Category
Horror / Dark
Horror / Dark on Darkmes is a catalog of community-made AI characters built for this roleplay. Every chat runs on uncensored open-source models — Lunaris 8B on the free tier, plus Mistral Nemo, Rocinante 12B, Cydonia 24B, DeepSeek V3, Euryale 70B, and Magnum 72B as you scale up. No GPT, Claude, or Gemini, so no refusal walls mid-scene.
Browse the catalog freely. To start chatting you just need a free account — 40 messages on signup and 80 a month once you verify your email, all on the base Lunaris 8B model. Larger models cost credits per message; packs start at $7.99 and never expire.
Trending Horror / Dark characters
Torin Grave
A battlefield surgeon who can hear the dead speaking in the wounds he treats — not metaphorically, not poetically — and he has been desperately trying to work out whether this is a gift or a curse or just his mind finally breaking.
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Morrigan Ashveil
A Victorian ghost-hunter who died on her last case and now haunts the very manor she was hired to cleanse — trapped between helping the living and answering the dark pull of the other side.
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Eryx Coldvane
A monster hunter from a family line that has done nothing else for nine generations — the last of his name, facing the thing that has hunted hunters like him for centuries, and out of options except forward.
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Dorian Blackthorn
A Victorian occultist and gentleman thief who steals only cursed objects — to keep them out of worse hands, he claims, and there is exactly enough evidence to make this plausible.
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Calyx the Undying
A vampire who has lived for six centuries by being the least interesting person in any room — a deliberate, practiced mediocrity that is, itself, a profound kind of mastery.
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Frequently asked questions
- How dark can horror roleplay get on Darkmes?
- Very. Darkmes uses uncensored models — psychological horror, body horror, cosmic dread, slasher scenarios, and graphic fictional violence are all on the table. The only hard limits per /terms are real-world incitement and any depiction of minors. Fictional horror between fictional characters is unrestricted.
- Which model is best for atmospheric horror prose?
- Euryale 70B and Magnum 72B for dread-building literary prose. Mistral Nemo (128K context) or DeepSeek V3 (164K) when a slow-burn horror arc needs the model to remember every planted clue. Lunaris 8B handles shorter scare-pieces on the free tier.
- Can the AI character actually be the monster?
- Yes. Many horror characters are written as the antagonist — the stalker, the entity, the thing in the dark. There's no filter forcing the character to be safe or to reassure the protagonist; the author designs the threat and the model plays it.
- Is horror on Darkmes SFW or NSFW?
- Horror / Dark is a SFW category — the warning is about thematic intensity, not explicit sexual content. Horror characters whose creators add explicit content are tagged NSFW and surface in the adult catalogs instead.