Existence of vampires in 40k?

[Sai-Lauren]

As far as the background goes, when the conclave was still an official GW site and Gav was taking lots of suggestions from posters before compiling them into one thread (no idea if it is still there) I remember reading that there was a huge chunk devoted to the "ordo Vampiris" or something of similar spelling! Basicaly inquisitors who dealt with vampires though I can't remember if they were daemonic, it was a curse or if they were xenos... does any one else remember/ has posted this already so that I now look silly...?

Erriond

Let me guess, one member is a certain Lady Inquisitor Aestas and her retinue (work out the translation from latin - and it's something else that's on my big "to-do" list).

Blood Angels aren't vampires as such, although they do share a lot of the classic imagery, and whilst the Red Thirst is a blood craving, they just consume it.
Some death cults also drink the blood of their kills, although again, blood consumption, not really vampyrism.

RT era Vampires were psychic possessors as Kage said, maybe a Dracula-type vampire could be some kind of cultist that's dabbled in certain life-prolonging arts, or maybe a certain type of daemon can possess a host, but needs blood to provide the energy to maintain it's connection to the material plane, and taking that blood then opens the body to possession by another daemon of the same type.
Maybe there's even something some followers of Nurgle's released that causes Vampyrism.

[Erriond]

Let me guess, one member is a certain Lady Inquisitor Aestas and her retinue (work out the translation from latin - and it's something else that's on my big "to-do" list).

Err... What?

Erriond

[Pilgrim]

He (or she) means Buffy. Aestas translates from Latin as 'summer'. (although, to be the right surname, ie: Summers, it should be Aestates, the plural form)

Nice one Sai-Lauren A dodgy pun worthy of Games Workshop themselves.

Adrian

[Erriond]

From SlaaneshBen on the conclave

http://www.sacemoth.net/inqfiles/codexdarkimperium.pdf

Is the definitive resource for the enemy, Vampires.

The Order was created by myself and Mentirius, and others contributed. Drazh and I were the primary creators of the Purebloods, again with other contributions.

There's not much information on the Order that has been penned and put together.

I might get around to it someday.

-Ben

Hope you didn't think I was making it up Sai-Lauren! At the end of the day its just fan fiction but GW know well of its existance so its as good as you will get for now.

Erriond

[Sai-Lauren]

He (or she) means Buffy. Aestas translates from Latin as 'summer'. (although, to be the right surname, ie: Summers, it should be Aestates, the plural form)

Nice one Sai-Lauren A dodgy pun worthy of Games Workshop themselves.

Adrian

He.

And thanks. 'Tis rather Clarissa Lhoft from Warhammer Armies:Tomb Kings-esque isn't it

Didn't think you were making it up Erriond (although fan-fic is just fan-fic), but it would probably be a sub-ordo of Malleus - assuming the daemonic side of it.

[calicojack]

From the Rogue Trader rulebook

Thank you thank you, many of the fluff sections of my own copy have gone - stuff like the aliens. On a related note [being "psychic vampires" of a more cthulhoid sort], could you tag on the brief description of the Enslavers as written in said book as well? Not rules, just the fluff from RT. Cobbling together a catch-all of Minor Xenos races descriptions from the assorted core books [not really from the fiction - 'though the "Leng Spiders" [not called that in 40k, but in Lovecraft] which make an appearance in one of the Eisenhorn books might be neat to include.

My LatD makes use of a lot of minor Xenos - from an eldar pirate or two, through the Hrud and Kroot, Enslavers... Hooray heretical xenotech! Yay the Machine God!

[Chaos Angel]

Hi guys!
There were vampires in 40k!! Back when it was still called Rogue Trader there were vampires. They were a parasitic xenos race that could blend into human society easily feeding on emotion and psyker power..latent or active. They could assume humanoid form if they feed on a human, but thier true for was a humaniod bat. if i can find my old copy of rogue trader i'll post what it says. but i have other ideas on how to include them in current 40k armies and scenarios. tabletop and rpg. but there is the question of....would they follow Khorne? or have thier own god?
Chaos Angel

[SaintTom]

There was a vampire kind of Xenos in one of the Horus Heresy books. The one with all the short stories, Age of Darkness i think..

Anyways it was the one story with that salamander and ultramarine going to negotiate on some planet.

[ORKY ARD BOYZ]

From the Black Templars Codex:

"Before long, Helbrecht was inducted to the Sword Brethrem for slaying a Warp-spawned Vampire that had risen to power and taken control of the hive worlds of Cephian IV" Pg. 44

[Scalebug]

6+ years old thread, people...

Why on earth would someone, as their first post, drag up such an old thread? How did they even find it?

Are spambots getting smarter, or humans dumber?

[AngelofSorrow]

Maybe because it's a topic that interests him. He had something to add that may spark more discussion on the topic.
Why do you have to be so insulting and combative?

OT: blood angels and their ilk are described as having vampire like attributes. I've been thinking about an inquisitor as a vampire. Gifts from the warp.


Ready for eternal war!

[Inquisitor Engel]

Since this thread died originally,* it was revealed the Cyrion of Talos' First Claw was a psychic vampire, of a kind very well suited to his time in the Night Lords... Also, kind of a dick.


*And then brought back to life in a manner similar to its subject matter! How meta!

[Sheena Easton]

I seem to remember reading something about a Death Cult with Blood Drinking rituals and Vampirism somewhere

[Phunting]

Necromunda had Vampyres in the (unofficial) Fanatic publications. Gang War 3 gave rules for Vampyre Gangs, Vampyre Hunter Inquisitors and, erm, B'Ufi the Vampyre Slayer...

Aside from that, obviously the most canon entry is the Rogue Trader description as described.

And as always, worth remembering that Mephistion had the same profile as a Vampire Lord in 2nd ed...

[TheDungen]

right me if i'm wrong but inst vampireism a skill on inquisitor?

[Terror of the East]

In an old WD article about cultists is explained their were vampire covens.

[Skopey]

Sure when You could have specific rounds for the needle sniper rifle. There was a toxin for killing vampires.

[Hrw-Amen]

Given that the Imperium is Earth based and vampires exist on Earth nowadays it stands to reason they would spread out across the stars as humans do tagging along with them. Therefore I see no reason why they would no still exist in W40K time frame.

[Carlosophy]

Umm Blood Angels and their Red Thirst exhibit signs of vampirism though they do get to go out in the daylight !

Lest we forget they also have a ritual of drinking each other's blood and their chief librarian is basically a classic mythology vampire to the point I doubt he actually has a reflection.

BA are an army of vampires: end of.

[baphomael]

Given that the Imperium is Earth based and vampires exist on Earth nowadays it stands to reason they would spread out across the stars as humans do tagging along with them. Therefore I see no reason why they would no still exist in W40K time frame.

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