Vampires in Eorzea

[HeroSamson]

Welllll, not quite a vampire. More like possessed, you were rewarded the "Exorcist in training" title after all!

lol I know but I always called her a vampire since she wanted raw bloody meat

[Elim]

I'll only vote for vampires if they sparkle.

[Balipu]

Didn't you take notice of the storyline for Haukke Manor? Lady Amendine had virtually became a vampire after making a shady deal with the Void/Ascians (or at least, she was a thinly-veiled Madame Bathoy copy in that she was drinking blood from her maidservants in an attempt to regain her beauty) - although she looked more like a succubus, the connection was clear.

FFXI also has vampire enemies, although they were a special genus of undead who only appeared as a boss monster (which curiously was absent from that FF Wiki list)

Yeah well for me it only counts (no pun intended) If they are pretty explicitly vampires and are referred to as such in the story. You know, like how Vincent Valentine was basically undead, slept in a coffin and turned into a huge bat like beast despite not being an actual vampire. Yes I did play both Haukke Manors(my favorite dungeons by the way) but a perfectly normal noblewoman tricked by Lahabrea to tear off faces falls short of my definition. As for the FFXI vampires? Well the wiki only lists tham if their name was Vampire. If they were Vampire Something, or Something Vampire they might not make it.

I'm hoping for the Shinra mansion to be re-imagined as a dungeon or new big open-world location to explore (can rename it and change a few things for lore if they like), it's the one thing from VII I'd like to see, that could have the vamps you crave

Oh, Shinra Manor. God, yes. I always fealt that one of the biggest reasons why VII dominated VI despite doing some things worse, is how effortlessly it combined jidai gekki, steampunk, high fantasy and gothic horror(among other things.) Shinra Manor was gothic horror at its finest. How about the phantom train taking you to Shina Manor?

This will be recycled, you can just feel it in your bones.

It looks like it needs a hug. ^^ With ninjutsu.

If they do recreate vampires in Eroza I hope they make Dracula more like Dracula than bald and demonic like all the ones in XI. I can see it tiered like vampiric undead servent (red eyed zombies with fangs), Nosferatu/Vampire (bald and clawed), Vampire Nobles/Lords (Think Hellsing, Hunter D, Dracula/Vald Tempes, Bram Stroker or Lee's personage, etc.) Otherwise I can see them appearing near Coerthas or in the Shroud. the crypts and ruins for noble families provide more fodder for vampires there. On that part, doesn't Odin without his helm kind of resembles the bald vampire from XI? Especially being elven with those pointy ears.

Yes, yes, yes. This is what I was talking about in the OP. I want vampires nobles in Ishgard. For added fun, a house of pure human vampire hunters, a house of half-blood vampire hunters, a house of good vampires and a house of bad vampires. Imagine all the reveals, manipulations, betrayals and gambit roulettes. Can I hope for the machinists to be vamp hunters?

Different lores have different ideas of how vampires work and how they're made. As an example, look up Jiangshi. So for all intents and purposes, she's vampire-ish and has a semi-distinct model from the succubi. Halicarnassus also counts as she not only has draining blood from her adds as a mechanic, but follows in up with an attack called rain of blood based on how much HP she drains from them.

Yeah, so we are nearly there. Still if we have actual dragons and actual ninjas, I want actual vampires.

I'll only vote for vampires if they sparkle.

The good ones or the bad ones?

Trivia: Dracula wasn't hurt by sunlight.

[FallenArisen0990]

As a Vampire lover, I would love for them to be in the game. Hell, I would kill to be one. Ever since Bravely Default introduced it as a job, I've been dying for SE to put this job in another game.

[Balipu]

As a Vampire lover, I would love for them to be in the game. Hell, I would kill to be one. Ever since Bravely Default introduced it as a job, I've been dying for SE to put this job in another game.

Good to have more fans on board.

Question is, should vampires be a class or a race? Both has precedent and both are tied to things comming in heavensward

[Balipu]

While waiting, another question came to my mind. What would be the lore behind them? Would they be undead like in folklore and FFXI? Would they be voidsent? Would they be people posessed by voidsent?(In Dragon Age a vampire is considered to be an average human posessed by a hunger demon) Or perhaps a completely naturall occuring race like in saaay the Witcher? As for the classes, what would give them vampiric power? A pact with a demon? A pact with a vampire? A curse of an angry god? Vampire blood? Or maybe some kind of magitech device? (Like in Trinity Blood)

[Squeeb]

They would be fun to play... and would probably have the sickest looking gear.

[Balipu]

They would be fun to play... and would probably have the sickest looking gear.

That's for sure.

[myahele]

If there would be vampires I'd imagine them to be in Gridania. It has more voidsent/demonic presence than Thanalan (who deals them them due to thaumaturgy) Just take a look at Haukke Manor, Tam Tara (Edda), Amdapor Keep/ Township, and probably more.

[Balipu]

If there would be vampires I'd imagine them to be in Gridania. It has more voidsent/demonic presence than Thanalan (who deals them them due to thaumaturgy) Just take a look at Haukke Manor, Tam Tara (Edda), Amdapor Keep/ Township, and probably more.

You could be right. Assuming vampires are demonic in origin. I chose Ishgard because it has been locked off for ages, so it would be quite normal to find well established and relatively intact vampire families compared to Gridania where we fought voidsent since 1.0, but it is true that gothic horror always finds a way into Gridania. Then again, the phantom train is somewhere in Mor Dhona. You are definitely right that Thanalan seems to be relatively safe from demons and undead, but as the Hildibrand questline revealed

Ul'dah used a zombie plague against Sil'dih. Who knows what else is hidden by the sand.