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The vampires favor indirect methods in their politics. If they wished for someone to be stabbed, they would stab the metaphorical person next to them first, and they wouldn’t do it themselves, they would use the metaphorical person at their side to do the literal stabbing. To be direct is both an insult and a challenge, resulting in a fight for dominance. The loser, and all those subordinate to him/her, now becomes subordinate to the victor.
Newborn vampires have abnormally strong blood magic for their kind, but at the cost of their dark magic being non-existent. Over time, their blood magic weakens, while their dark magic grows, until it is an almost complete reversal. At a certain age, vampires can go into a state similar to hibernation, to restore the power of their blood magic, with a significantly lower penalty to their dark magic.