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More historical Sword stuff...I love great swords but absolutely no strength to even lift one and put back on the display. A Scottish Claymore is the only one have touched in my life..

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Why do people use two-handed swords instead of using one-handed swords with shields? Are they more powerful weapons than single handed sw...

Gustav Åhs's answer: Two hands on a weapon gives you reach power and precision, they are definitely more powerful than single handed swords

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Why, in fantasy, do characters carry their swords on their backs?

Charles Li's answer: Because writers typically have never even touched a weapon before and don't know how great swords were carried historic

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What are some historical examples of curved swords?

Gustav Åhs's answer: Swords can be curved in all manner of interesting directions. You have the forward curving sword like the Falx It mad

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What advantage is there to having an edgeless sword (like the estoc) over one that can both cut and thrust (like an arming sword)?

Andrew Duffey's answer: To answer the original question: First of all: Weapons like the estoc are essentially the best spear that money cou

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It has been a long time since I have redone Katharina Siegil in Hellsing Style, but I have to say, she looks so much better now as I thought, She is even more beautiful in the Hellsing style. In the Hellsing Series, Katharina was a German Saxon and a daughter of the Weaver named Thomas Siegil and her mother Susanna, née Fronius. She is one of Vlad's "Alucard" mistress, back in 500 years ago, The Jewelry was a gift from Vlad, when he first meant Katharina, when she was pulling the sledge during the snowy time of December on Christmas Eve pulling all the weapons and food for Vlad and the military men, and Vlad came to her to help her. This is how they meant. Katharina was 17 and Vlad was 25. Vlad did have mistresses and married, but he only truly loved Katharina, givien her so much silk clothes and jewelry. Vlad warned all the men in Brasov to stay away from Katharina, or he'll impale them at onces, because of her beauty. The wives of the merchants heard what's been going on, they attack the house where Katharina lived, they beat her and cut off her two braids and took her to the pillory on the town hall square. Made a false claim that she was a witch, bewitching Vlad and fear that the Turks would attack Brasov and the Saxon village. Vlad got very angry when he heard that his beloved had been beaten and humiliated on the town hall square. He threatened to set Brasov on fire. However, in the end, through negotiations, he managed to secure her release. He then spared the Saxon merchants whom he had actually wanted to have executed in Bartolomeu. After the news about Vlad's death, She couldn't live without Vlad, so she ended her life with a sword to spears into her heart. 

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Vlad the Impaler's mistress Katharina Siegel is she a legend or did she really live? Part 2: The relationship between Katharina Siegel and Vlad Tepeş This is the story that is told about the relation between Vlad and Katharina. Katharina is said to have been born on April 29, 1438. Her father, Thomas Siegel, was master of the weavers' guild in Kronstadt (Brasov) and lived on Seilergasse (Ulita Funarilor), now Schloss-Strasse (Palace Street) - and her mother, Susanna, née Fronius, came from an established family in the city. When Katharina was a child, her father's house burned down. Her parents then sent her to the Franciscan monastery from 1450 to 1455. (At the time, there was only one Franciscan monastery in Transylvania: The Bazilica Sfânta Maria (German: Basikila Unserer Lieben Frau) in Șumuleu Ciuc (German: Schomlenberg, built 1442 - 1448) This was very likely the monastery Katharina was sent to. After she returned from the monastery, her parents took her to the house where they lived after the fire, the Tartler building on Ulita Alba (today's N° 14 Poarta-Schei Street). Vlad is said to have fallen in love with Katharina at first sight when he saw her pulling the heavy sleigh behind her. According to another version, this is said to have happened when he saw her through a window. According to reports, Vlad wooed Katharina with expensive fabrics from Venice and jewels. Vlad is described as very jealous, When Vlad went looking for Katharina one evening, he was convinced that the young woman was not at home and was waiting for her until she emerged from a night out accompanied by her cousins. He is said to have asked her why she was walking down the street so late and chased her down the street. Vlad caught her and gave her a kiss, whereupon a priest intervened, who came out to see who was making the noise. In the darkness, the priest did not see Vlad's face and jumped to save Katharina from the hands of the man attacking her. It seems that Vlad then wounded the priest with his sword. On April 2, 1459, Vlad Ţepeş (who had been voivode of Wallachia again since 1456) in anger at the high taxes levied by the Saxons in Brasov and at the intrigues of the city leaders, destroyed all grain crops in Burzenland. (The Burzenland [Romanian: Țara Bârsei] is a historical area in southeastern Transylvania, with Brașov [Kronstadt] as the most important city.) He ordered the arrest of hundreds of traders and merchants who came to the fortress with goods, storing them in near the city's slums, in what is now the Bartolomeu district. He intended to have them impaled. The wives of the merchants in the city attacked the house where Katharina lived, beat her, shaved off her hair and took her to the pillory on the town hall square. She was pregnant with Vlad's second child. Vlad got very angry when he heard that his beloved had been beaten and humiliated on the town hall square. He threatened to set Brasov on fire. However, in the end, through negotiations, he managed to secure her release. He then spared the Saxon merchants whom he had actually wanted to have executed in Bartolomeu. According to another anecdote, he kept Katharina's braids, which he is said to have found, until his death. He is said to have even hit his first wife Anastasia when she found the pigtails hidden in a wardrobe, Although Vlad loved Katharina very much, he did not marry her. In 1460 and after the suicide of his wife Anastasia in 1462, he is said to have repeatedly asked Pope Pius II for an abolition of his marriage, allegedly in order to be able to marry Katharina. However, the Pope refused. Vlad and Katharina are said to have had five children together: Vladislav (1456), Catherine (1459), Christian (1461), Hanna (1463) and Sigismund (1468). After Vlad's violent death, which is said to have happened on December 14, 1476, Katharina is said to have returned to the monastery she had spent five years in her youth. Some sources claim she died in 1479.

We don't know what she died.

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Hellsing © Kohta Hirano Artwork © Amikartest FanArt © Amikartest Do not steal or claim as your own

This is the original painting of Kathain Siegil

This is one is my old anime drawing of Katharina Siegil

This is one of Katharina's jewelry that Vlad has given to her.

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Zero to Hero: The Transitional Vampire and Human Becoming

Zero to Hero: The Transitional Vampire and Human Becoming

I have only read about 6 pages but I am enjoying it so far. Maybe you will too.

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So...about silver and vampires again

Just my brain being strange again on vampire "stuff"

1. Expensive mirrors had silver used to reflect and silver was considered a higher metal /holy component. so Vampires didn't show up in mirrors. Silver repels the reflection not because couldn't cast a shadow.

Stick with me now...

2. 1840's to 1860's photographs used silver coating on copper sheets is "Why" vampires couldn't be seen in photos taken.

(Well besides not enough light and sitting still enough for the image to develop on the plate)

"For daguerreotype images, popular between 1840 and 1860, the photographer put a sheet of copper, coated with silver and exposed to iodine vapor, into the camera. Once the sheet was exposed to light during the taking of the picture, the photographer used a mercury vapor to bring out the image, and then set it with salt."

As for "All Father" as I sometimes call Vlad/Alucard the weaknesses don't apply being first and direct. The weaknesses are passed to his "offspring" directly to indirectly children.

He cheated death so why not cheat on the rules...

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