Von Malanghast

We have separate groups in a fairly tenuous alliance

I think Brennan got a taste for players fighting each other in Calamity

This coming episode I think something is going to happen to Iris and Wick is going to go off the deep end against some of the other players

We got our first look at Ormund!

First cr4 redraw!!

I have thoughts and feelings about the candescent creed and kind of got kicked in the balls by the allegory, feeling normal

Just imagine Vlad Von Fucking Carstein engaging in normal Imperial politics, making deals in the senate and all those "normal" stuff.

Vlad, in his blood-red vampiric armour, leaving his literally blood-drinking sword, the Wailing Blade to a footman at the door and sitting down to discuss the impact of the current agricultural tax politics on Sylvania's peasant farmers.

I like villainous couples and I cannot lie. I want Total War Warhammer to win the Make War Not Love thing so I can get my von Carstein free-LC:

So recently I got into Total War Warhammer, which then led me to reading up on the lore, and then finding out that Vlad von Carstein (and by extension Isabella) is one of the most interesting characters, which then led me to reading up on some other novels in the Warhammer lore.

Why interesting? Only actual love story in any Warhammer lore books, because the rest of their stories is just obsessed with Order vs Chaos and the Empire of Man yada yada yada. Also Vlad turned into one of the better good guys eventually, which is hilarious.

Anyway, reading a bit of the Warhammer vampire trilogy…

The author managed to trick a bunch of dudes, who are probably into the whole manly Warhammer theme, into reading some truly, incredibly, melodramatic vampire cheese.

Whoo boy, Vlad appears in a storm, asks Isabella’s hand in marriage, and she’s like HOT DAMN. Like, HOT DAMN. Though I will concede, showing how ruthless she was about receiving a gift of her ‘uncle’s heart’ was a pretty good character moment.

Or how Vlad stood in the rain, on the castle, gloomily brooding while Isabella is dying from illness as he..WRESTLES with conflicting emotions.

Which then culminate to him giving her the Blood Kiss to turn into a vampire, but noticeably the whole thing drained him so much that that’s one of the few times he is physically weak. And then later we learn the Blood Kiss ritual isn’t that strenuous and you start wondering what happened in the bed room immediately after Isabella becomes a vamp.

Oh, and then Isabella decides that the moment that Vlad is channeling a hellishly powerful necromancy spell on top of a castle, is the absolute best time to start coming onto him thirsty as hell, licking his cheek and ear and mock-biting his neck. I will admit, hawt, but time and place. TIME AND PLACE!

But then, her breakdowns. Oh, the breakdowns. When Vlad dies the first time, Isabella has one hell of a collapse. Huddling into the corner of his coffin clutching his shirt for his scent level of collapse.

An overreaction I might add, because Vlad literally is more immortal than any immortal vampire. Cos he can’t die. If he has his ring. A particular important trait he might have considered TELLING HIS WIFE OF 200 YEARS.

Then the second time Vlad dies, and its permanent, oy vey. 

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Nesvizh Castle, Niasviž, Belarus,