Vampires

Vampires
Normal Vampires can only be recruited, not converted into. They gain all the traits mentioned below, while lesser vampires are other classes who converted into vampires. Converts will forget all their abilites, drop their armour and weapon and pick up charge and a billhook instead. They will gain new traits, keep their existing one and will demand a weekly blood wage. If they had a wage in trilium before converting, they will demand that on top. Back to the top

Upkeep


Every vampire needs 5 blood every week (exception: rescued prisoner from the new villager map), or he will start biting people. If the biting character is a pure vampire, he will inflict an injury and has a 5% chance to infect him. Other vampires will only injure the bitten character.

If an injured party member gets bitten, he will die.

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Infection
Only a single vampire is a carrier of the virus and is able to infect you: the original vampire.



Other vampire classes (lesser vampire, vanquisher, vampire lord - see classes) are not carrying the virus in them and are not able to infect your characters.

There are 3 different ways to get infected:


 * Get hit by a vampire in melee. Every unblocked (!) hit has a 5% chance to transfer the virus
 * Run out of blood while having a vampire in your group. He will start biting people and has a 5% chance to infect them in the process. Be careful, as the bitten character will be injured and die to the next bite. If you have other vampires in your group, they have a chance to bit instead - those cant infect on bite.
 * Send your character on a scavenge mission. One of the outcomes is being bitten by a vampire - the chances are unknown at the time, but very small.

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Transformation
Your character will gain the vampire infection trait, after being infected. You can cure them by sending them on a mission, otherwise they will transform in a random time period of around 1-3 weeks and become a vampire.

Transformation into a vampire is irreversible! Once a vampire, always a vampire.

You will always transform into a lesser vampire. The other 3 vampire classes are currently not available via transformation.

In the new lesser vampire form, your character will receive the following permanent changes:


 * Drop your previous weapon and pick up a billhook. This can be both good or bad, depending on what the character was wearing before.
 * Drop all your armour.
 * Forget all your previous active abilities, learn charge.
 * Keep all your previous traits and learn 4 new ones: bloodless, engaging strikes, hastening criticals, leech (see classes).
 * Gain 2 new perks: super healing and vampire (see classes).

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Vampire Start
Starting with 3 Vampires is unlocked after making it to the second zone for the first time. You will be able to choose between 3 classes: vampire lord, vanquisher, vampire. The lesser vampire is only for other characters being transformed.

To keep up with the demand for blood, you will start with a stockpile of 100.

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