Death according to Lazarus...

I just watched an amazing documentary on Vlad Tzepes, the real man behind the myth of the Vampire.

"Bram Stoker penned his immortal classic, _Dracula_, basing his vampire on an actual historical figure. Stoker's model was Vlad IV Dracula, call Tzepes, pronounced tse-pesh; a fifteenth century viovode or prince of Wallachia of the princely House of Basarab. Wallachia is a provence of Romania bordered to the north by Transylvania and Moldavia, to the east by the Black Sea and to the south by Bulgaria. Wallachia first emerged as a political entity during the late thirteenth centuryfrom the weltering confusion left behind in the Balkans as the East Roman Empire slowly crumbled. The first prince of Wallachia was Basarab the Great (1310-1352), an ancestor of Dracula. Despite the splintering of the family into two rival, clans some members of the House of Basarab continued to govern Wallachia from that time until well after the Ottomans battered the principality down to the status of a client state. Dracula was the last prince of Wallachia to retain any real measure of independence and rulership."

Tzepes was also known as Vlad the impaler.

What a cool trip this would be.