VampiresWP (吸血鬼, Kyūketsuki?, Blood-Sucking Demon), also called bloodsuckers (吸血種, Kyūketsu-shu?), is the general term for those who suck the blood of other living creatures.
Characteristics[]
As there are various blood-sucking creatures all over the world with various different characteristics, the term "bloodsucker" is used as a catch-all term. The terms "vampire" and "bloodsucker" are essentially synonymous in all cases except those regarded by the Holy Church as enemies. They specifically hunt those they deem as "vampires",[1] like True Ancestors, Dead Apostles, those turned into bloodsuckers by Dead Apostles, and magi that became Dead Apostles through the use of magecraft, ignoring other bloodsuckers regardless of their species.
The Holy Church's reason for hunting such vampires is because these vampires possess vampiric impulses (吸血衝動, Kyūketsu Shōdō?),[2][3] which pushes them to suck the blood of others. Unlike the vampiric impulses of the True Ancestors, who have no physical reason behind those impulses, the Dead Apostles have the physical need to suck the blood of others in order to maintain their own bodies.[2]
Curse of Restoration[]
True Ancestors and Dead Apostles possess a form of limited Immortality, called the Curse of Restoration (復元呪詛, Fukugen Juso?).
This ability operates under normal conditions and causes the vampire's body to regress through time to its original vampiric state whenever it receives an injury. However, this ability is also tied to the phases of the moon. As the moon waxes, the degree of injury that can be repaired, as well as the speed of the regression increases dramatically. For example, Roa (Remake) would not have been able to survive Arcueid Brunestud (Remake)'s Marble Phantasm were it not for the full moon. Additionally, it is the night of a full moon the time when the Dead Apostles and True Ancestors reach the height of their strength.[4][5]
Variations[]
Dead Apostles[]
- Main article: Dead Apostle
Lamyros[]
Lamyros are the Phantasmal Species version of a vampire whose name is derived from the Mediterranean term for Lamia (ラミア, Ramia?). They are more similar to the stereotypical fictional depiction of a vampire and are quite different from Dead Apostles and True Ancestors. Their beings or spiritual cores originate from myths, legends, and beliefs rather than using magecraft, drinking blood from an True Ancestor, being turned by an Dead Apostle or given life from the Planet as Nature Spirits.[6]
While Lamyros do drink blood and can cast spells, they also possess human intelligence and have the speed, strength, and regenerative capabilities of a Phantasmal Species. Additionally, Lamyros can also power themselves up by absorbing the Spiritual Cores of Servants. Wolfgang Faustus is a Lamyros and the main antagonist for Fate/Labyrinth.[6]
True Ancestors[]
- Main article: True Ancestor
Others[]
- Akiha Tohno (Remake)
- Brishisan - while his exact species and nature is unknown, he is referred to by Touko Aozaki as a "vampire knockoff".[7]
- Baobhan Sith - A female fairy told of in Scottish legends. It is said she appears at night to drain people's life force and kill them. She has a liking for blood and is weak to sunlight.[8]
- "Bloodsucking animals of South America"
- Camazotz
- Elizabeth Bathory/Carmilla - Can also be categorized as one due to circumstances similar to Vlad III surrounding her own legend leading her to develop the same abilities as a vampire once she was summoned as a Heroic Spirit Servant.
- Forest of Einnashe (Remake) and its children - They are a special exception as a subspecies of the bloodsuckers.[9]
- Hinako Akuta - She is an Incarnated Elemental, a vampiric creature labelled by magi as closely related to True Ancestors due to having similar development processes. Among these are the lack of any addiction to blood sucking, the ability to "feed" from ambient magical energy, and stronger ties to nature.
- Medusa, Euryale, & Stheno - Classified as members of the bloodsuckers because the most efficient way for them to gain Magical Energy is to drink blood.[10]
- ORT (Lostbelt) - Due to his vampire-like properties, ORT is able to partially simulate the creatures it preys upon, allowing it to potentially mimic Human speech if it devours a human. It cannot actually learn the culture of Earth, so it would simply remain as an imitation, unlike Type Venus.
- Primate Murder - While not a Dead Apostle, it has, in mimicking its master, developed a taste for human blood.[11]
- Sion Eltnam Sokaris - Sucks blood but isn't considered a vampire.
- "Vampiric flying heads of mainland China"
- Vlad III - Can also be categorized as a vampire due to the legends created using him as a base that then manifested itself upon his summoning as a Servant and later once his Noble Phantasm is activated he does indeed become one with the exact same impulses and need to drink blood and make more of his kind.
References[]
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[] Melty Blood Act Cadenza PS2 Manual - Dictionary: Vampires [Term], p.058 Vampires [Term]
Monsters that suck human blood. Refers mostly to the Dead Apostles, or those that have become bloodsuckers because of them. Though they are basically unaging and immortal, they require human blood to maintain their flesh. Thus, their immortality is imperfect.
Those that have been turned into vampires by Dead Apostles can operate by their own will, but because their behavioral principles are bound by their parent vampire, it is impossible for them to escape their control. In the event that they successfully attack a human and acquire their blood, the majority of it will be taken by the parent vampire.
Consequently, the child vampire will eventually try to become a parent vampire themselves. After spending decades acclimating to life in the darkness, they will start to threaten the world by creating servants of their very own.
In order to put a stop to this vicious cycle of vampirism, the Church created the Burial Agency – heresy hunters whose aim is the complete extermination of all Dead Apostles.吸血鬼【用語】
人の血を吸うモノ。多くは死徒、ないし死徒によって吸血種となったモノを指す。基本的に不老かつ不死ではあるが、肉体の維持に人間の血が必要な為、不完全な不老不死と言えるだろう。
死徒によって吸血鬼に成った者は自分の意志で活動できるが、行動原理を親である吸血鬼に縛られる為、その支配から逃れられない。人間を襲い血を得たところで、その大半を親である吸血鬼に奪われてしまうのである。
よって子である吸血鬼は自らも親になろうとし、何十年と闇の生活に慣れながら自分だけの下僕を作ろうと世を脅かす。
この吸血循環を阻止する為、教会には死徒を殲滅する異端狩り·埋葬機関が存在する。 - ↑ 2.0 2.1
[] Melty Blood Act Cadenza PS2 Manual - Dictionary: Vampiric Impulses [Term], p.057 Vampiric Impulses [Term]
The base desire possessed by both True Ancestors and Dead Apostles.
In True Ancestors it is merely a bad habit, but in Dead Apostles it is a means of staying alive.
For those Dead Apostles who used to be human, it is something not entirely dissimilar from an expression of love.吸血衝動【用語】
真祖、死徒が持つ行動原理。
真祖のそれは病であり、死徒のそれは生存手段である。人間から死徒になったものは、それが人間でいうところの愛情表現に近いのだと論じている。 - ↑
[] Tsukihime Material I - GLOSSARY: Bloodsucking Impulse, p.101 Bloodsucking Impulse
Even the god-like race of the True Ancestors harbour a flaw from the moment they are born: to seek out the blood of humans, not because they need it to live, but out of a primitive desire to ingest the information of intelligent lifeforms — this inclination of their kind is called the bloodsucking impulse.
Basking in the pleasure, the True Ancestors who keep on drinking blood eventually become powerful vampires and begin to defile the world - a fall into beasthood. To avoid this wretched fate, they use this awesome power of theirs to control the bloodsucking impulse.
When they realise that they will become unable to control this impulse sooner or later, the True Ancestors choose eternal sleep for themselves. In a way, this is the lifespan of those who have none to begin with - an end to their long journey.空想具現化
神の如き種族である真祖も、誕生の際にはひとつの欠点を抱えて生まれてくる。生命活動には必要ないにも関わらず、知的生命体の情報を摂取したいという原始的な欲求から『人間の血』を求める----それが吸血衝動と呼ばれる種としての本能であった。
快楽に溺れるまま血を吸い続けた真祖は、やがて強力な吸血鬼となって世界の汚染を始める。獣への墜落である。
その醜悪な末路を防ぐため、彼らはその強大な異能を吸血衝動の抑制に使用している。
いずれ衝動を抑え切れなくなると悟った時に、真祖は自ら永眠を選ぶ。それが本来寿命のない彼らにとっての寿命であり、永き旅の終わりである。 - ↑
[] Tsukihime Dokuhon PlusPeriod - TSUKIHIME Dictionary: Vampire [Term], p.178 Vampire [Term]
A general term for those that suck human blood. Refers specifically to the Dead Apostles, or those that have become bloodsuckers because of them.
The vampires in Tsukihime extract human blood to maintain their own flesh. If, during this process, the vampire injects their own blood into their human prey, that human will be unable to peacefully pass away. For a normal person, death will still find them before long regardless. However, on rare occasions, if the victim has high physical potential and the capacity of their soul is excellent, they will remain in the world of the living.
Afterward, their corpse is interred, and left alone for several years. During this time their brain melts, their soul is liberated from the cage of the body, and finally they arise as a kind of living dead called a "ghoul".
As a ghoul, they feed on the corpses sleeping in the graves around them to supplement their own missing flesh, restoring their physical body little by little. After many years of this, they will eventually regain their brain and intelligence. At this stage, they can finally be called a "vampire".
However, although this new vampire can move by their own will, they cannot escape from the rule of their sire's blood. Finally, after spending decades acclimating to life in the darkness, the vampire will begin attacking humans to create servants of their very own, while remaining subservient to the vampire that made them.
In order to obstruct this infinite cycle, the Church created the Burial Agency, Inquisitors that exist to slay Dead Apostles. The Burial Agency's goal is the utter eradication of all vampires, and the sealing of the 27 Ancestors that made them.吸血鬼【用語】
- ↑ Tsukihime -A piece of blue glass moon- - Moon Princess route - Day 13: "The Face of the Moon"
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Fate/Labyrinth - Act 6
- ↑ Clock Tower 2015 03 Autumn - Suburb of London - Clock Tower Eleventh District
- ↑ Fate/Grand Order — Fairy Knight Tristan Profile, translated by Konchew
- ↑
[] Tsukihime Dokuhon PlusPeriod - talk. Glossary: Blood-Sucking species [Term], p.193 Blood-Sucking species [Term]
A general term used to describe organisms that consume the blood of their own kind.
Einnashe was a special exception as a subspecies of Blood-suckers.
Most of the Blood-suckers were weak against sunlight, but there were indeed Blood-suckers who were only active during the day.
The Dead Apostle of Tsukihime were representative of the Blood-suckers. They were Blood-suckers derived from mankind.吸血種【用語】
同じ生物の血を吸うモノたちの総称。
中には亜種として、アインナッシュのような特例が誕生する。
多くの吸血種は日の光に弱いが、中には日中しか活動できないという稀な吸血種も存在するとか。
月姫では死徒と呼ばれる、人間から吸血種となったモノたちを代表的な吸血種として扱っている。 - ↑
[] Fate/Side Material - Encyclopedia: Rider [Servant], p.077 [T] Rider [Servant]
Heroic Spirit of the mount. A type of Servant that requires high maneuverability, and tends to possess strong Noble Phantasms.
The Rider in the story is no exception, riding Pegasus and making full use of its charging power in battle.
Of course, Rider herself is also a unique Heroic Spirit, and the number of skills and Noble Phantasms she has is particularly high even amongst the Servants.
She is taciturn and lacks self-assertiveness, but that doesn't mean she is apathetic toward her surroundings. Rather, she's the kind of person that worries about things from every conceivable angle but hides it behind a perfect poker face.
Though parts of her personality are quite similar to Sakura's, Sakura is a commoner while Rider is more of a high-born type. Even her demeanor and tone of speech have a sort of high-class strictness to them.
With the complex she has about her own height and the way she gets embarrassed when people see her mystic eyes, she might actually be pretty lady-like.
Because of her outward appearance and primary weapon, a lot of people thought she was going to be an Assassin class Servant before the game came out, but nope, she's a Rider!
I really wanted to have a scene in the Sakura route where she and Saber bickered with each other as they fought toward a common goal, but unfortunately the story didn't develop in that direction and I had to discard the idea.
Incidentally, the lewd dream on the fifth day of the Sakura route was Rider's doing.
She is not a Dead Apostle (vampire), but she is a bloodsucker. For her, the most efficient, luscious way of gaining magical energy is drinking blood.ライダー【サーヴァント】
騎兵の英霊。高い機動性が求められ、強力な宝具を保有するサーヴァントタイプ。
本騙のライダーも天馬に騎乗し、その突進力に物を言わせた戦闘を得意とする。
ライダー自身も特殊な英霊で、保有スキル、宝具数はサーヴァントの中でもで一、二を争う。
無口で自己主張をしないライダーだが、周囲に無関心という訳ではない。むしろ色々考えすぎる性格なのだがポーカーフェイスで隠している。
性格的に桜と似たところがあるが、桜が庶民なのに対してライダーはお嬢さまタイプ。物腰や口調も、上流階級っぽい厳しさが感じられる。
自分の長身がコンプレックスだったり、魔眼を見られると恥かしがったりするあたり、奥ゆかしい人なのかも。
その外見と武器からゲーム発売前は「アサシンでは?」 と予想されていたが、正体はまさかのライダーでした。ニヤリ。
桜ルー卜では馬が合わないセイパーと文句を言い合いつつ共闘する、というシーンをやりたかったのですが、物語上没になりましたとさ。
ちなみに、桜ルート五日目の淫夢はライダーの仕業です。
死徒(吸血鬼)ではないが、吸血種。彼女にとって最も効率がよく甘美な魔力補給が吸血な訳である。 - ↑
Kagetsu Tohya - 27 Dead Apostle Ancestors Series, 1/Primate Murder Invincible killer. White beast. Gaia's monster that follows only Altrouge.
Although not a Dead Apostle, he mimics Altrouge, so he got a taste for human blood.
Has absolute authority over whether to kill or let live a person.二十七祖シリーズ。
1/プライミッツマーダー
霊長の殺人者。白い獣。魔犬としてアルトルージュにのみ従うガイアの怪物。
死徒ではないが、アルトルージュを真似ている為に人の血を飲むようになった。
ヒトに対して絶対的な殺害権利を持つが故に最強の一つとして数えられる。
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