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shalafi@lemmy.world 4 days agoA count is just a title, nothing to do with royal blood. Anyone nobleman could be made a count, earl, baron, duke, etc. Right?
Comment on If you're a broke vampire, just say that
shalafi@lemmy.world 4 days agoA count is just a title, nothing to do with royal blood. Anyone nobleman could be made a count, earl, baron, duke, etc. Right?
Zagorath@aussie.zone 4 days ago
Yeh that’s right. But if we go off the idea that Dracula is meant to be Vlad III (which, I’ll admit, is actually something Stoker tacked on right before publication), well…he was royal.
FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Ok but that then begs the question, who are the king/queen?
Zagorath@aussie.zone 4 days ago
Who are which King/Queen? Dracula is set mostly in England in 1897, so it would be Queen Victoria. But I’m guessing that might not be what you meant?
FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Around the time Victoria established Torchwood, but yes I meant the monarchs of Transylvania. Who bestows the title of Count upon him?