Talk:The Unseen Elder/@comment-2600:1700:B940:9A40:31AF:74F8:4361:74D6-20190113204444

Higher Vampires, but the Unseen Elder specificaly really break the story for me. I dont understand why they decided to make Higher Vampires so powerfull as well as having no weaknesses whatsoever, AND while being completly immortal. Humans pose no threat to them at all and even an army would be completly useless, so why are they in hiding?

At one point the capitan of the guard actualy raises this question and Geralt tells him that the only reason vampires dont rule the world is because they dont care about humans enough to do so.

This is a completly nonsensical. Vampires are stated to have many and varied personalitys, some of them clearly enjoy bloodshed and preying on humans as well as the admiration of lesser beings. They also were stated to be annoyed enough by humans hunting them to go to great effort to penalize one of their own. Regis also says that the threat of being hunted down if they break masquerade is a factor that makes them hate this world. They also want to get back to their own universe and the human and elven mages might be able to help with that via portal reserch. So why dont they just take over? There is no reason that isnt contradicted by something Regis later says, and it would be a complelte cakewalk for them even withought geting the Unseen Elders involved.

This is even more iritating because its not just that humans are completly helpess against them in every way, every other monster in the setting is tisue paper compared to them. Why are vampires so special that they get teleportation, flight, comic book levels of super speed and 100% immortality when every other monster in existance inclluding demons and dragons can be at least fought by humans/witchers and must tred at least somewhat carfully in the world less the humans send an army after them?

This also completly destoryed my ability to empathize with Regis or Detlaff. Every time Regis opens his mouth to lament the plight of vampires in this world I didnt care at all because litteraly nothing can hurt them. At most they can be forced into hybernation for 50 or so years, but Regis himself says that 100 years is the blink of an eye, so why should I care or feel any simpathy for them over this? Everyone elses lives are at stake, and the worst that can happen to the vampires is a inconviniance for about half an eyeblink. Riviting.

It would be akin to Geralt walking into a cave one day and coming face to face with Superman, who tells him that he hasnt done anything for the past 100 years because if he revleas his superpowers he's afrade the mideval humans will lynch him.