Dracula (Earth-6)

Vlad III Dracula (born November 1431), also known as Vlad the Impaler and Count Dracula, was the primary antagonist of The Vampire Saga of Dawn of Darkness Chronicles. He is loosely based on the character of the same name in Bram Stoker's novel and the historical figure, Vlad Drăculea.
Dracula was prince of Wallachia three times between 1448 and his human death. He was born as Vlad III, the second son of Vlad Dracul, who became ruler of Wallachia in 1436. Dracula and his younger brother Radu were sent to live in the Ottoman Empire. After many years, Dracula was allowed to invade Wallachia to take the throne, but it failed. He sought help in Hungary and then invaded Wallachia again with Hungary's support, this time usurping it's then prince.
From 1456 to 1462, Vlad was prince of Wallachia. In 1462, he was forced to flee his castle, and he sought help from the Hungarian king once again, this time only to be imprisoned. He was set free in 1475 and retook the throne of Wallachia, then killed in December 1476. He was risen from the dead and made a vampire in December 1480 by Lucifer Morningstar. He took the throne of King of the Night and lived in a new castle with Carmilla in Transylvania.
For four centuries, the people of Transylvania lived in fear of Dracula and Carmilla. No vampire hunters were able to kill him. In 1893, Abraham Van Helsing and a group of vampire hunters trapped Dracula in a coffin. In 2017, he was freed from the coffin, and returned to Transylvania.
He was infamous for impaling people, both his enemies in war and his own subjects that broke the law. Outside Castle Dracula is a forest of impaled Transylvanians. It is his preferred method of killing any opponent.
== Note/Disclaimer ==
To attempt to avoid potential legal things happening or punishments, the following section from "early life" to the end of "third rule and human death" is almost entirely admittedly copied from the Wikipedia article on Vlad the Impaler because the character's life as a human was exactly the same as the real Vlad the Impaler's life, since as a human, he was Vlad the Impaler, and also because I am lazy.
All credit for writing it, except of course the very few parts I added and what comes after the end of "third rule and human death", goes to the writers and editors of that article.
== History ==
left|thumb|169x169px|The house in the main square of Sighișoara where Vlad's father lived from 1431 to 1435
=== Early life ===
Vlad was the second legitimate son of Vlad II Dracul, who was an illegitimate son of Mircea I of Wallachia. He was born in November of 1431. Vlad was born in Sighișoara where his father lived in a three-story stone house. His mother was Eupraxia of Moldavia.
Vlad Dracul seized Wallachia after the death of his half-brother Alexander I Aldea in 1436. Vlad was raised in a castle alongside his older half-brother Mircea and his younger brother Radu. After a meeting with John Hunyadi, Voivode of Transylvania, Vlad Dracul did not support an Ottoman invasion of Transylvania in March 1442. The Ottoman Sultan, Murad II, ordered him to come to Gallipoli to demonstrate his loyalty. Vlad and Radu accompanied their father to the Ottoman Empire, where they were all imprisoned.
Vlad Dracul was released before the end of the year, but Vlad and Radu remained hostages to secure his loyalty. They were held imprisoned in the fortress of Eğrigöz (now Doğrugöz). Their lives were especially in danger after their father supported Vladislaus, King of Poland and Hungary, against the Ottoman Empire during the Crusade of Varna in 1444. Vlad Dracul was convinced that his two sons were "butchered for the sake of Christian peace", but neither Vlad nor Radu were murdered or mutilated after their father's rebellion. Vlad Dracul again acknowledged the sultan's suzerainty and promised to pay a yearly tribute to him in 1446 or 1447. John Hunyadi (who had become the regent-governor of Hungary in 1446) broke into Wallachia in November 1447. Vlad and Radu fled to the Ottoman Empire, as the sultan had allowed them to return after their father had paid homage to him. Vlad Dracul and his eldest son, Mircea, were murdered. Hunyadi made Vladislav II (son of Vlad Dracul's cousin, Dan II) the ruler of Wallachia.
=== First rule ===
Upon the death of his father and elder brother, Vlad became a potential claimant to Wallachia. Vladislav II of Wallachia accompanied John Hunyadi, who launched a campaign against the Ottoman Empire in September 1448. Taking advantage of his opponent's absence, Vlad broke into Wallachia at the head of an Ottoman army in early October. He had to accept that the Ottomans had captured the fortress of Giurgiu on the Danube and strengthened it.
The Ottomans annihilated Hunyadi's army in the Battle of Kosovo between 17 and 18 October. Hunyadi's deputy, Nicholas Vízaknai, urged Vlad to come to meet him in Transylvania, but Vlad refused. Vladislav II returned to Wallachia at the head of the remnants of his army. Vlad was forced to flee to the Ottoman Empire before 7 December 1448.
=== In exile ===
Vlad first settled in Edirne in the Ottoman Empire after his fall. Before long, he moved to Moldavia, where Bogdan II (his father's brother-in-law and possibly his maternal uncle) had mounted the throne with John Hunyadi's support in the autumn of 1449. After Bogdan was murdered by Peter III Aaron in October 1451, Bogdan's son, Stephen, fled to Transylvania with Vlad to seek assistance from Hunyadi. However, Hunyadi concluded a three-year truce with the Ottoman Empire on 20 November 1451, acknowledging the Wallachian boyars' right to elect the successor of Vladislav II if he died.
Vlad allegedly wanted to settle in Brașov (which was a center of the Wallachian boyars expelled by Vladislaus II), but Hunyadi forbade the burghers to give shelter to him on 6 February 1452. Vlad returned to Moldavia where Alexăndrel had dethroned Peter Aaron. The events of his life during the years that followed are unknown. He must have returned to Hungary before 3 July 1456, because on that day Hunyadi informed the townspeople of Brașov that he had tasked Vlad with the defense of the Transylvanian border.
=== Second rule ===
The circumstances and the date of Vlad's return to Wallachia are uncertain. He invaded Wallachia with Hungarian support either in April, July, or in August 1456. Vladislav II died during the invasion. Vlad sent his first extant letter as voivode of Wallachia to the burghers of Brașov on 10 September. He promised to protect them in case of an Ottoman invasion of Transylvania, but he also sought their assistance if the Ottomans occupied Wallachia. In the same letter, he stated that "when a man or a prince is strong and powerful he can make peace as he wants to; but when he is weak, a stronger one will come and do what he wants to him", showing his authoritarian personality.
Multiple sources (including Laonikos Chalkokondyles's chronicle) recorded that hundreds or thousands of people were executed at Vlad's order at the beginning of his reign. He began a purge against the boyars who had participated in the murder of his father and elder brother, or whom he suspected of plotting against him. Chalkokondyles stated that Vlad "quickly effected a great change and utterly revolutionized the affairs of Wallachia" through granting the "money, property, and other goods" of his victims to his retainers. The lists of the members of the princely council during Vlad's reign also show that only two of them (Voico Dobrița and Iova) were able to retain their positions between 1457 and 1461.
Vlad sent the customary tribute to the sultan. After John Hunyadi died on 11 August 1456, his elder son, Ladislaus Hunyadi became the captain-general of Hungary. He accused Vlad of having "no intention of remaining faithful" to the king of Hungary in a letter to the burghers of Brașov, also ordering them to support Vladislaus II's brother, Dan III, against Vlad. The burghers of Sibiu supported another pretender, "a priest of the Romanians who calls himself a Prince's son". The latter (identified as Vlad's illegitimate brother, Vlad the Monk) took possession of Amlaș, which had customarily been held by the rulers of Wallachia in Transylvania.
left|thumb|184x184px|Medieval seats (or administrative units) of the Transylvanian Saxons
Ladislaus V of Hungary had Ladislaus Hunyadi executed on 16 March 1457. Hunyadi's mother, Erzsébet Szilágyi, and her brother, Michael Szilágyi, stirred up a rebellion against the king. Taking advantage of the civil war in Hungary, Vlad assisted Stephen, son of Bogdan II of Moldavia, in his move to seize Moldavia in June 1457. Vlad also broke into Transylvania and plundered the villages around Brașov and Sibiu. The earliest German stories about Vlad recounted that he had carried "men, women, children" from a Saxon village to Wallachia and had them impaled. Since the Transylvanian Saxons remained loyal to the king, Vlad's attack against them strengthened the position of the Szilágyis.
Vlad's representatives participated at the peace negotiations between Michael Szilágyi and the Saxons. According to their treaty, the burghers of Brașov agreed that they would expel Dan from their town. Vlad promised that the merchants of Sibiu could freely "buy and sell" goods in Wallachia in exchange for the "same treatment" of the Wallachian merchants in Transylvania. Vlad referred to Michael Szilágyi as "his Lord and elder brother" in a letter on 1 December 1457.
Ladislaus Hunyadi's younger brother, Matthias Corvinus, was elected king of Hungary on 24 January 1458. He ordered the burghers of Sibiu to keep the peace with Vlad on 3 March. Vlad styled himself "Lord and ruler over all of Wallachia, and the duchies of Amlaș and Făgăraș" on 20 September 1459, showing that he had taken possession of both of these traditional Transylvanian fiefs of the rulers of Wallachia. Michael Szilágyi allowed the boyar Michael (an official of Vladislav II of Wallachia) and other Wallachian boyars to settle in Transylvania in late March 1458. Before long, Vlad had the boyar Michael killed.
In May, Vlad asked the burghers of Brașov to send craftsmen to Wallachia, but his relationship with the Saxons deteriorated before the end of the year. The conflict emerged after Vlad forbade the Saxons to enter Wallachia, forcing them to sell their goods to Wallachian merchants at compulsory border fairs. Vlad's protectionist tendencies or border fairs are not documented. Instead, in 1476 Vlad emphasized that he had always promoted free trade during his reign.
The Saxons confiscated the steel that a Wallachian merchant had bought in Brașov without repaying the price to him. In response, Vlad "ransacked and tortured" some Saxon merchants, according to a letter that Basarab Laiotă (a son of Dan II of Wallachia) wrote on 21 January 1459. Basarab had settled in Sighișoara and laid claim to Wallachia. However, Matthias Corvinus supported Dan III (who was again in Brașov) against Vlad. Vlad had Saxon merchants and their children impaled in Wallachia.Dan III broke into Wallachia, but Vlad defeated and executed him before 22 April 1460. Vlad invaded southern Transylvania and destroyed the suburbs of Brașov, ordering the impalement of all men and women who had been captured. During the ensuing negotiations, Vlad demanded the expulsion or punishment of all Wallachian refugees from Brașov. Peace had been restored before 26 July 1460, when Vlad addressed the burghers of Brașov as his "brothers and friends". Vlad invaded the region around Amlaș and Făgăraș on 24 August to punish the local inhabitants who had supported Dan III.
==== Ottoman war ====
Konstantin Mihailović (who served as a janissary in the sultan's army) recorded that Vlad refused to pay homage to the sultan in an unspecified year. The Renaissance historian Giovanni Maria degli Angiolelli likewise wrote that Vlad had failed to pay tribute to the sultan for three years. Both records suggest that Vlad ignored the suzerainty of the Ottoman Sultan, Mehmed II, already in 1459, but both works were written decades after the events. Tursun Beg (a secretary in the sultan's court) stated that Vlad only turned against the Ottoman Empire when the sultan "was away on the long expedition in Trebizon" in 1461. According to Tursun Beg, Vlad started new negotiations with Matthias Corvinus, but the sultan was soon informed by his spies. Mehmed sent his envoy, the Greek Katabolinos, to Wallachia, ordering Vlad to come to Constantinople. He also sent secret instructions to Hamza, bey of Nicopolis, to capture Vlad after he crossed the Danube. Vlad found out the sultan's "deceit and trickery", captured Hamza and Katabolinos, and had them impaled.
After the execution of the Ottoman officials, Vlad gave orders in fluent Turkish to the commander of the fortress of Giurgiu to open the gates, enabling the Wallachian soldiers to break in the fortress and capture it. He invaded the Ottoman Empire, devastating the villages along the Danube. He informed Matthias Corvinus about the military action in a letter on 11 February 1462. He stated that more than "23,884 Turks and Bulgarians" had been killed at his order during the campaign. He sought military assistance from Corvinus, declaring that he had broken the peace with the sultan "for the honor" of the king and the Holy Crown of Hungary and "for the preservation of Christianity and the strengthening of the Catholic faith". The relationship between Moldavia and Wallachia had become tense by 1462, according to a letter of the Genoese governor of Kaffa.
Having learnt of Vlad's invasion, Mehmed II raised an army of more than 150,000 strong, that was said to be "second in size only to the one" that occupied Constantinople in 1453, according to Chalkokondyles. The size of the army suggests that the sultan wanted to occupy Wallachia, according to a number of historians (including Franz Babinger, Radu Florescu, and Nicolae Stoicescu). On the other hand, Mehmed had granted Wallachia to Vlad's brother, Radu, before the invasion of Wallachia, showing that the sultan's principal purpose was only the change of the ruler of Wallachia.
The Ottoman fleet landed at Brăila (which was the only Wallachian port on the Danube) in May. The main Ottoman army crossed the Danube under the command of the sultan at Nicoplis on 4 June 1462. Outnumbered by the enemy, Vlad adopted the scorched earth policy and retreated towards Târgoviște. During the night of 16–17 June, Vlad broke into the Ottoman camp in an attempt to capture or kill the sultan. Either the imprisonment or the death of the sultan would have caused a panic among the Ottomans, which could have enabled Vlad to defeat the Ottoman army. However, the Wallachians "missed the court of the sultan himself" and attacked the tents of the viziers Mahmut Pasha and Isaac. Having failed to attack the sultan's camp, Vlad and his retainers left the Ottoman camp at dawn. Mehmed entered Târgoviște at the end of June. The town had been deserted, but the Ottomans were horrified to discover a "forest of the impaled" (thousands of stakes with the carcasses of executed people).
Tursun Beg recorded that the Ottomans suffered from summer heat and thirst during the campaign. The sultan decided to retreat from Wallachia and marched towards Brăila. Stephen III of Moldavia hurried to Chilia (now Kiliya in Ukraine) to seize the important fortress where a Hungarian garrison had been placed. Vlad also departed for Chilia, but left behind a troop of 6,000 strong to try to hinder the march of the sultan's army, but the Ottomans defeated the Wallachians. Stephen of Moldavia was wounded during the siege of Chilia and returned to Moldavia before Vlad came to the fortress.
The main Ottoman army left Wallachia, but Vlad's brother Radu and his Ottoman troops stayed behind in the Bărăgan Plain. Radu sent messengers to the Wallachians, reminding them that the sultan could again invade their country. Although Vlad defeated Radu and his Ottoman allies in two battles during the following months, more and more Wallachians deserted to Radu. Vlad withdrew to the Carpathian Mountains, hoping that Matthias Corvinus would help him regain his throne. However, Albert of Istenmező, the deputy of the Count of the Székelys, had recommended in mid-August that the Saxons recognize Radu. Radu also made an offer to the burghers of Brașov to confirm their commercial privileges and pay them a compensation of 15,000 ducats.
=== Imprisonment in Hungary ===
Matthias Corvinus came to Transylvania in November 1462. The negotiations between Corvinus and Vlad lasted for weeks, but Corvinus did not want to wage war against the Ottoman Empire. At the king's order, his Czech mercenary commander, John Jiskra of Brandýs, captured Vlad near Rucăr in Wallachia.
To provide an explanation for Vlad's imprisonment to Pope Pius II and the Venetians (who had sent money to finance a campaign against the Ottoman Empire), Corvinus presented three letters, allegedly written by Vlad on 7 November 1462, to Mehmed II, Mahmud Pasha, and Stephen of Moldavia. According to the letters, Vlad offered to join his forces with the sultan's army against Hungary if the sultan restored him to his throne. Most historians agree that the documents were forged to give grounds for Vlad's imprisonment. Corvinus's court historian, Antonio Bonfini, admitted that the reason for Vlad's imprisonment was never clarified. Florescu writes, "[T]he style of writing, the rhetoric of meek submission (hardly compatible with what we know of Dracula's character), clumsy wording, and poor Latin" are all evidence that the letters could not be written on Vlad's order. He associates the author of the forgery with a Saxon priest of Brașov.
Vlad was first imprisoned "in the city of Belgrade" (now Alba Iulia in Romania), according to Chalkokondyles. Before long, he was taken to Visegrád, where he was held for fourteen years. No documents referring to Vlad between 1462 and 1475 have been preserved. In the summer of 1475, Stephen III of Moldavia sent his envoys to Matthias Corvinus, asking him to send Vlad to Wallachia against Basarab Laiotă, who had submitted himself to the Ottomans. Stephen wanted to secure Wallachia for a ruler who had been an enemy of the Ottoman Empire, because "the Wallachians were like the Turks" to the Moldavians, according to his letter. According to the Slavic stories about Vlad, he was only released after he converted to Catholicism.
=== Third rule and human death ===
Matthias Corvinus recognized Vlad as the lawful prince of Wallachia, but he did not provide him military assistance to regain his principality. Vlad settled in a house in Pest. When a group of soldiers broke into the house while pursuing a thief who had tried to hide there, Vlad had their commander executed because they had not asked his permission before entering his home, according to the Slavic stories about his life. Vlad moved to Transylvania in June 1475. He wanted to settle in Sibiu and sent his envoy to the town in early June to arrange a house for him. Mehmed II acknowledged Basarab Laiotă as the lawful ruler of Wallachia. Corvinus ordered the burghers of Sibiu to give 200 golden florins to Vlad from the royal revenues on 21 September, but Vlad left Transylvania for Buda in October.
Vlad bought a house in Pécs that became known as Drakwlya haza ("Dracula's house" in Hungarian). In January 1476 John Pongrác of Dengeleg, Voivode of Transylvania, urged the people of Brașov to send to Vlad all those of his supporters who had settled in the town, because Corvinus and Basarab Laiotă had concluded a treaty. The relationship between the Transylvanian Saxons and Basarab remained tense, and the Saxons gave shelter to Basarab's opponents during the following months. Corvinus dispatched Vlad and the Serbian Vuk Grgurević to fight against the Ottomans in Bosnia in early 1476. They captured Srebrenica and other fortresses in February and March 1476.
Mehmed II broke into Moldavia and defeated Stephen III in the Battle of Valea Albă on 26 July 1476. Stephen Báthory and Vlad broke into Moldavia, forcing the sultan to lift the siege of the fortress at Târgu Neamț in late August, according to a letter of Matthias Corvinus. The contemporaneous Jakob Unrest added that Vuk Grgurević and a member of the noble Jakšić family also participated in the struggle against the Ottomans in Moldavia.
Matthias Corvinus ordered the Transylvanian Saxons to support Báthory's planned invasion of Wallachia on 6 September 1476, also informing them that Stephen of Moldavia would also break into Wallachia. Vlad stayed in Brașov and confirmed the commercial privileges of the local burghers in Wallachia on 7 October 1476. Báthory's forces captured Târgoviște on 8 November. Stephen of Moldavia and Vlad ceremoniously confirmed their alliance, and they occupied Bucharest, forcing Basarab Laiotă to seek refuge in the Ottoman Empire on 16 November. Vlad informed the merchants of Brașov about his victory, urging them to come to Wallachia. He was crowned before 26 November.
Just after Vlad had obtained the throne, Basarab Laiotă took it, returning to Wallachia with Ottoman support, and killing Vlad and his men in battle in late December 1476. In a letter written on 10 January 1477, Stephen III of Moldavia related that Vlad's Moldavian retinue had also been massacred. Basarab Laiotă was crowned the ruler of Wallachia. Vlad was buried in the Monastery of Snagov as it was written on his will.
=== Resurrection as a vampire and revenge ===
In December 1480, the Devil himself appeared in the Monastery of Snagov and brought Vlad back from the dead. Not as a human, but as an earthly demon of blood and the night, a vampire. He told Vlad that for all the blood he shed in his human life in God's name, he was being cursed to wander the earth for all eternity, forced to survive by drinking the blood of humans, not even having a choice to starve himself as when going without blood he would have an unbearable craving for it that would drive him insane until he got it. The Devil also absolved him of all the fatal weaknesses of a vampire, such as the sun's rays and the wooden stake, and gave him immense power, far greater than any vampire that had ever come before him. Satan told Vlad there was a large castle in the Carpathian Mountains near the Borgo Pass where a powerful vampire named Barnabas lived. He told Vlad if he killed Barnabas and took the castle as his own, he would grant him the title King of the Night and give him servants and minions.
So, Vlad made his way to the castle. Barnabas had his own minions, mostly vampires called Strigoi. Vlad slew them all, then entered Barnabas's castle. He awoke Barnabas in his coffin. Barnabas, as powerful as he was, was butchered mercilessly by Vlad, who impaled his head on a spike just outside the castle's entrance. Lucifer appeared again before Vlad and crowned him King of the Night, ruler of all monsters on earth. Lucifer granted him many minions, most notably the mighty Lycan Lawrence, who would act as a butler and an advisor. Then Satan gave Vlad a bride, a woman called Carmilla whom Lucifer had just turned into a vampire. Carmilla became infatuated with Vlad immediately. Vlad thought she was very attractive, but wasn't infatuated with her.
Satan told Vlad to remember that he had given him all these things, and that he would serve him when the time came. Satan left Vlad to the castle. Vlad abandoned the name Vlad III and changed his name to only Dracula. As the new lord of what was Barnabas's castle, he renamed it Castle Dracula. Dracula then decided the next thing to do would be to kill Basarab Laiotă, to get revenge for his own death. Dracula came to Basarab's castle in Wallachia. He tortured Basarab for some time, slowly drinking his blood. His arms wore torn off, his eyes were gouged out, and finally, Basarab was impaled on a spike outside his castle so Dracula could make sure people knew he killed Basarab, and that he had risen from his grave. Word was sent to the sultan of Basarab's death by impalement. In January 1481, Dracula appeared at the sultan's palace. He drained every last drop of the sultan's blood, reducing him to a hideous pale corpse, and left him posed sitting on his throne as if he were still alive.
Having achieved his revenge, he returned to Castle Dracula. He decided that, as he now had all this power, he no longer needed to rule Wallachia. The next voivode that was placed on the throne of Wallachia he did not trifle with, nor the next sultan after Mehmed II. However, he drastically dropped the temperatures in the Carpathian mountains to keep local Transylvanians in fear of him, to remind them that he was alive again and to remind them of his monstrous power. He also captured many townspeople from the surrounding villages and impaled them on spikes outside Castle Dracula as another way to make people afraid and showcase his power.
=== 1480 - 1893 ===
For a century, Dracula lived in peace, while the Transylvanian people lived in fear of both him and the Ottomans. In May 1522, Dracula met Elisabeth, a woman whose beauty dwarfed Carmilla's. He fell in love with her right away, and couldn't bring himself to turn her into a vampire, let alone drink her blood. Carmilla became very jealous of Dracula's love for Elisabeth. He paid much more attention to Elisabeth than to her. For one year, she did nothing. In September 1523, in the middle of the day, Carmilla snuck into Elisabeth's quarters and killed her with a knife (instead of using her fangs or hands, attempting to hide that it was her). She put the knife in the hands of the sleeping guard of the girl's quarters, then returned to her coffin and went to sleep. That night, when Dracula went to wake her up, he went mad with grief. He had the guard's hands cut off, his feet boiled, and then had him impaled in the worst way possible - through his anus and out his mouth.
It took five weeks before Dracula found out that Carmilla was Elisabeth's murderer. It's unknown how he found out, but when he did, he was furious with her. Carmilla's punishment for Elisabeth's murder was much, much more lenient than the guard's punishment; Dracula slapped her with the back of his hand, causing her to fall to the floor, and told her he considered her a sister, not anyone he could have any romantic love for. He told her that their relationship would never be the same for what she did, and that he would never forgive her.
=== Events of 1893 ===
In 1893, Dracula discovered that Elisabeth was reincarnated, and lived in London, England. Because Carmilla would get in the way of his plans, he demanded that she leave the castle for several weeks. Dracula hired a real estate agent, R.M. Renfield, to come to his castle so that he could buy the Carfax Abbey in London. R.M. Renfield came, but was driven insane by spirits in the castle before they could do business. He commanded all supernatural beings in his castle to leave. Dracula sent Renfield back to London and hired another real estate agent, this time Jonathan Harker. After Dracula signed the deed to Carfax Abbey, he left Jonathan Harker at Castle Dracula, where three vampire women fed on him very slowly for a few months while Dracula was gone. He did this and prolonged Jonathan's death because he found out that Jonathan was the fiancé of his Elisabeth's reincarnation.
Dracula took a boat to London. He summoned a violent thunder storm, and slaughtered the crew on board. When he arrived at London, he left the ship in the form of a wolf. The horrific mutilated corpses and the wolf leaving the boat made all the papers. Dracula, now in human form again, met Elisabeth's reincarnation, Mina Murray. Though at first she was reluctant, they dated at romantic diners several times. Because she was the human Dracula knew centuries ago, she was still in love with him, but just didn't remember her past life until she met him. While he had these dinners with Mina, he survived by feeding on her friend Lucy Winstrum, but very slowly, not letting her die so that he could keep drinking her blood. That is until Jonathan, after escaping Dracula's castle and returning to London, married Mina. Sorrow turned into rage and Dracula summoned a hurricane. He flew to Lucy's mansion in the form of many bats. He took human form, but levitated in front of her bed. He said "Nothing can save you from my power. I now damn you to living death!" He drained her completely of blood and fed her his own. She died, and became a vampire.
Professor Abraham Van Helsing was called upon by John Seward, one of the men who asked Lucy for her hand in marriage. He was called upon days before she became a vampire, but the symptoms were clear to Van Helsing (who was not only a doctor and professor, but a vampire hunter) that a vampire was feeding off of her. When she did become a vampire, Van Helsing, John Seward, Jonathan Harker, Quincy Morris, and Arthur Holmwood hunted her down. They drove a stake through her heart and cut off her head, killing her for good. After dealing with her, they went after Dracula. Dracula came to Lucy in the middle of the night and seduced her. He drank her blood, and he fed her his blood. They nearly had sex, but Van Helsing and the group of newbie vampire hunters interrupted. Dracula took the form of a half-bat, half-human beast, and tried to scare Van Helsing and the others off. Van Helsing threw a stake into Dracula's heart, and Jonathan Harker quickly came behind Dracula and cut off his head. But after playing dead, he stood back up, put his head back on, which reconnected to his neck, and threw the stake back at Van Helsing.
Van Helsing avoided the stake and told Dracula that they had destroyed all of the large boxes in Carfax Abbey and burned the building to the ground - his only refuge, the only place to restore his power. He had already lost the power to control the weather from going without sleep, so he would instantly lose all of his powers once the sun rose. Dracula burst into many bats and left out the window. He had to hurry and find a way back to Romania so that he could restore all of his powers. He caught a ride on another boat back to Romania. When he arrived, Van Helsing and the others, except Mina, who was told to stay behind, were waiting for him. The sun went down, and Dracula arose from his coffin, where the gypsies that drove him to the castle laid dead all around him. All attempts to do damage to Dracula failed. He toyed around with them, but eventually they managed to incapacitate him by exploiting almost all of his weaknesses at once. When he was unable to fight back, Van Helsing used a gem that took the form of a coffin and locked Dracula inside.
Carmilla, just returning to the castle, was just a moment too late and witnessed him be sealed away. She mercilessly slaughtered Van Helsing, Quincy Morris, John Seward, Jonathan Harker, and Arthur Holmwood. Because Mina wasn't there, she was the only one spared. Because Dracula wasn't killed, only imprisoned, Mina became a vampire.
=== The Vampire Saga ===
120 years later, Dracula was accidentally freed from the coffin by Isaac Finch, merely by the evil presence of Regnell's power, in an old underground cavern in America that Carmilla was using as a lair. He was in a very weak state, having gone without blood for over a century. He had a more bestial, bat-like face, and his skin was covered in ripples and wrinkles. His ribs were visible through his skin. Though he was weak, he threw Isaac into the ground, but Matthew Van Helsing doused him in Holy Water. He was set ablaze with Holy Fire and roared in pain. Isaac and Matthew fled the caverns, and Matthew left the entire system of caves burning with Holy Fire, destroying everything inside. They thought Dracula had been destroyed, and so did Carmilla. But when Isaac, consumed by grief and rage and losing control of Regnell's power, attempted to kill Carmilla, Dracula appeared. This time, he looked much younger and like a human, as he normally did, and flung Isaac through twenty trees with a flick of his finger. Isaac was knocked unconscious. Dracula vanished with Carmilla at his side.
Dracula returned with Carmilla to Castle Dracula, by plane this time. To his surprise, only an hour after Dracula settled back down in his castle, Isaac and Ares Stefani arrived at his castle. However, Ares ran off, terrified of the Lord of Vampires. Dracula guessed almost immediately that Lucifer had apported Isaac to Romania, and he was right. He thought Lucifer had sent Isaac to kill him, but really, it was more personal. Isaac came to kill Carmilla for killing Cynthia, Isaac's aunt. Dracula said he didn't care about killing Isaac and actually would prefer that he lived because he seemed like "a good human", but because Isaac proposed a threat to his little sister, Dracula had to kill him. Dracula prepared for battle, but Carmilla interrupted before the fight could even start. She said she wanted to kill Isaac herself. Dracula respected her wishes and knew that Isaac would stand no chance, because he was drunk. He left the room as mist. But, Carmilla found out by observing Isaac's odd behavior and catching a whiff of the smell of his blood that Isaac was drunk. Since this meant Isaac wasn't at his best, Carmilla left in disappointment.
Dracula then appeared again and knocked Ares and Isaac unconscious instantly, and told Carmilla that he wanted to serve them dinner so that they could do their best in their fight. He gave his butler the order to cook and serve them food. After they ate, Carmilla had the butler guide Ares and Isaac to the heights of the castle, to Dracula's throne room. When they entered the throne room, it was completely dark. The butler, who was revealed to be a Lycan and whose name was revealed to be Lawrence, was told to leave the room. When he did, Dracula asked if the two were prepared for battle. Isaac said yes, and Dracula attacked. As Dracula had a great advantage in power and strength, Ares and Isaac were kicked around and beaten, clearly the underdogs of the fight. Dracula even broke Ares's light sword in two, and shattered a force field he created with Light Magic. In the heat of the fight, Isaac accidentally made a hole in the roof of the throne room. The Count stopped fighting and observed the damage.
Carmilla entered the room, demanding to know why he was fighting them first, when she was supposed to fight them. In response, he simply knocked her out in one blow, and carried her to her quarters. When he returned, he insisted Isaac leave the castle and return home to train until he was in a position where he could actually put up a fight. Isaac agreed after a discussion on the matter. Dracula agreed to not attack humans until Isaac could fight him fairly. Isaac vanished, teleported out of the castle by Lucifer.
After Carmilla was killed by Isaac several weeks later, Dracula wanted to show he no longer honored the promise he made with Isaac by sending his minions to siege towns and kill humans all across the world. Cosmar Finch, a powerful angel and one of the generals of Sanction, sent many of Sanction's soldiers to the countries that Dracula attacked to stop them. He appointed the general below him, Elicia, to command a legion of Sanction soldiers on a siege of Castle Dracula. They were doing well against his minions, but then Dracula intervened and began effortlessly killing hundreds of soldiers. He attacked Elicia and crushed her larynx, rendering her unable to fight. Cosmar appeared and healed Elicia. 
Dracula called off his men in the area and Cosmar did the same, and they engaged in battle. Cosmar's power had greatly improved since then, past Dracula's. They fought for about two minutes, then Dracula surrendered, realizing he was only going to die if he kept fighting. They made a deal: In exchange for Dracula getting to live, he would call off his legions across the world, and Cosmar would seal away his power, which would only return to him when he was around Isaac. If he killed Isaac, the seal on his power would be lifted. Dracula swore that he would first kill Isaac, then after his power was restored, obtain the Arcana Stone. With his power surpassing Cosmar's because of it, he would then kill Cosmar for wounding his pride in this fashion.
=== The Red Saga ===
He has not yet appeared in this saga.
== Personality ==
Though not showing any personality in his first two appearances, when Isaac Finch and Ares Stefani came uninvited to his castle, though he knocked them unconscious, he showed great hospitality by having his butler serve them dinner. Though, the purpose of the meal was to put them at their best ability to fight him. He wanted the battle to be fair. Before initiating their fight, he also asked Isaac and Ares if they were ready. When they said yes, he relentlessly attacked them and overwhelmed them with his power. But he wasn't trying to crush much, much weaker opponents with his great power, he greatly underestimated them and assumed he could fight to the best of his ability against them. When he realized the level of their power, he insisted that Isaac leave the castle and return home to get stronger until he could be in a position to face him. But it's unknown as of now what he did to Ares when Isaac was apported away by Lucifer. He even agreed to put his war on humans on hold until Isaac was strong enough for a fair fight with him.
Despite the fact that his sister Carmilla killed his human love, he still cares a great deal for her safety. He allowed Carmilla to fight Isaac when the teenager was intoxicated by Ares's beer, but when he was at the best of his fighting ability after regaining his strength and eating, he saw that there was a slim possibility that Isaac could actually kill her. Even though Isaac's levels below Carmilla's power, that small chance was a chance enough, so he wouldn't allow Carmilla to fight Isaac, and knocked her unconscious when she tried in his throne room.
Unlike most incarnations of Count Dracula who wish to see the end of mankind or who want to conquer the world, Dracula doesn't care about humans or conquering the world, and is only about to start a war against humans because Carmilla wants to subdue them all. But because he doesn't care about them, their lives hold no value or meaning to him at all, hence why he's completely fine with killing any amount of humans to grant Carmilla's wish of dominating the planet. What he is most famous for as a human is his obsession with impaling his victims and defeated opponents. Ever since he was very young, he loved impalement, impaling rats and small animals in his prison in Hungary, showing that though he is usually very polite, he is a sadist. He loves to kill, and when he does, he prefers to do it slowly and painfully.
Dracula's pride can also be wounded, as when Cosmar defeated him in such a way at the end of the Vampire Saga, he vowed he would become more powerful than Cosmar and kill him for humiliating him when he was forced to surrender.
== Powers and Abilities ==
=== Powers ===
* Immortality - As a vampire, his lifespan is infinitely long. He is over five centuries old. He is unaffected by all diseases and toxins, and requires only human blood and oxygen to survive. He does not age unless he goes without blood for too long.
* Superhuman Stamina - While Dracula does require sleep to prevent exhaustion, he does not tire from things like running, exercise, or fighting.
* Superhuman Strength - His sister, Carmilla, was greatly feared by Matthew Van Helsing, and had been established as very strong. When Isaac Finch lost control of Regnell's powers and nearly killed her, Dracula appeared, took the full blast of Regnell's power (what Isaac could handle of his power without dying), and then by merely flicking his finger, Dracula caused Isaac to fly through twenty trees in the blink of an eye and caused Isaac to lose consciousness. With strength alone, he shattered a force field created with light magic by Ares Stefani with light magic, and broke Ares's sword, also created with light magic, in two.
* Superhuman Speed - When Isaac said he was ready to fight, Dracula moved astonishingly fast toward him, which sent out strong winds that blew out the flames of the Oath Breaker.
* Vampirism - As a vampire, he can drink any amount of blood he desires from anything with blood through the use of his canines which he can elongate and shorten at will.
* Shape-shifting - As demonstrated in the events of 1893, or the novel, Dracula can take the form of one or many vampire bats, a wolf, mist, or one or many rats. He also showed the power to transform into a mass of darkness, as when he first appeared to save Carmilla from Isaac's blast of fire.
* Hypnotizing - As demonstrated in the events of 1893, or the novel, Dracula can hypnotize humans who cannot resist it, and command them to do whatever he wishes.
* Teleportation - After overpowering Isaac and with Carmilla at his side, he vanished into thin air at the strike of lightning.
* Weather Manipulation - He can control the weather, as demonstrated in the events of 1893/the novel and in his first appearance in the roleplay when he vanished and summoned a violent thunder storm. He summoned a hurricane in anger after Mina Harker married Jonathan Harker. Then when he returned to Romania, he caused the temperatures to drop so drastically that bodies of water in Transylvania were frozen over, and then summoned harsh blizzards to blanket the land in snow.
* Immunity - Though the holy water thrown on him by Matthew Van Helsing seemed to harm him, and Matthew set the entirety of Carmilla's old lair ablaze with Holy Fire with Dracula inside, Dracula somehow survived, much stronger and more youthful in appearance than before, whereas any other vampire would have been consumed by the flames and killed. He is also immune to damage from sunlight, unlike all other vampires, and also cannot be killed by oak stakes or decapitation.
* Levitation - He demonstrated this when he first appeared to save Carmilla from Isaac's blast of fire, floating steadily in the air. While his minions were fighting of Sanction soldiers, he floated through the air towards them.
* Spiritual Awareness - Dracula knew without hearing anything about Isaac's situation that Regnell was sleeping inside Isaac's body, knew that Isaac was using Regnell's power in the fight with Carmilla, and knew that it was really neither Isaac nor Regnell fighting Carmilla before Dracula appeared, but "more [Isaac's] intense rage given a consciousness."
* Telekinesis - He can move, manipulate, and break things with just his mind. When he was told Carmilla was dead, he cracked the floor under him in anger. 
* Illusions - He can project/create and manipulate illusions.
* Pyrokinesis - He can summon and manipulate fire.
=== Abilities ===
* High Intellect/Wisdom - Being 585 years old, he has seen and done many things, and knows many things. He was able to tell immediately that it was Lucifer who sent Isaac Finch to fight him.
== Weaknesses ==
High Deities - Any of the High Deities, e.g. God or Amun-Ra, could effortlessly kill Dracula.
Archangels - Michael and Raguel could effortlessly kill Dracula.
High-Tier Angels - As said before, Michael and Raguel could effortlessly kill Dracula, and angels that are closer to the two brothers' power could also harm and kill him.
High-Tier Demons - Lucifer could effortlessly kill Dracula, and a few other of the most powerful demons could also kill Dracula as well.
The Michael Sword - According to Matthew Van Helsing, the archangel Michael's sword can kill Dracula, as it's been known to kill any demon or monster, and could kill the Devil himself, a far more powerful being.
Holy Water - Water blessed by a certain prayer in a house of God summons Holy Fire in contact with the skin of demons. As vampires are a type of demon, this happens in contact with Dracula's skin.
Holy Fire - The flames imbued with God's power can greatly harm Dracula, though he seemed to survive when he was consumed by Holy Fire when Carmilla's old lair was destroyed.
The Christian Cross - The cross, the ultimate symbol of Jesus Christ and holiness, burns in contact with any demon's skin.
== Trivia ==
* This character is an adaption of Count Dracula, a character from Bram Stoker's 1897 novel, Dracula. He has appeared frequently in popular culture, from films to animated media to breakfast cereals. More information on the original can be found at Wikipedia.org.
* In every other canon before this one, the fifth, he was the adaptation of Dracula from the Castlevania video game series, and in the first two canons, the Hellsing manga as well.
* Dracula was given blonde hair instead of black or white/silver hair because of the picture on his character infobox and he was blonde in Super Castlevania IV.
* In the four previous canons, Carmilla was his niece as well as his lover who resurrected him twice because she adored him. In the current canon, she is now his younger twin sister, and still desired to revive him because she adored him. It is implied they are lovers as well, just like before the reboot.
* Despite his horrific acts against his own people and his enemies, the real Vlad the Impaler is seen today by the people of Romania as a hero and a symbol of Romanian patriotism, a la how Christopher Columbus is seen by Americans (despite the pretty terrible acts against Native Americans by Columbus and his men).
* Though he's still powerful, he's been nerfed a great degree from his incarnations in the previous canons.
** In the first, he had single-handedly slain God and taken over Heaven, and slain Satan and taken over Hell. He was also completely invincible and absolutely impossible to kill.
** In the second and I think the third, he had the powers of Hellsing's Alucard and Castlevania's Dracula.
** In the fourth, he had the powers of Castlevania's Dracula. In his first form, his raw power rivaled that of the Archangel Michael, and in his "true" form, his raw power rivaled that of Lucifer.
** Now, he is a great deal weaker than Michael, Lucifer, and Raguel, but still more powerful than any being on Earth and most pagan gods.
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