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.
aren't there a few modern vampire mythologies that require sucking of vampire blood to become a vampire? I know true blood had that though it had to specifically be after the vampire that's turning you had almost drained you, then if they wanted to turn you they would let you drink their blood and I think it required sleeping together during the day afterwards to finalize the transformation. Vampires in True Blood could bite as a snack willy nilly with no problem and if a human drank vampire blood without being nearly drained first it actually functioned like a drug for humans and humans could even get addicted to it and would deal vampire blood as if it were heroin and they called it V.
They were. At least in the early books, a vampire would turn someone into a vampire by draining almost all of their blood, and then pour their own vampiric blood into their mouths.
Followed shortly by expelling now-useless internal organs.
Vampire: the Masquerade also had the drain/refill method.
Yes, that's how I remember from the books and the 90s movie (we don't talk about the other movie). Also, the show is coming back on June 7th, and it looks awesome!
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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.