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===Backstory=== | ===Backstory=== | ||
<div class="indent">Vlad was born in Bistrița in the high Carpathians, the bastard son of King [[Mutandis Mutandis]] of Carpathia. | <div class="indent">Vlad was born in Bistrița in the high Carpathians, the bastard son of King [[Mutandis Mutandis]] of Carpathia. | ||
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. | |||
A sickly but intelligent child, Vlad learned to speak and read before he was a year old. From this time he was susceptible to bad dreams. He would recount them to his mother, a serving wench, who dismissed them as the product of an over-active imagination, but they had a habit of coming true. The King found this out, and took the boy into his court (over the fierce protestations of the Queen, who always hated him. | A sickly but intelligent child, Vlad learned to speak and read before he was a year old. From this time he was susceptible to bad dreams. He would recount them to his mother, a serving wench, who dismissed them as the product of an over-active imagination, but they had a habit of coming true. The King found this out, and took the boy into his court (over the fierce protestations of the Queen, who always hated him. | ||