#vanescula

[pachirsdoodles]

The Lord of Vampyrium

Spoiler: It's not quite how the quest went. Just a headcanon for fun

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Round 2

[flyingsquirrely]

Sins of the Father

WHAT a quest!! I've already played through the Myreque questline in RS3, but I really enjoyed the OSRS take on this quest. (spoilers for the Myreque/Vampyre questline in both OSRS and RS3 below the readmore)

I think it has my favorite characterization of the Player Character out of all the OSRS quests I've played so far. Normally, PC personality ends up either very reactive (they sort of blandly respond to the situation at hand) or going to uhhh extremes (Lunar Diplomacy pirate ship scene, my beloathed), but this quest found a nice balance where the PC is perhaps a bit too jokey in the face of darkness and danger, but it feels like a purposeful response to stress by lightening the mood, rather than obnoxious as it sometimes falls in other quests. It's more like a part of their personality, rather than the devs just throwing something in because they think it's funny or want to make a reference. Subjectively, I found this character much closer to how I imagine my PC (ik ik, that's not universal, hence subjectively). Also, it fits with the other quest characters, where Safalaan has a similar sense of humor and the PC's lightheartedness helps him deal with all of the unpleasant personal realizations he goes through during the quest.

Speaking of my guy Safalaan, loved his characterization as well, and his growing friendship with the PC. The conversations they have in the lab and before the final boss while looking over the drowned ruins of (presumably) the Everlight: 👌👌. They just felt so satisfying! We get to share our fears and stuff! I felt good feels! Good characterization!

Vanescula was a queen, as always, and Ivan felt more like a Real Boy in this iteration of the questline than in the RS3 version. Loved the team banter and the wary enemy-mine relationship between the Myreque and Vanescula. I thought that the tension between Veliaf, Safalaan, and Vanescula was really well done, and how each of the minor Myreque members have their own unique opinions and reasoning about the plan and Vanescula herself.

Also, I think this is unintentionally comedic, but I love that you can go up to the Vyrewatch in full combat kit + weapons specifically meant for killing vampyres, with which you have already killed a powerful vampyre and say "Send me to the mines!" and they just think you're really weird and do it. Like, the fight with Ranis was not private, there was an entire crowd there. Zero braincells on those guys.

There isn't much player dialogue choice in it (you know, the ones where the dialogue choice doesn't do anything mechanically, but results in some branching dialogue where the NPC's dialogue reacts to the PC's personality), but I did like the one where you can choose whether or not to call Veliaf out on his callousness towards Slepe because there are a bunch of Zamorakians there. I don't play my PC as Zamorakian, but they are Guthixian and they don't hate Zamorakians by default, so it was nice to be able to play into that.

I do wish we'd gotten a little more resolution about Slepe. I know there's more stuff going on there with an underground boss and stuff that I haven't done yet, but I think it could have used a quest of its own or maybe a short/medium follow-up.

(We won't talk about the month of Slayer grinding I had to do before I could kill Vanstrom. He hurts, and I am not an experienced PvMer.)

I think my hope for the finale of this questline (idk if we'll be getting one or two more quests in this series, it could go either way honestly), is that it does a couple of things:

Lord Drakan as the final final boss. tbh I found River of Blood (RS3) to be kind of an awkward finale, because Drakan is built up to be this terrible, extremely powerful enemy, but then you kick his ass in the penultimate quest and fight... mutated Safalaan as the final boss of the questline instead. Weird. I'd also accept Vanescula as the final final boss, as long as she survives it and we get to discuss the truce afterwards. She deserves it.

Ivan coming into his own legacy and playing a key role. In RS3 he doesn't get to do much in the last few quests in the series, which was a bit anticlimactic for him.

Give Safalaan A Break, Please. I guess they can turn him into a funky hybrid again, but please let me bonk him back into human shape and then let him take a nap. (he gives me such Ichigo-from-Bleach vibes, being a human+icyene+vampyre hybrid in River of Blood)

I want the Sunspear. I really like the lore of that weapon in RS3 and also how it implies that Efaritay is/was absolutely massive compared to humans.

[drakanthegeneticopera]

thinkin of being a real bi disaster and letting my osrs si bone vanescula after ranis dies lmao

[eparch]

I'm gonna be very amused if Peitha really does pull a Vanescula

[moonclanmadness]

Man say what you will about River of Blood but the reveal that Safalaan consensually let Vanescula turn him into a vampyre and they both just let the other Myreque think he was dead fucked so hard. Two of the characters of all time

[pwincess-of-cuteness]

i drew vanescula drakan as stress relief cuz i cant defeat lowerniel, and it's quite annoying xD

vanescula is best vamp ♡

i love her so much

[nychannel-rs]

Day 1 and 2 of RS Inktumber!~ 

[zorialdiamond-blog]

Thank you, this latest Archaeology teaser, for throwing a perfect base for a fic intro right in my lap!

[skyotters]

RuneScape - Vanescula Drakan

[soul8lighter]

[dagnadraws]

succ

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Round 1

[incorrect-runescape-quotes]

Vanescula: We're in trouble!

World Guardian: Trouble? What kind of trouble?

Vanescula: It's a long story. Better hurry up or you won't get to hear it!

[drakanthegeneticopera]

I love vanescula so much she is literally peak female character but I am Dying for someone to draw any of the vyres aside from her. perhaps her brothers even

[eparch]

Peitha really, really reminds me of Vanescula from RuneScape (3, haven't met her OSRS version yet) of all things and in some ways the Kryptis remind me of the Vampyres in general

Long story short, Vanescula betrays her brothers, kills one personally, helps your character kill the other one who is the lord of all Vampyres, and then takes the position of ruling over them all—though she then betrays you

That said I think Peitha doesn't have the same circumstances that will make her "need" to betray us the way Vanescula felt she did. The Vampyres were in a desperate spot where food was becoming scarce and the lands they were confined in were becoming overpopulated (both of their own doing—from turning too many humans to Vyres and from overdrawing blood from the remaining humans), and Vanescula had decided the next thing after deposing Lord Drakan was to invade the human lands. From what I understand so far, Kryptis aren't this desperate and the invasions are entirely due to Eparch's warmongering and tyranny

Also it turns out that Vampyres hail from another world called Vampyrium, where they were like. Originally basically just predatory hunters. Looooooong story short, by the time they came over to Gielinor (the world of RS), they had been "given" an aristocratic and hierarchical society...which is what Eparch establishing houses and nobility in Kryptis reminds me of, with the added bonus of likely lifting much of the way Kryptis society is now from other worlds.

(Although just to be thorough: Lord Drakan wished to return Vampyres to their pre-aristocratic society while obviously Eparch wishes to enforce it. Vanescula had very strong opinions about this, mainly that she quite liked being royalty and "civilized", tyvm. From what I can tell, Peitha seems to lean into the nobility thing quite a bit)