Radu Tepes/Dracula

The Greatest Evil

Master (by Chernabog and the liches)

Nutso Vampire Guy (by Emma)

Radu Tepes was a duke in the Land Without Color. He was the only brother of Vlad Tepes, as well as the voice of reason in Vlad's life. He was eventually killed by a roman soldier and revived as a vampire by Vlad, who used the enchanted hourglass. He summoned Chernabog to be his servant, killed his brother, and conquered the Land Without Color, taking on the name Dracula. However, he was betrayed and trapped in a magical coffin by Chernabog before he could conquer the Enchanted Forest. Thousands of years later, Dracula was freed by Emma Swan and became a deadly threat to Storybrooke.

## History

### Becoming A Vampire

Radu Tepes lived in the Land Without Color with his older brother Vlad Tepes, also known as Vlad the Impaler. In contrast to his brother's temperamental and murderous nature, Radu was calm and didn't act very malevolent at all. Vlad loved his brother, Radu being the only person who could stop him from killing someone every time he lost his temper. On Vlad's birthday, a group of four Roman soldiers entered Vlad's castle and demanded he surrender to Caligula or risk war. Vlad attacked the soldiers and while he was dueling one of them, Radu noticed another soldier about to shoot Vlad with an arrow. He jumped in front of his brother, taking the arrow in the heart and dying. Radu appeared in the Underworld and was brought to the "worse place" by the demon Esregon. Ersegon told Radu the story of the creation of the realms before one of Ersegon's servants branded him with the Mark of Ersegon, allowing the demon lord to control him. Radu's ghost was then summoned back to the Land Without Color by Vlad, and he possessed his own dead body. However, Radu was turned into a vampire, corrupting him and giving him an unquenchable desire to drink blood. He drained Vlad's body of all the blood in it, killing him. He then killed Caligula and turned the Roman army into zombie-like creatures called liches, taking up the name Dracula.

### Search For The Darkest Heart

Dracula communed with Esregon and shared his triumphs with the demon. Ersegon tasked Dracula with freeing him from the "worse place" and sent a lesser demon called Chernabog to be Dracula's minion. Dracula and his lich army began to take over the Land Without Color, meeting little resistance. Chernabog was tasked by Dracula to find the person with the greatest potential for darkness, as they could be possessed by Esregon. However, Chernabog didn't find much darkness in the Land Without Color. Dracula told this to Esregon, who opened a portal to the Enchanted Forest. Dracula led his army through the portal to find the heart with the darkest potential and began to conquer the realm, using his vampire abilities to obliterate the fairies and knights who tried to stop him. Dracula also recruited most of the realm's werewolves into his army.

### Betrayal

Chernabog, meanwhile, located the darkest heart in Nimue, the current Dark One. He attempted to capture her, and she escaped after a battle with the demon. Chernabog was then temporarily freed from his service to Dracula by the Blue Fairy after making a wish. He returned to Dracula and trapped him in a magical coffin which caused Dracula's liches to lose their power and return to being corpses. The coffin put Dracula in an enchanted sleep, and he remained trapped in the coffin for eons. The people of the Enchanted Forest and the Land Without Color eventually forgot about him, believing Dracula to be a legend. Millennia later, the coffin was brought to Storybrooke by the Dark Curse.

### Release From The Coffin

Dracula's coffin was located inside a tree next to the Storybrooke wishing well for the duration of the first curse, second curse, third curse, and fourth curse. When Emma, Regina, and Mr. Gold went to the wishing well to stop Jack Frost from destroying the town with a blizzard, an energy blast fired by Gold destroyed the tree and revealed Dracula's coffin. Dracula sensed Emma nearby and put her in a trance, forcing Emma to place her hand on the handprint on the coffin lid. This released a blast of magic that destroyed the tree but left the coffin untouched. Dracula then emerged from the coffin and reminded Gold of the deal Nimue made with Vlad, causing Gold to think he *was* Vlad. Dracula then turned into a bat and flew away.

### Assault on Storybrooke

Dracula teleports into Regina's mausoleum and decides to resurrect Chernabog in order to locate and obtain the heart with the most darkness. To cast that spell, he needed the blood of an innocent. Dracula attempted to kill Henry and use his blood in the spell, but Regina drove him away. Dracula attacked Henry again in the pawnshop, battling Emma, Regina, and Zelena. He was able to hold his own against them and impaled Regina on his spear, but when Gold arrived he was forced to retreat. These events led to Zelena giving Regina her soul to heal her sister. Regina swore to make Dracula pay for what he had done, and meanwhile, Dracula used Regina's blood on the spear to resurrect Chernabog.

Dracula created a protection spell around the Storybrooke cemetery and made it his lair. Dracula then sent Chernabog to rip out Gold's heart, and was furious when the demon not only failed, but refrained from attacking Emma and Regina, who had stopped him. Dracula proceeded to berate Chernabog and then cast a pain-inducing spell over him.

Dracula killed a resident of Storybrooke and transformed them into a lich, believing Chernabog has "gone soft". He sent the lich to obtain Mr. Gold's dagger, planning to use it to summon Mr. Gold and use the darkness in his heart to free Esregon. When the lich was defeated by Jack Frost, he attacked Gold himself and gained the upper hand over the Dark One. However, Dracula was frozen solid by Jack and placed in a prison cell wearing a magic neutralization cuff.

## Powers and Abilities

**Vampirism:** As a vampire, his physical attributes are greatly enhanced and he has access to a large amount of spells.

* **Superhuman Strength:** As a vampire, Dracula is incredibly strong and was able to throw Emma's yellow bug, punch through a wall, and pick people up with one hand. However, he was not as strong as demons like Chernabog or Esregon.
* **Superhuman Speed:** He is able to move fast enough to dodge Emma's energy blasts and Charming's sword strokes. He was also able to dodge Rumplestiltskin's attacks, no easy feat as Rumple is also incredibly fast.
* **Superhuman Reflexes:** He is able to catch arrows.
* **Persuasion:** He can magically persuade animals like bats and wolves to do what he wants using his breath.
* **Invulnerability:** As Dracula has already died, he doesn't get sick and is immune to things that would kill a normal human being, such as having his heart crushed or being strangled. However, he isn't completely invulnerable, as he is weakened (but not killed) by sunlight and Esregon can cause him pain using the Mark of Esregon on his wrist.
* **Immortality:** He lives forever and doesn't age.
* **Bloodsucking:** He can suck blood using the fangs in his mouth.
* **Enhanced Fighting Skills:** He was not a very good fighter before he became a vampire, but after he did, he was able to outfight David Nolan and Killian Jones *at the same time*.
* **Lich Creation:** He can transform the dead bodies of his victims into zombie-like creatures called liches. These liches have no will of their own and do whatever Dracula says, even if that involves killing themselves. Liches cannot speak and do not remember their former lives. Dracula also once created liches out of the bodies of people he did not kill, but used both magic and science to do this.
* **Hypnosis:** He demonstrated the power to put Emma Swan in a trance.

**Demon Magic:** He can channel demonic energy from the Mark of Ersegon and use it to cast spells.

* **Pyrokinesis:** He can create fire and use it as a weapon.
* **Telekinesis:** He can move objects without touching them.
* **Teleportation:** He can vanish in a cloud of smoke and reappear somewhere else.
* **Transformation:** He can transform people into objects and objects into different objects.
* **Shapeshifting:** He can transform himself into other people as well as a wolf, mist, and a giant bat.
* **Pain-Inducing** **Spells:** He can magically induce pain.
* **Mirror Enchantments:** He can use mirrors to spy on people and communicate with them from a distance.
* **Conjuration spells:** He can conjure objects out of the blue.

* **Atmokinesis:** He can manipulate the weather in order to summon storm clouds that hunt people down.
* **Potioncraft:** He can create magical liquids with a variety of affects.

**Weapons:** In addition to his vampire abilities and demon magic, Dracula has used many weapons throughout his appearances.

* **Sword:** He has used a sword occasionally, although he prefers his spear. Dracula is skilled at using a sword, but it is nowhere near his level of spearfighting.
* **Spear of Esregon:** He has a spear that absorbs the soul of anyone whose blood is drawn by the spear's tip. The soul can never be removed from the spear, dooming its victims to a fate worse than death. Dracula is a skilled spear user, able to deflect bullets using it.