Prince Basarab of Wallachia - ThomasK

Player: ThomasK
Faction: Orthodox, Rus
Email: basarab@crusade.chaosdeathfish.com

Prince Basarab of Wallachia gained his title a few years ago after reuniting his broken homeland with a mixture of words and swords. He is a valued ally of Galicia-Volhinya, and bears the responsibility of defending the south-west borders of the Principalities.

An Account of the recovery of the Holy Grail

“With much fanfare Prince Basarab and his knights of the Order of the Dragon retuned from the west with the Holy Grail. From its surface a glorious light did flow and all who bathed in its radiance were purified and refreshed. Within the vaults of the Cathedral of Târgovişte the Grail was placed and it became a shrine of great adoration, and from all over the world the faithful came to praise it and witness the Nobel knights of the Order of the Dragon who guarded it.”

Inscription from the Tomb of Prince Basarab of Wallachia

“The Nobel lord and Sire of Wallachia. Founder of the Order of the Dragon. Blessed in the eyes of God and loved by his people. Just, wise and benevolent. May he be remembered.”

The Poienari Creed of the Order of the Dragon, circa 1473

We believe in one God
The Dragon, the eternal one
Bringer of Life and Power
Over all things, seen and unseen.

We believe in one lord, Vlad Dracula
The only son of the Dragon
Eternally blessed of the Dragon
Life from Life
Power from Power
Blood from Blood.
Through him does our life flow.
For us men, and for our survival,
He wrested life from Heaven!
Made incarnate in his very corpse by the power of the Spirit of Blood
He walks as a man.
He did drink of the sacred chalice, suffered, and entered the grave,
And he rose again on the third day according to his intent.
He strides the earth, the right hand of the Dragon,
And will ride out in glory against the world, master the living and the dead,
And his kingdon shall have no end!

We believe in the Spirit of the Blood, the lord and giver of life,
Who proceeds from the Dragon and the Son,
With the Dragon and the Son is worshipped and glorified,
Who speaks through our hunger!

We believe in one, holy, catholic and apostolic fellowship of blood.
We acknowledge a second baptism for the remission of death.
We are the resurrection of the dead, and enjoy the life of this world.
Amen!

From the Journal of Jonathan Harker, May 5th, 1878

”…Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere. He held in his hand an antique silver lamp, in which the flame burned without a chimney or globe of any kind, throwing long quivering shadows as it flickered in the draught of the open door. The old man motioned me in with his right hand with a courtly gesture, saying in excellent English, but with a strange intonation.

“Welcome to my house! Enter freely and of your own free will!” He made no motion of stepping to meet me, but stood like a statue, as though his gesture of welcome had fixed him into stone. The instant, however, that I had stepped over the threshold, he moved impulsively forward, and holding out his hand grasped mine with a strength which made me wince, an effect which was not lessened by the fact that it seemed cold as ice, more like the hand of a dead than a living man. Again he said,

“Welcome to my house! Enter freely. Go safely, and leave something of the happiness you bring!” The strength of the handshake was so much akin to that which I had noticed in the driver, whose face I had not seen, that for a moment I doubted if it were not the same person to whom I was speaking. So to make sure, I said interrogatively, “Count Dracula?”…”