she who follows the light

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The Gifts of Darkness - Concept art: Chapters 5 and 6 (2017)

Adrien's appearance in Chapter 5, and a bunch of environment studies for Chapter 6, including Adrien's reminiscence about his house.

For @buriedknight

For my friend’s novel.

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Mild nsfw references, overall just mind control type stuff in this section.

Alright, Volkiwhore time before I decide against it. Here, Harkon is practicing vampire-to-vampire enthrallment. Zath is incredibly into it, because he has no idea how to handle his trauma and doesn't want to be in control of his own mind anymore. Vampires will do literally anything but go to therapy. These two are worse than LuZath.

Enthrallment lore doc is still in progress but the general vibes for context here are like... "Step 1: Use Vampire's Seduction; Step 2: Bite" as demonstrated in Dawnguard. But I imagine Step 1 is priming (mental invasion, hypnosis, etc, largely dependent on the one doing it), and Step 2 is setting (essentially anchoring the prepared spell in place by entering the veins). There's more nonsense in there, but importantly, if you prime an enthrallment beyond your capability (you're going deeper than what you can handle, you've put it into someone too naturally-resistant, etc) and try to set it, it won't stick. And if you really overdo it, it fucks up your blood magicka levels really badly. Just totally wipes you. Congrats you're at -400/400mp. Thus, common practice is to have weak-willed mortal thralls with shallow enthrallments slapped on, which act more like charm spells than full on mind-control. Because honestly, who has the time? What are you, some kind of lord in a secluded castle with nothing better to do but flex your cool powers? Don't be an idiot.

Anyways, spoiler alert, this doesn't actually go well for Harkon and he gets a nasty whiplash from it. If Zath had intention to do so, luring a poorly-weighted Vampire's Seduction for this purpose would be a great way to kill arrogant vampires ngl.

Regil Derenge, A Hellknight that hides a lot between the lines.

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On how Fjori may worship Talos, but that doesn't mean he can't pay his respects to a god he does not know for a man he does.