[FaeLenx]

Vampires are supposed to be strong, not Lich or Dullahan strong given their respective RP opportunities become more limited, but should be considered a force to be reckoned with by the general adventuring populace anyways

Every race should be strong at something and have some mechanical nuance that makes it worth taking. Vampires don't need to be unique in being unique. You can argue to put them in line with other races that have their own gimmicks and abilities (shaitan grab, mechanation agile accel, doriad forest walking, etc) that make them good, but they don't need any reason to be better than other races, and that's the mentality that should be fought. People go from arguing game balance to trying to justify arguing game imbalance for the thing they like.

Ahem. Vampires keeping their vampirism hidden is not a 'head canon', it's literally their lore.

The child of Huggessoa are covert for a very clear reason that they don't want attention pulled over to them, which hints that they can VERY EASILY get that done. You can even see that during their Lunar Lunatism when they completely forsake hiding their true identity for power and go on a lunar rage.

Ahem. It's head canon in that you and I both know that it's not how it functions in the game on a day to day basis. You can enter the arena and start banqueting people in duels in the open and people will just generally accept that as what's happening. You might get a few people doing their 'shocked FI for shocking events' reaction, but it'll just about end there. You can argue that these people aren't following lore and that vampires shouldn't show themselves and people should hunt them down, react negatively, and generally act against them. They don't, though. Liches walk around openly. Dullahan are just those silly guys in armor. Vampires are just slightly sexier and more sadistic examples of whatever race they're branching off from.

If we go into the lore and start trying to find some story reason to steroid random races to be demonstrably stronger than other races, you're gonna get a lot of arguments for a lot of races that should be much stronger than they end up being mechanically and much stronger than any random human person.