What did it doe back in Cornwall?

What happens in it?

Anyway Olaf should have had a sword or axe not a plastic club that he had to share with Fatilla and Mr Grimwald.

In Norse mythology Loki had a duaghter called Hel and she was Queen of the Dead.

Was it her?

By the way, has anyone else noticed the maths error at the start of the first book? William II ("Rufus") succeeded to the throne on the death of Willliam the Conqueror in 1087. William had Dunshelm built as a border defence against Scots marauders and a diversion to keep Saxons from rebelling against the Normans. It says in the book that "William's plan worked for a century and a half", before Vestan of Brittany stole the castle and murdered Baron Dunshelm.

A century and a half later however would have been the year 1237 at the earliest, over 20 years after King John died, and yet John is still supposed to be King when Treguard slew the Gruagach, when he defeated Arawn, when he fought Queen Hel, when he battled Morgana Le Fay...

He was young when he lost his castle and that was in the reign of King John and John was defeinatly on the throne when treguard got back Dunshelm. The Sorcerer's Isle was set in 1216 which is the year John's reign ended.

I'm gessing he was born in the late 1180s.

I think he is probably the sma eage as Merlin?

How old are the wall monsters?

Dracula, then we can see that the Vampire is a deeply passionate and sexual being.

It has a large amount of Charisma and seemingly can cast an enticing spell on women. Ah, someone make me a Vampire, I could do with some Charisma

I absolutely hate that programme. Too American. Vampires have no place in America

Good, that makes two of us!

They should be kept to European castles where they are free to feed on the villagers!!!!

Hell, we've moved away from KM almost completely now. I didn't even notice us leaving.

Oooo, like that's never happened before. waits for someone to call the waaaaaaaaaahmbulance

Some sources refer to this being a fusion of demon and human, therefore retaining two sides, the human form, where it is impossible to tell they are vampire, and the demon form which comes about when they feed.

Are you sure you're not thinking of Buffy The Vampire Slayer there?

I always took Vampires to be night-dwellers. Sunlight kills (unsure about the stake through the hart thing) as does decapitation. They must drink human blood to remain healthy and strong.....like we do with water.

Some sources refer to this being a fusion of demon and human, therefore retaining two sides, the human form, where it is impossible to tell they are vampire, and the demon form which comes about when they feed.

So many contradicting sources make a definitive definition almost impossible.

Maybe the definition of Vampire has shanged, where does the word come from? That might help explain things?

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*Vampire

\Vam"pire, n. [F. vampire (cf. It. vampiro, G. & D. vampir), fr. Servian vampir.] [Written also vampyre.] 1. A blood-sucking ghost; a soul of a dead person superstitiously believed to come from the grave and wander about by night sucking the blood of persons asleep, thus causing their death. This superstition is now prevalent in parts of Eastern Europe, and was especially current in Hungary about the year 1730.*

Sounds....errr....depressing. Typical Vampire thing about whinging that they are Vampires and brooding about wanting to be human again???

You are absolutely right sir, well done! Can't bloody stand it myself.