The final moments of that quest are why I actually think the best runescape quests have yet to come and this storyline solidified my opinion that runescape continues to have the absolute best quests in the mmo genre. This is also why I would love to see the oldschool team take quests in new and different directions if quests like “a taste of hope” can be so good. I am still holding out hope we can find out that humans can turn into dagannoths.
Any possibility to you make a video more focused on Lord of Vampyrium and Lord Drakan philosophy? think you can get a better view of him by also understanding more about Zamorak and his own goals and actions on rs3
@@AnonymousAnonposter if i can find an angle i like. telling straight up lore isnt really my thing so much as finding a unqiue idea about it that i like. I think the Zaros is a very cool character. there might be something there.
Lovely storytime with avrah. Osrs vampires sound a bit like the demons from the anime Promised Neverland where the brain of a human tastes better the smarter the human is so the smartest ones survive longer. The human children also don't know they're prisoners and think they live freely but in actuality they live in a human farm
I wish you went into details of the Lord of Vampyrium quest in RS3, where Drakan literally takes you to the original Castle Drakan on Vampyrium, where you learn the one or Morytania is built as an exact replica. He did this whilst hunting you down and picking you off one by one, but still constantly giving you hope that you’ve escaped him until he comes in at the last second to score a kill. The fact that he believes hope makes the blood taste better and then seeing him actually follow through with that belief made for one of the best quests in years
Incredible work. You're absolutely right when you say we as humans fear being removed from the top of the food chain. The analogy of aliens coming to Earth and treating us like animals reminds me of the first time I saw Attack On Titan. While I'm sure most just watched it as an action orientated anime, if you really give yourself to the ideas and hopelessness the creators tell of, that humanity is no longer Earth's apex predator and instead we are treated unmercifully like food, it can be quite unnerving. I remember feeling very uneasy. Anyways enough waffling. Again awesome work bro.
So in RS3 this is explored as well. In the quest River of Blood you have to discover what emotion prisoners in a sort of tithing machine are feeling. Each house shows a preference for different emotions with you having to talk to the prisoners to evoke an emotion before letting yourself be tithed a bit.
@@Avrah It is a good questline, but it is hard, especially the last two quests. One of them has your character basically tripping balls and running through a mansion being attacked by a vampyre
Absolutely loved this video bro! This quest and how it plays out , totally changed my view of OSRS as a whole but also the development team as well as Quest. Well done and excellent presentation!
What an incredibly amazing video. I'm not a connoisseur of vampire content, but this immersed me so completely in the story, history, storytelling, and atmosphere of vampires both past, present, and in runescape. All your videos are absolute gems, and this is another one. Also holding out hope that dagannoths are humans, so thanks for that =D
Another great video! I like that you mix rs3 with osrs. These quests also make more sense now, I didnt think about why the quest was called a TASTE of hope..
I would say that the concept of chattel keeping vampires isn't entirely unique either: Legacy of Kain series and even the original Dracula by Bram Stoker has inferences to this sense of cultivation. I do think though that the idea of a species supplanting our own is a good fear; and in a way a satire of how industrialized our society is and how it handles life. We as a species have been selectively breeding creatures for centuries and in recent decades, full on genetically manipulating life to suit our own ends. I think the other big factor of why these "vampyres" are more scary relatively now is because they are more grotesque to us. Grotesqueness, the feeling of the unnatural is also a great instinctual fear. Its why our ancestors, in their eyes in their sexually repressed society felt their vampires were scary: sexual debauchery was grotesque to them. On top of that, now a days we as a species feel the way we treat ourselves and the planet as increasingly grotesque. I'd say in argument its not even fear of the unknown, one can understand the vampyres of Runescape and other settings. One can understand cruel cultivation. It is the grotesqueness of it that is frightening.
i appreciate your well thought out comment. I think the grotesque, the abject and even the sublime all have a role to play with our relationship with fear and vampires. I just wanted to focus in on the twist at the end of the Taste for Hope quest in osrs as my personal favorite terrifying quality about them. Id be pretty hesitant to make a very long video that might fit better in a Gothic literature class than a runescape youtube channel but if i were to make this an hour long you would have definitely heard me talk about a couple of the things you mentioned. cheers.
@@Avrah appreciate the reply, and a good video overall. As a whole I like the analysis of lore like this. The real big question I wonder on though: if the vampyres of RS are more or less playing cat and mouse; is their tolerance of rebellion truly something they can fully counter and crush when fully mobilized, or are they presuming in their arrogance that they will succeed in hunting their prey and sustaining subjugation? What is your thoughts on this?
@@kimckenzie6161 i havent finished the vampire questline in rs3. I assume we kill Drakan and thus it would be quite an arrogant assumption of them to not consider us a threat. The problem with characters being bosses in games is that eventually we're gonna beat it usually.
I had to rewatch the first three minutes, Im in tears. Side note, my cousin is seeing a girl from Romania, I'll get the crucifix and garlic, just to be safe.
That was brilliant man, I've never cared about the lore of the game before, and always hated quests. But they way you linked it to history, life and literature was really engaging. I'm actually going to do the quest now!
Taste of hope is os exclusive? Um no. Rs3 under a different title and higher requirements and a annoying as fuck boss fight has the same quest. But over all I really really really loved this video
@@Avrah river of blood. Taste of hope is like a summed verison of this quest. Personally enjoyed it more then river of blood. But I was one of those lore hounds doing it on release date and took me a week
@@michaelcooksey4695 oh that's interesting it's like in reverse order then lol. kind of. i assume they will add the Lord of the vampyrium equivalent to osrs eventually.
yea dude even if you took the audio and uploaded it to a streaming service like soundcloud id easily listen to it. I loved the lore of original vampires and that comparative into why osrs has big balls vampires
Thanks 9rain for sending me here. This is pretty dark lol.
9rain makes you laugh. I make you have an existential crisis. we balance each other out.
@@Avrah seems legit. 10/10. subbed.
The final moments of that quest are why I actually think the best runescape quests have yet to come and this storyline solidified my opinion that runescape continues to have the absolute best quests in the mmo genre. This is also why I would love to see the oldschool team take quests in new and different directions if quests like “a taste of hope” can be so good. I am still holding out hope we can find out that humans can turn into dagannoths.
Any possibility to you make a video more focused on Lord of Vampyrium and Lord Drakan philosophy? think you can get a better view of him by also understanding more about Zamorak and his own goals and actions on rs3
@@AnonymousAnonposter if i can find an angle i like. telling straight up lore isnt really my thing so much as finding a unqiue idea about it that i like. I think the Zaros is a very cool character. there might be something there.
Still waiting for a quest as good as While Guthix Sleeps
Lovely storytime with avrah.
Osrs vampires sound a bit like the demons from the anime Promised Neverland where the brain of a human tastes better the smarter the human is so the smartest ones survive longer. The human children also don't know they're prisoners and think they live freely but in actuality they live in a human farm
yea the part about not knowing you're living on a human farm...that is terrifying
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I wish you went into details of the Lord of Vampyrium quest in RS3, where Drakan literally takes you to the original Castle Drakan on Vampyrium, where you learn the one or Morytania is built as an exact replica. He did this whilst hunting you down and picking you off one by one, but still constantly giving you hope that you’ve escaped him until he comes in at the last second to score a kill. The fact that he believes hope makes the blood taste better and then seeing him actually follow through with that belief made for one of the best quests in years
i hadn't done the rs3 quests at the time but i will revisit them in the future probably.
@@Avrah no worries, didn’t know if you were doing the quests or just reading through them on the wiki to make the video
Incredible work. You're absolutely right when you say we as humans fear being removed from the top of the food chain. The analogy of aliens coming to Earth and treating us like animals reminds me of the first time I saw Attack On Titan. While I'm sure most just watched it as an action orientated anime, if you really give yourself to the ideas and hopelessness the creators tell of, that humanity is no longer Earth's apex predator and instead we are treated unmercifully like food, it can be quite unnerving. I remember feeling very uneasy. Anyways enough waffling. Again awesome work bro.
i love seeing names in my comment section that I remember from years ago. thanks mate.
You just put 2 worlds i love together. Horror and Runescape. Amazing video! Definitely subscribing!
awesome. i am glad you liked it.
So in RS3 this is explored as well. In the quest River of Blood you have to discover what emotion prisoners in a sort of tithing machine are feeling. Each house shows a preference for different emotions with you having to talk to the prisoners to evoke an emotion before letting yourself be tithed a bit.
ima have to do that quest line. my damn rs3 acc is so far behind. should be doable soon.
@@Avrah It is a good questline, but it is hard, especially the last two quests. One of them has your character basically tripping balls and running through a mansion being attacked by a vampyre
Wait....this is a RuneScape video?
This is an incredible video. I've said for years that mory vampyres and the quest line are the best and scariest part of osrs lore. Great job!
its very juicy stuff. i need to catch up on rs3 quests lol
Absolutely loved this video bro! This quest and how it plays out , totally changed my view of OSRS as a whole but also the development team as well as Quest. Well done and excellent presentation!
thank you! means a lot.
Aa a Romanian i admit, don't fall in love with us. We bite.
Ok carrier pidgeon.
loving the new essay style, keep it up avrah
thank you thank you.
What an incredibly amazing video. I'm not a connoisseur of vampire content, but this immersed me so completely in the story, history, storytelling, and atmosphere of vampires both past, present, and in runescape. All your videos are absolute gems, and this is another one. Also holding out hope that dagannoths are humans, so thanks for that =D
thank you very much. these are the vids that i truly love making.
I wouldn't want aliens to invade earth, look what viltrumites do to planets in invincible.
Love to see you back at it again man.
(Glenn Moore btw 😂)
thanks mate.
10/10 content! Glad to see you’re still making lore based videos
inb4 9rain shows up in the comments being thirsty for Vanescula.
i had a bit about him thirsting but i cut it out lol.
"or worse, you're from romania"
Great video! I enjoy these ones a lot. I didnt see the cosmic horror aspect of the vampires before but you're right
glad you enjoyed the spoopyness.
Another great video! I like that you mix rs3 with osrs. These quests also make more sense now, I didnt think about why the quest was called a TASTE of hope..
It's so dark lol i love it.
Lord of Vampyrium is one of the best runescape quests imo
i haven't done it on rs3. My rs3 account is still living in 2009 lol.
9rain brought me here and.. I really couldn’t be any happier. What an interesting way to spin osrs content on CZcams. You Earned a sub on this day.
Awesome! Thank you! :3
Absolutely incredible job bro
I would say that the concept of chattel keeping vampires isn't entirely unique either: Legacy of Kain series and even the original Dracula by Bram Stoker has inferences to this sense of cultivation. I do think though that the idea of a species supplanting our own is a good fear; and in a way a satire of how industrialized our society is and how it handles life. We as a species have been selectively breeding creatures for centuries and in recent decades, full on genetically manipulating life to suit our own ends.
I think the other big factor of why these "vampyres" are more scary relatively now is because they are more grotesque to us. Grotesqueness, the feeling of the unnatural is also a great instinctual fear. Its why our ancestors, in their eyes in their sexually repressed society felt their vampires were scary: sexual debauchery was grotesque to them.
On top of that, now a days we as a species feel the way we treat ourselves and the planet as increasingly grotesque. I'd say in argument its not even fear of the unknown, one can understand the vampyres of Runescape and other settings. One can understand cruel cultivation.
It is the grotesqueness of it that is frightening.
i appreciate your well thought out comment. I think the grotesque, the abject and even the sublime all have a role to play with our relationship with fear and vampires. I just wanted to focus in on the twist at the end of the Taste for Hope quest in osrs as my personal favorite terrifying quality about them. Id be pretty hesitant to make a very long video that might fit better in a Gothic literature class than a runescape youtube channel but if i were to make this an hour long you would have definitely heard me talk about a couple of the things you mentioned. cheers.
@@Avrah appreciate the reply, and a good video overall. As a whole I like the analysis of lore like this.
The real big question I wonder on though: if the vampyres of RS are more or less playing cat and mouse; is their tolerance of rebellion truly something they can fully counter and crush when fully mobilized, or are they presuming in their arrogance that they will succeed in hunting their prey and sustaining subjugation?
What is your thoughts on this?
@@kimckenzie6161 i havent finished the vampire questline in rs3. I assume we kill Drakan and thus it would be quite an arrogant assumption of them to not consider us a threat. The problem with characters being bosses in games is that eventually we're gonna beat it usually.
That was absolutely amazing! I love lore/theory crafting videos but I’ve never seen a RuneScape one! Please do more if you want :3
I had to rewatch the first three minutes, Im in tears.
Side note, my cousin is seeing a girl from Romania, I'll get the crucifix and garlic, just to be safe.
truly terrifying stuff brother.
Well that was unexpectedly epic
That was brilliant man, I've never cared about the lore of the game before, and always hated quests.
But they way you linked it to history, life and literature was really engaging.
I'm actually going to do the quest now!
hell yes brother? which one aha? there are so many vamp quests?
@@Avrah honestly vampire slayer is the only one I've done 😂
In RuneScape, ordinary Vampires look like Nosferatu the vampire while the more powerful and civilized Vampyres, however, are more human-looking.
I only subbed because 9Rain shared this. Content seems to be A1. Please make vids more often 🥺
yessir!
Absolutely excellent summary!
Dracula was a story about syphilis, which was a pressing issue during that time period.
Dracula is a story about many many things. That's why it's a classic.
Ok I been avoiding questing but ima do this quest now!
Great video, great series. I've been hoping for serious analysis of osrs stories! I'm sorry I got spoiled though.
oh I mean i expect most people have done either the quests in rs3 or Sins of the Father in osrs. I am glad you still liked it though.
Such amazing lore in this game, please make more of these!!!
i will.
@@Avrah
The rs3 continuation of the storyline has some insane elements
yea i am curious about getting to them.
Incredible video man! Got yourself a new sub and looking forward to more of this!
Awesome, thank you!
This literally makes me feel uncomfortable in meyerditch, in RS3 now. thanks lmao....
...and Meyerditch is already the worst. now you have to deal with existential crisis' while jumping around all those floorboards.
These videos are amazing.
You sir are brilliant.
means a lot. thank you.
More like a taste of nope.
Yuss. Ya did it. Better than I hoped it would be good job!
aha thanks man.
Such a good quest line
Nah, ive seen "the strain" it was fairly scary.
Also if you are doing more on horror is rs I think the meetings with the elder gods in rs3 might be worth a look as far as comic horror
i am woefully far behind in rs3 with the quests but I think Zaros would be fun.
Would would win in a fight a vampire or a Frankenstein
a vampire would win especially an rs vampire. but remember that Frankenstein is the scientist not the monster xD.
@@Avrah the novel Frankenstein is a metaphor for how RS3 is shunned by the runescape community
@@Chillifish57 the osrs community shuns rs3 less now than ever before.
@@Avrah i only play RS3 - too many quality of life features missing in OSRS - way too tedious
You get a Like for not self censoring.
Taste of hope is os exclusive? Um no. Rs3 under a different title and higher requirements and a annoying as fuck boss fight has the same quest. But over all I really really really loved this video
thanks man. which quest is it in rs3? I always thought branches of darkmeyer was = sins of the father. whats the taste of hope equiv?
@@Avrah river of blood. Taste of hope is like a summed verison of this quest. Personally enjoyed it more then river of blood. But I was one of those lore hounds doing it on release date and took me a week
@@michaelcooksey4695 oh that's interesting it's like in reverse order then lol. kind of. i assume they will add the Lord of the vampyrium equivalent to osrs eventually.
can this be a podcast xx
liiike where i talk to myself about weird stuff in rs???xD
yea dude even if you took the audio and uploaded it to a streaming service like soundcloud id easily listen to it.
I loved the lore of original vampires and that comparative into why osrs has big balls vampires
Love this lore content
I mean it scared me
:3
Lol scared of vampires? Verzik gives me top on the reg bro I ain’t scared
This video is so good!!!! Like holy shit!!
:3
Liked this video?
Watch castlevania, sounds like the morytania vampires are based on it
I love Castlevania. Carmilla is bangin.
non human looking Vampires are way cooler looking
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