Thread: Vampirism
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Old 05-06-2003, 06:51 AM   #21
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Originally posted by Tancred:
Perhaps not undead blood-drinkers, no. But there are vampiric species living on this earth. They're not supernatural, they don't so much suck blood as lap it up and they're not human, but they are there.
Cool, so they are basically like many of the Alaskan innuit tribes who drink seal and elk blood as a means of survival?
Also, what makes them un-human? Are they simply genetically inviable (such as mules and some breeds of cat and dog)? Or do they possess traits that one would not label as 'normally human'? Can they breed with humans (ie: does the DNA in their zygotes match closely enough in order to fit together and produce an embryo?)?

Genuinely curious.
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