I got in the habit of using "people" as a generic. Most creatures, whatever their nature, are comfortable with thinking of themselves as people, but not necessarily human. Personhood is more about individuality, autonomy, agency. Things most people would agree they deserve.
The soil, I think, was an old shorthand for a connection to a familiar place even when far from home. Not something that would ordinarily travel with you, and thus be more transient in...how do I put this well. "Identity"?
...An architecture analogy. It's the difference between a fixture and the furniture. You might take a chair with you but you'd not be like to take the carpet.
The restorative quality would attach to the figurative carpet, but not so much to the chair. So the objects themselves, maybe not, but if you could use those objects to prepare something that achieved a gestalt of "home", maybe.
Regarding the blood, it varies. I'm familiar with vampires getting drunk after imbibing blood from a donor who'd had a few too many; I've also heard of ones resistant to it. So on that score it'd likely just be trial and error.
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The soil, I think, was an old shorthand for a connection to a familiar place even when far from home. Not something that would ordinarily travel with you, and thus be more transient in...how do I put this well. "Identity"?
...An architecture analogy. It's the difference between a fixture and the furniture. You might take a chair with you but you'd not be like to take the carpet.
The restorative quality would attach to the figurative carpet, but not so much to the chair. So the objects themselves, maybe not, but if you could use those objects to prepare something that achieved a gestalt of "home", maybe.
Regarding the blood, it varies. I'm familiar with vampires getting drunk after imbibing blood from a donor who'd had a few too many; I've also heard of ones resistant to it. So on that score it'd likely just be trial and error.