I like the little lies that are building up between Mira and Samuel and Ilka and Dominik. I also like that Beta sired the blank-faced servant, who is super-creepy when he silently pulls out the blade from his eye. I assume this wasn't what you meant when you wrote that you'd be using more of the old material.

One teeny nitpick:

No lamps or candles lit - it should be too dar.

Did you mean 'dark'?