Night Huntress Creatures

Meet the creatures that inhabit the Night Huntress world...
 

Vampires

Vampires originated from Cain, the brother of Abel. God put a mark upon Cain after Cain murdered Abel, so that any who saw him would not kill him. That "mark" was his transformation into becoming undead. Cain regretted killing his brother, and the children he 'reproduced' were vampires and ghouls, who then made others of their kind, and so on. Cain is the undead version of the Man Upstairs. No one knows if he's still in existence, or if he's long dead.

Vampires need to drink blood in order to survive, but they don't need to kill their donor. They can walk in daylight, have no aversion to crosses, and silver, not wood, through their heart is lethal. Vampires live in pyramid-like societies ranked by the strength of the head of the line – the oldest Master vampire.

Ghouls

Ghouls are a sister race to vampires. They have the same societal structures as vampires, and they conform to the same rules. But there are a few things different about them:

Ghouls eat raw meat with the occasional body part supplement.

Ghouls can only be killed by decapitation.

The birth of a new ghoul – this is detailed in ONE FOOT IN THE GRAVE..

Ghosts

Most ghosts are impressions of energy that mindlessly repeat the same action. These ghosts are commonly found in cemeteries, battlegrounds, or geographical "hotspots" where a thinner membrane for separating the natural from the supernatural exists.

Sentient ghosts are rare. They are usually people who experienced some strong emotion (anger, unrequited love, need for revenge, etc.) at their time of death. Combined with dying in a supernatural hotspot, it anchors them here. Sentient ghosts remember their former lives, and can interact with other ghosts, ghouls, or vampires. In both cases, the average person can't see ghosts, but vampires, ghouls, and psychics can.