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Ride A Pale Horse

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Here's my entry for the Valentine's Day Contest at #OriginalWoD

Or rather - here's the sketch of my entry, as my entry.
I had wanted to paint this, but I've been repeatedly struck down by illness for weeks now and I just didn't manage it :(

I hope you like it anyway..


This is my malnourished Cappadocian Dark Ages Vampire, also featured here - [link] . Naz bt. hicbiri (Naz, daughter of none), displaced daughter of a Turkish noble family, disinherited for her incorrigible fascination with the sick and dying and for transgressions thereby.

Unlike most Cappadocians she doesn't suffer from the Clan Weakness which causes their bodies to decay and corpsify; instead, her condition manifested externally. Where she walks, the grass and insects die around her. Humans and animals tire easily in her presence, effectively losing vitality to her aura of death and decay. As such they tend to avoid her whenever possible.

The Valentine's subject is chosen due to this; as a mortal, Naz was very fond of riding and had her own favourite mount which she took with her when exiled. Her liking for and understanding of the equine species is one of the few vaguely humanistic characteristics left to the Graverobber.. but at the same time that pesky Weakness/Flaw robs her of the ability to enjoy such rare pleasures. Any horse that carries Naz starts to quickly tire and fail as she quite literally rides them to death.

She's trying to calm it, but even as she touches the creature she drains it of its vitality and it struggles to escape.

She also lacks the Discipline of Animalism, so animals she has not personally trained or Ghouled tend to react to her in the same way they do to the majority of the Embraced; fear, suspicion, dislike and terror.

I know this is quite a dark and unusual subject for a romantic competition, but hey - it counts as her greatest love outside of the generic 'love of study', and frankly I thought it was fun :)


Used the stock photography of ~Valarian-Warrior [link] and ~cva-stock [link] [link]
with some reference for the hand from [link]
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KiraMe0w's avatar
This is so pretty  ;A;

I want to ask permission from you if I can use this picture as a reference to a drawing I might post later on..
if that's okay with you....  Llama Emoji-10 (Shy) [V1]