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Official character art of Coen holding a rune-marked sword

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Coen

Coen is the playable Dawnwalker: human by day and empowered by his vampiric nature at night. His immediate goal is to rescue his family from the vampires ruling the vale.

Official character art of Brencis in spiked armor

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Brencis

Brencis is the vampire ruler of Vale Sangora. He earned support by ending the chaos of the plague years, but the true cost of his rule becomes visible from Greifberg Castle.

Official character art of Lacra in blue and red clothing with a bow

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Lacra

Lacra is a vrakhir whose purpose conflicts with Brencis. She claims someone sent her to Vale Sangora to remove the new Knyaz.

Official character art of Anca holding a book and showing runes on her wrist

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Anca

Anca patiently guides Coen, teaches him to read, and leads him toward the witchcraft available during the day. She also carries an unrevealed secret of her own.

Official character art of Marat wearing mail and carrying a sword

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Marat

Marat leads the uprising against vampire rule. He is brave and charismatic enough to win loyalty, yet fear of betrayal keeps him from fully trusting others.

Official character art of Xanthe holding her hands like vampiric claws

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Xanthe

Xanthe controls the southeast and is Vale Sangora's oldest vampire. She researches supernatural advantages for Brencis's army and expands the Blood Guards.

Official character art of Ambrus wearing ornate mail

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Ambrus

Ambrus controls the north and manages the regime's human-blood supply, from draining prisoners to transport and storage. Brencis turned him only when the old order fell.

Official character art of Bakir with a metal mask at his belt

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Bakir

Bakir is the experienced and cruel Mad Khan of the southwest. He distributes rewards for the regime and turns public punishment into a theater of fear.

Official view of Vale Sangora with a village and the Carpathian Mountains in sunset light

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Vale Sangora

Vale Sangora is the main setting: an isolated pocket of the Carpathians where old legends, monsters, and a vampire regime have all become real.

Official panorama of Svartrau, with walls and a cathedral overlooking the vale at sunset

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Svartrau

Svartrau is the capital and only true city in Vale Sangora, enriched by the silver trade. Merchants and power occupy the surface, while cellars, caves, and ancient structures run below.

Official view of a wintry village with bare trees, wooden houses, and snowy mountains

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Laslea

Laslea is the remote village where Coen was born and raised. The Black Death devastated the settlement and pushed both his family and the old order toward collapse.

Official view of a mountain castle with morning light rising behind its stone walls and towers

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Greifberg Castle

Greifberg Castle rises above Svartrau as Brencis's residence and the seat from which the vampire regime looks over the vale.

Official environmental art of ancient mountain ruins and a tower, used to evoke the legend of Howling Keep

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Howling Keep

Howling Keep is a legendary place deep in the Tantari Woods. Locals say it sometimes overlooks the canopy and sometimes vanishes, while its Lady in Black decides who finds the entrance.

Official screenshot of Coen crossing a dense autumnal forest in Vale Sangora

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Tantari Woods

Tantari Woods is a dense and unusually foreboding forest within Vale Sangora. Official lore places the legendary Howling Keep deep among its trees.

Official scene of Coen facing a burning city, evoking the day-night system and story pressure

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Day, Night & the 30-day Clock

Coen has 30 in-game days to prevent his family from being executed, but this is not a real-time countdown. Only specific objectives, quests, and deliberate day-night switches advance world time.

Official screenshot of Coen attacking an enemy at close range with a sword

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Swordmastery

Swordmastery emphasizes reading attacks, positioning, timing, and commitment. Players can use automatically directed omnidirectional attacks and blocks or select directions manually.

Official screenshot of Anca carving witchcraft runes into Coen's arm

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Witchcraft

Witchcraft is Coen's supernatural daytime path. Power enters his body through runes cut into the skin; at night the wounds close and the runes stop working.

Official screenshot of Coen fighting a winged creature, representing vampiric power and close combat

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Vampiric Abilities

Vampiric abilities awaken at night, giving Coen claws, heightened senses, and vertical movement. Deeper corruption opens stronger powers, but most demand a sacrifice.

Official screenshot of a pale vampiric figure standing before fire, used to represent the danger of Blood Hunger

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Blood Hunger

Blood Hunger is an active nighttime constraint. If Coen remains blood-starved, he may lose control of his body and attack an NPC to drain their blood.

Official close-up of Coen with arm runes representing the game's progression paths

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Character Progression

Coen has three ability paths: Swordmastery, Witchcraft, and Vampiric powers. They share experience and skill points, but each path also has its own knowledge or corruption gates.

Official bestiary card showing a masked Blood Guard in red and black armor

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Blood Guards

Blood Guards are humans bound by dark rites and placed under the influence of vrakhiri blood. The Xanthe encounter shown officially includes three dual-wielding guards stronger than ordinary humans.

Official bestiary card showing a lean, long-limbed Kobold

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Kobold

Kobolds are sentient, mostly subterranean monsters that treat mines and caves as their territory. They know the tunnels and attack distracted prey in groups.

Official bestiary card showing a wrapped Ancient Undead guardian

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Ancient Undead

Ancient Undead are animated human corpses found in sealed tombs and ruins. They were once warriors or guardians and remain bound to a duty after everything human has gone.

Official bestiary card showing a corrupted, wolf-like Psoglav

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Psoglav

A Psoglav is a canine transformed when a vrakhiri fang lodges in its body. What survives becomes a corrupted predator driven by a hunger for fresh blood.

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