Nonhuman species - has a gargoyle/ demon warform, a beautiful demon looking midform (succubus/incubbus) and last a MORTAL mostly human looking form. most males and rare females will turn to ‘stone’ in sunlight if caught in this form.
“Stoneflesh” really it is a protective layer of surface skin and sweat that hardens in UV light. The blood and flesh also petrify as the day passes. Solar eclipses of sun turn them all to ‘stone’, even day
walkers, for an extended period. Sun petrification leaves them vulnerable to being “shattered” or “crushed”.
Suncreen and tinted glasses and windows are the best thing the humans ever invented. Leathery skin is soft to touch but impossible to cut except by emerald blade or the claws and fangs of another Bibre Cruor. Some carry blades to ward off non-bibre enemy but they really don’t need them, cruor claws are as strong as tempered steel. Daywalkers don’t need protective clothing or sunscreen but from noon-3 sunlight still ‘hurts’.
Teeth look like mother-of-pearl. Fangs fold back but don’t retract (switchblade) – hurts to keep them folded, even as mortal form which gave the rise to the “human vampire” myth. A Bibre Cruor ‘queen’ can give an ally one of their fangs and it can be used as a whistle to summon help of any cruor in that clan or a clan ally.
After the mass die offs, the five surviving Females, but only two are day walkers but most of the 87 males aren’t. Shisa are most common and still live in China, Korea, and Japan. Gorgons are least common.
Seem to have Vampiric tendencies because they cannot make their own blood but they actually draw blood into their system, not eat it. Transfuser thralls must eat an organic diet or bibre cruor gets ill. Blood of witches is forbidden (hallucinogenic), wolf or bear blood is like adrenaline shot (jet fuel), humans taste bad because of what they eat now - chemicals.
The BCs eat mostly grain, vegetables, organic eggs and cheese. Most prefer wild game or grass raised animals (same with dragons who eat prey whole).
Origin of Chupacabra myth when desperate BC sucked the blood of a goat then ate it... Like people, BCs have preferences like elk meat over mass produced beef. To Cruors, cats taste like spicy food or ghost peppers, etc.
Children only come from gargoyle form and are birthed as eggs. The three-year process of gargoyle females to grow (1 year) and lay eggs , and then the 2-years-long commitment to the hardening eggs before they hatched. The female gargoyles would refuse to leave their eggs even if it meant their deaths. Pregnant women will look like normal females until birth starts then their demon will force a shift to find a dark layer. Sunlight makes eggs too hard for infants to break out of. Females ‘burn’ (elevated body temp) when with egg / or laid curl around it to keep warm. They don’t move until it hatches twenty-three moons later, if they don’t have thralls or a mate to feed them, they may starve. A brooding female can only leave egg for an hour or it cools too much. A lone female will give their child the last of their own blood rather than let it die.
Blood-learning through the process of live feeding from another bibre cruor, human, or non-human, they learn everything the from whom the blood comes knows and even sees all their genetic memories. Bibre cruor will only feed another bibre cruor IF there is trust. Or the blood is put in a cup to prevent blood learning.
Types of Bibre Cruor
Gargoyles - Asia minor/Egypt origin but migrated to Europe- given name in 7th century AD after originally called Garrouille Slayers when they helped St. Romanus and King Clotaire kill the only known Dragon-demon hybrid ever hatched.
Gorgons- Mediterranean origins, featured in Greek and Egyptian mythology
Shisi/Shisa or Lion-dogs -Origin Sumaria/Akkadia but moved to Northern Asia and lost wings
While other species can interbreed, Bibre Cruor and Dragons cannot because they have “different quad-helix or tri-helix DNA”.
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