[Maria has to pause and think on that. Oh she had a basic enough knowledge of history given her upbringing but Maria isn't really the sort to concentrate on it too in-depth either.]
I believe Wallachia has been part of the Ottoman Empire for some time now? There was a war in ...
[Hold on here. She can almost here the scolding tones of her tutor now.]
1690, I think? Well the first of many anyhow between the Ottoman Empire and Russia. Peasants serving lords isn't so much a thing now as it once was thanks to serfdom being done away with.
[Her eyes narrow a little as she tries to remember what had been happening to the country in this past year. Frankly her sights were too set on Richter so...]
Nicholas Mavrogenes was the latest prince I believe. He was taken off the throne a few years ago so there's been another war from that unfortunately.
[She looks a little apologetic.]
I hadn't realized there was so much fighting until now. I'm afraid I may have spent a number of years since the Belmonts took me in concentrating on our hunt of the night creatures. My studies in history have fallen off for that sort of training.
[Well and the Belmonts while better liked now than they once were weren't exactly the same nobility as the Renards. Mostly due to the whole fighting thing, though the Renards weren't without their own weaponry.]
The Ottomans were only just beginning to exert control in my time, but--
[There's some good things in this. Serfdom being abolished is a big one, but fighting? That's familiar. A little too familiar, all things considered. Alucard grew up away from the world, but with Trevor and Sypha, he understood certain things all the same. The chaos of growing up in Wallachia as Vlad III tried to keep the Ottomans out. The ever growing stresses of fighting an empire. The fact that what his father did created more opportunity for the Ottomans to exploit.
He sighs, offering a very faint laugh.]
Wallachia inivites this, I think. There's a natural chaos to it, no matter what one does or who may be in charge.
Very well. I wouldn't necessarily say we're friends with some of the more religious around us but they haven't really bothered us either.
[She thinks of Richter though.]
But then it also means no one truly remembers the family. Perhaps it's better that way but it does have downsides. Richter... he was afraid of being forgotten in the end, I think. With Dracula in his grave once more I think he couldn't see what purpose he could serve or what important he might have left.
That's good. [Near warmth almost rolls off Alucard. That the Church is leaving the Belmonts be? That's beyond good. That's amazing. He doesn't ask if it's true for all of Wallachia - he can settle for now.]
There's some value in being anonymous. It prevents things like the excommunication that-- [Maria probably already knows.]
He'll find purpose. No one should be defined by Dracula's legacy.
[At that she nods firmly. He would eventually and of that she had little doubt.]
I suppose with the trouble his family has been through in the past he certainly deserves it. I don't know much of what happened of course.
[She doesn't miss the warmth though. Things click nicely into place as she recalls a distinct moment in the castle.]
Oh! That's who you must have meant then!
[... Well, not him him but ... ah, time is so complicated.]
We ran into each other several times within the castle while I was searching for Richter. I had hoped you had seen him and while you did recognize the Belmont name, I had thought you must know Richter. Then when we met again later you said there was a Belmont in the castle but you didn't know if it was Richter or not.
[She nods some to herself.]
It certainly puts Richter's disbelief it was you into more perspective then.
[How was it he put it? "That was over 300 years ago!" ... Hadn't he mentioned Trevor then too?
Oh dear. Maria sighs to herself. She'd have to think of a way to apologize to that brute of a man, wouldn't she.]
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[It's a wide place to start, but it seems easiest to begin with the impersonal.]
i'm not a scholar, i just abuse wikipedia very thoroughly
I believe Wallachia has been part of the Ottoman Empire for some time now? There was a war in ...
[Hold on here. She can almost here the scolding tones of her tutor now.]
1690, I think? Well the first of many anyhow between the Ottoman Empire and Russia. Peasants serving lords isn't so much a thing now as it once was thanks to serfdom being done away with.
[Her eyes narrow a little as she tries to remember what had been happening to the country in this past year. Frankly her sights were too set on Richter so...]
Nicholas Mavrogenes was the latest prince I believe. He was taken off the throne a few years ago so there's been another war from that unfortunately.
[She looks a little apologetic.]
I hadn't realized there was so much fighting until now. I'm afraid I may have spent a number of years since the Belmonts took me in concentrating on our hunt of the night creatures. My studies in history have fallen off for that sort of training.
[Well and the Belmonts while better liked now than they once were weren't exactly the same nobility as the Renards. Mostly due to the whole fighting thing, though the Renards weren't without their own weaponry.]
wallachian history is also chaotic as shit
[There's some good things in this. Serfdom being abolished is a big one, but fighting? That's familiar. A little too familiar, all things considered. Alucard grew up away from the world, but with Trevor and Sypha, he understood certain things all the same. The chaos of growing up in Wallachia as Vlad III tried to keep the Ottomans out. The ever growing stresses of fighting an empire. The fact that what his father did created more opportunity for the Ottomans to exploit.
He sighs, offering a very faint laugh.]
Wallachia inivites this, I think. There's a natural chaos to it, no matter what one does or who may be in charge.
[But in that, something else.]
What is it like with them now?
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[At least that's who she imagines he means.]
Very well. I wouldn't necessarily say we're friends with some of the more religious around us but they haven't really bothered us either.
[She thinks of Richter though.]
But then it also means no one truly remembers the family. Perhaps it's better that way but it does have downsides. Richter... he was afraid of being forgotten in the end, I think. With Dracula in his grave once more I think he couldn't see what purpose he could serve or what important he might have left.
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There's some value in being anonymous. It prevents things like the excommunication that-- [Maria probably already knows.]
He'll find purpose. No one should be defined by Dracula's legacy.
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I suppose with the trouble his family has been through in the past he certainly deserves it. I don't know much of what happened of course.
[She doesn't miss the warmth though. Things click nicely into place as she recalls a distinct moment in the castle.]
Oh! That's who you must have meant then!
[... Well, not him him but ... ah, time is so complicated.]
We ran into each other several times within the castle while I was searching for Richter. I had hoped you had seen him and while you did recognize the Belmont name, I had thought you must know Richter. Then when we met again later you said there was a Belmont in the castle but you didn't know if it was Richter or not.
[She nods some to herself.]
It certainly puts Richter's disbelief it was you into more perspective then.
[How was it he put it? "That was over 300 years ago!" ... Hadn't he mentioned Trevor then too?
Oh dear. Maria sighs to herself. She'd have to think of a way to apologize to that brute of a man, wouldn't she.]