Many ancients committed suicide in order to restore the cycle, but the curse also granted sterility. This inability to die naturally drove many of the Ancients to despair as the act itself cut them off from their God, unable to reuse their souls. They cursed the Ancients with a predatory blood-thirst, and worse still, immortality. The Hylden ultimately lost this war, but did not end their campaign quietly. However, the opposing faction of the Hylden rejected their God, and the Ancients ignited a war between the two species. The Ancients were said to worship a God whose primary function was to recycle souls, and it was every Ancients' honour to be spun in this Wheel of Fate. History File:Defiance-PrimaGuide-Character-GuardianOfDimension.png This lead to an uprising by the humans who overthrew the vampires, rejected their gift, and took control of the pillars. It is safe to assume Vampires turned humans en masse into vampires in order to preserve their species from their self-inflicted extinction. One of the first turned vampires was Vorador, turned by Janos Audron for crafting the Reaver blade, not for guardianship. The Ancients would pass their dark gift onto humans in order to prepare them for life serving the Pillars. File:Defiance-Texture-VampireCitadel-Mural-TheDarkGiftIsPassed.png This could be done with any sized fraction of the soul, though the more was used, generally, the more powerful the vampire was when they returned to life. Using this method, he created a small cadre of vampires who shared some of his powers. It is also known that Kain was able to divide up his soul and join it with that of a corpse, then place the fused soul back into the cadaver. It is known that one can use necromantic magic which is the only way for a Human to create a vampire, as was the case when the Necromancer Mortanius turned Kain, though Mortanius also used the vampiric heart of Janos Audron to do this. The vampires of Kain's lineage would enter a period of hibernation as they pupate from fledglings into adulthood and undergo a state of physical/physiological metamorphosis receiving new abilities, physical features and become substantially tougher able to withstand more punishment before succumbing to death, or needing to consume blood.Īs above, vampires are sterile, though a few methods were discovered to create vampires from other (not necessarily) living beings, although many of these methods have not been entirely explored or explicitly elaborated upon in the series. Vampires become more powerful as they age. They also have other abilities, including superhuman strength, speed, agility, heightened senses, durability,an enhanced healing-factor and paranormal abilities such as shapeshifting and telekinesis. Vampires are also sterile and cannot reproduce in the conventional manner, though there are ways that one can create a vampire from another creature. Their natural human needs are replaced almost solely by blood-lust, a thirst which they were required to quench in order to maintain their strength. They can still be killed, but they will not age like a mortal or die of natural causes. Vampirism causes the subject to become "immortal". 5.3 Vampires (era following Blood Omen).Ranking among the series' defining and most recognizable components, vampires have appeared in all Legacy of Kain media to date. Over the eras, under the leadership of ancient patriarchs such as Janos Audron, Vorador, and Kain, vampire culture alternated from that of feared and widely-hunted outcasts to that of Nosgoth's apex predators. Before their extinction, these ancient vampires passed the curse on to humans, who carried on their lineage. Under this definition, the first vampires emerged as a consequence of the Vampire-Hylden war, when the Hylden unleashed the blood curse against their adversaries as retribution for their banishment. Vampirism comprised an extremely eclectic heritage which spanned many generations and sub-races across history, but with common traits: usually, vampires needed to consume Blood regularly to survive, were immortal and sterile, were vulnerable to water and sunlight, developed individual abilities and dark gifts, and would drastically evolve over time. Though the original, Ancient vampires were a species in their own right, the term "vampire" eventually came to refer to any individual afflicted with the blood curse, irrespective of birth. Vampires were, alongside the humans and the Hylden, one of the three sapient races dominant in Nosgoth. For blood is the life." ―Kain - Listen ( file info) Defiance comic "Vorador's pantry! A vampire's feast! Like cattle awaiting slaughter, men and women dangled from the rusted hooks upon the dungeon walls, blood and viscera frosted the dirt and stone.
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