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(09-22-2015, 12:04 PM)Casden Reeves Wrote: Just because there are blood sucking bats, eels, monsters and etc in the world does not remotely mean that vampires are lore friendly. They are not.
The problem with this is that Eorzean rumors and fearmongering associated with these 'vampiric' creatures is that the rumors have to stem from something.
Garlean Garlic Wrote:A pungent spice used to flavor many different varieties of dishes. It is also thought to ward off vampiric bats, but there is no evidence to substantiate that claim.
Vampiric Tapestry Wrote:Despite the fear-inducing moniker, this flying cephalopod neither sups on blood nor transforms into a bat. Rumors that it does not cast a shadow are unfounded, and all manner of stakes, from oak, to iron, to granite, to cermet, have been found effective in impaling this rather peaceful creature of the clouds.
Garlic repels vampires? Stakes kill vampires? Vampires transform into bats? All of these things are born of Real World mythologies of human vampires. You're not going to drive a stake through a fruit bat's heart to kill it. So the fact that these rumors exist, with the additional repeated use of the term 'vampiric' being used to describe several hematophagous creatures hints to a human folktale origin.
Again, whether actual living, breathing, non-mythological vampires exist in the lore is unknown, but the myth of humanoid vampires certainly does exist. Which entirely discredits the does not exist in lore argument. That does not mean vampires would have powers, burn in sunlight, or whatever the hell else you wanna bring into the 'verse. I'm simply saying lore supports their mythological existence, nothing more, nothing less.