A prince defies God for love and hunts her soul across four centuries.
Who drives the story
A Wallachian prince who loves his wife more than God, and pays for it with immortality. He spends four centuries hunting her reincarnation, then gives up eternity to save her soul.
Vlad's wife, ambushed and killed in 1480, reborn in 1889 as Mina, Harker's fiancée. A music box tune wakes her past-life memories, and she asks to become a vampire to stay with him forever.
A Paris-based solicitor negotiating a real estate deal with Dracula, until the Count learns Mina is the woman he seeks and imprisons him. He escapes and brings the priest down on the castle.
The man Harker turns to after escaping, who investigates Dracula and lays siege to his castle. His weapon is an ultimatum: repent, or condemn Mina to eternal damnation.
A vampiric follower who helps Dracula track Mina down in Paris, part of the network of agents he built during his centuries-long search.
How they are connected
Elisabeta / MinaVlad / Dracula
Vlad's wife, ambushed and killed in 1480, reborn in 1889 as Mina, Harker's fiancée.
Elisabeta / MinaJonathan Harker
Vlad's wife, ambushed and killed in 1480, reborn in 1889 as Mina, Harker's fiancée.
A Paris-based solicitor negotiating a real estate deal with Dracula, until the Count learns Mina is the woman he seeks and imprisons him.
Jonathan HarkerThe occultist priest
He escapes and brings the priest down on the castle.
The occultist priestVlad / Dracula
The man Harker turns to after escaping, who investigates Dracula and lays siege to his castle.
The occultist priestElisabeta / Mina
His weapon is an ultimatum: repent, or condemn Mina to eternal damnation.
A vampiric follower who helps Dracula track Mina down in Paris, part of the network of agents he built during his centuries-long search.
A vampiric follower who helps Dracula track Mina down in Paris, part of the network of agents he built during his centuries-long search.
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Love as defiance of God · Immortality as punishment · Memory as the thread of identity · The cost of possession
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