Libra00 : the "rant" ("good for you, Akiha" and also the ones about Reality Marbles and Nero, if you're the one who edited that out too) were in the actual books. I see no need to remove it. --Byakko 15:57, 27 July 2008 (UTC)
Translation[]
Could somebody check the translation of this part:
- Several years after the death of the body, the brain dissolves and the soul is freed from the cage of the body; and from a living dead , it becomes a ghoul .
- Ghouls sleep in their tomb to replenish their body, and slowly reconstruct their flesh by eating corpses. then, after a few more years, they can recover their brain and memory, and can be called "vampires".
Text from Plus Period (pg. 178):
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Originally article said Living dead develop from Ghouls when their brain rot, and then proceeds to explain how Ghouls eat dead bodies to reconstruct their own and eventually become vampires, which made no sense at all. I reversed the order (Ghouls develop from Living dead) to make some sense, but I'm not sure that's right either... --Azaghal 02:41, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
- This article has to be merged with Dead Apostle and then split up again. There's so much material on that page which belongs here. Also, there seems to be some inconsistencies between the two. --Raijinili 04:58, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
Judging from what Arcueid said in the Tsukihime game, a Ghoul is a nearly mindless creature that occurs when a Dead Apostle from Brunestud's lineage injects some of its blood into a human corpse and allows the corpse to go through a sort of gestation period, rather than simply turn it into one of The Dead. After the brain has decomposed, the spirit of the corpse takes on a property similar to that of the Dead Apostles/True Ancestors, allowing it to reconstruct its rotting body through the consumption of similar material. Once it eats enough flesh to recover fully, the Ghoul becomes one of the Living Dead, similar to a Vampire, but less powerful. At this stage, it can remember most of its former life and abilities. As it steadily improves through the consumption of blood and Prana, it eventually becomes a true Vampire, a being on par with a Dead Apostle. The Dead Apostles create Ghouls in the hope that they will one day challenge their creator, as a sort of entertainment to stave off the ennui of an eternal life. A Vampire who exceeds the power of their creator, such as Rita Rozay-en, becomes a Dead Apostle, though it seems likely that the successor need not actually kill their creator; they need merely prove their superiority. In distinction, The Dead are just zombie-like slaves of their creator, extensions of his own will, while Ghouls, The Living Dead, and Vampires are independent minded. This means that the progenitor vampire must exert control over them via more conventional means. They are not Familiars. It also seems that vampires can feed off one another, and that this is the method used by Dead Apostles to gather blood with their Dead and successors.--Twelveseal 23:23, November 2, 2009 (UTC)
Removed kyoushi as blood-sucking creature not hunted by the Church[]
Kyoushi DO count as undead and are hunted by the Church, as such. Of course, I kept the Chupacabra line.
MidbossVyers 02:53, January 27, 2010 (UTC)
ORT[]
Because of its trait of simulating the characteristics of what it preys on, is it plausible to place ORT on the Others list?