Blood banks

Blood banks are hemoglobic institutions geared towards the funding of blood businesses, and the free circulation of blood and derivative supply all over the empire.

A blood bank is a financial institution that accepts deposits of blood (either placed or donated) from the public or companies and creates deposits. Lending activities can be performed either directly or indirectly through capital markets. Due to their importance in the stability and continued survival of vampiric communities and even entire countries, blood banks are highly regulated in most countries. Most nations have institutionalized a system known as famine reserves under which blood banks hold liquid blood assets equal to only a month of food for their current jurisdiction. In addition to other regulations intended to ensure minimal food coverage, blood banks are subject to minimum capital requirements based on an Empire wide set of capital standards, known as the Ichor Accords.

Blood banks maintain their establishments as both a credit business and a center where blood is gathered, stored and preserved for safekeeping. Banks have collectors offices where the storage of blood products occurs and where proper testing is performed.

Blood banks make money by lending deposits to people for a fee, in a practice known as bloodletting.

## Bloodletting

Bloodletting (a corruption of the term blood lending) is the main activity of blood banks, who accumulate blood deposits, who are then lended for a fee.

Blood economics work by a lender (most often vampires) contracting a loan for a certain amount of blood that exceeds their fleshdebt for business purposes. Blood can be used for multiple purposes from hemomancy to experimentation. The quantity of blood a vampire ingests also determines its power, leading to similar behaviors as with regular currency based economies.

Bloodletting is a heavily regulated practice in the empire due to the stranglehold blood banks can exert on the vampiric community.

Undead businesses often contract loans with blood banks to start their businesses, most often for specific blood types and for agricultural reasons.

## Blood Vintner

A blood vintner is a technician that produces specific types of blood.

These specialized bloods can give specific effects.

* A popular type of blood specifically designed as a fuel for hemomancy. This blood is extracted from demonic dalmer.
* While drinking blood is the only way a vampire can heal wounds, this type of blood, extracted from descendants of clones, allows faster regeneration than normal.
* Rising from a state of torpor is only possible through the usage of blood. This type of blood is extracted from naturally raised (without the help of a necromancer) zombies.
* Vampiric blood has the property to create a supernatural link of fidelity towards the vampire who shared it, forming an emphatic bond. (Emphatic bond is also caused by diseased vampire blood).
* Drinking blood helps a vampire appear more alive for some time. Blood extracted from youth strengthens this effect.
* Some types of blood allow the drinker to engage in sexual intercourse. The origin of this blood is unknown, but is rumored to be a placebo and the blood extracted from rabbits.
* Besides these specific bloods, some people have specific tastes in blood, blacksmith, orc, energetic, salmon and hectic are among the countless types of blood a vintner can cook up.