#longl

[thesummerstorms]

There's no way at least a few of the Crows gathered for the show down in the Opera House didn't look at Lucanis and Arsinoë de Riva and pick up on the fact that they were involved, even if both parts of the couple thought they were hiding it like professionals.

Most likely, those Crows perceive this as Viago's attempt at a power play.

They're wrong; he's in the corner gritting his teeth and silently begging Arsinoë to stay under the radar for once in her life. Openly attaching herself to the first Talon as a romantic partner makes her a target. That's a complication for House de Riva as a whole, one the Talon part of Viago is already complaining about dealing with, but also in general he wants Arsinoë to live.

(Dellamorte spouses companions do not tend to live long, healthy lives.)

But to the traditionalist Crows' outside point of view, it makes sense for Viago to make a power play through his protege. In his handling of the Illario situation, Lucanis has just exposed the fact that he can, in fact, be manipulated by a soft heart. The way they see it, if Viago then manages to place his protégé as Lucanis's lover and House de Riva as his ally, much less if Arsinoe eventually marries Lucanis and they have children, then Viago will have a considerable amount of influence over the First Talon and the whole of House Dellamorte through her.

Hell, if Arsinoë and Lucanis have children, then after a couple of carefully placed accidents, Viago could even place House de Riva in the seat of first Talon by declaring that his protégé's children belonged to their mother's house.

I cannot stress enough that this is the opposite of what Arsinoë, Lucanis, and Viago all want. Arsinoë doesn't even want to be a mother under regular circumstances, much less as part of an entrapment scheme, and no amount of calculation would ever make Viago use her that way.

But Crows are Crows, and the traditionalists especially do not believe that the more "Reformist" houses like Cantori and de Riva (and now Dellamorte by virtue of Lucanis) don't have some long game they're planning.

So in an a not entirely unexpected move, a few of those Houses send their own agents, their best or most beautiful or most charming, to try and make Lucanis a "better offer" as it were.

Again, this isn't entirely unexpected. Viago can't do much directly without putting more spotlight on Arsinoë or confirming things that he doesn't mean, but Caterina still holds the real power at this point. She deals very harshly with anyone she catches in the attempt.

Arsinoë is a little upset at the disrespect towards her character, significantly more upset that Lucanis has to deal with it, but ultimately stays out of it except comforting Lucanis and deflecting any attempts made in front of her. Maybe the occasional bout of poison, since they've made up their minds about her relationships and reputation either way, but generally it is what it is unless she can spare Lucanis discomfort directly.

Lucanis can't help a certain level of emotional "what the fuck", even though Caterina warned him and Illario extensively growing up that Crows from other Houses might try to romance or bed them as a power play. Illario had responded to that by turning the strategy back on anyone who tried it, not to mention his regular contracts; Lucanis had never thought it would be relevant to himself.

The attempts are upsetting in what they reveal about how outsiders perceive him (weak, easy to manipulate, yes, but also potentially unfaithful which is much more infuriating) and Arsinoë (who's being slandered/minimized). They're also just generally uncomfortable and annoying. Yet he doesn't actually have the power to make them stop; professing his love for Arsinoë doesn't change the perception of those involved. It just puts more of a target on her back.

Spite is honestly the most pissed though. He doesn't even entirely get what's happening. The emotions bleeding over from Lucanis are confusing, even if he's growing to slowly understand emotions outside his domain from his attachment to his mortal host.

He does, however, understand that these other humans are INSULTING his human and their Rook, trying to separate them as if they aren't both Spite's, and trying to hurt them besides.

Spite has many, many ideas how to deal with an insult and a threat. There's a growing risk that one day Lucanis might be fed up enough to agree.

[saucefunk]

ran out of time to finish embroidering the longlegs shirt before i went out for my fourth watch, but decided to take it along anyway.

behold, LONGLE

[stainedlilac]

Me rolling over and dying like a turtle at the people liking my silly drawing of Dale

[lan0lin]

i need all yall thirsting for dale kobble to die i fear

[anch0-a]

Isatober day 8: longling

[staydandy]

Candle in the Tomb 4: The Lost Caverns (2020) - 龙岭迷窟 - Whump List

List by StayDandy Synopsis : Hu Ba Yi, Shirley Yang and Wang Pang Zi explore a mysterious tomb in the Shaanxi region. Shirley Yang travels to the Longling Maze Grottos to investigate unusual patterns on fossil fragments. On the way, she crosses paths with Hu Ba Yi who along with Wang Pang Zi have just escaped from the ancient city. The trio become companions in another tomb-raiding adventure. (MDL)

Whumpee : Hu Ba Yi played by Pan Yue Ming (3rd from left) • Wang Pang Zi played by Jiang Chao (far left) • Thomas played by Zach Ireland Splittgerber (small top group, torch) • Zhe Gu Shao played by Gao Wei Guang (small top group, blue light stick)

Country : 🇨🇳 China Genres : Action, Adventure, Mystery, Horror, Bromance

Notes : This is a Full Whump List • Adapted from the 2nd volume in the novel series "Candle in the Tomb" (鬼吹灯) by Zhang Mu Ye (天下霸唱). • End credits song : 乾坤暴躁-《龙岭迷窟》影视剧主题曲 by 潘粵明, GAI周延 • TW : Arachnophobia

Related Lists : Candle in the Tomb 1 (2016) - Full List • Candle in the Tomb 2: The Weasel Grave (2017) - Full List • Candle in the Tomb 3: The Wrath of Time (2019) - Full List • Candle in the Tomb 5: The Worm Valley (2021) - Full List • Candle in the Tomb 6: Kunlun Tomb (2022) - Full List

Episodes on List : 10 Total Episodes : 18

*Spoilers below*

03 : Hu Ba Yi & Wang Pang Zi knocked around on a ship in a storm, Pang Zi falls overboard.. Ba Yi exhausted after fighting a monster

04 : Ba Yi & Pang Zi in a fight

05 : (near end) Ba Yi & Pang Zi fall into a cave, tumbling down through a tunnel system

08 : [past] (this story with Thomas is so funny lol) Thomas slapped (Zhe Gu Shao getting shocked 😆).. poked in the stomach & force fed a medicine (all comedic) … Zhe Gu Shao & Thomas hallucinating, Thomas falls into a ravine, saved

09 : [past] (@ 1:30 this whole exchange is so funny 😆 - he's definitely one of the better english actors I've seen for a while in a chinese drama) (near end) Gu Shao spits up blood … Thomas falls & hurts his leg, Gu Shao's arm is eaten off by bugs (would totally watch a whole show of just Gu Shao & Thomas!)

11 : [present] Pang Zi captured, tied up, beat up [not shown].. knocked out … locked in a cage, bit by piranhas

12 : TW: arachnophobia @ 12:10-27:30

13 : (@ 2:05 😆 hahaha I knew it 😆) (TW: arachnophobia @ 2:14-2:22, 3:34-9:28)

14 : Ba Yi tries to hold a stone door dropping down.. Ba Yi & Pang Zi trapped in a room filling with mercury.. Ba Yi dizzy

15 : (TW: arachnophobia @ 21:18-32:53 (end of ep)) Ba Yi & Pang Zi fight a group of monsters; Ba Yi thrown by an explosion

16 : (TW: arachnophobia @ 1:30-8:16) Hurt/exhausted from fighting monster, helped to walk … passes out briefly

17 : Has to climb freestyle, barehanded up a wall with little to no experience.. exhausted … (TW: arachnophobia @ 32:16 (end of ep))

18 : TW: arachnophobia @ 1:32-2:11

[heyimwieeeee]

I drew alastor for the first time i like this one :D (if i don't look at him to longl

(Yes his pants are shiny deal with it)

I also colored my lucifer drawing

[inflame]

i'm finally going to watch longl/egs tonight so you all will have a very small window of time in which you can tag me in things that ask "what was the last movie you saw?" and i will have a different answer than usual. this only happens a few times a year (and it is always thanks to k)

[we-belong-to-allah]

“Numerous are the number of people whom I witnessed that were befooled by their youthfulness. They forgot the loss of their peers, and were manipulated by their longing hopes (tul al-amal) thinking [that they will live longl”

- al-Hafiz Abu'l-Faraj Ibn al-Jawzi (Captured Thoughts p. 80)

[footlongdingledong]

she dingle on my dongle til i foot longle

LOUD BUZZER OF UNCLEAR INTENTION

[rosemelon82]

鬼吹灯之龙岭迷窟 - Candle in the Tomb: The Lost Caverns - whump list - (cn)

Synopsis:

Hu Ba Yi, Shirley Yang and Wang Pang Zi explore a mysterious tomb in the Shaanxi region. Shirley Yang travels to the Longling Maze Grottos to investigate unusual patterns on fossil fragments. On the way, she crosses paths with Hu Ba Yi who along with Wang Pang Zi have just escaped from the ancient city. The trio become companions in another tomb-raiding adventure. (copied from MDL)

Genre: action, adventure, thriller, supernatural, tomb raider

Main Whumpees:

Hu Ba Yi played by Pan Yue Ming

Wang Kai Xuan (also known as Wang Pangzi or Fatso) played by Jiang Chao

Da Jin Ya played by Marc Ma

Shirley Yang played by Zhang Yu Qi

Other whumpees listed in orange

(I have included female character whump (Shirley Yang) for those who are interested in it, there isn't much though)

TW: DEATH, SPIDERS

MAJOR SPOILERS BELOW

01:

none

02:

Wang Kai Xuan:

18:57 - 20:00 - carsick, throwing up

03:

Wang Kai Xuan:

03:50 - in a storm, thrown off the boat, lowkey drowning

Hu Ba Yi:

03:57 - 08:09 - hits head against the side of the boat, groans in pain, worried for friend, jumps in to save his friend, harpooning a giant creature, stuck holding on to the harpoon which is stuck in the creature, in the air, almost eaten by the creature multiple times, hits the deck hard, groaning, in pain

04:

Da Jin Ya:

19:30 - 28:18 - in a fight, hit multiple times, on the run (comedic), in another fight, hit multiple times, running again, out of breath, asthmatic? idk he uses an inhaler a couple times

Wang Kai Xuan:

19:40 - 28:18 - "stuck" in a bus window, being pulled at, in a fight, pinned in a chokehold, saved by Hu Ba Yi, on the run (comedic), in another fight, choked again

Hu Ba Yi:

19:40 - 28:18 - in a fight, on the run (comedic), in another fight

05:

Da Jin Ya:

23:40 - end of episode - falls into a sinkhole(?), struggling, tumbles down the tunnels, lost

Wang Kai Xuan:

24:00 - end of episode - falls into a sinkhole(?), tumbles down the tunnels, groaning, in pain

Hu Ba Yi:

24:13 - end of episode - jumps into the sinkhole(?), tumbles down the tunnels, groaning, in pain, leaning on Pangzi

06:

Hu Ba Yi:

beginning of episode - coughing, sweating, looking for friend

23:30 - set off an explosion, covered in dirt and dust, coughing

Wang Kai Xuan:

beginning of episode - coughing, sweating, looking for friend

9:40 - 12:00 - bitten by a bat, yelling, running, stuck, panicking and running, almost falls into a hole, saved by friend, kicked into hiding place

23:30 - explosion, covered in dirt and dust, coughing

Da Jin Ya:

21:30 - end of episode - screaming, running, crashes into wall, pulled out by friends, panicked, out of it, slapped x2, crying (comedic), faints, fever, malaria, force fed medicine

07:

Wang Kai Xuan:

14:24 - 16:02 - finds out they have a disease, angry

08:

none

09:

Gu Zhe Shao:

26:11 - vomits golden blood

29:43 - end of episode - arm eaten by carnivorous insects, unknown fate

Gu Zhe Shao's Master (unknown name?):

29:20 - end of episode - half eaten by carnivorous insects, carried to safety by his pupil, unknown fate

10:

Gu Zhe Shao:

beginning of episode - loss of a loved one, grieving, shown with one arm

Gu Zhe Shao's Master (unknown name?):

beginning of episode - TW: DEATH, death

11:

Wang Kai Xuan:

6:12 - 6:44 - beat up, nose bleed, bruises on face, threatened

9:07 - 12:23 - bomb hung around neck, panicked, screaming, faints

18:32 - 25:47 - found trapped in a hanging cage, yelling, surrounded by piranhas, almost bit multiple times, panicked, screaming, dunked in water with piranhas, getting bit, helped out of the cage by friend, relieved, panting

Da Jin Ya:

6:12 - 6:44 - beat up, bruises on face, threatened

9:07 - 12:03 - bomb hung around neck, panicked, screaming

Shirley Yang:

22:07 - 25:47 - jumps onto cage, slips, barely hanging on

12:

TW: SPIDERS

Shirley Yang:

16:18 - end of episode - slips into a hole, tumbling down, groaning, in pain, helped up, fighting off spiders (she is badass), tries to save friend, dragged along the ground, attacked by spiders again, yanked into the air

Wang Kai Xuan:

16:19 - end of episode - slips and falls into a hole, screaming, tumbling down, groaning, in pain, helped up, fighting off spiders, grabbed by spiders, dragged along the ground, saved from being pulled into a spider hole,

Hu Ba Yi:

16:30 - end of episode - pulled into a hole, tumbling down, groaning, coughing, surrounded by spiders, narrowly avoiding spider's attacks, saved by friend, grabbed and yanked by a spider, dragged along the ground, struggling, fighting off spiders again,

Da Jin Ya:

16:25 - end of episode - pulled into a hole, tumbling down, groaning, in pain, steps on a spider egg, panicked, faints, found strung up in spiderwebs, saved

Some random guy:

27:19 - hits a venom sac on spider's leg, sprayed with poison, screaming in pain, half his face burned from poison

13:

Hu Ba Yi:

08:49 - falls, almost stabbed by giant spider multiple times

14:

Da Jin Ya:

5:14 - 17:50 - mercury poisoning, hallucinations, unsteady, breathing hard, sweating, not mentally present, being held up

Shirley Yang:

5:54 - 17:50 - mercury poisoning, sweating, breathing hard, hallucinations,

Hu Ba Yi:

6:34 - 17:50 - mercury poisoning, sweating, blinking hard to stay awake, hallucinations, hazy, unsteady

Wang Kai Xuan:

6:34 - 17:50 - mercury poisoning, blinking hard to stay awake, hazy, unsteady, being held up

15:

TW: MULTIPLE DEATHS OF MA DA DAN'S UNDERLINGS/BROTHERS

Wang Kai Xuan:

29:44 - end of episode - thrown in the air, lands on his arm, screaming, wounds all over, bloody

16:

Hu Ba Yi:

beginning of episode - fighting a spider, struggling, thrown off, dragged, explosion, held up, in pain, exhausted, coughing, speaking very breathily, unsteady, wounds all over

Wang Kai Xuan:

continued from previous episode - wounds all over body, bloody, exhausted, holding up friend

17:

Hu Ba Yi:

14:03 - 29:06 - falls into the pit, falls again, struggling to hang onto the wall, climbing with no clear hand holds, exhausted

18:

TW: DEATH

Li Chun Lai:

beginning of episode - death

Review of drama:

Good action scenes and good whump. No aftercare for those who were looking for it. Very realistic whump and clear exhaustion is seen in the behavior of the characters in the later episodes when they have been going through the tomb for hours. I like the character development for Ma Da Dan, who also got the ending he deserved, after all the trials of the tomb. Luckily, I was able to post this exactly one year after the previous one. I apologize to anyone who was waiting for it, though seeing the amount of interaction on the previous one, not many people were. I will start working on the third season soon, for those looking for it. If I missed anything, please feel free to let me know and any requests for whump lists are welcome. Thanks for sticking through the show and my whump list. Stay tuned for the next ones!

[haaaaaaaaaaaave-you-met-ted]

Shangguan Longling by Ruan Jia

[ghw-archive]

50s overwire longling bra

[dykekingofhell]

just saw longl legs, and holy shit. close enough, welcome back will graham!

[wordieworld-woo]

Memories in Rain

Dean x OC Warnings: Show accurate violence, angst no comfort, Meg Masters, potential spoilers Season 7. summary: Gia's a hunter looking for information on why all the people most important to her have forgotten who she is, and turns to Meg for help in tracking down leads. When they run into her reason for fighting so hard to be remembered.

Word count: 1.6k part 1?

Its scream echoed across the walls of the bunker, as she injected another douse of holy water into its system. The Demons voice was hoarse from outbursts of anguish and pain. Yet it refused to give up its master. “I’m gonna ask one last time,” Gia paused, tossing the angel blade from one hand to the next. “I expect a location this time, where’s Crowley,” she asked. Her voice was cold and demanding, it was empty and lacked any form of her humanity. She was the predator, and this demon her prey, god save it. “I don’t know,” it wailed, like a lost puppy. A puppet without a master. “I don't believe you,” She sang, and stepped into the devil’s trap, she placed her blade at the base of his throat and pressed it lightly into its skin. “You’re a knight of hell, you have to know something. Otherwise, what's the point of you,” With every moment that passed her patience was wearing thin, her anger rising and threatening to get the better of her with every second that passed. She moved the blade, from pushing against its throat to resting on its chin. Making it look directly into her eyes as she put more weight behind it. She had hoped that the threat of death would loosen the Demons tongue. “He doesn’t trust me,” It squealed. A desperate attempt to save its life. She sighed, “If that's the case, then you're useless to me aren't you.” She said condescendingly. She plunged the blade through its jaw, and into its skull killing both the Demon and the Human buried deep within. Another Demon to add to the countless others she had killed in the last eight months. 

Footsteps descended into the bunker, as she covered the demon with tarp, Meg was back. Meg carried a brown paper bag full of supplies, and noticed the Demon dead on the floor as she unpacked. “Looks like you had fun,” she said, kicking the empty vessle. “Let me guess, another dead end, what are you going to do next Gia,” Gia ignored her, much like she often did in these situations. Though Meg had long since proved she was useful, sometimes Gia was tempted to leave her behind. Though, then she’d be on her own. Hunting with a demon was beter than that. Gia took the wiskey Meg had brought and enjoyed a swig before updating Meg. “It didnt know anything,” She growled, glareing at a corner of the room. Gia was becoming irritated with the lack of progress they were making, how the King of Hell seemed to always be a step ahead. “You’re sure,” Meg asked, taking the bottle for herself and following Gia’s actions, “You hunters usally stab first, ask questions later,” 

“You need my help or what,” Gia sneered, questioning why she was working with this demon in the first place. Though the answer to that question was always the same. There wasn’t anyone else. Meg raised her hands in submission, and handed Gia the wiskey again. Gia drank greedilly, enjoying the burn of her throat and the buzz it sent through her system. She offered the bottle again to Meg. Gia took her leave to the furthest corrner of the basement, where she had placed her sleeping bag. Her little corner of solitude was sparse of anything personal except one photo. A photo she had kept hidden from Meg since they had begun working together. In the Photo Gia stood with four men, a small family she had found while hunting, which had recently been stripped away from her. She pulled it out like a ritual and looked longling at the worn photo.  In the photo Gia was sitting, piggybacked on the tallest of the group smiling lovingly at his older brother, and his best friend. Though now that didn’t matter as the two that remained no longer remembered her, and the other had made them all forget. As she did every night, Gia allowed herself five minutes to mourn that family, to cry. She crawled into the bag. Hands over her face she silently sobbed until the darkness of sleep came to claim her. 

*****

The day came too quickly as always, and the two girls had moved on from the bunker in Nebraska and began the drive to a small town on the outskirts of Colorado. “Why am I driving this way again,” Gia asked, making the needed turn. Meg sat beside her in the front seat, reading her the directions from a map. “There's a guy attracting a lot of demon attention,” Meg answered blatantly, Gia raised an eyebrow waiting for the demon beside her to continue. “A healer of sorts, Crowley must want him badly, I thought we should get there first,” 

“Good idea,” A few hours passed in silence between them as they made good time across states. Meg kept reading directions, though at this point Gia was paying more attention to the signs on the road. At the sixty miles mark Meg broke the silence. “You could aways talk to them,'' she suggested. “Huh,” Gia responded, having been half listening. “You could alway talk to them, that family you say can’t remember you. Gia sighed, she wished it had been that easy. When everything went to shit after purgatory was oppened, she had tried just that. Tried talking to them, but it hadn’t worked, eventually she stopped trying. Although that too had been a mistake. In her absence the man who was like a father to her had been killed, Bobby Singer was dead, and the worst part was he had no memories of Gia when it happened. She shouldn’t have been surprised that Meg brought this conversation up again, despite Gia having not told her who this family were. Almost every time they moved Meg would mention it. “What would be the point, they don’t remember me. They have no idea who I am and no reason to miss me,” Gia ignored the forced pitying look Meg gave her and remained focused on the road. “Just drop it, we’re working.” 

“Sure thing Boss!” Meg sassed, returning her attention to the map and resting her feet against the dash. Gia would have chastised her, had it not been for the gas light having turned on.

As Gia filled the tank Meg disappeared inside. While the tank filled Gia rested against the car carefully watching the meter. She spared a glance around her as she removed the pump and noticed two things. One, the strange stares she was getting from two maintenance workers and two, the all too familiar and recognisble black 1967 impala. The worker's eyes turned black and Gia felw into action. Distracted by her dexterity Gia was able to stab one with her angel blade and was stuck wrestling the other. Being able to pin him against her car she killed him too and ran into the store to aid Meg. Meg was fighting, holding her own although whoever was with her wasnt doing as good. Gia used the fact that this demon was distracted to her advantage and went straight for the kill. Adding another demon to the growing tally as Meg finished up, it was when she really saw who she’d saved that she began to back up, as though headed for the exit. Dean Winchester. It should have registered, she’d seen Baby patiently waiting for her Winchester to return outside. Seeing him shocked her, the same way an unexpected plunge into freezing water would. She should have thought, prepared, anything to prevent her from experinceing this. Anything that would have prevented her from standing there unknowingly not listening to a word he had said.  A stern glare from him brought her back into reality, “Where did you get the blades,” Dean asked, staring at the Demon and Hunter duo suspiciously. Meanwhile she struggled to breath, the photo was a few years old by now but he still looked the same. He still looked like the charismatic guy that convinced her to help search for his father almost a decade ago. “I asked you a question,” Dean said. She saw the venom in his gaze directed at her and Meg. Gia rolled her eyes. He was the same old Winchester alright, still trying to command her, though this time she was an untrustworthy stranger. One who was allied with a Demon no less. Out of pure reflex she responded “Sorry Winchester, I dont remember signing my name as your little bitch,” she scowled, crossing her arms. “We don’t have to tell you anything.” Gia was furious, not really with Dean but the situation as a whole. In that moment he was the best option to pin his anger onto. For he had forgotten her. Despite everything, the fact that who and what she was to him could be so easily stripped left betrayed. “Why don’t you ask the dead angel?” Meg finally retorted. 

“What,” Gia asked, worried about what Meg had done. “Castiels’ alive,” She said “So Dean, Dean, Dean you’ve got some explaining to do.” Dean quickly covered his tracks, tuning the open sign to, closed and pulling the blind down. Gia stood back, allowing Meg to lead the conversation. Too taken back from what had been revealed. It was all too difficult and painful to deal with. Especially given the history that Dean had forgotten between them. “He doesn’t remember,” Dean announced, “You're going to keep your mouth shut Meg” Gia’s attention peaked at this. She looked to Meg for confirmation about Castiel, That her own eyes werent playing some cruel trick and giving her false hope.

“What do you mean he doesn’t remember,” Gia said, butting into the conversation. She needed Dean to be mistaken, needed Castiel to be himself and ready to help when asked. She needed him, like she needed the air to breathe, having one more person forget her was going to tear her apart. Gia needed at least one friend from her past to remember her name...

[j-ferzino]

Zumvalor Erkinse, born to vampire mother and a human father.

Berolil Erkinse was travelling towards Silreach, from Aethes. For Silreach was full of opportunities to build something for oneself, the city of Silreach had to be rebuild but the trust in the kingdom and city had been heavily damaged. Aethes was some ways away from silreach and the journey was a perilous one. Berolil had been told not to travel in the night, he was to stay in the safety of the daylight, or hire someone to travel with him. Stubbornly he ignored all the warnings, he was but a infant when the kingdom was overrun by the undead and the unholy. Never having experienced any of the dangers he was a bit bold. He took the risk of travelling at night and by himself.

Walking off the path and at night he dramatically raised the dangers he was in. Sure he could handle a simple weapon but fighting was not in his artillery. The rustling end laughter echoed through the forest suddenly resonated as he stood in a small clearing with the crescent moon shining down on him, he stopped dead in his tracks. He drew his dagger from his belt and raised his torched to shed light on his surrounding. He shouted. "Who is there?!?" His voice boomed in the darkness, it was at that moment he noticed that the forest had gone quiet, the nightlife had fallen silent. As he heard branches shaking from the tree's, he twisted in place looking for where the voice came from."So far from the protective walls of the towns and villages" a female voice echoed through the trees. A blurred visage of a large woman with long black hair, chocolate skin, broad shoulders in his peripheral. Everytime as he looked where the woman stood all he saw was a empty space. "Who ever you are i have a blade, and i am not afraid to use it." Next thing he knew he was lifted off his feet, a hand to his throat. The air stopped flowing through his lungs, he struggled and thrashed trying to get free, he dropped the torch. But nothing seemed to work, he clutched the dagger that is in his hand, pulled it back and jammed it into the womans shoulder. The woman did not flinch as the blade sank into her flesh. Shocked and stunned Berolil tried both hands to get free, but nothing worked. The woman raised her hand and struck Berolil, causing him to lose consciousness.

When Berolil awoke he was in a cage of some sort, he sat in this cage in a dark room occupied by more cages, two days went by before he was visited. It was the same woman who had knocked him by

unconscious. The woman explained that she had taken him as her property and he was hers now. He tried to fight or argue back but she simply physically overpowered him or if he gazed at her to longl he would become enthralled by her, time and time again. Berolil soon discovered what she truly was, a creature of the night, a creature his parents had warned him for. This creature over time fed Berolil, but it would also feed on Berolil. At first Berolil tried to fight her off but to no avail. Over time others joined Berolil in this room of cages but they never stayed long, either dragged away or killed on the spot. But not Berolil, he was kept alive. He became her personal slave, concubine, drink fountain and punching bag.

A weeks went by before she came by again, enraged she dragged Berolil out of his cage and beat his weakened state to a bloody pulp. She screamed and cursing at him. Confused he asked what he had done wrong, she showed him her belly that had slightly grown. She commanded him that from now on he would take care of her needs. Her thralls and lower creatures we ordered not to harm berolil.

Months went by, eventually they delivered the child, she was not happy with it but did not want it killed, she reluctantly released Berolil back into the world. He was blind folded brought far away and send on his way. Berolil walked for days before being found by a group of people. The people helped, Berolil to safety after hearing his story. The location was far to the north, exhausted safe and hungry, when arriving. Berolil discovered he was brought to the scarlet sanctuary, guild of hunters that resides north of Silreach at the base of Gravelcroft Slopes. After being fed and taken care off. Berolil tells his story and tells them about the child. The hunter almost immediately move to kill the child but berolil protects the child with his life. Proclaiming that the child is his son, and he would die before he would let anyone hurt his defenseless child. The guild, was uneasy and had to converse, the meeting took some time but they came to a agreement to not kill the child, IF Berolil would stay and be trained so they can keep a eye on the both of them. He agreed.

Years went by, Berolil was trained he became a full fledged memver of the guild. Eventually he was send on missions and the child grew up into a healthy young man named Zumvalor, Berolil early discovered that his son needed to feed on blood like his mother, he has kept it a secret up until now and made sure that his son never fed in front of anyone. Zumvalor didn't understand at first, but over time he understood that he was different once his father explained his history. Zumalvalor wanted to join the guild, at first his father and the members said no. But Zumvalor would go behind his fathers back with his best friend, Naral Khuw and observe the training and replicate what they would do. The two quickly took to the hemocraft practice. When Berolil discovered their exploits and dabbling into the practices, his father at first forbade him from continuing but this did not stop Zumvalor and Naral from trying to become one of the guild. While practising with his friend in secrecy, Zumvalor lost control of his abilities and hunger, this caused him to attack Naral and nearly kill her. The guild sprung into action and nearly killed Zumvalor. His father finally understood that for Zumvalor to have more understanding of what he is, he needed to be guided and trained. And so the Lofted Guide brought Zumvalor forward and decided to take Zumvalor and his friend under his wing, that way he could have a close eye on the two. The two rose in rank and skill, until they were decent enough. The two graduated and were send on their first mission.

Where their journeys will send them is for now unknow but for this first mission they are send to Silreach where they will be told what their quest entails