Topic: Chaos And Dracula

[X]

This is why I like Mathias, he is no Griffith, but unlike Vlad, he wasn't born into nobility waiting to inherit a throne. He was a human who has acquired god-like powers through his own means.

Dracula in the Bram Stoker novel also obtain powers through his own means after losing his wife to suicide. And if I'm not mistaken Mathias would have had to be born of some form of nobility or high ranking social status in order to acquire the position that he was in LoI. No commander of an army during that time period was going to hire a lower class man with no battle experience to become his most trusted tactician during one of history's most bloodiest wars.

[Nagumo]

Dracula in the Bram Stoker novel also obtain powers through his own means after losing his wife to suicide. And if I'm not mistaken Mathias would have had to be born of some form of nobility or high ranking social status in order to acquire the position that he was in LoI. No commander of an army during that time period was going to hire a lower class man with no battle experience to become his most trusted tactician during one of history's most bloodiest wars.

He was already a count during the time of LoI.

[Shinobi]

Dracula in the Bram Stoker novel also obtain powers through his own means after losing his wife to suicide. And if I'm not mistaken Mathias would have had to be born of some form of nobility or high ranking social status in order to acquire the position that he was in LoI. No commander of an army during that time period was going to hire a lower class man with no battle experience to become his most trusted tactician during one of history's most bloodiest wars.

I thought Dracula loosing his wife that drives him to become a vampire was only brought up in Coppola's 1992 movie adaptation, correct me if I'm wrong.

[Nagumo]

I thought Dracula loosing his wife that drives him to become a vampire was only brought up in Coppola's 1992 movie adaptation, correct me if I'm wrong.

That's right. And contrary to what many people say, Dracula isn't Vlad Tepes in the original novel, but rather a descendant

[zangetsu468]

Dracula in the Bram Stoker novel also obtain powers through his own means after losing his wife to suicide. And if I'm not mistaken Mathias would have had to be born of some form of nobility or high ranking social status in order to acquire the position that he was in LoI. No commander of an army during that time period was going to hire a lower class man with no battle experience to become his most trusted tactician during one of history's most bloodiest wars.

He was already a count during the time of LoI.

Be that as it may, there's still a large gap between a Count and a King.

I thought Dracula loosing his wife that drives him to become a vampire was only brought up in Coppola's 1992 movie adaptation, correct me if I'm wrong.

I don't specifically recall this brought up in the novel either.

[theplottwist]

I'm going to be contrarian and offer my own interpretation of the Dracula-Chaos relationship.

I don't think that's being contrarian at all. It even uses the power of Dominance to challenge Soma's, as if it were wrestling the control from him. The rotating thing being the evil will of Dracula makes perfect sense.

[Guy Belmont]

That's right. And contrary to what many people say, Dracula isn't Vlad Tepes in the original novel, but rather a descendant

Right it in fact does say this

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Who was it but one of my own race who as Voivode crossed the Danube and beat the Turk on his own ground? This was a Dracula indeed! Woe was it that his own unworthy brother, when he had fallen, sold his people to the Turk and brought the shame of slavery on them! Was it not this Dracula, indeed, who inspired that other of his race who in a later age again and again brought his forces over the great river into Turkey-land; who, when he was beaten back, came again, and again, though he had to come alone from the bloody field where his troops were being slaughtered, since he knew that he alone could ultimately triumph! (Chapter 3, pp. 19)

So this Lead one to think that it is his own race so it could be an ancestor. how ever then this is said

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He must, indeed, have been that Voivode Dracula who won his name against the Turk, over the great river on the very frontier of Turkey-land. (Chapter 18, pp. 145)

Then in  Chapter 25 Both Mina and van helsing both talk about if the count was the same person that battled the turks, or it was one of his one of his race, that again could be an ancestor.

Its also worth  noting that to stoker came across the name Dracula, when he was look at Romanian history, and picked this name the F******  bad name  Count Wampyr. Also there was never in talk of Vlad III in his notes on the book.

So what i take from this is that, he wanted to the keep Count Dracula separate from Vlad III. But at the same time keep some mystery. So i have to say that i always saw him as the same, but its one of thsoe things thats never been confirmed.