That's a very interesting question, along with whether or not one can vamp animals in general. I think you could wank it either way--if all vamping requires is an exchange of blood, then I'd say that any animal which could normally provide a vampire with sustenance (all mammals, say) could be vamped. But it's also possible (especially if you consider vamping as more a magical/symbolic act) that you can't vamp anything but a human. However, if you had a pure demon of the sort which created vampires to begin with, it might be able to infect another species and create a species of alt-vamps. (I wonder if that's the origin of the Turok-Han; they were the result of a demon infecting a different species of hominid, way back in the day. Though I suppose they could also be impossibly ancient and demonified human-based vampires.)
I'd somehow forgotten about the Turok-Han. I agree that they seem to be a vamped different species of hominid. Given what little we know of the "pure" demon (if that's what we saw in Pylea) then maybe any warm-blooded species with sufficient higher brain function to match or exceed the demon would suffice. (Anything dumber would probably die quickly.) So you could possibly vamp a lion or a whale but not a gerbil or a shark.
If the vamping is a magical/symbolic act then you still have to ask, how human is good enough? If a closely-related homnid's OK, then what about a chimp?
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Date: 2005-11-25 10:11 am (UTC)If the vamping is a magical/symbolic act then you still have to ask, how human is good enough? If a closely-related homnid's OK, then what about a chimp?
Lemurs are probably out though :)
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