So to set the stage, here are some things that have been written about Bloodlust in the past to ground my speculations in:
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miro Wrote:This one’s fairly straightforward. Vampires by default take on a very human form with all the right special powers and they’re the epitome of dark and mysterious (as long as they’re not the sparkly kind). Monster is kind of a big thing in 3DX and if, technically speaking, vampires count as monsters then they’re exactly the kind I enjoy working with. Beyond their human form and taking on various animal forms the “modern” medieval vampire can even shapeshift to express sexual sensation like excitement or climax.
Vampires have superhuman strength and magical powers, this makes for interesting potential positions and sexual resilience which always comes in handy with fantasy sex. And whilst some guys play “bad boy” vampires really are dark and menacing and by switching things up and having the female take on the role it really changes the dynamic of the sexual power play.
Best of all female vampires are horny and sexy as fuck with a strong desire to gobble up blood or cum. Serious problem for Cerene. Which way to feed? And Cerene isn’t your typical female seductress, she doesn’t seduce so much as devour hard cock. Not sure even the prince’s oversized dick will stand a chance
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The Dude Wrote:What is porn? Is it a picture, or a moving picture, of sex? Well, sure. That would be one definition. I think it would be more accurate to say that porn is the glorification of a certain item, or element.
Bloodlust – Cerene is no different. Is the ultimate point of the product to see genitalia interact? Yeah, of course. That is why it’s sex-driven porn. But if we wanna do it right, if we wanna do it justice, we have to be diligent. Before we get to the fucking, there’s a whole lot of stuff we gotta take care of first. Dare I say it: we’re making erotica. Which is more than just porn.
Every production starts out with an idea. In this case, we wanted to do a boy/girl vampire themed animation. That naturally brings with it all sorts of questions: how will she look? How will he look? What will they wear? Where will they fuck? What compels them to fuck there? Suddenly a story is implied, and from there the ball starts rolling.
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Bianca Rose Wrote:But I think the characters of our story will blow you away even more. Now, class cannot be bought, sold, or taught. Sometimes a woman is just naturally a class act. Our Duchess is like that, with her head in the air and determination in her heart.
Duchess Sophia has every plan for Prince Tristan to make her Queen. As clever as she is stunning, Sophia thrives in court life while Tristan wants adventure. She is in every sense a lady and though she enjoys being taught what makes her scream, sometimes she just can’t take an improper step. She needs to learn how to loosen up her bodice, but while confined to the life of coutier, she may never get that experience. Sophia loves Tristan and the promise of their future life together, but she’s worried about his fate on this adventure. Will Tristan come back and redeem his night of anal with her?
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andi guinness Wrote:When miro approached me back in January 2016 – conveniently while I was on medical leave from a job I would get laid off from months later (#GodBlessAmerica ) – he already had a scenario in mind: It was clear he wanted to do boy-girl, and he wanted the theme to be vampires. Given he spent the better part of 4 years doing dickgirl, I can’t say I blame him. He had some of the scenario out in his head, and proposed I analyze it.
To be honest, I wasn’t the most fond of it. It needed a lot of work, if only because of several different factors. I even went so far as to create a treatment that swapped the genders of everyone involved. It went like this: A princess and her knight facing off an evil vampire lord, which would involve the less-than-chaste princess having fun with the Vampire Lord. The plan would involve the knight saving the day, except – plot twist! – the Princess betrays her knight, her real plan being she wanted to become a vampire because she was sick of being royalty. Of course, miro didn’t care for it, but mainly because he wanted the girl:boy ratio to favor the former over the latter
For centuries, the small kingdom of Veridian avoided trouble with vampires and monsters, all the while prospering. But with this peace came a dark, secret cost. On their 25th birthday, the firstborn child of the current ruler would be handed over to the vampires. Unfortunately, the current king became impotent after his son Tristan was born. Knowing to give in would cost him the kingdom, he did everything in his power to avoid this fate. Given little choice, he rejected the vampires’ demand for Tristan on his 25th birthday. The peace broken, soon Veridian descended into violence, as Tristan, disgusted with the truth, sought to right what had gone so wrong…
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Bianca Rose Wrote:Prince Charming is what every girl grows up thinking she wants, but he’s seldom what a grown woman needs. Prince Tristan, though, is someone with the determination to seek his destiny, settle down, and fuck all night and day.
Prince Tristan is ready to be the man his kingdom needs. As a prince, he should be in a position of power and authority. But out of fear, the King has kept Tristan out of the public eye. He also kept Tristan from any sort of true responsibility. So Tristan is left in this place of being constantly ready. Noble, valiant, and ready for battle, ready for a life with his Duchess, and always ready for sex. Having nothing to do but see to his own pleasure, Tristan has honed his skills and carnal knowledge to a lethal point. When Tristan finds out about the agreement with the Vampires his ancestors were forced to make, he’s compelled into immediate action. But he’s unaware of just how wrong that could go for him. Or how very right.
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Bianca Rose Wrote:t isn’t often that you have a chance like this, to understand the inner workings of a vampire.
Cerene is a master vampire and has been watching the Prince’s entire life unfold before her. Immortality lends her the patience to watch her prey play their human games of politics, war, and romance. She knows they will stumble and she waits for that opportunity to strike. So she is confident in her plans and in herself.
She knows she is beautiful and powerful and she uses that to achieve her goals. Cerene sees Tristan as a project. She wants to deepen his sense of perversion and widen his sexual outlook and experiences. She’d rather have him learn to value all the different pleasures she can teach him than have him groomed for the throne. Tristan will have to decide what he really wants.
Bloodlust Behind the Scenes video:
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https://cdn-pub.affect3d.com/videos/bloodlust/affect3d_bloodlust_behind-the-scenes_video.mp4
So ... what can be gleaned/pulled out of all of that (by me)?
Bloodlust isn't supposed to be
just pornography.
Pornography is merely a result, not the GOAL. The intended goal is supposed to be EROTICA, not just (mere) pornography.
re:
The Dude
Bloodlust is a SETTING, with centuries of history ... but an uncertain future.
re:
andi guiness
Cerene is "as old as the kingdom" and she's been watching over Tristan his entire life (and presumably over pretty much all of his ancestors since the founding of Veridian). And ... Cerene has limited immortality, meaning she won't die of old age, although presumably, like most vampires, she can be slain (or "dusted" if you prefer).
re:
Bianca Rose
So here's what I think about the entire context of history/events taking place in the Kingdom of Veridian.
I think that the vampires are, at their core, parasitic. They cannot survive without a "host" (read: population of humans) to feed upon. I would argue, based on the evidence presented in the opening narration for Bloodlust, that before the founding of the Kingdom of Veridian, for whatever reason, the vampires ... overindulged their appetites ... and as a result they pretty effectively wiped out their "food supply" creating an unpopulated wilderness essentially empty of anyone for them to feed upon.
Basically, they ATE their way into an unsustainable situation.
Faced with starvation
... the vampires had what amounted to 2 choices ... cull the weakest among their number(!) ... or surrender to the sleep of hibernation and wait for the human population to recover enough to sustain them.
I would argue that rather than choosing one OR the other, they did BOTH.
(note that in the TV series Stargate: Atlantis the Wraith do basically the same thing, so there's at least precedent for this notion for how a population deals with a lack of resources such as food supply)
First they culled the weakest among the clan, to try and get out from under the privation of starvation from not having enough people to prey upon to feed them all ... but even then there still weren't enough human survivors to sustain the remaining vampires. It was basically a classic case of Prey vs Predator where over predation led to a reduction in population of both prey AND predator, although the former resulted in the latter.
Eventually, faced with outright starvation, and unwilling to cull their numbers any further, the vampire clan stopped walking through Door #1 and finally accepted Door #2 ... surrendering to suspended animation in their coffins and sarcophagi.
And while the vampires slept, for millenia, they faded from human memories and passed into legend ... essentially becoming "ghost stories" to frighten children with, that no adult believed in anymore by the time the first King of Veridian began his conquests to expand his kingdom. This is essentially where the opening narration of Bloodlust picks up the story, at the founding of Veridian.
The MISTAKE happened when soldiers of Veridian came across the resting places of the vampire clan ... and woke them up. No doubt these would be grave robbers were the first to fall prey to the awakened vampire clan!
However, the vampires, had (in effect) Learned Their Lesson from the previous tragedy, and were determined not to overindulge their appetites (too quickly) again. As parasites, they needed a STABLE food supply, preferably nearby, which they could prey upon judiciously, rather than indiscriminately. And the only way to accomplish THAT would be "come to terms" with the human kingdom of Veridian on their border.
Additionally, although an individual vampire was incredibly strong and powerful (and magical) by human standards, the number of surviving vampires in the clan would be relatively few, having culled so many of the clan prior to their hibernation. This would mean that in a 1 on 1 fight, the vampires were practically guaranteed to win ... but in a grinding war of attrition, the vampires would inevitably LOSE.
It's like of like that old World War 2 saying about Sherman tanks versus Panther tanks. A single Panther was good enough to destroy 10 Shermans, but there always seemed to be an 11th Sherman out there (somewhere) ...
So the vampires couldn't sustain a war against the Kingdom of Veridian, because they just didn't have the numbers to make up for their losses. Even if a single vampire could slay 100 human troops, the humans would bring more than just 100 troops to the field to hunt down the vampire.
Quantity has a Quality all of its own (and all that). In a war of attrition, the vampires would be overrun (eventually). The losses among the humans would be HIGH, but with enough determination the humans would WIN.
So the vampires had TWO motivations for coming to a settlement with the King of Veridian ... not just one. The vampires needed a motivation to MAKE The Pact in the first place (can't win a war of attrition) as well as a motivation to KEEP The Pact once it had been formed (need a stable food supply nearby to stave off starvation).
By "forcing" the King of Veridian to sue for peace, the vampires were able to dictate the ...
humiliating terms ... of The Pact, so as to give themselves the upper hand in the agreement. Watch the opening narration of Bloodlust on this point, and notice that exactly WHAT those humiliating terms are never gets fully explained.
We know what a couple of the humiliating terms are ... that the people of the Kingdom of Veridian are essentially forbidden from encroaching on vampire territory (but of course, some will, and that for those who do, their lives are forfeit to the vampires, because they crossed the border) ... and that at 25 years of age, the firstborn child of the King of Veridian must be surrendered to the vampires.
But are those the ONLY "humiliating terms" of The Pact?
It's hard to believe that "that's it" for the humiliating terms, and that there are no more. Just because the opening narration
doesn't mention any more is not itself proof that there are no more humiliating terms to The Pact that was signed by the first King of Veridian.
So what did the first King of Veridian GET out of signing The Pact? We know what the vampire clan got out of The Pact. What did Veridian, and their king (and future kings who were also bound by it), get out of it?
What we know for sure is that the first King of Veridian GOT three things:
- He got to keep his kingdom (and his crown).
- He got a firm "border" beyond which his kingdom was not to expand.
- He got a non-aggression/peace treaty (The Pact) with the vampire clan.
We also know that the first King of Veridian (and the kings who followed him) LOST:
- The firstborn heir of the body must be given to the vampire clan at age 25.
- The will to fight against the vampire clan.
Basically, everyone got what THEY wanted (for themselves).
The King of Veridian bought peace for his people and got to keep his crown and throne.
The vampire clan bought an end to attrition warfare, a "stable" food supply and territorial security. They also get
generational infusions of Royal Blood from the neighboring Kingdom of Veridian ... to either be devoured, or turned into vampires themselves to replace the losses the vampire clan suffered during the war with Veridian. They also got a "docile neighbor" that wouldn't attack them, without needing to go to the effort of controlling/managing/dominating the levers of political power in Veridian.
But that then brings up an interesting prospect ...
Just how important are BLOODLINES to vampires, and to the vampire clan?
Because the whole "firstborn of every king at 25" clause in The Pact is remarkably specific, and also a bit objectively peculiar. It's also something that, if generally known, would tend to undermine a king's authority as an absolute (as opposed to constitutional) monarch. The opening narration of Bloodlust is silent on this point, but you have to wonder if this particular "humiliating term" of The Pact essentially became a State Secret, known only to the Royal Family and the king's closest advisors, rather than being public common knowledge.
And if THAT particular "humiliating term" of The Pact can be kept a SECRET over the centuries since the first King of Veridian, who gave his firstborn daughter (I'm still working under the assumption that this is
Cerene!) to the vampire clan ... willingly (on his part, if not necessarily on hers!) ... what OTHER
humiliating terms in The Pact might have become State Secrets?
Well ...
If BLOODLINES "matter" somehow to vampires ... then it makes sense that they'd want to secure "control" of the bloodline(s) involved in the Royal Family of Veridian. Whether the BLOOD of the descendants of the first king has special properties to it (it's especially tasty, there's latent magical power in it, there's political power to be had from controlling/consuming it, whatever...) isn't all that important for the story implications, although it's just another story hook that can be left hanging. All you need to know is that there's something "special" about the bloodline of the first king, and that the vampires went
out of their way to secure a portion of it for themselves in the
humiliating terms of The Pact.
And what does any good FARMER do, when it comes to managing their crops/food supply?
That's right ... they seek to CONTROL the breeding/life cycle of what they raise for themselves, in order to achieve the peak of fertility/freshness, so as to achieve a most bountiful harvest.
I therefore submit that one of the (as yet unmentioned)
humiliating terms of The Pact is that the first King of Veridian ALSO ceded what amounts to the "breeding rights" of the Royal Family to the vampire clan. The basic notion here is one of ... YOU can keep control your kingdom, but WE get to control your bloodline. After all, the vampires are going to want the absolute "tastiest" offering of a firstborn from each generation of the Royal Family. It would only make sense for the vampire clan to have a "controlling interest" in that outcome in each generation.
For an ambitious man who is more interested in saving his own
as yet unbitten neck (and crown) right NOW than he is in worrying about the future of the heirs to his kingdom, it wouldn't seem like that bad of a bargain. Men like that have been willing to sacrifice pretty much anything, including their own families, for wealth, fame and power.
Therefore ... I submit that the vampire clan has been quietly, and with the cooperation of each generation of king, engaging in a subtle program of what can be most charitably described as ANIMAL HUSBANDRY with the Royal Family of Veridian. I mean, talk about
humiliating terms ... there's a pretty big one right there! It would mean that Tristan, and quite possibly even Sophia(!), are the products of a centuries long BREEDING PROGRAM that has actually been the whole point and purpose of The Pact from the very beginning!
Forget NATURAL selection ... I'm talking about VAMPIRE selection here ... over multiple generations across centuries.
It would mean that Tristan, and quite possibly Sophia too, were BORN AND BRED to be exactly who we see them as being in Bloodlust (and now, Royal Descent).
And who among the vampires would have been tasked with overseeing such a project?
Why, the question answers itself ...
CERENE.
Why Cerene?
Because Cerene is, as I've speculated, the firstborn daughter of the first King of Veridian to sign The Pact. That means that "one of the blood" (in fact, the first!) would be "managing" the bloodline of the Royal Family of Veridian, ever since the kingdom's first generation. It would mean that, by blood, SHE would have a legitimate claim to the crown and throne, if she were ever inclined to become Queen of Veridian herself (spoiler alert, I sincerely doubt she's interested in publicly becoming monarch). It would mean that she and Tristan are related BY BLOOD ... and that the old phrase, "blood calls out to blood" isn't necessarily fairy tale nonsense.
It could even mean that of all the vampires in the clan, Cerene is the only one with access to a bloodline of descendants (the firstborns of Veridian in each generation) which ALL of the other vampires LACK ... giving her a unique role in terms of what she can "give back" to the vampire clan from the power(s) she's gained. Perhaps there's some unique advantage that being able to "feast upon blood related kin" confers to Cerene that NONE of the other vampires can lay claim to, simply because they
slew and ate all of their own kin long before the kingdom of Veridian came along.
In other words, what if the vampire clan of old Sealed Their Own Fate as a result of their own greed? And what if they KNOW IT ... and are trying to stave off the (now) inevitable through Cerene and the "Veridian Experiment" that came about as a result of The Pact.
And worse yet ... what if
Cerene knows it too ...?
After all, she's survived this long. How could she NOT know, especially if she was once a princess herself?
Is THAT what Cerene has been after, this whole time ... before, during, and especially after the events in Bloodlust? The way I read Cerene's character, she may have no interest in ruling the Kingdom of Veridian from its throne ... but I can EASILY imagine that she has every interest in "ruling" every generation of kings and queens in the bedroom, between the sheets, if not in her church upon the altar!
Which then brings me into the "present" of Bloodlust and the situation that Tristan and Sophia find themselves in.
Isaac has broken The Pact ... in an attempt to save Tristan from the fate that the first King of Veridian agreed to for all of the firstborn descendants of the kings. With The Pact broken, the vampire clan is taking "full advantage" and has started what amounts to "pillaging" the kingdom SELECTIVELY ... they're only taking 25 year old lives, once per day ... which is a remarkable amount of restraint when you think about it. They're "punishing" Isaac, through his people, but they're doing it in such a way as to direct the people's anger at the crown and the Royal Family ... Isaac and Tristan specifically ... rather than directing their anger at the vampire clan.
Tristan feels that it is his DUTY to (in effect) Mend The Breach so as to protect his (father's) kingdom (that rightfully ought to be his someday).
What's to stop Tristan from "renegotiating" the terms of The Pact with Cerene?
Aside from the
Your Bargaining Posture Is Highly Dubious factor ... there's a lot of upsides for everyone involved if Tristan is willing/able to renegotiate The Pact ... even if there is something to be said for how
This Deal Is Getting Worse All The Time for Veridian.
But think about it from the perspective of the individuals involved, rather than from the "collectives" of their respective factions.
What does Tristan want?
I'm of the opinion that Cerene had him absolutely dead to rights when she told him that she knew him too well ... that what he wanted was "Power, ambition, a land of your own. But more importantly,
you want to fuck the tightest asshole in the realm."
Why? Because
that's what he's been born and bred to BE and DO ... by none other than (I'm speculating) Cerene herself!
Yes, the kingdom's important to him ... but being a sexually perverted STUD is MORE important to him ... and he proved it(!) by giving in so quickly to the temptation(s) that Cerene offered him. If he had a way to keep his kingdom and fuck BOTH Cerene and Sophia in the ass, I have a really hard time imagining he'd turn the offer down(!). If anything, I'm thinking he would grab onto such a future with both hands (and hold on tightly to it).
What does Sophia want?
Sophia WANTS TO BE QUEEN.
Her only way to realize that dream is through Tristan, since he is the only heir to the throne. She knows him well enough to realize that in order to "stay in the running" she needs to be a LIMITED bedmate for him, hence why she'll suck and fuck him ... but also why she makes him cum outside her pussy, and won't let him fuck her in the ass. She knows that once she "gives up her goods" to him, Tristan's roving eye (and cock and balls) might lose interest in her, spoiling her chance to marry him and become queen. So she's Playing Hard To Get in order to string him along and keep him interested in her long enough to become queen.
And although she may care for Tristan, and perhaps even love him a little (or a lot?), she loves the thought of being QUEEN even MORE.
It also doesn't hurt that Sophia is way smarter than Tristan is, so she'd honestly/objectively make a good match for him. She's also just as capable (if not more?) than he is in the bedroom(!), and I'm pretty sure he knows it too ... and he knows that Sophia has been "holding back" on him with her sexual nature, so as to whet his appetite for what he can have with her once he makes her Queen.
At the same time, I'm reasonably sure that neither Tristan NOR Sophia know the full
humiliating terms of The Pact, including the Family Secret I've outlined above. They certainly know about the "surrender the firstborn" clause that sent Tristan riding off to confront Cerene, but I sincerely doubt they know about the "vampires control the breeding of the generations of the Royal Family" terms that (I speculate) are included in The Pact.
What does king Isaac want?
Isaac wants stability for his kingdom and a clear line of succession. He wants Tristan to rule as king after Isaac's reign ends. He doesn't want Veridian to descend into a chaos of succession wars because of his ... impotence (both literally and politically).
At the same time, he does NOT want Tristan given over to the vampires under the terms of The Pact, hence why he broke it.
And here's the wrinkle that makes me think I'm not barking up the wrong tree with all of this speculation about (erotic) fiction. Even when Cerene was mocking Isaac with her line about how "his dick shriveled up" ... even though she was belittling him,
I think she was speaking the truth. The way I would fit Isaac into the family (his)tree is that like Tristan he was kept ignorant of the Royal Family Secret until he became king ... and learned the TRUTH of what was in The Pact that his ancestor signed, which allowed him to become (and remain) king, just like all the kings before him.
But then unlike many of the other kings, Isaac REBELLED against the reality of what being king meant (and cost). He "did his duty" by his queen in siring Tristan, but once that was done, his interest in sex (and more progeny) pretty much literally dried up. Whether that happened because Cerene was "punishing" him, in a way that would prompt the present crisis with Tristan, or if Isaac was doing it out of sheer bullheaded stubbornness doesn't really matter ... the results were the same. For the first(?) time since the kingdom's founding, the king had only a SINGLE (publicly acknowledged) heir of the body, and that by the terms of The Pact, it was Tristan's fate to be given over to the vampires rather than become king after Isaac's rule ended.
Perhaps in his younger days, Isaac may have deluded himself into thinking that he'd "show the vampires" what he was made of and liberate his kingdom from The Pact. Perhaps he had no idea what he was getting himself in for, not believing in vampires (or whatever), and he just blundered his way into the present crisis of succession. Or perhaps Isaac really ISN'T Tristan's blood father(!) ... and Tristan was instead possibly sired by Isaac's BROTHER, the firstborn of Isaac's generation, on Isaac's queen(!), at Cerene's command(!) ... and out of a sense of betrayal Isaac swore to "never touch his queen again" ... and he kept that oath ever since.
Whatever the situation REALLY is with Isaac, I want to believe that Cerene was telling Tristan the TRUTH about his "father" Isaac with her "dick shriveled up" line, and that this particular fact about Isaac's impotence ... with his queen, with the vampires, etc. ... is what pushed him into taking the action that he did where he broke The Pact in order to try and keep Tristan away from the vampires.
So I think that so long as Isaac can "get Tristan back" from the vampires, without losing him for life, like pretty much ALL of the other firstborns for as long as The Pact has been in effect ... I think that Isaac will take it. He wouldn't necessarily have to LIKE the terms of how that happens, but so long as the continuity of the kingdom is assured, I have the feeling that he'll find a way to live with it, even if he winds up regretting it all on his deathbed and confesses to it all.
What does Cerene want?
This is really the whole ball of wax here. We don't have absolute certainty as to what Cerene's motives and incentives are in the present situation. Heck, we don't even know how much POWER she's got at the moment (although all indications are that she's got more than enough to do almost anything she wants).
If Cerene is (as I've speculated) the firstborn daughter of the first King of Veridian who signed The Pact, I'd imagine that she'd have a sort of
perverse attachment to the kingdom in general, and the other descendants of her own father (who "betrayed" her to the vampires with The Pact) ... in part because the bloodline of the Royal Family grants her an "edge" in power over the other vampires in the clan, even though she's "new blood" as far as they are concerned. She may very well view the kingdom the same way someone thinks about a trinket they keep on their shelf. Veridian may be "hers" by right (although no one would back her claim) and by blood, but she has no interest in becoming the all too public ruler of the kingdom. Instead, she may view Veridian as a ... possession ... of hers, but not a place she wants to RULE openly.
But being the power BEHIND the throne (Grendel's mother style) with the Royal Family as her sexual playthings/chew toys? THAT sounds much more like Cerene's style! Especially since she gets a new set of sex toys to play with (and gnaw on) every generation ... and if she gets to "control the breeding of heirs" to the crown and throne like I've speculated, then she's got the time (and the patience?) granted by her (limited) immortality to play matchmaker (and mistress?) to generation after generation of studs and sex objects to keep herself from becoming BORED with her incredibly long life.
She can, in effect, take her "revenge" on kith and kin, while also drawing power from them so as to be able to "hold her own" in the vampire clan. In that sense, Tristan might be the result of a breeding program designed to produce the
Queer Assed Hat Rack and accomplish ...
something undisclosed.
Heck, Sophia could even be a part of those plans(!), hence why Cerene is "playing" with Sophia like she is, rather that running Sophia off or killing her outright. Maybe Cerene WANTS Sophia to be Tristan's queen(!) ... so that the breeding program doesn't have to "end" with Tristan's generation.
But in order to do that, Cerene will need to
Alter The Deal such that she can "let" Tristan go free to rule his kingdom (and his queen's ass no doubt!), but for which Cerene will get something in exchange ... something that Cerene wants, but might not have been able to get were it not for Isaac's rebellion against The Pact. In other words, EVERYTHING might be going according to Cerene's plan! After all, if Cerene renegotiates the terms of The Pact with Tristan, and each side concedes something that the other side wants, the individuals involved can come out ahead while their respective faction(s) get shortchanged in the process.
I can EASILY imagine that Cerene might dictate (dick-ate?) terms that would have been even MORE (too?) humiliating for past kings of Veridian, but in Tristan she's got the sexual pervert she wants, and she's got him right where she wants him (erect and desperate for mercy?). In other words, where in past generations she was more "hands off" when it came to siring the next generation(s) of the Royal Family, now she wants to take a more HANDS ON approach to seeing her breeding project come to fruition. Isaac's rebellion showed that the previous "hands off" approach could no longer be relied upon for breeding up the next generation of sex objects for Cerene to exploit. So now she's interested in correcting that oversight.
Which would mean ... Tristan and Sophia can return to Veridian (and MUST become king and queen together) ... provided that Cerene is basically "allowed to" come (and cum!) with them and RULE the pair of them between the sheets as her sex toys. Cerene would basically become the Royal Mistress (as far as the court was concerned) and essentially INVADE the Royal Family, rather than staying far away from them (on the vampire side of the border), with the king and queen (and all their royal progeny) as her sex toys, in perpetuity.
In vampire lore terms, Cerene, uniquely and specifically, would be INVITED IN, while the rest of the vampires would be kept out. In other words, she'd be able to secure a new seat of power for herself, and the vampire clan would be effectively unable to stop her.
So Tristan, Sophia and Cerene would wind up as a threesome back in Veridian, with Cerene at the "top" of the (blood)lust triangle, with a free for all of twosomes and threesomes going on in the bedroom away from the prying eyes of the court in the throne room. Tristan and Sophia would be "bound" to lead what amounts to double lives of being monarchs in public while being thoroughly athletic sexual perverts in private with Cerene.
In other words, everybody in Bloodlust gets what they want.
- Tristan gets to be King AND fuck Sophia and Cerene in the ass (as much as he's able to, stupid refractory period).
- Sophia gets to Queen AND gets fucked by Tristan and Cerene ... and when she and Cerene have exhausted Tristan, she and Cerene can keep having sex while Tristan watches (approvingly) while trying to rest up and get ready for (yet) another round of sex.
- Cerene gets to become the power behind the throne of Veridian in a more direct/complete way, while also continuing her pornographically sexualized breeding program in a much more satisfyingly "hands on" fashion with Sophia and Tristan.
And then CENTURIES later ... Tara and Sayako walk into a marble hall in the palace with a golden legged couch and ... become Girlfriends 4 Ever.
Is Cerene still around, "living in the house" at that time?
Maybe ...