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| Now ruling his domains in peace, Vlad and his soldiers discover a helmet in a stream and fear that an Ottoman scouting party is preparing for an invasion. The stream leads to Broken Tooth Mountain, the top of which has a cave carpeted in crushed bone. Within the cave, they are attacked by a humanoid creature that kills Vlad's [[retinue]]. Vlad barely escapes and returns to his castle, where he learns from Brother Lucian, a local [[monk]], that the creature is a [[vampire]]; once a Roman general from the [[Roman Empire]] named Caligula, who was tricked by a demon for power, but was trapped in the cave as the price for this. Vlad celebrates an [[Easter]] feast with his wife Mirena and son Ingeras as an Ottoman contingent arrives at the castle, but the emissary wants a tribute of boys to be trained as Janissaries for Sultan [[Mehmed the Conqueror|Mehmed II]], including Vlad's son. | Now ruling his domains in peace, Vlad and his soldiers discover a helmet in a stream and fear that an Ottoman scouting party is preparing for an invasion. The stream leads to Broken Tooth Mountain, the top of which has a cave carpeted in crushed bone. Within the cave, they are attacked by a humanoid creature that kills Vlad's [[retinue]]. Vlad barely escapes and returns to his castle, where he learns from Brother Lucian, a local [[monk]], that the creature is a [[vampire]]; once a Roman general from the [[Roman Empire]] named Caligula, who was tricked by a demon for power, but was trapped in the cave as the price for this. Vlad celebrates an [[Easter]] feast with his wife Mirena and son Ingeras as an Ottoman contingent arrives at the castle, but the emissary wants a tribute of boys to be trained as Janissaries for Sultan [[Mehmed the Conqueror|Mehmed II]], including Vlad's son. |
| Desperate, Vlad returns to Broken Tooth Mountain to seek help from the Master Vampire. The creature offers him his blood, which will temporarily give Vlad the powers of a vampire. If he resists the intense urge to drink human blood for three days, he will turn back into a human; otherwise, he will remain a vampire forever, and the ancient vampire will be freed. Vlad accepted the offer and was given supernatural abilities, as well as the ability to transform into a cloud of bats. When he returns to the castle, the Ottoman army attacks, but Vlad single-handedly kills them all. He then sends most of the castle's subjects to [[Cozia Monastery]] for safety. | Desperate, Vlad returns to Broken Tooth Mountain to seek help from the Master Vampire. The creature offers him his blood, which will temporarily give Vlad the powers of a vampire. If he resists the intense urge to drink human blood for three days, he will turn back into a human; otherwise, he will remain a vampire forever, and the ancient vampire will be freed. Vlad accepts the offer and is given supernatural abilities, as well as the ability to transform into a cloud of bats. When he returns to the castle, the Ottoman army attacks, but Vlad single-handedly kills them all. He then sends most of the castle's subjects to [[Cozia Monastery]] for safety. |
| That night, the [[Ottoman army]] marches on the monastery. Vlad commands an enormous swarm of bats to repel them; however, the soldiers are actually a decoy force, allowing a handful of Turks to infiltrate the monastery, kill many of the inhabitants, and kidnap Ingeras. Mirena tries to defend her son and falls from the edge of the monastery wall. Despite his superhuman speed, Vlad cannot reach her in time. Dying, Mirena pleads with Vlad to drink her blood before the sun rises and lifts his curse so that he will have the strength to save their son. Vlad reluctantly drinks her blood, triggering his final transformation into a full-blooded vampire and granting him even greater powers, and in doing so, frees the Master Vampire from his cave by breaking the magical seal imprisoning him. Vlad returns to the monastery and turns the survivors into vampires before he conjures black storm clouds to block out the sun. | That night, the [[Ottoman army]] marches on the monastery. Vlad commands an enormous swarm of bats to repel them; however, the soldiers are actually a decoy force, allowing a handful of Turks to infiltrate the monastery, kill many of the inhabitants, and kidnap Ingeras. Mirena tries to defend her son and falls from the edge of the monastery wall. Despite his superhuman speed, Vlad cannot reach her in time. Dying, Mirena pleads with Vlad to drink her blood before the sun rises and lifts his curse so that he will have the strength to save their son. Vlad reluctantly drinks her blood, triggering his final transformation into a full-blooded vampire and granting him even greater powers, and in doing so, frees the Master Vampire from his cave by breaking the magical seal imprisoning him. Vlad returns to the monastery and turns the survivors into vampires before he conjures black storm clouds to block out the sun. |
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