Editing Vorlog (section)

==Birth of the Damned==
When [[Van Richten]] wrote his Guide to the [[Vampire]] in AD&D, he introduced a new element to the vampiric creation process; the Bride/Groom, which 3e renamed the "Companion" (though "Spouse" is more accurate). In a nutshell, this is what happens when a smitten vampire attempts to create a special kind of spawn; one of theoretically equal standing with its progenitor, and bound to them through a powerful spiritual-mental link. This requires an elaborate ritual called the Dark Kiss, where the progenitor vampire slowly drains the spouse over a prolonged period of time and feeds them some of the progenitor's own necrotic blood as the victim lies dying - the precise mechanics differ between 2nd and 3rd edition. But the end result, if performed successfully, is the progenitor vampire lying convalescent and helpless beside its transforming spouse-to-be for some time, typically around an hour.

More than one vampire hunter has found the two comatose together and seized on this chance to destroy the progenitor vampire, assured that they are saving the vampire's victim. And, at a glance, it seems to work; the vampire's intended victim awakes seemingly unchanged. In truth, the hunter has failed; by this point, the spouse-to-be's soul is already irrevocably tainted with necrotic energies, and a psychic link is already forming with its progenitor-spouse. Destroying the vampire only damns the once-mortal, leaving them trapped forever between life and unlife, and haunted by the need to fill a void that can no longer be filled.

They have created a Vorlog. And by doing so, they have damned the poor, pitiful creature to an existence of torment.

The vorlog is a creature that was never meant to be. Caught on the razor’s edge between life and undeath, the vorlog is trapped in a world of horror which no other being can truly understand. There is no known way to cure a vorlog; only death grants this monster any the measure of release. It is a creature to be both pitied and feared.