Believe it or not Vampires have souls..."The queen and her ancient priestsly advisor not only found the secret of eternal youth,they also managed to cut themselves off entirley from the Chaos Realm, drawing whatever aspects of the soul or spirit that resided within the Aethyr completely into themselves. So locked within the very fibre of Neferatem's body was her entire identity and a small vortex of aethyric, or spirit, energy. Not only did this mean that Neferatem and W'soran could never truly die but it also meant that their souls would be forever beyong the grasp of daemons and gods, for their soulds were inextricably bound to the particles of their mortal bodies and cut off from the Aethyr. They had become the first Vampires."
- every single element of a vampire's soul and spirit is removed from the Aethyr and cut off from it
- Though there bodies are powerful and full of vitality, the Aethyr is sealed off from us and our souls grow cold, heavy and tired in time, in a way that no other mortal could understand and in a way that cannot be alleviated with out very specific and conscious intervention.
- Through the absence of warpstone neferatem and W'soran had to find another means to revitalise their souls that would not require exposure to chaos.
- There are only two options of revitalising their souls or sink into painful and edless torpor; draw unto themselves the winds of magic as they blow across the mortal world or take for themsleves the Sekhem bound within other living beings.
Sekhem is the soul energy of living beings, all vampires slowly drain the aethyric energy, or sekhem from the environment around themselves, as the souls of the vampires are so hungry for sekhem. As part of this process, all sekhem or magic is drawn to the souls of vampires and is absorbed into dark magics, because of this when they are left alone vampires are left alone they draw all avalible magic from their surroundings and turn it into corrosive Dhar.
If a Vampire relies on this form of revitalisation for their soul, the more Dhar that saturates a soul the harsher it effects it. Some Vampires like those of W'soran rarely use the other method of revitalisation and there for their minds have suffred from their constant and willing saturation in dark magics, as have their bodies.
So basically all Vampires have a soul but because it is cut off from the Aethyr they must find ways of revitalising it either taking subconsiously absorbing the magic around them or from drinking the blood of living things.
- Maxim
