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WinterKnight94's DF Mods
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Description
Vanilla WorldGen allows for multiple types of vampire curses, but only has 1.
This mod fixes that by adding new forms of vampirism to your worlds, inspired by vampire folklore from around the world.

NEW TYPES OF VAMPIRES
Vampyr - highly WIP, currently the same as vampires from my Better Vampires mod.
Dhampyr - living, not undead, and can sense other vampires and supernatural beings.
Nosferatu - easiest to spot due to hair loss, long fingers, and long, non-retractable fangs.
Strigoi - can vanish in plain sight

PLANNED TYPES OF VAMPIRES
Baital - resembles a bat person and can resurrect corpses and fly.
Jaingshi - type of bloodsucker from chinese folklore with long white hair that never stops growing and are covered in short, pale green fur thought to be a fungus that grows on the corpse. known for doing horrible thing to women but in DF im going to translate that as being MISCHIEVOUS like gremlins, pulling random levers and stuff.

PLANNED FEATURES
- make Nosferatu perish in sunlight.
- give Strigoi ability to transform into a bat.
- create divine disease "porphoric hemaphilia', the primary way new Vampyr are created.

KNOWN ISSUES/BUGS
- None discovered yet but I'm sure there might be a few since I'm in the middle of packing and moving and haven't had time to do any playtesting.
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17 Jan @ 6:43am
Vampire Suggestions
Stogie
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eqN 28 Jun @ 9:42am 
In the files I'm not seeing any reason why this mod has 'Better Vampires' as a dependency.

Another thing, to help distinguish the types of vampires in Legends mode / world history, it'd be nice to change the "[IS_HIST_STRING_1:X]" and "[IS_HIST_STRING_2:X]" values. (I'm doing this locally, personally.)

That said, a very wonderful mod, well executed. Thanks Stardust. ^^
Phantosmia 23 Jan @ 3:01pm 
Still being updated?
Hedrox 15 Aug, 2024 @ 6:47pm 
Dhampir? Based 10/10 mod
Saromal 7 Jul, 2024 @ 3:02pm 
Hey mate, it's "Porphyric Hemophilia", not "porphoric hemaphilia" unless you are trying to be distinct. Cool mod though, nice work
Wyntr Stardust  [author] 5 Apr, 2023 @ 3:13pm 
@Altogolik
Dhampir can still gain skills.
Thrice 17 Jan, 2023 @ 6:28pm 
@Experiments Maybe just Viral Hematophagia Contagiousa? lol
Anarch Cassius 17 Jan, 2023 @ 3:40pm 
Masquerade has a ton of it's own unique world history and metaphysics, plus intentional tweaks and misleads in a lot of the creatures. It's a fun world but I think for this it'd be better to use it to find new source myths.

For example Strigoi are a LOT like the Gangrel lines that developed Obfuscate. Baital are flying bat vampires that fill the same niche as the Gargoyles with out the need for all the backstory. I'm posting a few in the new Discussion, but a lot of the Masquerade clans are social groups that don't map well to ancient lore.
Altogolik 13 Jan, 2023 @ 2:17pm 
We need a vampire who can pump up his physical characteristics even when transformed.
mad12fox 12 Jan, 2023 @ 3:19pm 
Have you ever checked into Elder Scrolls and, vampire masquerade? You might be able to find some really cool ideas from it. I'm not saying you should 100% do it, but it's something that might help you create more complexity of types. Like, I know there's this one in Elder Scrolls where vampires can literally go through ice walls. As well as Dracula. Was able to turn into a wolf. In the original lore.
Experiments 11 Jan, 2023 @ 10:38pm 
I recommend against using "Porphoric" because it's an ahistoric explanation and would be scientifically nonsensical for actual vampires. Haemophilia is an issue where clotting on wounds is impaired, mostly in men. They sound cool together but the Oblivion technobabble hurts my brain. I'm sure there's another cool phrase for this contagious hematophagy.