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No. 2892
For those curious about the "Little Knight" and what she is... Asividan vampires are quite unusual among most species the term is used for!
They are not undead, first and foremost. Instead, they are a bit of a, how to say, evolutionary sidestep!
The mixing of the human and Evonnan species (which affects all Asividan humans, as I once explained here on 9chan) has no other effect than enabling one to awaken to Endora manipulation abilities as a Stista - usually!
The Endora-related genes responsible for sprouting wings at will during a state of heightened ability for Endora manipulation actually exist in (near-)duplicates within Asividan humans, both inactive at birth.
One set will become active upon awakening fully as a Stista; funnily enough, normally inactive genes related to birds found within plain humans are involved, causing Stistas to grow feathered, bird-like wings instead of ones that would match Evonnan wings. Yes, that means we are technically bird people...!
Evonnas meanwhile sprout wings very aesthetically similar to those of a bat (or what many cultures might label as "demon-like" wings) - and this is where the mentioned duplicate set of genes becomes relevant!
In Asividan vampires, that duplicate set is active. It does not make them able to sprout a second set at will, but rather makes them carry a chance to be born with a set. (Were they to awaken, they would still be able to also sprout a set of Stistan wings at will, mind you!)
Furthermore, the wings we sprout in that state are actually the organs responsible for the mentioned heightened ability for Endora manipulation.
This is why winged vampires tend to have great natural potential, as they have one set of such wings as part of their bodies by default - and why Narame, sporting a second set due to a genetic defect, has particularly prodigious potential!
The downside is that maintaining that heightened state continuously expends something known as Native Bodily Endora, a form of conceptual energy related directly to the minds of living Asividan beings; losing too much of it leads to first mental, then physical deterioration, and eventually death.
If you now think that this would be a problem for winged Asividan vampires due to constantly bearing wings... you would be correct!
This is precisely why, within the vast majority of universes, Asividan humans evolved to not merely potentially bear the wings of an Evonna if that duplicate set of genes is active, but also bear the other traits you see in Narame; extendable fangs (which actually sport a suction functionality to more easily extract blood), a conscious hunger for blood separate from hunger related to common food, and an altered internal organ structure enabling the proper processing of consumed blood.
And if this, then, makes you guess that this is because blood is the physical component of an Asividan lifeform that carries the highest concentration of Native Bodily Endora, and maybe even that its concentration in animal blood is very low...
... then congratulations! You paid attention. Class dismissed! : )
PS: The much heightened susceptibility to ultraviolet radiation is a genetic defect common to all Asividan vampires, and their potential wings functioning as "sun shields" is a blatant evolutionary adaptation to this.
We are not actually one-hundred percent certain as to the exact specifics and causes of this particular defect; it is still a subject of further research to this day.
PPS: Yes, all this means that Asividan vampires without wings would not technically require the consumption of blood, but would still develop an unbearable level of hunger for it were they to avoid consuming any.
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