![]() To sing and dance along to the tune of the tottering Squiffy Ghast is to quicken the heart to bursting and forsake all attachment to wholesome, surface-dwelling life. ![]() In these melodies there is no joy or reverie to be found, only madness and death. In the comfort of bright candlelight, mariners speak of briny corpses rising from the depths and taking up a barnacled bow to draw out faded memories of revelries long since past. As the bloodlust takes hold, they undergo a horrifying metamorphosis, and show the true monster that is hidden underneath.When the moon waxes terrible, aethereal harmonies begin to cascade through the hollow grottos of the Cove and out into the surrounding environs, haunting the dreams of any and all who dwell nearby with visions of mossy crevices and the unspeakable horrors of the sea. While they still retain a small fragment of their humanity, it only takes the scent of a single drop of fresh blood to send them into a murderous frenzy. Once the loveliest and most beautiful maidens in the Court, they have since become bloodthirsty and twisted parodies of themselves. However, when the Crimson Curse infested the Courtyard, it quickly jumped from host to host in the heat of passion among the web of adulterous relationships and affairs. ![]() Courtesans were well-educated and independent women who attended the court, trained artists or artisans of dance and singing, especially one associated with wealthy, powerful, or upper-class society who were given luxuries and status in exchange for entertainment and companionship. A similar term is concubine, though it has a slightly different meaning. ![]() ![]() Hidden under a thin veil of fake sophistication and nobility, these creatures are little more than insane beasts with an insatiable thirst for flesh and blood.Ĭourtesans were women with whom the Men of the Court had a relationship, but were not married to. Most horrifically, they will continue to believe that they are human, all the while their minds slowly subsume to delusions, madness and bestial instinct. Those inflicted by the Crimson Curse will slowly but surely change in horrific ways: their noses will elongate into a needle-like proboscis, their skin will turn deathly pale, their eyes will grow into large, black, unblinking spheres, and their teeth will fall out, only to be replaced by sharp fangs. ![]()
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