Yes, there's the whole question of what creatures in the Jossverse have souls. Most humans and some demons and we have no info at all on non-magical animals other than humans. Barb raised the point about the Turok-Han being possibly vamped hominids -- but now that I think about it some more, there's a fairly big disconnect between standard evolutionary theories and Jossverse prehistory.
To survive, the vamped creature would need to be smart enough not to walk out into the sun, so a successful vamped group would need some communication skills and memory. You'd need a social species. But it doesn't tell us which creatures could, theoretically, be vamped.
Hmm, I hadn't really considered that the Turok-Han were another species of hominid. But then the whole creation mythos of Jossverse doesn't fit in with any standard evolutionary model.
Also a vamped creature's survival would depend on who or what did the siring and if they stuck around to teach basic survival skills. I'd always wondered why vampires seemed to procreate with such a wide spectrum of parental investment, from 'bite them and leave them' to centuries long relationships.
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Date: 2005-11-25 10:27 am (UTC)To survive, the vamped creature would need to be smart enough not to walk out into the sun, so a successful vamped group would need some communication skills and memory. You'd need a social species. But it doesn't tell us which creatures could, theoretically, be vamped.
Hm.
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Date: 2005-11-26 07:03 pm (UTC)Also a vamped creature's survival would depend on who or what did the siring and if they stuck around to teach basic survival skills. I'd always wondered why vampires seemed to procreate with such a wide spectrum of parental investment, from 'bite them and leave them' to centuries long relationships.