Vampires are undead beings, formerly human, that retain their knowledge and identities (more or less), from their former lives, and feed on the blood of the living.
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They have superhuman strength, speed, and heightened senses as well as the ability to enthrall mortal minds and erase their memories. They have “peculiar“ regeneration abilities and do not age, but are easily dispatched by a Druidic unbinding, because Gaia regards them as nothing more than nonliving materials to be reduced into their most basic elements and reincorporated into the nonliving matter of the Earth. They can also be killed by wooden stakes and sunlight (and presumably fire) and cannot enter a human home unless the owner invites them of their own free will (meaning they cannot use their hypnotic abilities to acquire an invitation). Leif claims that no vampire has ever had the ability to turn into a bat, however, vampires do have a unique gift not mentioned in folklore—because of their undead status, they are immune to most forms of divination and ritual magic which explicitly target the living. Line-of-sight magic and spells guided by a powerful entity such as a demon, on the other hand, can still harm them.
Examining Lief through his “Faerie Specs,” Atticus reports that Vampires have only two points of magic in their bodies: in the heads and hearts. He suspects they act as “resurrection engines,” and this is why vampires can only die if they are both staked and decapitate.