((OOC:l<a class="postlink-local" href="https://creativefreedomrpg.com/viewtopic.php?f=18&amp;t=6151">viewtopic.php?f=18&amp;t=6151</a>l))<br/><br/><br/><br/>Dual Cities (IC- Always open)<br/><br/>Many a year ago, there were many people that were very fearful. There had been many rapes and drained bodies. A certain group of people enjoyed drinking blood. It was of the blood line of Vlad III, The Count Dracula which meant the son of the dragon, which referred to his father, Vlad II who reigned the 1400's. Vlad II was given the title of Dragon when he was inducted into the Order of the Dragon. That is how Vlad III got his name of Dracula. Altho he did have 2 other brothers, they did not have the title Dracula. The House of DrÄƒculeÈ™ti was one of two rival lines in Romainia, the other one being House of DÄƒneÅŸti. Since it was the House of DrÄƒculeÈ™ti  and more specifically Vlad III, let us continue our story.<br/><br/>Vlad II had a wife who no one knew her name of but she did bore him an heir to the House of  DrÄƒculeÈ™ti  and the son's name was Mircea. The next son was born to one of his mistresses, a Wallachian noblewoman called CÄƒlÅ£una.  and was named Vlad CÄƒlugÄƒrul.<br/>Vlad Å¢epeÅŸ and Radu were both sons by his marriage with Princess (Cneajna) Vasilissa . Of course there were other children of Vlad III but they are not of any importance. It is Vlad Tepes that we are concerned with.<br/><br/>Vlad Tepes grew up and was a very rebellious and defiant child of which his father punished him frequently for. His father whipped him, beaten him and imprisoned him.  He did grow up and taught a great many things from languages to horsemanship to warfare.<br/>Vlad's first wife was Jusztina Szilagyi of Moldavia, with whom he had two sons: Mihnea I "the Bad" (Mihnea I cel RÄƒu) and Mihail. Jusztina threw herself out of a tower window so she didn't be lead into captivity of Turks. She was heard to say that she would rather rot and be eaten by the fish below just before she threw herself out of the window. All of these things must have weighed heavily on both boys.<br/><br/>Once Vlad Tepes became a man, he was to be known as Vlad III. Vlad III was a man to be feared to the utmost. While during his reign the crime was very low and he even left a pure golden goblet at the village's well, he was feared for he loved to put his enemies on the spikes in his garden where they bled to death. Their blood was collected below their writhing bodies as the Duke Vlad III and his second wife, Ilona SzilÃ¡gyi of Wallachia . Thus was born the drinking of the blood.<br/><br/>As the years passed, the descendents of Vlad Tepes' sons, Vlad ÈšepeluÈ™ and Mihnea I "the Bad", are ancestors of Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain. Mary of Teck, descendant of Vlad the Impaler, joined the British Royal Family in 1893 upon her marriage to HRH Prince George, Duke of York, who became King George V in 1910. In October 2011, Prince Charles publicly claimed that genealogy proves that he is a distant relative of Vlad the Impaler. The claim accompanied his announcement of a pledge to help conserve the forested areas of Transylvania.<br/><br/><br/>More time has passed......the descendants have had genetic mutations and the thirst of blood. They must find blood of humans some how and not many people were willing to give up their life to feed one of the Draculas. People began to hate then in earnest and were ready to set fire to any of their houses until a group of pacifists took charge of the meeting. They would lead the House of  DrÄƒculeÈ™ti to a cavern some 50 miles away then make the cavern cave in on them. The group didn't want to be seen as murderers so they agreed to the pacifists plan.<br/>The pacifists told the House of  DrÄƒculeÈ™ti of the villagers wanting to murder their clan and they agreed to moved out at night in one week. Each family took what they could put in a covered wagon and left their homes to go into exile. They walked so that the old and the youngest could ride on the benches of the wagons.  As they traveled, the two groups got to know one and another well. It took just over 5 days to get to the caverns where the  House of  DrÄƒculeÈ™ti  were to live. The pacifists and some other people helped them to get their stuff inside the caverns. As they were ooohing and ahhhhhing over the beauty of the caverns and the soft glow of the rocks, the pacifists went out quietly and pulled the main frame causing the collapse of the entrance.<br/><br/>Of course people panic and then resigned themselves to fate and began to make a new life for themselves. The pacifists apologized to them but be pacifists, they could not out right ill them. But they would keep them imprisoned in the caverns. They would send down what food they could and such supplies that they could so that House of  DrÄƒculeÈ™ti  could survive on their own.<br/><br/>Time went on and the pacifists wanted their families with them. So they made homes and got their families and a new town was born. More time has passed and the town grew into a small city and then stopped growing due to the old rumors. The new inhabitants decided to keep the rumors and myths alive and actually promoted them.<br/><br/>More time has passed, more things happened such as additions to the caverns like the vaults to grow mushrooms and truffles in.  Modern time came and upgrading of the caverns began and the security doors invented including a single person turn still to let people in but not out........<br/><br/>The time is now 2050 and is very much like today except the computers are checked instead of paper calendars and books have been replaced by disks that were put in computers.....this is now your time. Are you one of House of  DrÄƒculeÈ™ti, the dreaded vampires of the night or one of the city's upstanding citizen? Sanctuary or City of Paradise?<br/><br/><br/>(( Town maps are here.....m<a class="postlink" href="http://s1088.photobucket.com/albums/i325/TheCreator7/RP%20World/Dual%20Cities/">http://s1088.photobucket.com/albums/i32 ... %20Cities/</a>m))