How is Philly a vampire? Is he undead or is the underworld like undertale where monsters live unground. If he is dead is he immune to rotting because he’s a vampire?

Philly’s vampirism is kinda funny. It’s complicated, but he was a vampire in all my previous versions of the comic, and something about his design just works better with fangs I think! He recounts a summary of his life in Chapter 2, saying he was a specialist in potion making who died because of his infrequent blood drinking. Not really important (right now) but the vampire that turned him then took him on as an apprentice in potion making. In Chapter 3 he reveals he has no idea how he truly “died” (as vampirism is a “grey” state between Life and Death) He only remembers that he arrived in The Under World as a cowering monster, and then was rescued and nursed by Phoebe.

Tasting blood gives him excelled powers, as he drinks Freddie’s in Chapter 2 and Godfried’s in Chapter 4. So he definitely has properties of vampirism. However, he does bleed himself at the beginning of Chapter 2. Which Godfried claims is only a quality those with living bodies actually possess. Freddie confirms this, and it seems that Philly does indeed have a still living body. Which would explain why they both appeared as mishapen monsters when they arrived in The Under World.

So he’s definitely no longer in this “grey” state. But we’ll see what that means for the gang soon!