Talk:Vampire Noble/@comment-191.187.184.36-20151116042705/@comment-121.54.54.55-20151116104707

I haven't bothered to check the original text, but it does say on the day she ranked up (Day 120):

"Apparently, Dhammi-chan had [Rank Up] into a Noble Vampire, a subspecies of a Vampire. This particular subspecies, as I learned, is far more powerful than most other types of Vampire. I liked the sound of this greatly."

So I've formed the opinion that subspecies may gain their own name for their particular subspecies if there are enough of them, but may also just be known as a subspecies of a race without a proper name as there are too few of them for it to be needed to identify their particular subspecies.

An example of such a subspecies would be the mini-orcs Rou found squatting in the goblin community's old home. They're still orcs, but a subspecies of the orcs that used to live in the forest; smaller, presumably physically weaker, but smarter and with the ingenuity to engineer their own tools. I am GREATLY looking forward to seeing how their society evolves, since Rou seems to be planning to treat them diplomatically. Kinda wondering whether or not they'll start worshipping Rou.

Mages, Riders, and Clerics seem to be a murky area; I don't think they're a subspecies, but rather, individuals with particular talents. We know that some of the goblins picked up the ability to tame and ride monsters without the need to rank up, so Riders are definitely not a subspecies. Mages and Clerics, then, may be individuals with an inherent chance to gain an aptitude to manipulate magic? I think traits such as these might be treated separately from subspecies and are instead up to an individual's own inborn talent.