Shadow-Commet

Okay, context: (Warning, Story Spoilers for Vampyr Chapter 5 and onwards)

As many of you know, during the mission "And by the sword you die" you have to fight McCullum in a boss battle at the end of which you can choose to spare or turn him. Before the battle begins however, he drinks a few drops of King Arthur's blood, who is later revealed to also be a vampire. This in game seems to have no consequences for McCullum whatsoever.

As I belive that he should definitely have turned into a vampire from drinking that however, I will make him one in the campaign after this event. The cue? I have decided he won't be an Ekon, but a Nemrod/Nimrod (I'm uncertain of the spelling) instead. This is partially because I think it would be cool, partially because it would fit him and partially also because I want to explore and make up more lore.

In the process of making up lore and deciding which abilities to give a Nemrod McCullum, I thought it would be cool if he gets to have a unique ability. Like Mary had in her boss fight. Now I need a name for it.

The ability itself:

So, I have an unusual name for my gender. To preface this, I am (as far as I care to look into this concerning my own identity, which is...admittedly almost zero, I do not care) cis and this is not a self given name, this is the name I was given by my parents at birth.

Anyway, my name is at least where I live usually only used as a name for the opposite gender to mine (like imagine I'm a woman and my name being like Peter or I'm a man and my name is like Annabelle). My parents were aware of this from the beginning, this is not a cultural thing or language barrier thing, it has a bit of a ling story that I don't want to get into right now. Anyway, that i have this unusual for my gender name is usually not a problem with anyone that knows me and I personally have no issue with that, I like my name, I feel like it fits me. When I meet people who don't know me however, that's when the thing happens.

The thing can go three ways, usually depending on whether (1) the person I meet has seen my name before they see me in person or (2) if they have seen me in person before they learn my name or (3) they see me first before they learn my name and I don't correct them.

(1) If this happens, I am always first referred to as Mr./Miss (opposite of my gender) LastName. Depending on whether I wanna bother, I correct them and then, then it happens. They apologise. But instead of assuming that I just have an odd name for my gender, they usually in 9 out 10 cases, just assume that I'm trans and I get hut with "Oh my God, I'm so sorry. You look wonderful, I swear you can't tell at all!"

(2) If case 2 happens, you'd think the fact that I have an odd name would be the obvious conclusion one would come to, right? You'd think wrong. In case they see me first and then learn my name they tend to course correct from calling me my actual pronouns to the wrong ones, assuming I am trans and haven't started to physically transition yet. This can be accompanied by an apology, but isn't always.

(3) In this case usually they see me first, then my name but don't make connection that that is, in fact, my name. Instead they'll be like "Oh, no sorry I mean *my LastName* not you." And when I'm like "that's me" but don't correct them on the pronouns, then I'll usually get a really awkward apology and that they're so sorry and didn't mean any offense and occasionally that they hope my transition is going to go well and good luck.

Usually I don't correct them unless I know that this person and I will interact on at least a semi regular basis in the future or it is important that the information about whether it's Mr. or Miss is correct (like when assigning credit points at university for instance). I personally just don't tend to care too much or at all what someone adresses me as as long as they call me by the correct name. So this is really just an odd little pattern I noticed.

The process:

I needed a map, in lieu of a map I decided to draw one myself and tyr to make it as accurate as possible. To do so, I googled how tall Jonathan is (6'3''/roughly 1,90cm according to a comunitiy post on steam) and then looked up how long the span of a step for a man of his height would be (27 inch/70cm). With those numbers in hand, I prepared some paper, a calculator, pencil and a ruler and booted up the game. Over the course of several days I walked through the sewers counting Jonahan's steps and multilpied by his step length started to slowly map out the layout of the sewer system in a hand drawn map, which I finally digitalised. The colour was not added in until after digitalization. It was a fun little project, but I would not reccomend doing this to anyone, it costs So Many Nerves. Especially when you realise you fucked up a turn about half way through the map.

Technical Details:

Different levels visualised by different colours. Everything that is in the same colour is height wise roughly on the height. Objects, clutter and floor materials have been omitted from this map for now to spare my sanity, I may add them in later tho.

For now these maps include:

Walls

walkways and bridges

all openable doors

waterways as visible and implied

The scale used for this map is 2:1 000 or in other words 2mm = 1m