Talk:Vampire Noble/@comment-191.187.184.36-20151116042705/@comment-4784862-20151116102522

Well, are we sure this is actually a subspecies of Vampire...and not a HIGHER RANKED species of Vampire?

It's definitely along the same vein in the evolutionary path...but Subspecies/Variant (it's actually Variant, heh) basically means that they have the blessing of a god or something like that, according to the author...IIRC anyway (I saw something like that on one of his species or race pages explaining that stuff).

Her being a "Variant" is her being a "Variant" among the VAMPIRE NOBLE species...I'm about 95% sure of that, kind of like Dhampir is the Vampire equivalent of a Half Lord, basically (since Dhampirs are basically half-vampires in general folklore). I'm guessing that not all Vampire Nobles have blessings...and she does. That's also why, once again, she can move around in the sun.

Also...before anyone says anything...it doesn't always say "Variant" in katakana above the Subspecies kanji for species names, but that's definitely what they are. ^^

A subspecies would be stuff like the Hobgoblin Mages, Riders, Clerics, etc...they're basically considered a subspecies in this universe, even though their rank ups don't actually say "Hobgoblin Mage" or anything like that in them, but simply "Hobgoblin".