I always feel as if the moment anything involving the divine or infernal appears is the moment that everything just goes to utter and absolute shit.
[Prophechies are a mixed matter, but God and/or the devil? Easier to accept that things are just That Bad and then to deal with all attendent feelings later. Alucard's....well, mostly processed the family part of everything going badly. Or at least that's the lie he likes to tell himself.]
I think that one isn't too big a mystery. The place started out under Thorne's control, and so magic was in place. Making one's own identity can mean rebelling against foundations - in this case magic - and sometimes that rebellion can become insisting on being the opposite just out of spite. Or at least that is the theory I've been working with and seems to make sense. [Alucard pauses, generously refilling the glass before continuing.] It's a shame too. My father's house had technology on par with what's here, but he was still an immensely skilled mage as well. Hard to raise entire armies from Hell if you aren't.
[He shrugs, refilling his glass after Gideon's.] Not for me to decide. I was just asked by a small group of citizens to do the restoration work. Jaskier seems to think it'd be a good concert hall, and I can't disagree with him.
Look he's bad at friends and has learned not to take them for granted
[Prophechies are a mixed matter, but God and/or the devil? Easier to accept that things are just That Bad and then to deal with all attendent feelings later. Alucard's....well, mostly processed the family part of everything going badly. Or at least that's the lie he likes to tell himself.]
I think that one isn't too big a mystery. The place started out under Thorne's control, and so magic was in place. Making one's own identity can mean rebelling against foundations - in this case magic - and sometimes that rebellion can become insisting on being the opposite just out of spite. Or at least that is the theory I've been working with and seems to make sense. [Alucard pauses, generously refilling the glass before continuing.] It's a shame too. My father's house had technology on par with what's here, but he was still an immensely skilled mage as well. Hard to raise entire armies from Hell if you aren't.
[He shrugs, refilling his glass after Gideon's.] Not for me to decide. I was just asked by a small group of citizens to do the restoration work. Jaskier seems to think it'd be a good concert hall, and I can't disagree with him.