Talk:The Unseen Elder/@comment-2600:1700:B940:9A40:31AF:74F8:4361:74D6-20190113204444/@comment-70.177.111.136-20190213022317

There are monsters more powerful than higher vampires, though. Golden Dragons, for example. Demons are too, the hym Geralt dealt with wasn't even one of the more powerful ones. Not to mention Gaunter O'Dimm, who would clap away an entire army of Unseen Elders.

Higher Vampires are also exceedingly rare. True Higher Vampires like Detlaff and Regis. If the vampire clans we saw in Tesham Mutna are the only ones, and every clan is lead by 1 Elder, then there's probably less than 20 True Higher Vampires in the entire world. Most of them are docile and just blend in with human society, like Regis.

I do see vampires being a bit of a plot hole, but I think they are so few in number that it makes up for it. Most of them are lesser vampires, and they can be easily dispatched by Witchers. Lesser vampires are also mostly animalistic and don't usually live near human settlements.

But I did hate the Unseen Elder a lot. The whole thing was ridiculous, what's the point of having a mutant monster slayer if there are monsters they can't possibly kill? At least Gaunter O'Dimm only affects 1 person at a time, and doesn't care about mass murder. This guy was like some edgy kid's OC. Like, Geralt can take a centuries-old True Higher Vampire just fine, but can't handle another one because he's older or some shit? When all this older vampire does is sit around in a dank, dark cave for hundreds of years? Pure bullshit, honestly. It's like putting a sword in a cave for one hundred years and then coming back with a new sword and that old sword somehow became sharper and stronger. It doesn't make any sense.