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The Castlevania Dungeon Forums => General Castlevania Discussion => Topic started by: gappvembe on November 01, 2007, 09:44:20 AM
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This is other name they give Alucard.
I looked up Robert Belgrade and the imdb listed him in several games. Look at SOTN... Adrian Tepes.
That's odd. Never heard that reference before.
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Oh, nevertheless, this is so far point right name from Alucard.
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Yes that was his name until he changed it when he went against his father and all he stood for.
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what's the point of this topic?
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In Reply To #4
to have me kild... :o
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I think it is interesting that they changed the spelling of his middle name after DoS. As of SotN it was "Farenheights", and now it is "Farenheit" -- I prefer the latter, actually, because if you pronounce "Tepes" properly as tse-pesh, the old middle name sounds pretty awful with it. You get a ts-ts which more or less requires you to stop talking for a second when you say it.
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You know, I was thinking about that the other day, and I remember hearing some science class at shcool a few years ago about the developer of the Farenheit scale on a thermometer, and I think they said it was Adrian Farenheit! If thats true, than Alucard has the same name as a REAL person :o
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In Reply To #7
Actually, according to Wikipedia:
Fahrenheit is a temperature scale named after the German-Dutch physicist Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686
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In Reply To #8
Wiki Nerd.
Oh well, but that would have been cool, wouldn't it??? lol
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Does anybody else think that "Fahrenheit" could be Lisa's surname? In some cases, children, particularly sons, tend to inherit their mother's maiden names as either their middle name or second middle name.
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Does anybody else think that "Fahrenheit" could be Lisa's surname? In some cases, children, particularly sons, tend to inherit their mother's maiden names as either their middle name or second middle name.
Actually, I think it is her last name.
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In Reply To #11
actually, that's what he said
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I always thought it was her last name, instead of her middle name.
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In Reply To #13
there one in the same :P
maiden name means last name before she took her husbands name
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I said middle, and I said her. I didn't mean his middle name as her maiden name.
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Farenheights is his mothers surname, but since his father is Dracula, Vlad Tepes, its to wonder if Lisa and Dracula married? and it would mean today wouldn't his full name be
Adrian Farenheights Tepes? or Alucard Farenheights Tepes?
it would all depend if alucard would want to take on his family name (moniker) which i figurehe'd not due since it would be following his father's shadow, unless he'd clear the family name of evil... just my thoughts from an artistic stand point.
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Lisa's last name has never been given. And considering the era during which she lived, she may not have even had one.
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wmen didn't have last names back then? >.> What?
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No one had last names back then. Tepes is not a last name. It is in fact a post-mortem moniker given to Vlad III Draculea, which means "Impaler". Draculea was not a last name either. It was an inherited title meaning "Son of the Dragon". This was due to his father, Vlad II Dracul, being a member of the Holy Roman Empire's Order of the Dragon.
How any of this is supposed to apply to the Castlevania universe is anybody's guess. It's probably not meant to; the designers seem to treat Tepes as a last name, so it's neat but historically inaccurate.
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Oh Iknowabout the Dracul/Dracula being more like anickname. But I always thoght Tepes was his last name.
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No one had last names back then. Tepes is not a last name. It is in fact a post-mortem moniker given to Vlad III Draculea, which means "Impaler". Draculea was not a last name either. It was an inherited title meaning "Son of the Dragon". This was due to his father, Vlad II Dracul, being a member of the Holy Roman Empire's Order of the Dragon.
How any of this is supposed to apply to the Castlevania universe is anybody's guess. It's probably not meant to; the designers seem to treat Tepes as a last name, so it's neat but historically inaccurate.
The 15th century wasn't that long ago. Normal people had last names (at least in some countries), but Vlad wouldn't since he was part of the monarchy. But yeah, Tepes wasn't the real Vlad's last name, though it's interesting how it's used as such in Castlevania.
Lisa's last name has never been given. And considering the era during which she lived, she may not have even had one.
From whatever source material the writer for the CV3 movie was given, he seems to think (http://castlevaniadraculascurse.com/2007/05/17/on-writing-a-screenplay/) Farenheights is Lisa's last name. Though to be fair, he thought Grant was a pirate.
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Well, Alucard's surname is Farenheights and since Dracula has a different surname than Alucard, Alucard's surname is probably Lisa's.
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In Reply To #22
Fahrenheit is Alucard's middle name. His surname is Tepes, just like his father.
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The 15th century wasn't that long ago. Normal people had last names (at least in some countries), but Vlad wouldn't since he was part of the monarchy. But yeah, Tepes wasn't the real Vlad's last name, though it's interesting how it's used as such in Castlevania.
You're right, actually. I did a little more research and it seems last names really started to catch on in Europe in the 1000's AD, though not evenly through geographic distribution and social stratification. I'm not sure what the case was in Romania at that time, although come to think of it there are some contemporary examples, such as Stephen Bathory, Dracula's own cousin. :)
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Last names may have been around since 1000 AD, but not the same kind of last names we have now. Last names back then were not passed down as Family names. If your dad was named Erik (and you lived in scandinavia) then your last name would be Erikson--but your dad's last name might've been Hanson (Hans' son) People in other parts of europe were named for their occupation: Smith (blacksmith), Thatcher (some kind of farming duty), Tepes (impaler).
Tepes was not a name used by anyone...ever! The real dracula signed his name "Vlad Dracula" because his father was nick-named "Dracul". If Alucard was real, he would not have the name Tepes or Farenhiet. He was not Adrian the impaler, so no one would call him Tepes; and Farenheit is a German name.
The main problem here is trying to connect video games with reality. It just doesn't work. Don't try to analyze why certain fictional characters have certain names--it's all just made up!!
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Like I said, some people of that time did have last names of the same type used today. Quasar brought up Stephen Bathory, and other contemporaries include Christopher Columbus and Henry Tudor.
And I'm sure we all know Castlevania is removed from reality (the wall meat was my first clue). This is just something to talk about.