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Short Summary of the previous entries

 


In the beginning of Chapter 8 we learn about Nora's time in a vampire monastery at the foot of the red mountain in Morrowind (about 120 years ago). 

 

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A hostile environment, even for vampires, made even more hostile by the monastery's rules in order keep their beast nature in check and to focus everyone's energy on the study and teachings of blood magic. 

 

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Nora herself is trained and supervised by Master Jaten:

 

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We witness another masters of the monastery approaching Nora tasking her with killing one of the novices she is instructed to inaugurate into the monastery. He threatens to make her secret, forbidden love with Ahtar public. Ahtar himself is one of the higher monks, destined to become one of the masters himself.

 

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Chapter 8 Section 4 - Blood and Ash II

 

 

 

 


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Thanks for reading!
I know that all in all this wasn't the most eventful or exciting entry. As you can imagine things are going to unwind in the upcoming entry and I need more space, meaning a full section with something like 200 Screenshots for that.
So it'll come next time around Christmas and I think it'll be worth the wait. This also has been the third entry in a row without any meaningful erotic content (arguable Section 1 was pretty weak too). That's going to change as well with the next entry (and entries), but sometimes you just need some time to set things up. I know that not everyone is here for the story ;)... non story entries do get a lot more views.

 
 

 

 


 

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I liked this one and I can't wait for the next entry. I like the way you actualy do setups for some erotic content it makes it somewhat more believeable.

 

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Back to morrowind and the church of Bal ?

 

While the entry was not the most eventful, we saw a lot from the Molag Bal ritual, as well the dream aspect, in the actual lore vampires do have nightmares upon turning, so its fun to see returning here this way.

 

Blood magic training, and seems at least implied, horns and blood magic need actually the ritual to be casted and pass the trials. ?

 

Nora seems suprisingly interested in her struggle of the ritual, I thought she would be disinterested, but certainly intriguing, I wonder if she survive or no.

 

Anyway, great job and look forward for more. ?

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3 hours ago, L0rd_Inquisitor said:

I liked this one and I can't wait for the next entry. I like the way you actualy do setups for some erotic content it makes it somewhat more believeable.

 

Thank you very much! The next one is coming some time during the Christmas break. 

2 hours ago, Resdayn said:

Back to morrowind and the church of Bal ?

 

While the entry was not the most eventful, we saw a lot from the Molag Bal ritual, as well the dream aspect, in the actual lore vampires do have nightmares upon turning, so its fun to see returning here this way.

 

Blood magic training, and seems at least implied, horns and blood magic need actually the ritual to be casted and pass the trials. ?

 

Nora seems suprisingly interested in her struggle of the ritual, I thought she would be disinterested, but certainly intriguing, I wonder if she survive or no.

 

Anyway, great job and look forward for more. ?

Thanks!

Her horns itself have nothing to do with the ritual, they just happen to appear around the time she was in that monastery (also they need some time to grow.) They are also already vampires when they take the ritual. It's merely something like a test some might not survive and vampires give it some kind of religious meaning.

 

 

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1 hour ago, Alter Native said:

 

Thanks!

Her horns itself have nothing to do with the ritual, they just happen to appear around the time she was in that monastery (also they need some time to grow.) They are also already vampires when they take the ritual. It's merely something like a test some might not survive and vampires give it some kind of religious meaning.

 

 

Ahhh, thanks for clearing it.

 

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I could stare at the screenshot of that chandelier for hours. ? It gives off an aura of grandeur mixed with mystery and sets the perfect mood for those chapters where Nora is in her castle.

 

As you know I'm one of the people who are here for the story (of course gorgeous and enticing screenshots are a huge bonus, but seriously - the story is great!) and with that being said - Yes!!! More of the monastery plot-line! ? I love how you showed the regenerative properties of drinking blood for the vampire. Poor Nora looks so haggard in the beginning due to her starvation and then she turns into her usual, flawless self after a bloody snack. 

 

After feeding your vampires are usually a bit sex-crazed. Was Nora unable to concentrate in the first part of her fight training because of the feelings of lust or because she was thinking about the evening and her assignment to kill the initiate? ?

 

Her declaration about growing horns was kind of adorable. Sort of like baby's first teeth. ? The constant glimpses of Molag Bal's mask on the wall when she talks about the horns and when she stabs the young vampire were also very nice and symbolic touches.

 

Now for the most curious part - the vampire kingdom?! Do we get to learn more about it later on? There seems to be a political subplot somewhere in the story with a certain faction getting rid of the royal descendants (or just that one vampire). Can't wait for more!

 

Thank you for the tremendous work that you put into these stories and for sharing them with us! ?

 

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Ahhh, so we finally get the second chaper of Morrowind's vampire monastery. Liked the graphical ambiance just as much as the first one, with a delectable mix of dust, blood, shadows and fires. The present time part was also a treat in terms of visual, though I wonder if your current setup doesn't adds some grain of some sort. The blood magic training also felt great at first, yet it then concluded on what seemed like a regular vampiric drain cast. Great direction as always, with excellent ambiguities/thrills about Nora being able not to kill or not her feeding target, and about her sparing or not the initiate. Like the parallel about Hannah's situation and the monks onces, it was also an elegant way to introduce both of them. I didn't expected her to undergo the schemers orders though, but I guess it was a foreshadowing of her personality in that kind of situations, as Eric's case later told us. Anyway, excellently setup read, which completely made-up for the absence of sex scene in my eyes. Great entry ! :D?

 

Malicia : « Looks like she was training to put knives in others people's body, uh. She was already very meany. :classic_sleep: »

 

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12 hours ago, Devianna said:

I could stare at the screenshot of that chandelier for hours. ? It gives off an aura of grandeur mixed with mystery and sets the perfect mood for those chapters where Nora is in her castle.

Thanks, I try to establish certain recognizable images for specific locations of my story. For example you'll always see the two bloody goblets in her bedroom.

12 hours ago, Devianna said:

After feeding your vampires are usually a bit sex-crazed. Was Nora unable to concentrate in the first part of her fight training because of the feelings of lust or because she was thinking about the evening and her assignment to kill the initiate? ?

It's not just about being sex-crazed it's about your primitive animalistic instincts taking over, one of them is of course the sex drive, but in general they become irrational, hungry beasts and the more rational civilized  nature gets weaker. So it just gets harder for them to focus as that requires some level of self control and discipline. 

 

12 hours ago, Devianna said:

Her declaration about growing horns was kind of adorable. Sort of like baby's first teeth. ? The constant glimpses of Molag Bal's mask on the wall when she talks about the horns and when she stabs the young vampire were also very nice and symbolic touches.

Thanks, glad you like it :). I wanted to make clear why it's seen a virtue to grow horns as a vampire, which only some due, like Nora or the Queen (and others). It's not that common and typically those people are admired for that.

12 hours ago, Devianna said:

Now for the most curious part - the vampire kingdom?! Do we get to learn more about it later on? There seems to be a political subplot somewhere in the story with a certain faction getting rid of the royal descendants (or just that one vampire). Can't wait for more!

I'm not to happy about that part. I think I mentioned some time earlier in the story, that there are three kingdoms, not just the one Nora is living in, but for the story's sake I needed her to kill someone important and make her know about it, so him revealing his identity in a fever dream felt like a good idea, but I'm not to happy with that. 

12 hours ago, Devianna said:

Thank you for the tremendous work that you put into these stories and for sharing them with us! ?

 

Thank you :heart:

 

6 hours ago, Jayomms said:

Hey!... It's Good to have story content. :wink::thumbsup:

Thanks!

1 hour ago, Tirloque said:

Ahhh, so we finally get the second chaper of Morrowind's vampire monastery. Liked the graphical ambiance just as much as the first one, with a delectable mix of dust, blood, shadows and fires. The present time part was also a treat in terms of visual, though I wonder if your current setup doesn't adds some grain of some sort.

Most of these screenshots are pretty old. I think I had a problem with the black levels of my ENB or the transition between them, which is very noticable in this section... I'm not sure. 

1 hour ago, Tirloque said:

The blood magic training also felt great at first, yet it then concluded on what seemed like a regular vampiric drain cast.

As you know doing magic is pretty hard in stories, especially if you don't want to shoot in open combat. With just poses it's pretty much impossible to get a good magic fighting scene. Your best bet is probably posing them and afterwards photoshop the hell out of it. 

I only had to effects that kind of looked good, like the drain and this cone/blood shield... I would like to do more interesting stuff, but so far I'm lacking good methods to do that ingame. 

1 hour ago, Tirloque said:

Great direction as always, with excellent ambiguities/thrills about Nora being able not to kill or not her feeding target, and about her sparing or not the initiate. Like the parallel about Hannah's situation and the monks onces, it was also an elegant way to introduce both of them.

That's why it took so long for the monastery plot to return, I needed the Hannah part from last section to introduce some of the elements properly. 

1 hour ago, Tirloque said:

I didn't expected her to undergo the schemers orders though, but I guess it was a foreshadowing of her personality in that kind of situations, as Eric's case later told us. Anyway, excellently setup read, which completely made-up for the absence of sex scene in my eyes. Great entry ! :D?

Well I think by now we know that she does whatever it takes and what's best for herself. If that means undergoing the scheme then she does that. I'm not sure what other options there would have been. She could have probably talked to her master (Father) about that, but of course in that case her secret affair would have been reveled. Which would led to punishment for herself and Ahtar.

Even if she wouldn't mind her own the punishment that much and could endure it, Ahtar would have been in serious trouble. He's supposed to ascend to a Master himself (he's a monk of a higher rang) and breaking the rules that openly would have much more serious consequences for him. I think I mentioned that at some point in the last entry (Section 1), but I might not have been entirely clear on that and I also can't expect people to know that after 6 weeks....

But yes, the situation is a bit more tricky and I think it's totally in character for her to murder that guy.

 

1 hour ago, Tirloque said:

Malicia : « Looks like she was training to put knifes in others people's body, uh. She was already very meany. :classic_sleep: »

She was already pretty meany before she was training to put knifes in other people's body ;) .

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Excellent work.  I still love Nora very much. I think I can understand why is she the way she is but I will not write it because I might be misunderstood. However, I love her and I like her :)

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Damn thats cool. Amazing lights and surroundings. I'm just mad of this Bal church!
Guess significant amount of psychotrauma can be received, if one pases throu all that stuff that Nora have passed.

Tho it seems I missed something and didn't fully understand Nora motives when she killed that guy...

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4 hours ago, Elf Prince said:

Excellent work.  I still love Nora very much. I think I can understand why is she the way she is but I will not write it because I might be misunderstood. However, I love her and I like her :)

Thank you very much!

23 minutes ago, Crw said:

Damn thats cool. Amazing lights and surroundings. I'm just mad of this Bal church!
Guess significant amount of psychotrauma can be received, if one pases throu all that stuff that Nora have passed.

Tho it seems I missed something and didn't fully understand Nora motives when she killed that guy...

Thanks. The monestary is supposed to be tough and hard. In a way it needs to be scaled to my vampires that are tough (maybe not mentally but at least physically).

The motive for her killing the guy was somewhat explained in chapter 8 section 1 which was about 6 weeks ago, so it's understandable that it's easy too miss.

Check my answer to Tirloque for details.

 

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Nora has such a diverse backstory. Every glimpse into her past reveals more of who she is and I just love how complex she is. I'm really excited to discover more of Nora's religious views. You've got me hooked! :D

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4 hours ago, Collygon said:

Nora has such a diverse backstory. Every glimpse into her past reveals more of who she is and I just love how complex she is. I'm really excited to discover more of Nora's religious views. You've got me hooked! :D

Thank you very much :). We'll have a bit more backstory before we go back to red haired Nora ;) .

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