Editing Nosferatu (section)

== Origins ==
According to an older text, ''Nosferatu'' (probably the same as vampires) are speculated to be the natural counterpart to [[Bane]]s. Born through the blight of blood, where a Bane may be based on the sufferers of any illness. Spirits of death incubate inside of them<ref name="12.4e1">:''…care must be taken, as the Bane is a thing of blight, and will blight all it touches.  Many will alter their Banes to make this contact easier.  Fire will serve if the Bane was carelessly wrought, but many will be coated or painted to protect their flesh.  One might surmise that the Nosferatu are a natural variation of the Bane, insofar as they are natural.  The Nosferatu, if this theory were correct, would incubate spirits of death within them, and depositing them within a victim, inviting them to and from the veil of death.  The blight, both pre-existing and given, would be one of the blood.''

:''As such, consider the same methods that function on the Nosferatu.  A length of green wood will serve as a conduit for the living energies to vacate the dead prison that confine them.  Natural energies, too, will suffice, with daylight, running water from a natural source, lightning strikes, clean fire if the Bane is not pre-treated, a spike of crystal, or a stalagmite with a history of attachment to the ground serving to provide this conduit of natural forces.  Like the Nosferatu, the Bane is a wretched thing, and death should be seen as a mercy.'' - ''Morte Vilify: Perversions of Death,'' [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/10/14 quoted] in [[Duress 12.3]]</ref> and are infused into the victim's tormented [[soul]] through repeated feeding.<ref name="12.4e3">The Bane is form’d of one with a blight of body, already within the grasp of Death, they yet hold a breath of life.  The Dark Necromagus must be at the bedside of the deceased as they cross over, to catch the breath in a prepared vessel.  Thrice must the blighted man be bestowed that foul breath that escapes the mouth of the long dead, as airs and humors bloat the corpse, the soul released at death introduced between each to accept and accommodate those airs most foul.  During these times the body will be well restrained, as the soul will be in the worst of agonies and the body will not be limited to their normal strength. - ''Morte Vilify: Perversions of Death,'' [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/10/14 quoted] in [[Duress 12.3]]</ref> 

On the other hand, some speculate that they are descended from life-drinking [[Heartless]].<ref name=":2">The second answer is that monsters are practitioners.  We know about 
some cases.  See Mara in the files for Jacob’s Bell.  It’s a common theory with Faerie, and obviously the likes of vampires and werewolves, which are much rarer and more monstrous than conventional media would 
have us believe.  - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/09/04 Excerpt] from [[Gathered Pages: 10]]</ref>