Re: Vampires?
Oh honestly who gives a crap? By the time you're slapping all that magic on somebody you might as well add "body ethereal" and start with any creature at all.
There is exactly one spell on that list that uses any of the VQ's actual abilities, and it's "Life Drain". She's a Blood God and your dream list uses no blood at all! The Vampire Queen is used for these comparisons because thematically she is awesome, not because of any intrinsic capabilities of the chasis. After all, you just described a character that would go down to a Bane Lord with a Dusk Dagger. I'm severely unimpressed.
The legend of how awesome Vampire Queens are was started by a man who played Ashen Fields Ermor and cheated for hundreds of gems starting from turn 1! Sure, he was unstoppable, but it wasn't because of the Vampire Queen.
The Ancient Olhm can do everything the VQ is claimed to do except that he starts with magic that is actually useful (Water and Earth) and a decent pile of hit points. Vampire Queens have an awesome mystique about them, but they aren't even particularly good unless you happen to be a blood power.
Their one unique ability is that they are a potential Blood God who has hands (for hammers) and is available to people who aren't Pangaea. That's right, the VQ is and always has been a consolation prize for not having the Lord of the Wild. Now that the Deva is in play there would be even less nations that would care about the Vampire Queen even if she didn't get nerfed to the point where she totally sucks. And not in the good way that VQs are famous for.
-Frank
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