Faith was the driving factor in my mother's murder - or at least, why others watched it happen rather than intercede. [He pauses. Geralt may have put two and two together by now, but in case not:] If you remember the caves back in Thorne...that was what kept creeping past me. [The smell of burning, the anger, the rage of it all. Alucard finishes his glass.] I don't believe I've ever said it before, but I am deeply sorry for the loss of your people and how it came about.

[It doesn't need to be said. All the more reason to vocalize it. The dhampir refills his glass.]

The lack of an afterlife is a surprise, I'll admit. But there. That's the ultimate difference. The water in which my world swims in has Christianity laced through every part. And that's what makes it difficult to explain. You have to think about how to describe what is natural to you.