Dogs, Bats & Monkeys Series: EXTRAS

Humans & Humanoid Species 101 - Vampires: Dayers vs Nighters

I originally posted this in my Facebook group over two years ago, but here's a slightly updated version on a page from the Sentinels' training manual. Topic: vampires.

Both subspecies.

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DAYERS

The first Dayers were Gifted humans who had turned into Nighters, but managed to preserve or eventually regain their rationality and decided to fight with the humans and shifters against the Nighters in The First Great War.

At that time, they still kept the Nighters abilities and appearance, as well as their bloodlust, but refused to harm humans and shifters and therefore fed on animals and other Nighters.

As a sign of gratitude, after the war was over, the Great Spirits of Nature gave them back their human appearance, lessened their thirst for blood and made it possible for them to have children. After that transformation, the terms Dayer and Nighter were created to distinguish between the human-like, in control of their thirst vampires, and the cursed, bloodthirsty vampires, whose habits are mostly nocturnal.

NIGHTERS

The First Nighter (also known as The Unnamed King as his name was erased from historic records) was a greedy human who challenged the Great Spirits of Nature (according to some religious beliefs - the Angels) and who was cursed by them to live forever in a mutated body with a never-ending thirst for blood. He later escaped the cave he was held captive in and created more Nighters by killing humans and then reviving them with his blood. He used his newly-created army of Nighters to attack the humans in what is now known as The First Great War.