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umm_shafaqatLycanthropy does not affect vampires. Vampires have been dead, they need to breathe only rarely, and their hearts beat slowly. Vampires run far cooler than the truly living, and the disease of lycanthropy cannot survive long enough to truly take root in them.
The fae are living creatures. They can be bitten by werewolves and turned into... another kind of monster. This is especially terrifying for Faerie Gentry -- their rulers must be without physical flaw, after all. Werewolf bites tend to scar terribly, and the transformation is ruled by the phases of the moon and not individual will.
The vampires of Keziah's world are able to sense each other's presence, as long as they are within the same family line or House. Sire and child are able to sense each other's emotional states, which becomes stronger with eye contact and especially physical touch. This more potent connection can temporarily be formed by vampires outside of the sire-child connection, but each vampire needs to drink of the other's blood. (Like many things, this is a formalized contact -- one vampire presents a wrist or hand, the other bites, and then the gesture is repeated. It is considered polite to bite as near the same spot -- wrist and wrist, palm and palm, same finger -- as possible.) It can be useful for conflict resolution, for although actual thoughts cannot be shared in this method, knowing how the other party felt about an event does assist in mutual understanding.
If necessary, a sire can slip into the mind of their child and reinforce the child's will (or suborn it to their own). This is not a step that Keziah likes to take, outside of ensuring that her newly turned vampire child will not give in to bloodlust.
Fae creatures are able to influence the minds of mortals with their particular brand of magic. Illusions, glamours, altered voices -- all to assist in trickery. Vampires are resistant to such illusions, and may be able to spot a fae for what they are (older fae that are strong in their magic are harder to spot). However, if a vampire drinks of a fae creature's blood -- even that of a changeling or half-faerie -- it gives the fae an 'in' to influence the vampire's mind. Unfortunately for vampires, faerie blood is addictive... feed from them too often, and you will begin to crave it above all else. And of course, a fae can take advantage of this addiction to enslave a vampire to their will.
Around 1350, the Spring Court of the Mediterranean feared lycanthropic incursion and corruption. Several vampires were kidnapped and forced to imbibe faerie blood to become enslaved protectors of the Spring Court Gentry. Keziah tried to save her sire from this fate, but it was too late. Ibtihaj was lost to her.
Scent is usually the tell that Keziah depends on when it comes to sussing out someone associated with the Fae. She is too smart to attack immediately, but she'll watch such people -- enthralled humans, half-fae, full faerie, whatever -- with suspicion. Hate on sight, basically.
The fae are living creatures. They can be bitten by werewolves and turned into... another kind of monster. This is especially terrifying for Faerie Gentry -- their rulers must be without physical flaw, after all. Werewolf bites tend to scar terribly, and the transformation is ruled by the phases of the moon and not individual will.
The vampires of Keziah's world are able to sense each other's presence, as long as they are within the same family line or House. Sire and child are able to sense each other's emotional states, which becomes stronger with eye contact and especially physical touch. This more potent connection can temporarily be formed by vampires outside of the sire-child connection, but each vampire needs to drink of the other's blood. (Like many things, this is a formalized contact -- one vampire presents a wrist or hand, the other bites, and then the gesture is repeated. It is considered polite to bite as near the same spot -- wrist and wrist, palm and palm, same finger -- as possible.) It can be useful for conflict resolution, for although actual thoughts cannot be shared in this method, knowing how the other party felt about an event does assist in mutual understanding.
If necessary, a sire can slip into the mind of their child and reinforce the child's will (or suborn it to their own). This is not a step that Keziah likes to take, outside of ensuring that her newly turned vampire child will not give in to bloodlust.
Fae creatures are able to influence the minds of mortals with their particular brand of magic. Illusions, glamours, altered voices -- all to assist in trickery. Vampires are resistant to such illusions, and may be able to spot a fae for what they are (older fae that are strong in their magic are harder to spot). However, if a vampire drinks of a fae creature's blood -- even that of a changeling or half-faerie -- it gives the fae an 'in' to influence the vampire's mind. Unfortunately for vampires, faerie blood is addictive... feed from them too often, and you will begin to crave it above all else. And of course, a fae can take advantage of this addiction to enslave a vampire to their will.
Around 1350, the Spring Court of the Mediterranean feared lycanthropic incursion and corruption. Several vampires were kidnapped and forced to imbibe faerie blood to become enslaved protectors of the Spring Court Gentry. Keziah tried to save her sire from this fate, but it was too late. Ibtihaj was lost to her.
Scent is usually the tell that Keziah depends on when it comes to sussing out someone associated with the Fae. She is too smart to attack immediately, but she'll watch such people -- enthralled humans, half-fae, full faerie, whatever -- with suspicion. Hate on sight, basically.
