When Vlad was born his father gave him a necklace with the 'order of the dragon' emblem on it which made him a member of a bizarre cult. Their aspiration was to wipe out all Turks of the land but in revolt, the Turks would raid Dracul's castle for gold. This war and ethnic cleansing was the start of Dracula's brutal upbringing. To prevent further burglaries, Dracul turned his son over to the Turks as a slave. Dracula escaped the imprisonment with his brother, whom was killed along the way. When he returned home alone he took his father's throne and ruled peacefully until 1460.
On Easter Sunday that tear he sent his henchmen to capture an innocent family whom who had been related to the people who killed his father. He ordered them to build an immense Castle using extremely heavy stones. He locked them in a cell when they weren't working and gave them no food or drink. When they had finished building Castle Dracula, he drove a stake through their bodies and watched them die in revelation whilst their blood stained the new flooring. That evening whilst eating dinner, he dipped his bread in a cup of their blood and it was here that his infatuation with torture arose.
The tower of the castle Dracula in the picture is the one Dracula would observe from with great satisfaction as he watched his victims below as they were tortured and impaled. Soon feared as a barbaric ruler, people in the city respected and feared him. Legend says that in the courtyard, Dracula would place a gold chalice with no fences or danger signs round it to promote that it could be easily stolen. However, Dracula was so feared that none of the masses of beggars would dare try to take it for they new they may face impalement or worse.
Dracula was a cruel, bloodthirsty killer. He would regularly take mother and babies and drive a razor sharp blade through the mother's breast and then do the same to their baby and watch as they lay dying. The only time he showed curious mercy was when two traders came to the castle. At dinner, he sent for a spear and informed the two of their looming death. One man said that if he had done anything to upset Dracula, he would rather commit suicide whilst the other begged for forgiveness. The man begging was impaled, but the other was rewarded with gifts and colossal amounts of gold.
An ancient pamphlet listed some of the ways Dracula tortured people: He impaled them, roasted them and hacked them into pieces like cabbage. He skinned them alive and boiled their heads in a kettle. The worst is that he roasted children and made their mothers eat them. Although, in the book Dracula send wolves to do his killing rather than directly.
Despite this, Dracula was married to two women and had a child with one.
Thankfully, Dracula died in his late 40's in 1476. His grave however, is not found even though many have searched for it. However, the likely-hood that he is buried in a secret tomb rather than still alive is stronger.
Although Bram Stokers Dracula is scary enough for some people, the true man of the legend is far more gruesome and terrific.
