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Built in Bucharest, Romania, in 1906, as a replica of a genuine fortress of Vlad the Impaler (yes, the one you probably know as Dracula…), for a national exhibition that commemorated 40 years of reign of the king Carol I.
Since today is Romania’s national day / Great Union Day I thought I might spam everybody with my culture and explain some of their folk costumes.
First thing i want to mention is that I got all my info and ideas from this website [ Romanian Museum ] and all the reference pictures are from there ( i’ll share the links below for each picture).
What I’m doing is a really really brief explanation so I might simplify some events / briefly mention others so if anybody is interested to find out more feel free to message me.
1) Sieg
First of all, even though I watched Fate/ Apocrypha it never crossed my mind that Sieg might be Romanian ??? ( even tho he was born there) so i’m really happy to have him part of the famiglia.
*The Saxons have arrived in Transylvania in 12th century and created the Siebenburgen = The Land of The Seven Burgs / Citadels , Sighișoara being one of them
2) Vlad III ( berserker ver)
I always thought he was meant to be the younger version of Lancer Vlad, or at least a more refined version??? but apparently not, he’s just the Vlad-that-is-associated-with-Dracula version so welp.
While we do not know for sure, legends say that Vlad the Impaler was born in Sighișoara which means Fate/ Apocrypha was pretty accurate I get to draw him in that area’s folk costume. The geographical area around Sighșoara is called Târnava Mare, and the men’ costume looked like this ↓ ↓ ↓ [ for further references ]
Also Vlad is playing a traditional Romanian instrument called nai (pan flute) <— bless wikipedia for having an English version.
3) Vlad III ( lancer ver )
So while the berserker ver is a bit difficult to be placed historically, for Lancer Vlad FGO is pretty straightforward so we definitely know he is supposed to represent ‘Christianity’s shield’ aka the King of Wallachia* who protected his kingdom from the Ottoman Empire.
For him, I’ve decided to go with a [ folk costume from the Giurgiu/ Vlasca region ] because 1) it looks so cool like… transparent sleeves???fragile masculinity what?? 2) he was buried at Comana Monastery in Giurgiu 3) one of his important battles took place in Giurgiu in 1461/1462 ( if anybody is interested in the details, i can give you a summary )
*Wallachia is the historical name for Southern Romania, before all the kingdoms unified
one of the last pieces of the year. I am cleaning out my ‘uncompleted’ folders since I got a new tablet for christmas! Not 100% on it but I am happy that I have it finished. Happy holidays to all and I should be posting more now since my comms are done.
