This article collects writing/worldbuilding notes on the Succubus.

I’ll repeat a disclaimer from the Writing Notes for 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.
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.

Seeing as I think that the Writing Notes for Vampires article was a success – from my point of view, it was fun to write and hopefully fun (and useful) to read – I decided to make this one as well, since I can talk about succubi forever for some unknown reason.

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.

However, they also diverge in the fact succubi are not inherently dangerous. Unless they literally drain life-force, you don’t have to worry about having sex with a succubus. Vampires are a different story because they still need to bite you and they can drink too much.
This actually suggests that succubi may have a lower incentive to hide than vampires…since they could just openly be like “I need sex to survive, honey~”.

Though I’m working from the following assumptions: succubi need to have sex with humans to survive; succubi are exclusively female; succubi birth succubi;^A) they have horns and wings but they can be hidden.
There are fewer of these assumptions than with vampires, which means there is less that could be speculated.

I will try anyhow!

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.

It’s also possible that succubi could just exist openly in Mesopotamia.

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I’ll be honest, I’m kinda drawing a blank in general.