Vampire architecture? Wallachian, Mayar or something else?

[Kyriakos]

I am about to start creating a fantasy medieval Vampire city set, and since i am naturally lazy i have not yet started to collect the concept art for the buildings. So i thought i could ask the esteemed learned people here on their opinion about which real culture i should base the buildings on.

Poll will be up soon If you feel like it and can provide some concept art please do, i am in dire need of it atm

 

[NovaKart]

Count Choculla was the first that came to mind but that probably wouldn't be a good idea.

 

[attackfighter]

Here are some ideas:
Old, decaying castles like the one Dracula lived in.
Abandoned manors.
Gothic architecture.

I hope that helps.

 

[General Pilates]

I think a large castle with a bleak village surrounding it and a black, imposing wall(when you build walls) would be nice.

 

[bombshoo]

Here is some castles associated with vampire myth:

Bran Castle (Supposedly Vlad III's castle):

Hunyad Castle (Rumored prison of Vlad III):

Orava Castle (Filming location of Nosferatu):

A reconstruction of the now destroyed Cachtice Castle (Elizabeth Báthory's castle):

This also popped up in a google search and I thought it might be useful. It's a set from the Hollywood vampire-action movie Van Helsing.:

Spoiler :

 

[Kyriakos]

Thank you for these

I am a bit keen on involving Bathory in the set, and that castle looks lovely.

Edit:Great houses as well, thanks again

 

[Leoreth]

Seeing those houses, I wonder if we associate the architecture with horror movies because of the vampire myths or their scary look inspired those myths in the first place.

 

[Kyriakos]

Maybe both

And i doubt it is by chance that i now decided to make a Vampire set. It is in great context with what has been going on...

 

[civ_king]

Wallachian since Vlad was Wallachian

 

[Kyriakos]

It seems Wallachian is clearly winning

Anyone have more images of scary-looking medieval village houses i could model?

 

[holy king]

what the hell is mayar?

 

[Tee Kay]

Mayan vampires would be a nice change from the usual cliched Draculanesque vampires.

 

[holy king]

the maya?

 

[Racsoviale]

Mayan vampires would be a nice change from the usual cliched Draculanesque vampires.

This one?

 

[GoodGame]

the maya?

I think he means Magyar, like Hungarian.

The Vampire Epidemics: Following the Austrian conquest of Hungary and regions south, reports of vampires began to filter into western Europe. The most significant of these concerned events during 1725-32, their importance due in large measure to the extensive investigations of the reported incidents carried on by Austrian officials. The cases of Peter Plogojowitz and Arnold Paul especially became the focus of a lengthy debate in the German universities. Different versions of the incidents identified the locations of the vampire epidemics as Hungary rather than (more properly) a Serbian province of the Austrian province of Hungary. The debate was summarized in two important treatises, the first of which, Dissertazione sopre I Vampiri by Archbishop Giuseppe Davanzati assumed a skeptical attitude. The second, Dom Augustin Calmet's Dissertations sur les Apparitiones des Anges des Démons et des Espits, et sur les revenants, et Vampires de Hingrie, de Boheme, de Moravie, et de Silésie, took a much more accepting attitude.

http://www.answers.com/topic/vampires-in-hungary (probably came from wikipedia originally)



There are also half-vampires, called Dhampir (probably from Albania).

 

[Kyriakos]

Yes, i meant Magyar The latin letter "y" is somewhat close to the greek gamma (&#947, which features at that place in the term μαγιάρος.

 

[cool3a2]

I'd say that depends on what Dracula you'd like to base your vampires on. If you base him on the historic Dracula, who wasn't a vampire, you should go with Wallachian style. If you thought about the figure Bram Stoker created, Magyar is closer, since Dracula states he's a Székely (an hungarian people) in that book. Yet it wouldn't be obvious why you 'magyarized' him as lots of people don't know about that connection. Also, that figure states Székelys and Hungarians are not related...

I suggest you go with a mixture. The pictures shown above do reflect this since they resemble the buildings from Transylvania - which is influenced by both, Hungarians and Romanians.

 

[Kyriakos]

Hm, well i modeled this, with some orthodox crosses too:

What do you think?

 

[bombshoo]

A little pink isn't it?

I like the house models, and the square turret a lot.

 

[ParkCungHee]

I know Mayan Vampires got shot down, but what about Hopping Vampires?