Here are four vampire kin I've stated out from the world of Andrzej Sapkowski's Witcher series. In Sapkowski's books, vampires are a broad race of monsters with many sub-types ranging from unintelligent bestial horrors like the fleder to the more typical stereotype of fangs in a cape.
Lesser Vampires
The Felder and it's larger cousin the Garkain are both powerfully built bat like humanoids. While they have leathery wing membranes between their fore and hind limbs, they are not suited to flight, only gliding. To ambush their prey, their climb to the ceilings of tall caves or crypts and drop down from above. Upon landing, they daze their foes with high pitched sonic screams, and rush in to drain their blood. What these vampires lack in intelligence, they make up for in sheer brutality. The Felder looks much like a demonic horned man-bat while the large Garkain's features are even more grotesque, giving even seasoned adventures pause.
Adventure Tools file: Felder
Adventure Tools file: Garkain
Higher Vampires
The Alp is a strange mixture of beauty and horror. At first glance, one might mistake an Alp for a shapely woman but closer inspection reveals it's skin mottled with the colors of decay and it's oddly jointed elbows with which it can cling to ceilings while facing downward in search of prey. They move nearly soundlessly and seldom have been known to speak. But when they sing, the beauty of their voices entrance their victims into a deep reverie in which the listener is oblivious to the danger of their situation.
Adventure Tools file: Alp
Bruxa are often mistaken for beautiful fey maidens, but beneath their glamours, their bodies rot arrested in a state of undeath. Their are eerily silent, scarcely touching the ground over which they move and never vocalizing accept in extreme anger. They communicate telepathically but may avoid doing so to conceal their true nature. Their telepathic song is even more irresistible than that of the Alp and the full fury more their voice even more terrible. They can turn into a large bat of supernatural toughness when attacked by melee combatants making them hard to corner.
Adventure Tools file: Bruxa
