CountDracula

[MATURE] The Vampire RP

@Aisling "Mihnea also knows as much as me, and Toma speaks German, Romanian, Hungarian and English," Dracula answered.

[MATURE] The Vampire RP

@Aisling "He does indeed," Dracula answered.

[MATURE] The Vampire RP

@Aisling "I don't know Sanskrit, but my father knows both Sanskrit and Pali," Dracula answered. "Those are the two main languages of Buddhism."

[MATURE] The Vampire RP

@Aisling Dracula quickly counted the languages he had just listed. "Yes, nine languages. And I think that most of those mantras are in Sanskrit."

[MATURE] The Vampire RP

@Aisling "Romanian is my native tongue. I learned Turkish while I was held hostage in what we now call Turkey, Latin was what English is now back then, I grew up in a town where most inhabitants were German, so that I learned that on the streets, and since we were vassals of the Hungarian king, Hungarian was pretty useful as well. Later, I learned French and Spanish. I also know Italian, since that is quite similar to Romanian, and in the 19th century, I learned English."

[MATURE] The Vampire RP

@Aisling "Yes, I do," Dracula answered. "But Islam isn't ancient. When they say 'ancient', historians refer to the time BC, but Islam was founded around 600 AD. I don't only have books on it but also handwritten documents. Letters mostly. But neither of them is in English. Depending on the addressee, they're either in Romanian, Turkish, Latin, Hungarian or German."

[MATURE] The Vampire RP

@Aisling "They do," Dracula said. "If you read old descriptions of Islamic hospitals, you might mistake them for descriptions of modern ones. Coffee, yogurt and the guitar are further examples of inventions that came from there. They also had something that might have been a predecessor of religious freedom: If you were held hostage by the Ottomans, they weren't allowed to treat you worse for your religion. Here in the Christian world, this was a whole lot different. And they had better strategies when it came to war, which made them so successful when it came to conquering other countries."

[MATURE] The Vampire RP

@Aisling Cool :)

[MATURE] The Vampire RP

@Aisling "Mainly, yes. There have always been great minds, but here, they were suppressed by institutions, such as the church," Dracula explained. "That's why back then, Islamic countries were much more developed than Christian ones."

[MATURE] The Vampire RP

@Aisling "That was from about the 15th to the 18th century," Dracula explained. "In the 19th century, this superstition began to cease due to upcoming science. Charles Darwin, Mendel, Marie and Pierre Curie, Edison, Tesla, Benz, Einstein,... they all made their discoveries in the 19th and early 20th century."