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What Happens to a Vampire After Final Death?
Topic Started: Jan 29 2018, 01:09 AM (4 Views)
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What happens to a vampire after Final Death?

There are a few answers to this, and those answers lead to some subsequent conclusions.


Spiritually: A vampire DOES have a soul, but it is not a normal human soul. It is altered/tainted/twisted/changed by the Curse of Caine. When a vampire meets final death, the soul leaves the body. If the death is via diablerie, the soul is consumed by the aggressor. The end. If Final Death occurs by more conventional means, the soul leaves the body and then one of two things happens.

In some cases, the vampire's soul retains fetters to the real world, and as such, it transitions to a wraith in the Shadowlands. Because the vampire's soul is not completely human, however, what ends up going to the Shadowlands is often changed. The Curse of Caine, the Beast, is not what the Shadowlands were made for, and thus, the resultant creature that forms on the other side may not necessarily be what one would expect. Most vampires do not linger in the Shadowlands upon their destruction, but the ones that do are typically unrecognizable as they once were. There are exceptions, of course, but transitioning from undeath to death is seldom easy on any of the ones in this state.

In most cases, when the soul leaves the body at Final Death, the soul passes on to... well, somewhere else. Nobody knows. Typically, they are never heard from again, even by Necromancers, nor can they be located. It is worth noting that vampires who have achieved Golconda are similarly absent from all detection upon their Final Death.




Physically: As for what happens to the body after Final Death, any part of the vampire's body disintegrates into ash once it leaves the vampire's body according to the same time schedule that the body would turn to ash if the whole vampire died; it's freed from the power of vitae and no longer able to exist in its undead state. Human bodies don't turn to ash when they die, they rot, so what happens to a human body after death is largely a moot point for this discussion, as an entirely different process occurs in the case of vampires. Vitae is supernatural.


Once the vampiric soul is gone and the Curse of Caine is absent, the body becomes ashes. These ashes are nondescript and appear to be some form of organic tissue that was burned entirely, and it carries no trace of usable DNA or other material that could be used to identify an individual. The lower generation a vampire is, the closer to Caine (and his curse) they are, so the faster the vampire would turn to ash upon Final Death.


Here is the schedule by which that happens.

Generation - Time to Completely Ashing
1st - instantly
2nd - 10 seconds
3rd - 30 seconds
4th - 1 minute
5th - 2 minutes
6th - 5 minutes
7th - 10 minutes
8th - 20 minutes
9th - 45 minutes
10th - 1.5 hours
11th - 3 hours
12th - 6 hours
13th - 12 hours
14th - 1 day
15th - 3 days

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On the topic of how long blood remains viable outside of the body, generally speaking, blood retains its potency based on, well, its potency.



We will use the following schedule to reflect this:



Type - Time to Spoilage (at room temperature)

Animal - 30 minutes
Human - 2 hours
Vampire - days = 16 minus generation
Werewolf - 1 day
Fae - 3 days



Proper refrigeration and storage increases the longevity of blood:

Type - Time to Spoilage (while refrigerated)

Animal - 1 week
Human - 30 days
Vampire - years = 16 minus generation
Werewolf - 1 year
Fae - 3 days (Fae blood is heavily magical and cares nothing for banal science)


Mystical methods of preservation can preserve blood longer than that, but those will not be discussed here.



Attempting to consume blood after these timeframes requires a Stamina roll to keep it down. Even if you can avoid vomiting it up, it does not provide any sustenance for a vampire, nor can spoiled vampiric vitae be used to Embrace, create ghouls, or blood bond.



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