Children of the Night timeline 1476-1795

1476

Recorded death of Vlad Tepes. This is most likely merely the date upon

which the vampire faked his death (though it's also possible that,

according to two separate reports, that his being felled by both En Sabar

Nul and Beowulf may have taxed the abilities of Rasalom to prevent him

from receiving fatal injury, which may have been necessary for him to

achieve his vampiric state according to Tzigrane, and was thus part of

Rasalom's carefully crafted machinations all along).

Upon being restored to his own time period, Vlad Tepes completes his

transaction with Rasalom.

Rasalom grants Vlad the eternal powers and weaknesses of a vampire.

Vlad's family ring is replaced by another, a gift from Rasalom. This new

ring is emblazoned with his new crest, a shield with a "D" at its very

center, proclaiming him Dracula.

Photo courtesy of Frau Rita Hussmann of Reigleberg. Frau Hussman was given the ring temporarily by one of Dracula's 'soul-clones' **

in an attempt to make her his bride. The photo was taken in 1940 by Frau Hussman's husband, the late Herr Carl Hussman, during her brief

possession of it.

Adding to this prize, Dracula is given a leather pouch containing a second

ring, which has a much larger crest, but which seems to be fashioned for

a feminine hand. The pouch also holds a dozen or so small metal bolts

and a broken scepter boasting a fierce looking wolf's head as its hilt. The

broken wooden rod was either comprised of ash or oak; accounts are

uncertain.*

Found in the scrapbook of a Frankenstein descendent, an old photograph of what our researchers believe to be one of the bolts carved

from the Star Stone.

Photo of Wolfs Head hilt, obtained by an agent at the cost of his life.

Very shortly after his transformation into the Lord of Vampires, Dracula is

sent back in time to an alternate past to some point in the 6th

century A.D. by Lucifer (actually, Rasalom in disguise) to battle

the legendary hero King Arthur Pendragon at ancient Camelot.

Dracula managed to overpower and vampirize the hybrid fay/human

sorceress Morgan Le Fey along with her and Arthur Pendragon's

illegitimate son, the spite-ridden and vile Mordred, soon after his arrival,

bending them to his side. From there he amassed sufficient forces to

wage an epic war against the King Arthur of this divergent timeline and

his forces, including the Knights of the Round Table and Merlin the

master mage. The Lord of Vampires was ultimately defeated by King

Arthur during their final battle, but he managed to destroy the grand

kingdom of this alternate timeline Camelot in the process.**

Despite being seemingly reduced to ashes at the business end of

Arthur's mighty mystical sword Excalibur, Dracula's remains were almost

immediately retrieved by Rasalom and restored to his native era and

timeline. There his vampiric form was reconstituted as a result of Rasalom

pouring the blood of a sacrificial victim on it.

Rasalom transported Dracula to the 5th and 6th centuries to test the

might and fortitude of the Prince of Wallachia against King Arthur and

Beowulf, respectively. He also set up these extratemporal encounters to

simultaneously test the King of Camelot and the Prince of the Danes in

similar fashion, as both of them would also factor into this plans at various

points in time. The purpose of diverging an alternate timeline of Camelot

where it fell directly as a result of his own extratemporal intrusion isn't fully

known, but it clearly fit into the dark being's mysterious plans. Further

research by MONSTAAH scholars to determine what role Rasalom may

have had in the lives of King Arthur and Beowulf, not to mention other

legendary heroes, of the timeline we call home is clearly merited.

Shortly after Vlad Dracula's ascension to his position of the Lord of

Vampires, his cousin Vladimir Danesti initiated a dark scheme of his own

to duplicate his relation's success by becoming a vampire, albeit under his

own terms, and with plans to gain the position of Lord of Vampires (a title

he referred to as the Great Vampire for reasons that will soon be made

clear) before his own cousin could achieve that goal after being turned by

Rasalom.

Danesti had grown up as the adopted son of an extremely wealthy

and powerful Italian nobleman. He was sequestered there by his real

father for his own safety due to the illegitimacy of his birth and his being

the possible target of reprisals from the Ottoman Empire. He was made

aware of his true lineage and "grand purpose" by a relative of Dan

Tepes, however, and he joined an alternate branch of the Scholomance

college to learn the mystic arts.

He would need these skills, in addition to the warrior skills he

learned via extensive training from instructors his adopted father hired to

teach him, to supplant his cousin in the role which he knew had been

prophesied in cryptic language that was discovered in the tome of mystic

vampire lore known as the Ruthvenian. This script was subsequently

deciphered by Danesti and a few of his monk followers.

To achieve these ends, he would sometimes impersonate his cousin, a

ploy that worked quite well since Danesti bore a striking resemblance to

the real Vlad Tepes, and had studied his mannerisms from afar.

In fact, it's strongly conjectured that a psychic link was formed between

the two as a consequence of Danesti using magickally induced telepathy

to read Vlad Tepes' mind, so as to glean knowledge from him, and to

make these impostures as accurate as possible. This psychic

communication would also have major implications for Danesti when his

plan for achieving vampiric ascendency reached fruition.

After some extensive research with his chapter of the Scholomance,

Danesti discovered that the forefathers of the Tepes bloodlines (including

the Danesti branch) had worshiped the primordial, serpent-like deity

known as the Draconic Adder--an epithet sometimes shortened to 'the

Drac'--that inhabited and dominated the Earth prior to the rise of humanity

alongside his fellow Great Old Gods.

According to ancient scrolls Danesti is made privy to, this is what he

learns:

The parents of the Drac were said to be Yiggurath,

Father of Serpents, and Tiamit, the Dragon of Arabu.

Worshiped by a large number of people on the ancient

lost continent of Lemuria, the Drac became known as

Slidith.***

Also descended from Yiggurath were the notorious reptilian

humanoids called the Serpent Men, by way of Slidith's "half-brother"

Set, who terrorized the human world with their warlike ways during the

Hyborian Age.**** Wishing to preserve the human race, Slidith recruited

and trained an army of elite human warriors who became known as the

Red Brotherhood to oppose Set's reptilian humanoid progeny, and the

former were aided by Slidith's direct spawn, the Dragon Kings.*****

Worship of Slidith, along with that of his rival half-brother Set, continued

into Stygia, the ancient Middle Eastern nation that would eventually

become Egypt. By that point in time, Slidith would appoint a human priest

of his religion to be his Viceroy on the Earth plane, the first of these being

the mystic scholar known as Rammoth. However, the followers of the

Stygian religion worshiping Set eventually gained ascendency, murdered

Rammoth, and drove the followers of Slidith into hidden refuge. As a

result, the position of Slidith's Viceroy remained unfilled until the

appointment went to Tiberius, the ruler of Judea during the Roman

Empire.

As he continued his research, Danesti read the following in a tome known

as The Book of Simon the Mage:

A successive governor in the Roman Empire known as Pontius Pilate

inherited the mantle of the Viceroy of Slidith, and was said to

have used the magicks to transform that era's iteration of

the Red Brotherhood into an earlier version of the Varnaean vampire

strain, with Pilate becoming the Great Vampire (i.e., the Roman Empire's

equivalent of Dracula).

This tome further described a ritual in which Danesti

could likewise use Dracian magicks to become a 'Great Vampire' with

power equal to that possessed by Pilate in the past and his cousin Vlad

Dracula in the then-present, because his human bloodline had venerated

Slidith the Drac for countless ages. Hence, anyone of his genetic lineage

with enough mystic knowledge who followed the proper procedures could

self-elevate themselves in that manner, in effect becoming the new

Viceroy of Slidith.

Apparently, however, part of the prerequisites to accomplish this was to

commit acts of great brutality to prove their ruthless ferocity to the Slidith,

traits which this deity evidently required his Viceroy to possess. In fact, in

the latter days of the Roman Empire, Pilate was said to have finally

become worthy of being the Viceroy of Slidith by ordering his men to

crucify Jesus Christ, a peaceful spiritual leader of great power who was

said to be the human manifestation of God Himself in Christian theological

legend.

Evidently, according to Simon the Mage's book,****** this horrid act would

have a mystical backlash effect on vampires descended from those

created by Pilate, inducing their vulnerability to the cross--particularly a

crucifix (a Christian symbol)--and wooden stakes (this part of the legend

may be apocryphal, or at least be more complicated than written by

Simon the Mage, since other vampiric strains, including some older than

the Varnaean strain, are likewise vulnerable to Christian holy symbols and

a wooden stake in the heart).

This strain, which may have been a new iteration of the Varnaean

bloodline created by ancient Atlantean sorcerers,

was evidently largely--if not almost completely--wiped out

between the end of the Roman Empire and Danesti's era of the late 15th

century, until the demonic being Rasalom was to use apparently

Draconic magicks to create yet another version of this strain, first with

Satanna, and then with Vlad Tepes Dracula.******* Pilate's vampiric

existence was evidently ended by Simon the Mage himself.

While carrying out his plan to become the new Great Vampire before his

cousin finished his own plans to become the Lord of Vampires (which

would happen only after he defeated Lothos at the behest of Rasalom),

Danesti used the magicks his fellow mystics learned in the Italian chapter

of the Scholomance and via close study of the Ruthvenian to absorb part

of Vlad Dracula's essence soon after he first became a vampire, thus

metaphysically acquiring karmic "credit" for his deeds of impalement and

other atrocities. He also absorbed enough of his cousin's memories and

mannerisms in this fashion that he eventually began to believe he was

indeed Vlad Dracula himself, not just a close cousin, and that the 'other'

Vlad Tepes was an imposter not worth his time.

Finalizing his elaborate plans to earn the worthiness to be Slidith's new

Great Vampire on the Earth plane, Danesti, in the guise of Vlad Dracula,

convinced Count Janos Szandor, a favored member of Wallachian

royalty with Matthius Corvinus, the King of Hungary, to betray his wife

Addhema (born with the surname Yorga), by leading her to a dinner that

Danesti would be throwing in Wallachia while in the guise of Dracula.

There, Danesti rapes Addhema at knife-point, and also betrays several

of Dracula's followers by convincing them he is the real Dracula and

leading them into the hands of their mortal enemies, the Ottoman Turks.

These two events created the final acts of karmic "evil" that enabled his

mystic servants to carry out the last transformation phase into Slidith's

then-newest Great Vampire.

The transformation ritual proved successful, and Vladimir Danesti

becomes a self-created soul-clone, emerging as a unique vampiric being

with all of Vlad Dracula's powers and determination, whom we will

heretofore refer to as Dracula-Danesti.

Following the full duplication of Dracula-Prime's (i.e., the real Vlad

Dracula's) energies and memories by this process, he found himself truly

believing his person to be the actual Vlad Tepes Dracula, a psychic

condition that Dracula-Prime would deliberately create with his

subsequent, personally created soul-clones.

Dracula-Danesti then embarked upon his mission, with Count Szandor's

assistance, to betray 190 of Vlad Dracula's Moldavian bodyguards to the

Turks. He carries out an elaborate scheme by which Vlad is incorrectly

reported as slain and decapitated, with the head of one of his bodyguards

presented in his place to the Turkish commander. He then proceeds to

reward Count Szandor by making him a vampire and placing him in

command of Dracula-Danesti's planned legion of emissaries, the

Stepsons of the Dragon. He provides Szandor with one of his many

enchanted rings adorned with the dragon symbol which enables him to

remain in full telepathic contact with his protege, much as he used several

of these rings in concert to steal Dracula-Prime's essence and memories.

The Great Vampire then vampirizes Szandor's wife Addhema, making

her into one of his main brides. He also inflicts the cruel injury of scalping

upon her in retaliation for her impertinence towards him; scalping was the

punishment of choice inflicted by her first husband, Count Marcian

Gregoryi, whom she betrayed and killed to marry Janos Szandor. This

forces her to assuage her great vanity by having to continuously

steal the scalps of her female victims in addition to draining their blood in

order to replace her own hair, since each replacement would only last a

brief time.********

There is some speculation that Dracula-Danesti may have had something

to do with the King of Hungary, Matthius Corvinus, becoming vampirized

and spawning a truly unique strain of vampires who would later come to

major prominence in various parts of Europe.*********

Determined to build a legion of vampires under his control, Vladimir

Danesti (now calling himself "Vlad Dracula") bit several of his

Scholomance lackeys, as well as many local citizens of the Romanian

village the ceremony was performed within, thereby transforming them into

vampires of lesser power who were totally under his control, and in

complete psychic contact with him. The more he created, the

more his personal power would grow.

He discovered that the specific magicks used would make all vampires

whom he personally sired to be under his control in this manner (though it

is not known if the true Vlad Dracula, who was officially the Lord of

Vampires, could countermand that control or not). For some reason,

vampires created by Dracula-Danesti, obviously a sub-strain of the

Varnaean bloodline, usually hunted in the form of non-flying,

human-sized anthropomorphic bats, i.e., their "man-bat" form,

and it's currently unknown to what extent they can

shape-shift (their sire, Dracula-Danesti, is a shape-shifter whose skill in

this area rivals that of Dracula-Prime).

It's quite possible that this sub-strain of vampires created by Dracula-

Danesti would go on to create the somewhat more powerful strain of

vampire known as the Fledermousian, who are known to often appear in

a non-flying 'were-bat' form.

The grandiose plans of Dracula-Danesti goes awry, however, when

Dracula-Prime learns of his machinations after his erstwhile cousin-

cum-duplicate initiated the plans to betray his great number of Moldavian

bodyguards to his arch-enemies, the Turks. Deciding to use stealth over

force to eliminate this early threat to his schemes, Dracula-Prime

amassed some forces of his own courtesy of Rasalom, and entrapped

Dracula-Danesti in an amber-like cocoon of concentrated ethereal energy,

where he was placed in a state of deterioration and suspended animation.

The cocoon is then hidden in a secret location in Europe, with its

location listed only in a highly cryptic fashion in the Ruthvenian. It would

not be until the end of the first decade of the 21st century that he

would finally be revived (see entry for 2010).**********

After Dracula-Danesti's temporary but lengthy demise, the vampires

whom he sired--whose power level seemed to be dependent upon their

psychic bond with him--saw their power and aggression wane to the extent

that they were only a relatively minor threat to the people of the

surrounding villages, and easy pickings for the vampire hunters who

emerged in the region, most prominently members of the Stefanescu

family. Of course, this fortunate turn of events was to change upon

Dracula-Danesti's major revival many centuries later.***********

* For more information on this unspeakable evil force, consult the writings

of F. Paul Wilson. According to the studies of Professor Lorimar Van

Helsing, the rings, bolts, and wolf's head were all carved from a meteorite

that our colleague, Prof. Dennis Power, refers to as a Star Stone. All of

these objects will become powerful tools enabling Dracula to rule his fellow

creatures of darkness.

Prof. Dennis Power adds the following:

"Keeping the information from 'I AM DRACULA' in mind, it is possible that

this Star Stone was indeed the meteor which, according to the gypsy lore

taught to Tzigane, was the vehicle which brought the demon Rasalom to

our world. Since Rasalom is unexplainable this could also refer to some

other malevolent entity whose powers and identity Rasalom

subsumed."

For a glimpse into Prof. Power's theories involving meteors,

see his article Rocks and Trees.

** See the file Dracula vs. King Arthur by Adam Beranek, Christian

Beranek, Chris Moreno, and Jay Fotos, published by Silent Devil

Productions, for the full details of this trans-temporal and alternate reality

incident. Certain details of the actual incident were recorded in error,

including the implication that Vlad Tepes Dracula first became a vampire

as a result of this incident. This incident also appears to reveal that

vampires of Dracula's specific strain - Varnaean - are indeed able to

regenerate severed limbs, but only gradually, not within moments.

It's possible that the Dracula who was sent back in time to battle King

Arthur Pendragon was a temporal counterpart of the Dracula relevant to

this timeline, and that this timeline's Dracula didn't actually experience, or

remember, those events. Needless to say, certain info in that file must be

considered apocryphal or embellished. The same may be possible

regarding his trans-temporal "test" mission by Rasalom that brought him

into conflict with Beowulf.

*** In recent historical texts, Slidith the Drac first appeared in the writings of

Lin Carter; Yiggurath and the other Great Old Ones first appeared in the

writings of H.P. Lovecraft; and Tiamut of Arabu in the writings of Robert E.

Howard.

**** Set and his humanoid mortal spawn, the Serpent Men, first appeared in

modern historical texts by way of Robert E. Howard's writings, who likewise

uncovered evidence of both ancient Lemuria, whose kingdom of Valusia

was ruled by the barbarian hero King Kull; and the Hyborian Age, the

native time period of the barbarian heroes Conan and Red Sonja; both

periods of time preceded recorded history as accepted by mainstream

historians and anthropologists. But we at MONSTAAH know about these

ancient civilizations, whose precise records have been lost to the modern

world, thanks to the extensive research of people like Robert E. Howard

and Lin Carter.

***** As before, the Red Brotherhood and the Dragon Kings can be found in

modern reports compiled by Lin Carter.

****** Modern historical references to Simon the Mage, a.k.a., Simon of

Gitta, can be found in the writings of Richard L. Tierney.

******* See Doug Moench's report "Genesis of Depravity," published in

Eerie Vol. 1 #50 by Warren Comics.

******** Janos Szandor and Countess Addhema's exploits were recorded in

various reports by Paul Feval.

Addhema's familial bloodline includes the notorious Bulgarian vampire

Count Yorga, who went on a rampage in Los Angeles during the late 1960s

and early '70s, as told in Bob Kelljan's files COUNT YORGA,

VAMPIRE (a.k.a., THE LOVES OF COUNT IORGA, VAMPIRE) and THE

RETURN OF COUNT YORGA. The familial relationship between Addhema

and Count Yorga was uncovered by agent Rick Lai.

********* See Zahir Blue and Christofer Nigro's article Vampire Strains in

the Wold Newton Universe for a description of the Corvini strain of

vampire, and Len Wiseman's files UNDERWORLD and UNDERWORLD:

EVOLUTION; Patrick Tatopolous' file UNDERWORLD: RISE OF THE

LYCANS; and Len Wiseman's file UNDERWORLD: AWAKENING for the

full story of the Corvini vampire strain and their centuries-long adversarial

relationship with the werewolf breed called the 'Lycans.'

********** See agent Rick Lai's report "Vampire Renaissance," chronicled in

Tales of the Shadowmen: Agents Provocateurs, published by Black Coat

Press, for the full origin tale of Dracula-Danesti, the Great Vampire. Not all

of the information discussed here, such as this Dracula's true identity, was

revealed in Rick's tale, however; this info is the conjecture of Prof. Nero.

We are indebted to Rick's research for the full information on

this version of Dracula.

*********** See Kurt Busiek's series of reports entitled Dracula: The

Company of Monsters, published by Boom! Studios, and collected in a

series of TPBs.

1477

A headless body, identified as Dracula's, is found in the marshes near the

Snagov Monastery. A severed head, said to be Dracula's, is taken to

Constantinople by Turkish agents and displayed on a pike. The body is

interred in the monastery, but modern archaeologists have

never been able to find it. It's said that a huge windstorm follows the

interment, which topples a significant part of the monastery into Snagov

Lake.

1479

Dracula encounters Nimrod-Lothos, who has been the reigning King of

the Vampires since Varnae willingly abdicated the status.

Dracula destroys him and takes over his rule, which was part of the plans

of both Varnae and Rasalom.

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1567

Transylvania Dracula begins his plan to rule the world. He creates soul

-clones by exchanging blood with a human and putting his own psyche

and powers into him.* Dracula sends a clone who has since been

designated Dracula-Delgado to the Mayans and Aztecs in Central

America.

Dracula-Delgado creates a tribe of Aztec Vampire Women and

transforms a British explorer, named Rex Rufus, into a werewolf.** Thus

begins his reign of terror in Mexico.

Based on a conjecture from our agent known as the Acolyte, it's believed

that the original Dracula--i.e., Dracula-Prime--first learned the art of

creating soul-clones by his demonic mentor, Rasalom. Soon after

learning the process, Dracula-Prime was shown the slumbering place of

the 11th century warrior/alchemist Mathias Crongvist, who was

transformed into an extremely powerful vampire by the mystical artifact

known as the Crimson Stone. Fearing that Mathias' formidable

enemies, the vampire-hunting clan known as the Belmonts, would

threaten his existence, Dracula-Prime, following the advice of Rasalom,

decided to give them a diversion by transforming Mathias into one of his

soul-clones by infusing his persona and memories onto the fallen warrior,

and also placing his old family ring with the familial dragon crest in

Mathias' possession after it was melded with small fragments of the Star

Stone.

Rasalom then revived this new soul-clone, referred to as Dracula-

Mathias, and set him loose so as to provide a threat and diversion to the

Belmonts, thereby keeping them away from Dracula-Prime's schemes.

Dracula-Mathias operated entirely autonomously of Dracula-Prime's

direction, and became a world class threat after gaining control of the

meta-corporeal, dimension-traveling manse known as Castlevania. The

infusion of Dracula-Prime's psyche and memories into that of Mathias

truly cemented the evil of this being, causing him to believe himself to be

the Son of the Devil, i.e., Dracula himself.

During the many times that Dracula-Mathias menaced the world via the

Castlevania construct and the various allies he took (including Vlad

Tepes' relative, the infamous and sadistic vampiress Countess Elisabeth

Bathory, and an avatar of Death itself), this deadly soul-clone was

opposed through the centuries by many generations of the Belmont clan,

along with other notable foes such as the lycanthrope Cornell.***

Dracula-Mathias. Photo courtesy of Prof. Zahir Blue.

* As he does in the report THE 7 BROTHERS VS. DRACULA

(a.k.a.,THE LEGEND OF THE 7 GOLDEN VAMPIRES).

** For more on Rex Rufus, and his role in a most deadly lineage, see Prof.

Dennis Power's article Hyde And Hair.

*** See Konami's many "game" files comprising the CASTLEVANIA saga.

For the full skinny on Dracula-Mathias' history, please refer to the Acolyte's

detailed Castlevania Timeline.

It has also been conjectured by the Acolyte that Dracula-Mathias may

himself have been responsible for creating the soul-clone Dracula-Judas at

some point, possibly by retrieving the fallen Judas Iscariot via his access to

various past time periods through the Castlevania manse. He did much the

same thing to recruit the vampirized Countess Elizabeth Bathory and Gilles

de Rais to his side.

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1572

Mexico Dracula-Delgado is destroyed by Cristaldi the Magician.*

His tribe of Vampire Women maintain a telepathic link with their master,

Dracula-Prime.

* From the file EL SANTO AND BLUE DEMON VS. DRACULA AND THE

WOLF MAN.

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1574

Transylvania Dracula-Prime finds himself at odds with a Puritan warrior

named Solomon Kane.*

* See file by Roy Thomas, "Castle of the Undead."

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1579

Dracula-Prime forms a brief alliance with a female vengeance demon

known as Anyanka.*

* See agent Joss Whedons' file Buffy vs. Dracula.

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1587

Transylvania Dracula-Prime again clashes with Solomon Kane.*

* See file by Roy Thomas entitled "Retribution in Blood."

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1592

Venice The noted alchemist and magician known as Zametti Dippel

suffers from an overwhelming ambition to obtain an accomplishment few

other humans could claim: the creation of artificial humanoid life. To that

end, he utilizes his mystical skills to entrap a member of the djinn race (a

particularly powerful species of faerie, i.e., fay) known as the Genie of the

Black Stone in a container he refers to as the Black Sarcophagus. By

summoning and releasing the Genie, he leaves the latter no choice but to

provide him with a small black jar containing the alchemical ingredients

necessary to synthesize a homunculus.

Zametti uses his magicks to summon forth a thunderstorm so he can

harness its powerful bolts of lightening to supply the galvanic energies

required to synthesize his homunculus out of organic human cell material;

that material is mixed with the regenerative chemicals given to him by the

Genie of the Black Rock. As a result, Zametti succeeds in creating his

artificial man. However, the resulting being turns out to be hideous in

appearance, giant in stature, superhumanly powerful in strength, and

possessing certain apparent supernatural abilities, but the alchemist

mage is utterly reviled by the sight of his creation. Zametti thus rejects the

grotesque flesh golem, who appears intelligent but is obviously incapable

of speech and bereft of knowledge of the world around him. The

distraught Monster promptly flees the mage's laboratory.

Coming across Zametti's betrothed, a young girl named Cecilia, the

Monster takes a fancy to her and abducts the girl. However, the Creature

quickly proves capable of feeling remorse and regrets this action,

peacefully handing the unconscious girl over to her father, Olben.

Unfortunately, the Monster's better nature is carelessly sabotaged when

the enraged Zametti appears to rescue his fiancee and wounds his

Creation with musket fire. The Monster then goes berserk, grabbing a

nearby firebrand and torching the cottage that Olben shares with Cecilia,

which costs the old man his life.

Later seeking further vengeance upon his creator, the Monster kidnaps

the alchemist's son Antonio, apparently killing the boy outside of view.

Zametti found himself full of grief and regret over the horrific tragedy his

ambitions had wrought, and he was sentenced to death by the Council of

Ten, the magisterial body of Venice at the time. But the mage fled, as he

was determined to destroy his Monster to make amends.

Zametti ultimately confronts the Creature in a skiff on the Adriatic Sea

that is owned by his close friend and Cecilia's brother Janskin, while

pursuing his creation in the company of the two. During the ensuing

conflict, the Monster evidently succeeds in killing Zametti Dippel by

hurling him into the waters of the sea during a sudden violent storm.

Screaming in rage over the tragic consequences of his hatred, the

Monster appears to be struck by a bolt of lightening, which causes him to

likewise fall into the sea, where he is presumed to have been killed.*

Unbeknownst to the surviving siblings Cecilia and Janskin, however, this

alchemically and galvanically created Monster was actually captured by

the soul-clone Dracula-Mathias while utilizing his trans-dimensional

fortress Castlevania to travel through time and space to acquire the

Creature as a minion, bringing the Monster further back in time to 1476 at

one point. Originally, Dracula-Mathias teams the Creature with a similarly

time-purloined hunchbacked member of the family who frequently

produced male children with this particular congenital deformity; such

members of this family traditionally served those belonging to the Dippel

and Frankenstein clans, and often had the forename of Igor. Subsequent

appearances of this Monster in Dracula-Mathias' servitude have

demonstrated that several hunchbacked members of the "Igor" family

were conscripted to aid him, but at other times the Creature battled the

soul-clone's enemies bereft of any help.

The Monster went up against the vampire-hunting warrior Simon

Belmont and others opposing the Creature's vampiric master on different

occasions.** What fate ultimately befell this particular Monster has yet to

be determined.

* See Charles' Nodier's, Antoine Nicalos Beraud's, and Jean Toussaint

Merle's file The Monster and the Magician, Or Frankenstein Revisited.

This file was translated into English by Frank J. Morlock for Frankenstein

Meets the Hunchback of Notre-Dame and published by Black Coat Press.

The nature of Zamatti's surname, Dippel, was not made clear in this file,

but has been conjectured from research conducted by Prof. Nero.

Following the shame brought upon their lineage following this incident,

most of the rest of the Dippel family relocated to other parts of Europe.

** This version of the Monster, hereby referred to by our org as Zametti

Frankenstein after its creator, was first seen as a minion of Dracula-

Mathias in Konami's 'game' file CASTLEVANIA, and then subsequently in

several other files that purport to chronicle events in the saga. The Monster

proved to be a major hazard to the many members of the Belmont clan and

their various allies who opposed Dracula-Mathias' schemes during direct

assaults on his Castlevania construct.

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1661

Mexico In their Master's physical absence,

the Vampire Women of Mexico transform a Spanish nobleman, Baron

Brakola, into a vampire to serve as a figurehead.

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1680

Llanwelly Baron Lawrence Talbot has a problem with lycanthropy

plaguing his village, when a merchant wizard named Cardiff arrives to

offer him an expensive solution to the problem: A horde of specially

created fleas with exo-skeletons composed of silver-laced chitin.*

Unfortunately for the Baron, he welshes on the deal with Cardiff, and the

wizard ends up offering a lycanthropic peasant named Borak a cure for

the solution. Borak then slips into Baron Talbot's castle while in

lycanthrope form, and attacks the Baron and his wife in their bed

chambers.**

This incident results in the cursed form of lycanthropy being inflicted

upon at least this particular branch of the Talbot clan, which had the

proper genetic propensity to be altered in precisely that way by the

mbwun virogen. Apparently, Baron Talbot survived the lycanthropic

Borak's assault, and lived to sire some children, thus passing on the

potential to develop this curse.

* The fleas are most likely one of several mutated forms of

the parasitic insect that were developed in the early 14th century by the

group of powerful near-immortals known as the Council of the Nine (or

sometimes, simply the Nine). Both intrigued and concerned by the

proliferation of various types of monsters stalking the shadows of the

world--including the varied vampire strains, werewolf breeds, and the

myriad tribes of corporeal demons descended from the dalliances of

Nephilim with human women--the Nine elected to find ways of both

defending against them, and actually creating their own 'breeds' of these

creatures for their purposes.

Discovering the existence of bacterium and viruses many centuries before

human science would verify the reality of microscopic organisms, and

finding that illnesses caused by bacteria could be rapidly spread via fleas,

the Nine experimented on breeding special sub-species of these insects.

Collecting blood samples from actual vampire strains, werewolf breeds,

and Nephilic demon tribes (as well as other magickal creatures, such as

serpent people and ghouls), the supernatural virogen DNA strands were

implanted into a specially modified version of the bacteria that causes

bubonic plague. In turn, this modified plague bacterium, like its natural

version, was designed to host itself in the system of a genetically modified

flea.

Introduced into the rat population of a few Romanian villages circa 1349,

the fleas that ran out of rats for food (since these rodents merely died from

the modified plague bacterium, much like the regular variant) quickly

began biting humans. Scores of villagers without the proper genetic

propensity simply died upon contracting the bacteria, but those who did

possess it were transformed after "death" into a close simulacra of the

supernatural vampires, werewolves, and other monsters whose versions of

the mbwun virogen were spliced into this bacteria.

However, as these initial unusually created vampires and werewolves

spread their afflictions to other humans by the usual means, the "pure

blood" simulant was gradually diluted, eventually spawning vampire

strains and werewolf breeds that retained some similarities to their

bacterium-created forebears, but were considerably weaker. This accounts

for the various supernatural vampire and lycanthrope bloodlines recorded

in folklore and other sources that can be killed by excessive but

conventional means, such as ordinary lead bullets, non-silver metal blades,

etc.; and while healing faster than humans, they cannot recover from

particularly severe injuries. This would eventually be discovered by the

corrupt scientist Maynard Crandall; see entry for 2005.

The Council of Nine was first uncovered by the pioneer research of Philip

Jose' Farmer, and described in his interconnected reports A Feast

Unknown; Lord of the Trees; and The Mad Goblin; as well as the

excerpts of his work collected in his file, "A Monster On Hold." They have

been further described in certain reports by Prof. Win Scott Eckert,

particularly his file "The Wild Hunstman," and have turned up in the

research of Prof. Dennis E. Power.

** See Richard Corben's report "Lycanklutz," chronicled in Creepy Vol. 1

#56, published by Warren Comics, reprinted in Warren's Comix

International #1 and Corben's compilation of lycanthrope tales entitled

(simply and appropriately enough) Werewolves.

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1711

Transylvania In the early part of the century, Dracula-Prime works with

the mysterious alchemist known as Dr. Septimus Pretorius to create a

new kind of soul-clone. The result is not only an identical but relatively

benevolent twin of Dracula, later referred to as Dracula-Vlad,

but also a hideous vampire of pure evil greatly resembling Graf Orlock,

the most well known of the Orlockian vampire strain, who was

designated Dracula-Olrox by Dracula-Prime in order to mock the name of

his famed vampiric rival.*

The Dracula-Olrox soul-clone was later recruited by the powerful rogue

soul-clone Dracula-Mathias for a few missions on the inter-dimensional

Castlevania construct. After arriving on Castlevania, Dracula-Olrox found

his dark powers greatly enhanced, which included the ability to

shape-shift into a giant semi-humanoid reptilian creature.**

In at least one alternate future of the year 2037, this soul-clone, now

calling himself Commander Olrox, and more powerful than ever as a

result of calling upon the 'Forces of Chaos' (possibly the energies of the

Lovecraftian entity Asathoth), attempted to conquer the entire world. In

this incident, he had the loyalty of Graham's Cult (who followed the

teachings of notorious cult leader Graham Jones), and the greatly

empowered Olrox Clone even challenged Death Himself in this

incident.****

* See Prof. Dennis Power's article, Best Fangs Forward.

The exploits of Dracula-Vlad, if one accepts their validity, have been

recorded in a series of files by Fred Saberhagen, beginning with The

Dracula Tapes. In these files, Saberhagen recorded events from Dracula-

Vlad's point of view, and this fairly benevolent, alchemically created, but no

less formidable soul-clone described the incidents in Bram Stoker's classic

file Dracula as being biased on the author's part. Vlad Tepes

Dracula--whom Dracula-Vlad believed himself to be--described himself as

an innocent victim of a villainous Abraham Van Helsing and crew. It was

not the intention of Dracula-Vlad to lie, but he honestly believed the

verisimilitude of what he said, despite the fact that in actuality, Bram Stoker

was generally spot on with his description of events relating to Vlad Tepes

Dracula, i.e., Dracula-Prime 1887 soiree into London (the date was

incorrectly given as ten years later, which is actually the publication date

of Stoker's book).

It's possible that Dracula-Vlad's artificially constructed memories were

deliberately formulated to believe as he did, so

that his "good" nature wouldn't be compromised or emotionally harmed by

extreme guilt over things Dracula-Prime had done (as was the case with

Dracula-Mordante, a soul-clone Dracula-Prime created through more

conventional means).

Among the incidents Dracula-Vlad was involved in according to

Saberhagen's files was an encounter with Sherlock Holmes (who clearly

must have recognized that this wasn't the "real" Dracula, i.e., Dracula-

Prime, whom he had previously met; the Great Detective also met and

tangled with Dracula-Mordante, but Saberhagen didn't record any

acknowledgement of this from Holmes), and entering a brief but passionate

romance with Mina Murray Harker, which may have been the "final straw"

that ended her marriage with Jonathan Harker by the time she took

leadership of the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen circa 1898.

The current whereabouts of the Dracula-Vlad soul-clone, or whether or not

he is even still active, are unknown even to this org.

The original Count Graf Orlock was first seen in F. W. Murnau's

report NOSFERATU, A SYMPHONY OF HORROR (a.k.a., NOSFERATU);

Dracula-Olrox was first seen in Werner Herzog's report

NOSFERATU: PHANTOM OF THE NIGHT (a.k.a., NOSFERATU THE

VAMPYRE). Both of the latter two reports had muddled details when put to

film, including having certain names, incidents, and dates tweaked to more

closely resemble the events of Bram Stoker's classic file Dracula.

Why Dracula-Prime's totally evil soul-clone that was created from the

alchemical works of Dr. Pretorius so greatly resembled an Orlockian

vampire is unknown at this point, but this intriguing outcome clearly

deserves further investigation.

Perhaps unrivaled vampire expert Prof. Zahir Blue should be consulted to

look into this matter.

I am indebted to the extrapolations of Prof. Steven Pertwillaby in

researching Dracula-Olrox's backstory.

** See Konami's 'video game' file CASTLEVANIA: SYMPHONY OF THE

NIGHT.

Graham Jones first appeared in Konami's 'video game' file DRACULA:

ARIA OF SORROW.

*** See Ryohgo Narita's file Akumajo Dracula: Kabuchi no Tsuisoukyoku,

published by Dengeki Bunko.
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1740

Geneva Baron Richard Frankenstein (uncle of Alphonse Frankenstein)

and notorious alchemist Konrad Dippel (years ago having attained

immortality through alchemical means,) create a monstrous alchemical

homunculus in a laboratory provided by Frankenstein. Jealous of the

attention his creator lavishes upon his new bride, Helga, the physically

and mentally imperfect Creature soon escapes from the laboratory and

attacks Richard and his wife. The quasi-supernatural monster, being

physically unstable, begins to fade from reality, at one point becoming

momentarily trapped in a mirror. Realizing that in his current state, the

homunculus poses a threat to itself and others, Frankenstein and Dippel

attempt to replace its internal organs by transplanting those of the recent

dead, in the hopes that this will physically "repair" the Monster. They will

spend the next 17 years working to perfect the procedure.

** See Thomas Edison and J. Searle Dawley's 1910 report

FRANKENSTEIN (not to be confused with James Whale's 1931 report of

the same name), as well as Charles A. Moses' file FRANKENSTEIN 1970.

We are indebted to Prof. Barry Ward, whose research uncovered this

information, and who scribed this entry.

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1744

Transylvania Dracula-Prime, feeling his powers weakening, immerses

himself in his secret tomb. Before he does so he transforms a Hungarian

scholar named Prof. Anton Zeleska, who sought his aid in a vengeful

plot, into a soul-clone. Dracula-Prime names this clone Lejos, and

creates for him the alias of Count Lejos Zeleska.

Lejos is given Dracula's ring. As Dracula-Prime begins his 40-year

sleep, his psyche and powers enter the soul-clone. Lejos is the first of the

soul-clones given a name to mock the former king of the vampires,

Nimrod-Lothos.

Lejos not only operates under the name Count Lejos Zeleska, he also

creates the identity of Romanian scholar Armand Tesla, and as him

authors several books on the occult in order to

draw followers.

Page from the rare tome The Supernatural and Its Manifestations, containing the only known image of Dracula-Lejos.

Individuals who encountered this soul-clone have confirmed that this printed image matches the vampire's face.

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1757

Geneva Having grafted a new set of internal organs into their alchemical

homunculi, Richard Frankenstein and Konrad Dippel replace the brain

of the Monster. For unknown reasons (perhaps the brain was damaged;

perhaps it was simply abnormal to begin with,) the revived Monster

becomes even more dangerous than before. After escaping Castle

Frankenstein, the Monster drowns a young peasant woman in a lake,

and murders at least two other villagers before being subdued and

captured by Frankenstein and Dippel.

Finally accepting that their grand experiment has failed,

the two scientists decide to destroy the murderous

creature by once more removing its internal organs and brain. As a result

of the Monster's alchemical/quasi-supernatural physiology, the procedure

does not kill the creature, but instead causes it to become

"dormant"--alive, but perpetually comatose. The Monster's body is then

sealed in a stone sarcophagus, and locked away in a secret vault in the

bowels of Castle Frankenstein.*

* See Charles A. Moses' file FRANKENSTEIN 1970. This info was

uncovered by the research of Prof. Barry Ward, who wrote up this entry

based on it.

1765

Mexico El Caballero En Mascarado De Plata (The Silver Masked

Horseman) tangles with Baron Brakola.

The masked hero slays several of Brakola's vampire minions, but Baron

Brakola escapes.

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1770s

Austria Countess Dolingen Graz summons the UN-dead aristocracy:

The Karnsteins of Styria

Princess Vajda

Count Iorga

Count Von Krolock

Saint-Germain of France

Countess Bathory Villanueva of Spain

Duval from Mexico*

and Dracula.

Dracula proposes a Vampire Crusade to subjugate

humanity under his standard. He is ignored.

See the file Red Reign by Kim Newman.

* Possibly Baron Brakola.

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1770

Llanwelly, Wales Birth of Sir Martin Talbot, Lord of Talbot Castle.

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1772

Geneva, Switzerland Birth of Victor Frankenstein, first son of Baron

Alphonse Frankenstein and his wife, Caroline Beaufort.

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1776

Dracula-Prime buys Marya Island in the West Indies, creating another

base of operations.

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1778

Birth of Ernest Frankenstein, second son of Alphonse and Caroline

Frankenstein.

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1779

Birth of Peter Talbot, younger brother of Sir Martin.

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1780

Transylvania. Dracula-Prime summons the Lejos-Clone back to his

castle. Dracula-Prime absorbs the energy from the ring and his true body

arises. The Lejos-Clone is cached away to slumber with the others of his

ilk, till he is needed once more. Shortly after Dracula-Prime awakens, a

young Frenchman, spoiled and plump, travels to Transylvania simply

asking to become a vampire.Dracula-Prime grants his wish, turning the

obnoxious youth into a soul-clone. As before, the clone is assigned a

name to humiliate Nimrod-Lothos, and is named Lestat.

The Lestat Clone's original psyche, however, is hard for Dracula-Prime to

control, as it seems to possess a constant, overwhelming desire for

fornication, both with females and males. Dracula-Prime becomes weary

of this clone and releases him to his own devices.*

* Reports show that this former soul-clone eventually made his way to New

Orleans, Louisiana. In the 1970s a romance novelist took the homeless

vampire into her home, and in exchange for room and board the vampire

told the writer exaggerated tales of his wretched life. The writer turned

these tales into a series of best selling semi-pornographic novels. The

Lestat Clone, according to some sources, was eventually put to permanent

rest by Buffy Summers in the late 1990s.

Dracula-Prime is visited in Translyvlania by Prince Mamuwalde, a warrior

who is the ruler of an unidentified African nation (possibly Zamunda**),

who is seeking the help of the Count in stopping the burgeoning slave

trade by the Western nations not realizing the Vampire Lord's true nature.

Believing that Mamuwalde would make an ideal soul-clone due to his

warrior prowess, but wanting to punish him for insults he gave to the

Vampire Lord after the latter refused to help him in his request,

Dracula-Prime transformed Mamuwalde into a soul-clone and had him

sealed in a coffin in a catatonic state, where he was to be left until such

time when Dracula-Prime would have use for the Mamuwalde Clone.

The Vampire Lord also imprisoned Mamuwalde's beloved wife, Princess

Luva, who had accompanied him to Transylvania, and she was to later die

while still in the Count's captivity.

As it turned out, for unknown reasons Mamuwalde was not brought out of

his insensate state until nearly two centuries later, when the coffin

containing his body somehow ended up in the hands of two antique

collectors in Los Angeles, CA, and the sleeping Prince was accidentally

brought into contact with the blood of one of the collectors, who

accidentally gave himself a severe cut while handling the coffin.

Mamuwalde's great willpower enabled him to resist being Dracula-

Prime's thrall despite possessing a great degree of his powers and

personality traits in his vampiric state, and he went on to make a legend

for himself in the LA area of the early 1970s as "Blacula."***

** The North African nation of Zamunda, which is extremely wealthy

compared even to many First World nations on Earth by the late 20th

century, and which may be a former colony of Wakanda that later gained

independence, first came to prominence in the late 1980s when then Prince

Akeem, the young adult son of King Jaffe Joffer, traveled to America

incognito to find a wife who would have a will of her own, rather than being

raised all of her life to service the Prince via an arranged marriage. This

story was told in Eddie Murphy and David Sheffield's report COMING TO

AMERICA, whose story was adapted into a hit romantic comedy.

*** For more on Prince Mamuwalde/Blacula's exploits upon his revival in

the early 1970s, see the entries on this timeline for 1971 and 1972.

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1786

Birth of William Frankenstein, third son of Alphonse and Caroline

Frankenstein.

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1790

Geneva Baron Victor Frankenstein creates a living man from dead

body parts, then rejects him.The Monster takes his revenge by killing all

whom the Baron loves. Of the Baron's family, only Ernest Frankenstein

survives. The Baron tracks his creation across the globe.*

Hamburg While pursuing the Monster, Victor Frankenstein I has a

brief affair with a young woman. He then abandons her, not knowing that

she was pregnant.*

Victor dies soon after finding his creation. The Monster lives.**

* From the Journals of Robert Walton, as edited by Mary Shelly in the

tome Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus.

** The date of 1799, which given in the Journals of Victor Frankenstein II,

as edited by Robert Myers and entitled The Cross of Frankenstein, must

be incorrect.

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1794

Dracula-Prime encounters, seduces, and vampirizes Countess Nadine

Carody during a trip of hers from her native Paris to Transylvania. After

first using her to satisfy his lusts, her unusually strong will enabled her to

regain a degree of her volition, and she used this control to flee back to

Paris, thus avoiding becoming one of his brides. However, she remained

an unwilling servant of the Vampire Lord, and she later assisted him in

his long-range plans to migrate from Transylvania to England (though this

would not take place for nearly a century). The following year, the

Countess aided the Prince of Darkness in a plot to acquire information

on his behalf after being invited to a party thrown by Lady Maurguerite

Blakeney (wife of Sir Percy Blakeney, a.k.a., the masked champion

known as the Scarlet Pimpernel, and a great adventuress in her own

right), and attended by such luminaries as Colonel Bozzo-Corona (a

powerful associate of the Countess who was soon to be founder and

long-time leader of the infamous Black Coats criminal empire).

** See Prof. Win Scott Eckert's file "Nadine's Invitation," compiled in Tales

of the Shadowmen Volume 7: Femmes Fatales, published by Black Coat

Press.
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1795

While surveying the planet Earth and conducting a study of its cultural

legends and folklore for the purpose of facilitating psychological warfare

techniques towards a planned invasion, the fascistic alien race known as

the Ummoans discover the work of Victor Frankenstein. Realizing that

the Monster he created was a flesh golem whose design and creation

was inspired by the use of alchemy in the past to create various types of

homunculi, the covert Ummoan invasion force realized that such creatures

had a powerful psychological resonance in the human species, and

because of this, their existence filled humanity with collective terror. As

such, the Ummoans used some of their technology to create bio-synthetic

simulacra of actual beings to construct a number of synthoid duplicates of

the original Frankenstein Monster, granting them artificial intelligence

incorporating knowledge of Earth languages and cultures, and placing

them at various places across the Earth where they would be activated

and become fully conscious agents of the Ummoan invasion force when

called upon. These creatures have been christianed 'Frankendroids' by

Prof. Barry Ward, who has conducted some research on them.

One of them was placed in a slab lying in Victor Frankenstein's

abandoned laboratory, possibly for the purposes of convincing any unwary

humans who wandered into the lab and inadvertently activated the

Creature (the Frankendroids were designed to activate upon being

discovered by humans) to believe it was the actual Monster of

Frankenstein, thus enhancing the terror effect. There the synthoid

Monster lay insensate for several months until a mysterious bolt of

lightening was somehow drawn to the inactive electricity-collecting

equipment in the lab and struck the synthoid, activating him prematurely.

As it turned out, the power of the electricity not only awakened the

Monster, but it damaged his bio-synthetic A.I. system, causing him to lose

all of his Ummoan "programming" to serve their plans for conquest. It also

scrambled his memory synapses enough so that he believed that he was

the actual Monster upon discovering and reading some of Frankenstein's

notes. For our purposes, we will refer to this bio-synthetic Monster as the

Frankendroid 1 (as others would later be activated).

Because he retained incomplete recollections of his alien origins, he

eventually convinced himself that he was an extraterrestrial being who had

become trapped on the Earth and exploited by Victor Frankenstein,

whom the Frankendroid 1 believed to have lied in his claims to have

created a synthetic man (it's well known by us that Victor Frankenstein

was not lying, but the Frankendroid 1 believed otherwise). A highly

unscrupulous member of the Frankenstein clan, Dr. Carlos

Frankenstein, later discovered the existence of the Frankendroid 1, and

did indeed attempt to exploit him for his own purposes, which served to

reinforce the false beliefs of the synthetic creature.

The synthetic Monster met an interested Benjamin Franklin very shortly

before the latter died, and told him his story up to that point in time,

including all of the misbelieved falsehoods connected to it. As it turned

out, Franklin had corresponded with both Victor and Carlos

Frankenstein as fellow scientists in the past (at the time, Victor was quite

young, but already brilliant), and had given both advice and information on

working with electricity, along with the best technology to use in collecting

it.

(Carlos eventually created his own flesh golem, a creature called Orlack,

utilizing some of the info he acquired from Franklin in harnessing

electricity as part of the process, as did Victor beforehand). When

Franklin passed on after committing the Frankendroid 1's words to paper,

those notes were left to his son, who later continued his father's

correspondence with the Monster for quite some time.

After Mary Shelley collected notes of various individuals connected to

Victor Frankenstein, including those left by Captain Robert Walton, she

published them in an 1818 novel entitled Frankenstein; Or, the Modern

Prometheus. The Synthoid Monster read the novel and believed that

Shelley did nothing but report the lies of the Frankenstein clan, which

would now be much more widespread than ever due to the book's

success. As a result, the Frankendroid 1 resolved to redeem himself in

the eyes of humanity, but also realized that he would have to hide his

monstrous nature from humanity while doing so.*

A second bio-synthetic simulacrum of the Frankenstein Monster is

placed by the Ummoans in another area where the Monster was known

to have been according to records, the Arctic. There, this particular

synthoid, referred to here as the Frankendroid 2, was programmed to go

into lengthy suspended animation upon contact with extreme cold, a

property it was designed to share with the real Monster and his various

copycat flesh golems to provide the synthoid with greater verisimilitude.

This Synthoid Monster remained there for over 150 years before being

activated in accordance with the Ummoans' plans to take over the Earth

that were initiated during the 1960s decade.

* See Fred Saberhagen's file The Frankenstein Papers for a rather heavily

skewed version of the Frankendroid 1's story, told on the basis of notes that

included a large amount of incorrect information, such as the errors

claiming that the date of the original Monster's creation was 1782 rather

than 1790, the confusion of Carlos Frankenstein with his cousin Victor

Frankenstein, and that the majority of incidents related in Mary Shelley's

report Frankenstein; Or, the Modern Prometheus were nothing more than

misinformation. We are indebted to Prof. Barry Ward for his research in this

area, which helped immensely with uncovering this info, as well as further

work by Professors Gregory Long and Steven Pertwillaby.

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Children of the Night Timeline:

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