#seymour de lycana

[mysteryofvampires]

Hey, your bio says that you “like talking about your favourite books but unfortunately no one knows about them” so I was wondering — what are your favourite books?

OMG thank you for your question! This is my first ever ask and receiving it from such a talented and nice person like you is a great honour! Also sorry it took me so long...

My favourite books are the 'Die Erben der Nacht' series (translated into english 'the heirs of the night') by Ulrike Schweikert. It's a german book series wich contains six books. They are historical fiction (1877-1883) mixed with Fantasy (it's about vampires, but there are also other magical creatures like werewolves). It deals with topics like coming of age, friendship and love.

There are well written characters with pretty impressive character development and the plot is also pretty good. It's basically about how the vampires get repressed and decide to teach their children together. The main characters are a group of young vampires from various clans who become friends and more later on... two of them have a pretty good rivals to lovers arc. They have to overcome various challenges through the years all leading to defeat the mega villain Dracula later on. There is also a suplot with an orphan girl who lives with her vampire hunting uncle that falls in love with one of the vampire teens. The books are filled with a lots of information about culture, science and society back then.

You also meet many famous people from that time. The most important one being Bram Stoker who is an important part of the Story. Not only adopts he the orphan girl when her uncle dies but he also helps defeating Dracula along with Doktor van Helsing the vampire hunter. The plot basically inspires him to write Dracula.

You also meet other people like Oscar Wilde or empress Sisi of Austria.

The four main vampires also befriend the phantom of the opera in the third book.

The books also deal with things like feminism and stuff like that

I recommend it for people that speak German (obviously) who are interested in vampires and history and don't look for a literally masterpiece, cause it really isn't. It's a great YA book and an easy and quick read.

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#die erben der nacht #ulrike schweikert #franz leopold de dracas #alisa de vamalia #ivy- maire de lycana #luciano di nosferas #seymour de lycana #latona canning #bram stoker #vampire literature #historical fiction

[larsafdracas]

reblog/like if you're an heirs of the night fan because this fandom is too small and I need some blogs to follow

#heirs of the night #lars af dracas #alisa von vamalia #inger af dracas #fanny af dracas #tammo von vamalia #joanne de pyras #malcolm of vyrad #luciano di nosferas #ivy of lycana #seymour of lycana #hotn #die erben der nacht #erben der nacht

[find-life-ivy]

The rubies of the Lycana and the Nosferas Clan on the deck of the Elisabetha after the death of Tonka the Upiry and Contessa Viola de Nosferas.

[Season 1, Episode 12: In the darkest of times]

#ivy of lycana #seymour of lycana #lycana #viola de nosferas #nosferas #heirs of the night #nattens arvinger #erben der nacht #rubies #i really did cry #moth

[larsafdracas]

seeing as I'm currently reading the heirs of the night books (I'm at book four), I think it's time to do some comparing and ranting hehe.

(Warning: spoilers for the books if you haven't read them yet and plan on doing that.)

things that are different from the show:

– a lot, tbh. Which doesn't mean it's bad! The show is amazing imo, but it's pretty different from the books which is a fact that can't be denied.

– Dracula for example has a lot less appearances, especially in the first three books. Then, he starts to have a bigger and more important role as (main) antagonist.

– a lot of characters from the books aren't in the show, which is very sad. A few others are still there but much younger, for example Luciano who originally was the same age as Alisa, Ivy and Lars.

– speaking of Lars: his name in the books is Franz Leopold de Dracas, nicknamed Leo (fortunately), and he's from Vienna, Austria, like the rest of the Dracas clan. He's an arrogant jerk in the beginning (especially in book one) but gets better. Slightly better. He also used to have a crush on Ivy (they even kissed once), but it didn't last long as soon as he found out she wasn't born as a vampire. He still ends up with Alisa tho. He has dark hair and brown eyes (as far as I remember), so he and Alisa basically swapped appearances (in the books she's blonde with blue eyes).

– and before I forget it; the vampire academy doesn't take place on board of a ship over the span of a few weeks or months (tbh I've kind of forgotten the time line of the show). Instead, every school year is spent in another country with the respective clan. The first year is in Rome with the Nosferas, the second in Ireland with the Lycana, the third in Paris with the Pyras, the fourth is in Vienna with the Dracas, and the fifth is probably in London with the Vyrad. (I'm still at book four, so I'm not completely sure, but seeing as book five is called Vyrad, the chances are pretty good.)

– Nicu and Calvina aren't characters from the books, but they're basically genderbent versions of two other characters I'll mention again later. Seeing as I don't like Nicu that much anyways, it's not that bad of a thing.

– Ivy has silver hair! And Seymour actually is her twin brother. They're the children of a druid, Tara, and Seymour is a werewolf. They got turned into a vampire (Ivy)/werewolf (Seymour) to ensure peace between the vampires and werewolves of Ireland. It's a long story. They're both over a hundred years old btw.

– the Noaidi isn't a book character either.

– oh right and the clans don't need any rubies to possess their powers, they just developed them over time and can easily teach it to other vampires.

Things from the books I wish they'd kept in the show:

– Latona!! I love her so much, and she and Alisa could have bonded over being annoyed by misogyny. (For everyone who hasn't read the books: Latona is basically female Nicu but much more awesome. She's the niece of the vampire hunter Carmelo and falls in love with Malcolm. She also basically has a found family type of relationship with Bram fucking Stoker, yk, the guy who wrote Dracula (and who has a lot of guest appearances in the books).

– the fact that the Dracas are from Vienna. As an Austrian, this deeply offends me.

– the fact that Lars/Leo has drunk human blood before he did that ritual thing that officially made him an adult. (Like, way before. The ritual happens when they're like 17, and the academy started when he was 13, and he'd already drunk it by then.)

– the whole thing with a vampire's body automatically falling asleep at sunrise. unlike in the show, they can't stay awake during the day. It doesn't matter where they are, they just fall over like they just died lol. It isn't called rigor mortis for nothing I guess.

– and, of course, the fact that Leo can fight with a sword and is really good at it. His cousins/relatives, Anna Christina, Karl Philipp and Marie Luise can fight with a sword, too, but Anna Christina is the only one of the three who's as good as Leo.

This ended up being longer than I thought lol. Thank you if you've read all of this! I might reblog this with additions some time later, depending on how much stuff I forgot to say. Until then, bye! Have a nice day!

(And don't forget to drink enough water and eat something. We humans sadly have to do a lot more than vampires to stay healthy.)

#heirs of the night #the heirs of the night #die erben der nacht #erben der nacht #books vs show #ulrike schweikert

[find-life-ivy]

Okei, let's go do a post about heirs of the night because this fandom is precious but tiny, so we could use some conversation.

I love it so much, that the clans speak in their mothertongue sometimes, it gives so much more life to their identity, also DEEPLY appreciated, that the actors casted for the role actually have their characters heritage, examples;

•Hindrik - german actor (Florian Bartholomäi)

•Conte Claudio de Nosferas (and I think,actually all of the Nosferas Clan?) - italian (Francesco de Vito) , THICC italian accent [*chef's kiss]

•The Dracas and the Noaidi -beautifully norwegian

•both Ivy and Seymour of Lycana - Irish actors [or so I suppose because of their names] (Aisling Sharkey and Finnian Duff Lennon)

It makes sense that Alisa's actress Anastasia is british, because she is the main. HOWEVER, it was done so well (I will make another post to elaborate, how it makes sense that a german vampire girl speaks mostly english)

#heirs of the night #erben der nacht #nattens arvinger #alisa von vamalia #ivy of lycana #fanny af dracas #inger af dracas #lars af dracas #nosferas #vampires #fuck yeah language diversity #thank you for the accents #noaidi