They were organised and cunning, seeking to inhabit bodies themselves that they could engage in with the world. They were 'evolved' and in spirit these demons were known as Vampyres.
You see, when a body dies, the soul inhabiting that body lifts up and out and moves onto higher plains, disconnecting itself far from it.
Sometimes and only rarely, it may happen that the corpse itself, without a soul any longer, is inspired to keep on living after having deceased - and it is at this point where the stronger of the demonic beings can inhabit them fully.
These are the Vampyres, who as before are still given to find their sustenance from the vitality of others - from living human beings - for even with the body of a hijacked corpse they cannot regenerate normally or receive the life force ordinarily into themselves.
Vampyres might appear to be the person that the body once cradled and would want you to believe this of them - but they are only counterfeit beings. The spirit who birthed that body has long gone and is free of their evil contamination. It is only in fiction that they take on the originating persona, and although imbibed with the residual memories and behaviours, it is simply a parasite within, and not a soul.
-Gabriel Brunsdon, Puck in Hell, Azlander Series
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