Vanescula Drakan

Lady Vanescula Drakan (pronounced /vənɛskjuːlə drəkʰaːn/), Mistress of Darkmeyer, is one of four Drakan siblings alongside her brothers, Ranis, Draynor and Lowerniel. Both Vanescula and Ranis run Meiyerditch and Darkmeyer for Lord Drakan.

Roles
During the quest Darkness of Hallowvale, (also Vanescula's first appearance) Vanescula's servant, Sarius Guile, stops Vanstrom Klause before he kills you to interject something about Vanescula's interest in a man named Safalaan.

In the RuneScape novel "Return to Canifis", It is revealed that she is immensely powerful, indeed more powerful than the Black Prince and possibly stronger than Lord Drakan himself. Also revealed in the novel is how she enjoys using creatures and people as "pawns" in her games with other vampyres; for example, she tricks Jerrod to kill the Wyrd, a creature under command of the Black Prince, that murdered dozens of civilians.

During The Branches of Darkmeyer Vanescula asks the player for help to defeat her siblings Ranis Drakan and Lord Drakan to take control over Darkmeyer. At the end of the quest, if she is asked about Safalaan she will say she killed him, but then berates you for your gullibility, implying that she was simply lying. She seems to be fairly interested in Safalaan's life.

Once the quest The Branches of Darkmeyer is completed, player may speak to Vanescula in order to change their vampyric name.

During the quest The Lord of Vampyrium, Vanescula assists the Myreque in an attempt to take out Drakan. Their attempt fails and both her and Mornid are sent to the "Bloodletter" chamber, where their blood is slowly sapped and their wings wounded. The player manages to free the two of them and as they attempt to leave, Drakan stops them and throws his spear at Mornid, killing her and sending Vanescula in a state of shock. After the player kills Drakan, she "tells" something to Safalaan, which she kills him instead, to the remaining survivors' shock. She explains that with his death, she now has Icyene blood in her and can go through the River Salve. Learning Haemalchemy from Safalaan before killing him, the vampyre society will now need more people, giving the remaining more freedom and cannot stop creating vyrewatch or the society would collapse. In order to achieve her goals of returning the society to how it was in the Second Age, she tells them that she would need to invade Misthalin in order to do so.

Post-quest dialogue with other sentinels show that she is true to her word, as the nobles are eating well and the vyrewatch are more obedient under her rule compared to Drakan's. Talking to her will result in a short argument between the two as the player argues that she betrayed the Myreque and that she had to kill him, otherwise the vampyres would become severely weakened or extinct. In addition, she is credited by the vyres for killing Drakan, even though the player was responsible for killing him. Regardless of what the player decides to do with her actions, she has no grudge with them.

Nessie
Nessie is a crying and scared child that comes out of a building during The Branches of Darkmeyer at a meeting point, supposedly arranged by Vanstrom Klause. When spoken to, however, Nessie reveals her identity and transforms into Vanescula Drakan.

Trivia

 * As of The Branches of Darkmeyer, Vanescula and Lord Drakan are the only two remaining Drakan siblings alive, after the deaths of their brothers Count Draynor and Ranis Drakan; the latter of whose death was directly caused by Vanescula herself.
 * Although Vanescula is a vampyre, she seems to also be a traitor to the vampyre race and possibly a savior or Anti-Protagonist to the humans. For example, in the novel Return to Canifis, she tricked Jerrod into killing the Wyrd, who killed and abducted many civilians mostly in Varrock. (It is confirmed that the novel is not related to the Myreque quests, but still an example as not much has affected each other anyway.) Also, during Branches of Darkmeyer, she works with the player to help make the Blisterwood weapons to defeat vampyres such as Vanstrom Klause and killed her own brother, Ranis Drakan. She also said she wanted to use the book of Haemalchemy to teach the Vampyres how to survive without having to hurt the humans, so the humans can be set free. By doing so, she either intentionally, accidentally or out of boredom, helped the Myreque to make their job easier or using them as her pawns to take over Morytania for herself.
 * Vanescula's examine text in vampyre form, "Don't move. Maybe she won't be able to see you." is a reference to the movie Jurassic Park. In the movie, it is believed that Tyrannosaurus had vision based around movement, and thus couldn't see prey if it didn't move. This prompts the protagonist to say a similar line when faced against the film's (female) Tyrannosaurus.
 * Vanescula is briefly controlled by the player after the fight with Vanstrom to defeat his Bloodveld guardians.
 * When you pledge loyalty to her, you can say: I plead guilty to the Drakan family, and she would say "Can't you do anything right?" and you can then choose to say "I devote my serviettes, band and flowers to the Drakan before me" and she'll reply "How did you even... oh never mind. It's only the mark that matters."
 * Vanescula's Combat Level according to Jagex's Top Trumps is 205.

Vanescula Drakan