Again, the curse of silver begins before the
first vampire became a vampire, when the goddess Artemis (Greek
mythology) cursed the first vampire so that his skin burned when it
touched silver.
Using silver is a bit like a blend
between sunlight and a wooden stake. It doesn't work as well as either
of those two options, but it has advantages of its own. First of all,
unlike sunlight, silver is highly portable. You can carry an item of
solid silver (make sure it's real, solid silver please) with you easily.
Secondly, it won't kill a vampire to stab it in the heart with silver
(as it would using a wooden stake), but it will slow down the healing
process, which can be very helpful.
In order to actually kill a
vampire using silver, you'd probably need a lot of it. Silver is more
helpful as a slowing or trapping agent. Vampires, despite their
strength, cannot break a chain of silver, even if they tried. If you
could somehow manage to handcuff a vampire to a tree, say, using silver
handcuffs, all you would have to do is wait until the sun rose the next
day and you would have yourself a fried vampire. Of course, how you
would actually manage to accomplish this task is another story.
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