Radu Basarab

**Radu Basarab** — First Appears in Touch the Dark

## Introduction

**Radu Basarab** is the younger brother of Mircea Basarab and Vlad Dracul.

## Biography

**Radu** (Radu cel frumos, or Radu the Handsome) was the younger brother of Mircea II of Wallachia and Vlad Tepes (Dracula). In the Cassie Palmer series, he was taken by a mob in Paris and delivered to the Inquisition who tortured him for well over a century, until he was dangerously mad. Mircea finally found and freed him, but was forced to forced to lock him away again for his own and everyone else's protection.

However, in *Touch the Dark*, the first Cassie Palmer novel, Mircea and Cassie go back in time to a point before Radu was driven mad, when he was imprisoned in the fortress of Carcassonne. They helped Radu to escape, thereby changing time, and afterwards he was forced to keep a low profile so as to not further upset the time line, until the present day. Only Mircea, Cassie and a select few others know that anything unusual happened to Radu. Cassie was a young pythia, untrained and mostly clueless about the job, and did not know that changing the timeline, even in such a small way, was not allowed. She would later accuse Mircea of taking advantage of her ignorance.

## About

### Freed from Prison

* Mircea originally freed him in 1769 from the Bastille.
* Mircea and Cassie free him in 1661 from Carcassonne.

### Physical Description

* In Carcassonne dungeon cell: He looked like a bearded skeleton, skin the color of moldy Swiss cheese covered the fine bones of his face, and only the burning amber eyes made him seem real—wore a hooded cloak.

### Family / Friends / Allies

* Siblings: Mircea Basarab and Vlad Dracul
* Niece: Dorina Basarab
* Vampire-chld: Louis-Cesare
* Ally: Cassandra Palmer

## Backstory

Vlad and Radu were in Adrianople as hostages—the Ottoman sultan didn't trust their father to honor a treaty otherwise.

## Related Characters, Groups, Places, etc

* Mircea Basarab - brother
* Vlad Dracul - brother

## Events in the Series

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### 1. Touch the Dark

Mircea tells Cassie that he is going with her to Carcassonne in the past to rescue his brother from torture and prison while she saves Louis-Cesare. They leave while the Senate is under attack with the help of the Tears of Apollo and without Tomas who had betrayed them to Rasputin.

Cassie is led to Radu's cell by a swarm of ghosts. She finds Louis-Cesare (with Mircea inside) bleeding, and keels over. He must wait to recover from the loss of blood from Radu's bites before getting Radu out. Rasputin and Myra in spirit form show up with Dark Circle mages from 1661. Cassie stops them with her ghost army and her Dagger Bracelet and help from Agnes.

After the confrontation with them, he is freed with strict conditions— He has agreed to bring Louis-César over and to leave him to develop alone as happened before. Radu will escape but avoid contact with anyone for a century, until the time I rescued him from the Bastille. And even after that, he will keep a low profile, and not make any vamps until current times.

## Book References

1. ↑ *Touch the Dark*, ch. 3
2. ↑ *Touch the Dark*, ch. 3
3. ↑ *Touch the Dark*, ch. 13
4. ↑ *Touch the Dark*, ch. 14
5. ↑ *Touch the Dark*, ch. 14
6. ↑ *Touch the Dark*, ch. 3
7. ↑ *Touch the Dark*, ch. 3
8. ↑ *Touch the Dark*, ch. 13
9. ↑ *Touch the Dark*, ch. 14
10. ↑ *Touch the Dark*, ch. 14

## External Links

**Content Refs**

* Radu cel Frumos - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
* Bastille - Wikipedia
* Carcassonne - Wikipedia
* Mircea II of Wallachia - Wikipedia
* Vlad the Impaler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
* Wallachia - Wikipedia

**General Series Links**:

* Take A Chance: Gallery
* Cassandra Palmer series - Urban Fantasy Wiki
* Cassandra Palmer Series ~ Shelfari
* The Cassandra Palmer series - Wikipedia