I don't know about you, but in my social circles "I sleep on sheets that these despised mass murderers did really nasty stuff on" would not lend itself to prestige.
I would, but only after emphasizing to the dwarven cleaners that they need to be thorough.
If I had a problem sleeping in sheets that have had who knows what done to, in and around them, I would never be able to stay in a hotel again.
If the last people to use them were the couple themselves, we're looking at almost 440 years since Vlad and Isabella died in 2051, and that's assuming they went back to Drakenhof in the middle of the 1st Vampire War.
Honest question, did they read them or did they see how Giovanni's face melted when he read them and decided that they needed to do something about this sort of thing?
Personally, I see the prestige argument—completely aside from whether I agree with it or not—as basically a form of conquest for Mathilde. She tore down Castle Drakenhof, looted the bedrock, and will now own perhaps the most personal symbol of the couple that started all of Sylvania's troubles left, stolen from their very marriage bed. It's a mark, essentially, of her complete and utter destruction of the Carstein influence over Sylvania, and the success of her crusade against them. Every night she'll sleep on proof of what she's accomplished against the vampires.
i just want to steal the sheets because i think its funny
We'll yeah, that's why I'm voting for it too. I just have a tendency to think really hard about every side to an argument, and there is some nice symbolism, even if I could care less about it.
