Vampire look

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Thestephenmcraeub17_ESO wrote: »

Grunge wrote: »

This is the twilight effect... The humanization of vampires... lol

Incorrect. In the original story "Dracula" no one knew he was a vampire until he revealed it. He appeared perfectly human and was charming and charismatic, which aided his powers of seduction and persuasion. Not that it really matters because we're talking about separate instances of vampires, but part of the lore of any vampire (except I guess "feral" vampires) is their ability to blend in with normal living people. That's how they feed. If Dracula looked like a monster, he would have starved to death because he could never get close to people. Vampire mythology requires an aspect of charm and likability - it's what makes them dangerous and scary in the first place (that you wouldn't expect someone so nice and charming to kill you).

In the original novel, it's pretty clear from Johnathan Harker's notes that Dracula can barely pass for human initially. By the time he arrives in London, he's manage to restore himself to the point where the only extremely unusual thing about him is his, "burning eyes," though it's unclear if he's just got an extremely intense stare, or if his eyes appear supernatural in some way (possibly a bit of both.)

Visually, Dracula follows the same rules as ESO's vampires (Mostly human when well fed, but monstrous when starved), the caveat is that he looks way more monsterous at his extreme. Which is kinda the problem for me with the visuals in ESO. The difference between Stage 1 and Stage 4 is too minor to say, "yeah, that's a horrific monster," and more, "look at that ugly ************."