The Humble Vampires

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"S-She's gone?"

The Vampire father groaned, looking around, his regeneration was much faster than his daughter, who had passed out after she was tortured so much. She was alive, barely. The rotten blood Ashatath feed the Vampires was terrible for them, and he had already noticed many of them had begun to mutate.

"By the Moon Goddess, why…?"

Vampires were powerful beings, but their existences by themselves were cursed. They required blood to maintain their power and even their sanity. If they were feed terrible, rotten blood, they would instead slowly deteriorate.

They would lose their sanity over time and mutate into Vampiric Beasts. Usually into Blood Thralls, Blood Ogres, Blood Onis, or the feared Blood Dragons. It wasn't an overstatement to say that most of the Vampiric Beast populating Abyss wilderness were once or are the descendants of Vampires that ended mutating into aberrations because they were unable to feed themselves properly.