Editing Vampire Counts (section)

==Here be Sparkles==
[[Image:VampFB.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Fuck yes.]]
One important thing about WHFB vampires is that being turned into one does not automatically turn you evil. It does crank all your personality traits to eleven, almost to a caricature level, so for example a [[Abhorash|noble warrior]] turns into a combat maniac with a stick so deep in his ass it could be seen when he smiles, a [[Konrad von Carstein|petty bully with insecurity issues]] becomes a sadistic psychopath murder machine who does whack shit like having his own mother executed for giving birth to him without his permission, and a [[Neferata|slick politician]] turns into Machiavelian schemer who wraps entire nations in her web of multi-layered intrigues. Similarly a [[Genevieve Sandrine du Pointe du Lac Dieudonné|good person]] given the blood kiss may as well turn into unbearably saintly do-gooder going beyond reason to fight the Thirst and help innocent people. Of course vampirism does not grant immunity to character development, and feeding on humans, having magical powers, superhuman strength, speed and immortality eventually change ''most'' to the worst, pretty much the same way normal people go mad with power. Still, if one just wants to live peacefully with human society, nothing stops him, providing they have the self discipline to resist the rampant thirst or substitute human blood with animal blood, which can do the job even if it is not as invigorating, or at least get human blood through a second hand market, such as mortuaries. Well, there are also Witch Hunters and angry mobs with torches and pitchforks, so it could take a bit of finesse to hide your vampirism. There are hundreds of vampires living peacefully in the Empire and pretty much all other human nations (except Norskans and Kurgan) - and in some places they even built their own secret societies with a thriving blood market. These vampires are not actually the part of the Vampire Count factions, and some of the bloodlines view them as traitors to vampire cause, adding one more reason for them to lay low. According to the WHFRP supplement Night's Dark Masters, becoming a vampire also makes a person more prone to violence, [[/b/|since it essentially makes you immune to being traumatized by blood, gore and death.]]

Even when it comes to the "evil" vampires, most of them have much more humanity left in them than your average Chaos Lord, and are capable of acts of true selflessness and compassion, especially if it concerns their loved ones or faithful subjects. Neferata herself originally did all that fucked up shit she did out of love for her motherland, as did Ushoran, and Vlad von Karstein even sacrificed himself to save his wife. This does not, however, change the fact that they see humans as pets at best and would not mind slaughtering thousands of them to further their own goals. Still, even Mannfred, who's most undoubtedly the most irredeemably evil vampire ever, is nowhere close to the kinds of evil Nagash did while he was still human.