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RE: How strong and fast vampires really are?
If we go back to the folk tales of southern Europe that existed prior to the popularization of Vampires by Bram Stoked, we will find no mention of vampires having any particular abilities. Their sole attribute was an extreme resistance to death, and a high degree of cunning seemed necessary to their survival, but in the folk tales they almost always used a dagger to cut the throat of their victims.
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That's true. When we deal with literary reality you are basically on your own as a writer. However, we should gear toward the perception of the audience. If you write for, as you pointed out, the pre- Bram Stoked audience, we would write the script in a different way than we would do that in post- Bram Stoked era. More so, once you’ve chosen the “fake reality” in your literary work, you should just stay with it and be consistent. In the script that I am writing the supernatural abilities of vampires play the key role in the plot. Thus, I tried to define them for myself based on their “upper limits” of literary imagination.