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Dresdenverse Wishful Thinking - Locations
Griffyn612:
I'm starting a thread to share real-world locations we'd like to see in the Dresdenverse, either visited or mentioned.
First up, Villa Farnese
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Name: Villa Farnese
Location: Town of Caprarola, Italy
Founded: ~1530 (fortress); ~1559 (villa)
Founder: Cardinal Alessandro Farnese, the future Pope Paul III
Purpose: Initially a pentagonal fortress; later made into a private Villa; currently state-owned and open to the public.
Dresdenverse Relevance:
It's a pentagonal fortress with a circular core. Along with the U.S. Pentagon, it seems like an ideal structure to contain something (or someone). Not to mention founded by a future Pope? Clearly the Church wanted something secured there.
That it's open to the public now makes it seem like whatever or whomever was there isn't there anymore, or the original purpose was forgotten. Maybe they're hiding it in plain sight, and visitors are unlikely to impact its functionality.
It's not located in Tuscany, otherwise I'd say a tie to the White Court might be apt. Perhaps the Church was done with it and the White Court acquired it secretly using the state as a front.
Arjan:
This one is obvious in any white council centered book.
groinkick:
Vlad the Impaler's castle. I see Dresden needing to go there for either a ritual, or to retrieve something that's still there. Something to do with either the Black Court or Drakul himself.
I think it would be cool if either he did something that showed the past, or he saw a flashback to the location to see that there is a lot more to the history of the place.
groinkick:
--- Quote from: Griffyn612 on July 17, 2021, 09:07:52 PM ---I'm starting a thread to share real-world locations we'd like to see in the Dresdenverse, either visited or mentioned.
First up, Villa Farnese
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Name: Villa Farnese
Location: Town of Caprarola, Italy
Founded: ~1530 (fortress); ~1559 (villa)
Founder: Cardinal Alessandro Farnese, the future Pope Paul III
Purpose: Initially a pentagonal fortress; later made into a private Villa; currently state-owned and open to the public.
Dresdenverse Relevance:
It's a pentagonal fortress with a circular core. Along with the U.S. Pentagon, it seems like an ideal structure to contain something (or someone). Not to mention founded by a future Pope? Clearly the Church wanted something secured there.
That it's open to the public now makes it seem like whatever or whomever was there isn't there anymore, or the original purpose was forgotten. Maybe they're hiding it in plain sight, and visitors are unlikely to impact its functionality.
It's not located in Tuscany, otherwise I'd say a tie to the White Court might be apt. Perhaps the Church was done with it and the White Court acquired it secretly using the state as a front.
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Oh that is awesome. I could see it as a location for a duel where both people choose magic. They are on the roof with the empty circle between them.
Griffyn612:
Name: Lazzaretto of Ancona
Location: Ancona, Italy
Founded: 1733
Founder: Pope Clement XII
Purpose: Quarantine facility
Dresdenverse Relevance:
Another pentagonal building commissioned by a Pope. The reason for it being pentagonal is unknown, but it was built in a man-made Island in the water. It has a well in the center.
Like the Villa, it's now used by the public, so it's current use for anything magical seems unlikely. But it being a secure facility for quarantine could have made an association with the never-never to interesting places related to containment.
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