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Real Name: Vlad Dracula
Occupation: Former prince of Transylvania and Wallachia, former ruler of Earth’s vampires
Legal Status: Former prince of Transylvania and Wallachia, deceased
Identity: The general populace of Earth believes Dracula died centuries ago.
Place of Birth: Schassburg, Transylvania, (now Sighisoara, Romania).
Marital Status: Widowed three times
Known Relatives: Vlad Dracul (father), Mircea and Radu (brothers), Zofia and Maria (wives), Lilith (daughter), VIad Tepelus (son) (all deceased), Domini (wife), Janus (son), Frank Drake (descendant).
Base of Operations: Castle Dracula, Transylvania
Past Group Affiliations: Ruler of Earth’s vampires.
Known Powers:
Resistances: Dracula ignores most physical attacks but not Stuns and Slams. He has Excellent regenerative abilities.
Transformation: Dracula can transform himself into the following:
- A mist-like cloud which allows him passage through tight spaces and Feeble Flight.
- A bat, having bite attacks (Good damage) and Typical Flight.
- A wolf, having the abilities to bite (Remarkable damage), move at 3 areas, and use Monstrous Intuition.
- A man-sized bat capable of flying at 4 areas/round, with claw and biting attacks for Excellent damage.
Vampire Bite: Dracula’s bite inflicts Typical damage each turn. If the victim is not slain, he or she remains weak (-1cs on all FEATs) until a weekly Endurance FEAT is made, and subject to Dracula’s telepathic commands.
Vampiric Limitations:
A number of attack forms and weaknesses inflict damage to a vampire:
- Blood Dependency — Deprivation of blood results in weakness (-1cs on all stats every two days) and an overwhelming desire for blood. Upon seeing blood, a vampire failing a Psyche FEAT roll automatically attacks.
- Direct Sunlight — The rays of the sun or attacks which duplicate solar radiation cause Amazing dam age to vampires. If reduced to 0 Health, a vampire turns to powder.
- Religious Objects
- Mirrors — A vampire must make a Psyche FEAT roll to avoid smashing a mirror.
- Houses — Vampires are bound from entering a dwelling unless freely invited.
- Silver — Silver weaponry can inflict normal damage on a vampire.
- Wood — A wood stake or blade produces an automatic “kill” against a vampire on a red result.
- Permanent Destruction — Three methods of slaying a vampire are known to “kill” it forever: exposure to sunlight; piercing the vampire’s heart, beheading, burning, then scattering the ashes; or using the Montesi Formula.
Talents:
Dracula is a trained swordsman and has Martial Arts A and B. He possesses both the Occult Lore and Mystic Background Talents.
Contacts:
None
Role-Playing Notes:
Dracula was the ultimate embodiment of the evil of mankind. Although not averse to confrontation, he is not stupid and knows when to run to fight another night.
History:
Vlad Dracula was born in 1430 as the second son of Transylvanian nobleman VIad Dracul in the town of Schassburg, Transylvania. Eventually, after years of battling with the Ottoman Turks, he became the prince of Wallachia. Between 1451 and 1456 Dracula married Zofia, a Hungarian noblewoman. The marriage was short-lived but produced a daughter, Lilith. A second marriage in 1456 to Maria produced a son, VIad Tepelus.
In 1459 Dracula was defeated in battle by the Turkish warlord Turac. On learning that Turkish soldiers had raped Maria, Dracula attacked Turac, who mortally wounded him. Turac brought Dracula to the gypsy Lianda to be healed. Lianda, however, was a vampiress, who killed Dracula with her bite, causing him to rise as a vampire himself. When Turac killed Maria, Dracula then killed Turac (who also became a vampire as a result). Dracula later defeated the vampire Nimrod in battle, thereby succeeding him as ruler of Earth’s vampires. Soon after, Dracula enhanced his own blood with that of Varnae, the sole survivor of the first group of vampires to exist on Earth, who were turned into vampires by pre-Cataclysmic Atlantean sorcerers using the Darkhold, a primeval book of black magic. This step gave Dracula greater powers than any other vampire.
In 1606 Dracula moved to the current Castle Dracula and began his series of long journeys, during which he encountered the sorcerer Cagliostro. During Dracula’s absence, a number of noblemen, including Baron Russoff, took over his land. In retaliation, Dracula murdered Rusoff’s wife Louisa.
Dracula’s principal opponent in the nineteenth century was Abraham Van Helsing. Between 1875 and 1890, Dracula was killed by a barrage of silver buckshot fired by an American. Dracula was resurrected years later, but the many minute particles of silver remaining in his body caused him to age rapidly; ingesting enough blood restored him to his usual physical age and appearance.
In 1890, through Jonathan Harker, Dracula bought Carfax Abbey in England. Abraham van Helsing pursued Dracula back to Transylvania, where van Helsing brought about his destruction. Letters and journal entries by Van Helsing and people connected with him concerning Dracula’s foray into England were collected by Bram Stoker and published in 1897 as the book Dracula - which is mistakenly believed to be a work of fiction. Dracula was eventually resurrected yet again.
Quincy Harker (Jonathan’s son) died in his final clash with Dracula, during which Harker succeeded in killing the vampire. However, Dracula was soon revived once more. Dracula eventually took his revenge on Rachel van Helsing (Quincy’s daughter), transforming her into a vampire. On her own request, van Helsing was killed by the X-Man Wolverine to free her from existence as a vampire.
Finally, the modern-day cult of Darkholders eliminated all of Dracula’s vulnerabilities except one: The - Montesi Formula. Through the magic of the Darkhold, people were first transformed into vampires, and a mystical formula in it, the Montesi Formula, could be used to destroy all of Earth’s vampires forever. Through this, Dr. Strange and his allies completely obliterated Dracula from the mortal plane.
Due to Strange’s use of the Montesi Formula, no vampire can exist in Earth’s dimension, not even a vampire brought to this dimension from another one. Presumably Dracula and other vampires can only be successfully resurrected on Earth through the magic of the Darkhold. a book now possessed by the alien sorcerer Urthona.
While in the possession of Urthona, Dr. Strange destroyed the Darkhold. There seems therefore to be no method of releasing vampires into the Earth dimension.