#Targoviste

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TARGOVISTE - ROMANIA

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For the sake of curiosity, I’m going to talk about witch trials and how they relate to the events in Castlevania.

The time period is accurate.  The earliest documented case of witch trials in Europe is believed to be the Valais Witch Trials, taking place between 1428 and 1447.  What makes Lisa’s situation worse (and the Bishop more evil and insane) was amount of time that passed from when she was first arrested to her burning in Târgoviște.

We see in the premiere of Season 2 that the Bishop’s cronies burned her house to the ground, but in the very first episode, Dracula finds the fire extinguished but still smoldering.  So Lisa can’t have been gone more than a day.  And also note that it was raining that night.

Witchcraft was a serious accusation, and in most cases, the accused were assumed guilty and no one dared to prove them innocent for fear of being accused of witchcraft themselves.  However, in most cases, the authorities needed a confession from the alleged witch and would resort to any methods to obtain one.  Given a proper time frame and ‘investigation,’ Lisa likely would have been tortured within an inch of her life, given time to recover, and then the process would have repeated until she admitted ‘guilt’ if only to make the pain end.  However, since she was apparently burned less than twenty-four hours after her arrest, none of this could have taken place.  Besides, given her character’s personality, she definitely would have held out as long as she could until her husband or son rescued her.

Conclusion:  The Bishop in his ecclesiastical fanaticism had reached a point of political power and religious corruption that he was able to bypass ‘the process’ and commit an act of vigilantism with impunity.  This bastard had friends in high places, which is all the more terrifying and impressive in the most twisted way when you take into account the religious context of Catholicism not being the dominant religion in Wallachia.  In fact, Catholicism and the Pope were largely treated with suspicion.

Note for clarity:  Wallachia was greatly influenced by the dying Byzantine Empire (Eastern Orthodox Christians,) and when Constantinople was on the verge of being invaded by the Ottomans, a man by the name of Lukas Notaras famously declared, “I would rather see a Turkish turban in the midst of the City than the Latin mitre.”  So yeah, the Wallachians were not fans.

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Târgoviște, Romania, 6th July 2024

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Me watching castlevania once more

Dracula: targoviste will pay for burning my wife

My dad who was half asleep: their burning her at Taco Bell?

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Princely Court of Targovishte, Romania

A very important place in the history of Voivode rule from 13th to 16th century.

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Ep. 238. Poetica Anda Mihaela Miroiu.

Poeme din  volumul de poezie “Pastele Cailor”, Ed. Bibliotheca, Targoviste, 2023.In lectura autorului

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221127 Rapid vs Targoviste [Stage 7]

🎞 FULL MATCH https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1784y1b71F/

🎬 HIGHLIGHTS

📊 MATCH STATISTICS Rapid 1-3 Targoviste (25-23, 20-25, 25-18, 25-16)

Lee Dayeong 1 point (1/3 attack - 33%) Ailama Cese Montalvo 19 points (18/38 attack - 47%, 1 serve // 46%-23% reception) Ioana Baciu 17 points (17/44 attack - 39%) Jennifer Cross 8 points (4/13 attack - 31%, 2 blocks, 2 serves) Nasya Dimitrova 8 points (4/12 attack - 33%, 3 blocks, 1 serve) Denisa Adriana Drimboi 3 points (2/12 attack - 17%, 1 block // 40%-0% reception) Alexandra Trica 2 points (2/14 attack - 14% // 41%-0% reception) Teodora Pusic (50%-21% reception)

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But what if Sypha got to have TWO girlfriends... *eyes emoji*

(ppst... uncensored version & drawing template for this pose are available. Look me up @ BornFreak on P*tre0n to find them)

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Okay, but here is the thing with Vlad Dracula:

I know that there is this popular notion that the war in 1462 and the subsequent famous night attack at Târgoviște was Vlad’s own risky endeavour to settle personal beef with Mehmed once and for all. No matter if painted as a hero or a villain, we see this vengeful guy who cannot stop thinking about his past issues with Mehmed (and the country he represents) and keeps looking for the right opportunity to start provoking the Sultan and settle the personal conflict.

I know, I know. It adds the angst, the flavour. However, it’s not only a very incorrect way of looking at Vlad’s character and the pretext of the war, but it also takes away from his brilliance as a ruler and a strategist.

First and foremost, Vlad was a voivode of an entire country. As the ruler of the land, the fate of Wallachia fell on his shoulders. Any sovereign has to detach himself from any personal feelings and conflicts and put the matters of the state first. Vlad was not only a highly intelligent man, but his rule was definitely marked by ambitious reforms to push the country forward. To wage a war just to settle personal issues would be an insanity, a sure way to not only dig his own grave but to dig a grave of the entire country as well.

Also, we do in fact know what Vlad’s role and motives were regarding this war, and we should not omit those facts. The war of 1462 was the planned Step One of a much larger Crusade. Vlad knew the Ottomans well, knew the risks that the Wallachian attack would bring, but he was promised significant help from another, much stronger state. He was needed for his knowledge and skills. He really took the big step forward only when the help was promised.

Especially from the preserved correspondence addressed to Matthias Corvinus, we can easily tell that Vlad kept his side of the deal and was persistent on making others stick to their promises as well:

You know that our land is a neighbour to your land... You also may have heard that the Sultan has set up a huge army against us. If this land of ours is subjugated, please, realise that they will not stay content with our land but will immediately make war on you, and the inhabitants of your land will suffer great misfortunes at their hands. So now is the time: by helping us, you really help yourself by stopping their army far from your own land and by not allowing them to destroy our land and harm and oppress us.

Maybe it’s time people stopped showing Vlad as an angry, angsty avenger who pushed his country into a freaking war just to kick the Sultan’s ass out of personal issues. Let’s show it instead for what it really was — an opportunity to change the politics of the time, with Vlad being one of the most important links of the campaign. And let’s show the personal nature of the events for what it was, too — a man who stayed true to his words, did what he had promised to do (and did so valiantly), and then was betrayed by those who promised him aid.

(Also, his subsequent imprisonment and the whole slander campaign obviously shows that he was devoted to the cause and to staying loyal to the allies, but the allies had to get rid of him fast because his involvement was becoming too inconvenient.)

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Some folks think if you had been in Targoviste when Lisa was murdered, you could have saved her and stopped Dracula's war from ever happening at all. What do you think?

"Oh that is interesting," Trevor folded his arms, looking up as he thought, "I really had just lost the last of my family to the church at the time, so I think I would be feeling happy to give that big middle finger to the church. I wonder how things would go differently had I been able to do that," He scratched his chin in thought, "hm," He said to himself.

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TARGOVISTE - ROMANIA / RUMUNIA

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Was Once A Princess

My concept art of Zamfir before Dracula’s attack on Târgoviște. (A little bit more Germanic clothing than it should be and it's the wrong time period...) I used Anne of Cleves as inspiration for the top left one.

Awhile back, I made a post about Zamfir, specifically speculating on Sypha’s line of asking if she was the ‘last person of noble birth left alive’ when everything went to hell. Due to her...devotion, I guess, to the royals, I like to play with the idea she was the daughter of the dead Prince. This would explain how she found herself at the head of the capital's guerilla resistance force.

What I imagine happened was after Dracula's castle landed in the heart of the city and the place became overrun with demons, the court fractured into at least two groups: Zamfir's underground faction and a faction that gave up Târgoviște as lost, fled south, and established a new court in Bucharest. (Historically, Wallachia's capital did move from Târgoviște to Bucharest around this time.) For a little bit of context, the Wallachian throne had been contested by the Dănești and Drăculești branches of the ruling family since 1420, some 56 years before Castlevania takes place. So if the reigning monarch were to die, the boyar lords would not have hesitated to flock to the next viable option. Zamfir, on the other hand, seemed to have the people of the Underground Court pretty convinced the royals were alive and well, so they may have been doggedly believing her promises and clinging to the old regime.

Due to the hostile environment of the court, Zamfir was probably already deeply disturbed before Dracula's attack. If she was the Prince's daughter, she's living a world where her father could be at any time deposed, either by his own people or by an outside force, or even betrayed and murdered by his own family members. As a woman, she wouldn't be able to present herself as a claimant to the throne and so would not be in danger of being murdered as a political rival, but the sudden loss of her father would still threaten her already tenuous place of safety. Her madness didn't start with Dracula; he probably just finished what the Wallachian political scene started.

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As to the identity of dead prince himself, he can only be Vlad III Dracula or Basarab Laiotă and at the same time, it's impossible for him to be either. It's unlikely the prince has the same name as the vampire and Basarab Laiotă doesn't die until 1480.

To reconcile this, I'm calling the reigning prince Dan III because Dan III did not exist and is often confused by historians with Vladislav II, who may have simply used the name as an alias. (Ever misunderstand something so bad that you accidentally invent a whole-ass dude?)

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Another thing of note is Zamfir is a Romanian surname that denotes a jeweler, not a given name. With this information, she's neither a Dănești or a Drăculești, but she could be an illegitimate child of the prince. Illegitimate children in Wallachia didn’t have the same status as they did in the west.  Any one of a man’s sons had the opportunity to inherit. The daughters were another story, but the Prince still could technically acknowledge her as his if he chose.