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The story goes that a long time ago, before Xyrisa developed their steampunk technology and became an advanced society around fifteen-hundred years ago, a large chunk of the land was terrorized by an elder vampire, a dragon with an unknown degree of feline heritage who preyed to his heart's content on the agnostic land that had no gods to protect it, save missionaries of the Celestial Demense who preached for Thelir's protection. In my recent visit to the Hells for mentoring, I chanced to meet him and I was... a little caught off guard.

As I've mentioned in the past with my notes on Nimeria, the Hell of Lust looks fondly on vampires and pities them for their bloodlust, which many vampires did not willingly consent to. Because of this, so long as they don't cross any truly irredeemable lines the Lord of Lust will welcome the vampire into their court.

Imetus is Nimeria's mate, the one that she awaits an eventual reunion with when she herself meets her end. Nimeria fell madly in love with Imetus after the vampire saved her from bandits who razed her church and planned to keep her as a slave to commit unforgivable deeds to. Though Imetus rebuked her at first, Nimeria persisted in following him and once he decided to humor her, that was it. The two fell madly in love, and in time Nimeria forsook both god and mortality to join him in an eternal romance as the only vampire he would ever sire.

Though his newfound love softened his heart, Imetus had many a crime to answer for in the world of the living, and mortals with a grudge eventually gained an edge on him and ended his unlife, whereupon he was brought to Yalauth and given the offer they posed to every vampire - become their servant, swallow their vampiric pride, and Yalauth would make them one of their demons and cleanse that disease of the soul.

To the envy of many, the fact that Nimeria and Imetus' love was never corrupted into something cruel or abusive because of vampirism (to their confusion as much as anyone else's) meant the Sin Lord was particularly interested in the couple, so their contract to become a demon was one signed directly with the Lord, which means that they'll make for particularly powerful incubus and succubus. However, the vampire's curse is a disease that burrows itself into one's very soul - if not cleansed by wishing to be cured when their sire dies, unweaving the curse of vampirism manually is a very long, very arduous and occasionally very painful process, thus while most who ascend to demons have their ascension finished in a few decades, a century at most, Imetus' transformation into a demon is only in its final stages eleven-hundred years later.

The historical records describe Imetus the Dragon as a monster, a creature of nightmares manifest... the Imetus I met was entirely different than the stories told, he had a controlled, suave and charming air about him. I never smelled violent intention or bloodlust (the other types of lust though...), which tells me that for all ironies, his years as an incubus in the making have significantly mellowed him out. He's content to treat his infernal paradise as a retirement he spends happily, enjoying the pleasures that comes with being a demon of lust as he awaits his beloved Nimeria to join him down there and begin her own change to a succubus. He also doted on Lucien, of all people, apparently having formed a polycule with him and Nimeria because Nimeria and Lucien fell for each other, and he found his presence preferable as well.

The only other thing I really noted is that it seemed as though Imetus... really doesn't like clothes. The entire time we were interacting he was basically nude, but a constant cloud of magical mist served to censor anything I could see basically perfectly. He told me he lengthens or shortens it at will for varying levels of "dress" and drops it entirely when it's time for some fun, but that's for another time.

- Veluren Thanazel's private notes.

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I have a few backlogged refs I still need to upload, so on to the next one!

For the longest time, I was content to leave Nimeria's mate as a background character, but talking, thinking, planning and worldbuilding with Lurker eventually created the drive to go ahead with having him made a proper character. This came with the chance to get this fluffy dragon adopt from Corganda, and then to further have some alterations done to him to make his design consistent with the rest of Lurker's demon characters. This actually makes him my first character that strictly belongs to Lurker's hell instead of living on Sedd proper (since Aqunos' demon form is non-canon for now).

I dig the design a lot as being kind of hunky eye candy fitting an incubus, and I'm pleased with the idea of having a magical censor covering him up when he despises clothes as an incubus. Naturally though... a lot of what I get with him in the future will not be wholesome.

Imetus belongs to me! Nimeria (mentioned in the story) also belongs to me.

The other characters mentioned in the story above belong to  ThatRandomLurkingGuy

Adopt artwork/edits done by  Cori!