#jacqueline renier

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Amazing commission by @mooreaux of the villain for my next campaign!

My players are already planning to make bad decisions.

[darklordazalin]

Azalin Reviews: Darklord Jacqueline Renier

Domain: Richemulot Domain Formation:  694 BC Power Level: 💀💀💀⚫⚫ Sources: Ravenloft (3e), Secrets of the Dread Realms (3e), Domains and Denizens (2e), Realm of Terror (2e), Domains of Dread (2e), Gazetteer III (3e).

Most Darklords are pulled into the Mists and “gifted” a land to rule (that is also designed to torment them) after committing an act of so-called evil. Others gain such titles through the act of killing another Darklord. Why one would want eternal torment, I cannot say. Self hate? Inability to recognize where they truly are? Oh and if you are thinking of doing the same, this ploy doesn't always work. Most Darklords simply come back after they are “destroyed” as even our tormentors will not let death free us from them.

Before Jacqueline Renier became the Darklord of Richemulot, her grandfather Claude Renier was Darklord. The Renier family was chased into the Mists by a group of monster hunters and their hounds when Jacqueline was a child. Most Darklords rarely remember much, if anything, of the land they came from, our tormentors erase such things from their minds. One must not believe a lying rat when they state they remember something when all evidence points to the contrary. 

The Reniers fled into the sewers and given the choice between death and a vault filled with a mysterious Mist, they chose the Mist and Falkovnia. Death may have been the kinder option than dealing with Drakov...The Reniers lived in the sewers of Silbervas in Falkovnia for a number of years before Vlad grew tired of their antics and ran them out of his Domain and into the Mists once more. This indicates that Vlad was successful in defeating the Reniers. Now that is a family history I’m sure Lady Jacqueline doesn't wish you to know of.

The Mists created Richemulot, which is mostly made of river valleys and untamed forests with the majority of its populace living in the three large cities. There is no known history of what happened in Richemulot prior to the Reniers settling there. The cities themselves were said to be empty when they arrived and like true scavengers, instead of questioning this oddity, the people merely accepted it and took up whatever residence they wished. To this day, only about a third of the buildings in each city are occupied by humanity, the rest lie abandoned and given over to decay and the infestation of rats.

Claude ruled through fear and manipulation, bidding his rivals and relatives (often these were the same) against one another. Jacqueline and her twin sister, Louise, were his protegees and he was always encouraging competition between the two for his affection and praise. That is until Jacqueline had enough of it and had a servant send him a drink laced with lye. Each wererat in Richemulot has their own unique 'allergin' and lye was Claude's. Not that I would advise anyone to consume lye in the first place... 

Jacqueline ensured she was there as her grandfather drank the poison so she could gloat as he died. But the poison wasn’t enough for her and she also pushed him through a window where he fell through the roof of the family kennel and was half-consumed by hounds before his body was retrieved. Considering the poison killed him before he hit the ground, this was quite unnecessary and makes it far more obvious to even the casual observer who was responsible for Claude’s death.

Jacqueline is just as manipulative and cunning as her grandfather was, ruling the land through secrets and bringing down her opposition through rumors and misinformation. It is said the nobility trade more in secrets than coin in Richemulot and that a commoner may gain status by simply hearing the right rumor and knowing how to weld it. 

Instead of pitting her family against one another, Jacqueline encourages them to work together, though she herself kills anyone that appears to be working against her. Only her twin sister is the exception to this. Curious. Does Jacqueline have some form of misguided affection for her sister? Is this why she has all of Louise’s lovers and friends killed? Regardless of the reasoning, it is abundantly clear that Jacqueline does not take competition for her affections well.

She is patriotic and wishes to bring prosperity to her Domain. Of course, the prosperity she strives for would result in the end of humanity, but she does try.  Though there’s no formal militia in Richemulot, she expects all of her people to take up arms to defend the realm. So, her defense is the equivalent of untrained peasants with pitchforks. Drakov’s ever-failing attempts at conquering her Domain must be particularly crushing for the little mercenary. Still, he seems to have created enough stir in Richemulot to encourage Jacqueline to sign the Treaty of Four Towers with Borca, Dementlieu, and Mordent in defence against the war-hungry, impaling-loving idiot. 

Jacqueline’s curse is to only appear in her rat form to those she loves. A fact she discovered when she fell in love with the nobleman Henri DuBois. She attempted to inflict him with her lycanthropy but he managed to not only escape that fate, but Richemulot as well. Jacqueline, a word to the wise, if one cannot accept you in your rat form, are they really worth all this pinning and crippling monophobia?

Jacqueline is a formidable combatant, but only when she is surrounded by her allies. She can speak with rats, take mist form like a vampire, and climb along almost any surface. However, when she is alone, her monophobia cripples her to a point where she can easily be defeated.

Considering the majority of her people do not know of her wererat affliction, her mastery of manipulation and control, and easy defeat of Claude; Jacqueline is not a Darklord to be underestimated. Though, if one learns her fears she can be easily taken out by a well-placed assassin. I will grant her three skulls.

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Domain: Richemulot Domain Formation:  Unspecified (694 BC older editions) Power Level: 💀💀⚫⚫⚫ Sources: Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft (5e)

The “good” Doctor’s new guide indicates that Jacqueline is not a natural born wererat, but was inflicted with the curse instead. Does this mean one could simply cast ‘Remove Curse’ upon her person to effectively neutralize her? Or any of her family members seeing as she changed all of them herself? Our Tormentors rarely make things that easy, but a theory I encourage any with such abilities to try. 

Born into the Renier noble family, Jacqueline analyzed the changes in her city as the commoners became more wealthy. To Jacqueline this was viewed as a threat to her family’s position. Would a wealthy class of commoners abide by the rules of nobility if they have no need of them? And though Jacqueline shared her concerns with her family, the other Reniers ignored them, content with these inevitable changes.

Without her family’s assistance, Jacqueline was left to her own machinations. This eventually led her to discover a secret society of esteemed families that called themselves the Trueblood Council…which ended up being made of a bunch of filthy commoner wererats.

She was disgusted to find this filth in place of what she imagined as elite masterminds. Given the amount of gold she spent on gaining membership, perhaps she should have done a bit more research on them? Was it really THAT surprising they ended up being wererats considering their secret meeting location was the sewers? Regardless as she cursed and spit upon them, they made her into a wererat. 

Jacqueline easily adapted to her life as a wererat and swiftly infected all of the Reniers. Except for her twin sister, Louise, who resisted. For her insolence, Louise was disfigured and cast out. In order to gain control of the city, Jacqueline unified the wererats and together they created the Gnawing Plague. However, instead of becoming the savior to the people when they begged for her assistance, she let them die, finding her hatred of the commoners replaced with a hatred for all non-wererats. Who exactly are you ruling over if everyone is dead? Well, no one is the answer and the Mists took her after the last person in Richemulot died.

Now Jacqueline rules half-empty cities in the land of Richemulot, but can only maintain her rule by controlled releases of the Gnawing Plague in order to suppress those that would rise up against her. Given the apparently disposable armies of rats, wererats, and animated armor stuffed with rats she has control over, this seems an unnecessary tactic. Not to mention the populace cannot be all that intelligent given their lack of awareness of Reniers affliction. Jacqueline wears a shawl of rats, rat shoes, and a rat bracelet. Her love of rats could not be more apparent and the rats are known to be the cause of the plague.

No wonder she has no love of ruling over her idiotic populace. I doubt they pose any real challenge for her. Her torments are rather weak compared to other Darklords. She dislikes ruling, misses decadence yet causes such things to be nonexistent with her plagues and has to keep on creating plagues? I would take those anyday over what I have to endure.

Jacqueline can control and communicate any rat in her Domain and mostly uses them as spies. Otherwise, she is an inflicted wererat who has a love for creating plagues. Considering her control would easily break if the labs that created said plagues were destroyed, I consider this version of Jackie to be less powerful than in previous versions. 2.5 Skulls.

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Just finished slaughtering innocents 💖

[ruleof3bobby]

DOUBLE LOVER (2017) Grade: C-

Little cheesy the more the plot developed. More of an old school Hallmark type thriller but with a more serious tone. The ending was kind of silly.

[ulrichgebert]

Die Berichterstattung ist allerdings auch schon wieder weit hinterher. François Ozons doppelbödiger Erotikthriller L'Amant double bedient souverän die gerneverwendete Urangst vor Doppelgängern und geheimen Zwillingen und Schattendieben etc., so daß man gar nicht mehr recht weiß was los ist. Die "Auflösung" ist dann allerdings relativ unwahrscheinlich, zumal man eigentlich immer noch nicht weiß, was da los ist.

[bluetspur-brain]

Secrets! of the Darklords

Strahd - starches the tips of his capes for maximum flappiness

Azalin - genuinely hates words that start with ‘L’

Lord Soth - too embarrassed by his cuckold fetish to stop the Cataclysm

Ivana Boritsi - double dips on purpose

Ivan Dilisnya - actually thought the spider pram was really cool until Ivana saw it.

Jacqueline Renier - likes being carried around in a big cat’s mouth

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Double Lover https://bit.ly/3G5IzYC Made in 2017 but with its heart firmly in 1947, François Ozon’s Double Lover (L’amant double in the original French) takes a pretty young woman, Chloé (Marine Vacth), and subjects her to a brutal gaslighting at the hands of a male psychiatrist. Two male psychiatrists, in fact, twin brothers (both played by Jérémie Renier) so … Read more

[petersonreviews]

Double Lover (2018)

“However much of an exercise it is, Double Lover serves as evidence that François Ozon, even when in churn-out mode, can make something interesting even when it isn’t altogether successful.”

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L’Amant Double

(Double Lover)

(Francois Ozon, 2017)

To decipher all of what is going on here might take a little pondering, what can for sure be said is that Francois Ozon seems to know an awful lot about the inner workings of women... Either that, or he knows how to posture with enough detail and self assurance that it sure makes it look like he does.

Reteaming with Marine Vacth, star of his Jeune & Jolie, a movie equally as ponderous with regards to the vast labyrinthine female mind, Ozon here is in full on trashy thriller mode, the sort of form that Brian De Palma would be proud of. Based upon (I believe ‘freely adapted from’ is the official, probably more telling term used) Joyce Carol Oates’ The Lives of Twins, Ozon takes pulpy material (and lots of visually trippy tricks of the trade) and uses it to burrow down into the psyche of his central character.

Things start slowly enough, but with great assurance. Ozon making a good use of bringing in music in pivotal moments to add great effect, in the beginning when things are quite talky he makes great use of perspective, playing with his images to keep said scenes from becoming static visually, his camera roves quite freely too, whatever else you can say about the mans work you can certainly never accuse him of trying to bore his audience, or lacking effort.

As things go along, and pulses start racing, there is less need for said visual trickery, the duel performances of the great Jeremie Renier knocking you off balance one way and then the other, first with a kiss, and then with a punch, caressing and then pummeling you, messing with your senses, providing a human driven emotional rollercoaster so full on that there is less need for his directors flair for the creative behind the camera to come in so often with the assist. 

In the centre of this Renier tug of war, Vacth effectively replicates the magic trick she pulled in her previous collaboration with the director, the old Garbo trick where her face is almost exclusively this unreadable mask, the blank slate on to which the viewer projects, the mirror within which they read whatever they choose to. Physically she is so effortlessly able to run the gamut as well, putting on a show from one end of the spectrum to the other as her character is put through the wringer. Between her and Renier (and a wonderful small but unforgettable assist from the great Jacqueline Bisset) they wonderfully manage to keep this ultimately very human and very intimate in the midst of all of the madness Ozon has dropped them in the centre of.

For his part, whatever you make of his shock and awe imagery, his playing with visual perspective, penchant for mind bending body horror, and use of dream sequences to further torment his audience, and reveal the mind of his muse, it’s hard not to believe that he’s maybe on to something in the middle of it all, that he isn’t making some kind of statement effectively. 

Successful or otherwise is up to you to determine, Ozon keeps things opaque enough that if nothing else it’ll always be a movie to get conversation going, it’s one about which could certainly be said it feels a lot of the time like one of those stories of women quite clearly made by a man, but the simple fact that he’s able to do whatever he’s doing, explore whatever he’s exploring in such a trashy, camp, riot of a package is testament to why he’s one of the best. In movies, rightly or otherwise, presentation is every bit as important as content. L’Amant Double may not be Monsieur Ozon’s most watertight, profound effort in the latter department, but he’s going full speed ahead in the former, and it masks everything else sufficiently.

[darklordazalin]

Azalin Reviews: Darklord Claude Renier

Darklord: Claude Renier Domain: Richemulot Domain Formation: 694 BC Sources: Realm of Terror (2e), Gazetteer 2 (3e), Gazetteer 3 (3e), Legacy of Blood (3e)

Scholars have determined that prior to being claimed by the Mists, the Renier family was made of two branches – high born nobles that used their influence for the betterment of society and a clan of wererats that did the opposite. The Renier family have a complicated history in the Demiplane of Dread and the first known Reniers to stumble into the Mists settled in Mordent. Their patriarch, Jacques Renier, built the House on Gryphon Hill as well as Heather House, the current dwelling of the Weathermay family. It becomes more complex as the wererat curse developed in Jacques’s offspring, splitting the family further. This rivalry between the human and wererat side of the family only increased when Claude Renier and his pack of wererats fled into the Mists and found themselves in the city of Silbervas in Falkovnia.

Claude quickly integrated his family with the local wererats that lived in the sewers of Silbervas and created a thriving thieves’ guild that integrated with the humanoids of Silbervas. As in the manner of rats, Claude’s influence rapidly multiplied and eventually drew the attention of Falkovnia’s little mercenary, Vlad Drakov and his band of more talented thugs, the Talons. Vlad oversaw the extermination of the wererats in Silbervas and to everyone’s surprise, was quite successful in his endeavors. Over the course of three years, which have been aptly named ‘The Years of the Impaled Rats’, Vlad flushed out the wererats from the sewers of Silbervas causing Claude to flee into the Mists once more.

As if being defeated by Vlad Drakov wasn’t torment enough, the Dark Powers created a prison in the form of Richemulot just for Claude Renier. From Chateau Delanuit in Pont-A-Museau, Claude ruled over the governing bodies of Richemulot as well as his own family. He ruled through manipulation and ensuring the other wererats were too busy vying for his attention to plot against him. He paid particular attention to his twin granddaughters, Jacqueline and Louise Renier. Seeing as Jacqueline eventually usurped her grandfather’s position as the Darklord of Richemulot, one can imagine how well this worked out for the twitchy rat.

Claude Renier is little more than a footnote in Jacqueline’s story. A footnote that was defeated by Vlad Drakov who couldn’t win a battle against a single zombie…I rarely agree with our tormentors, but in this case they were well advised to throw Claude to the rats and deliver the carcass of his domain to Jacqueline.

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[bluecollarfilm]

Double Lovers (2018)

Crafting a deliriously cinematic web of suspense, shock, eroticism, and power dynamics, writer/director François Ozon (Swimming Pool) returns to master the thriller genre with Double Lover. In the new film, Ozon reunites with two actors whom he previously directed in breakout roles, Marine Vacth (Young & Beautiful) and Jeremie Renier (Criminal Lovers), now helming them in an intense exploration of a woman venturing into dangerous romance.

Chloe, who works as a guard at a museum in Paris, seeks to shore up her resiliency and enters psychoanalysis. In Paul Meyer, the sensitive patient finds a caring psychiatrist who helps her overcome bouts with depression. Following the end of the treatment, both realize that they have fallen in love. A new chapter begins for Chloe when she and Paul move in together ... yet Chloe soon comes to believe that Paul is keeping a secret. She impulsively visits another psychiatrist, Louis Delord. Spiraling emotional and sexual stakes will push all three of them to extremes, forcing Chloe to take action in order to solve a mystery and save herself.

Directed by:   Francois Ozon

Starring:   Marine Vacth, Jeremie Renier, Jacqueline Bisset, Myriam Boyer, Dominique Reymond

Release date:   February 14, 2018

[whatamigonnawatchtoday]

L’amant double

2017. Psychological Thriller

By François Ozon

Starring: Marine Vacth, Jérémie Renier, Jacqueline Bisset, Dominique Reymond, Myriam Boyer, Fanny Sage, Jean-Édouard Bodziak, Antoine de la Morinerie, Jean-Paul Muel

Country: France, Belgium

Language: French

[vacthdaily]

D DAY : L'AMANT DOUBLE de F.Ozon avec Marine Vacth, Jeremie Renier, Jacqueline Bisset sort aujourd'hui en France.

[theussanvegad]

Rules: name your top 10 favorite characters from 10 different fandoms and then tag 10 people.

1. Balthier - Final Fantasy

2. Colonel Victor Hoffman - Gears of War

3. Captain Killian Jones “Hook” - Once upon a time

4. Elim Garak - Star Trek

5. Samantha Carter - Stargate

6. Scorpius - Farscape

7. James Macdonald Hudson (Vindicator/Guardian) - Marvel; Alpha Flight

8. Camilla - Fire Emblem

9. Jacqueline Renier - Ravenloft

10. Spike - Buffy the Vampire Slayer

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Tagging, @truespacearmaments, @caelestexcervus, @doctormyuu, @noirwomaninred, @protxgoniiists, @forgottenjade, @walkerofclouds, @gentlegraceful-and-fatal, @the-foxy-family, @plaidshirtjimkirk

And anyone else who wants to do this one.

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Publication Design Progress - Part 23

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