Zealot

devotion as it is often misunderstood, to be shown a path that no other can witness, blindness through faith, having many eyes, the experience of revelation, dervish, priestess

“—that I could take the world away from him, and have it for myself!” she states as she violently tears the red curtains from the wall, they pile at her feet, her stance teeming of resolute fury as she lets the room echo her declaration. Not only does this instance foreshadow her impending battle with Isaac, where the floor of the room turns an opaque red as it becomes increasingly saturated of the spilled blood of night creatures, but it also speaks to the irony of her character. Like a ram with an overgrown horn, now stabbing it in the eye, Carmilla was a self consuming fire. Bearing a rage which was both her fuel and her demise, as she’d eventually become unable to evaluate her enemy or the magnitude of their schemes against her. “The world, Lenore!” she continues…