Want a story where vampires just drop dead after exactly two million years
It would have to be an artificial limit. Which would mean that vampires are artificial. A biotech thing with a death timer build into the cellular whatever.
In Farmer’s “Riverworld” they used a dark matter artificial soul. That would be a way in.
I played a lot of Vampire the Masquerade in the 90s and liked their origin idea about Vampires.
Basically Cain from the bible is the 1st and only truly immortal, having been cursed to walk the earth forever by god
so every person who is made a vampire is one generation away, most players in the game are at the edge. basically 12 generations away from Cain. The 2nd generation are all dead or beyond isolation. The 3rd generation are the powers that be that control the world and are at war with eachother and have the defining characteristics that all the vampires sired under them have the potential to have
but the old vampires will usually go into torpor for hundreds of years and only influence the world through dreams or proxies
The original one probably doesn’t know, but I’d consider myself functionally immortal for as long as there are other vampires who didn’t age for a couple hundred years more than I did.
As the original one, however, I’d never stop checking for new signs of aging. Well, at least until I’ve had enough of life altogether.
The book said so.
The way we know a million other things. We are told by a trusted expert.
How can one become an expert on living forever without first living forever?
