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Khavosian Vampire - by T.A. Saunders ©2009 v1.8

Racial Articles Blood Slaves and Blood Dolls

The blood is the power of a vampire. Through it a vampire may steadily and reliably control other people and animals even. Those who unwittingly (or at least at first) drink the blood of a vampire become under their thrall to the point of near suicidal obedience. So long as a steady diet of at least a half pint of blood is consumed every week, that individual will become and remain what is called a blood slave.

The longer one is a blood slave, the more likely they will become physically dependent on the vampire's blood until such point they will actually begin to suffer withdraw symptoms. Should this go on for more than a month, the blood slave will break the thrall.

Additionally, the longer one is a blood slave the more fractionated abilities of the vampire they serve they will get. Usually this manifests in increased strength, reflexes and durability, though the oldest blood slaves have exhibited slowed aging and in a few very rare cases, a talent their master or mistress has.

A blood slave is mentally linked to the vampire, though the slave is not cognizant of this link. The vampire can experience all six senses of their blood slave just by concentrating. This talent only works on one blood slave at a time. In this manner, a vampire at any time can see whatever it is their slave is looking at or listen in on conversations he or she hears and so on.

A vampire can have as many blood slaves as he or she wishes, though most will only have one or two. Anymore than this runs the risk of the vampire's blood being run too low to sustain their slaves' thrall. All blood slaves to the same vampire will be instinctively harmonious with each other, even if they despised each other before becoming blood slaves.

Blood dolls are those who willingly and knowingly submit themselves to becoming the slaves of the vampire. Most often this is usually somebody the vampire is amorous with and seeks to make them a special pet. This relationship does have a domination/submission theme to it, though it is not always sexual in nature…just most of the time.

These individuals are almost always female but there are male blood dolls as well. Often, these blood dolls are kept not only for amusement but a steady blood source should there ever be a lack of victims to hunt. Some vampires actually prefer to feed from their blood doll, finding it to be a deeply intimate bond made, much like sex is between two normal people.

Whatever the case, blood slaves and blood dolls will protect their master or mistress onto death. They will jump in front of stakes, they will throw themselves at attackers to ensure the safety of the vampire they serve. When defending their master or mistress, blood slaves cannot be feared with anything short of divine power. The only recourse at that point is death or being rendered unconscious or incapacitated in some way.

A particular kind of blood doll, a dirty doll is loosely considered one of the lowest of their kind. A dirty doll is given intoxicants such as alcohol, thistle weed or it's derivative thistle drops, juka, or some other intoxicating substance. The difference between a regular blood doll, which may be given drugs to suit the whim of their vampire master, and a dirty doll is that the latter is kept intoxicated frequently enough to develop an addiction. This addiction can be anything from mild to debilitating. Dirty Dolls are the least common kind of Blood Doll and without their masters, most of those with stronger addictions will die within a relatively short frame of time as they have often lost the ability to care for themselves without keepers and will deprive themselves of necessities in order to afford feeding their addiction. (class information contribution by C. Gray)

Statistically, treat Blood Slaves and Blood Dolls as Dhampir should a player wish to play one, with a notable exception that the Immunity to Vampiric Mind Control does not apply to the Blood Slave/Blood Doll when it's their master or mistress calling to them.