Vampires and Vampire Lords are the level 4 creatures of Necropolis. They are recruited from the Estate.
"The attacks of vampires and vampire lords cannot be retaliated against. Vampire Lords are able to resurrect members of their own troops by replenishing health equal to the amount of damage they inflict on others." RoE manual
Life drain special ability
Vampire Lords' life drain special ability occurs after the stack has attacked and before the target stack has a chance to retaliate. It raises killed Vampire Lords from the dead for the same amount of health points as the stack inflicted damage, and the top unit is healed with the remainder. The ability functions in a similar way to Animate Dead spell (or Resurrection). However, no more than the amount of total health points of the target stack can be drained. As the ability name suggests, target attacked creature stack must be considered to be alive. This means that the ability does not work on non-living creatures, since Undead, Elementals and Golems have no life to be drained.
If Vampire Lords attack Efreet Sultans, Fire Shield works after life drain, being able to kill Vampire Lords who have already risen from the dead.
Creatures immune to life drain:
Elementals:
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Golems:
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Undead:
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Gargoyles:
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Heroes with a specialty
Vokial the Death Knight has vampires as a specialty, which increases the Attack and Defense skills of any Vampires or Vampire Lords for each level attained after 4th level and gives them a speed bonus of 1.
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