mimi_sardiniaWhile listening to a stream about the Witcher and hearing a mention about vampires, I got thinking about how vampires might fit into the Nightlands.
The idea that came to me is that I made mention of the idea of eldritch entities that could come from the Netherworld, which would be entities of death energies, which would totally fuck with the Mundane Realm, but the idea I had is that somehow some sort of Netherworld entity once did something that left a permanent effect on someone (or more than one someone), thus creating the first vampires.
This method could have also created other undead - zombies, ghouls, etc - though I don't think ghosts are included in that.
Ghosts would be one of two causes - either a soul fails to move on to the Netherworld straight away (it is believed that mortal soul go there as well, but they vanish out of reach of Quendár priests very quickly) and gets stuck in the Mundane (this may be a far less common task Quendár priests can handle as well, but I am also inclined to say there are methods other races can use to exorcise them), or some sort of magical imprint of a person's personality gets left behind in a place.
I am, once again, inclined to say both happen at times, because variety is good.