#castlevania drolta

[carmillas-vampiric-rage]

see how you can design poc vampires without making them ashy 💁🏽‍♀️

[happybird16]

*Sweating* M-mommy

[demigoddessqueens]

BAD BITCHES TO THE LEFT

MASTERS IN CUNTOLOGY FROM SERVINGTON

[mrsdulac]

˚₊· ͟͟͞͞➳❥ 𝒹𝓇𝑜𝓁𝓉𝒶 𝓉𝓏𝓊𝑒𝓃𝓉𝑒𝓈

[bismuthmagnet]

the TENSION in this car

[love4krystals]

More Castlevania Nocturne

[uhhweirdperson]

I need castlevania fans cause it’s literally so good bro

[alpaca-clouds]

What's going on with Drolta?

Alright, I kinda promised @g-vlssz to also write down some historical context for this femme fatale. And admittedly she is the hardest character to figure out in this regard. Because we do not know a lot about her.

Don't get me wrong: We know two things about her. She is from Ancient Egypt and she was a priestess of Sekhmet. It stands to assume that she is also the reason, why Eszebet got to drink from Sekhmet.

Here is the issue: Ancient Egypt is a thing that was around for 3000 years. The oldest definite proof of worship of Sekhmet we have dates back to the 14th century BC. And as far as I know the last temple build for her was erected in the 1st century AD. So, we have a good 1500 years during which people definitely prayed to Sekhmet - and during which Drolta could theoretically have been created.

Given that we do not know how long vampires are around in the world of Castlevania, we also cannot use that information to somehow narrow it down. (I mean, according to Katie Silva Morana was from Ancient Sumer, which fell around 1750 BC.)

And once again, there is just the fact: Religions change over the centuries. The way we worship changes.

One way to go about is to look at her Blackness and make some interpretations about that, given that Egyptians usually are not Black but Arab. But... historically speaking this is a huge, huge controversy. Because whether or not Ancient Egyptians were Black is a big, big disccussion to this day. And to be honest: I am not gonna throw my hat into that ring.

There is one line, Drolta says, though, that makes me think that she might actually go back to about 1200 BC. Because she remembers her time as a priestess with the "smell of dead bodies". (I don't quite have the full quote there right now. But something along that lines.) And that one stood out to me, because the Egyptians were not that big on human sacrifice (outside from Retainer Sacrifices). Usually Sekhmet would get sacrificed either goats or bulls, but not humans. But... there is some kinda shacky evidence that while Egypt was having a war with the Hittites, which ended up very, very bloody, some prisoners of war got actually sacrificed to Sekhmet.

Going through all I have on Ancient Egypt and Sekhmet, this is the one instance I can find where there is (even though shacky) evidence of human sacrifice to Sekhmet.

But again, it is kinda hard to say.

Something that might play into her motivations, though, is the colonial history of Egypt. Which is a bit more complicated than a lot of white folks, who don't do history, give it credit for. Egyptian culture and mythology is fascinating. It is. Kid!me was not the first person who looked at that and was entranced. No, that goes back to even Ancient times when Greeks and Romans looked at Egypt and had the exact same reaction. Which makes it so complicated. Because, of course, colonialism of Egypt started a long, long time ago with the Greeks and Romans.

But... It was kinda different back then, mostly because Egyptian culture might have gotten mixed up with some of the Roman and Greek customs, but the Romans and Greeks never forbid or even much restricted Egyptian worship. Quite on the contrary, as they took up some of the gods, especially Isis, who became very popular both in Greece and Rome.

Now, if you are wondering: Why did worship of the Egyptian gods even end? You should know the answer: Christians.

See, the Romans were very okay with the worship of the Egyptian gods. Because they were polytheistic. But then along came Constantin, who not only moved the capital of Rome from, well, Rome, to Constantinople, but also made Christianity the main religion of the Byzantine Empire. Originally they kinda sorta still allowed other worship, but then along came Emperor Theodisius, who in line with his name was very much not okay with it. Not only did he had soldiers burn down temples throughout the Empire, he also forcefully converted people to Christianity. (As in: "Convert or die" forcefully.) Something people later would call the Heathen Hunts.

And with that... Well, with that the Egyptian gods became forbidden to pray to. Now, there were later again and again attempts to bring the worship back, but even after Egypt was no longer part of the Empire, it had Muslim rulers. And while Muslims at the time were mostly okay with Christians and Jews hanging around and doing their thing, they were often not as cool with the polytheistic worship of some other cultures.

And yeah, no matter what time Drolta comes from... She probably was there when they burned down the Sekhmet temples. And yes, she very much also was there when the Europeans came to Egypt and plundered the graves to then (ugh) fucking consume bits of mummy or use mummies in their paints.

So, like... If, after all of that, she decided "vampire messiah is gonna punish all the humans" sounded actually fairly good... I would not exactly hold it against her.

And that is all without going into the "she was probably Sekhmet's guardian the entire time or something" thing, that clearly is implied by the text.

[spicyspell]

Drolta :3

[g-vlssz]

Drolta 😫😫 I would bare my neck for you

[balakinlb]

I've been sitting on this Drolta sketch since I've watched Castlevania Nocturne, but my brain was too busy thinking of other things for like...weeks

[carmillas-vampiric-rage]

them all in a room together would be fucking hilarious

[spxartblog]

Castlevania or something idk I didn't watch it

[grymoria]

Black Demon Representation

This will sound odd and/or controversial to a lot of people but PERSONALLY as a black person who kins themselves to the concept of demons and is fond of the fantasy genre when it comes to entertainment, seeing a couple of characters within the latest Fantasy genre of entertainment media being black people with physical demonic characteristics pleases me.

And the main reason as to why this please me is because society (especially Christians) view demons as evil. But then again society for centuries also view black people as evil and would demonize us just for our skin color. Thing is I'm proud to be black so if you see me as a demon/nonhuman because I'm black then I'm proud to be that too. Because at the end of the day, I can't help that I was born with this skin color and features therefore you have to deal with me existing like this whether you like it or not.

My other reasons is because like I said I like the Fantasy genre. I like the concept of it and I like the species/races within the fantasy genre. Thing is there's not many black characters within popular fantasy media. So seeing the latest popular fantasy media having black characters in it is pleasing especially ones that have some sort of relation to a fantasy species that I love (That being demons, devils, vampires, and any other species that is deemed demonic or vampiric.)

So I hope to see more black characters in popular fantasy media in the future because representation does matter. (even if the representation is oddly specific)

[mrsdulac]

desperate to be bitten by a vampire

[thenietzscheanwife]

“We’ve seen empires rise and fall, Olrox. Mortals are fickle. They riot over bread, they flit from one god to another. I was a priestess of Sekhmet, the Egyptian priestess of war and vengeance. I remember the smell of mortal bodies on festival days. The incense, the fervour of revellers, the feeling of touching the immortal. And now-“

“And now those temples are half buried in dust.”

“Precisely. Look at all this. Human lives are as long as mayflies’. Their loyalty is just as fleeting. We endure. When that Abbey and this town is in ruins, will we still be lurking in the shadows? Looking for feeble loyalties amongst the mortals where we hope we may find them? Let’s make a new world, Olrox.”

“You see, that’s one I’ve heard before.”

“Then, let’s make it last.”

Drolta & Olrox, Castlevania: Nocturne (Ep5: The Natural Order)