CCRB RECORD No. 0081
The Blood of Dawnwalker
Determination: Implied — Blasphemy 2
Vampires ban the Church, deface its frescoes, and force black masses on a 14th-century Christian valley — depicted as tyranny, not endorsed.
An open-world RPG from the director of The Witcher 3, set in a real 14th-century Carpathian valley during the Black Death. Vampires seize the valley by curing the plague with their blood and build, in the creative director's words, a cult “inspired by Christianity, twisting its dogmas,” posing as saints and messianic figures. Reviewers describe the regime banning religion, demanding worship in its place, replacing church frescoes with grotesque portraits of the vampire lords, and compelling the populace into black masses.