> While the vampire connotations are indeed mostly fabricated, I was specifically talking about the connection to Bram Stoker's Dracula - Vlad was a real perso

> While the vampire connotations are indeed mostly fabricated, I was specifically talking about the connection to Bram Stoker's Dracula - Vlad was a real person, (with a bloody history) just as whoever built this English wall they found was/were (presumably minus a few gory tales), but that doesn't mean Stoker knew anything about him.