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.
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
@@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?
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
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.
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.
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!
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Dracula was loyal to his duty instead of looking for personal revenge, even if Hunyadi killed his own father. Can we all appreciate how a maniac armed with stakes was more mature than modern politicians?
Dracula likely thought that personal vengeance would come later, if not by his hands, then by Gods, which given the fact Hunyadi dies to a plague steamroller, looks like God got that one for him. I just like to think Dracula was busy one day, planning this thing or that, sharping a blade or a stake for battle or experiment, maybe performing some civil counciling with his people. A messenger arrives to whisper an urgent missive of the death of his Patron, Hunyadi, to an outbreak of plague. Eyes flash, moustache bristles, and a smile climbs its way up his lips and cheeks as righteous vindication and vengeance was wrought, not by his hands, but by the hand of the Divine.
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)
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.
Vlad's cousin,Stephen the Great de Basarab should get his own series,the dude built a monestery in Moldova after every won battle,and there are more than 40 monesteries in Moldova(both Romanian Moldova and the Moldova east of the prut)
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
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.
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 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.
*Few months later* Janissaries walking around the Constantinople: Alright, who wants to see Vlad's head on a stake? ------- Eventually when Vlad was killed by the Ottomans, his head was cut off and put on a stake as a act of revenge and punishment for what he did to his people in Wallachia, his head paraded around Constantinople/Konstantiniyye and buried somewhere in the city.
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.
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 .
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,
Ottomans: *Impales enemies on stakes and displays them outside of Constantinople* Vlad The Impaler of Wallachia: *does the same just outside his kingdom* Ottomans: wait, that's illegal
He did it INSIDE his kingdom. What really shocked the Ottomans was the fact he didn't just impale the Ottoman captives he'd kidnapped but also a lot of clearly Wallachian civilians and boyars who'd disobeyed his orders to destroy their fields and flocks then retreat. NONE of the previous Ottoman opponents had used scorched earth tactics to stop their advance before, and here was Vlad applying it in the most sociopathic way possible. To them it was as if the Prince of Wallachia was saying he'd rather destroy his own lands and people than hand it over to them, and that promised them an utterly pointless campaign against someone who'd already proven himself utterly merciless to the defeated. It was a lose-lose situation.
It never fails to bowl me over to be talking about renaisance europe and ottoman invasions and to be reminded that, oh yeah, the ROMAN EMPIRE IS STILL HERE
You've got to admire a man who truly understands what's at stake.
He understands them because he put them there
Badum tsss
I se what you did there
Bruh
He understands what's at stake, because he's stakeing a claim to the ottomans
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
If your parents were slaughtered, you’d probably choose vengeance too.
@@BookWormiest r/cursedcomments
It would’ve been nice to have some focus during that part of my life
And also it’s 4 o’clock better get some impaling in before supper
@@BookWormiest He wants to major in assassination
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.
He indeed sticked Whith his priorities pun intended
Oh and he never stopped sticking stuff
Of course! That is the bare minimum. After all the stakes were high.
No NO his got a point.
@@JoeOfGoa a sharp point on each end.
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.
Same
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.
Same as i
I totally agree. well worth the wait it's every bit what I hoped for
Vlad the inhaler
I love how vlad looks like he could be his father's father, at 17..
Vlad tepesh the only man ever to have cut his fathers ambilical chord
On
@@thesnortfort lol.
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.
You mean Vladislav?
@@kushagrakhandelwal6303 Stephen the Great and Holy (Stephen III of Moldavia)
@@kushagrakhandelwal6303 no the one that appears at 3:00
@@kushagrakhandelwal6303 vladislav 2nd didnt do much during his rule
Yep, Stefan was the absolute success story of a romanian voivode, even tho he apparently had a few screws loose himself.
Vlad III’s reign could be summarised with one slow, apoplectic head turn after another, as civil strife popped up like whack-a-moles.
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"
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."
*Stephen
It's actually an anglicized version of the name Ștefan.
Stephen is actually more renowned in Romania than Vlad. He is the most popular Romanian ruler, by far.
@@kevinboros7427Is this Stephen the very same Stephen III
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.
Worst plot twist always, even ended the reconquest of Rome always a bummer. Same whit the Mongols, story´s ends often whit succession crisis.
4:39 Why let a little [familial extermination] get in the way of a good crusade?
DEUS VULT
Why should you
Maybe a series on Stephan the Great and the holy? (Vlad's cousin) He is the most popular figurehead in both Romania and Moldova
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.
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.
@@davidl2684 as a romanian, i stand by my point
He was an evil person. He caused the fall of paganism and spread the primitive ideology called Christianity.
@@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?
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
I love how vlad has actual eyes. It makes him look way more menacing
This guy's backstory really is heart wrenching. What a chaotic place and time to exist as the prince of..
Yep. We were Poland but worse during that period.
Man , just wait until Vlad finds out how to make s’mores.
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.
You'd almost think he wanted to be king or something ;)
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.
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!
"raising the stakes" What a gruesome yet funny pun you got there
I love how intense he is all the time. Captures him perfectly!
4:44
Extra History is as good as ever.
@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.
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).
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.
I’d like one about Mattias Corvinus!
Vlad's favorite food: stake, so rare that you can hear the screaming. AAA, and also skewers
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.
Yes, that would be an 8
@@sinthoras1917 Neither 8.
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.
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.
The real thing is actually so much more interesting than what Hollywood makes it out to be. Thanks so much for making this content!
"Raising the Stakes" 😂😂😂
Absolutely love every episode! Been here since 2018. Sending love from South Africa!
What a legend. May he live forever in heaven.
"politics isn't personal" now there's a statement rarely utilized in history XD
"It was personal to me" says every avenger.
Vlad the impaler had arrived. And his enemies would suffer. Such a perfect line.
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)
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.
I love the character design for vlad the impalier.
So young Vlad would be a Saber class. Next week we see his Lancer qualifications 😈
I see you're a person of Fate as well.
Can't wait to see when the Belmont house comes to take on Dracula with a big chain
You missed the part, of when he made the deal with Charles Dance and turned into Gary Oldman.
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.
Man, as a Romanian, this video's pretty good ngl.
Zoe meowing at the end is the best part of the whole video
I love the way they draw his eyes
Make Mehmet II series please
Dracula was loyal to his duty instead of looking for personal revenge, even if Hunyadi killed his own father.
Can we all appreciate how a maniac armed with stakes was more mature than modern politicians?
Dracula likely thought that personal vengeance would come later, if not by his hands, then by Gods, which given the fact Hunyadi dies to a plague steamroller, looks like God got that one for him.
I just like to think Dracula was busy one day, planning this thing or that, sharping a blade or a stake for battle or experiment, maybe performing some civil counciling with his people. A messenger arrives to whisper an urgent missive of the death of his Patron, Hunyadi, to an outbreak of plague. Eyes flash, moustache bristles, and a smile climbs its way up his lips and cheeks as righteous vindication and vengeance was wrought, not by his hands, but by the hand of the Divine.
The restraint is very much appreciated
@@stephenflint3640 you fool to think this id where the hunyadi line end we will meet a nother hunyadi very soon
@@krisztineni6272 Ah that's right, the one who betrayed Vlad and doomed the country, exactly like his father.
@@notyourdaddude1957 did he? i mean the guy im talking about had peace with the turks cuz the turks were scared of him
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)
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.
Other Romanian figures that are worth checking out: Stephen the Great, Michael the Brave, King Ferdinand I and Queen Mary, Lady Chiajna
Don't forget the ultimate badass: Skanderbeg.
@@ktheterkuceder6825 wait isn't he Albanian?
@@twahaalim5712 Yes. Still beats all of the above in badassery.
@@ktheterkuceder6825 I always knew that the Serbians hated you for a reason
@@cristhomsonius6620 Well they didn have badasses but not like skanderbeg.
I love how inhumanely angry you draw vlad
Vlad III has to be one of the most distinctive animations EC has ever made. And it's entirely because of the eyes
I love that his eyes are just constantly fuming angry
Vlad's cousin,Stephen the Great de Basarab should get his own series,the dude built a monestery in Moldova after every won battle,and there are more than 40 monesteries in Moldova(both Romanian Moldova and the Moldova east of the prut)
Imagine...all that wasted time...and resources
@@dacianatrif490 Monasteries were a really good source of income, and building them was a great way to find support from the Church and Low classes
@@dacianatrif490 It's called being pious and religion was pretty much the most important thing back in the day.
Awesome series!
I love how Vlad has the same crazy eyes throughout the entire thing 😂
1:30 that has to be one of the best scenes you guys have ever made
I raise you the shift of 6:36 to 6:39
@@stephenflint3640 i raise you 3:22 to 3:24
@@matthewdoherty803 ah yes, Eastern Europe's version of Tom and Jerry; John and Vladdy
@@stephenflint3640 id watch that
Thanks for making this, Extra Credits!!
Suddenly, FGO Dracula makes a lot of sense
Which one, berserker or lancer?
@@Rais-Codex Berserker
1:09 Vlad standing there, looking like an angry toad...
That timing with the music is always on point
It's good to be Romanian watching this
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
Comet : ayo bro im just passing
Vlad : a blessing from the lord
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.
We really need Gjergj Kastrioti Skanderbeg! Hope to see Skanderbeg in the future!
that is the best thumbnail for vlad ive ever seen jesus
"The 17 year old vlad" *Bursts our laughing at the crazy eyes and full mustache*
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.
And does it sound like fact or myth to you?
It sounds pretty real
@@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.
Man I love both Mehmed and Vlad. Would like to see how their relationship grows.
We will need a Hunyadis serries latter, to complement this one.
Vlad : Hey Mohamed , close your eyes.
Mohamed : Ok?
Vlad : Do you see something ?
Mohamed : No?
Vlad : That's the tribute I'm giving you .
Who the f is mohamed
@@utkugulgec5508 Mehmet the second Arabic name; also he was named Mehmet the conqueror after taking down Constantinople.
@@KsaBoss2010 mehmet is the turkified version of the name mohamed
*Few months later*
Janissaries walking around the Constantinople: Alright, who wants to see Vlad's head on a stake?
-------
Eventually when Vlad was killed by the Ottomans, his head was cut off and put on a stake as a act of revenge and punishment for what he did to his people in Wallachia, his head paraded around Constantinople/Konstantiniyye and buried somewhere in the city.
later Vlad's head was cut off and presented at Sultan Mehmet's court..
I love the way his eyes turn from normal to 👁 at the drop of a hat
Those ayes bring a new meaning to the death stare
*brutally impaling his victims so that history would remember him for this gruesome torture* MEOW that's RIGHT zoey YAYYY!!
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.
This art/animation is SO BEAUTIFUL. You have come a long way from the cute/simplistic art of the Punic War.
Someone needs to photoshop this Vlad face onto the “Stare Dad” meme
6:08 *"YOU SHALL NOT PASS!"*
Pleaaaseeeee make a series about MEHMED II. THE CONQUERER :D
Fear will keep the lesser bowyars in line. Fear of me and this stake.
Great episode
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 .
I'm still salty over the fall of Constantinople
as you should be. But maybe someday it will be in Greek hands again
...Holly's Comet? ;)
"Were buried alive with Vlad's older brother" IS CRAZY 😭
Thank you for the video.
Intro gave me chills I love it
Waiting for it for 3 days love from india
Really interesting to learn where the fanfic "Dracula" got inspiration from, keep it up...
Btw I've about romanian history before, but just a lil'
You need to make a history video about the 1955 Le mans because it never gets talked about as much
Yet another good video. Keep it up.
My favorite historical despot
nice short little series
Hunyadi: Watch me whip...Watch me Mehmet.
Vlad: Ooh watch me watch me..ooh watch me watch me.
I wish you were making these videos when i was in highschool
These videos srsly just make my day. So good!
0:40 A lot of beard for a teen....
Seriously, I would love a historical movie (or even series) about him.
He's such an interesting historical figure.
There is a film here th-cam.com/video/VqbagKqtbAQ/w-d-xo.html
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,
Ottomans: *Impales enemies on stakes and displays them outside of Constantinople*
Vlad The Impaler of Wallachia: *does the same just outside his kingdom*
Ottomans: wait, that's illegal
The Saxons, too.
He did it INSIDE his kingdom. What really shocked the Ottomans was the fact he didn't just impale the Ottoman captives he'd kidnapped but also a lot of clearly Wallachian civilians and boyars who'd disobeyed his orders to destroy their fields and flocks then retreat. NONE of the previous Ottoman opponents had used scorched earth tactics to stop their advance before, and here was Vlad applying it in the most sociopathic way possible. To them it was as if the Prince of Wallachia was saying he'd rather destroy his own lands and people than hand it over to them, and that promised them an utterly pointless campaign against someone who'd already proven himself utterly merciless to the defeated. It was a lose-lose situation.
do a series of mehmed II please it would be interesting
Vlad the true face of blood, guts, gore, and fear yeah
It never fails to bowl me over to be talking about renaisance europe and ottoman invasions and to be reminded that, oh yeah, the ROMAN EMPIRE IS STILL HERE
Not anymore in this narrative, but yes, it is amazing that the remnant of the Roman Empire still existed so late after the classical period.