Vlad ŢepeŞ

[voodoomagik]

also known as Dracula!
there are a lot of stories about vlad! some of them are true, some of them are made up.....
http://www.donlinke.com/images/Vlad/vlad_tepes_big-x01.jpg
http://www.villa-fledermaus.de/vampyrjournal/tepes.jpg
http://www.donlinke.com/images/Vlad/vlad_tepes_orig_edit-x01.jpg
http://www.explora.home.ro/Despre_mine/Home_Page/History/Dracula_en/Dracula_items/Vlad_Tepes.jpg

[voodoomagik]

here's how he welcomed the Turks at braila...after Mohammed the second saw a whole forest formed by the bodies of his soldiers he immediately ended his campaign and returned to Istanbul.
http://www.kronen-apotheke.at/seiten/images/VladTepesImpaleForest_000.jpg
http://brasov.free.fr/images/drac4.jpg

[Jebus]

Dind't he only drink one person's blood though? I don't think he deserves that title.

[Sin Studly]

Dind't he only drink one person's blood though? I don't think he deserves that title.

What title, exactly? Are you actually accusing a 15th century (or thereabouts) warlord of plagiarising Bram Stoker to get vampire cred?

[Jebus]

What title, exactly?
Dracula.

There's no doubt that guy was a "badass," but drinking one person's blood doesnt seem enough for someone to be called Dracula.

[Sin Studly]

*sighs*

Okay, here's the deal. Tepes was from the 1500s or 1600s or something like that. Bram Stoker, the man who penned Dracula, was from the 1800s. He took the name from Vlad, although most of the vampire mythos came from an agglomaration of varied east european cultural beliefs regarding vampires and the legend of Erszebet Bathory.

Dracula itself means "Son of the Dragon". Since Vlad's father was named "Dracul" (the dragon), I think Vlad most assuredly deserves the title "Son of the Dragon".

[Jebus]

Oh wait, was his last name Dracula?

EDIT: NVM

[Sin Studly]

As far as I know. I was under the impression Tepes was a title meaning "the impaler".

[the_GoDdEsS]

I've read about the Order of the Dragon or some stuff like that.

http://www.donlinke.com/drakula/vlad.htm#Name

There you go. Explained nicely.

[voodoomagik]

Bram Stoker was inspired by a various set of factors. One of them was a young writer before him, who used the vampire thingy but under a different form. That writer happened to be a struggling medicine student, who committed suicide due to the failure of his book.
Stoker used the popularity of Vlad Tepes, also called Vlad “Dracul”(the devil) (he was called that mainly because his father received the Dragon Order from Austria’s Emperor, but how it was proven afterwards, it was quite a suitable name). Also Stoker made the connection with Transylvania thanks to some hungarian countess*, who used to enjoy taking blood baths (the blood of pure virgin young ladies, mmmmm :p ) considering that that ritual would keep her young.

It is true that Vlad Tepes was cruel but it is just as true that he loved his country. He used to disguise himself and walked among the people, to hear their reactions and see their behavior (pretty much like a hobby). He gathered all the people who use to beg for money although they could work, all the thieves, all garbage of the society and publicly massacred them. His favorite method ? The spear! It is said that he enjoyed those executions and that's how the legends about him drinking blood appeared. That was all Bram Stoker needed.



Vlad Tepes bravely defended his country from the turks, who were petrified by his personality. He came close on assassinating Mahommed the Second, after managing to sneak into his tent during the night, getting past the guards, but the sultan wasn’t there.
Many say that his temperament and his cold judgement were the scars left by the horrible deaths of some members of his family (one of his brothers and his father),who were buried alive.
There are a lot to say on this subject, legends, stories and so on. I’ll write some of them down….maybe later…if somebody cares….

*..... Erszebet Bathory
Bathory- i hate that family.

[Sin Studly]

Tsar Lazaar was badder-assed.

[voodoomagik]

I've read about the Order of the Dragon or some stuff like that.

http://www.donlinke.com/drakula/vlad.htm#Name

There you go. Explained nicely.

Hey, that's good. It’s pretty objective. It's getting harder and harder to find something like that nowadays.

[JoY]

hahahahahaha.

I read "Vlads Tepels", which means "Vlad's nipples" in Dutch. niiiiiice.

[Sin Studly]

Sell the name to a body piercing place.

[HornyPope]

I read "Vlads Tepels", which means "Vlad's nipples" in Dutch. niiiiiice.

They are indeed very niiiiiice.

[JoY]

*strokes your titties*
rarrr.