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Mooncalf wrote:

Robert Pratt wrote: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.

Mooncalf wrote:

Every wrote: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?

Mooncalf wrote:

Robert Pratt wrote: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.

Robert Pratt wrote: 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?