Lily Crozier

So the setting of valve eternal night's actually a fictional principality that fits within the Habsburg empire.

Um, but it's set on the border of Bavaria and upper Austria.

Um, and it's evolved from there.

What were the vampire myths that brought you to this?

Oh, so I actually found them later in the process than you'd think, but it was, so there was a, an outbreak of vampire activity in the 1700s.

Um, and it got out of hand.

So everyone believed in vampires.

Everyone was like, there were these reports of vampires all over the region.

And so then like academics kind of flock to the area and we're like really debating like what is going on with these vampires?

Like are they holy creatures?

Are they creatures of the devil?

Because if they're resurrecting like they must be creatures like Jesus.

And so there's lots of academic debate and I do like reference it in the book that some of what Clara goes like.

So Clara does a lot of research in the book.

And some of the people I've named are actually scholars of that era.

And so then it ended with the empress at the time, Maria Theresa, she ended up sending someone to research the vampire happenings.

And he spent 10 years going around the region and declared, no, vampires don't exist.

And so she had the official declaration saying, yeah, vampires don't exist.

Can you guys please stop desecrating graves?

Stop hunting them.