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--- lb:wnotes:succubus [2025-09-27 11:20:31] – ninjasr
+++ lb:wnotes:succubus [2025-10-13 19:53:07] (current) – [Mesopotamia] Guess I could. ninjasr
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 ====== Writing Notes for Succubi ======
-This article collects writing/worldbuilding notes on the [[lb:succubus]]. It's still a work-in-progress since I'm thinking it all thru.
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+<div header>Work-in-progress</div>
+This article is still a work-in progress as I'm still in the middle of thinking all of this thru.\\
+It's mostly a collection of thoughts that I'll re-organize at some point.
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+This article collects writing/worldbuilding notes on the [[lb:succubus]].
-I'll repeat a disclaimer from the [[lb:wnotes:vampires]] article: these notes are more of a reference or suggestion and not a set of rules on //how// to write/worldbuild succubi. Just because succubi don't match the notes here //exactly// doesn't mean they're bad. But that doesn't mean there's a right/wrong way of doing things.\\
+I'll repeat a disclaimer from the [[lb:wnotes:vampires]] article: these notes are more of a reference or suggestion and not a set of rules on //how// to write/worldbuild succubi. Just because succubi don't match the notes here //exactly// doesn't mean they're bad. But that doesn't mean there's not a right/wrong way of doing things.\\
 Assuming that the conditions are the same, then succubi will manifest in the same way.\\
 Until I bother to separate that disclaimer, I recommend just reading the opening text from there and just applying the same ideas here.
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+===== General Worldbuilding =====
+==== Other Supernaturals ====
+=== Vampires ===
+I think a general rule of thumb is that if you have vampires and succubi in the same setting, you should just make succubi vampires...or a sub-species of vampires. Unless you can differentiate them properly.
 ===== Contemporary Fantasy Worldbuilding =====
 //In general//, succubi are similar to vampires in a few ways, but diverge in a few other ways. Where they overlap is their need for humans -- vampires need human blood and succubi need...semen.
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 Mesopotamia is a pretty obvious choice for an origin point of the succubi, since that's where the earliest myths originate //and// there's a connection to temple prostitutes.
-This is the most obvious origin-point and the one I'd favor. Though I can’t think of any other origin points.
+This is the most obvious origin-point and the one I'd favor. <del>Though I can’t think of any other origin points.</del>
 It's also possible that succubi could just exist openly in Mesopotamia.
+=== Rise of Christianity ===
+This is the other possibility for an origin point, which I'm pointing out because I feel some connection could be made between Christianity being all <q>‘no’</q> towards sex and the rise of the Succubus. That //is// when the Succubus was most feared after all.
+=== Black Death ===
+On the surface, I'm betting this is a completely bizarre connection but hear me out. I had read once (probably on Wikipedia) that the Black Death helped to ruin the image of brothels. Because people started linking sex/prostitutes to disease.
+Thus a connection could be made here. But, if that connection //is// made, that means that Succubi are related to disease in some way. What that could mean is anyone's guess.
+I'm bringing this up as an origin point because I think it sounds interesting.
 ==== Secrecy? ====
 Whether succubi would prioritize maintaining secrecy from humanity or not is a big question mark. It depends heavily on whether sex with a succubus is fatal or not.\\