Comment on Iron
sneezycat@sopuli.xyz 6 months agoLet’s do the math…
You can donate three times a year to the red cross (once every 112 days). According to some page, you donate around 10% of your blood volume each time.
That means, for a volume equivalent of 300 people, you’d need to donate 3000 times, which would take around 1000 years.
The vampire is going to need more people, or to keep a person alive 1000 years with vampire magic.
You’re off on blood production. “Safe” would be once every six to eight weeks for a pint. Plasma can be taken a lot more often. The red blood cells take a while to replenish.
But let’s get real. You’re not concerned about your enemy feeling well. Force them to take iron supplements and take a pint every other week. They’ll likely stay alive that way. Fuck em, right?
3 times a year? Where i live you cab give 1/2l every two weeks at a bloodbank.
And i can take more and by that activate a immune response to produce way more.
The same blood bank? You sure that’s not plasma, and not blood? Plasma re-makes itself way faster than red blood cells.
Yeah twice a month blood, but only half a liter.
Oh. That explains it. Normally in the US a typical donation is a full pint. Not a half pint.
But remember they are your enemy so you could drain a bit more blood more often to shave a few years off maybe
kernelle@lemmy.world 6 months ago
When you’re harvesting the blood iron of your enemies you don’t have time for ethics. A controlled study managed 4 weeks within ethical boundaries, maybe we can cut that in half unethically. So 14 days, 3000 . 14 = 115 years. So when you torture two people, you could manage to do 58 years. Better start early!
prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Orrrrrr capture the entire family of your foe and then you can name the sword something super cool about ending family lines
daltotron@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Maybe the sword is just the product of a small cult which drains blood to create it?