#draculaex

   ( Ω ]--; His father. The face of one he barely knew, let alone could remember. For much of his boyhood, from when he was five to perhaps twelve, was spent in Constantinople as a page under Emperor Constantine XI Palaiologos--of which were the fondest years of his boyhood aside from those spent living alongside his two brothers despite his younger's eventual betrayal. Vlad II Dracul--a man he knew only for blindness in one eye and the inhospitable hatred he felt for the man who had relinquished his sons as though they were mere chattel to be traded. Perhaps that was to be expected of a man born of an illegitimate affair. There was a derisive snort as the Nosferatu swept away the retinue of thought.