A great and powerful whip wielded by the ancestors of the Belmont clan, starting with Leon, to defeat Dracula a.k.a. Matthais Cronqvist. The whip was given to Leon Belmont by Rinaldo Gandalfi in its original form of the Whip of Alchemy. It became the Vampire Killer after a ritual where Leon's betrothed (fiancee) Sarah Trantoul willingly sacrificed herself to give the whip more... err... vampire killing power.
The whip was used to kill Dracula (repeatedly), succubi, vampires (duh!), a whole lot of other nasties and Death itself.
The vampire killer is the closest the Dark ages came to Dakka(shootiness not weed), excepting actual projectile things
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. PenguinBooks,1992. p. 38)