Since the start of the century, Romania has been the subject of invasion and revolution. Even now as a Kingdom, things are not settled. My family's age, at the moment, is against it. There are distant friends here, and so it felt safer to be on an island for a bit.

[Alucard's honestly impressed by the system, even if he says nothing of it. The pause allows him at least a moment to sip his own coffee. Then all but drain it.]

Redeemed as in returned to a human state? [He shakes his head no.] Undead is still a form of dead.