Ember

"[Dragons] wouldn't mate [with] a non-dragon... in fact, dragons wouldn't even find non-dragons attractive..." You think you hear her mumble: "Dammit, then why do I feel this way..." ~Tainted Ember

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Ember is a Follower found in egg form in the Swamp. Depending on you actions before hatching the egg, Ember can be born as a dragon or a dragon-morph and as a male, female or hermaphrodite. He/she isn't finished yet.

A note found by Ember's egg asserts that the egg is all that remains of an ancient and extinct race of dragons, who were otherwise entirely wiped out by corruption causing new children to be born as Kobolds. The note begs the player to take the egg and hatch Ember to restore the dragon race.

In future updates, Ember will be available with several levels of Corruption. Ember may be male, female, or a hermaphrodite, depending on the player's actions before hatching. This article will henceforth assume for a female identity (utilizing "she" etc.)

Appearance

Ember's appearance (height, bust size, etc.) will likely change based on her Corruption level (not implemented; see Corruption below.)

Pure Ember

(Not implemented)

Tainted Ember

No blood given

• 7'3" anthropomorphic dragon with "strong, scaly dragon wings"
• Silver with gold belly; skin not covered by scales is fleshy pink
• [Female or herm] Lean and curvy, with well-toned muscles and F-cup breasts (0.5in nipples)
• Reptilian face with sharp teeth and jaw ridges; fin-like ears and curved ebony horns (aesthetic and useless in combat)
• Fierce eyes with slit pupils and burning orange irises
• Very long tongue
• Very long tail with small bumps extendable into spikes
• Human-like legs, but taloned reptilian claws
• [Two Hair Extension Serums] Long mane like a horse's from neck to tail (color not given, as the first hair descriptor is absent)

Blood given

• 7'3" dragon-boy/girl with "leathery wings"
• Olive-Skinned humanoid face intertwined with Scales running down the sides all the way down to body; sharp teeth behind human lips and boldly curved ebony horns
• Orange, reptilian eyes
• Silver hair, quite short
• Slender limbs with thin frame with 0.5 in nipples with a small heart-shaped golden scale in the middle of Ember's human chest, just below collarbone
• [Female or herm] F-cup breasts
• Human looking flesh ends at stomach, scaly dragon skin begins
• Scales cover Ember's entire back as well
• A stripe of white mane adorns her spine
• Reptilian tongue
• Scaly human-like legs, but taloned reptilian claws
• [Hair-Extension Serum after Blood given] Shoulder-length hair instead of "quite short" hair

Corrupted Ember

(Not implemented) Possibly Yandere? (needs to be confirmed when implemented)

Encounter

Ember's egg is found in the Swamp after exploring for a certain amount of time. The player is guaranteed to find it at every 40th exploration of the swamp, though certain Hel and Kiha encounters may override it. The player may:

• Attempt to take the egg. Player needs to pass either an Intelligence check of 50 or a Strength check of 90 as a ward prevents the egg from leaving otherwise.
• Destroy the egg and (optionally) eat the yolk, providing a boost to stats and Corruption. Eating the egg will add 5-10 to Strength, Toughness and Intelligence, and 20 to Corruption. Player receives an eggshell if they eat it.
• Leave, allowing the egg to be encountered under the same conditions at a later time.

If the player fails to remove the egg, they will carefully place it back where it was, leaving it available for a later encounter.

If successfully taken, the egg is immediately found at camp under the Inventory option, but does not consume an inventory slot. When interacting with the egg, the player must fulfill some conditions before hatching Ember, but may delay the hatching indefinitely to add more modifications.

Eggshell

• If the player broke and ate the egg, or they ask for it from Ember with high affection, they receive an eggshell. It can be then taken to Yvonne, and for 200 gems she will make a shield for the player. It is not a very effective weapon, but it absorbs any liquid attacks.

Incubation

The player's interaction with the egg before hatching Ember will modify her accordingly. Masturbating onto the egg, giving blood to it, or using any of the following items on it will move Ember one step closer to hatching. After five actions, the "Hatch" option becomes available, but the player may delay this for further changes if desired.

Without using any of these items, Ember will be an anthropomorphic "scalie" dragon with no hair, unable to give milk or lay eggs (though she still will have the ability to impregnate/get impregnated). Her gender will be the opposite of the player's, or a hermaphrodite if the player is a herm.

Ember is planned to have a Corruption score affected by these actions as well, but this isn't yet implemented; only a moderately tainted, middle-ground Ember is currently available.

Ember's corruption alerts the looks of the egg: if corruption is at or below 25, it will glow with "soft, metered pulses" and give the player "a sense of calm and peace". Corruption between 26 and 75 will make the egg glow with "bright, gaudy pulses" and make the player feel "as if you could do anything, as if you were superior to everything". Corrupt egg will glow with the dark light. Checking corrupt egg will raise player's corruption.

Masturbate

• Player is (obviously) unable to do this if they are genderless.
• Player needs lust of 33 or more.
• If this is the first thing done (Ember has no gender yet), sets Ember's egg to the opposite of the player's gender, or a hermaphrodite if the player is a hermaphrodite.
• (Not implemented yet) If the player's Corruption is under 50 (not including 50), lowers Ember's Corruption; otherwise raises it.

Blood

• The first time given, Ember will become a demi-human with dragon-like limbs, tail, and other peripherals. If applicable, she will have a dragon penis and no external testicles.
• The second time given, any male genitals of Ember's will become human with visible testicles.

Incubi Draft

• If the egg hasn't been changed yet, or Ember's egg is currently set to Hermaphrodite, change to Male.
• If Ember's egg is currently set to Female, change to Hermaphrodite.
• If the Incubi Draft is purified, lowers Ember's Corruption by 10; otherwise raises it by 10.

Succubi Milk

• If the egg hasn't been changed yet, or Ember's egg is currently set to Hermaphrodite, change to Female.
• If Ember's egg is currently set to Male, change to Hermaphrodite.
• If the Succubi Milk is purified, lowers Ember's Corruption by 10; otherwise raises it by 10.

Lactaid

• Will give Ember breasts and make player able to drink milk from them.

Ovi Elixir

• If Ember has a vagina, she will be able to lay dragon eggs, either unfertilized ones on command or fertilized ones when impregnated.
• If Ember has a penis, he will be able to impregnate female or herm players with eggs.
• If no Ovi Elixir is given, Ember (or your character) will give live birth to male, female, or herm baby dragons.

Hair Extension Serum

• If Ember will hatch as a dragon-morph, one dose will give her hair and two will give her a long mane.
• If Ember will hatch as a demi-human, she already has short hair and one dose will make it long.

Hatch

• Egg must receive liquids at least five times.
• Egg must be masturbated on at least once.
• Egg must have a set gender.
• Player will be unable to masturbate on egg once it's ready to hatch.

As a Follower

When hatched, Ember will immediately become a Follower and may be spoken to like any other Follower.

Appearance

• The player will ogle Ember, be provided with a verbose description of her appearance, and either embarrass Ember if she was hatched as a dragon-morph or attract her attention if hatched as a demi-human.
• If Ember was given no blood, he/she will be a 7'3" humanoid dragon; with reptilian head, sharp teeth, dragon ears, horns and so on.
  • Giving Ember hair serum will give him short or her shoulder-length hair.
  • Giving Ember hair serum twice will give him or her a long mane
• If Ember was given blood, he/she will be a 7'3" dragon-boy/dragon-girl, with human face save for eyes, teeth, horns and some scales.
  • If Ember is male or herm and was given blood only once, he will have an internal penis.
  • If Ember was given no hair serum, she'll have short silver hair. Otherwise, it'll be of shoulder-length.
• A male Ember that was given Lactaid will have F-cup breasts, dripping with milk. A female or herm will have those regardless.

Talk

• Allows the player to try to talk to Ember. There are three options: talk about dragons, exploration and yourself.
• Talking about dragons has five possible outcomes, they all are random and all raise affection.
• Talking about explorations, Ember will tell about a random event the player may encounter.
• Asking about yourself has various outcomes.
  • If affection is at or below 25, the talk will end with no effect ("You're a waste of time").
  • Otherwise, result depends on the player's stats and may raise affection if they are high enough. Being a naga or a reptile helps.
• If the player is becoming addicted to Minotaur Cum, but not irreversibly addicted, Ember may bring it up and attempt to shield the player from further exposure to minotaurs. Until the player is cured of their addiction, it will be stated that Ember has begun a "crusade" against Minotaurs while at camp.
• If the player tries to talk to Ember while impregnated with someone else's baby, Ember may angrily yell at the player. This does not happen if the eggs are unfertilized, like those of the Oviposition Elixir.
• If the player talks to Ember after being impregnated by him for the first time, Ember will mention that he hopes that it (your baby) will be the first of many.

Drink Blood

• If Ember's Affection is high enough, she will be willing to allow the player to drink blood from her once a day.
• Stopping will raise either Strength, Speed, Intelligence or Toughness by up to 1.
• Continuing can give the player draconic transformation effects, cause the player to go into or extend rut/heat, and/or grant the Dragonfire Perk if the the player has a Dragon Score of 4 or above.
• Each draconic transformation trait will increase the player's Dragon Score by 1 except long horns which give +2. The maximum Dragon score is 15
• Oddly enough, Ember is capable of allowing the player to drink blood without the "once a day" limit in debug mode.
• The transformative effects are similar to the DrakeHeart Flower's effects

Possible transformation effects:

• Dragon ears
• Dragon muzzle
• Dragon feet
• Dragon horns (can grow longer and get second pair)
• Dragon penis (If the player has a penis)
• Dragon-scaled body
• Dragon tail (gives Tail Slam attack special that can stun enemies)
• Dragon neck (grows in several stages)
• Dragon eyes
• Dragon tongue
• Dragon wings (Small on initial transformation, increase in size in a seperate transformation)
• Dragon Mane

The color of dragon scales are determined by the player's skin color, for example, if the player has Ebony colored skin then the scales will be Ebony colored. These are not limited to the colors that the player can select from during character creation, for example, if the player has gained orange and black striped skin from a tiger shark tooth, then the scales will be orange and black striped. Scale color is not affected by fur if the player has any.

Drink Milk

• If Ember's egg was treated with Lactaid, Ember will allow the player to suckle her, lowering Fatigue and restoring HP but raising Lust and decreasing toughness.

Get Egg

• If Ember's egg was treated with Ovi Elixir and hatched as a female or herm, she will provide an dragon egg for the player to eat.

Sex

• Request intercourse from Ember. By default, only orally servicing her is available. If the player's Lust is high enough, other, more reciprocating options are listed, but Ember will only agree to them with high Affection values.
• If Ember's egg was treated with Ovi Elixir, she can become pregnant with eggs (if F/H), or can impregnate the player with eggs (if M/H.)
• Note that player cannot impregnate or get impregnated by Ember through this option (unsure if this is intended or not)
• If your lust is at 100, Ember may tease you about it and offer to "help". (Unsure if high affection is needed)

Making offspring

• Note that this is not a menu option in Ember's follower menu
• To impregnate or get impregnated by Ember, the player must be in a rut or be in heat.
• While in a rut/heat, Ember will randomly walk up to the player and ask to make offspring, which will initiate a sex scene that differs from the normal ones if the player accepts.
• It's worth noting that this has no bearing on affection levels; even at 0% affection, or fresh out of the egg, an ongoing rut/heat may prompt the offer.
• If you are rutting, impregnating Ember will automatically end the rut. Similarly, if you are in heat, if Ember impregnates you it will end the heat.
• As a female hermaphrodite you can go into rut by Ember's blood after continued drinking; you can then choose who will be the mother of the children.

Spar

• Enters combat with Ember (see below). The player will not suffer an eight-hour penalty from losing to Ember and will gain a significant affection bonus for winning.

Combat

At any time the player may offer to spar with Ember. Winning will give a substantial affection boost.

Ember starts at level 15 and is very powerful, but poorly trained. Her attacks are mostly inaccurate, but deal high damage on a successful hit. Her most dangerous attack is her breath attack.

Each time you defeat Ember her level and stats go up. This is represented by the Ember Spar Intensity value in the stats menu. As her level increases she gains access to special attacks and her breath attack. Some of these can become very dangerous and troublesome. She can stun players, even players who have the Resolute perk. At very high spar intensity she can be a challenge for even the toughest players.

Though somewhat difficult to do, Ember can technically lose by lust although defeating her this way will yield the same text as beating her normally. Beating Ember by lust though normal means is rather difficult due to two things:

• The fact that she has a rather high Lust resistance
• The fact that she flees away whenever she starts to get aroused (Which suggests that Ember currently isn't supposed to lose by lust yet)

To win by lust, the player must have a special attack to completely prevent Ember from taking action in combat such as Constrict, Terror, or Whisper (the white magic spell, "Blind" won't work as Ember will still attempt to flee when blinded) and/or a strong lust increasing special attack/tease.

The easiest way to win by lust against Ember is to probably either possess long Anemone tentacle hair (the Anemone Sting Special attack) and use it in conjunction with Whisper/Terror or to use Whisper to lock down Ember until you can get a successful Constrict on her.

Personality

Affection

Ember has an Affection value along with most of the other romance-able characters. This meter influences her behavior when the player visits her, as well as her willingness to follow requests and commands; at higher values she will give her blood and will participate in sexual activities more beneficial for the player.

Affection rises over time simply by interacting with Ember, and especially quickly by sexually servicing her or sparring with her. She also admires characters with more than 50 in each stat and will compliment them if Talk > Yourself is successful.

Corruption

Ember has a Corruption meter which is affected by the player's interactions with her egg (not implemented yet; only "Tainted" Ember is available as a middle ground.)

Corruption rating starts at 50 when the player picks the egg.

Using purified Incubi Draft or Succubi Milk will lower her Corruption, while using these items in their normal or enhanced forms will increase it. Masturbating with the egg will lower its Corruption if the player's Corruption is under 50, or increase it if their Corruption is 50 or higher.

Currently, only "Tainted" Ember, who represents Ember with moderate corruption scores, has been written. Thusly, this is the only version that will be in the game by default, and it is considered her "default" state.

Tainted

• Ember's author describes Tainted Ember as tsundere, a Japanese term for someone who hides affection under an exaggerated cold demeanor. She is aggressive and proud, unwilling to admit her affection for the player and fond of flattery.

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