OK. This is maybe a dumb question after all that, but what happened to the blank-faced man servant?
Nothing is ever a dumb question! He was the wolf that Mira stabbed, that then dragged itself over to bleed on Bathory to get him going again. When Bathory "died," the magic that kept his servants animated ceased, which was why Samuel's wounds reappeared and he ate it. But since Erzsebet had made the blank-faced manservant, he was able to keep going long enough to feed Bathory. Maybe I'll have him turn back into a human? Although I'm not sure about that visual as opposed to a wolf, heh. But yeah, I'll make a note of this and see if I can make it clearer.
I was kind of keeping the story open just a little bit - they told us in school that's a good idea with certain genres, to leave that possibility there. Execs love the idea that they might have a ~*~franchise~*~ on their hands. And yeah, I wanted to keep Erzsebet alive and in her castle just in case someone looked her up or knew the story, for this to kind of be an "origin story."
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Nothing is ever a dumb question! He was the wolf that Mira stabbed, that then dragged itself over to bleed on Bathory to get him going again. When Bathory "died," the magic that kept his servants animated ceased, which was why Samuel's wounds reappeared and he ate it. But since Erzsebet had made the blank-faced manservant, he was able to keep going long enough to feed Bathory. Maybe I'll have him turn back into a human? Although I'm not sure about that visual as opposed to a wolf, heh. But yeah, I'll make a note of this and see if I can make it clearer.
I was kind of keeping the story open just a little bit - they told us in school that's a good idea with certain genres, to leave that possibility there. Execs love the idea that they might have a ~*~franchise~*~ on their hands. And yeah, I wanted to keep Erzsebet alive and in her castle just in case someone looked her up or knew the story, for this to kind of be an "origin story."