Vampire Dragons

**Vampire Dragons** are a Blood Drinking species created by Anonyma. This type of dragon is composed by the Ancient Vampires, which are divided in two subspecies, the *Bloodbound* and the *Ravenous.* Though most Vampire dragons are *Vampire* *Turned*: dragons which were turned by an Ancient Vampire.

## Community

***Bloodbounds:***

Bloodbounds are the more gentle and welcoming vampires of the two types. They use their wisdom, intellect and charms to befriend and make alliances with dragons of other species, helping them the best they can in return for safe feedings and respect. They will aid anyone in need, and their ranks are usually depending on the leader of a peculiar Clan. Usually, no trials or combats are necessary, and everything happens fluidly between clan members, using peaceful manners and charms to get the clan to follow a specific direction. They do, however, have strong morals, and the group will agree on laws and rules, such as killing an innocent being forbidden and severely punished.

***Ravenous:***

Ravenous are much more cruel and merciless than the Bloodbound, prone to violence if they do not get their way. Their clans were usually ruled by brutal kings and dictators, and will crush any other species of dragons, reducing them to slavery and treating them as nothing but cattle. With the Ravenous, Turned Dragons are treated as soldiers and lower ranks, and are simply considered 'impure', which makes them ostracized and usually badly treated by their oppressors.

Ravenous would also often organize raids and attacks on other dragon kingdoms and clans to capture eggs and hatchlings, and raise them as sources of blood. But eventually, the Ravenous got too greedy, and conquered too much of their continent while turning more and more dragons, which caused a famine for the vampire dragons. Soon, they waged war with the BloodBound to try and save themselves, but the BloodBound had already mostly starved, and in the end of this war, almost every Vampire Dragon was thought to be extinct, especially the Ravenous.

## Faith

Vampire dragons have very differentiating beliefs depending on the individual dragon, but, Ancient Vampires will all have the ritual of turning their fallen comrades into Blood Crystals, which are catalysts for magic and sharp enough to create blades and weapons out of. Bloodbounds avoid using the crystals to make anything, and prefer to create crystal cemetaries in which their fallen members will rest in peace, while Ravenous tended to use any fallen dragon's body to turn them into powerful tools to assert more power and oppress more dragons.

## Physiology

Ancient Vampires are slender, lean dragons with large wings and sharp features. They have a very regal posture and large fangs, along with large horns and four powerful claws that are usually incredibly sharp and mostly translucent. Ancient Dragons are made to be elegant, strong, and agile, and are made to use quick flyby attacks to cause their foes to bleed to death with multiple injuries and cuts, and can also fight using their impressive horns if need be.

They also are equipped with large venom glands, and their venom allows them to clarify the blood of a dragon to drink it easier, or make it much, much harder to heal wounds.

**Turned Vampires**

For an Ancient Vampire to create a Turned Vampire, they must administer three full doses (aka the full content of their venom glands) to the dragon to be turned, clarifying their blood and preventing injury for three days, administering one bite a day. After the third day, the dragon will be turned, and will gain the same venom glands, the fangs, and the lack of colors of an ancient vampire, but their general physiology will not change beyond that. That being said, a dragon being turned will see their lifespan significantly increased, no matter their age. Depending on the species, turning into a vampire can mean doubling or even tripling their life expectancy, which is why some elderly dragons sometimes get turned into vampires to extend their lives for much, much longer.

### Colors and Patterns

A non-fed Vampire will have absolutely no color at all, and will only gain colors once they are fed. Such colors can be on only part of the body or the entirety of it, and may be any color, though ancient Vampires tend to gain red, blue or purples when they are fed.

Ancient usually are entirely black with pale or transparent claws and horns, other shades of greys and whites are entirely possible.

A Turned Dragon will keep their natural colors, but will only appear when they are fed.

### Lairs

Vampire dragons like to make their lairs in high altitude, where the air is harder to breathe, and in places other dragons generally wouldn't like, such as large, barren cliffs and gloomy forests. They however prefer to have a food source nearby, so a lush forest is ideal. The current lair of the only know vampire clan, the Scarlet Knights, is made of large floating islands above a dark forest.

### Behavior

Vampire dragons tend to act like normal dragons, but are heavily influenced by their level of hunger. If a dragon hasn't fed in over a week, they will start having impulses and cravings, and soon, they will find themselves going bersek, trying to bite at any dragon they meet. This can be prevented by feeding regularly, hence why both the BloodBound and the Ravenous went into two different methods to handle this... problem of theirs.

### Diet

Vampire dragons drink dragon blood, but they also feed on the blood of other animals, and sometimes also consume meat to gain minerals and essential vitamins they cannot get from the blood only. Vampire dragons tend to prefer the kidneys, heart and livers of the animals they feed on.

### Subspecies

* Ravenous
* BloodBound
* Turned Vampires

## List of Vampire Dragons

**Ancient Vampires: BloodBounds**

* Eoghan

**Ancient Vampires: Ravenous**

* Kekali

**Turned Vampires**

* Mephistopheles
* Sycarius
* Sirius
* The Brood Mother
* Sidyanis