...The First Vampire. The Lord of Darkness. The Lord of the Vampires. She is not Bela Lugosi, she is not Nosferatu, she is not a bat, she is not Vladimir Tepes III "The Impaler" of Wallachia (now Romania). She is Ekaterina Svyatoi of Kiev Rus, and after 100 years of slumber, she has returned to the waking world once again.

So there's that.

The Dracula is, and has always been, a woman. For centuries she understood that one of the purest forms of power isn't that which is taken from others, but that which is given to her. She didn't have to take her power from anyone; the legends, the myths, the whispers, the shadows, the books, the shows, the movies, all of it worked to empower her mystique, her ability, her reach, her power.

She doesn't have to take what's been given to her.

When she ascended into her power as The First Vampire, there was the creation of an equally potent engine of Holy Destruction. This man would be known as The First Hunter, and any number of ironic nicknames as he lay destruction across Europe for centuries hunting her down. Only when she was in slumber would he stop, and she only beat the system when The New World, America, was developed enough for her to migrate. She was too far for The First Hunter to be affected by her rise, and he lay in a grave for centuries.

Since then, her only true opposition has been from The Hunting Party, and the bloodline of The Belmont Clan. The former are a nuissance  at best, and are more dangerous to her organization than to her. The latter are her historic nemesis, and while they've failed to kill her everytime, they've been able to take away a century of her time with each defeat.

She is aware that someone of her ancestral bloodline has survived long enough to have been turned. She is aware she has a "Daughter". After the tragedy that took her son away so many centuries ago, this time will be different, her Daughter will 'grow up' to understand their place in the world: Controlling it. Leading it. Forever.

Because The Dracula is aware that The Holy Bulldozer is back on His Path, she will have to do her best to protect her "daughter" from his wrath. Only her strength in the inevitable confrontation with him will determine the fate of The Dracula, Belle, and the very species of Vampire itself.

The Dracula is real, has returned, and is having a very bad century already.