Editing Nosferatu (section)

==Uses==
Horrible creatures to be pitied but never confronted when they can bite you.<ref name="R1.2">Vampires exist in the classic sense, but in the Pactverse, they're wretched things. They're not the kings and queens of the Pactverse, but the bottom feeders. They may have been decently strong before, but the Seal of Solomon barred their access to humanity and sustenance.<br><br>They're strung out meth addicts without a steady supply. Their bodies are long gone, their past relationships destroyed, they have next to nothing, the authorities crack down on them any time they start to figure anything out. They're stupid, ugly, smelly, and weak, and many of the things you've heard about diminish them or bar them, with many other things besides- it's to the point where many new vampires are still discovering new things that screw with them, even 20-30 years after being turned. - [https://redd.it/85bon7 Comment by Wildbow] on Reddit</ref>
===Abilities===
Seemingly similar to [[Bane]]s:<ref name="12.4e1" />
*'''Magic Resistant:''' Most magic curses and hexes will simply glance off of them due to their [[undead]] nature.<ref name="12.4e2">:''The Bane is oft used as a devise against those who practise, for death has already taken them thrice over, while their spirit and soul are inured to the worst torments and agonies.  Barriers will serve their purpose, but hexes and deleterious magics will often glance off the Bane, rendering them a potent devise against the unwary.  Without expecting their workings to go awry and come back to them, such a Magus might find themselves dealing with their own practises and the Bane both. [...]  Once destroyed, the Bane will never return.'' - ''Morte Vilify: Perversions of Death,'' [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/10/14 quoted] in [[Duress 12.3]]</ref><ref>Ty and Alexis’ paper tags touched the skeletal thing, and the papers stuck, a mixture of two very different handwriting styles.<br>
“Nope,” I heard Eva say from upstairs.<br>
The thing brushed at itself with one of its scythe limbs, and the papers came free.<br>
''She knew.  Is it an anti-practitioner measure?  Something special made for coming after people and creatures like us?''
<br />- [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/10/14 excerpt] from [[Duress 12.3]]</ref>
*'''Supernatural Strength:''' It is noted to have a level of above average strength.<ref>With the sound of her footsteps, the reaper-thing turned, arm raising.  Green Eyes used her tail to try and bind the arm down, as if she was tying the skeleton thing down.  One more contortion among many that kept her on the offensive, her full body weight piled on it without making it so much as ''bend'', doing her best to stay out of the way of those twin scythes.  Even as she worked to entwine it, the reaper still twisted its arm around, upper arm pressed against its body, the bit past the elbow jutting out.  It walked toward Kathryn, spike of bone sticking forth.
<br />- [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/10/14 excerpt] from [[Duress 12.3]]</ref>
*'''Supernatural Durability:''' Being already dead, they can be hard to hurt.<ref>Green Eyes pounced on the scythe-armed thing, teeth gnashing as she bit into the bones of its shoulder and neck.<br>
But it was only bone and tattered cloth.
There was refuge in simplicity, it seemed.
<br>[...]<br>
Peter threw a tome at it, striking it in the back of the head.  Same mistake that Green Eyes had made, trying to fight it or bite.  It didn’t function along those lines.  It didn’t have flesh to wound.  The only ''hurt'' that probably mattered was a bone-breaking level of hurt. - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/10/14 Excerpt] from [[Duress 12.3]]</ref>
*'''Conversion:''' By attacking victims it can inflict a "blight of blood" and eventually make them into a creature like itself.<ref name="12.4e1" /><ref name="12.4e3"/>
===Weaknesses===
'''Natural Energies:''' Natural things can be used as a conduit to allow the ''life energy'' to escape the dead prison.<ref name="12.4e1" /><ref>Eva staked the thing through the back.<br>
It crumbled into its constituent parts.  I saw a wisp of something person-shaped flow out of the base of the stake.
<br />- [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/10/14 excerpt] from [[Duress 12.3]]</ref> These include:
*[[Green Wood]]
*Fresh Bone
*Lighting Strikes
*Running Water (Natural Source)
*Fire
*Daylight
*A spike of crystal
*A stalagmite with a history of attachment to the ground
'''Need to Feed:''' Vampires need to drink living<ref name=":1">''At the Threshold of Death''.<br><br>[...]<br><br>In one woodcut, a pair of vampires were weedy, emaciated things with bat features and wings and other stuff all mixed in, huddled in a nook while an onlooker held a lantern, shining it into the alcove. There were ghouls, far more common, who could thrive because unlike Vampires, they could eat the dead, who were plentiful and not innocent. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/10/31 Excerpt] from [[Cutting Class 6.2]]</ref> [[human]] [[blood]]. With their prey protected by the [[Seal of Solomon]], vampires are forced to either hunt for scraps; or take from [[Innocence|innocents]] and accept the bad [[karma]] it generates. They are often compared to strung-out addicts.<ref name=":0" /><ref name="R1.2" /> 

'''Other weaknesses:''' Vampires have a lot of weaknesses, and many of the things popularized in pop culture are genuinely effective. Their weaknesses are so numerous that newborn vampires are still discovering new ones decades after being turned.<ref name="R1.2" />