In some vampire stories, killing the vampire who bit others will either A. Kill the other vampires the “sire” created or B. Release them from vampiricism. Is there anything like that at play in your verse, or can people totally get revenge on the assholes who bite them?
Oh people can absolutely get revenge on the assholes what made them vampire. Rori’s maker, she didn’t get that opportunity, but he crossed an ally to the Acheron clan and summarily got Godfathered out of existence. Rori would have been too if she hadn’t run for the hills as soon as the mercs descended on her prick of a maker’s house.
Now, Salizar actually got to have this vengeance. He wasn’t supposed to be a vampire, per the agreement of their partially-turned family joining Acheron proper for safety. So his father was SUPER MAD when someone in the Clan turned Salizar. And there’s this thing about tempers running high in the Inglesé family. Vendettas made and nursed over several decades, waiting for the right moment. The previous leader of the Acheron Clan didn’t really punish the woman who turned Salizar, on the grounds that “somebody had to teach him”. Which made the family even more upset. But what could they do? They were still guests by comparison.
But when the power overturned and Kat took the helm, there was the opening. The Inglesés presented the case, and in a fired-from-the-hip decision, it was approved to have his maker destroyed. There was no room in the new Acheron for vampires who were going to go back on their (clan’s) word to a family of refugee vampires+their affiliated humans.
There was very likely a lot of back and forth rapport-building between Kat (at the time Katharine) and the vampiric members of the Inglesé fam before the fall of the last clan elder and Kat’s rise to power. Time in which sympathies were shared and friendships made, and promises to help each other to the best of their influences and capability.
So Salizar and his family got to make the call on the execution, themselves. And uh... Well. They weren’t exactly nice about it. This was still during the Age of Sail when this happened, and Papa Inglesé owned a few ships. A keelhauling was at least one punitive measure carried out, and vampires are stupidly durable. Also I don’t think fishes and gulls have quite the sense of smell to determine the presence of the vampire pathogen. It wasn’t a fast execution.
All that sort of thing is one major reason why the Acheron Clan is one of the politer strains when it comes to making new vampires: One, it’s rude to turn people without their consent; and two, doing so anyway gives you an enemy for eternity who has a fairly good chance of killing you later on.
(This got so long but thank you so much for giving me this box to spout from ;w; )
