From: David Cake (davidc@cs.uwa.edu.au)
Date: Mon 13 Sep 1993 - 10:16:26 EEST
> * I remember a roumour that Delecti (a surviving EWF refugee) may not realy be a
> vampire at all. If so, is he even chaotic? OK, so the upland marsh is full of
> undead, but troll use undead too so that does not imply chaos.
>
Delecti is certainly not a conventional vampire - rather than keeping his physical body alive, he inhabits bodies of the newly dead. Perhaps Delecti is actually more like a ghoul? But he is a Vivamort cult hero, however, so don't read too much into him not being a vampire - I think that he is more than a vampire, but shares many of their motivations. He has not just zombies and skeletons and ghosts (like trolls) but vampires as well (for example, see The attack on the Tower of the Dead in TOTRM#5) among his followers. He also has acess to EWF knowledge, which may give him magics others are quite unaware of.
BTW - does anybody know what his vampires feed on? Are their many captives in the marsh (serious adventurer motivation), or do they eat non-sentients, or summoned spirits (grumpy vampires), or perhaps Delecti has special magics to keep them alive somehow. Perhaps they raid the ducks a lot (no wonder ducks join Humakt)?
Cheers ' Dave Cake ---------------------
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