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* [[Accidental Marriage]]: Erik, due to not knowing much of Mongol culture. |
* [[Accidental Marriage]]: Erik, due to not knowing much of Mongol culture. |
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* [[Allohistorical Allusion]]: Nobody in-story seems to think of Vlad's grandfather as a vampire, but Vlad unknowingly plays out a [[Dracula]] image when an assassination attempt fails. Somebody shoots at him and misses (though sincerely believing he hit Vlad square), and Vlad says lead bullets aren't enough to kill him. The fellow reports that as a statement that only silver could do the job. Then Vlad comes walking out of a burning building; he's dressed all in black and his skin is very pale because he's been held in a dungeon for several years ... and he's carrying the corpse of a voluptuous woman, her throat ripped open (the missed shot hit ''her'', apparently by ricochet). |
* [[Allohistorical Allusion]]: Nobody in-story seems to think of Vlad's grandfather as a vampire, but Vlad unknowingly plays out a [[Dracula]] image when an assassination attempt fails. Somebody shoots at him and misses (though sincerely believing he hit Vlad square), and Vlad says lead bullets aren't enough to kill him. The fellow reports that as a statement that only silver could do the job. Then Vlad comes walking out of a burning building; he's dressed all in black and his skin is very pale because he's been held in a dungeon for several years ... and he's carrying the corpse of a voluptuous woman, her throat ripped open (the missed shot hit ''her'', apparently by ricochet). |
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