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Harlot Spotlight - Calliophi
🕑 Added 2024-07-12 14:34:52 +0000 UTCI might make Friday the regular day for these going forwards. It might make the middle of the week less crowded, especially as I'm likely to be posting harlot profiles now as well.
It's time to leave the 'filler' harlots behind and move onto the 3rd faction. First up for them is the adorable lamia masseuse, Calliophi.
The third faction is all about sensuality. It's also been a group that's given me a surprising amount of trouble, and that might in part be down to Calliophi.
I wanted to vary the characters so they weren't all hungry succubus murderwhores. This led to creating Calliophi, a very sweet and mild-mannered snake girl, who is a member of the Devotees of Priti Nāndyāh, a lust daemon cult that regards bringing pleasure as far more important than satisfying hungers... sort of.
Compared to the smother faction and artificial beings, the sensuality faction is a bit of a mess. With her sensual soapy massages, Sapoonis fits the theme for this faction, but also has no qualms about melting a man's hands off should he displease her. It also presents problems when getting to the higher tiers and dealing with harlots that very much want to kill the player if they can.
That is the one problem with creating the harlots as individuals and then trying to assign them to different groupings afterwards. Harlots that fit thematically, don't really fit within the lore.
At the moment I've wrestled it into Priti Nāndyāh having multiple facets. At the lower levels are harlots like Calliophi, who strictly adhere to the 'pleasure only' part of the teachings. Higher up, you get harlots like Sasori Oiran, who are also very competent and dangerous assassins. Because of their devotion to the arts of sensual pleasure, members of the cult make very good courtesans. And very good courtesans also make extremely good spies and assassins...
Which makes for interesting flavour for the group as a whole.
And how to wrap that up in the religious beliefs of a pleasure cult? I think the best explanation to place Calliophi and Sasori is the belief in the importance of pleasure. Calliophi believes in using it for purely therapeutic means. Sasori cannot kill unless she has shown the target the pinnacle of ecstasy beforehand. Indeed, for quite a few of Priti Nāndyāh's assassin followers, showing the target the absolute pinnacle of ecstasy will also kill them as their bodies and minds cannot handle it.
The remaining trickier question is how does that distinguish them from other lust daemons in general, considering they also have to fuck a human's brains out before they can claim their soul. That probably comes down to the sensual aspects. A regular succubus will give a man (or woman) a really good fuck and then take their energy/soul. The suffocatrices of The Sanctum of Strangulated Sighs will work in erotic asphyxiation to increase the intensity of the orgasm. The Devotees of Priti Nāndyāh like to take their time and completely drown their prey in sensual pleasures (in some cases literally), only taking the soul after the pleasure has melted the human's mind to mush. Those pleasures are broader than just sexual ones.
Then we come back to sweet little Calliophi. She is following a flawed interpretation of Priti Nāndyāh's teachings. Maybe deliberately, she doesn't like killing and so a religious doctrine that prioritises bringing pleasure over all else is a good excuse to deny her nature as a soul-eating lust daemon.
The danger with Calliophi is that she isn't fully in control of those instincts. If the player resists too hard while she's giving him a nice massage, she'll lose control and bite him. Her particular type of lamia is extremely venomous and that bite will always be fatal. It's so strong even the right charm from the Buxom Lolilbaba cannot negate it.
This will make Calliophi feel terrible, so don't do it to the poor girl.
There was a slight mix-up with the art. The first sketch I got back for Calliophi didn't fit her meek nature at all. However, Calliophi also has a sister in the House, which meant it was easy to add her to the batch and use the sketch for her instead.
Calliophi might have also been one of the first harlots I had the idea to give a side quest to, with it leading to a bonus scene where both her and her sister having sex with the player.
There is still a way to go before I write those (mini-bosses need to be written first!), but I have most of it already planned out.
Anyway, here is the lovely art of her. Artist is again Marwmellow. You can find more of his work here.
I hope you like the art. Let me know what you think below.
Comments
Many-Eyed Hydra
Yup. Sammy and Sgriosar are two other candidates for side quest lines (though not necessarily together).
avar
Ah yes, Calliophi. She was definitely one of the favorites I had from the early versions of the game and had me curious for the longest time about her sister. Anyways will be interesting seeing where the side-quest goes as well as how interesting this faction's side-quests might turn out (Based on your other notes guessing may include Sammy and a certain broken fairy?)
