As I said. I like my privacy, and that kind of work erodes at it. [This is a man who literally will become a wolf and sleeps in a graveyard because it lets him get away from people. Alucard is well aware that he may exist in the human world, but it is a tiring place to be in day in and day out. He knows himself well and what he ought to avoid. Politics, where dealing with others who are self serving and ambitious only to their own ends?
That's how you go Full Dracula far too quickly. Alucard has felt too much anger simmering below the surface. Politics are the last place he should ever be.]
I've no love of the place, although Solvunn seems to be the target of the day. [Pointless, so far as Alucard is concerned. There are worse things than accidentally unleashing the dead for a night.] Thorne was initially the only place that could bring people from other spheres here. Acting as judge, jury, and executioner, the mage who figured it out put about half of those he called forth into the dungeons below their castle with no reason.
[Alucard's tone manages to remain calm, but there is the undeniable current of venom threaded throughout his words. If he had to impale a man, it'd be Ambrose.
It's a thought that he might otherwise pushe aside, if not for Jayce's explanation of the term. It is deft, it is concise, and--
--his mind goes to the Belmonts and his father. No part about Alucard has ever doubted that Dracula's reputation was earned. It was. It always has been. But for the Belmonts, they kept at it. At any point they might have walked away, but they passed the work of Dracula's destruction down the generations. How much of it was about Wallachia, and how much of it was about what they had lost?
How much of this will play out in the wake of Dracula's attempt at destroying the country?
It is a sobering thought. Another reminder of why as awful Thorne's dungeons were, Alucard would rather be here in Cadens now, where Dracula's destruction is not his problem. Where he can be a quiet architect and engineer with plans, and then find a nice place to nap for a century our two. Anonymous, save for a few good buildings.]
I think more places do. They just don't have the term.
[But better luck here. Alucard shakes his head.] I think your luck relies on what you create here and ensuring proper use to positive ends.
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That's how you go Full Dracula far too quickly. Alucard has felt too much anger simmering below the surface. Politics are the last place he should ever be.]
I've no love of the place, although Solvunn seems to be the target of the day. [Pointless, so far as Alucard is concerned. There are worse things than accidentally unleashing the dead for a night.] Thorne was initially the only place that could bring people from other spheres here. Acting as judge, jury, and executioner, the mage who figured it out put about half of those he called forth into the dungeons below their castle with no reason.
[Alucard's tone manages to remain calm, but there is the undeniable current of venom threaded throughout his words. If he had to impale a man, it'd be Ambrose.
It's a thought that he might otherwise pushe aside, if not for Jayce's explanation of the term. It is deft, it is concise, and--
--his mind goes to the Belmonts and his father. No part about Alucard has ever doubted that Dracula's reputation was earned. It was. It always has been. But for the Belmonts, they kept at it. At any point they might have walked away, but they passed the work of Dracula's destruction down the generations. How much of it was about Wallachia, and how much of it was about what they had lost?
How much of this will play out in the wake of Dracula's attempt at destroying the country?
It is a sobering thought. Another reminder of why as awful Thorne's dungeons were, Alucard would rather be here in Cadens now, where Dracula's destruction is not his problem. Where he can be a quiet architect and engineer with plans, and then find a nice place to nap for a century our two. Anonymous, save for a few good buildings.]
I think more places do. They just don't have the term.
[But better luck here. Alucard shakes his head.] I think your luck relies on what you create here and ensuring proper use to positive ends.