Our documentation isn't crystal clear on this and I want to clear it up before I make assumptions I shouldn't. xD I've been playing Lyra as though she can sort of smell the way blood would taste, particularly when she is hungry, because that's fun to torture her with.

My question/my thought is that if someone had a blood borne illness, would a vampire be able to pick up on that when either tasting or smelling it? Not like "oh, hm, I have just diagnosed you as HIV+ from this drop of your blood," but more along the lines of "something about your blood seems off."

Since vampires aren't alive, I don't imagine it would matter much for them since they wouldn't be able to contract any of those diseases. But it does lead to my follow-up question: is lycanthropy a blood borne illness, and would a vampire be able to pick up on it? Probably more in a 'this is strange, why do you taste like shit?' sort of way unless they were a really experienced vampire who recognized the taste/scent.

In our documentation we have this line: "Half-vampires also do not taste 'pleasant' to vampires" which supports the idea that werewolves might also tastes 'bad,' but we don't actually have any reference to other non-humans in the doc.