Talk:Vlad Paripasu

Mythologically, the trickster

• A shapeshifter
• A physical weakling
• Very good at talking - buzzwords
• He is a planner and a plotter
• Untrustworthy
• Corrupt or corruptible - no moral compass
• Quick thinker - can adapt his plans to the unfolding situation+

Banished/exiled from Romania and motivated not by the desire to return but to destroy.

Banishment

Characters who were banished:

• Flying Dutchman
• Lucifer
• Adam and Eve
• Ate, goddess of Mystery

Oleg was the bastard son of King Nosferatu of Carpathia. A gullible and credulous lad, his classmates mocked him for his parentage, and would frequently pick on him. One day the class bully the king's advisers son, Vlad, tricks Oleg into giving up his favorite toy, a handmade catapult. Vlad used the catapult to torment Oleg for many months. The king would not help him get it back, but chided Oleg for his credulity and told him this would teach him a lesson. It certainly did teach him a lesson. He learned that it is better to be a trickster than a gullible person. Oleg resented Vlad, but never forgave his father. Oleg grew to be cunning, and vowed never to be tricked again. He vowed one day to prove himself to his father with his cunning.

That day arrived and he went to trick his own father, the king of Romania, into giving up his crown, even though he was a bastard son, and the crown belonged to his elder half-brother Randolph. Oleg told the King that he had a dream in which he saw a great trickster who would sneak into the kingdom and trick him into giving up the crown.

“How would he sneak in?” asked his father.

“You yourself will unwittingly invite him across the threshold,” said Oleg. “In fact, you may already have done so.”

The King, a gullible man himself, was vexed. He asked Oleg, who had grown into a clever young man, what he should do. “Leave it to me, sire. I will make a plan for you, my father. But it may take some time. While I am working on it, your crown is not safe. You should give it to me to look after so, if this trickster should arrive, he cannot take it from you.

The king, not suspecting anything, gave the crown to Oleg. Oleg off to show his friends, bragging about how clever he was. When his father found out what had happened, he exploded with rage, casting out Oleg from the kingdom and bidding him never to return, on pain of death.

While Oleg was banished, his dream came true: a real trickster, whom the king had welcomed into his, arrived, tricked the king out of his crown, and killing the King, Queen and older brother Randolph. The real trickster was Vlad, the same child who had tricked Oleg as a little boy.