The true story of Count Dracula is not about vampires or anything supernatural: it is simply about such a bloodthirsty and ruthless man whose terribly cruel acts far surpass the fiction of the movies.
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Vlad Tepes III was born in 1413 in the historical region of Transylvania, he was prince of Wallachia and a great fighter against Ottoman expansionism. He was nicknamed by his enemies as "Vlad the Impaler" and the writer Bram Stoker was inspired by this prince to create the famous character of Count Dracula that we have known until now.
His father, Count Dracul (Old Romanian for "Dragon"), handed over two of his sons, Vlad and Radu, to the Turkish armies as a guarantee of their submission to the Sultan. So the prince's childhood was marked by death, murder, abuse and torture. It is said that it was here that he learned the technique of impalement, a practice that would make him famous a few years later.
History tells us that Vlad became Prince of Wallachia thanks to the support of the Turkish armies, from there he became one of the most feared princes of the time, his enemies and anyone who did not comply with what the prince stipulated, they died in one of the slowest and most painful ways there could be: impaled.
Some legends say that he massacred between 40,000 and 100,000 people. He was relentless, in cities where they did not accept him as their new Prince, he proceeded to impale men, women and children alike. He always did this with large numbers of people, configuring macabre "forests of impalements" that chilled the blood of his enemies (and we imagine also his allies, of course).