Count Dracula wore a somewhat worn breastplate, with a not overly intricate coat of arms at its center.
European heraldry was incredibly complex. Even scholars who specialized in heraldry sometimes had to go back and consult books when they encountered a new coat of arms before they could explain the precise meaning of every part.
The European nobility's excessive fussiness made it tremendously difficult for later generations to identify them.
For instance, a lion's head on the left side of a coat of arms meant that the family was distantly related to some grand duke. An ear of wheat in the middle meant that the family had taken part in some great battle during an autumn harvest in some year and month. It might have been a battle recorded in history, or it might merely have been a village brawl with twenty or thirty people on each side...
What crowns represented, what cloaks represented, what inscriptions represented—there was a whole mess of rules.
Europeans had a habit of bringing up Greece whenever they spoke, but it was really a sign of insecurity. They had accomplished nothing in the Middle Ages worthy of praise from future generations, leaving behind nothing but jokes.
Illiterate lords were everywhere. They themselves did not even understand the exact meaning of their family coats of arms, yet scholars a thousand years later were supposed to interpret them? Too much crucial knowledge had been lost. Those scholars did not have the Time Stone, so most of the time, they could only guess!
Count Dracula's coat of arms was very simple: two blades with a harp between them. No crown, no wheat, and certainly no symbols like scepters.
It was plain and seemingly unremarkable, but it was actually the glory of his days as a knight. Even after