Can I get one for Astarion?
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I always heard it was about not having a soul.
Can confirm. I'm not a vampire but I sold my soul for a bag of Cool Ranch Doritos back im 6th grade. Since then I haven't seen my reflection or been able to use an automatic door.
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As I recall, the "Vampires have no reflection" stemmed from mirrors of the time usually being polished silver. So, I guess the vampire can do this if they're okay with having silver pressed up against their face.
You can easily solve this with a little padding around the edges.
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As I recall, the "Vampires have no reflection" stemmed from mirrors of the time usually being polished silver. So, I guess the vampire can do this if they're okay with having silver pressed up against their face.
Tbf the silver is behind the layer of glass
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Well, if we treat incoming light as a quantum superposition:
|light⟩ = α|holy⟩ + β|unholy⟩...and assume that vampires reflect only unholy light and absorb holy light, then anything directly part of the vampire’s "system" filters light this way.
So I guess the question becomes, "How does the filtering happen?" Is it by physical surface, or is there some kind of quantum holiness field that absorbs holy light nearby?
wrote on last edited by [email protected]So if sunlight hurts vampires, but moonlight doesn't (but moonlight is reflected sunlight) then does that mean the moon absorbs all holy light, and only reflects unholy light? Sunlight, we must assume, is composed of a random mix of all wavelengths and divinities of light. Therefore, can a vampire's reflection be seen if the vampire is illuminated by moonlight? Only if using a non-silver mirror? What about office fluorescent light, the most evil light of all?
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A hall of mirrors would be hell for a vampire to navigate.
Nah. It'd be like it is on a poorly made video game.
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Do vampires cast a shadow? Because if they cast a shadow, would they actually be able to see through themselves in a mirror, or would they just see a big void in the shape of their body as the light from behind them hits their body but not the mirror?
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As I recall, the "Vampires have no reflection" stemmed from mirrors of the time usually being polished silver. So, I guess the vampire can do this if they're okay with having silver pressed up against their face.
Mirrors now are chemically deposited silver to my knowledge.
Deposited on the back of the glass, then a protective layer applied on top. The amount of silver in that assembly is very low, and none is exposed, but the reflective component is the silver. -
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I thought all of their clothes disappear in mirrors, too. Or what about water that they're drinking...
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COMPUTERS ARE VAMPIRES?!
The world is a vampire. Computers are part of the world. Therefore, computers are vampires.
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Do vampires cast a shadow? Because if they cast a shadow, would they actually be able to see through themselves in a mirror, or would they just see a big void in the shape of their body as the light from behind them hits their body but not the mirror?
Ummm... Because shadows aren't a solid mass. They're just where light isn't. So even in a case where a vampire casts a shadow, it wouldn't matter, mirrors still work in the dark.
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Ummm... Because shadows aren't a solid mass. They're just where light isn't. So even in a case where a vampire casts a shadow, it wouldn't matter, mirrors still work in the dark.
Mirrors work by reflecting light. If the light isn't passing through the vampire from behind to hit the mirror, it cannot reflect it. If a vampire casts a shadow, this implies that light does not pass through them. For them to not reflect in a mirror, but still be able to see what is behind them, light would need to pass through their body, which would mean they also would not cast a shadow.
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Mirrors work by reflecting light. If the light isn't passing through the vampire from behind to hit the mirror, it cannot reflect it. If a vampire casts a shadow, this implies that light does not pass through them. For them to not reflect in a mirror, but still be able to see what is behind them, light would need to pass through their body, which would mean they also would not cast a shadow.
Right, I get what you're saying. So I guess you'd have to fall back on the lore... There's some that says they don't cast shadows, some that do, and if you consider Bram Stoker's Dracula, he's able to control his shadow.
Then I guess also the lore for why they don't have reflections comes into play? Either because the mirror is coated in silver, which destroys their reflection, or because the mirror reflects the soul, and vampires don't have souls.I dunno, I guess it all depends which mythos you want to follow and just how much you're willing to ignore basic physics.
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I thought all of their clothes disappear in mirrors, too. Or what about water that they're drinking...
Vampires drink blood, not water...
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Vampires drink blood, not water...
Surely, they must take in fluids besides blood, right? Otherwise they'd shrivel up!
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Pretty sure your eyes can't focus on anything that close. Nice try
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Tbf the silver is behind the layer of glass
Pretty sure they just poured silver nitrate over glass. You can still buy kits to do that to re-silver old mirrors for the original look. From what I can find, the layered ones were older, and they used tin and mercury which made breaking a mirror a rather unlucky event.
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Pretty sure your eyes can't focus on anything that close. Nice try
But you're not focusing on the mirror; you're focusing on the reflection 'behind' it.
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Mirrors now are chemically deposited silver to my knowledge.
Deposited on the back of the glass, then a protective layer applied on top. The amount of silver in that assembly is very low, and none is exposed, but the reflective component is the silver.Most use aluminium nowadays afaik.
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But you're not focusing on the mirror; you're focusing on the reflection 'behind' it.
i think it should be a concave mirror with a focal point on your retina for it to work
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Ummm... Because shadows aren't a solid mass. They're just where light isn't. So even in a case where a vampire casts a shadow, it wouldn't matter, mirrors still work in the dark.
mirrors still work in the dark.
I mean, do they? Mirrors reflect light. If there's no light then there's nothing for the mirror to do.
This is like saying a water wheel works without water. No it doesn't, it just sits there.
