“The creature was coming to take her. The most dreadful creature imaginable was coming to abduct her and keep her in its black abyss. And she was guarded by a man with a box, another with a fruit knife and a third who had promised to kill her. Oh, and an opera singer lending her countenance.” VampiresHistorical FantasySteampunk Fairy TalesLudwig Ii Of Bavaria Book:Obsidian Secrets Source: Obsidian Secrets
“There gradually developed between them a relationship that was not without its ebb and flow. One moment she would receive an invitation to visit Hohenschwangau in the middle of winter… the next she would be told hat she must leave Munich within 34 hours — to which she replied that she knew her rights. One moment the King would be lying passionately at her feet, the next he would forbid her to come near him...” Ludwig Ii Of Bavaria Author:Christopher McIntosh
“By the end of Wagner’s life all this had changed. He had lifted the status of the composer to that of a seer, raised the standard of musicianship, brought into being a whole new school of singing and conducting, built the revolutionary Bayreuth opera house, and created in Germany an operatic tradition that was the admiration of the world. Furthermore the mythology which he welded together and the ideology which he promulgated played a key role in the launching of a new German nationalism.” Ludwig Ii Of Bavaria Author:Christopher McIntosh
“Wagner should have known from the Tichatschek affair that Ludwig was capable of acting with steely determination in order to have his own way. The King had set his heart on having the Rheingold production as soon as possible and was not going to allow anyone to sabotage it.” Ludwig Ii Of Bavaria Author:Christopher McIntosh
“His longing wove new patterns into the shiny black of his sphere. This time, he would kill. The thought satisfied him. He loved life for its propensity to be taken, loved the act of taking it.” Vampire19th CenturyHistorical FantasyLudwig Ii Of BavariaSteampunk Fantasy Book:Obsidian Secrets Source: Obsidian Secrets
“Ein ewiges rätsel will ich bleiben mir und anderen” Ludwig Ii Of Bavaria Author:Christopher McIntosh