Blood drain
A power, one of the traits figures share. All traits.
Offensive
9 figures
Witnesses and folklore describe it as attacking animals by puncturing their necks with its fangs and draining them of blood, often leaving behind inexplicably exsanguinated carcasses.
This bizarre ability enables them to hover above their sleeping victims, using their elongated beaks to puncture the skin and drink blood.
the Adze is a vampiric spirit that flies as a firefly to slip through cracks and keyholes, taking human form to feed on blood and possess its victims
return to its home village at night, drain the blood or life-force of the living (family members and livestock both cited in various accounts)
the Yara-ma-yha-who is said to fasten its sucker-tipped fingers and toes to a victim's body and drain their blood
in some tellings it feeds by extending a long tongue-like proboscis into its victim.
In its most familiar form the jumbi is seen as a glowing, spectral ball of light flying through the night sky, hunting those who travel alone and children, whose blood it drains; it also rides sleepers in the manner of the incubus, taking life and vitality rather than blood.
The compendia describe a vampiric being, typically female, that causes nightmares and steals vital energy from sleepers; a mora that falls in love with her victim drinks his blood as well.
The lore the compendia preserve is grisly: in her true form the mormo is covered in her own blood and blisters — though the tradition allows she is not so hideous as her kin the empousa — and she is a shape-shifter of legendary range, credited with a thousand horrid forms as well as one lovely one, the beautiful young woman with which she lures young men to be drained and eaten.