#nosferatu of the east

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[thehollowprince]

I was cleaning out my desk the other day and came across some of my old character sheets for VAMPIRE: THE MASQUERADE and it took me back to my high school days when my friends and I came up with all of these ideas for a story that we never got to play.

So, in memory of my forgotten childhood...

Because Tumblr is weird and only gives you twelve options for these polls, the last three choices are Other. So, if you happen upon this poll and say, "Hey, why isn't (clan name) here?" That's why. So pick the Other option that works for you and leave a comment as to which one you picked (Caitiff, Thin-Blood, Salubri, etc.)

We also have the Kindred of the East (Kuei-Jin) and the African vampires, the Laibon, the latter of which has a number of Legacies to choose from.

I'd like to see the World of Darkness games get the same treatment that Dungeons & Dragons has gotten over the last decade.

[the-art-block]

Seeing your latest art of the nossies in the group new years picture reminded me of Wolf Mother (and her childe) as characters and now I'm DEEPLY interested in them as people and characters! I love their designs, just how much the curse affected them and am interested in how they fit into the Moonrise Nation story. (not that you have to reveal anything, of course!) Just admiring.

You're too sweet! YOU'RE TOO SWEET 🥺

These two have a lot of lore behind them (which I'm sure folks don't mind) so for the sake of brevity I'll try to keep it simple!

The Kindred population in the pre-colonial states was never that big, and it was kept in check by Kindred themselves - because the more of them that existed, the less food there'd be for the whole. These old laws regarding Kindred creation and conduct state that a Sire is responsible for their Childe for their whole unlife, and forbade any Kindred from having more than one living Childe at a time. Wolf Mother, original name lost to time, is a seven century old Nosferatu that was Embraced in the St. Lawrence River Valley for the crime of sabotaging the hunting grounds of another tribe in the locality.

Wolf Son, going by the name Jack Skinner modern-day, was Embraced 600 years ago by Wolf Mother for the crime of banditry. Probably like most Embraces, the relationship between them started out strained and unfriendly. Getting Embraced in the old tribe days was definitely a form of capital punishment and not something anyone really wanted. This of course is doubly true for an Embrace via Nosferatu, and the man that became Wolf Son took a long time to settle into his fate as a hideous living omen. When he did manage to overcome his grief and horror, he became a proper student to Wolf Mother and served alongside her in the assigned role of the Promiskeepers (The colloquial name for the Nos at the time) - which was to safeguard and dispense knowledge from both Kindred and Kine of generations gone. Things like: what to do when the seasons are uncharacteristically unfavorable, how to respond when a certain disease starts spreading, what to do with land that refuses to yield resources, etc. (Nos like Grandma Oginn also used to provide matchmaking services to her local tribes ;D) Additionally, in the old Kindred society, the Promisekeepers were tasked with keeping track of debts and contracts made between Kindred. The Nos of pre-colonial North America (at least on the East Coast) were basically your archivists and judges.

As the modern Moonrise Nation is attempting to reclaim some of the old traditions, both for Kindred and their human relations, Nosferatu who come into the faction are expected to take up this mantle of advisors and story keepers, to learn and preserve history, and be there to aid humans and other vamps alike when they're not sure what to do about a problem. Wolf Mother herself was a bit of an isolated Kindred back in her day, she roamed a huge tract of land and only encountered other undead and humans rarely. Still, she was widely known to be a neutral or friendly presence, and her child inherited the same nomadic lifestyle.

The pair would be separated when the first waves of Sabbat Kindred arrived on the continent on the crossings from Europe. They thought each other dead until very recently.

Wolf Son met with immigrant Camarilla Kindred in the 1700s and would later travel to Europe, where he would be installed as Sheriff over a Midlands Domain for several decades. Modern-day, he has come home to America, and is now serving as an Archon.

Wolf Mother spent most of the last few centuries in torpor near Lake Erie, and in the few years she's been awake again she's been singing into the night in hopes her long-lost Childe might still be around... Poor thing...

You can imagine the eventual reunion between them is gonna be super emotional. Not least of all because the Moonrise Nation is explicitly not joining the Camarilla, and seek to make themselves an independent faction.

I'm sure it's fine 🙃

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A List of Works Influencing and Referenced by IWTV Season 1

Works Directly Referenced

Marriage in a Free Society by Edward Carpenter

A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Cheri by Collete

A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

La Nausee by Jean-Paul Sartre (credit to @demonicdomarmand )

Complete Poetry of Emily Dickinson edited by Thomas H. Johnson*

Blue Book by Tom Anderson

The Book of Abramelin the Mage

The Savage Garden by Mark Mills credit to @speckled-jim

Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could by Adam Schiff credit to @spreckled-jim

America and Dissent: Why America Suffers When Economics and Politics Collide by Alan S. Blinder credit to @speckled-jim

Dairy Queen Days by Robert Inman credit to @speckled-jim

Plan B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble by Lester R. Brown credit to @speckled-jim

Attila: the Judgement by William Napier credit to @speckled-jim

In A Heartbeat by Rosalind Noonan credit to @spreckled-jim

The Lost Recipe for Happiness by Barbara O'Neal credit to @speckled-jim

Toward a Christian Theology of Religious Pluralism" by Jacques Dupuis credit to @speckled-jim

Strawberry Hill: Horace Walpole's Gothic Castle by Anna Chalcraft & Judith Viscardi credit to @speckled-jim

Sailing to Byzantium by Yeats

The Circus Animal's Desertion by Yeats

The Second Coming by Yeats

Don Pasquale by Gaetano Donizetti with libretto by Giovanni Ruffini

Iolanta by Pyotr Tchaikovsky with libretto by Modest Tchaikovsky

Pelleas et Melisande by Claude Debussy

Epigraphes Antiques by Claude Debussy

Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)

Nosferatu (1922)

The Graduate (1967)

Marie Antoinette (1938)

On the Origin of the Species by Charles Darwin

De Masticatione Mortuorum in Tumulis by Michael Ranft (1728)

Emily Post’s Etiquette

Bach’s Minuet in G Major (arranged as vampire minuet in G major)

Artworks referenced (much credit in this section to @iwtvfanevents and to @nicodelenfent )

Fall of The Rebel Angels by Peter Bruegel The Elder (1562)

The Storm on the Sea of Galilee by Rembrandt (1633)

Three Peaches on a Stone Plinth by Adriaen Coorte (1705)

Strawberries and Cream Raphaelle Peale, (1816) credit to @diasdelfeugo

Red Mullet and Eel by Edouard Manet (1864)

Starry Night by Edvard Munch (1893)

Self Portrait by Edvard Munch (1881)

Captain Percy Williams on a Favorite Irish Hunter by Samuel Sidney (1881)

Autumn at Arkville by Alexander H. Wyant 

Cumulus Clouds, East River by Robert Henri 

Mildred-O Hat by Robert Henri (Undated)

Ship in the Night James Gale Tyler (1870)

Bouquet in a Theater Box by Renoir (1871)

Berthe Morisot with a Fan by Édouard Manet (1872)

La Vierge D’aurore by Odilon Redon (1890) credit to @vampirepoem on twt

Still Life with Blue Vase and Mushrooms by Otto Sholderer (1891)

After the Bath: Woman Drying her Hair by Edgar Degas (1898)

Bust of a Woman with Her Left Hand on Her

Chin by Edgar Degas (1898) credit to @terrifique

Backstage at the Opera by Jean Beraud (1889)

Roman Bacchanal by Vasily Alexandrovich Kotarbiński (1898)

Dancers by Edgar Degas (1899)

Calling the Hounds Out of Cover by Haywood Hardy (1906)

Dolls by Witold Wojtkiewicz (1906) credit to @gyzeppelis on twt

Forty-two Kids by George Bellows (1907)

The Artist's Sister Melanie by Egon Schiele (1908)

Paddy Flannigan by George Bellows (1908)

Stag at Sharkey’s by George Bellows (1909)

The Lone Tenement by George Bellows (1909)

Ode to Flower After Anacreon by Auguste Renoir (1909) credit to @iwtvasart on twt

New York by George Bellows (1911)

Young Man kneeling before God the Father

Egon Schiele (1909)

Kneeling Girl with Spanish Skirt by Egon Schiele (1911)

Portrait of Erich Lederer by Egon Schiele (1912)

Krumau on the Molde by Egon Schiele (1912)

Weeping Nude by Edvard Munch (1913)

The Cliff Dwellers by George Bellows (1913)

Church in Stein on the Danube by Egon Schiele (1913)

Self Portrait in a Jerkin by Egon Schiele (1914)

The Kitten's Art Lesson by Henriette Ronner Knip credit to @terrifique

Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion by Francis Bacon (1944)

New York by Vivian Maier (1953)

Self Portrait by Vivian Maier (Undated)

Self Portrait by Vivian Maier (1954)

Slave Auction by Jean-Michelle Basquiat (1982)

(Untitled) photo of St. Paul Loading Docks by Bradley Olson (2015)

Transformation by Ron Bechet (2021)

(Untitled) sculpture in the shape of vines by Sadie Sheldon

(Untitled) Ceramic Totems by Julie Silvers (Undated)

Mother Daughter by Rahmon Oluganna

Twins I by Raymon Oluganna

@iwtvfanevents made a post of unidentified works here.

Works Cited by the Writer’s Room as Influences

Bourbon Street: A History by Richard Campanella (as it hardly mentions Storyville I think interested parties would be better served by additional titles if they want a complete history of New Orleans)

Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino (This was also adapted into an award winning opera)

poetry by Charles Simic (possibly A Wedding in Hell?)

poetry by Mark Strand (possibly Dark Harbour?)

Works IWTV may be in conversation with (This is the most open to criticism and additions)

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, uncensored (There are two very different versions of this which exist today, as Harvard Press republished the unedited original with permission from the Wilde family.)

Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner

Warsan Shire for Beyoncé’s Lemonade

Faust: A Tragedy by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

La Morte Amoreuse by Theophile Gautier

Carmilla by Sheridan LeFanu

Maurice by E.M. Forster

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (credit to @johnlockdynamic )

1984 by George Orwell (credit to @savage-garden-nights for picking this up)

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner

Gone With the Wind film (1939)

Hannibal (2013)

Beauty and the Beast by Gabrielle Suzanne de Villenueve

Music used in Season 1 collected by @greedandenby here

*if collected or in translation most of the best editions today would not have been available to the characters pre-1940. It’s possible Louis is meant to have read them in their original French in some cases, but it would provide for a different experience. Lydia Davis’ Madame Bovary, for example, attempts to replicate this.

** I've tagged and linked relevant excerpts under quote series as I've been working my way through the list.

Season 2 here

Season 3 here

[gorbalsvampire]

I don't know about Riley! Tell me about Riley? Tell me 12 and 28 about Riley, please?

And 18 for Sorcha and Penny.

And, if I can have just one more, 45 for Alistair, please?

I imagine you vibrating in place as you ask these, just so you know.

Riley has... secrets, and at least one player from their game reads this, so I'm going to have to be a little evasive. I'm experimenting with closed information. It's... challenging. This is why I don't talk about Riley as much!

Dossier: Riley Halahan 12. What happened that lead up to their Embrace?

Oh, gosh. Well. That's a loaded question. The bit Riley admits to is being sent down from Trinity College Dublin, due to some impropriety involving gentlemen of the day, ladies of the night, and generally causing the faculty to regret admitting Catholics to their noble institution. The bit Riley does not admit to... comes before their admission, and has something to do with a suicide, a scandal, and why Riley didn't return home after their expulsion.

In any case, the actual Embrace is almost an afterthought: Riley describes it as a deal with a devil who didn't care to collect.

28. Where do they live now as a Kindred?

This is actually subject to change, hee hee. Currently, Riley lives in a grotty rented room in Lambeth, attends their club on the never-never, and has their tailoring done on their coteriemate's husband's credit. It's all part of an elaborate scheme: or maybe Riley just wants to mess with him.

I say currently because sooner or later, Madame Carcass - the Nosferatu crime boss of Whitechapel, and open Bahari, who seems to have taken a shine to Riley's "agent of chaos" tendencies - will find out that Riley lives like this, and I'm sure at that point, things will be... different. A move to the East End may be on the cards.

Query: Thinbloods?

Sorcha is generally pro - after all, she is one. Her upbringing (and grooming) prepared her for being a full fat Hecata, and she has a bit of a complex about being of thin blood but also not being of no blood, if that makes sense? She is a big believer in the solidarity-and-support preached by her soul sisters Hazel and Beetlejuice - Duskborn got Duskborn 'cause no-one else has - but she will challenge "reject your bloodline" thinking - screw that, if you've got power, take it, then learn alchemy as well. You have a birthright, and coming out thinblooded shouldn't shut you out of it. You, definitely. She's not projecting at all. Get tae fock.

Penny. Penelope. Pen-Pen. Hm. Her Blood is thick enough that they feel a little like a snack pack to her, but she doesn't believe in exterminating them. It's an odd, cold act of pragmatic compassion on her part. They are the harbingers of Gehenna, but it might not be their fault, and killing them all may turn out to be a very bad idea in the long run. Something in her also responds to the poetry of sun and shadow, incendiary light and smothering darkness, and perhaps I'm considering a pack of sunfuckers as being among her associates for... future purposes.

45. What are Alistair's Disciplines?

Alistair has displayed basic familiarity with Oblivion (he knows where the bodies are buried, i.e. they aren't), a more sophisticated grasp of Auspex (he has very strong hunches, and reliably predicts the deaths of others), and a favour for Fortitude (among other things, bottled "dad blood" is a part of Sorcha's bug-out bag, and helped her develop her signature formula, Overclock).

He also has vestigial Obfuscate (he can move absolutely silently, to the point where it feels like he's coming out of the goddamn walls) and may or may not have Dominate. It's unclear whether "you've nae seen me, a'right?" is a memory alteration, or a threat, but it gets results either way. Likewise, one look into his eyes and numerous Kindred do what they're told, but that might be 'cause Sorcha's a cheesebrain and everyone else is scared of him.

[princess-suzanne]

❤️ MOVIE TAGS ❤️  

A

🤍 a bear named winnie (2004) 🤍 a dangerous method (2011) 🤍 a fistful of dollars (1964) 🤍 a most violent year (2014) 🤍 a room with a view (1985) 🤍 a royal affair (2012) 🤍 a streetcar named desire (1951) 🤍 a woman is a woman (1961) 🤍 an education (2009) 🤍 agora (2009) 🤍 all about eve (1950) 🤍 amadeus (1984) 🤍 and god created woman (1956) 🤍 angel (2007) 🤍 anna karenina (1948) 🤍 armageddon time (2022) 🤍 the artist (2011) 🤍 ashes and diamonds (1958) 🤍 atonement (2007)

B

🤍 the banshees of inisherin (2022) 🤍 barefoot in the park (1967) 🤍 the beguiled (2017) 🤍 belle (2013) 🤍 the big sleep (1946) 🤍 the bikeriders (2023) 🤍 the birds (1963) 🤍 bonnie and clyde (1967) 🤍 bram stoker’s dracula (1992) 🤍 breakfast at tiffany’s (1961) 🤍 brokeback mountain (2005) 🤍 brooklyn (2015) 🤍 bugsy (1991) 🤍 butch cassidy and the sundance kid (1969)

C

🤍 cabaret (1972) 🤍 captain america: the first avenger (2011) 🤍 carnival of souls (1962) 🤍 carol (2015) 🤍 casablanca (1942) 🤍 casino (1995) 🤍 cat on a hot tin roof (1958) 🤍 chicago (2002) 🤍 cléo de 5 à 7 (1962) 🤍 cleopatra (1963) 🤍 cria cuervos (1976) 🤍 crimson peak (2015)

D

🤍 daisies (1966) 🤍 dangerous liaisons (1988) 🤍 the danish girl (2015) 🤍 dead poets society (1989) 🤍 the debt (2010) 🤍 dirty dancing (1987) 🤍 don’t bother to knock (1952) 🤍 don’t worry darling (2022) 🤍 dracula (1931) 🤍 the duchess (2008) 🤍 dunkirk (2017)

E

🤍 east of eden (1955) 🤍 the edge of love (2008) 🤍 eileen (2023) 🤍 elizabeth (1998) 🤍 elizabeth: the golden age (2007) 🤍 elvis (2022) 🤍 emma (2020) 🤍 the end of the affair (1999) 🤍 the english patient (1996) 🤍 enola holmes (2020) 🤍 the eyes of tammy faye (2021)

F

🤍 fanny and alexander (1982) 🤍 the favourite (2018) 🤍 for a few dollars more (1965) 🤍 funny girl (1968)

G

🤍 gentlemen prefer blondes (1953) 🤍 giant (1956) 🤍 gilda (1946) 🤍 the girl on a motorcycle (1968) 🤍 gladiator (2000) 🤍 the godfather (1972) 🤍 the godfather: part ii (1974) 🤍 gone with the wind (1939) 🤍 the good, the bad and the ugly (1966) 🤍 goodfellas (1990) 🤍 the graduate (1967) �� the grand budapest hotel (2014) 🤍 grand hotel (1932) 🤍 grease (1978) 🤍 the great gatsby (1974) 🤍 the great gatsby (2013) 🤍 guess who’s coming to dinner (1967)

H

🤍 the help (2011) 🤍 high noon (1952) 🤍 hiroshima mon amour (1959) 🤍 how to marry a millionaire (1953) 🤍 how to steal a million (1966)

I

🤍 ida (2013) 🤍 il gattopardo (1963) 🤍 the immigrant (2013) 🤍 in secret (2013) 🤍 inglorious basterds (2009) 🤍 it happened one night (1934)

J

🤍 jane eyre (2011)

K

🤍 the king (2019) 🤍 knife in the water (1962)

L

🤍 la dolce vita (1960) 🤍 la notte (1961) 🤍 la strada (1954) 🤍 ladies in lavender (2004) 🤍 lady chatterley’s lover (2015) 🤍 lady macbeth (2016) 🤍 the lady from shanghai (1947) 🤍 the last duel (2021) 🤍 legend (2015) 🤍 les misérables (2012) 🤍 the light between oceans (2016) 🤍 little women (2019) 🤍 the lover (1922) 🤍 the love witch (2016) 🤍 l’avventura (1960) 🤍 l’eclisse (1962)

M

🤍 macbeth (2015) 🤍 malèna (2000) 🤍 man with a movie camera (1929) 🤍 marie antoinette (2006) 🤍 mary, queen of scots (2018) 🤍 the master (2012) 🤍 meshes of the afternoon (1943) 🤍 miller’s crossing (1991) 🤍 the mirror (1975) 🤍 the misfits (1961) 🤍 moulin rouge! (2001) 🤍 the mummy (1999) 🤍 my fair lady (1964)

N

🤍 ninotchka (1939) 🤍 north by northwest (1959) 🤍 the northman (2022) 🤍 nosferatu the vampyre (1979)

O

🤍 once upon a time in america (1984) 🤍 once upon a time... in hollywood (2019) 🤍 once upon a time in the west (1968) 🤍 operation finale (2018) 🤍 the other boleyn girl (2008) 🤍 outlaw king (2018)

P

🤍 the pale blue eye (2022) 🤍 persona (1966) 🤍 phantom thread (2017) 🤍 the pianist (2002) 🤍 picnic at hanging rock (1975) 🤍 pride & prejudice (2005) 🤍 the prince and the showgirl (1957) 🤍 priscilla (2023) 🤍 the promise (2016) 🤍 psycho (1960) 🤍 the public enemy (1931) 🤍 purple noon (1960)

R

🤍 raging bull (1980) 🤍 rebel without a cause (1955) 🤍 rear window (1954) 🤍 repulsion (1965) 🤍 river of no return (1954) 🤍 the roaring twenties (1939) 🤍 rocco and his brothers (1960) 🤍 roman holiday (1953) 🤍 rosemary’s baby (1968) 🤍 rush (2013)

S

🤍 scarface (1932) 🤍 scarface (1983) 🤍 sense and sensibility (1995) 🤍 the seven year itch (1955) 🤍 the seventh seal (1957) 🤍 singin’ in the rain (1952) 🤍 sissi (1955) [trilogy] 🤍 slow west (2015) 🤍 some like it hot (1959) 🤍 the sound of music (1965) 🤍 splendor in the grass (1961) 🤍 the sting (1973) 🤍 stoker (2013) 🤍 summerland (2020) 🤍 sunset boulevard (1950) 🤍 sweet bird of youth (1962) 🤍 the swimming pool (1969)

T

🤍 their finest (2016) 🤍 the third man (1949) 🤍 this property is condemned (1966) 🤍 titanic (1997) 🤍 to catch a thief (1955) 🤍 to kill a mockingbird (1962) 🤍 tokyo story (1953) 🤍 the two faces of january (2014)

V

🤍 vertigo (1958) 🤍 vita & virginia (2018)

W

🤍 walk the line (2005) 🤍 waterloo bridge (1940) 🤍 west side story (1961) 🤍 white noise (2022) 🤍 who’s afraid of virginia woolf? (1966) 🤍 the wild one (1953) 🤍 wild strawberries (1957) 🤍 woman walks ahead (2017) 🤍 the wonder (2022) 🤍 wuthering heights (1992)

Z

🤍 the zookeeper’s wife (2017)

[cabezadeperro]

WAIT WHEN U SAID A MOVIE AND A SHIP. DID U MEAN A SHIP U ALREADY KNOW. bcos i thought. damn. writing ships for movies u haven’t seen, i respect it, i was thinking, if anyone can pull it off its u. i apologise. uuuuuuuh nosferatu (1922) and mayhaps qirasoka. or whatever ship u feeling. i could see maul as a much more talkative orlok.

hiiiiii!!!

this is more dracula (the novel) than nosferatu 😔 i apologise 😔

canon divergence, ~900w. pre relationship, G.

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The wind rips her hood off her head, and Ahsoka scowls, turns to squint in the direction of the village. The sun’s setting between the mountains to her left, the peaks painted bright red. The small town is a constellation of golden lights in the distance: she can see her ship a bit to the east, the pale paint of the fuselage almost bright against the dark vegetation. 

Her feet are freezing inside her boots, and her hands are numb. The hilts of her ‘sabers hit her hips every time as she makes her way up the cliff, so cold she can almost feel it through three layers of clothing. They are a reassuring weight, the kyber singing its familiar song. Ahsoka pulls up her hood once again and keeps walking.

There is something off about it all. About the town, about the mountains and forests that surround it, and about the ancient stone fortress that looms nestled in the mountains in front of her. Ahsoka’s not afraid, but she’s on edge in a way that subverts what she expected from herself. It’s her first mission as Knight Tano; it is also the first time she travels so far away from the Core on her own. She knows very well that Master Obi-Wan is barely a comm call away: she can feel him on the other end of their bond, like warm light at the end of the tunnel.

She closes her eyes and reaches out as she walks, trusting her senses and her sense of the Force to keep her on the right path. She can’t quite get a read on the fortress or its inhabitants, but she can feel the attention of every living thing in the valley. Ahsoka shivers and opens her eyes.

Up and up and up: the doors seem even bigger than they looked from the distance. They’re open, barely a crack. Ahsoka licks her lips and, after a second of hesitation, makes her way inside, her boots cracking the frozen, muddy puddles in the grooves they left on the path. There is a grey courtyard just beyond, empty and echoing, and then a few stone steps and the gates to the centre of the manor. 

There’s someone there: a small figure wearing all white. Ahsoka frowns but doesn’t stop—she couldn’t sense her from the town or while she was making her way up there. She resettles the strap of her bag over her shoulder and crosses the courtyard, hyperaware of the way the shadows seem to thicken and deepen in the empty doorways. The sun’s finally gone, and she can see her own breath every time she exhales. 

The woman is young and human and pretty in a vaguely doll-like way, with big pale eyes and a head of thick dark hair. She doesn’t seem to feel the cold, her arms bare against the freezing mountain wind, and she smiles at Ahsoka like she’s the best thing she’s seen that day, eyes warm. Ahsoka returns the expression, the back of her neck feeling hot. She must be the person who contacted the Order.

She’s a mirror. Ahsoka reaches out to her, into her—she finds nothing but herself. She breathes in: dust, snow, the evergreen pines that grow around the fortress; wool and woodsmoke, something sweet and rotting.

“Master Tano,” she says. She speaks Basic with a practised Core accent. Ahsoka bows, channels Master Obi-Wan to the best of her ability.”

“I am no master, ma’am,” she says. She smiles. “I am just a Knight.”

Qi’ra tilts her head. It is a quick, graceful motion, very like a bird’s. 

“Of course, Knight Tano. I apologise.” She pauses, looking at the courtyard and the path beyond as if looking for something. Night’s finally fallen. “I believe I sent a speeder?”

Ahsoka nods. “I sent it back,” she replies. She smiles. Her heart is beating hard inside her chest, and she can hear something in the woods just beyond the fortress’s walls—something big and quiet prowls among the trees.

The speeder had been a beast of a thing, old and noisy, piloted by a mute droid that was at least as old as the vehicle. 

As far as Ahsoka knows, it’s still by the village gates. The people there would not let the droid drive it any further in. 

“Oh?” Qi’ra blinks. She looks at the gates one last time, her right hand playing with the pleats of her dress. It’s a heavy, heavily embroidered thing, and it looks ancient. The high neck digs into Qi’ra’s throat when she turns to look at Ahsoka. “These woods are not safe, Knight Tano. Not even for a Jedi.”

Is that a warning, a threat, or a promise? Ahsoka swallows, struggling to keep the mask of polite blandness on her face. 

This is her first mission alone—it is supposed to be an easy one. It is meant to be a chance to stretch out her legs, to get used to travelling alone around the Outer Rim. Find the planet, find the village; contact the count’s agent and examine the artefact. Return to the Coruscant Temple. 

“But I’m sure you must be tired, Knight Tano,” Qi’ra says. She steps away and deeper into the manor, pushing the door out of the way. “Come in.”

Ahsoka follows her in, pulling her cowl down as she does. Warm, dry air; dust and mold. Qi’ra’s rotting flowers scent, cutting through it all, her pale moon-like face shining in the dark. 

The big heavy door swings closed. The Force is very still, very quiet. Ahsoka reaches out, fumbling for the bond in her head and her heart to her master. Qi’ra’s watching her, eyes pale, face paler, and smiles, blunt human teeth primly hidden behind pink lips.

[alpaca-clouds]

The phrase 'really bad vampire video' has me intrigued, though if it's not something you want to get into because of annoyance totally fair.

Ah, darn. Totally forgot to answer my asks. The video I am talking about is this one. It is without a doubt one of the worst videos on the subject I have ever watched, because it is very clear that Somerton did barely any fucking research and had basically a conclusion he started from, rather than developing a conclusion doing research.

Most of all he makes the mistake of saying that vampires are a universal thing (they are not - while there are creatures that feed on humans, vampires as we know them are an East European concept), that vampires mythologically burn in the sun (they don't - while the sun is harmful to some vampires, vampires burning in the sun was not a thing until the movie Nosferatu) or that they cannot cross running water (again, not a thing - I wrote about it a while ago, that the origin of it is them being unable to cross the Danube). There is also tons of mistakes in the way he talks about the original vampire novels and their authors.

It is something I noticed with Somerton in general. That his research is rather lackluster. It also always shows when he talks about Korean and Japanese media and shows a lack of understanding of queer culture within either country.

[seewetter]

Mythic Creatures by Culture & Region

Part 5: East Europe, Northwest Asia

Europeans often think that East Europe and Northwest Asia is simply Slavic: if Poles, Czechs, Russians and many Balkan people are Slavic, surely all the areas of East and Southeast Europe must be Slavic. And if West Asia has Indo-Germanic languages and cultures, surely those must be Slavic too? Well no.

So here is an exhaustive list of Wikipedia's creatures for people who just get lumped in as "Slavic" when they are, in fact, from totally different cultures. While browsing Wikipedia, I also learned that there is a autonomous Buddhist European Republic run by descendants of the Mongol horde in Eastern Europe, something I was utterly unaware of (probably because they are incorporated into Russia, but also because I have some biases to work on).

Albania (not Slavic)

Djall Albanian (technically not Slavic!); Drangue; En_Albanian_Deity; Fatia; I Verbti_Albanian_Deity; Kukudh; Kulshedra; Ljubi; Lugat; Nëna e Vatrës; Ora; Perëndi; Perria; Prende_Albanian_Deity; Shtojzovalle; Shtriga; Shurdh; Stihi; Tur; Turoń; Vitore; Xhindi; Zana; Zojz_Albanian_Deity

Armenian (not Slavic)

Griffon; Hayk; Lake Van Monster; Vishap; Werewolf

Caucasus Region (not Slavic)

Batraz North Caucasian culture may not be Slavic; Germakochi; Ossetian Myth; Tutyr; Vainakh religion Georgia (NOT Slavic); Kopala; Ochokochi; Q'ursha Hungary (NOT Slavic); Busós ; Lidérc; Luwr; Ördög; Sárkány; Turul also Turkic; Vadleány

Romanian (not Slavic) (Land of Vlad Tepes)

Iele; Ileana Cosânzeana; Little Wildrose; Moroi; Muma Pădurii; Muroni; Nosferatu (word) allegedly Romanian; Pricolici; Samca; Sântoaderi; Sânziană; Solomonari; Spiriduș; Strigoi; Swan Maiden; Uriaș; Ursitoare similar to Roma & Slavic Ursitory; Vâlvă; Vântoase; Zână; Zburător; Zmeoaică; Zmeu

Slavic

Having said that, many East European cultures are in fact Slavic. I will have to revise this section at a later date because I am rarely differentiating the Slavic cultures and lumped them all together.

Ala (from Bulgaria, Serbia, Macedonia); Alkonost; Aq Bars (winged snow leopard, heraldry from 800s onwards, also Mongolian); Baba Yaga; Babay; Baloz; Bannik; Bardha; Baš Čelik; Bauk; Bies; Black Arab; Black Panther; Błędnica; Blud; Błudnik; Bobak; Božalość; Božić; Bukavac; Cambion; Căpcăun (Romanian ogre); Chort; Chut; Cikavac; Cornflower Wraith; Čuma; Death; Ded Moroz; Devil Boruta Poland; Dhampir; Djadadjii (Bulgarian vampire hunter); Dobrynyna Nikitich; Domovoi; Drekavac; Drioma; Dvorovoy; Dzedka; Dziwożona; Fext; Fiery serpents; Firebird; German; Gold Duck; Goldenhorn; Ispolin; Karapandža; Karzełek; Kikimora; King Kojata; Kostroma; Krasnoludek; Kukeri Bulgarian; Laddy Midday; Lakanica; Lazavik; Likho; Likhoradka; Lisunki (see Lyeshi); Lyeshi; Mara_Goddess identical name with unrelated(??) death goddess from India Mara_Goddess2; Marțolea; Maruda; Masovian dragon; Mavka; Mermaid of Warsaw; Misizla; Moryana; Nav; Nocnitsa; Ovinnik; Paraskeva Friday; Pavaró; Pereplut; Płanetnik; Polevik ; Poleviki; Poroniec; Psoglav; Psotnik; Pvitrulya; Rarash; Raróg; Rokita; Rozhanitsy, Narecnitsy and Sudzhenitsy; Rübezahl; Rusalka ; Rusalky; Samodiva; Schrat also medieval European; Shatans; Shubin; Simargl; Skrzak; Slavic Fairies of Fate; Slavic Mythic Creatures; Slavic Pseudo-deities; Slavic Water Spirit\; Spor; Stricha (Ukrainian, while Strigoi are Romanian); Strzyga; Stuhać; Swan Maiden; The Nine Peahens and the Golden Apples; Tintilinić; Topielec; Unclean Force; Upiór; Ursitory also in Roma similar to Ursitoare from Romania; Vampire pumpkins and watermelons; Vazily; Ved; Vedmak; Verlioka; Vesna; Vila; Vjesci; Vrykolakas also Greek; Wars and Sawa; Wawel Dragon; Werewolf; Wild Hunt; Wild Man, Wild Woman ; Wild Men, Wild Women; Wurdulac; Zduhać; Zheuzhyk; Zhytsen; Zilant; Zlydzens; Zmaj; Zwodziasz

Russia (the European parts)

Russia; A Hut on Chicken Legs; Al (also in Mongolia, Persia, Afghanistan, Caucasus); Azovka; Brosno dragon; Chernava; Gamayun; "Go I know not whither and fetch I know not what" folktale includes creatures; Indruk; Koshchei; Meduza; Oksoko (3 headed eagle see article's points about scripture for ideas); Polkan; Russian superstitions; Shishiga; Swan Maiden; The Mistress of Copper Mountain; The Sea Tsar and Vasilisa the Wise; Tugarin; Verechelen; Vodyaniye; Zmei (aka Zmei Gorynich)

Kyivan Rus (modern Ukraine)

Sirin

Notify me please if you find any mistakes or would like a disclaimer added if any of the creatures on this list are sacred or should not be used in art by outsiders.

[cynical-tuba]

Last session of Over The Precipice,

Nat and Eli were tasked with a job from the Sabbat (who they are currently trying to infiltrate by order of the Prince) so they get a job, it's a hit. They go to Hornchurch, east London. In their words "pretty sure this is basically Essex" they show up at this house and soon discover there is an Incel hunter.

More below the cut, I have tagged this with trigger warnings just in case

Eli checks out the place in flight form, a Jay, and discovers a very strange wall that was sealed off with plaster and a new coat of paint where a living room entrance would be. He reports back to Nat. Nat, disguised as a Mormon, knocks on the door while Eli follows as a bird, and through a series of terrifyingly bad rolls, Nat manages to be shown inside. Incel Hunter asks Nat if he's part of the Society. Nat plays along, of course he is, why else would he be here? The incel locks the door behind them. Nat keeps failing his rolls, and eventually is shown the first floor (second floor for you American readers) he's shown conspiracy websites. The hunter proudly shows him footage of a girl walking down a hallway entering a room and coming out as a coyote. Nat and Eli recognize her as Eli's Childer Aiden. He has already sent it off to the society. After that he shows Nat a trap door. Nat, triggered by past events somehow manages to keep himself together, and follows the Hunter inside and he locks them in (Eli flies inside just in time)

Which contains a torture chamber for female creatures. Guns, swords, silver, iron, even a set of UV lights are in the room. Various trophies of fallen victims are on display, including a skull of an avion Gangrel, only further upsetting Eli as it reminds him of his (still unalive) crow partner, Kuro.

But it isn't only dead things on display. They see a Garou in a silver cage, her color patterns similar to Aidan's Coyote form. Eli loses it. He flies forth into the man in a literal ball of flying rage clawing at his eyes blinding him. Nat grabs the Hunters arm and uses Burning Touch to inflict torturous pain. The hunter falls but hits the UV lights on the wall, Eli begins to shift into his werefox form. Natanel is burned by the UV light falls, screaming, Eli Turns off the lights and then he pins the Hunter to the ground and Nat climbs on top, his hands burning his face. Nat wanting him to suffer, and Eli tore off the Hunters leg. He bled out, they freed the Garou, a lupus born woman who just wanted to return to the wilds where she was caught.

They call Natanel's husband Hector, a Garou himself who comes to assist with communicating.

Nat uses Auspex to check the torture medical table, (I don't know what he expected tbh, because it was what it said on the tin) he saw the memories of the avion Gangrel and described her to Eli, who did know her in her unliving life.

To keep this from becoming a novel, they contacted the Nosferatu prince Gabi, (who Eli is partner of and the pair work for) they get the clean up crew to take the Hunters tech and evidence in the torture room. They point out the facts. This hunter had embedded himself in their city long before the Sabbat had arrived, and he had help from a sponsor. The Coterie know they have to prepare for the worst.

Eli feels the weight of the Avion Gangrels skull, he compares it to the similar skull of his partner Kuro. Natanel, alone for the night is bombarded with Aiden to comfort him and it only affirms his choice in his mind for the justified torture. Anyone to hurt the Coterie's family would be met with severity.

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[findursoulmateorfindyourself]

I see you

Sitting stoned on my couch, with the blanket we were gifted yesterday and Marian protected so dearly, he was his gift for his new flat. It’s so cozy I’m so happy like wtf how do I deserve this.

I meet so many beautiful people everyday. I just came from the museum with Emily and Ellie

they have so much in commmin and we have so much in common within each other. Ellie and I are born on the exact same day same year, emily and Ellie both come from uk both have this love and desire for the east and get it other immediately. It’s all so smooth as if we were friends forever, we go to this exhibition

it’s so good it’s so full but it’s still so easy everyone is appreciative. Everyone is beautiful the art is so amazing her book is sold out for ages I guy three postcards I knew immediately which ones I wanted. It’s all intuitively. We share so many interests

I learn so much from you Emily your so wise. You inspire me to the max.! So I sit here writing down all the beautiful things I have witnessed today I had ah amazing breakfast with Marian after an amazing weekend with him it’s like we’re glued together hahahaha when u don’t see u enough I’m going crazy like when I was waiting for u in the park with my friends haha u know what I am talking about, yes the night before was indescribable it just all came together then we met Joshua again the second night he joined us later again like the first night to then go to the spontaneous second house party with us. Joshua who is actually my bzw. Marians neighbor hahahahahah se everyone is my neighbor literally. He is very good looking and has a beautiful special spirit he loves to go the movies and we talked about Saint Omer and Wolfpack. Then we danced and smiled at each other like we’ve been friends forever. It’s insane. everyone is sweet everyone is welcoming this cooooool photographer just welcones a big group of young bobo kids and allows them to use their space to just put up some techno and get naked and get into ahh group make out so sexyyyy everyone is just sex I dance with Marian pole dance I dance with myself I dance with Mattia mattia is doing the most insane stunts

I meet another guuy from ifm Fabio is so kind, Pierre is so sweet Joshua and I dance to turn me on from Kevin lyttle, Mattia is yelling I wear TuS beautiful latex tip from Marie and everyone loves it Vittoria is straight ok kian is a seeethrart in a bike who loves nosferatu, pascaline has a million wigs. They’re all Italians and then there is Andrea and the sweet boy from

ifm who introduce himself with is IG handle iconic ?!! I sit here and think about the art I just saw when I met emotion and Ellie

this artist RINEKE dijkstra made very sensitive comments or quotations of different aspects and perspectives on art and society. She manage to capture very honest but conscious relevant moments of society. The perception of these young children who not only think about art in a very elaborated and reflected way because it is about perspective and perception two things everyone learns at a very young age is it through sound distance falling standing up touching things tasting, testing out we all know what I am talking about now.

this is literally all it takes to understand art and then contextualize it. And here jr comes what do we need to cintextualize and he’s true knowledge deffo helps. But ahhhh chicken. Egg chicken eggg chili en egg. What is knowledge.

anwhoo Emily said: ah this could be art critical so it wasn’t even me and we agreed in that point.

so basically this children analyze in a very elaborated way how the origin of this painting could be laying at. They name very emotional intelligent options for where the well-being or not existing well-being/ crying of this women can be originated. It goes from trauma, financial suffering, violence, loss, abuse, spirits, souls and health. Money power, loneliness togetherness

to just the fact that Picasso might have been liking the colors or maybe also he just wanted to do sth different. It’s plane but it’s smart and it’s honest and it’s diverse.

They remainders me of how I would imagine a Greek discussion instead of their school uniforms they would wear those toras? Is that the name those beautifully draped clothes going to finish this now and show some pics because I could keep going for ages sorryyy

[snellyboi]

FAKE spoilers for For the Future

These are FAKE spoilers to drown out the real ones - some are funny, but mostly this is to make a long-ish post to drown out actual spoilers in the tags. And some of these I think are neat. here they are:

-The episode starts on a cold open of the Isles, set to Charles Ives’ Down East. The shots are of drained bodies, barren landscapes, and remaining witches burning their clothes and staves for warmth. On the final “Nearer to me”, we smash cut to a closeup of the Collector’s eyes, looking out on the landscape.

-King has been keeping the Collector at bay by playing Mario Kart 64 and constantly beating him thanks to being taught the game by Luz

-Camilla walks in on Luz and Amity getting too cuddly. This is played for laughs.

-EDA shows up and has regained her arm, because she stole one of Terra Snapdragon’s. So now she has lopsided arms. This is a nightmare for the cleanup staff and a strike is imminent.

-Lilith has gone bonkers, and is hoarding decoy ducks, in the hope that she can enchant them to fly, and fly to the human realm. This is most certainly NOT played for laughs.

-Hooty has fangs now. Collector did it.

-We get a flashback to Caleb and Evelyn, having a good time, while Philip gets the first and only villain song of the series. His singing voice is provided by Norm Lewis!

-Boscha returns, but dies in Amity’s arms after being run through by a giant rock launched at him by the collector in a very high stakes game of Red light Green light. This game is soundtracked by Slint’s Nosferatu Man.

-In fact, all the games are soundtracked by Slint, Swans, and the Fall of Troy

-They finally defeat the collector by challenging him to the most complicated game in human history - EUCHRE! He is so confused that he explodes.

-He is replaced by 4 other collectors, all of whom restrain Luz and whisk her away, to be saved in the next chapter...

[zerovoidx]

shitpost of our coterie's malkavian - and an unexpected friend :> inspired from that one pirates of the carribean scene-

context; the city's nosferatu are divided. east and west, technically a low-key war. no one trespasses the other's territory — but when the need rises, and the eastern sewers is the fastest way to get back to your coterie, you may run into trouble-

[cymorilcinnamonroll]

Want a coffee table book with my vampire story, and much more famous authors like Jane Yolen?

My story is entitled, ahem, "Nosferatu Was King When I Was a Girl-Child"

42 Stories Anthology Presents: Book of 42²

"Behold, 42 Stories Anthology Presents: Book of 42², or Project 42², filled with time, devotion, and passion. 1,764 micro stories of exactly 42 words, circulated through 42 genres. Some readers might wonder, “Why 1,764 stories?” 42 stories times 42 genres equals 1,764. Hence, the book’s logo and title having 42². In order to have such an omnium-gatherum of works in one book, the team searched for authors around the world, from East to West. Finding stories for the book proved a challenge. Therefore, anthology staff accepted up to four works, using pseudonyms, from the same author, which were chosen by one critique partner, one story editor, and one reviewer from a staff of 42. The book had to have 1,764 author names in conjunction to the stories. There are still over 1,200 unique writers responsible for writing this anthology. A full list of authors is available within the anthology website, listed in the introduction. In keeping with the theme, titles of stories are approximately 42 characters and biographies are roughly 42 words. The judges of the 42 Story of Excellence Awards (SOE) were the authors of the Craft of Writing Chapter, and the award for that chapter was selected by judges. Along with the stories, we found 42 unique works of chapter art from talented artists and photographers. Notably, the Sports chapter has an original high-resolution photo of JACKIE ROBINSON, by PATRICK A. BURNS/The New York Times/Redux, which we purchased the rights to in order to be included in the anthology. Moreover, the book cover, front and back, has 42 photos on each side, by the talented photographer, KATYA BROWN. Enjoy the fun, 42 words at a time."

[emp13]

Im gonna start chronicling my VtM game in Seattle in 2024 that I’m running. I’ll start with this post to just give a little summary of our coterie. I will also answer just about any question I’m asked as long as it won’t spoil things for my players because at least 1 of them follows me here.

Kyler Smitt the Country Gangrel: Kyler was embraced in the 90s and is vying for the newly opened up Primogen seat for many of the disparate clans as most of them live under the Tremere which a lot of people don’t like. He’s a good 200 years younger than any of the other Primogen but there really isn’t a whole lot of age in the turf he wants to be the Primogen of because of some past conflicts with the Anarchs. He lives in a TMNT style apartment in the sewers with a few Nosferatu.

Anna Anne Anderson the Salubri: Anna was embraced in the peak of our civilization 1999, though she’d find that reference far less humorous than her player. She was ghouled by the Tremere regent to be her personal assistant about ten years before her embrace. She was slated for embrace by the Tremere Regent Iris but the night she was supposed to be embraced a rogue Salubri embraced her instead. This was brought to the Prince and due to a very complex political situation at the time she was allowed to live, a big reason for this is the sizable population of Japanese kindred who are far kinder to Salubri. This has to do with some lore I added to replace the orientalist abomination known as kindred of the east. In current nights she’s working to get out of the thumb of the Tremere because she’s heavily stifled given her being a Salubri. Her goals are to aid Kyler to become the new Primogen which should lead to a course of events that makes her the new Keeper of Elysium.

Victoria Hawthorne the Ventrue: Victoria was embraced in the early 2000s right around when the dot com bubble burst. She runs a surveillance tech company and is the definition of an upstart. She has her own skyscraper in downtown Seattle where her company is based out of, it’s not quite a startup anymore but it’s still working on its magnum opus of a plot device level surveillance tech. She has lofty goals and needs allies in high places.

Jack Cross the Malkavian: Jack was embraced in 2016 by the Malkavian Primogen Eleanor. She was a private investigator in life and when her wife fell into a supernatural coma she turned her skills to looking into the supernatural. A year into her investigation she was embraced. Shes spent 9 years looking into her wife’s coma and she’s had a few notable leads but it’s led her to the coterie.

Scylla the Lasombra: Scylla was embraced into the Sabbat in 2018 by Seth but was quickly brought into the Camarilla in 2019 when her sire turned coat and brought his brood with him. Her life was destroyed by her sire multiple times, resulting in the death of her girlfriend and destruction of her gang. She built back up though and was “rewarded” with the embrace by this monster. She now runs a pretty respected club in Kindred society, especially for her age. It’s also the most notable location in where the new Primogen would have domain over so a prefect ally for Kyler to have. She has a deep desire to see her sire meet the final death which is why she’s opposed his aims for being the new Primogen.

Elizabeth Evans the Brujah: Elizabeth was embraced two years ago and doesn’t know her sire, she was taken in and looked after by the Malkavian Primogen Eleanor. Eleanor was the reason why she’s in the coterie for somewhat mysterious reasons. Before her embrace she was a nun where she had a clandestine lesbian affair with Eve, one of the other nuns, who after the rumors got out left. Despite this she still doesn’t think she’s gay.