Yssgaroth Taint: Difference between revisions

The '''Yssgaroth Taint''', also simply '''the Taint''', ([[PROSE]]: {{cite source|A Bloody (And Public) Domaine (short story)|A Bloody (And Public) Domaine}}, etc.) or '''the taint''', ([[PROSE]]: {{cite source|The Book of the War (novel)}}) and otherwise known as the '''V Factor''' ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Vampire Science (novel)|Vampire Science]]'') or '''vampire virus''', ([[PROSE]]: ''[[All Flesh is Grass (novel)|All Flesh is Grass]]'') was the distinguishing characteristics that "made [[vampire]]s ''vampires''".  

The V Factor involved a [[gene]] that was added to the victim's [[biodata]] during vampire conversion. The [[Eighth Doctor]] devised a method of purging a vampire of the V Factor. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Vampire Science (novel)|Vampire Science]]'') The "taint" was so called due to being a manifestation of the original inter-dimensional [[Yssgaroth]] whose [[Great Vampire]]s ([[PROSE]]: {{cite source|The Book of the War (novel)}}) fought the [[Time Lord]]s in the [[Eternal War]] of their early history; while the true Great Vampires were driven out, ([[TV]]: {{cite source|State of Decay (TV story)}}) such that "no ''pure'' matter from the “[[Spiral Yssgaroth]]” survive[ed]", Yssgaroth biomass proved capabel of "hybridis[ing] and corrupt[ing] by its very presence"; the infected, ([[PROSE]]: {{cite source|The Book of the War (novel)}}) "pale shadows of the real thing", ([[TV]]: {{cite source|State of Decay (TV story)}}) were beings "pulled out of shape by the Yssgaroth’s substance, malformed and predatory", and took various forms from elegant and cultured to the beastly [[Mal'akh]] [[grotesque]]s. According to ''[[The Book of the War]]'', the Great Houses were unable to eradicate the Yssgaroth taint from the universe because the Yssgaroth had entered history [[Anchoring of the thread|precisely as it came into existence]], embedding themselves into its structure on a conceptual level. ([[PROSE]]: {{cite source|The Book of the War (novel)|namedpart=Yssgaroth}})