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 rather gullible little boy, the children mocked him for his parentage, and would trick him. One day he was tricked by a merchant’s son, Vlad, into giving up his favorite golden catapult. Vlad then used the catapult to torment Oleg for many months. The king would not help him get it back, but chided Oleg 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 very worried and asked Oleg, whom he knew to be a very clever child, what he should do. I will formulate a plan, for you my father. this may take some time. While I am doing this, your crown is not safe. You should give it to me to look after so, if this trickster should arrive, he cannot get it.

The king thinks this is a very good idea and agrees.

The king, not suspecting anything, gave the crown to Oleg. Oleg was very pleased with himself and ran off to show his friends. However, when his father found out what had happened, he was very angry. He banished Oleg from the kingdom and told him never to return.

Meanwhile, while Oleg was banished, his dream came true: a real trickster, whom the king had welcomed into the Kingdom, arrived, tricked the king out of his crown, and killed the king and queen. The real trickster was Vlad, the same child who had tricked Oleg as a little boy.