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The purpose of the Order was to protect Eastern Europe and the Holy Roman Empire from Islamic expansion as embodied in the campaigns of the Ottoman Empire. The hero and the villain may be two-sides of the same coin; heroes are capable of deeds of compassion or of cruelty, of humanity or of inhumanity, of good or of evil. Vlad was forced to march to meet the Turks with the small forces at his disposal, somewhat less than four thousand men.

Out of the 19 episodes there are ten that are almost the same as in the German stories. In Search of Dracula. New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin, 1994.

Against this political and cultural backdrop it is quite easy to understand the hostility towards Vlad Ţepeş. There are also tales about atrocities but even most of them seem to be justified as the actions of a strong one-man ruler.

Vlad then swears that he will live beyond his own death and avenge Elisabeta's unnecessary death with all the powers of darkness, and then drinks some of the blood from a goblet next to the stone crucifix. According to some researchers the writer of the text did little else than mirror the state of mind of the Saxons in Braşov and Sibiu who had borne the brunt of Vlad’s wrath in 1456-1457 and again in 1458-1459 and 1460.

However, he then experiences a premonition in which Elisabeta flings herself out of the window of the castle to her death in the river hundreds of feet below, since the surviving Turks shot an arrow through the castle window, with a letter attached to it falsely informing her of Vlad's death in the battle.

The woman's breasts were cut off, then she was skinned and impaled in a square in Târgovişte with her skin lying on a nearby table. Indeed; By the end of the 15th century, stories about Draculea’s brutality have transcended the borders of the Balkans

There is talk of more than two hundred boyars executed along with their families during Easter 1459, shortly after Vlad regained his father’s throne, as well as many others converted into slaves.

Florescu and McNally explain that the archer was a former servant of Vlad who sent the warning out of loyalty despite having converted to Islam to get out of enslavement by the Turks. Memoirs of a Janissary. Markus Wiener Publishers, 2010. Radu seems to have been also favored by the Turkish Sultan Mehmed II.

From his first marriage, to a Wallachian noble woman, Vlad III apparently had a son, later prince of Wallachia as Mihnea cel Rău (Mihnea the Evil), and another two with his second wife, a relative of Matthias Corvinus of Hungary.

In this tradition, he is the "undying hero who in the moment of need will rise up and save the Romanian nation from destruction."^[3] There is even a strong "law and justice" motif in the stories; he is "a stern but just prince."^[1] His favorite weapon being the stake, coupled with his reputation in his native country as a man who stood up to both foreign and domestic enemies, gives Dracula the virtual opposite symbolism of Bram Stoker's vampire.

Philosophers in the West began to study the phenomenon. Radu, known as Radu cel Frumos (Radu the Handsome), the youngest brother, was also Vlad’s rival as he continuously tried to replace Vlad with the support of the Turks, to which he had very strong connections. With the help of the Turks (where he also had connections) he regained the throne in 1443 and until December 1447 when he was assassinated by means of scalping ("scalping," for the Turks, meant cutting the edges of the face and pulling the face's skin off, while the person was still alive and conscious on the orders of John Hunyadi, regent of Hungary.

It was during this period that French Biblical scholar and Benedictine abbot Dom Augustine Calmet (1672–1757) wrote his famous treatise on vampirism in Hungary. Stoker's novel was merely the culminating work of a long series of works that were inspired by the reports coming from the Balkans and Hungary. Other accounts have Vlad falling in defeat, surrounded by the bodies of his loyal Moldavian bodyguards (the troops loaned by Prince Stephen III of Moldavia remained with Vlad after Stephen Báthory returned to Transylvania).