It's also a foil to the vampire as petrified vs the wood isn't.
Essentially its a natural symbol in opposition to the unnatural. A Living weapon against a dead adversary.
Oh plus building and civilization. Wood represents industriousness and construction in opposition to cold stagnation through houses and Fire. The Vampire is cold and lives in stone castles or caves. He's a wild predator Associated with Bats (caves again) and wolves. A vampire living in a log cabin sounds strange, but a stone house in the woods makes sense.
It's sort of a reverse of the Fae vs Iron symbol which is based around the same thing, the natural is directly opposed by the constructed or altered.
Natural life, medicine. Continual growth.
It's also a foil to the vampire as petrified vs the wood isn't.
Essentially its a natural symbol in opposition to the unnatural. A Living weapon against a dead adversary.
Oh plus building and civilization. Wood represents industriousness and construction in opposition to cold stagnation through houses and Fire. The Vampire is cold and lives in stone castles or caves. He's a wild predator Associated with Bats (caves again) and wolves. A vampire living in a log cabin sounds strange, but a stone house in the woods makes sense.
It's sort of a reverse of the Fae vs Iron symbol which is based around the same thing, the natural is directly opposed by the constructed or altered.