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Vlad Paripasu is regarded as the patron saint of cunning, rent extraction and of [[Management consultancy|management consultancy]]. | Vlad Paripasu is regarded as the patron saint of cunning, rent extraction and of [[Management consultancy|management consultancy]]. | ||
===Backstory=== | ===Backstory=== | ||
{{drop|V|lad was born}} in Bistrița in the high Carpathians, the bastard son of King [[Mutandis Mutandis]] of Carpathia. | |||
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It is said [[Lacuna]], the “Dark” Queen of Carpathia, tried to have him drowned in a coracle accident on the Black Sea, but the infant Paripasu survived being raised by a bale of terrapins, earning him the nickname the “Turtle Count”. There is no contemporaneous historical evidence to corroborate a trip to the Black Sea, but Paripasu’s fear of and enmity towards women in positions of executive power is well documented — he would go on to found the ''[[Society of Pale Old Men]]'' later in life. | It is said [[Lacuna]], the “Dark” Queen of Carpathia, tried to have him drowned in a coracle accident on the Black Sea, but the infant Paripasu survived being raised by a bale of terrapins, earning him the nickname the “Turtle Count”. There is no contemporaneous historical evidence to corroborate a trip to the Black Sea, but Paripasu’s fear of and enmity towards women in positions of executive power is well documented — he would go on to found the ''[[Society of Pale Old Men]]'' later in life. | ||