Dracula Pan

The Dark Prince, Vlad Tepes, Count Dracula we now know created many an individual soul clone (as recorded via the motion picture The Seven Golden Vampires) which leaves a vampire historian the job of tracking them down.

Ironic that, since the international best-seller The Historian offers plenty of genuine clues as to a very powerful clone, one this chronicler has dubbed Dracula-Pan for reasons which will soon become clear.

Dracula-Pan began his life as a scholar into the esoteric and the occult.  His history has been recorded in the novella  The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen. His researches led him to discovering one of the books left behind by the Impaler as a clue and bait, to become the King of the Vampires' personal librarian.  All this happened most likely in the 1890s, but in the early 1900s the Impaler decided upon revenge on all those who thwarted his 1887 attempt to invade England (as chronicled by Bram Stoker in his famous novel).  A series of Soul-Clones were created and dispatched to wreck vengeance upon various members of the Seward, Harker, Holmwood, and Van Helsing families.  One of these was Raymond, the former scholar who by now was a vampire enslaved to Dracula Prime.

This new Soul Clone proved unusually successful, gaining nearly all the powers of Dracula himself (which is not at all always the case).  But he also showed certain specific individual traits from his original personality which "bled" into the new copy.  I list those below.

But first, his history.  We know his initial encounter with a member of the Van Helsing family involved a man whose daughter had married a man named Poirot, and by him had a son named Hercule.  Dracula-Pan at this time had claimed a castle in Luxembourg as his own, but when he used a cult to persuade a member of  the Holmwood family infected with syphillus to invite him to England via a young solicitor, the elderly vampire regained his youth by draining the young man dry.

This entire tale was recounted (with some changes of detail for marketing purposes) in the 2006 British adaptation of Dracula starring Marc Warren and David Suchet.

We know at the end of this misadventure, the Soul Clone had committed a lot of slaughter but some of his would-victims escaped.  He, terribly wounded, yet survived.

It would appear this same Soul Clone later created a human persona for himself as an international tycoon under the alias "Alexander Lucard" and again head-quartered in Luxembourg at the same castle as before.  He vied with one Emil Van Helsing, ultimately transformed the man's son into a vampire himself out of malice.  Now at this time Lucard (or Dracula-Pan) had achieved something only a few versions of the Impaler had ever done--he could walk in sunlight, albeit at the cost of nearly all his supernatural powers. 

Yet at the same time, he showed several traits which show him to be an unusual and specific Soul-Clone:

• The ability to walk in sunlight, which Dracula-Pan initially showed when he survived his first battle with the Van Helsings.
• An ability and even taste for enjoying things like wine.
• In fact, generally this creature seems to be interested in the "finer" things of life, dwelling in luxury, surrounding himself with art and antiques.
• Unlike most Soul-Clones (but in common with other) he can and does wield magical items--indeed one such is almost certainly the only reason he can endure sunlight.
• Also unlike the vast majority of Soul Clones, he does not keep a 'harem' of any kind, although he enjoys very much the hunt and seduction of his female prey.

His adventures in Luxembourg were the subject of the t.v. show Dracula: The Series.