Re: Weak Vampires?

Gene Ward Smith <gene@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>Par <usenet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in 
>> Not really. it all depends on what the requirements are of the predator
>> relative to the prey population. If the prey population can sup****t a
>> breeding population of the predator (i.e. you are more likley to find
>> them in China than on Easter Island) then there is no reason they could
>> not appear. 
>
>The point is, until relatively recent times the prey population could not

>sup****t a breeding population of predators. And even today, it would get 
>noticed.

Though much depends on the time periods involved in both 'breeding' and
the
lifespan of the predator. If they really do have the ability to live for
millenia if not squashed by accidents, and if making a new vamp is fairly
rare, _and_ if they have enough tricks amassed to avoid many avoidable
accidents - then they can breed fairly slowly and still sustain
themselves,
leading to a much smaller "breeding population" than one might expect.
(The
trope of one or two vampires per city might work fairly well, for
example.)

This also is helped if they don't need to predate very often; one human a
month
going missing in a city is much more likely to be lost in the
pre-industrial
noise than one a night. Etc.

>Sort of like the way leopards and jaguars did? Because humans, as is well

>known, are dead easy. But why, then, are they stuck with humans?

More magic; once you talk smack, you never go back?

Dave
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