EMP 001 ● JUNE 2025

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  Behold, an opportunity to gather.

Welcome to Somnia's first EMP! This is the place to be if you're interested in the game's setting, if you're unsure about who you'd like to bring or if you just want to check out the vibes. Remember that the EMP is open to all, and you don't need an invite to participate in the slightest!

Dates to note are as follows:

- TDM: June 7th
- RESERVES: June 21st
- APPS: June 22nd - 26th
- GAME START: July 1st

An opportunity for players who do not have invites to post their interest in receiving one will be available on the TDM as a mod comment to reply to. Just like our EMP, you do not need an invite to participate in the TDM, either (only to reserve and app). Mod-run invites will also be available then, so I thank you kindly for your patience!

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[brewedwithspite]

ᛗ PLAYER
Name: Duke
Contact: PM For new friends.

ᛗ CHARACTER
Name: Lucanis Dellamorte
Canon: Dragon Age: The Veilguard
Blurp:
Lucanis is an expert assassin specializing in the execution of powerful blood mages.
After killing a high profile supremacist blood mage, he earned himself the title "The Demon of Vyrantium" and caught the eye of a magister who later captured Lucanis and forcefully inserted a demon of Spite into his body.

It is unheard of for a demon to possess a non-mage, and even if it wasn't, the binding is typically a consensual agreement between mage and demon. In Lucanis and Spite's case, theirs was unwanted on both sides, and therefore the two of them made an agreement in the name of vengeance.

Lucanis is an introvert, an insomniac, a workaholic, a lover of coffee, and a fan of trashy romance novels. He isn't used to working with a team, but he loves caring for them and cooking for them. He has trouble articulating his feelings and is his own worst critic, but deep down all he craves is acceptance.

Vessel Type & General ideas:
I would like to make him an offering, and ideally a VALKERIE. Wings are his whole thing. I could live with DRAKE or DAEMON; honestly just interested in a form that offers him a lot of the stuff he deals with already in canon.

I am more generally excited about having him cope within a dreamlike world. I love building CR with him, particularly cross-canon, and I am still determining how I will app him as far as in-game choices go. Definitely going unromanced, but I am not yet certain if I will make him 'hardened' or not.

[fogsong]

Lucanis!!! He might've been my favorite of the Veilguard crew. Then again, I'm a sucker for characters that make pacts with demons. He would def be fun to explore in Somnia's setting, and I love the idea of him being a Valkerie!

IDK how these two would get along, but I'll def keep an eye out for your tl when the tdm rolls around!

[brewedwithspite]

Me tooooo.

I find he's generally pretty easy to get along with as long as he's shown a normal amount of respect and kindness. But because he's shy it just takes some patience with him ♡

[vocalistyodels]

I've not played Veilguard yet, or finished Inquisition whoops, but I see a lot of Lucanis about online and what can I say I'm a sucker for a man with demons, literal or otherwise.

[brewedwithspite]

Haha it's okay ♡

ON THE FLIP SIDE-- I am very familiar with your character and excited to see him here ♡♡♡ I also play a FO character (Deacon from FO4) on DW and do a lot of FO TTRPGs.

I think that given some patience with one another these two *could* get along, but it would be a rocky start.

[vocalistyodels]

ONE DAY I'LL DO IT.

Oh Deacon, that silly scamp. Admittedly I've only played 3, NV and 4, one day I do want to dig into 1 and 2. Never done TTRPGs myself, but that must be super fun!

Haha, when it comes to Cooper all of his CR will be a rocky start, but that's half the fun~

[brewedwithspite]

Honestly I've never played 1 or 2 either.

IT DEFINITELY will be fun. But we love to find those soft spots eventually ♡

[vocalistyodels]

Me starting to replay BG1 and 2 like maybe I should do Fallout lol

And heck yeah, I love that shit. Cooper's old bitter heart has already been softened just a wee bit with Lucky and Dogmeat, we'll crack him open more. Eventually.

[brewedwithspite]

oh bbghoul just jump into 3 like the rest of us hah

Yesss I'm so looking forward to this!

[vocalistyodels]

Oh don't you worry, I've already run through the game twice. I'd almost beaten BG1 aaaaaages ago, but they had the packaged 1 and 2 on PSN sooooo... FINALLY beat both lol

Also with LUCY, autocorrect really making me look foolish. But yeah super excited for all the possible interactions from all the characters I've seen on here so far!

[brewedwithspite]

Aaahaha oh good. I've never had the time but recent schedule changes may have presented the opportunity.

Ah I knew what you meant, as the lord of all typos myself. Also no but call Lucanis lucy!! I play him in another game rn and a character actually does and he tolerates it lmao

[vocalistyodels]

Time is the enemy, truly.

If not Lucky he will most certainly come up with a nickname to call him, don't you worry.

[faa]

VALKERIE 🤝

I would love for these two to connect over that on the TDM, because Freddie, too, is going to be a Valkerie (deets on what I'm picturing here) and he is nottt going to be able to immediately figure out his wings. Please teach him!!!

[brewedwithspite]

I would be happy for Lu to teach him, but need to be up front that eating disorders are pretty triggering to me since it sounds like it's a major part of the character. I'm not sure how much that comes up in your tags. Lu is very much a mother hen and cooks for his friends frequently with a focus on making sure they're eating well, so I do think he could be very helpful for this character in more ways than one, but I don't know how you feel about limiting certain themes with me.

[faa]

Thank you for being upfront and honest about that, I seriously appreciate it. Apologies if that put you on the spot! Ngl I read permissions before asking but was early AM pinging in a hurry before work and was more skimming and admittedly missed that but should have been paying way closer attention given the Everything. I have a recovery arc planned early ingame but at this point in his narrative it's affecting his body so I will definitely steer clear and jot the opt-out down so I don't forget!

That said I actually do have another character who would ALSO need to learn to use his wings over at bellylanding and have been contemplating maybe doing similar with tennisgrip if either of them would appeal! I'm also cool with just steering clear generally if you'd be more comfortable with that!

[brewedwithspite]

It's okay ♡ I am still cool with the CR if it can be avoided as a topic. Definitely okay with either of the other characters too!

[faa]

I think it will definitely be avoidable by a few months into the game, yes! Would love to revisit it once he's started rebuilding positive associations with food/allowing himself to enjoy things and trying to rebuild his body and take care of himself so that he can fly!!

Especially with the food as love and companionship theme there vs Freddie's like ongoing desperate need for interpersonal connection - in particular because he was not a deliberate child and while he wasn't unloved, his parents were just sort of "meh" about the whole thing and neither of them really did much special to convey affection through food. And natch it was like, Kid Cuisine and Kraft Microwaveable Mac N Cheese Cup (or Chef Boyardee...) on dad's custody days, so someone making something special for him specifically as a gesture of fondness on an occasion other than like, a birthday, would be both very alien to him and deeply meaningful because in addition to seeking closeness he wants to feel valued in a way that his childhood never fulfilled!! And that would for sure meet that need!! Man finally offered a sip of water in the desert!

[brewedwithspite]

Ooo okay! Similar childhood dynamics there *kinda* - Idk if you are canon-familiar or not but ignore me if you are... Lu was raised by his grandmother who was the head of a guild of assassins basically, and so from childhood he was brutally trained for the job. Food was withheld and he definitely didn't receive any real parental affection. Family is important to him but it's just because it's all he knows, and he never had friends outside of his cousin.

FFW to current day, he has a deep desire for connection to others and shows his own affection via acts of service. He enjoys cooking and so it just seems to follow that through it is how he shows his love. He has never felt valued either, and deeply needs to be told he's 'enough'.

[faa]

So I absolutely am not canon familiar at all and very much appreciate the blurb (and also you having an infosheet for those of us who watch like one weird show per year and play like no games lmaooo).

SO FIRST OF ALL the acts of service would HIT for Mr. Frédéric bc he basically just felt like he was just sort of There as a child and an interloper in his parents' lives. Like yeah, they did things like take him to the zoo sometimes, but once he started making friends and visiting people's houses it became apparent to him that their relationships were different and more overtly loving. Then he was in the military for 10 years, where the credo is just sort of "stop whining about it", so someone making a point of doing something for him would stop him in his tracks!! Because it conveys that he is important enough to be worth carving out a slot of time for!

ALSO

》 deeply needs to be told he's 'enough'.

The way this is like. Freddie's whole other issue!! 🤝🤝🤝 As a kid he eventually learned that a lot of parents stay together "for the kid" and wait until they move out to divorce, so his parents splitting even despite both being Catholic and disapproving of divorce effectively led him to draw the conclusion that the other kids were somehow better than him and "worth" staying together for, whereas he was not - and then growing up feeling a degree of absence of parental connection, the natural response pretty much any child/teenager is going to have is to wonder what's wrong with them and how they can make themselves loveable enough to solicit the affection they are not receiving. So then when his efforts at connection-seeking just didn't return the yield he was trying for, eventually he sort of slid into a degree of "it is what it is" apathy.

Then fast forward and this same kid is now an adult man who gets cheated on, and natch his immediate response is to internalize it as him not being "enough" to fully meet her needs and keep her content in a relationship with only him as opposed to just. Sometimes people do shitty things like cheat and you can't do anything to prevent it or somehow "earn it", because his background has primed him and instilled this belief that something about him is innately Not Enough compared to other people, which obviously (to him) explains the cheating.

and then that sort of plunged him off the deep end into a freefall of seeking as many instant-gratification connection-adjacent encounters without the emotional risk of trying to build a friendship or relationship and then being mistreated or the relationship being lopsided as he can find. But because he is DTF any gender that doesn't really make it easy to bond because there aren't really many categories of people his age that he won't first try to make a pass at for the much easier (but less satisfying) validation hit of sex vs the slowburn of friendship... but then once he initiates a sexual relationship he is gonna panic and ghost after like 2 meetups!! Endless cycle!

Not to be That Person who dumps paragraphs about their Special Little Guy but the parallels... They're so juicy... Lu please hold this strange lonely man in your cupped hands like a confused baby bird and feed him millet

[brewedwithspite]

Oh goodness! WELL its okay because there are more parallels to be found. Lu hasn't been cheated on because he has never been in a relationship and is a 35-year-old virgin canonically unless the player character romances him. BUT he was deeply betrayed by his closest family/best friend/cousin-brother (cousins but both raised by grandmom so having the dynamic of brothers) which is what lead to Lu spending a year being tortured and stuffed with a demon. ANYWAY.

He is panromantic and demisexual. He is not sex adverse, he just has always been married to his job and does not feel attraction to others unless he develops feelings for them first, and in the past his feelings were not generally reciprocated.

He is EXTREMELY awkward when he realizes he has feelings for someone because he too doesn't want to deal with the rejection, etc. He reads a lot of romance novels and his cousin has always been a big flirt so he knows how to emulate what he has read/seen and turn it on, but then often panics when it becomes 'too real'.

I dump this info not just because of parallels but also to warn you/anyone reading this that any relationships with Lu will be super slow burn for those reasons... but once he's in, he's LOCKED IN and says the most heart-wrenching, poetic, romantic shit you've ever heard.

And then there's Spite. Who I haven't really mentioned in our discussion but is worth mentioning now because I firmly believe that the way to Lucanis' heart is actually through Spite. If someone can accept the demon he's bound to, not only does Lucanis feel more comfortable being accepted himself, but Spite has a habit of encouraging Lucanis. He's actually a very good boy once he's being listened to, but most people write him off immediately because 'demon'. And frankly idk why they would bc two boyfriends for the price of one?? come on.

[faa]

YESS.... YESSS.... HAHAHA <- sickos (me)

》being tortured and stuffed with a demon. ANYWAY.

man it really is like that sometimes... RELATABLE

Vis-a-vis panicking when things start getting too real, if he ends up developing feelings for another character I would like to volunteer my extremely unqualified blorbo to give him relationship """advice""" despite dealing with the same issues because god knows that won't stop him! I have to admit I love that whole Genre of thread ESPECIALLY if it's bad advice that he's giving. Cannot emphasize how much he is NOT qualified to be giving relationship advice on intimacy issues.

He bonds by spending time and doing things though so!! He is trying to make friends on the playground here!

Also this is absolutely insane of him but like depending on the relationship Lu seems to have with Spite this mf really might get envious of a Possession. He needs a pet so bad it's unreal

[brewedwithspite]

(also me)

I'm down for bad advice always. He does the exact same shit. Literally in canon he gives a colleague advice and then when he's later thanked for it he admits it's never worked for him. So there's that.

Lu and Spite have their ups and downs. It's really dependent on canon choices but I do like playing them getting along.