[ a nod of confirmation. he's no stranger to catching the scent of blood on the wind, but it's been decades since he's been in the position to pick up on it in such horrifying ways. not since the second world war. ]
(while yennefer has many abilities due to her magic, heightened senses has never been one of them, unless she purposefully tries to do it. she's listened to people's heartbeats before, to get a beat on them.)
You must be one of the rare higher ones -- we have ones with your level of intelligence and control in my world but they're very uncommon.
(even most higher vampires like the bruxa still have difficulty when it comes to their thirst for blood.)
[ oh, there was most certainly difficulty to be found in dealing with the scent of blood. it was tantalizing, to say the least, but he wasn't the type of man to be lured by its scent. he'd had a lot of practice when it came to resting and holding himself at bay, something he imagined was far easier for him than it was for his vampiric counterparts from other worlds where vampires were closer to what he saw as fiction than his reality.
a snort: ] My level of intelligence. I'm a genius. Intelligent is the understatement of the century.
[ he couldn't say for sure if other vampires were as smart as he was, for the only other vampire he'd had the (dis)pleasure of meeting had been a queen hellbent on reclaiming her right to rule. she'd viewed him as some sort of mongrel and had intended on harming helen, so she'd had to go. there hadn't been time to ask any of the questions he desired answers to. ]
A sorceress. Can't say those exist where I'm from, though there have been plenty of people with unusual skillsets and abilities that have been deemed witchcraft by those who didn't understand them and feared them.
(there were different breeds of vampire in yennefer's world, some more monstrous than others. most of them dangerous. a few blended in with humans as if they belonged, even able to go into daylight, but they were uncommon.
she snorts, as if amused by the correction.)
My mistake -- the vampires in my world are rare to have what we would consider human intelligence, then. Some do, but they are rare. And even some, like the bruxa, can communicate and feel but lack control.
(she may not know as much as geralt when it comes to monsters, but she's been around long enough.)
People always fear what they do not understand -- and try to punish it. At least that has been my experience.
[ he makes a face in response to what she's telling him. one that conveys how none too pleased he is to hear that vampires in her world are thoughtless grunts that are likely guided by hunger alone. how barbaric. ]
In my world, the sanguine vampiris were the scholars of ancient times. They had vast cities that were far more advanced than anything human civilization at the time had come up with. Before their demise at the hands of humankind's most extreme religious fundamentalists, they were the dominant species.
[ and now, they were gone. all that was left was him, a remnant brought out of genetic dormancy thanks to being bold and reckless enough to push the boundaries of known science. he hadn't known he had vampire lineage when he participated in that blood experiment, but he's grateful he did. ]
That sounds like the elves of my world. Before the Conjunction of Spheres they were the dominant species. They taught magic to humans, for all the good it did them.
(many of them have been persecuted and killed, including her biological father, a half elf.)
My ancestors taught the humans how to manufacture and use their technological advancements, their industrializations. And they turned out and eradicated my people with it. Leaving nothing more than empty ruins and butchered myths and legends behind.
[ bitter? oh so bitter. why he no longer glorifies his ancestors in the way he once did, he's still not happy about being the last of his kind. nobody wants to be the last living relic of a peoples long gone. ]
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I'm a vampire.
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(while yennefer has many abilities due to her magic, heightened senses has never been one of them, unless she purposefully tries to do it. she's listened to people's heartbeats before, to get a beat on them.)
You must be one of the rare higher ones -- we have ones with your level of intelligence and control in my world but they're very uncommon.
(even most higher vampires like the bruxa still have difficulty when it comes to their thirst for blood.)
I'm a sorceress.
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a snort: ] My level of intelligence. I'm a genius. Intelligent is the understatement of the century.
[ he couldn't say for sure if other vampires were as smart as he was, for the only other vampire he'd had the (dis)pleasure of meeting had been a queen hellbent on reclaiming her right to rule. she'd viewed him as some sort of mongrel and had intended on harming helen, so she'd had to go. there hadn't been time to ask any of the questions he desired answers to. ]
A sorceress. Can't say those exist where I'm from, though there have been plenty of people with unusual skillsets and abilities that have been deemed witchcraft by those who didn't understand them and feared them.
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(there were different breeds of vampire in yennefer's world, some more monstrous than others. most of them dangerous. a few blended in with humans as if they belonged, even able to go into daylight, but they were uncommon.
she snorts, as if amused by the correction.)
My mistake -- the vampires in my world are rare to have what we would consider human intelligence, then. Some do, but they are rare. And even some, like the bruxa, can communicate and feel but lack control.
(she may not know as much as geralt when it comes to monsters, but she's been around long enough.)
People always fear what they do not understand -- and try to punish it. At least that has been my experience.
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In my world, the sanguine vampiris were the scholars of ancient times. They had vast cities that were far more advanced than anything human civilization at the time had come up with. Before their demise at the hands of humankind's most extreme religious fundamentalists, they were the dominant species.
[ and now, they were gone. all that was left was him, a remnant brought out of genetic dormancy thanks to being bold and reckless enough to push the boundaries of known science. he hadn't known he had vampire lineage when he participated in that blood experiment, but he's grateful he did. ]
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That sounds like the elves of my world. Before the Conjunction of Spheres they were the dominant species. They taught magic to humans, for all the good it did them.
(many of them have been persecuted and killed, including her biological father, a half elf.)
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[ bitter? oh so bitter. why he no longer glorifies his ancestors in the way he once did, he's still not happy about being the last of his kind. nobody wants to be the last living relic of a peoples long gone. ]
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It seems like even in different worlds, certain patterns are always bound to repeat themselves.
(at best, yennefer is disconnected from her elven roots, but still, she understands, objectively, that what's happened to them is wrong.)