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What I Learned About Lowerniel Vergidyad Drakan

 * Lord Drakan reveals that he has been hard at work within Castle Drakan, and cites the reasons for his absence as the following:


 * From its time spent in Morytania, the Stone of Jas was studied by Drakan. Through it, he discovered a way to create a portal to Vampyrium and transport vampyres back to the realm, and to do so will require all of the humans of Meiyerditch to be sacrificed.


 * He has developed this agenda for only the true-born vampyres (vampyres born from other vampyres, and not created), and plans to either leave the human-born vampyres (converted from humans/other sentient, bipedal creatures) on Gielinor when the rest return, or slaughter them in the process of powering the portal.
 * Lowerniel possessed a spear with a blisterwood tip, named the Sunspear. While speaking to Kara-Meir with it equipped, she references the blisterwood dagger of the same name mentioned in T.S. Church's novels. She says it couldn't possibly be the same as her own, but maybe that the two were once part of the same spear. When a vampyre is killed by Lowerniel's Sunspear, its body is automatically incinerated.
 * He kept trophies of his conquests and displayed most of them in his bed chamber within Castle Drakan, among them icyene battle armour from the war of Hallowvale, a stuffed bloodveld, and also the mounted head of Lord Malachi Ghrazi.


 * There is also a miniature blisterwood tree within his room, and examining it explains that it is kept pruned and trimmed.
 * He is the most powerful vampyre alive, as he has long since deposed other vampyre lords that could have stood against him. Evidence of his conquests are present in the tattoos along his wing membrane, written in Vampyric.


 * This remains true up until the moment of his death, at which point it is implied that Vanescula takes up that mantle.

What I Learned About Vampyres and Vampyric History

 * There is an icyene graveyard present in Morytania to the east of Meiyerditch along the coast, and the only vampyre that seems to have be able to set foot there is Lowerniel Drakan; this is evidenced by the fact that he locked the mausoleum present with a powerful, magical device, and Vanescula telling the Adventurer that she cannot go there.
 * Vampyres refer to other vampyres whose origin was Vampyrium or who are descended by birth from vampyres of Vampyrium as true-born. Vice versa, vampyres created are referred to as human-born.
 *  ·            The true-born vampyres in Castle Drakan not only feed on humans, but also on the blood of a strange type of quadrupedal cattle that are slaughtered in the lower levels of the tower.
 * Before his death, Vanstrom was the head of all the vyrewatch, and his title was Overwatch. Once he had been killed, Vanescula promoted a female vyre named Mornid, who was trained by Vanstrom herself (and despite that, despised his cruel treatment of humans). Overwatch Mornid moved into his old manor and served Vanescula with unquestionable loyalty until she was slain by Lowerniel.

(Pausing here, I have a class in fifteen minutes and I'll pick up and finish it off in about an hour when I have lunch. The above sections are likely not finished, I've plot points I need to add to both, still.)