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chaoswolf820
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The Dullahan.
Supernatural hunter of Celtic myth, this pursuer of the dead and damned is interesting indeed.
Owing no true fealty to Heaven or Hell, but following a code of vengeful justice known only to the Dullahan itself, they exist to reclaim the dark souls who escape their eternal punishment and to deliver judgment upon those whose lives of unrepentant evil guarantee them that such tortures are due when they do finally cease to draw breath. Indeed, some even claim the Dullahan's own weapon is forged of iron leeched from the burning blood of its victims, and its armor reinforced by the sin-scarred bones of their corpses... though, obviously, none can say for sure if such extreme claims bear truth in them.
Just as Iron is harm to the Fae, and Silver a bane to Were-beasts, likewise also is pure Gold anathema to the Dullahan, its symbolic reflection of the blessed Sun a shun against the Dullahan's unhallow'd power - it is not the "holy ground" that causes one to avoid churches, but the golden icons of saints that are in it. But nothing can repel them permanently, as they are inevitable in their pursuit, with locked gates and barred doors opening of their own accord rather than hinder the Dullahan's pursuit of justice upon the damned.
While the common depiction of them is a headless being with some manner of smoke or fog emerging from the stump, in truth the Dullahan does possess a head, often kept hidden away lest it be stolen and the bond to it used for dark deeds against them. Should it so choose, the Dullahan can even take on a guise of mortality by reattaching its head, with only a neck-encircling scar (usually masked by a scarf or collar) to give it away, with its mortal guise even causing it to suffer the sensations of fatigue, thirst, and hunger just as mortals do, though they remain immortal and the guise can be shed by removing their heads once more.
Cool story, eh?
Would be awesome as hell if I could figure out a way to put it in costume, whether male or female.
Figuring out a good way to manage the "headless" effect is the hardest part... I've seen one or two "headless" costumes around the game, but never got anyone to explain how it was done. That, and I've heard there were some ways that got hotfixed, so are useless to try now anyway...
Supernatural hunter of Celtic myth, this pursuer of the dead and damned is interesting indeed.
Owing no true fealty to Heaven or Hell, but following a code of vengeful justice known only to the Dullahan itself, they exist to reclaim the dark souls who escape their eternal punishment and to deliver judgment upon those whose lives of unrepentant evil guarantee them that such tortures are due when they do finally cease to draw breath. Indeed, some even claim the Dullahan's own weapon is forged of iron leeched from the burning blood of its victims, and its armor reinforced by the sin-scarred bones of their corpses... though, obviously, none can say for sure if such extreme claims bear truth in them.
Just as Iron is harm to the Fae, and Silver a bane to Were-beasts, likewise also is pure Gold anathema to the Dullahan, its symbolic reflection of the blessed Sun a shun against the Dullahan's unhallow'd power - it is not the "holy ground" that causes one to avoid churches, but the golden icons of saints that are in it. But nothing can repel them permanently, as they are inevitable in their pursuit, with locked gates and barred doors opening of their own accord rather than hinder the Dullahan's pursuit of justice upon the damned.
While the common depiction of them is a headless being with some manner of smoke or fog emerging from the stump, in truth the Dullahan does possess a head, often kept hidden away lest it be stolen and the bond to it used for dark deeds against them. Should it so choose, the Dullahan can even take on a guise of mortality by reattaching its head, with only a neck-encircling scar (usually masked by a scarf or collar) to give it away, with its mortal guise even causing it to suffer the sensations of fatigue, thirst, and hunger just as mortals do, though they remain immortal and the guise can be shed by removing their heads once more.
Cool story, eh?
Would be awesome as hell if I could figure out a way to put it in costume, whether male or female.
Figuring out a good way to manage the "headless" effect is the hardest part... I've seen one or two "headless" costumes around the game, but never got anyone to explain how it was done. That, and I've heard there were some ways that got hotfixed, so are useless to try now anyway...
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I've also recently fitted her with an Elder Worm Humidity Dome and a ton of Recovery, so she's also all ethereal and ghost-like most of the time.
- David Brin, "Those Eyes"
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You can still use the tailor, but you cannot amend the costume with the hood as it removes it automatically. However, if you accidentally load the wrong one, just hit back and reselect and it will be untouched.
It's not from a singular version of the myth, but a personal take on trying to make a unified form of the being, with the details cobbled together from multiple variants I've heard over the years.
over a dozen, you say? Interesting. Tell me more.
Don't have the archer set - I've never trusted the whole "lockbox gamble" thing.
That, and my computer that I play CO with hasn't been able to get online for a couple months - I'm borrowing a family member's PC to write this.
Figure a way to pull that off without the mask, and it'd be perfect.
Most of them either were from the C store or from lockboxes. However, try the AH, you might find a piece there. Amongst the pieces you can use the Alien Gladiator helms, 2 and 3, the Bruce from Victorian set, the sugegasa hat from the Robot Samurai set and the kabuki, head spikes, plague mask, dinosaur skull and head cage from the Halloween mask pack. The feather mask also works, but is less obvious as are the dryad and dinosaur suit heads.
Pity there's no way to make a "true headless" option, with no stuff interfering.
What would be ideal would be a way to do it so it had a "cover" for the neck-hole like the Floating Brain thing, but minus the bubble and brain. Then just use an aura or something to emulate the smoke or whatever.
Glow Skin - Swirls Pattern - Head Aura of choice?
Where do you get glow skin?
And that's for Male only.
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Yeah. One of the coolest adaptations of the Dullahan concept was a (somewhat NFSW in places for transformation and nudity/sex moments) story by an author on DeviantArt by the handle of psudodrake that blended it with a few other legends like the death-hound Barghest and such and tied it all in with the Sleepy Hollow legend and even gave nods to Ghost Rider... and the main character was a woman.
Cool... now, what aura would work best for this? I know some auras can "re-visible" the holoforce pieces (I use the trick and the Id Mastery aura to make "psychic armor" for my Disciple character) but in this case, I DON'T want the stuff to reappear...
Well, I don't have the Zen to buy any auras...
This might be tricky. I'll need to try a few things.
Also good in that it won't cause a holo-helmet to suddenly appear whenever you use Conviction!
Oh, then that is PERFECT. My two biggest anxieties about this concept were the sudden helmeting and having to bother buying an aura-pack just for using one part on this character - so glad to hear the set has workarounds for that.