The food is Wallachian, but it isn't without meaning in Trantoul's culture. The boar is traditionally a food of nobles, a beast well suited to people with powerful magic or who can hire someone else to kill it for them. They're more common in Wallachia, with local vampires wanting to ensure the humans under their protection are well fed on rich meat. Everything else is considered more peasant fare than what the visitors might be used to. Wallachia has no concerns about the use of offal in the human food of all classes, and far more more aversion to waste than to eating a meal less prettily presented than it ought to be. Such attitudes in Trantoul are looked down upon among those who can afford it.
...which is to say there's a statement being made here. Very few things are accidental when it comes to dinners like these, and he and Theodora had a long discussion with the staff brought in to cook yesterday. Wallachian food. Trantoul peasant food. It's not an insult, not unless they choose to take it as such, but a statement. That Wallachia is its own land with its own ways, and that they will not compromise.
...some are choosing to take it as such. He is choosing to ignore it and to eat, offal and all. Offal especially, in truth. Supposedly it's important for people who volunteer their blood (Which was a message that was unintended and that hopefully won't be caught), as he will likely be doing in the next few days. ]
Can you tell what they're talking about?
[ Eventually curiosity gets the better of him. His voice is low, but not a whisper. Whispering looks more suspect than the quietness avoids. He gestures to the men who are talking to each other. What started out as anger at the food choice has become a discussion on the fact that while Theodora is abstaining, Alucard is actually eating the food. Speculation about his diet, about whether under their laws he's more or less human than Theodora. About where blood comes from, if he isn't sustained by the food alone. ]
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The food is Wallachian, but it isn't without meaning in Trantoul's culture. The boar is traditionally a food of nobles, a beast well suited to people with powerful magic or who can hire someone else to kill it for them. They're more common in Wallachia, with local vampires wanting to ensure the humans under their protection are well fed on rich meat. Everything else is considered more peasant fare than what the visitors might be used to. Wallachia has no concerns about the use of offal in the human food of all classes, and far more more aversion to waste than to eating a meal less prettily presented than it ought to be. Such attitudes in Trantoul are looked down upon among those who can afford it.
...which is to say there's a statement being made here. Very few things are accidental when it comes to dinners like these, and he and Theodora had a long discussion with the staff brought in to cook yesterday. Wallachian food. Trantoul peasant food. It's not an insult, not unless they choose to take it as such, but a statement. That Wallachia is its own land with its own ways, and that they will not compromise.
...some are choosing to take it as such. He is choosing to ignore it and to eat, offal and all. Offal especially, in truth. Supposedly it's important for people who volunteer their blood (Which was a message that was unintended and that hopefully won't be caught), as he will likely be doing in the next few days. ]
Can you tell what they're talking about?
[ Eventually curiosity gets the better of him. His voice is low, but not a whisper. Whispering looks more suspect than the quietness avoids. He gestures to the men who are talking to each other. What started out as anger at the food choice has become a discussion on the fact that while Theodora is abstaining, Alucard is actually eating the food. Speculation about his diet, about whether under their laws he's more or less human than Theodora. About where blood comes from, if he isn't sustained by the food alone. ]