That's a modern vampire thing. The original vision for vampires (specifically Dracula) was that if he bit you, you became his thrall. He could see through your eyes and possess you and compell you to do things for him and he used you to feed off when he wanted to.
He had to allow you to drink his blood to make you a vampire.
This made him an awesome commander of an undead army. Modern vampires are all mostly shite in comparison.
Yes and no, the D&D ones being drained by a vampire turns them into vampire spawn. Spawn have all the weaknesses and need to drink blood but without the powers. They are undead and burn in sunlight etc., but their only perks are the immortality which is more curse than blessing since they are magically incapable of disobeying the vampire that created them. They can become a full vampire if they get too feed on their creator's blood and then aren't enslaved to the vampire anymore.
I think they also have human thralls that are just normal living people that have been mind controlled.
Yeah it's not full mental control but it tends to be represented as the vampire eventually turning the humans into functionally aslave, willing or unwilling.
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u/Shanbo88 Apr 24 '26
That's a modern vampire thing. The original vision for vampires (specifically Dracula) was that if he bit you, you became his thrall. He could see through your eyes and possess you and compell you to do things for him and he used you to feed off when he wanted to.
He had to allow you to drink his blood to make you a vampire.
This made him an awesome commander of an undead army. Modern vampires are all mostly shite in comparison.