All animals knew how to protect themselves. Wild boars knew how to use their tusks, bees knew how to use their stingers, and weak creatures like rabbits knew how to flee on nimble legs. Armadillos and hedgehogs, meanwhile, curled themselves into balls when danger approached, relying on thick armor and spines to fend off enemies.
That would have been one thing with ordinary animals, but against humans—or dragons—they were practically walking into a trap. It was hard to imagine that Wisdom Potion actually required the bile of such animals.
Just as Joannes had said, Romania did not yet exist on the world map as late as 1802. Around the thirteenth century, in order to resist the Mongols, the Hungarians began establishing an Eastern Orthodox Church state in the region of Romania. This state had to pay annual tribute to the Russian principalities, the Tatars, and the Mongols.
Yet by the end of the fourteenth century and the beginning of the fifteenth, the Ottomans had arrived as well. For the following hundred years, the locals constantly resisted the Turks in Wallachia and its surrounding regions.
In medieval church documents, the terms "Romania" and "Wallachia" had both appeared. Both referred to the Romanian region, though the former was more often used by the Roman Curia, while Wallachia appeared in the East.
Even if the Western Roman Church could not organize a Crusade, it could still support Romania's secular rulers in the name of resisting heathens. But Romania was not merely a vassal state. The entire country was divided by the Carpathian Mountains, with most of it occupied by Hungary. The rulers of Transylvania retained the Roman-era title of "Grand Duke," and Hungary had always sought to annex Transylvania.
Transylvania also possessed a Golden Bull from the Holy Roman Empire. To put it