Vlad the Impaler - Blood Oaths - European History - Extra History - Part 2

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  • @sophie9419
    @sophie9419 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2027

    I love how vlad looks like he could be his father's father, at 17..

    • @thesnortfort
      @thesnortfort 3 ปีที่แล้ว +117

      Vlad tepesh the only man ever to have cut his fathers ambilical chord

    • @questboi2397
      @questboi2397 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      On

    • @redemptionjack4657
      @redemptionjack4657 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@thesnortfort lol.

  • @subtlewhatssubtle
    @subtlewhatssubtle 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1617

    Whoever made the artistic decision to draw Vlad III with the crazy eyes and huge eyebrows, you deserve a raise.

    • @thefirstkingdogo1126
      @thefirstkingdogo1126 3 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      Yes he does

    • @alirthome6713
      @alirthome6713 3 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      @@thefirstkingdogo1126 awwwww thanks!

    • @prestonjones1653
      @prestonjones1653 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@alirthome6713
      An awesome artist and a fantastic playlist for studying Japanese? Definately subbed, even if you never post anything to your own channel.😅

    • @doggygamer2296
      @doggygamer2296 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      All of their videos are 💯, I can even show these videos to my parents and these videos are also hilarious

    • @finn7955
      @finn7955 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yes he looks adorable

  • @qjames0077
    @qjames0077 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2549

    Me at seventeen: Well, idk which major to choose
    Vlad at seventeen: Well, I guess I have vengeance to enact for the rest of my life

    • @jeremyrossi2716
      @jeremyrossi2716 3 ปีที่แล้ว +62

      If your parents were slaughtered, you’d probably choose vengeance too.

    • @KingPongC327
      @KingPongC327 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      @@Bookwormiest r/cursedcomments

    • @justinbuergi9867
      @justinbuergi9867 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      It would’ve been nice to have some focus during that part of my life

    • @trevordelepine7708
      @trevordelepine7708 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      And also it’s 4 o’clock better get some impaling in before supper

    • @VaporBlitz
      @VaporBlitz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@Bookwormiest He wants to major in assassination

  • @ajvanmarle
    @ajvanmarle 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1311

    You've got to admire a man who truly understands what's at stake.

    • @anilpratap6952
      @anilpratap6952 3 ปีที่แล้ว +53

      He understands them because he put them there

    • @pete2389
      @pete2389 3 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      Badum tsss

    • @ecurewitz
      @ecurewitz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      I se what you did there

    • @Epic0201
      @Epic0201 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Bruh

    • @boyscouts83712
      @boyscouts83712 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      He understands what's at stake, because he's stakeing a claim to the ottomans

  • @mortified776
    @mortified776 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1170

    As someone with great difficulties sticking to his priorities, I have a strange but intense feeling of admiration for Vlad not allowing his thirst for vengeance to get in the way of attaining his real goal.

    • @jensfingerhat5078
      @jensfingerhat5078 3 ปีที่แล้ว +66

      He indeed sticked Whith his priorities pun intended

    • @2013faiasl
      @2013faiasl 3 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      Oh and he never stopped sticking stuff

    • @chuckysmaria6466
      @chuckysmaria6466 3 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      Of course! That is the bare minimum. After all the stakes were high.

    • @JoeOfGoa
      @JoeOfGoa 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      No NO his got a point.

    • @FizzyPopVevo
      @FizzyPopVevo 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@JoeOfGoa a sharp point on each end.

  • @Dollfaceyourfear
    @Dollfaceyourfear 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1389

    I've waited years for you to do a series on Vlad III and have to say, it's everything I ever hoped for. Amazing job, can't wait for the next episode.

    • @finnmchugh99
      @finnmchugh99 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Same

    • @espio87
      @espio87 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      The intensity with which they portray Vlad's expressions is what really sells me. They manage to keep the simplicity of EH art style and be truthful to the portraits of him. Truly amazing.

    • @Tea.G25
      @Tea.G25 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Same as i

    • @wolfwoodphreak
      @wolfwoodphreak 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I totally agree. well worth the wait it's every bit what I hoped for

    • @GcubePlayer8
      @GcubePlayer8 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Vlad the inhaler

  • @someguy-bv3il
    @someguy-bv3il 3 ปีที่แล้ว +414

    Vlad: who are you?
    Dracula: I'm you but fanfic

  • @GeneralLuigiTBC
    @GeneralLuigiTBC 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2233

    Comet Sighted
    The end is nigh... but not for me!
    +2.0 to Army Morale for the next year

  • @Duke_of_Lorraine
    @Duke_of_Lorraine 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1061

    Hardest part of Vlad Dracula's reign : always switching between the Turks, Magyars and Slavs instead of sticking to the same civilization for the entire campaign

    • @diegokaqui60
      @diegokaqui60 3 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      age of empires 2 definitive edition

    • @espio87
      @espio87 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Well, he does seem to like adding variety on whom he's sticking...

    • @or_gluzman561Peace_IL_PS
      @or_gluzman561Peace_IL_PS 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      so amplitude studio humankind than

    • @Duke_of_Lorraine
      @Duke_of_Lorraine 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@diegokaqui60 it is also in the HD edition with the Forgotten expansion, though it indeed has been improved for the DE

    • @cgt3704
      @cgt3704 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Thats our history, sir

  • @dokjastopsimp2370
    @dokjastopsimp2370 3 ปีที่แล้ว +231

    Fun fact: Despite Vlad the Impaler being the best known Romanian ruler among the rest of the world, the cousin which was mentioned in this video is probably the most successful ruler and most loved by Romanians.

    • @kushagrakhandelwal6303
      @kushagrakhandelwal6303 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      You mean Vladislav?

    • @razvanandreiantonescurogoz4236
      @razvanandreiantonescurogoz4236 3 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      @@kushagrakhandelwal6303 Stephen the Great and Holy (Stephen III of Moldavia)

    • @alexandrub8786
      @alexandrub8786 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@kushagrakhandelwal6303 no the one that appears at 3:00

    • @johnmanole4779
      @johnmanole4779 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@kushagrakhandelwal6303 vladislav 2nd didnt do much during his rule

    • @burpbot7555
      @burpbot7555 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Yep, Stefan was the absolute success story of a romanian voivode, even tho he apparently had a few screws loose himself.

  • @asbestosfish_
    @asbestosfish_ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +368

    Vlad III’s reign could be summarised with one slow, apoplectic head turn after another, as civil strife popped up like whack-a-moles.

  • @BlueflameKing1
    @BlueflameKing1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +185

    Any time the term Blood Oaths are mentioned, you know this is going to be good.

  • @paulchapman8023
    @paulchapman8023 3 ปีที่แล้ว +361

    When Otto von Bismarck predicted a “great European war” over “some damned foolish thing in the Balkans,” he probably knew how bloody the history of the Balkans was, and how many damned foolish things had already happened there.

    • @vaiyt
      @vaiyt 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Wallachia is not usually considered part of the Balkans, but sure

    • @sikertsok225
      @sikertsok225 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      @@vaiyt Balkans for Germans was the same backwater thing as eastern/middle Europe sooooooo

    • @uyuman1
      @uyuman1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@sikertsok225 So anything east of german lands?

    • @cgt3704
      @cgt3704 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@sikertsok225 well thats arrogance. Plain and simple

    • @thornangel16
      @thornangel16 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Not an uncommon thing back in those days.

  • @jonasdrejerjensen
    @jonasdrejerjensen 3 ปีที่แล้ว +246

    ok i know it's a common name but I can't really get over the idea of the sentence.
    "I am Vlad "Dracula" Tepes and this is my cousin Steven"

    • @leonzoful
      @leonzoful 3 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      Well, his cousing name actually goes like, Stephen the Great and Holy. So yeah it would go more like, "I'm Vlad III Dracula the Impaler and this is my cousin Stephen the Great and Holy."

    • @Trexmaster12
      @Trexmaster12 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      *Stephen

    • @paulcojocaru6982
      @paulcojocaru6982 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      It's actually an anglicized version of the name Ștefan.

    • @kevinboros7427
      @kevinboros7427 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Stephen is actually more renowned in Romania than Vlad. He is the most popular Romanian ruler, by far.

    • @Kaiserboo1871
      @Kaiserboo1871 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@kevinboros7427Is this Stephen the very same Stephen III

  • @napoleonibonaparte7198
    @napoleonibonaparte7198 3 ปีที่แล้ว +149

    Other countries on the comet: Stability -1
    Vlad III on the comet: Discipline +10.0

  • @amwoodco3049
    @amwoodco3049 3 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    Man, the eyes. You guys really emphasize the intensity of this character by breaking your usual molds. The eyes, and the moving animations of him cleaning his sword. Wonderful use of your medium.

  • @jasonblalock4429
    @jasonblalock4429 3 ปีที่แล้ว +55

    6:35 This is why I love history. Even GRRM wouldn't go "but then plague broke out and killed everyone" to end a subplot.

    • @kingoliever1
      @kingoliever1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Worst plot twist always, even ended the reconquest of Rome always a bummer. Same whit the Mongols, story´s ends often whit succession crisis.

  • @DragoniteSpam
    @DragoniteSpam 3 ปีที่แล้ว +212

    4:39 Why let a little [familial extermination] get in the way of a good crusade?

  • @PatTriesAgain
    @PatTriesAgain 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I've been suggesting this for so long . As a Romanian only living 3 hours away from the castle this man lived in , it's incredible to ser our rich history being talked about . Thank you Extra Credits , eveyone on thr team , amd everyone who suggested this topic . Mulțumesc

  • @timushpetru1112
    @timushpetru1112 3 ปีที่แล้ว +302

    Maybe a series on Stephan the Great and the holy? (Vlad's cousin) He is the most popular figurehead in both Romania and Moldova

    • @claudiu-mihaipuiu1221
      @claudiu-mihaipuiu1221 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Rightfully so, considering he won a very large number of battles against mostly numerically superior foes. He lost only 2 battles if memory serves right and even those weren't that bad considering the enemy was never really able to take advantage of these victories.

    • @davidl2684
      @davidl2684 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      The most popular historical figure in Romania is probably either Vlad Dracula or Michael the Brave (Mihai Viteazul). The latter united the 3 Romanian principalities into a personal union in the year 1600.

    • @timushpetru1112
      @timushpetru1112 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@davidl2684 as a romanian, i stand by my point

    • @yj9032
      @yj9032 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      He was an evil person. He caused the fall of paganism and spread the primitive ideology called Christianity.

    • @claudiu-mihaipuiu1221
      @claudiu-mihaipuiu1221 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@yj9032 The fall of what now? There was no paganism left in either of the Romanian principalities by that point and all three of them had been thoroughly Christian for a while now. You sure you're not confusing the date here, mate?

  • @williamtheconqueror7807
    @williamtheconqueror7807 3 ปีที่แล้ว +328

    A loyal boyar? That just sounds like an oxymoron.

    • @JustAGuyWhoLikesStuff.
      @JustAGuyWhoLikesStuff. 3 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      Peter the Great agrees.

    • @williamtheconqueror7807
      @williamtheconqueror7807 3 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      @@JustAGuyWhoLikesStuff. Ivan the Terrible would as well.

    • @impervas5801
      @impervas5801 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@williamtheconqueror7807 He even created a special organization to solve this problem - the oprichnina.

    • @typacsk
      @typacsk 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Either that, or the sequel to "The Rural Juror."

    • @KasumiRINA
      @KasumiRINA 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@impervas5801 they literally still work, renamed to KGB and then to FSB

  • @thespecial3877
    @thespecial3877 3 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    very happy to see that a major youtube channel is doing content about Romanian history. i myself am from Romania, and as important if not more is Stefan the Great ' story

  • @Joe-vu5kr
    @Joe-vu5kr 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    This guy's backstory really is heart wrenching. What a chaotic place and time to exist as the prince of..

    • @v.emiltheii-nd.8094
      @v.emiltheii-nd.8094 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yep. We were Poland but worse during that period.

  • @BlueGrimgrin
    @BlueGrimgrin 3 ปีที่แล้ว +166

    Reading about Vlad Tepes makes just about every other version of Dracula seem tame by comparison. Dracula's a problem if you like ignoring warnings from superstitious peasants and hanging with pale people after sunset, otherwise you're probably fine. If you are less honest than Ned Flanders you are at risk of impalement from 'ol Vlad. Or if you're a boyar, or a beggar, or cripple, or if he thinks you're lazy, or a thief, or not showing the proper respect, or a Turk, you risk a very short life filled with mostly very bad things.

    • @giacomoromano8842
      @giacomoromano8842 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Yet, Transylvanian thinks of him super highly and i spoke personally with many of them. So i still believe that most of the massacre and slaughter are just overly exaggerated... except the accounts on the turks. Those are most probably reals.

    • @AnatolianHittite
      @AnatolianHittite 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@giacomoromano8842 Turks killed the Vlad.None of them is a Timurlane.You could not resist the sword of the Turks.

    • @Inscrypter
      @Inscrypter 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Ooorr only who adore Vlad had a chance to survive on that environment. Therefore anyone coming from there held him in great regards.

    • @SvenElven
      @SvenElven 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@giacomoromano8842 What about the incident where he trapped all the beggars of a town in a big hall luring them with the promise of a banquet, and then locking the doors and setting the building on fire?

    • @mabeSc
      @mabeSc 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@SvenElven That was definitely not his highest point, ops.
      But I do have no idea why, instead of putting the beggars to work for a decent wage (or in the military), he decided to kill them. Laying some bricks for some castle or fortification does not require much education or skills, you see it done once or twice and you can do it, too.
      I guess he did not experience poverty given that, well, he was the son of a voivode. No idea, really, has someone got sources on this? Has he ever tried to make them work instead of slaughtering them? Are there even any sources on this?

  • @pandabear4565
    @pandabear4565 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    I love how vlad has actual eyes. It makes him look way more menacing

  • @Tytotius
    @Tytotius 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I just can't express enough how much I enjoyed the delivery of the last line. So sinister and foreboding. Great job, Matthew!
    Edit: Not to discredit all of the amazing work that has went into this series so far! All of you guys have put in some of the most informed and entertaining content on the internet and I enjoy watching every Extra History series and also a lot of the work output in other series!

  • @colonalleedle1361
    @colonalleedle1361 3 ปีที่แล้ว +83

    Man , just wait until Vlad finds out how to make s’mores.

  • @Paveway-chan
    @Paveway-chan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +86

    "The dark fire will not avail you, flame of Udun!"
    - Vlad, probably

    • @weldonwin
      @weldonwin 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      "Do you not know who I am?" - Vlad, before impaling someone

  • @ShinigamiSparda
    @ShinigamiSparda 3 ปีที่แล้ว +84

    Wow. Actually turned down a chance for revenge and sided with the man who killed his father and brother. You don’t often hear about that kind of restraint.

    • @mcallisterwill
      @mcallisterwill 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      You'd almost think he wanted to be king or something ;)

  • @shawnheatherly
    @shawnheatherly 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    Considering the cruel executions he is famous for, I'm kind of amazed to learn Vlad was also willing to work with people who had killed his family because that's just politics.

  • @eugenbaicea2810
    @eugenbaicea2810 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Vlad was one of the greatest Romanian heroes of old. You will find everyone in Romania thinks of him as an example of ruthless honesty, and a hero of our people. He did what was necessary in those times to preserve our people.

  • @SneakyDeaky2
    @SneakyDeaky2 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I love how intense he is all the time. Captures him perfectly!

  • @letsmessup648
    @letsmessup648 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    1:35 I love this channel's comedy

  • @Valavaern
    @Valavaern 3 ปีที่แล้ว +69

    That's a heck of a mustache for a 17 year old~

    • @frankreberto9637
      @frankreberto9637 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      They were built different back then

    • @spinner771
      @spinner771 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Certain Europeans are similar to middle easterners (hairy)

    • @mabeSc
      @mabeSc 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@spinner771 Not really, they represented him like this as this is the only painting showing him available as far as I know.
      Am sure he had much less of a beard but who knows, maybe he had the beard genetics going for him.
      Also in regards to hairy Europeans, not really. You just notice the hair more on Romanians and Latin people in general because they tend to have black eyes, black hair and so on. People in Western (minus Spain, for the most part) to Central Europe (and Scandinavia) seem to be less hair because many are blonde thus it's much less noticeable, given that darker colors absorb light much better.

  • @jaeden1132
    @jaeden1132 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Usually I really dislike watching these videos as they come out. I always partially forget what happened in the previous episode, and it's nice learning the whole story at once as it helps me remember more details. But this one is very good, excited for the next one.

  • @adhyatmikkhanna
    @adhyatmikkhanna 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks!

    • @extrahistory
      @extrahistory  ปีที่แล้ว

      Thank you for helping support our channel and the amazing people that work here!

  • @akabhirav
    @akabhirav 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks

  • @Artur_M.
    @Artur_M. 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Vlad had a nice moustache for a seventeen-year-old. :)
    Seriously though, I had no idea that Dracula himself fought against Polish forces (the intervention in Moldavia of 1450 is a rather obscure topic, even within the reign of Casimir IV Jagiellon, let alone in the Polish history as a whole). Thanks for teaching me that!
    BTW Vlad's cousin Stephen, future Stephen III the Great of Moldavia, could get his own series. On the HistoryMarche channel, you can find a preaty sweet video about the Battle of Vaslui, 1475, where he defeated the Ottomans (this time with Poes as his allies).

  • @Mr_M_History
    @Mr_M_History 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The real thing is actually so much more interesting than what Hollywood makes it out to be. Thanks so much for making this content!

  • @alexmazurek18
    @alexmazurek18 3 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    4:44
    Extra History is as good as ever.

    • @SvenElven
      @SvenElven 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @One beat brony That’s nostalgia talking. Matt is an ace narrator, better than 99.9% of TH-cam. But yeah, the sped-up voice was pretty cute.

  • @crashstudi0s
    @crashstudi0s 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    "raising the stakes" What a gruesome yet funny pun you got there

  • @taraduplessis5163
    @taraduplessis5163 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Absolutely love every episode! Been here since 2018. Sending love from South Africa!

  • @xPhenom41x
    @xPhenom41x 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I remember reading about Vlad a few years ago. In my readings, I found out how he found out the most optimal way of implaling someone. The logs used for impaling were blunt on the end. Pointy ends had a tendency of getting stuck.
    That was truly crazy stuff they did.

  • @InquisitorThomas
    @InquisitorThomas 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    I hope we get a full series on Hunyadi one day, he's a remarkably interesting and important person, but isn't well known outside of the Balkans/East Europe.

    • @SvenElven
      @SvenElven 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I’d like one about Mattias Corvinus!

  • @vasile-simionsularea1978
    @vasile-simionsularea1978 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Vlad's favorite food: stake, so rare that you can hear the screaming. AAA, and also skewers

  • @garrettbyrd7426
    @garrettbyrd7426 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This foray into Vlad II is making me kinda want a series on the Hussite Wars or just on Jan Zizka, leader of the Taborites.

  • @thesymbiotenation.4552
    @thesymbiotenation.4552 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    We love how Vlad looks so insane in this series...

  • @m_b_lmackenzie4510
    @m_b_lmackenzie4510 3 ปีที่แล้ว +70

    My mind when I see Vlad Tepes in this video: His pin is not saying 8, his pin is not saying 8, his pin is not saying 8.

  • @AlexEvanScott
    @AlexEvanScott 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thanks for making this, Extra Credits!!

  • @jdrobertson42
    @jdrobertson42 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Would you ever consider doing a series on John Hunyadi. Vlad is certainly more famous in the west, but John Hunyadi was one of the most prominent figures of his time.

  • @casianneagu5273
    @casianneagu5273 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I am so happy that you are doing a series about one of the heroes of our country!! Even though he was VERY cruel, he was a great millitary leader and a protecter of our lands

  • @vazul666
    @vazul666 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    First: I'm pleasantly surprised by the pronunciation of Hunyadi.
    Close second: damn that guy had a lot on his plate! Respect!

  • @progadkri5662
    @progadkri5662 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    6:11 now that's metal!

  • @KnightsofGaming2016
    @KnightsofGaming2016 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I don't know why I got nostalgia whenever I watch these videos. Maybe because I used to watch these history videos back during the previous narrator's (forgot his name) almost every single day.

  • @ComradeNegrisor69
    @ComradeNegrisor69 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Small correction, 08:20 the spikes were not sharpened, they would use a blunt tip(that's why the tip was greased) to prolong the pain and keep the subject alive longer.

  • @CactusJackIV
    @CactusJackIV 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Keep up all the awesome work! Love the channel!

  • @brendangormley3117
    @brendangormley3117 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Vlad III has to be one of the most distinctive animations EC has ever made. And it's entirely because of the eyes

  • @onehitkill5816
    @onehitkill5816 3 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    This dude he is low key PERFECT as the fit for an evil Villain in a story.

    • @JohnnyLodge2
      @JohnnyLodge2 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      He is the victim and hero here. Mehmed II is the villain of all 15th century Balkans

    • @toprak3479
      @toprak3479 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Anti-hero or sympathetic villain

    • @azazel688
      @azazel688 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@therealchen He’s not wrong there, imagine saying to your kids after you’re dead, that whoever takes the throne should kill all his brothers, kinda messed up.

    • @JohnnyLodge2
      @JohnnyLodge2 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@therealchen there is no bigger villain in all of history than the Turks. Don't listen to this channel's "akshually your children being taken as slaves and brainwashed into military service to raid your village and take more children for the sultan" idiocy. Vlad impaling thousands of Turks on the road from Constantinople was unbelievably based.

    • @enesbilgin937
      @enesbilgin937 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@azazel688 To prevent civil wars. Have you ever read about Spanish and Austrian succession wars? Shits brutal man. Far more brutal than killing few brothers

  • @1821-y6n
    @1821-y6n 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    What a legend. May he live forever in heaven.

  • @ryanmalone4464
    @ryanmalone4464 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I love the character design for vlad the impalier.

  • @defender9200
    @defender9200 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Zoe meowing at the end is the best part of the whole video

  • @SAMSAM-bc2eo
    @SAMSAM-bc2eo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The Extra history series is the beeeeeeest!!!

  • @dakshsingh4780
    @dakshsingh4780 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    This is a very interesting topic waiting for the rest of his reign and his very under appretiated life (compared to the fiction of Hollywood)

  • @mrastronomic4604
    @mrastronomic4604 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Man, as a Romanian, this video's pretty good ngl.

  • @shwaig1
    @shwaig1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Can't stop cracking up at those EYES.

  • @mrredeyes7021
    @mrredeyes7021 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I love the way they draw his eyes

  • @alienworm1999
    @alienworm1999 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    8:43 why was I expecting James Bisonette?

  • @euansmith3699
    @euansmith3699 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    "Raising the Stakes" 😂😂😂

  • @everythingwithashton5876
    @everythingwithashton5876 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love that his eyes are just constantly fuming angry

  • @fivefs
    @fivefs 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    So ready for this part 2

  • @chrisbarber8485
    @chrisbarber8485 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    That timing with the music is always on point

  • @qwerty83408
    @qwerty83408 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    This art/animation is SO BEAUTIFUL. You have come a long way from the cute/simplistic art of the Punic War.

  • @michaelconnell1010
    @michaelconnell1010 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    So young Vlad would be a Saber class. Next week we see his Lancer qualifications 😈

  • @oleksandrshymanskyi1129
    @oleksandrshymanskyi1129 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Awesome series!

  • @CesarIsaacPerez
    @CesarIsaacPerez 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Dude this sounds like it would make a great HBO TV series!

  • @ilietudor6878
    @ilietudor6878 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Fun fact for non Romanians : Steven (Ștefan) was voted by Romanians as our greatest national leader. He was a better commander than Vlad, plus he was a builder and had a long reign of 47 years (the second longest after King Carol the first)

  • @draconicpeasantsheep
    @draconicpeasantsheep 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    "politics isn't personal" now there's a statement rarely utilized in history XD

  • @merrylildeath3113
    @merrylildeath3113 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    that is the best thumbnail for vlad ive ever seen jesus

  • @charliefarmer4365
    @charliefarmer4365 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    May I suggest doing a series on Elizabeth I of England?Her life is extremely interesting.

  • @matthewdoherty803
    @matthewdoherty803 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    1:30 that has to be one of the best scenes you guys have ever made

    • @stephenflint3640
      @stephenflint3640 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I raise you the shift of 6:36 to 6:39

    • @matthewdoherty803
      @matthewdoherty803 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@stephenflint3640 i raise you 3:22 to 3:24

    • @stephenflint3640
      @stephenflint3640 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@matthewdoherty803 ah yes, Eastern Europe's version of Tom and Jerry; John and Vladdy

    • @matthewdoherty803
      @matthewdoherty803 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@stephenflint3640 id watch that

  • @IchNzr
    @IchNzr 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Man I love both Mehmed and Vlad. Would like to see how their relationship grows.

  • @EMAbreuLucas
    @EMAbreuLucas 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Can't wait to see when the Belmont house comes to take on Dracula with a big chain

    • @katx9697
      @katx9697 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      You missed the part, of when he made the deal with Charles Dance and turned into Gary Oldman.

  • @dt5994
    @dt5994 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Incel princeling: loses to his enemies
    Chad prince: defeats his enemies
    Vlad, Prince of Wallachia: I M P A L E

    • @tomaalimosh
      @tomaalimosh 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You know how all weapons of war tend to be fallic symbols/ Well, Vlad takes that shit to a whole new level!

  • @yaqbulyakkerbat4190
    @yaqbulyakkerbat4190 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I love how inhumanely angry you draw vlad

  • @arvidgreat
    @arvidgreat 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I gotta say I respect Vlad. He made his enemies fear him, The commonfolk loved him for his honesty and fair rule, and became so legendary he inspired one of the most iconic monsters in the world. and well having the name son of the dragon is awsome. In a way He's story is similar in some ways to Daenarys Targaryens story. exiled royalty, relcaim throne, awfull family members, wants to be fair and good rulers, and decent into madness.

  • @ryanaliakhtar3416
    @ryanaliakhtar3416 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Great episode

  • @davidlampreia
    @davidlampreia 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Vlad the impaler had arrived. And his enemies would suffer. Such a perfect line.

  • @elbaacosta2843
    @elbaacosta2843 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Bro, you got me an A+ on my history test thanks bro you’re a real Homie

  • @wikiuser92
    @wikiuser92 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    6:08 *"YOU SHALL NOT PASS!"*

  • @Copy-x2k
    @Copy-x2k 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    The Extra History it my Favorite in ur Channel because i Love History Since Historical Till The Alternate History [I sorry if i have some Wrong Gammar]

  • @aidanrogers4438
    @aidanrogers4438 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    IIRC I read somewhere that Vlad’s men got so good an impaling people on wooden spikes that they could do so without killing them straight away, leaving them to essentially bleed out while impaled all the way through.

    • @chukyuniqul
      @chukyuniqul 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      And does it sound like fact or myth to you?

    • @georgy2596
      @georgy2596 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It sounds pretty real

    • @aidanrogers4438
      @aidanrogers4438 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@chukyuniqul Considering all the various ways of torture they had in the Medieval/early Renaissance era, I could believe this. Torture wasn’t just to kill someone, some of it was designed to be hideously painful while keeping the victim alive for as long as possible.

  • @mtorngren15
    @mtorngren15 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    The animations of Vlad have me in stitches 😂😂😂 well done

  • @ana-one4681
    @ana-one4681 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Intro gave me chills I love it

  • @fdeeaa
    @fdeeaa 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Other Romanian figures that are worth checking out: Stephen the Great, Michael the Brave, King Ferdinand I and Queen Mary, Lady Chiajna

    • @ktheterkuceder6825
      @ktheterkuceder6825 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Don't forget the ultimate badass: Skanderbeg.

    • @twahaalim5712
      @twahaalim5712 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@ktheterkuceder6825 wait isn't he Albanian?

    • @ktheterkuceder6825
      @ktheterkuceder6825 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@twahaalim5712 Yes. Still beats all of the above in badassery.

    • @cristhomsonius6620
      @cristhomsonius6620 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ktheterkuceder6825 I always knew that the Serbians hated you for a reason

    • @ktheterkuceder6825
      @ktheterkuceder6825 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@cristhomsonius6620 Well they didn have badasses but not like skanderbeg.

  • @fredesca8648
    @fredesca8648 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Yet another good video. Keep it up.

  • @Its_just_Avi
    @Its_just_Avi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Cool episode,this one was😀😀👍👍

  • @oolooo
    @oolooo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    A hero .A Latin Christian hero who stood strong against the Turk Islamic horde who destroyed his home and nation , destroyed his family and slaughtered his people .Long live Rumania , long live the Pan-Latin nation and long live Vlad Draculae .

  • @Ryu_D
    @Ryu_D 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you for the video.

  • @WobblesandBean
    @WobblesandBean 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I love how Vlad has the same crazy eyes throughout the entire thing 😂

  • @GreyfoxRaposa
    @GreyfoxRaposa 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Seriously, I would love a historical movie (or even series) about him.
    He's such an interesting historical figure.

    • @johnmanole4779
      @johnmanole4779 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      There is a film here th-cam.com/video/VqbagKqtbAQ/w-d-xo.html

    • @johnmanole4779
      @johnmanole4779 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      2 hours film about vlad (just so you know, the communist did put some things in it to make vlad more positive. Ex: they dont show how we attacked the Saxons from transylvania,