#Crimson Curse
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It Takes Two to Tango
-- for @alchemy-go-boom
I'm gonna get you to burst just like you were a bubble
Frame me up on your wall just to keep me out of trouble
Like a moth getting trapped in the light by fixation
Truly free, love it, baby, I'm talking no inflation
Too many war wounds and not enough wars
Too few rounds in the ring and not enough settled scores
Too many sharks, not enough blood in the waves
You know I give my love a f-f-four letter name
And I love the way you hurt me
It's irresistible
-- Irresistible by Fall Out Boy
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#you can consider this a shorthand in depicting their RRR relationship#at least before it gets better - eventually#oh and by RH's logic this is a sex scene lol#A collection of treasured antiques || my art#restructured refractured recalled#darkest dungeon#reynauld#dismas#dd crusader#dd highwayman#reymas#ddzine 2023#darkest dungeon zine 2023#crimson curse
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I had a thought: What if the Fanatic, after viciously murdering/incinerating the two or three Cursed heroes, just.. Stopped fighting. Left the un-Cursed heroes alone, stalking off to hunt for more Bloodsuckers. Or worse, treated those un-Cursed heroes kindly. Maybe giving them supplies for a safe journey, or saying how lucky they are to survive being so close to such monsters.
Well, we know that's not how he operates in canon, as any number of Cursed heroes in your party puts everyone in danger. It would require making him less of a fanatic if he were capable of sparing un-cursed heroes instead of murdering them merely for associating with a Bloodsucker. And this is a horrible, horrible man.
However, for the sake of the narrative, one could imagine a situation where the Fanatic could make the mistake to think that the cursed and non-cursed heroes were not together.
Say you have a cursed hero with the Abusive affliction and they start hitting one of the non-cursed, and the other is off to the side, severely injured by their expedition. If the Fanatic saw them at that moment he could assume that the Bloodsucker was simply attacking a couple of injured mercs. While he does visit the Hamlet in a Town event, I doubt he stays long enough to know the whole roster (if the Heir would even allow such a thing).
In that case, it would make sense if after his "righteous rescue", he stopped fighting, or even directed the remaining hero(es) to safety. That would depend, though. I suspect that if there was the slightest chance that the "innocent" hero was bitten, he would try to kill them just to be sure. Basically, you have to make a few contrivances to make it work, but it could theoretically happen.
Of course, the end result would be traumatizing as fuck to the survivor. What do you even do? Freak out and try to fight alone? Shut up and let this man who just burned your friends alive help you? Scurry away at the first chance? Freeze in shock, trying to process what happened? It depends on the hero, who was killed, when and how it happened. That would be worth exploring.
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Dettlaff van der Eretein
Chest 1: Witchers used to classify higher vampires as a distinct species. However, their logic was not fully sound, for each possesses its own unique character and abilities. Regis, for example, was a loner endowed with extraordinary intellect. Dettlaff, by contrast, seemed destined to lead a flock. Lower forms of vampires such as katakans, ekimmaras, and bruxae answered his every call without delay. The inhabitants of Beauclair would quickly learn the disastrous consequences of such overwhelming control...
Chest 2: Perhaps the most distinctive piece of Dettlaff's attire is a jewel-encrusted brooch crafted in the shape of a moth – a gift bestowed to him by Regis. Dettlaff viewed the token as a symbol of his connection with the night. Regis, however, held a different association in mind. He knew his friend, driven primal urges, would – like a moth – always be drawn back to the light. Even if that meant he would one day be consumed by the flames.
Chest 3: After Dettlaff slayed four knights of Toussaint guilty of despicable acts, he became known to Toussaintois as the Beast of Beauclair. Sentenced to death for the killings, the Toussaint court summoned a witcher to track and kill the unknown monster. Dettlaff could but watch on in utter disbelief, for the widely adored Duchess Anna Henrietta has condemned dozens to the scaffold for much, much less! Even the monster slayer called to Toussaint had more innocent lives on his conscience than the alleged beast he was commissioned to kill! This was the tipping point. Dettlaff decided to no longer adhere to the laws of men. He would instead impose upon them the vampiric code of honor – a system founded on the harshest punishments...
Scroll 1: Dettlaff once tried to live among people in peace. He muzzled his bloodlust, mastered the Common Speech, and perfected the basics of courtly etiquette. Over time, he began to make friends of humans... And in one in particular, he found a lover.
Scroll 2: His beloved's name was Syanna. Dettlaff's love for her was absolute. He was prepared to do any and all for her. In fact, Syanna made ample use of his love-driven dedication... That is, until the day she vanished without a trace or a word.
Scroll 3: Syanna likely assumed that Dettlaff would swallow the bitter pill of rejection like all her lovers before him. Alas, the reasoning of vampires works differently than in men. And so, too, did Dettlaff's fury burn more fiercely.
Scroll 4: Dettlaff felt scorned not only by Syanna, but by the entire human race. He took them all for traitors, hypocrites, and deceivers. Unfortunately, even but a brief look back on the Continent's history shows us he is not altogether wrong...
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#Nobody could possibly be LESS normal about this song than I am right now#the kentucky vampires#radio#crimson curse#goth rock#gothic rock
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My first attack on this years artfight goes to the lovely @coffee-in-veins <3
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Every vacant moon, an offering. Blood on your lips like a heady prayer.
A comic about desire, hunger, and the cursed disembodied blood of a much worse god. Featuring my vampire bishop Chrysanthos Esposito with a cameo of his inquisitor Jacopo Agnelli-Gallo.
#darkest dungeon#darkest dungeon oc#crimson curse#vampire#marrowkind original#god i hope the gothic tracery heartbeat translated
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Tinkerer time! And a Crimson Curse doodle at the bottom, I don’t know why but I always imagined him with a hat.
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Crimson Curse's birds. The cardinal griffin is general use drone. Raven is a spy drone. and the owl is an attack/protect drone. The words are the little spells that Harry says. the first three words are all that are necessary to activate it, but he is a bit dramatic, like Quentin.
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#darkest dungeon#crimson court#cc#crimson curse#au#bloodsucker#cw blood#tw blood#warning#Sarmenti#jester#junia#vestal#ship#my art
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#holy heretic#crimson curse#the kentucky vampires#deathrock#death rock#goth rock#gothic rock#goth music#goth subculture#gothgoth#goth scene#goth
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happy halloween everyone🦇🎃
Joyeux halloween à tous🇲🇫
#dettlaff van der eretein#dettlaff#detlaff#detlaff van der eretein#higher vampire#the witcher#the witcher 3#crimson curse
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Can animals be infected with the crimson curse?
hullo hullo o/
thank you for the ask! it's always so nice to receive an ask about CC. i love rambling about it and its implications. sorry for the wait, life can get pretty hectic here ^^' hope the wait will be worth it
quick answer: the answer to your question is a definite canonical yes!
long answer: we can see examples of infected fauna and altho sometimes it's harder to draw a firm line between mutated people and mutated animals, there are some very clear-cut examples.
the biggest example, we have this bugger:
i hope it's not a spoiler, but its name is Crocodillian and it is a crocodile infected with CC to the point of mutation. it definitely can infect your heroes too, so there is a canonical instance of CC spreading from an infected animal to a human.
also we have those nasty little shits:
those are sycophants, and they'll be the bane of your existence with their high dodge, stress attacks and - you guessed it - a high chance to make one of your adventurers infected.
another thing worth mention are supplicants:
canonically, this is a name of the tick - not the body itself. because from what i gather, the body it rides on is dead/catatonic and is puppeteered by the tick itself. they, too, spread CC and are around in huge numbers, assuring their place as another infection vector. which means, even dead aren't safe from not being an infection vector, since we don't know how big the ticks are before they become this huge mass of fed blood and limbs.
on top of all that, we have event descriptions from the game itself:
The Town is Abuzz! event reads:
"A crumbling stone entry to a forgotten labyrinthian garden has been uncovered! The discoverer, sadly, has perished from innumerable insect stings. Concern rises."
another one, A Maddening Whine, reads:
"Intolerable! Clouds of mosquitoes and other, less identifiable pests continue to descend upon the Hamlet with maddening persistence! Illness and irritation abound"
the second one is even more interesting, since it directly mentions ilness in its text. this is purely my speculation, but i believe that even regular mosquitos can spread CC, much like malaria. however, most people who aren't as hardened as adventurers are, simply succumb to the eldritch overdose instead of becoming infected and starting mutations. i say most, because i believe some would be sturdy enough to also survive and become proper, mutated infected. after all, we have another story which describes an adventurer becoming one of the fishfolk and the Siren is literally a woman from Hamlet who had the misfortune of having a crush on the Ancestor, so the flesh is maleable in DD, and can be shaped and shifted.
and even if the latter examples are somewhat muddy (we cannot know that sycophants and supplicants aren't things spawned from the infected humans), Crocodillian shows without a shadow of doubt that CC has zoonotic vector.
hope the answer was worth the wait! ^^ feel free to ask anything else if you'd like
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Do you have any headcanons/interesting observations for the 3 royal Bloodsucker bosses, Baron, Viscount and Countess?
Observation: full offense, making the Baron a hunchback was a shitty writing decision. You can make a XVIII century inspired area without using XVIII century ableist cliches.
I headcanon him as a sadistic little bastard, but one that got considerably worse for constantly trying to please and entertain his noble patrons. He gained access to power and status through his own perversity, and that turned a petty, mean-spirited cunt into a full-blown monster.
I have mentioned this headcanon before, but I like to think that the Countess is something more than a regular transformed bloodsucker, more akin to the Heart of Darkness, and she is just the embodiment of The Blood when it needs to act personally. The Blood connects the infected and the Countess is at the center of that web.
I also find it hard to believe that the Ancestor handled her on his own. Since she still remains alive after getting drained and that was the catalyst for the Crimson Court to come to life, I choose to believe that this was just according to keikaku. The Blood wanted to spread and find new vessels near the Heart of Darkness's cradle.
The Viscount is not very inspiring compared to those two, much like his fight is the most underwhelming of the three, so I got nothing for him.
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Dana Méadbh
Chest 1: Until recent history, few mortals had ever laid eyes upon Dana Méadbh. It is said she once appeared only in spring or summer, and even then with no guarantee. Some claim she was most likely to be witnessed during the Feast of the Scythe, or Lammas, as the elves call it. She would join in to the harvest dance, even weave marigolds into maidens' braids. Though when the world is bound in ice, as well as in recent memory, Dana Méadbh has begun to appear more frequently... Alas, this is no reason to rejoice, for the Queen of the Fields is angry. Rather than show gratitude for nature's plentiful bounty, the world's inhabitants instead continue to tear and plunder away ever more. The time has come they were taught a lesson – one that shall be remembered for a long, long while.
Chest 2: Drawn more to dead rock than living plants and beasts, dwarves possess the weakest connection with nature. Despite this apparent lack of affinity, they too worship Dana Méadbh, yet call her by another name: Bloëmenmagde. They demonstrate their honor by laying wreaths of hops and jars of pickled fungi at a crossroads. None know whether Lyfia, as she is sometimes known, truly enjoys such offerings... But the knockers of the surrounding mountains certainly do.
Chest 3: Dana Méadbh sometimes takes the form of a ordinary woman, using her guise to live amongst mortals. She does not speak, as if mute, staying clear of the beaten path, yet observes all with a keen eye. In those villages where the peasantfolk do not weed the poppies and cornflowers from their fields of rye, where they treat their cows to the delight of carrots, Lyfia multiplies their bounty. Yet where peasants treat the land not as mother but slave, so comes the devastation of frost and hail...
Scroll 1: Sometimes, on a hot summer's day, you might spot the silhouette of a young woman in the heart of a birch grove, surrounded by dancing butterflies with a crown of flowers atop her head. The elves call her Dana Méadbh. To humans, she is Lyfia, or the Queen of the Fields.
Scroll 2: Not even the greatest of the elven sages know who – or what – she truly is. Some consider her a goddess, others – the forces of nature embodied. Though one thing is for certain: without her presence, the Continent would sit as a lifeless rock in the sea.
Scroll 3: It is Dana Méadbh who awakens plants and beasts at the advent of spring, who nurtures the buds of delicate flowers. Wherever she steps, the land bestows its bounty. Where she treads not, stalks snap, flowers wilt, and harvests wane.
Scroll 4: For a long time, Dana Méadbh refused to meddle in the affairs of mortals. She held love for all races. Yet the balance of the world was disturbed and Lyfia sought to restore it. By force, if necessary.
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Most likely my last attack, I'm a little sad that I didn't get to draw all the ocs I wanted, but I did at least more attacks than last year! And I'm really proud to see how I improved both in style and speed!
This attack goes out to @coffee-in-veins @pupspuppet @cynthplop @missszena @werepaladin
#darkest dungeon#original character#female oc#firemouth#heiress#houndmaster#brigands#crusader#highwayman#crimson curse#sif#grimoult#dismas#fletcher#reynauld#hidlegard#caspian#artfight 2023#team werewolf
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