Let's make a setting.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

If bitten by a Zombie, some Fexts turn into Zombies themselves, while others turn into Vampires, and others are entirely unaffected. This is due to the fact that some Fexts are entirely invulnerable to physical harm (except glass), while others simply regenerate at an accelerated rate.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

Many Giants, despite their size, are bothered by insects, and afraid of rats and snakes.

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

Fexts, Elves, and Fairies can all be described as Anomalies, as each race is the result of Morlock tampering in the depths. The Fexts vehemently deny this, saying instead that their dead bodies were filled with the power of the factory itself, and despise the other two races as unnatural.

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

My post about the Marrow and Tritons contradicted an earlier portion of the thread. I have deleted it.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

(It did? How?)

[Zaleramancer]

Which part?

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

Neither jellyfish nor crustaceans have scales.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

(Ah, that's right. Hehe, didn't catch the contradiction. Really appreciate that you follow the honor system...)

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

Fexts, Vampires, and Zombies all posses amazing regenerative abilities, making them effectively immortal. Zombies seem to get their animating energy from the Poles, and will regenerate so long as they are bathed in the light of one.

Fexts meanwhile are fed power directly from Rhodain itself, arcs of power bursting from the ground and seal their woulds shut. In some strong cases this effect completely negates all wounds received, protecting the Fext from any harm whatsoever. There is a way to keep this power from healing the Fext: reflective glass will confuse the energy, pouring it into the mirror world instead of the Fext.

A wound inflicted in this manner never heals.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

( YES.)

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

(Yeah, now I have to make sense of the Fext/Zombie/Vampire connection)

Zombies arise from corpses left under the poles. Visibly indistinguishable from the race they used to be, Zombies wander the forests around the poles in a trance like state, ignoring everyone and doing repetitive tasks, except when someone starts to climb the pole.

[Zaleramancer]

(Well, the fact that Vampires are actually alive helps.)

Potatoes are a popular staple food in many areas.

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

(Got it)

Vampires could be considered the product of a pair of anomalies interacting.

When a Fext is bitten by a Zombie, one of three things will occur:

1. The energy of the planet will intercept the attack, or heal the damaged area as normal. This will result in no change in the Fext, as is normal.

2. The energy of the Pole which fills the zombies, as energy of the planet, leaps in and beats the planted to the wound. This will cause the energy of the planet within the Fext to slowly be subsumed by that of the pole, turning the creature into a zombie.

3. The most interesting effect. Both energy will reach the would at the same time. This combination actually allows the former Fext to come back to life, as a creature known as a Vampire. To continue living, however, it must drain the energy of the planet from those around it. Specialized retractable fang like artifacts, described in the rules and installed directly into the jawline, allow this to occur.

(I don't think there is a contradiction there.)

[Zaleramancer]

(Leaves me curious as to how Vampires occur otherwise, though.)

There are currently seven Poles sprinkled around the world. Only four of these, the oldest, are large and bright enough to support large jungles or forests. The three newest either do not glow bright enough, or in the case of the very newest, at all.

It is hypothesized that these Poles have an effect on the climate, as it is both more humid and warmer the closer one moves to a Pole. Because of this, areas far away from Poles are dry and cold deserts.

Most people choose to live in the band between the two extremes, as the closer one is to a Pole, the more likely Zombies are to occur.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

(No contradiction. Just a new way of getting 'shiny' vampires, other than having magic curses laid on them.)

Vampires bitten by zombies have only half a chance of turning into zombies. Likewise, zombies bitten by vampires have only half a chance of turning into vampires. On the other hand, neither a vampire nor a werewolf may effect one another with a bite, other than causing injury.

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

(Damn! Editing. )

Vampires can reproduce, and the most viable way to do so is finding another opposite sex vampire of their former species.

Zombies are the only creature capable of becoming a vampire due to the extraction of their energy by a vampire because of the unique way in which their energy interact. The Fext/Zombie/Vampire triangle is the only group of races that swap race is such a fashion. Some argue that they can not be considered true races, as each began life as a different race, but this flies in the face of the rules where all three are explicitly listed.

For example, a Centaur that dies and is reanimated as a Fext due to factory anomaly could still be considered a centaur. It just means that they are a Fext as well as a centaur. The same holds true Zombies, Vampires, and also werewolves though their condition is in no way associated with the Vampire/Fext/Zombie triangle.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

( Most indubitably! Now, I just hope this addition isn't confusing or contradictory...)

Only a very special case exists under which a werewolf may become a vampire, or a vampire may become a werewolf. If a werewolf dies in Human form under the light of a lamp, raises as a Fext or a Zombie, and is then bitten by a Vampire, he may become a Vampire, while losing all traces of Werewolf genes. If a Vampires dies in non-transormed form under the light of a lamp, raises as a Fext, and is then bitten by a Werewolf, he may become a Werewolf, while losing all traces of Vampire genes.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

(Aw...you got rid of the pitiful shiny vampires...)

[Philote]

A Thing lives within the sphere of water that the planets circle around.

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

(A vampire may become a vampire?)