Swashbuckling Hellsing in the 18th C.?

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Hellsing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellsing is a Japanese 'vampire hunters' epic declined in three supports: a manga, a TV animated series and an original video animation. A rich, *unconventional* setting and an exciting storyline: the top agent of the late 20th C. British 'anti-vampires' ('anti-evil', more generally) secret organization, Alucard is none else than Dracula himself! The primary enemy, Millenium is a Nazi organization, creating artificial, practically remote-controlled vampires -but an old, chivalrous werewolf fights for it. The Vatican, its position ambiguous to start with, eventually launches an anti-episcopalian crusade…
Inspired by several examples of 'Gothic Horror games set in the 18th C., I indulged in a flight of fancy about transposing Hellsing to the period, in a mythical quasi-Austrian area:http://www.drunkendragoonproductions.com/18thcentimagi-nation/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=120.
Hope a few readers will be intrigued, perhaps interested.



For those interested, the TV series http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellsing_%28TV_series%29 corresponds only to the very beginning of the manga / Hellsing Ultimate OVA (no reference to Millenium) and soon follows a different story. Vastly inferior to the OVA, imho

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For those intrigued by the idea of setting Fantasy / Horror games in the 18th C.

Austrian Grenzer facing Frederick's Free Corpse Frankenstein (from http://husarenritt.blogspot.fr/search/label/Weird%20Seven%20Year%20Wars).

(from  http://carpatland.blogspot.fr/2011/08/test-strange-aeons.html)

more there: http://emperor-elector.blogspot.fr/2011/09/encounter-by-full-moon-light.html#comments
and several relevant links are gathered there: http://www.drunkendragoonproductions.com/18thcentimagi-nation/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=81

(from http://themarquisinferno.blogspot.fr/2012/07/marquis-diableries-145.html)

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Gott und Seine Majestät mit Ihnen sein - Amen! (May God and Her Majesty be with you - Amen!)
Im Namen Gottes sollen unreine Seelen des Toten Lebens in ewige Verdammung verbannt werden - Amen! (In the name of God impure souls of the Living Dead shall be banished into eternal damnation - Amen!)


Possibly inspirational: another Alucard, this one in quasi-18th C. clothes:

(from the video game Castlevania http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castlevania_%28video_game%29 set in ± the 'tricorne' era) -for Hellsing the cloak should be blood red lined black, coat lined blood red -> collar & cuffs and blood red tie,



and a possible painting guise for Victoria Seras:


('Cassandra' from the video game Soul Calibur III http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soulcalibur) --for Hellsing royal blue tie & ribbons; Reaper http://www.reapermini.com/figurefinder#detail/50228 Whitney, converted with a hunting dagger, a one-hand held de Saxe's Amusette and garters, should be appropriate.