If something happens on the hardcore RP board - should it be mimicked on the grid? So if a roll happens where a thrall dies, should they be deleted and a new one made on grid?

[Mooncalf]

1 - What does happen to blood and why's it different?

2 - Why's it been changed from what you'd said before regarding parts removed from a vampire? For example, when Phoenix severed Nick Bowstrong's leg and made earrings out of the bones - which vanished when he was killed. And when it was raised in a discussion, you said it was player's choice and that it was a cool idea - therefore was fine in terms of canon.

3 - What happens to all previously established RP based on 2, where people have crafted all manner of things from bones of vampires, or have various collections of bits taken from vamps?

4 - How to we get feral fangs if all parts of a vampiric being dissipates after an hour. Don't think it'd be believeable to say all ferals are of the killer path would it?

5 - Speaking of, what's a fadeling corpse? Fade beasts are meant to be beings of shadow and they can be taken from feral vamps, which apparently completely dissipate when dead. So how have we got baby corpses?

1) It's not always different. Shadows blood fades in the same way body parts do. But as for the rest of it, I think the ways blood is different for vampires should be obvious. Blood can turn a human into a vampire, which indicates that vampire blood is special. Vampire blood spreads as vampirism spreads; that's the whole purpose of it, and of vampires.

2) I don't remember those discussions. Natasha and I talked it over recently and decided it made more sense this way.

3) RP isn't invalidated once canon is established, unless it's something major. Vampires aren't scientific creatures, so nothing about them is entirely predictable.

4 & 5) Feral vampires are not vampires. They are zombies enhanced with vampire blood. The undead equivalent of blood thieves.