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What exactly would it have changed? Mary's breed doesn't posses anything that Halar didn't already have a better, stronger version of. With Mary, Halar at least possessed an ability that no vampire in her world had so there was something for her to gain that we the audience could witness. With the reverse that simply isn't true.
Plus we have already seen Halar gain power by consuming the blood of demons and dragons so there is no reason he shouldn't be able to do the same by eating vampires.
It would take eating their souls wouldn't it? He didn't eat Mary's soul. That could be the key difference.
Since we only have Eric's point of view on it, how do we know the Thessaloniki don't have some subtle ability he's never noticed? Say... the ability to return to a default appearance--hair length, for example--on every sunset?
And whether he has to drink someone's soul to get the most out of their... species?...is up for debate. Dragon ichor, troll blood, ogre blood--his chaos infestation is apparently adaptive, but not quickly or extensively. He's not fifteen feet tall, covered in scales, with giant bat wings. So there's obviously some sort of limiting factor he doesn't understand.
Maybe it is just trying to preserve him as close to his original state as possible while still drawing power from the blood he feeds on. As an aside, why are his eyes black in the daytime now? It is the one change I don't really understand the reason for.
To be fair, his eyes are black, in the sense his irises are. He has "human" black eyes during the day. He also has the charcoal-grey skin at night, but a pale "human" complexion during the day.
Of course, his ears stay the same, as do his tongue, fingernails, and teeth... are those side effects of not being able to get fresh blood to maintain the homeostasis between his chaos infection and his ordered biology?
Yes, but I was wondering why his irises turned "human" black from their original blue. Erick is the only vampire, so far, to have shown such a change and unlike his ears, tongue, fingernails, and teeth it doesn't have a purpose that would enhance his abilities as a nightlord. That is what has me wondering why you put that detail in.
From a story perspective, it's to add more details implying Eric is not "normal."
From a character perspective, it's because Eric does not have a normal diet! All the other vampires he's encountered (hence, the reader has encountered) have been feeding on humans, cattle, and the like. As far as we know, Eric is the only one to drink trolls, ogres, and what-have you, been soaked in dragon ichor, and baked in an Ascension Sphere until risen. That doesn't pass by without *some* effects.
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What exactly would it have changed? Mary's breed doesn't posses anything that Halar didn't already have a better, stronger version of. With Mary, Halar at least possessed an ability that no vampire in her world had so there was something for her to gain that we the audience could witness. With the reverse that simply isn't true.
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Plus we have already seen Halar gain power by consuming the blood of demons and dragons so there is no reason he shouldn't be able to do the same by eating vampires.
It would take eating their souls wouldn't it? He didn't eat Mary's soul. That could be the key difference.
Since we only have Eric's point of view on it, how do we know the Thessaloniki don't have some subtle ability he's never noticed? Say... the ability to return to a default appearance--hair length, for example--on every sunset?And whether he has to drink someone's soul to get the most out of their... species?...is up for debate. Dragon ichor, troll blood, ogre blood--his chaos infestation is apparently adaptive, but not quickly or extensively. He's not fifteen feet tall, covered in scales, with giant bat wings. So there's obviously some sort of limiting factor he doesn't understand.
Maybe it is just trying to preserve him as close to his original state as possible while still drawing power from the blood he feeds on. As an aside, why are his eyes black in the daytime now? It is the one change I don't really understand the reason for.
To be fair, his eyes are black, in the sense his irises are. He has "human" black eyes during the day. He also has the charcoal-grey skin at night, but a pale "human" complexion during the day.Of course, his ears stay the same, as do his tongue, fingernails, and teeth... are those side effects of not being able to get fresh blood to maintain the homeostasis between his chaos infection and his ordered biology?
Yes, but I was wondering why his irises turned "human" black from their original blue. Erick is the only vampire, so far, to have shown such a change and unlike his ears, tongue, fingernails, and teeth it doesn't have a purpose that would enhance his abilities as a nightlord. That is what has me wondering why you put that detail in.
From a story perspective, it's to add more details implying Eric is not "normal."From a character perspective, it's because Eric does not have a normal diet! All the other vampires he's encountered (hence, the reader has encountered) have been feeding on humans, cattle, and the like. As far as we know, Eric is the only one to drink trolls, ogres, and what-have you, been soaked in dragon ichor, and baked in an Ascension Sphere until risen. That doesn't pass by without *some* effects.
