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Nosferatu: Count Orlock

The bloodsuckers are big on keeping secrets. Nowadays, all Vampires have a "cool" look about them which fits in with their youthful image. Even the ones that are "old" are still regal and respectable looking. Its part of the whole "Let's get stupid humans to serve us and be like us" routine that they like to employ. You keep telling the masses something long enough and they believe it and the past becomes forgotten.

However even a secret slips out every now and then in movies and the hideous Nosferatu appear, but this is usually quickly dismissed as "creative license" and not based on any kind of fact. Vampires deliberately attempt to destroy any evidence of their ugly pasts. One old movie was actually supposed to be based on Count Orlock, but this movie was quickly ordered to be destroyed through Vampire string pulling.

The truth is Vampires weren't always the "cool" MTV movie bullshit propaganda that that's churned out now. In the past there were the Elders or the first Vampires who looked as repugnant as any rotting corpse, they are also known as the Nosferatu. You rarely had any encounters with them as most of them were dead by then, but you heard many stories from your grandfather about them. They hid in the shadows, striking from the darkness, and returning to isolation, they used no servants. They did not mix and carry on a charade of "humanity". They were true monsters.

Over time however, things change and so did Vampires, there became an "evolution" of sorts (Though you're loathed to use a word for such unnatural creatures). In time it became necessary for trickery, to fit in, to blend with humans to prevent mass extinction from vampire hunters. Later generations started to retain their human looks, and the Nosferatu began to die off through various means. Most of them by the hands of their own younger kind. The younger generation saw the Nosferatu as a threat to their own survival, not to mention cramping their style. How were they supposed to get humans to willingly serve them, if these ugly Nosferatu were going around snatching children in the night? No, their time had come and gone, a new era must be ushered in. Eventually the Nostferatu were all hunted down and killed save one.

Count Orlock was the last of the Nosferatu, he was by no means an Elder, but he was still old enough to not retain his humanity. Sensing his time was coming to a close, decided to create a servant to protect him. He sensed Vlad would be able to do this. The instant he made him into a Vampire, he attempted to instill loyalty into him and it workedÂ…for awhile at least. Eventually Dracula realized that Orlock was more of a burden than a teacher, and he turned on him. Defeating him utterly, but contrary to what most know (For those that even know about the Nosferatu in the first place) he didn't kill him.

Orlock's implanted loyalty did still exist, but it was to Orlock's detriment. Dracula could not bring himself to kill his creator, but he could make his unlife a living hell. Keeping him a weaken captive and tormenting him for all time.

He's been forgotten and held prisoner ever since.

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