Editing Vorlog (section)

==Psychology==
A vorlog's psyche ultimately revolves around grief, loss, and hunger. The vorlog is a broken, almost pitiful thing; the jagged fragments of its nascent psychic link rip and tear in its mind like a dagger being twisted in a wound, creating a yawning hollow that the vorlog '''needs''' to fill, but which it simply can't.

Lone vorlogs, then, alternate their time between pining for their dead vampiric spouse and trying to fill this void by forcibly bonding to another unfortunate - creating what is called a "surrogate". These poor souls have the bad fortune to catch the vorlog's attention by resembling the vorlog's spouse, however vaguely; just enough that the vorlog becomes obsessed with them, fixated upon the idea that the surrogate is their former spouse reborn in some manner. This leads to the vorlog stalking the surrogate, using its charm to lure the surrogate into their grasp so it can sap away its mental energies, with the ultimate goal of draining the victim's sense of self entirely and permanently addling them into reciprocating the vorlog's twisted love, a process that involves leeching away almost all of the surrogate's mental energy before feeding them the vorlog's blood over three consecutive nights, fixing the surrogate's mind into the form the vorlog desires. The new surrogate truly believes itself to be the vorlog's love, and has no greater desire or ambition but satisfying the vorlog and easing its loneliness.

Indeed, finding a surrogate brings a vorlog a sense of peace, for a time. Being near a surrogate augments a vorlog's healing powers, and the constant sapping of the surrogate's Wisdom to keep its mind from recovering enough to challenge this belief ensures the vorlog is fed. In fact, the sense of peace a surrogate provides is so essential that a vorlog cannot survive without one; a vorlog that goes more than three months without one is overwhelmed by its grief and crumbles into nothing, consumed by the hole in its own soul.

But no surrogate can ever measure up to the idealized vision of the original, burned into the vorlog's brain. Invariably, the vorlog becomes more and more disappointed with the surrogate's "failures", turning increasingly abusive. Ultimately, it destroys its present surrogate, and then goes looking for a new one.

A vorlog's surrogate can be saved, however, by killing the vorlog before it kills its surrogate. In AD&D, the victim is then left confused for 1d4 weeks (or until subjected to a Bless spell) before snapping back to normal, or they can be cured outright at any point by bathing them in holy water. In 3e, they are simply restored when the vorlog is killed.

As vorlogs are rare by nature, it is unusual for two vorlogs to ever encounter each other. One might assume that a vorlog might find some comfort in learning its plight is not unique, but this is not the case- a vorlog's mind is too wrapped up in its own misery to have empathy for another of its kind. Should two vorlogs meet, they will quickly start bickering over which of their late vampiric spouses was superior, which frequently devolves into the vorlogs attacking one another; the surrogates of the vorlogs involved in such a fight frequently end up being targeted as well.