Hi tom.
i would still suggest a medeval time period in history for the game, similar
to spain or italy around the time of the crusades and wars with the mours.
Indeed, the b15th century might be a night point, sinse you could still have
paladins, nights, archers etc, plus perhaps classes who use muskits (albeit
that they'd take forever to load), as well as priest or even alchemists, but
have a completely believeable setting and a historical backing for the
vampire.
for example, suppose you called your vampire brutus, with the idea that he
was around sinse Roman times, had his little empire in spain that was now
threatened by the unification of the country and the expanding power of the
church.
he could have roman armor and weapons, perhaps even some shrines to nastier
roman gods such as pluto, ut would also be a man of his time, perhaps with
his own army, merciaries etc.
i often think indeed that with vampires and warewolves, history before! the
19th century gets rather ignored in a lot of ways, sinse after all the real!
count vlad tepes dracula was quite an interesting character, and is still
regarded as something of a national hero in parts of rumania because of the
way he fought off the tirkish empire, including his brother who was raised
in the tirkish court, was defeated, but then came back to take back his
country from the tirks at the head of any army he'd managed to raise from
the neighboring kingdom.
At the same time however, he was just as brutal with criminals and those who
disagreed with him as history says, with him being vlad the impailer,
although from his own perspective impailing was seen as a correct punishment
for those who trangessed the lore of god and of God's devinely appointed
nobility.
(there was a really nice recent Doctor who audio dara drama all about the
historical Vlad tepes, which made him out to be an incredibly fascinating
character and made me do a little extra researc, another thing of course
that is good about Doctor who).
Beware the Grue!
Dark.
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