"Well, I'd like to say you're right but it's not that simple." Magnus denied right away. "As you already know Cursed Races have the word curse in their name. It's not for nothing. As our bloodline grows stronger, so does our curse, but it grows faster than the benefits it grants us. In this respect, it's similar to the Divine Spark. At a certain point, our natural progression curve can no longer compensate for the detrimental effects. It also becomes an unmanageable burden as our need for blood increases.
"While a lesser Vampire could survive on a small amount of animal blood on a daily basis, a Vampire Emperor such as myself requires astronomical amounts of prime human blood to satisfy our hunger when it arises. One drop of human blood is enough to make a Vampire addicted. The following time, the same Vampire will want four, then sixteen and so on. You can guess where this is going.