Vladislaus Straud

Vladislaus Straud, also known as Count Vladislaus Straud IV, Count Vladislaus Straud the First, or Vlad, is a pre-made vampire who resides in Forgotten Hollow, the world introduced in The Sims 4: Vampires. He lives on his own in the Straud Mansion lot and begins with §20,000.
Vlad is a young adult, who has lived 48 days (though he is immortal in-game). He both claims to be and has the appearance of an elder; this is most likely due to vampires not aging past the young adult life stage. He has the Master Vampire aspiration and is unemployed. He has 8 skill points in charisma and 10 points in both pipe organ and vampire lore.
As a vampire, Vlad has both a human form as well as a dark form. Apart from the size of the ears and eyes, his facial features are the same in both versions. However, Vlad looks drastically different in his vampire form due to not having any hair, including facial hair. His skin possesses visible facial lines as a vampire. Additionally, he has protruding fangs and radiating eyes.
===Backstory===
Vlad has lived in Forgotten Hollow for 200 years. There is a statue of him in the town center, though the town's Sims think the statue is of his Great Grandfather, Count Vladislaus Straud the First. However, the local vampires know the truth; Vlad founded Forgotten Hollow and he still runs it.Meet Vlad, The First Vampire of Forgotten Hollow One of the gigs in The Sims 4: Get Famous is for a company called Vladislaus Hardware. It claims to be founded by Vladislaus III, a master carpenter specializing in luxurious coffins, since Vlad has been alive for centuries, it is correct to assume that Vladislaus III was his name, which he changes every so often to fit with the lie that he is the "latest descendant" of an "oddly similar looking line of ancestors".
According to his painting that is found inside Straud Mansion, Vlad was the sole survivor of a settling party of 25 Sims that disappeared. He was impacted so deeply that he never explained what happened to them, but founded the town on their last known location in their memory. 
Per The Vampire Tombs: "Count Vladislaus Straud the First was the sole survivor of the original settlers who discovered forgotten hallow."
===Relationships===
Vlad, allegedly, dislikes his neighbors, the Vatore siblings, Caleb and Lilith, as they believe in alternatives options to the traditional drinking of Sims' plasma. Despite this alleged hatred, he doesn't actually know them in-game. The siblings will also object to Vlad's wardrobe choices, personal hygiene, and showing his dark form in public. At high moon, Vlad and Caleb once had a duel which Vlad won. Many Sims strongly dislike Vlad, with the exception of Renegades club- who attempted to recruit him thanks to him having the Evil trait, although Morgan Fyres doesn't seem happy about this. Vlad also has an unknown rival in the hot-headed young werewolf Rory Oaklow, who wishes to fight him if she ever meets him.
An official blog for The Sims 4: Seasons reveals that Vlad has a cousin named Arthur Climate. The Climates reluctantly invite Vlad over for a Harvestfest gathering, unaware that he is a vampire.Meet The Climates (Part 1)
According to a teaser for Vampires, Vlad turned Miss Hell into a vampire, who then turned Caleb Vatore.The Sims 4: Vampires Teaser Clip Vlad also turned Caleb's sister, Lilith VatoreThe Sims 4 Vampires: Official Vampire Powers Gameplay Trailer, and dialogue with Lilith's cousin Lily Zhu reveals that he appears to have been training Lilith as his potential successorLily Zhu's dialogue - Reddit.com before the siblings cut ties with him. He also apparently tried to turn Lily Zhu into a vampire.
===Day to Day Routine===
By sunset, Vlad starts his daily routine which includes playing some haunting melodies on the pipe organ and taking a walk through the cemetery of his estate. When the sun starts coming up, he spends some time in dark meditation to reenergize himself and reading through the Encyclopedia Vampirica, most of which is about him, before he descends into his crypt.
==Skills==
==Powers==
*Charisma
*Master at Pipe Organ
*Cast Hallucination
*Turn Others to Vampires
*Sleep Inducement
*Mesmerization
*Night Empowerment
*Mist Transportation
==Trivia==
*Vlad owns a hundred grey coats as he believes they go with everything and always stay in style. 
*The name "Vladislaus" could be a reference to Vlad the Impaler, who signed letters as "Vladislaus Dragulya".
*"Straud" may be a play on 'Strahd' von Zarovich, the vampiric antagonist of Dungeons and Dragons' Ravenloft setting.
*The name Vladislaus may be a reference to the generations of Ladislaus' from the Báthory family (ancestors of Elizabeth Báthory) who also had a branch named Báthory of Simolin.
*Children may get nightmares of Vladislaus hiding in the shadows.
*Vlad appears as a presenter on one of the Kids network TV channels teaching children to count. A reference to the Count in the popular Children's puppet TV show 'Sesame Street'. 
*Sometimes Vlad compliments Sims about their neck through a message, after you receive it, he will likely come to your house to suck your blood. It's kinda impossible to prevent this but you can use cheats or put some garlics on walls.
*Vlad's human form's face resembles legendary late Horror movie actor Vincent Price.
*Vlad's true dark form resembles Count Orlok from Nosferatu (1922). 
*If The Sims 4: Lovestruck is installed, rejecting his attempts will cause him to temporarily restrict access to Cupid's Corner, with the reasoning being that he has a fragile ego.
==Gallery==
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|-|In-game appearance=
TS4 Climates and Vlad.jpg|Vlad visiting the Climate family for Harvestfest
Vladislaus Straud using mind control powers.png|Vladislaus using his vampire mind control powers while in his dark form
Vlad's Statue 3.png|Vlad's statue in Forgotten Hollow Town square
Count Vlad Text 1.png|Vlad's text to a Sim who has been bitten by a vampire and is transforming
Count Vlad Text 2.jpg|Vlad's text to a Sim transformed into a Vampire
Lilly Zhu dialogue.webp|Lily's dialogue about her cousin meeting Vlad
Lily Zhu story notification.webp
Lily Zhu story dialogue.webp
|-|Promotional appearance=
TS4V Vampires.png|A render of Vladislaus with Lilith, Caleb, and a human Sim
VladislausRender.png|A render of Vlad alone
TS4V Creepy.png|Vlad in front of a coffin
TS4 vlad.jpg|Vlad rising from a coffin
TS4 Vampires img 3.jpg|Vlad reacting to the sunlight
Vlad playing organ.jpg|Vlad playing with the organ
TS4 Vampires img 6.jpg|Vlad in promotional trailers
Miss Hell human.png|Vlad about to transform Miss Hell into one of his minions
Vlad biting Lillith.jpg|Vlad about to transform Lilith into a vampire
Count Vlad Creepy Walk.png|Vlad's creepy walk
TS4 Vampires img 5.jpg|Vlad playing the organ at a vampire gathering
TS4 Forgotten Hollow.jpg|Vlad dueling another vampire to the right of his mansion
TS4VA1.png|Vlad stalking a Sim brushing her teeth
TS4 Console Launch Trailer park bench.png|Vlad stalking a Sim in The Sims 4 console launch trailer
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TS4 Console Launch Trailer Vlad chase.png|Vlad stalking Penny Pizzazz and her date in The Sims 4 console launch trailer
TS4 Console Launch Trailer Vlad chase2.png
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The Sims Spark'd no logo.webp|Key art for The Sims Spark'd, including Vlad.
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==References==
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