Elizabeth Báthory

*"You made me laugh at you denying the vampire world. Is it not thanks to that vampire that you are here?"*

## Elizabeth Báthory

* Elizabeth
* Portrait

### Aliases

* Báthori Erzsébet (Birth name)
* Alžbeta Bátoriová
* Nádasdy Ferencné Báthori Erzsébet

### Titles

* The Blood Countess
* Countess Dracula.

## Personal Status

### Relatives

* Ferenc II Nádasdy (Ex-husband)
* Baron George VI Báthory (Father)
* Baroness Anna Báthory (Mother)
* Andrew Bonaventura Báthory (Paternal Uncle)
* Stephen VIII Báthory of Somlyó (Maternal Grandfather)
* Stephen Báthory of Ecsed (Older Brother)
* Stephen Báthory (Maternal Uncle)

### Dislikes

* Herself

***Countess* Elizabeth Báthory de Ecsed** is one of the first two Alpha Vampires, who created the other vampires. A wicked woman who bathed in the living blood of more than 600 women in order to preserve her own beauty.

## Personality

Every factor of her life, such as her livelihood as a noble that spanned many years, her contempt for humans except for her fellow blood relatives due to being hardened by them, and so forth, all pushed the former Elizabeth into a bizarre killer. Haughty, proud, and extremely arrogant, her body is coiled around with every vanity; it is like sulfuric acid turned into human form. Touch her, and all things will be inflamed immediately. And yet, stupidity exists at her core——to put it another way, it is possible to say that she has a faint goodness within her that just barely stops her audacity. Since she was raised as nobility, she has no such a thing like common morality.

She has displayed immense claustrophobia and autophobia due to the traumas of her past punishment for her crimes, being locked away all alone in a small chamber.

## Background

Elizabeth was born in a family estate. She spent her childhood at Ecsed Castle. Her father was Baron George VI Báthory of the Ecsed branch of the family, brother of Andrew Bonaventura Báthory, who had been voivode of Transylvania. Her mother was Baroness Anna Báthory, daughter of Stephen Báthory of Somlyó, also voivode of Transylvania, who was of the Somlyó branch. Through her mother, Elizabeth was the niece of the noble Stephen Báthory. Her older brother, Stephen Báthory of Ecsed, served as a judge royal.

As a child, Elizabeth had multiple seizures that may have been caused by epilepsy. At the time, symptoms relating to epilepsy were diagnosed as falling sickness and treatments included rubbing blood of a non-sufferer on the lips of an epileptic or giving the epileptic a mix of a non-sufferer's blood and piece of skull as their episode ended.

The Bathory house was the family who held the majority of the influence within Tyrth at the time, and she increased that, possessing the blood of the house of Habsburg which made for a lineage that would make her a purebred noble. However, whether it is do to the consanguineous marriages within the Bathory line or the effect of their luxuriant living environment, the family contained many insane and cruel individuals. Pedophiles and Satanists were not uncommon among her relatives.

Elizabeth is not an exception and became quite infamous. Despite having human parents, Elizabeth was born as a Vampire. In what is now present-day Slovakia, in Csejte Castle, which resided within her own dominion, she killed more than 600 women and, in order to preserve her beauty, bathed in the blood she wrung from them... She loved those repulsive blood baths. This woman, who killed many members of her fiefdom, did not consider this a crime. In those days, there was a trend among the nobility to not even consider humans who weren't nobles as "humans" so there were no problems with her murders.

A proposal made by some sources in order to explain Elizabeth's cruelty later in her life is that she was trained by her family to be cruel. Stories include a young Elizabeth witnessing brutal punishments executed by her family's officers, and being taught by family members involved with Satanism and witchcraft. Again, there is no hard evidence for these claims, and so they remain unsubstantiated.

Elizabeth was engaged to Count Ferenc Nádasdy, a member of the Nadasdy family, in what was probably a political arrangement within the circles of the aristocracy. He was the son of Baron Tamás Nádasdy de Nádasd et Fogarasföld and Orsolya Kanizsai. Elizabeth and Ferenc were married at the palace of Vranov nad Topľou. Ferenc's wedding gift to Elizabeth was his household, Castle of Csejte situated in the Little Carpathians near Vág-Ujhely and Trencsén. The castle had been bought by his mother and given to Ferenc, who transferred it to Elizabeth during their nuptials, together with the Csejte country house and seventeen adjacent villages.

One day, she let a maidservant comb the hair she was so proud of. But the comb got caught in her hair, and in a vehement rage, she stabbed the maidservant with a hairpin. The maidservant's blood happened to fall upon the back of her hand, and she noticed that the skin that blood touched was smoother than usual. From now on, to preserve my beauty, I will bathe in the lifeblood of women, she thought—and did so.

Collecting blood became part of her daily routine, and after she changed residences to Csejte Castle, it reached the point where young women of marriage age were disappearing from the rural villages within her dominion. (Or maybe, everyone came to know what was going on and were sneaking the women out in secret.) She became distressed since she was no longer able to collect blood from the rural villages and so collected the daughters of minor nobles under the pretense of teaching them proper manners or inviting them to banquets. And those daughters, coming together for the banquet, dressed in fancy dresses, completely unaware of what would happen, were struck on the head.

In addition to having their blood drawn, they would have hot irons thrust into their mouths, their entire bodies stabbed with pins, and other kinds of tortures. She would make her servants rip off the skin of their own daughters so she could enjoy the anguished faces of both the parent and the child. On the other hand, in regards to torturing men, tales of her enjoying killing them would not be surprising.

To Elizabeth, killing the common people in droves was a daily life "without any unusual events." If there is anything that could be considered her misfortune, it is that there were no people to rebuke her abnormality, to teach her that her deeds were atrocities. Several years after she started taking blood, her cruel acts came to extend even to the daughters of the aristocracy and she finally received the indictment that her character deserved. At the trial conducted in the actual person's absence, she was given a guilty verdict and imprisoned within one of the rooms of Csejte Castle.

And the people completely sealed her, who was already feared as a demon, away. The people whisper. To see her figure is frightening. To hear her voice is frightening. Simply bringing to mind the memories which had lost her, the memories from which they had removed her, is frightening. The father who brought her into this world. Elizabeth's relatives. Her compatriots in aristocratic society, as if to hide their own feelings of guilt, concealed her prison with stone. The room that Elizabeth used in her final days... her prison in the basement of the castle contained nothing but a small slit to allow food to be passed to her. And, in that room without an exit or windows, that room which was plastered up from the outside, she continued to ask, *"Why?"* until her final moments.

They say that her voice could be heard through the stone that imprisoned her, but it's is also said that due to the soldiers finding it annoying, the transom was sealed, and she could no longer be heard. After that, there was no one who saw her firsthand while she was alive. The soldiers noticed the smell of rotting food, confirming that her life had ended. Or did it? They never checked on her body, so they wouldn't have known that in the middle of the night, Elizabeth was carried away by an unknown figure, who had saved her from her demise.

From thereon, she became the legend known as the Blood Countess.

## Trivia

* Elizabeth had up to 650 alleged victims during her time as the countess.
* Elizabeth is known as the most prolific female murderer, though the number of her victims is debated.
* Elizabeth has had sex with her brother, who stole her virginity for the first time. That may be why she loves virgin blood so much.

## Quotes

* *"I mean, nobody told me! Nobody ever told me this was all a mistake! That's why I ended up like this!"*
* (Elizabeth asking why in her chambers) *"Why? Why? I didn't do anything bad."*