They have better night vision and scent than humans, are stronger and faster and heal much more rapidly. The lack of tactile sensibility largely enures them to pain or discomfort, so its a trade off. They're unable to tolerate heat, they have reduced or minimal tactile sensibility, so much so that they have trouble handling objects or exercising manual dexterity. If I had to define them as anything, I'd say that they're a sort of super-leper. I'm going by memory here, since I am not in any way inspired to go back and read the book again.įirst: These are not your Mom's Vampires. Has anyone read this? Looks lightweight (and the distinctly lame selection of positive blurbs certainly doesn't help), but I thought it might make a nice map, and I'd like a better description of the geography of this world than is available from the blurbs I have found so far. Set in a future that is comfortably quaint, where brass-plated technology is uninhibited by plausibility and the northern exiles may feel oppressed but the indigenous equatorial peoples never do, this melodramatic tale is fast-paced and entirely unchallenging. Princess Adele of the Equatorian Empire becomes the catalyst of the final human–vampire war when she is lost in vampire territory with only a mysterious adventurer known as the Greyfriar to help her. The northern elites fled south to new colonies, leaving their subjects to the mercy of the predators. In 1870 the vampires rose up and conquered the northern lands of Earth. As the power struggle between the vampires and humans increase Adele and The Greyfriar are caught in the middle, on the run, being hunted, and fighting for not just their own lives, but for future of humanity.' Griffith and Griffith, perhaps best known for their media tie-in work, merge vampires with steampunk in this tale of derring-do and star-crossed romance. The Greyfriar, a legendary vampire hunter from the north, appears ready to rescue the Princess and return her home-but he harbors secrets of his own. Prepared to do her duty she finds herself caught in a web of political intrigue and physical danger. Their marriage will cement an alliance between the nations and set the stage for war against the vampires in an attempt to retake the north. Princess Adele, quick witted, combat trained and heir to throne is set to wed the scion of the American Republic, a man she has never met.

The Equatorian Empire, descendant of the British Empire, stretches from Alexandria to Cape Town.

There, blending with the local peoples, they rebuilt their societies founded on human ingenuity, steam and iron. A remnant fled south to the safety of the ever present heat which was intolerable to vampires.

The great industrialized civilizations of the world were left in ruin. Millions perished millions were turned into herd animals. The vampire clans arose and slaughtered humanity with unprecedented carnage in the northern parts of the world.

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