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[Grieving Natashina]

You mean, speed griffons surely.

I refuse to give that drunk in the Hanged Man that much credit.  Regular beautiful griffons are enough for me.  

[EmissaryofLies]

Your words sharp as a knife. Speed griffons are the future!

[Grieving Natashina]

Your words sharp as a knife. Speed griffons are the future!

Eh. "Speed griffon" sounds silly to me. 

 

Still, my point remains that I'd rather see more of the creatures we know about from Thedas' legends rather than vampires.

[Master Warder Z_]

Speed Griffins are an abomination!

 

They must be destroyed!

 

 The Maker's will be done.

[Grieving Natashina]

Speed Griffins are an abomination!

 

They must be destroyed!

 

 The Maker's Inquisitor's will be done.

Fixed that for you.  

[Master Warder Z_]

Fixed that for you.  

 

Do you want another trip off a cliff?

 

O_O Do not tempt me vile seductress! 

 

Or does Temptress sound better here?

 

._. Either way Don't tempt God's wrath!

[EmissaryofLies]

Speed Griffins are an abomination!

 

They must be destroyed!

 

 The Maker's will be done.

 

You see abomination, I see Thedas' salvation!

 

I will cure you all

[Grieving Natashina]

Do you want another trip off a cliff?

 

O_O Do not tempt me vile seductress! 

 

Or does Temptress sound better here?

 

._. Either way Don't tempt God's wrath!

<yawn>  Oh, you were pretending to be God again.   Been awhile since anyone called me a "vile" anything, not since my goth days at the club.

 

You know you're cute when you're mad (aka insane) Z.  

[The Qun & the Damned]

I absolutely love vampires, but gods, have i grown tired of hearing about them. At the very least, one could pick up what Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines had started and revamp vampires in video games, even Skyrim's vampires were less than pleasing. What I'm saying is if any video game is going to do vampires, they'd best do it justice. I for one want to see these freaky vampiric monstrosities mentioned in the codex, just to see what it is.

[Cainhurst Crow]

tbh I'd like the vampire (Hunger Demon) to appear not as the pretty humans you think of, but more of a completely out there thing. Like this thing,
 

 
If this was what a hunger demon created vampire looked like, I would probably be legitimately terrified of vampires mentioned in the lore.

[Grieving Natashina]

Holy crap, what game is that beastie from?

[EmissaryofLies]

Would that be a child of Cthulu?

[Shadow Fox]

<yawn>  Oh, you were pretending to be God again.   Been awhile since anyone called me a "vile" anything, not since my goth days at the club.

 

You know you're cute when you're mad (aka insane) Z.  

Well you say you're a Rogue so you must be a charmer at-least right?

[The Qun & the Damned]

No, please.

 

Besides, the aristocratic, sophisticated, cunning, mesmerizing creatures we've seen in recent years are an invention of the Romantic Movement. Early 1800s showed us "The Vampyre" by John Polidori (a contemporary of Mary and Percy Shelley) about an aristocratic vampire preying on the upper classes, mid-1800s showed us "Carmilla" by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu about a female aristocratic vampire feeding on upper and lower class girls (first lesbian vampire), and 1897 brought us Dracula by Bram Stoker, about an aristocratic vampire that travels to England to prey on its "teeming millions."

 

Then we had Hollywood movies, and I don't really want to bore you.

 

Point is, Dragon Age is a medieval fantasy world. During the real middle ages, most "vampires" were thought of as drooling, stumbling corpses that stalked villages and graveyards at night. They were ashen when hungry, red and bloated when full. Most weren't sexy, seductive, or even cunning. Most were very beastly and repulsive. They lost their souls and minds when they became what they were much like how we see werewolves today. In fact, in many Eastern European regions where "vampires" as we know them came from, vampires and werewolves weren't so different, were roughly the same, and/or vampires were what werewolves were thought to become after they died.

 

Honestly, the walking corpses that happen to be slightly stronger (and supposedly drink blood) from DA:O are actually closer to how vampires were seen in the middle ages than anything mainstream popular culture Hollywood has put out in the last 100 years writers have put to paper in the last 200 years.

I definitely prefer this middle ages variant of vampire, especially in a setting like Dragon Age, though I really wouldn't think DA was medieval, if anything, it comes off as more post-black death/early Renaissance. I do see your point though, I like that.

I think Guillermo Del Toro nailed their biology off the bat though, that they'd look a bit like this

[EmissaryofLies]

They look like your regular run of the mill demons. Nothing special 'bout them.

[Cainhurst Crow]

Holy crap, what game is that beastie from?

 

S.T.A.L.K.E.R I believe.

[Grieving Natashina]

Well you say you're a Rogue so you must be a charmer at-least right?

I am, but vile?  Nah. Besides, I'm married; the only one allowed to call me a "vile temptress/seductress" is the wonderful man I'm married to.    Not my fault Z finds me irresistible.  

 

Ah, just looked up the game that the bloodsucker comes from.  It's from the game Day Z.

[siphernin]

DA doesn't need anymore intellectual undead.  We already have the darkspawn/revenant/imprisoned teventer mages throwing magic around, can killing us all in the process.  And I kind of hate myself for saying this, but the Grey Wardens are probably the closest you'll get to vampires in DA.  They go out, find a darkspawn, kill it, drain it, and drink the blood.  Those that survive it get "power" and I use that term loosely since it's more like a curse.  And the lucky ones die.  Then about forty years later, the unlucky ones (sometimes go mad) and all die too.

 

Wait, I take it back.  The Architect's (sp?) are probably the closest to vampires since they drink the blood of still living GW to come back to "sanity."  I use that term loosely too.

 

Those two cases are close enough.  Please lord, no vamps in DA.. 

[TR1GGA808]

If you are a fan of the dragon age series then you want the series to keep going on and saying that vampires shouldn't be added because there are too much creatures already to begin with is absurd like it or not every new game will bring new creatures/adversaries and I know bioware could turn the skeptics into believers if they decide to bring vampires into the mix.

[Gregolian]

Would that be a child of Cthulu?

[Cainhurst Crow]

I am, but vile?  Nah. Besides, I'm married; the only one allowed to call me a "vile temptress/seductress" is the wonderful man I'm married to.    Not my fault Z finds me irresistible.  

 

Ah, just looked up the game that the bloodsucker comes from.  It's from the game Day Z.

 

Wha?

[Anvos]

My personal thought is to keep with what the lore implies that vampires in Thedas are just a nosferatu type of undead that occurs when a stronger hunger demon ends up in a corpse.