He smiled, folding his hands.

"Were you still one, you would know. Ancestral race memory would have told you. I am a Time Lord."

"In any event, you have risen significantly. Still just human, but far better than a vampire. In short, you've risen from nobody to somebody, rather than the other way around."

He's less...reactionary than most Time Lords in this, since power of any sort holds interest to him. Most Time Lords would consider vampires to be vermin. Vestiges of something unholy.