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  • Blindsight/Echopraxia by Peter Watts had a good “science” based version. Vampires are an obligate carnivore/cannibal hominid that went extinct (after giving humans their “uncanny valley” fear btw as a survival trait to detect them) and had a heriditary fear of right angles due to a quirk in their visual cortex.

    The idea being “right angles don’t occur in nature” and such. The problem with that idea is that they do, but still a decent series with some interesting ideas.





  • In DnD it’s because most undead are damned and tortured souls enslaved by dark magic to the bidding of their twisted masters.

    The skellingtons are looking at you, the real you, the core of your very existence with their soul eyeballs. And they hate you, because you are alive, and they aren’t just dead, they’re being tortured every moment of their existence.

    But, hey, tell me more about your perfect medieval civilization built on raising zombie field hands.

    /Jokekilling