[@Rosette Christopher]What were you thinking? I had in mind villainous thousand-year-old shapeshifters who love toying with the minds of mortals. I'm partial to Southeastern European folklore as it's some of the oldest vampiric lore, with creatures like the [url=http://mythpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Dhampir]Albanian dhampirs[/url] or [url=http://mythpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Shtriga]Shtriga[/url]. Though that may be too abstract to draw from directly.