We are getting close to Halloween, and what better way to welcome the spooky recurrence than with a creature of the night such as this fine vampiress~?
And there’s more to her: she is even the mother of my other cervine lady, Glynne Hewynsdònnir, hence the name…
Imagine her initial awe when seeing her long-lost parent alive and well once more… followed by the sheer horror of realizing she is no longer the nurturing mother she remembered, but an ill-minded, life-draining vampiress no less, seeking to outlive her own offspring!
But Hewyn doesn’t consume only blood: the vampirism has twisted and corrupted the magical bond her kind normally enjoys with Nature, making her crave the very life-force running through the earth and its plants! She may spare the blood of innocent people this way, only to bring famine to their lands as crops and forests whither with her touch…
Artwork by
Trishields
Posted using PostyBirb
And there’s more to her: she is even the mother of my other cervine lady, Glynne Hewynsdònnir, hence the name…
Imagine her initial awe when seeing her long-lost parent alive and well once more… followed by the sheer horror of realizing she is no longer the nurturing mother she remembered, but an ill-minded, life-draining vampiress no less, seeking to outlive her own offspring!
But Hewyn doesn’t consume only blood: the vampirism has twisted and corrupted the magical bond her kind normally enjoys with Nature, making her crave the very life-force running through the earth and its plants! She may spare the blood of innocent people this way, only to bring famine to their lands as crops and forests whither with her touch…
Artwork by
TrishieldsPosted using PostyBirb
Category Artwork (Digital) / All
Species Satyr
Size 1912 x 1927px
File Size 2.74 MB
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I don't think there's any one true correct thing in this case.
We can use whatever we want as long as it gets the point across.
But, in terms of official things.. 'Wiktionary' has an entry for 'vampiress' but not for 'vampress', so perhaps that means vampiress is more correct.
I used to gauge things like this based on how many search results they got. Google used to say how many results a given search had, but now it doesn't. If 'vampiress' returned millions of results and 'vampress' returned only like 15,000, then there would be a clear winner.
If the word 'vampiress' was in common usage though, I suspect that, over time, people saying it would naturally truncate it into something smoother and easier to say. Over decades or longer, it would morph into "vampress"
We can use whatever we want as long as it gets the point across.
But, in terms of official things.. 'Wiktionary' has an entry for 'vampiress' but not for 'vampress', so perhaps that means vampiress is more correct.
I used to gauge things like this based on how many search results they got. Google used to say how many results a given search had, but now it doesn't. If 'vampiress' returned millions of results and 'vampress' returned only like 15,000, then there would be a clear winner.
If the word 'vampiress' was in common usage though, I suspect that, over time, people saying it would naturally truncate it into something smoother and easier to say. Over decades or longer, it would morph into "vampress"
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