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Book I

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V

The Rise of the Basarabs

Book I

The Rise of the Basarabs

Book II

Blood Legacy

Book III

The Rise of the Basarabs

Book IV

The Rise of the Basarabs

Book I

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The Rise of the Basarabs

1426 AD

Before the legend, there was a dynasty.

Before Dracula, there was his blood.

In the saga of V The First, the opening volume, Rise of the Basarabs charts the birth of a dynasty whose shadow would one day darken all of Europe.

The tale begins in the year 1300 AD, when the warlord Basarab defied the Holy Crown of Hungary and carved a fledgling realm from the wild Carpathian marches, rising as the first Prince of Wallachia.

A century later, as the year 1400 AD dawns, his great-grandson Prince Mircea I rules that mountain-bound land—unaware that a chance meeting with a girl barely a woman will ignite a forbidden love, and that their union will bring forth a son history would come to name Prince Vlad I — Dracul, forefather of the legend called Dracula.

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V

The III Acts

Act I

The Realm of Mankind

Janna Nováková—a servant girl, beautiful and haunted, yet marked by destiny. From her womb will come sons who command armies and shape nations. And in time, a grandson whose name will thunder through the ages: Prince Vlad III—Dracula.

Act II

The Unseen Realm

Janna Nováková—a servant girl, beautiful and haunted, yet marked by destiny. From her womb will come sons who command armies and shape nations. And in time, a grandson whose name will thunder through the ages: Prince Vlad III—Dracula.

Act III

The Clash of the Realms

Janna Nováková—a servant girl, beautiful and haunted, yet marked by destiny. From her womb will come sons who command armies and shape nations. And in time, a grandson whose name will thunder through the ages: Prince Vlad III—Dracula.

Act I

The Realm of Mankind

“In an age of plague and prophecy, not all rulers wear crowns.”

This is The Realm of Mankind—a world of crowns and crucifixes, of wars fought for soil and souls. The century groans beneath famine and plague, yet men dream of kingdoms and write their legends in blood. But every triumph bears a shadow, every oath a secret. For while princes rise and lovers meet by chance, the veil of night conceals an older truth. And though this tale begins with men, it does not belong to them alone—for in the silence beyond the torchlight, another world waits to be unveiled.

V

The 4 Parts

In a land carved by blood, legend, and ancient dread, a cursed bloodline, a love both fated and forbidden, and a forgotten prophecy converge—awakening an ancient goddess and unleashing a war for dominion between creatures of night and the remnants of mankind. The fate of the world rests in the hands of the Basarab line, where every drop of blood holds the memory of death… and the promise of rebirth.

Part I

The Edge of All Things

Before Dracula, there was a bloodline.

Before the legend, there was Basarab I—warlord, son of a founder, and architect of a realm carved between empires. In an age when Wallachia stood as a vassal to the Kingdom of Hungary, he forged sovereignty through iron and oath, laying the first stone of a dynasty that would, generations later, branch into the House of Drăculești.

The fourteenth century—1300 to 1400 A.D.—was a crucible of war, plague, famine, and forbidden love. Out of its fire rose a lineage written not only in chronicles, but in blood. This is where it began.

Part II

The Secres of the Moon

By the turn of the fifteenth century, Mircea the Elder has endured the theatre of war, the venom of betrayal, attempts upon his life, the ecstasy of forbidden love, and the desolation that follows loss.

His fate alters with the birth of a son—yet the child does not arrive alone. With him comes Dacianne, and with her, a shadow that will not recede.

Born of love rather than lawful union, the boy is destined to ascend his father’s throne as Vlad II Dracul, sworn Knight of the Order of the Dragon.

Here begin the first embers of the Dragon’s line, with the House of Drăculești.

Part III

Above the Catacombs

Born into the illustrious Basarab line, heir to monarchs and indomitable warlords, Vlad II Dracul spent his youth not in comfort, but as a royal hostage at the court of Sigismund of Luxembourg, who came, in time, to regard him as a son.

There he was knighted into the Order of the Dragon—and from that solemn oath he took the name Dracul, and gave his house the title Drăculești.

Yet what history does not record is this: sworn to defend the innocent and vanquish evil, Vlad was forced to confront an abyss few dare to imagine—one whispered of only in nightmares and ancient tales.

Part IV

The Unravelling

In the long shadow of inherited power, unrest gathers beneath crown and altar.

Ancient blood awakens; prophecy breathes again. At its center stands Princess Vasilissa—radiant and unyielding—her beauty veiling a will tempered by ambition and forbidden oath. In silent halls where betrayal is written in blood, a child is conceived of destiny, not mercy.

His birth is not salvation, but arrival.

As he grows, so does the weight upon him—omens in his shadow, fear in hushed prayer.

In 1428, Vlad III Dracula is born. The dragon rises not in flame, but in blood.

Act: I

Part I

The Edge of All Things

A man, a girl and

a date with fate

“At the edge of empires and the edge of night, a prince’s heart strays beyond the marble halls of Wallachia to a Bohemian servant girl who has known only the weight of toil. In their stolen glances blooms a love too tender for the world it inhabits—while beneath their feet, in the hush of candlelit woods, an ageless witch named Sorina keeps her centuries of secrets and teaches the bright-eyed child Ornela the old songs of the earth. Beyond them all, the Hovarts—lords in name, predators in deed—reveal how dark the realm of mankind can be. Thus begins the first fracture in the world of men and the first stirring of the hidden underworld… at the Edge of All Things.”