Vampiric Draining: Difference between revisions

 

== [[Fan Works]] ==

 

== [[Film]] ==

* ''[[Shadowrun]]''. Many Awakened creatures have the Essence Drain ability, which allows them to drain Essence (life/magical energy) in order to restore the Essence they lose due to their Essence Loss weakness.

* The Vampiric Bite and more generic Leech powers from ''[[GURPS]]''.

* ''Space Gamer Fantasy Gamer'' magazine #7, article "Villains Finish First!". The super villain Vampire Prince of Darkness can use his power Drain Life Force on an opponent to weaken their soul.

* Mongoose Publishing's ''Strontium Dog'' RPG. The alien criminal Xen the Brainwraith can enter a victim's skull, settles around the brain and exerts [[Mind Control]] over the victim. Each day it remains in the victim's head it drains a point from one of the victim's four physical characteristics (Intelligence, Strength, Endurance and Dexterity, in that order). When the victim's Intelligence is reduced to zero the victim becomes a zombie. When all four reach zero the victim dies. It has killed hundreds, if not thousands of people.

** The True Ancestors, who go insane if they completely abstain for too long, but don't actually ''require'' it for sustaining their themselves; the addiction is a purely psychological.

** The Dead Apostles, however, require blood for physical sustenance, making them closer to the classical vampires in this regard.

* ''[[World of Warcraft]]'''s Blood Elves, who can suck the magic out of anything and often do so to sate their addiction to mana. The Darkfallen, corrupted elves in the service of the Lich King, take this further by actually consuming blood.

* Darth Nihilus from the second ''[[Knights of the Old Republic]]'' game, feeds on the life energy of others through [[The Force]] to sate his endless hunger (since he has no connection of his own to The Force). He has done this to ''[[Planet Eater|entire planets]]''.

 

== [[Web Comics]] ==