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07-25-2005, 07:42 PM
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| | | Draculina
Just curious but does 'Draculina' mean anything other than that magazine. Someone told me that it means Daughter of Dracula or some such? Anybody know anything? |
07-25-2005, 08:26 PM
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| | | I'm not sure if it has any specific historical connections in terms of older Vampire mythology (in fact, I'm fairly certain it doesn't). I've heard draculina used to connote dracula's bride, dracula's daughter, or simply a female vampire in some fiction works (and it seems like B-Movies, but I may just be thinking of the magazine). Anyway, I'd be interested if anyone has any specific information. |
07-26-2005, 02:11 AM
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| | | Dracul would be from the Romanian for "Dragon", and 'ina' is a general romance language suffix for "Little" (female tense). There is a certain amount of evidence to suggest that Romanian descends from the romance toungues (duhh), so "Draculina" could be taken to mean "Little Dragon" in the female tense, hence typically a younger female.
Such names typically get assigned out of context, however (a woman would acquire such a name as a young girl and perhaps carry it well into her dotage). Five gets you ten, though, that it's the whimsical fabrication of a fiction writer. I know of no history suggesting that such a character ever existed.
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07-26-2005, 07:29 AM
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07-26-2005, 06:24 PM
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| | | Oh, and by the way, as "Dracula" is the Romanian male form of "Little Dragon", then if there were a "Draculina", she would be more likely to be Dracula's sister than his daughter.
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07-27-2005, 04:50 AM
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AFAIK "Dracul" simply means "Dragon" - that guy which inspired "Dracula", Vlad the impaler or how he's called in english, was member of some dragon knight order, therefore his nickname was "Dracul". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracula
I always thought that Bram Stocker simply changed "Dracul" into "Dracula" to make the name easier spellable for english people... ? |
07-27-2005, 05:42 PM
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| | | My understanding is that Vlad II was nicknamed 'Dracul', and as such his son caught the moniker 'Dracula' in childhood, and it stuck.
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07-28-2005, 05:38 AM
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| | | Dracula was christenned Tepes after his death meaning Impaling Prince in Romanian by his enemies. Dracula was of the Mircean branch of the House of Basarab of the throne of Wallachia.
His father; Vlad II was nicknamed Dracul meaning Dragon (in Romanian) and because he was part of the Knightly and Holy Order of the Dragon. Vlad III (Dracula) took the name Dracula, an anagram of Dracul (Dragon) and Ulea (Son of) and thus christenned himself Son of the Dragon.
Which means technically that Vlad's full name is Vlad Dracula Tepes Mircea Basarab the 3rd.
I think that's how it went. |
07-28-2005, 05:29 PM
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| | | Now, I've GOT to thank you for that. That's more decent information on Dracula's lineage than I've ever even *heard* of. Now I can get some decent (and hopefully productive) searches done.
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07-29-2005, 08:06 AM
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08-19-2005, 11:22 PM
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| | Umm... sorry to disappoint you but "dracul" means "the devil" in Romanian, at least nowadays...  |
08-22-2005, 05:56 AM
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| | | Nowadays... probably. But in the past it was obviously used for both. I guess it is similar to the English word wyrm which also means 'dragon' but in Old English it meant 'serpent', a name which is also used for devil...
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08-22-2005, 12:50 PM
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| | You're probably right.
My question may be stupid, but I would still like to know what his alignment could be in D&D
Lawful Good
Neutral Good
Chaotic Good
Lawful Neutral
True Neutral
Chaotic Neutral
Lawful Evil
Neutral Evil
Chaotic Evil |
08-22-2005, 08:45 PM
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| | All vampires in D&D are chaotic evil. And Dracula is a vampire. 
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08-22-2005, 09:17 PM
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| | | That may well be, but in the context of the historical Vlad Tsepes, he would have been Chaotic Good. He Stomped The Earth, but for perfectly good reasons.
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