VLAD TEPES
"Draculea" (aka Count Dracula)
Type: Vampyre Solitaire
Born: 1431, turned 1476
STR 9 INT 3
DEX 6 PER 4
CON 7 WIL 4
Life Points: 89
Endurance: -
Speed: 32
Essence: 203
Qualities: Age (569 years old, 5 levels), Hard to Kill +5, Increased Essence Pool +150, Nerves of Steel, Resources (Rich, 4 levels)
Drawbacks: Honorable -1, Covetous (Ambition) 2, Cruel -2, Attractiveness -1, Delusion (Prejudice vs. Muslims) -3; also Secret -2 and Adversary -3 because of the age quality.
Skills: Acting 3, Brawling 6, Bureaucracy 2, Climbing 4, Disguise 3, Handweapon (Sword 6, Bow 5, Lance 5, Whip 3), Humanities (History 3, Theology 3), Intimidation 4, , Occult Knowledge (Vampyres) 6, Riding (Horse) 4, Questioning 3, Smooth Talking 3, Stealth 5, Swimming 2, Tracking 3.
Language: Rumanian (Native) 5, English 2, French 2, German 2, Italian 2, Latin 3, Hungarian 2, Old Church Slavonic 3, Turkish 4
Metaphysics: Vampyre quality, Bloodthirst drawback, Greater Shifting (Wolf), Greater Shifting (Bat), Manipulate Emotions, Mirage.
History: Vlad Tepes was the son of Vlad Dracul, Prince of Wallachia. He spent his childhood as a hostage in the Turkish court with his brother Radu. At age fourteen he fled to Moldavia, and by the time he was twenty-five, he was made prince of Wallachia by Matthias I of Hungary. He was a cruel leader and a fierce warrior. He earned the nickname Vlad the Impaler after his favorite method of execution. The people also called him "Draculea," the Son of the Dragon. The name has been corrupted to Dracula, the epitaph by which he is more commonly known. He fought a fierce campaign against the Turks, but he also managed to get on the bad side of a lot of people. In 1476 his headless body was found in a marsh after one of his battles. Vampyres are created when the soul refuses to move on, and Draculea's thirst for revenge against his murderers and his lust for the destruction of the Turks was enough to keep him from passing on. Then again, some say he was schooled at the Scholamance and had planned to become a vampyre all along. Either way, he became a nosferatu, one of the undead. He found his murderers and brutally tortured them to death.
He's spent the last four hundred years basically doing the same thing, making enemies and then killing them in slow and horrible ways. For the past two centuries he has spent his time wandering the world. He has his necessary comforts though. He always has three vampyre "brides" with him. He always has an entourage of human gypsy servants (though in a modern campaign, they are more like Travelers in rusty campers instead of traditional Romany in painted wagons). He says he wants to rule again, but what he really wants to do is destroy. All these centuries of fighting and he has still not grown tired of battle.
Draculea also has a really low opinion of most other vampyres. He's just as likely to kill them before the local Sentinels or Storm Dragons get a chance.
In appearance Dracula looks about thirty years old, is 5"8", and weighs 165lbs. He has long black hair and a mustache, an aquiline nose, and green eyes. Contrary to popular culture, he never wears an opera cape. He does carry a dragon medallion with him at all times, the symbol of the Societas Draconistrarum or Ordinul Dragonului (Order of the Dragon). Since vampyres are capable of manipulating their own flesh, Dracula usually alters his appearance to a taller more handsome version of himself. In this form he appears 6 tall and has an appearance modifier of +4.







