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* TheBeastmaster: Vlad can bend dogs and wolves to his will, making them lash out at unsuspecting humans or preventing them from feeding on livestock.
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* ChildEater: Many vampires will gladly feast upon infants and children as well as adults.
* TheCorrupter: Vlad takes this role towards the firstborn Tsepesh son each generation, as part of his covenant with the Dark Lord entails that the firstborn son must be willingly corrupted to ensure Vlad's immortality.
* TheCorrupter: Vlad takes this role towards the firstborn Tsepesh son each generation, as part of his covenant with the Dark Lord entails that the firstborn son must be willingly corrupted to ensure Vlad's immortality.
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* WasOnceAMan: All vampires were once human, [[spoiler:the Dark Lord included.]]
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* LesbianVampire: Elisabeth and Zsuzsanna become lovers, though they also enjoy sexual flings with men as well.
* VampiresAreSexGods: Vampires are noted for their attractiveness and can mesmerize their victims into taking part in sexual encounters with them.
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* WouldHurtAChild: Vlad regularly feeds upon infants, and also had his great-nephew, and Arkady's brother, Stefan, killed.
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* WouldHurtAChild: WouldHurtAChild:
** Vlad regularly feeds upon infants, and also had his great-nephew, and Arkady's brother, Stefan,killed.killed.
** Elisabeth has a young girl tortured to death, and she and Zsuzsanna feed upon three children in Transylvania and transform them into vampires.
** Shortly upon her transformation into a vampire, Lucy preys upon a young boy, but is stopped before he can be fully drained.
** Vlad regularly feeds upon infants, and also had his great-nephew, and Arkady's brother, Stefan,
** Elisabeth has a young girl tortured to death, and she and Zsuzsanna feed upon three children in Transylvania and transform them into vampires.
** Shortly upon her transformation into a vampire, Lucy preys upon a young boy, but is stopped before he can be fully drained.
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* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:Arkady]] in ''Lord of the Vampires''.
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* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Zsuzsanna]] in ''Lord of the Vampires''.
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* TheAtoner: Arminius, [[spoiler: aka the Dark One]], sacrificed the souls of innocents in exchange for purchasing immortality, but felt remorse for his actions and attempts to atone for this by mentoring Abraham to stop Vlad.
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* DealWithTheDevil: In the past, Vlad made a pact with {{Satan}} to become a vampire so that he would live eternally.
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* EvilVersusEvil: Vlad and Elisabeth spend much of ''Lord of the Vampires'' in conflict with one another in order to attain possession of the manuscript ''To Him Who Would Become the Eater of Souls'', which would grant them godhood.
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* TheMentor: Arminius functions as this towards Bram throughout the second and third books, instructing him on how to do battle with and destroy Vlad's spawn and to conceal his aura.
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* TheProfessor: Professor Abraham Van Helsing.
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* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler: Stefan is killed half-way through ''Children of the Vampire''.]]
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* OffWithYourHead: The corpses of those killed by vampires must have their heads removed to prevent them returning as a vampire.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: She may drink from the blood of mortals, but Zsuzsanna at least prefers to give her victims a quick death, and is not fond of Vlad's predilection to torture his victims.
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* OffingTheOffspring: [[spoiler:Abraham is forced to kill his son Jan after he is transformed into a vampire by Zsuzsanna.]]
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* PsychicLink: Between Gerda and Zsuzsanna after the latter bites the former. Gerda physical state reflects upon Zsuzsanna, and she speaks as if she is in Zsuzsanna's situation.
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* DepravedBisexual: Elisabeth engages in sexual encounters with men and women alike, while simultaneously bathing in blood.
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* TheVamp: Elisabeth of Bathory, both figuratively and literally.
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* EatsBabies: Vlad regularly feeds upon infants offered up to him as sacrifices in echange for ensuring the village prospers.
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* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler made a pact with the Devil in exchange for becoming a vampire, and has spent centuries feeding on the blood of hundreds, primarily [[EatsBabies infants]].
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* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Mary.
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** UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler made a pact with the Devil in exchange for becoming a vampire, and has spent centuries feeding on the blood of hundreds, primarily [[EatsBabiesinfants]].infants]].
** Countess Elisabeth of Bathory was already a SerialKiller with a bodycount numbering in the hundreds while she was still alive. After she became a vampire, she became even worse.
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** UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler made a pact with the Devil in exchange for becoming a vampire, and has spent centuries feeding on the blood of hundreds, primarily [[EatsBabies
** Countess Elisabeth of Bathory was already a SerialKiller with a bodycount numbering in the hundreds while she was still alive. After she became a vampire, she became even worse.
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* OurVampiresAreDifferent: They aren't harmed by sunlight, they can take a number of different forms, such as wolves and the mist, and they can entrance mortals by looking into their eyes. A vampire also cannot kill another vampire, and to prevent a bitten mortal from returning as a vampire, the body must be decapitated and staked.
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* OffWithYourHead: The corpses of those killed by vampires must have their heads removed to prevent them returning as a vampire.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: They aren'tharmed killed by sunlight, merely weakened, they can take a number of different forms, such as wolves and the mist, and they can entrance mortals by looking into their eyes. A vampire also cannot kill another vampire, and to prevent a bitten mortal from returning as a vampire, the body must be decapitated and staked.staked.
* SerialKiller: Elisabeth of Bathory is said to have tortured and murdered over 600 virgins in her lifetime, and that figure has increased tenfold since her transformation into a vampire.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: They aren't
* SerialKiller: Elisabeth of Bathory is said to have tortured and murdered over 600 virgins in her lifetime, and that figure has increased tenfold since her transformation into a vampire.
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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Zsuzsanna continues to hold some affection for her brother Arkady even as she plots against him with Vlad, [[spoiler: and she breaks down in tears upon his death.]]
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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Zsuzsanna continues to hold some affection for her brother Arkady even as she plots against him with Vlad, [[spoiler: and she breaks down in tears upon his death.]]]] She also cares for her maid, Dunya, and transforms her into a vampire to spare her from death.
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* VampireHunter: Abraham Van Helsing spends over two decades wiping out Vlad's spawn, strengthening himself while at the same time weakening Vlad.
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* DeathOfAChild: In ''Children of the Vampire'', Abraham comes across the body of a young girl recently bitten by a vampire, and is forced to kill her as she rises from the grave as a newly-transformed vampire.
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* HolyBurnsEvil: Vampires are kept at bay by religious items.
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* UndeadChild: Abraham's son Jan becomes this in ''Children of the Vampire'' after being bitten by Zsuzsanna.
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* AntagonistInMourning: Zsuszanna weeps upon the death of [[spoiler: her brother Arkady]] at the hands of Vlad.
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** Arkady's son, Stefan, is named after his deceased brother. [[spoiler:However, his name was changed to Abraham by Mary to protect him from Vlad, while his half-brother adopted the name in his stead]].
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Zsuzsanna continues to hold some affection for her brother Arkady even as she plots against him with Vlad, [[spoiler: and she breaks down in tears upon his death.]]
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* GhostTown: The Transylvanian village becomes this in ''Children of the Vampire'' as a result of the villagers fleeing for fear of being preyed upon by Dracula.
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* WouldHurtAChild: Vlad regularly feeds upon infants, and also had his great-nephew, and Arkady's brother, Stefan, killed.
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* WouldHurtAChild: Vlad regularly feeds upon infants, and also had his great-nephew, and Arkady's brother, Stefan, killed.killed.
* YourCheatingHeart: Stefan has a romantic affair with his brother Abraham's wife, Gerda.
* YourCheatingHeart: Stefan has a romantic affair with his brother Abraham's wife, Gerda.
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* DeadGuyJunior:
** Arkady's son, Stefan, is named after his deceased brother.
** Similarly, Abraham's son Jan is named after his father.
** Arkady's son, Stefan, is named after his deceased brother.
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* DrivenToMadness: This is the fate that tends to befall members of the Tsepesh household as a result of Vlad's influence.
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* MindControl: Vampires can bend the minds of mortals to their whim, though there is a limit to how many people they can control at a time. Vlad uses this ability to control the minds of his family members, particularly Arkady and Zsuzsanna, but loses his control over them [[spoiler: after turning them into vampires.]]
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* EatsBabies: Vlad has the Transylvanian infants offered up to him as sacrifices in exchange for ensuring that the village prospers.
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* EatsBabies: Vlad has the Transylvanian regularly feeds upon infants offered up to him as sacrifices in exchange echange for ensuring that the village prospers.
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* VillainousIncest: Between Vlad and Zsuzsanna.Zsuzsanna.
* WouldHurtAChild: Vlad regularly feeds upon infants, and also had his great-nephew, and Arkady's brother, Stefan, killed.
* WouldHurtAChild: Vlad regularly feeds upon infants, and also had his great-nephew, and Arkady's brother, Stefan, killed.
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* StrongerWithAge: Vlad, being centuries old, proves more powerful than the recently-transformed [[spoiler: Arkady]].
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* ILoveTheDead: One of Vlad's servants, Laszlo, is shown having his way with the corpse of one of Vlad's most recent victims.
* StrongerWithAge: Vlad, being centuries old, proves more powerful than the recently-transformed [[spoiler:Arkady]].Arkady]].
* VillainousIncest: Between Vlad and Zsuzsanna.
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* AffectionateNickname: Zsuzsanna refers to Arkady as "Kasha".
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* AristocratsAreEvil: Prince Vlad Tsepesh and Countess Elisabeth of Bathory.
* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: Dracula is UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler.
* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: Dracula is UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler.
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* TheEvilPrince: Prince Vlad Tsepesh.
* EvilUncle: Vlad, toArkady.Arkady.
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* StrongerWithAge: Vlad, being centuries old, proves more powerful than the recently-transformed [[spoiler: Arkady]].
* EvilUncle: Vlad, to
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* StrongerWithAge: Vlad, being centuries old, proves more powerful than the recently-transformed [[spoiler: Arkady]].
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* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: ''Covenant'' ends with [[spoiler: Arkady being transformed into a vampire by Vlad]].
* CreepyUncle: Vlad engages in an incestuous relationship with his great-niece, Zsuzsanna.
* CreepyUncle: Vlad engages in an incestuous relationship with his great-niece, Zsuzsanna.
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# ''Lord of the Vampires''Vampires''
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* DealWithTheDevil: In the past, Vlad made a pact with {{Satan}} to become a vampire so that he would live eternally.
* EatsBabies: Vlad has the Transylvanian infants offered up to him as sacrifices in exchange for ensuring that the village prospers.
* EvilUncle: Vlad.
* EvilOldFolks: Vlad has been around for centuries, and hasn't grown softer with age.
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!!This series provides examples of:
* DealWithTheDevil: In the past, Vlad made a pact with {{Satan}} to become a vampire so that he would live eternally.
* EatsBabies: Vlad has the Transylvanian infants offered up to him as sacrifices in exchange for ensuring that the village prospers.
* EvilUncle: Vlad.
* EvilOldFolks: Vlad has been around for centuries, and hasn't grown softer with age.
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''The Diaries of the Family Dracul'' is a vampire trilogy by Jeanne Kalogridis that serves as a prequel to Creator/BramStoker's ''Literature/{{Dracula}}''.
The series centers around the titular family, the Tsepesh clan, of which Prince Vlad Tsepesh, who in truth is {{Dracula}}, is the head of. The story focuses on Dracula's great-nephew, Arkady, and his attempts to destroy Dracula and free his family from their centuries-old enslavement. Like ''Dracula'', the books are written in diary form.
The books in the trilogy are:
1. ''Covenant with the Vampire''
2. ''Children of the Vampire''
3. ''Lord of the Vampires''
The series centers around the titular family, the Tsepesh clan, of which Prince Vlad Tsepesh, who in truth is {{Dracula}}, is the head of. The story focuses on Dracula's great-nephew, Arkady, and his attempts to destroy Dracula and free his family from their centuries-old enslavement. Like ''Dracula'', the books are written in diary form.
The books in the trilogy are:
1. ''Covenant with the Vampire''
2. ''Children of the Vampire''
3. ''Lord of the Vampires''
