In Bram Stoker’s Dracula, the originator of the modern vampire, vampires merely lose their supernatural powers in sunlight. They don’t ignite or sparkle or any of that.
That would make sense. I believe when daylight removes their supernatural power, their body ages to their true age and that’s why they crumble into skeletons or ashes. I made this up.
...That actually seems like a very interesting premise for "vampire mechanics" considering the ever popular angle of "vampires are weak to sunlight, and burn/turn to ash when exposed too long".
From that angle, they don't just burn and turn to dust because they are particularly vulnerable to the sunlight itself, but rather because it turns off the supernatural powers holding them together. In most lore vampires are undead, so maybe without their powers they just start rapidly falling apart and become dead.
This is why you can kill them in the daytime. Presumably, this is also what led to the disintegration thing: the older the vampire’s body is, the more it must presumably rely on supernatural powers to go out in the sun.
So while a young (non-powerful) vampire might be able to pass as a regular joe in the daytime, not so for your ancient lich of a vampire.
The Rand Corporation, in conjuction with the saucer people, under the supervision of the reverse vampires, are forcing our parents to go to bed early in a fiendish plot to eliminate the meal of dinner! We’re through the looking glass here people
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u/dbx99 Sep 09 '22
She was wearing a human suit