World domination, feasting on the souls of the living to feed his own infernal darkness, causing eternal damnation to the poor souls who tread this earth.
These are the terrible motives which have in the past been put forward for the terrifying activities of the beast we know as Dracula.
But they are all well wide of the mark, according to the latest telling of the vampire legend, in Kostova’s The Historian.
What old Count Drac was really after was simply someone to put his vast collection of books in order, and to keep adding to it.
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There was a game for the Sony Playstation that absolutely rocked called Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. For those unfamiliar with the Castlevania series, a quick history lesson.
Castlevania has been around since the early days of Nintendo, though it made it’s initial debut on the MSX Home Computer. It was one of the biggest hits for the original Nintendo Entertainment System. Published by Konami, it’s been around for almost 20 years making the jump and upgrade from one console video game system to the next as the consoles become more powerful. Anyway, the story is simple, your character has to kill Dracula.
The character you’re playing may change, but in Symphony, you’re the son of Dracula, Alucard Tepes. Since you’re daddy’s boy, you got skillz and mad powerz. And one of the stages of the game happens to take place in Dracula’s massive library. How massive? Well, there’s bookshelves from the floor to the cathedral ceilings and I can remember at least two floors to the entire library. Indeed, one of the most helpful characters in the game is the librarian. He’s able to sell you stuff you can’t get elsewhere in the game. And since the library is a good place to go, there’s also an item in the game called a library card, which allows you to return to the library from any other point in the game.
So you could easily say that the library and the librarian play a central part in a game about Dracula.
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Thanks for the pic, GWD. That’s the one! That’s the image I would have wanted (if I’d known about it then) as a write-in candidate on the recent “redesign the librarian stereotype” poll. I didn’t like any of the choices offered there, but this one is perfect.
Second choice would, of course, be The Librarian of Unseen University.