@@alirthome6713 An awesome artist and a fantastic playlist for studying Japanese? Definately subbed, even if you never post anything to your own channel.😅
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.
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
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.
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."
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.
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
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
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.
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.
@@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?
@@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?
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.
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 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.
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.
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 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).
@@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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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
@@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.
@@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.
@@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
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,
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 .
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)
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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.
Whoever made the artistic decision to draw Vlad III with the crazy eyes and huge eyebrows, you deserve a raise.
Yes he does
@@thefirstkingdogo1126 awwwww thanks!
@@alirthome6713
An awesome artist and a fantastic playlist for studying Japanese? Definately subbed, even if you never post anything to your own channel.😅
All of their videos are 💯, I can even show these videos to my parents and these videos are also hilarious
Yes he looks adorable
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.
Comet Sighted
The end is nigh... but not for me!
+2.0 to Army Morale for the next year
Did someone say Paradox Entertainment!?
Eu4 reference pog!
@@timushpetru1112 Pog!
The economy, fools!
(-2 stability)
EU4 POGGERS!
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
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: who are you?
Dracula: I'm you but fanfic
Yeah.. basically!
Lol
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
age of empires 2 definitive edition
Well, he does seem to like adding variety on whom he's sticking...
so amplitude studio humankind than
@@diegokaqui60 it is also in the HD edition with the Forgotten expansion, though it indeed has been improved for the DE
Thats our history, sir
Vlad III’s reign could be summarised with one slow, apoplectic head turn after another, as civil strife popped up like whack-a-moles.
Any time the term Blood Oaths are mentioned, you know this is going to be good.
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.
Wallachia is not usually considered part of the Balkans, but sure
@@vaiyt Balkans for Germans was the same backwater thing as eastern/middle Europe sooooooo
@@sikertsok225 So anything east of german lands?
@@sikertsok225 well thats arrogance. Plain and simple
Not an uncommon thing back in those days.
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
Other countries on the comet: Stability -1
Vlad III on the comet: Discipline +10.0
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.
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?
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.
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.
I love how vlad has actual eyes. It makes him look way more menacing
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
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
4:39 Why let a little [familial extermination] get in the way of a good crusade?
DEUS VULT
Why should you
A loyal boyar? That just sounds like an oxymoron.
Peter the Great agrees.
@@JustAGuyWhoLikesStuff. Ivan the Terrible would as well.
@@williamtheconqueror7807 He even created a special organization to solve this problem - the oprichnina.
Either that, or the sequel to "The Rural Juror."
@@impervas5801 they literally still work, renamed to KGB and then to FSB
Man , just wait until Vlad finds out how to make s’mores.
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.
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.
@@giacomoromano8842 Turks killed the Vlad.None of them is a Timurlane.You could not resist the sword of the Turks.
Ooorr only who adore Vlad had a chance to survive on that environment. Therefore anyone coming from there held him in great regards.
@@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?
@@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?
I love how intense he is all the time. Captures him perfectly!
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 ;)
"The dark fire will not avail you, flame of Udun!"
- Vlad, probably
"Do you not know who I am?" - Vlad, before impaling someone
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 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.
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.
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.
We love how Vlad looks so insane in this series...
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 RUclips. 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).
1:35 I love this channel's comedy
That's a heck of a mustache for a 17 year old~
They were built different back then
Certain Europeans are similar to middle easterners (hairy)
@@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.
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!
The real thing is actually so much more interesting than what Hollywood makes it out to be. Thanks so much for making this content!
Absolutely love every episode! Been here since 2018. Sending love from South Africa!
Vlad's favorite food: stake, so rare that you can hear the screaming. AAA, and also skewers
What a legend. May he live forever in heaven.
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.
"raising the stakes" What a gruesome yet funny pun you got there
I love the character design for vlad the impalier.
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.
I love the way they draw his eyes
Vlad the impaler had arrived. And his enemies would suffer. Such a perfect line.
Man, as a Romanian, this video's pretty good ngl.
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.
Keep up all the awesome work! Love the channel!
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.
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
Vlad III has to be one of the most distinctive animations EC has ever made. And it's entirely because of the eyes
This dude he is low key PERFECT as the fit for an evil Villain in a story.
He is the victim and hero here. Mehmed II is the villain of all 15th century Balkans
Anti-hero or sympathetic villain
@@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.
@@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.
@@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
That timing with the music is always on point
Dude this sounds like it would make a great HBO TV series!
The Extra history series is the beeeeeeest!!!
I love that his eyes are just constantly fuming angry
So ready for this part 2
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.
I love how inhumanely angry you draw vlad
Awesome series!
Thanks for making this, Extra Credits!!
Zoe meowing at the end is the best part of the whole video
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
that is the best thumbnail for vlad ive ever seen jesus
Can't stop cracking up at those EYES.
First: I'm pleasantly surprised by the pronunciation of Hunyadi.
Close second: damn that guy had a lot on his plate! Respect!
Man I love both Mehmed and Vlad. Would like to see how their relationship grows.
Seriously, I would love a historical movie (or even series) about him.
He's such an interesting historical figure.
There is a film here ruclips.net/video/VqbagKqtbAQ/видео.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,
The art in this episode is particularly good in places
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.
"Raising the Stakes" 😂😂😂
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.
Bro, you got me an A+ on my history test thanks bro you’re a real Homie
Vlad reminding people that words and actions matter.
May I suggest doing a series on Elizabeth I of England?Her life is extremely interesting.
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.
This art/animation is SO BEAUTIFUL. You have come a long way from the cute/simplistic art of the Punic War.
Thank you for the video.
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 .
These videos srsly just make my day. So good!
Son of dragon is such a cool nickname
So good that I'm watching at 1 AM and (but) fell asleep after 5 minutes
Yet another good video. Keep it up.
Incel princeling: loses to his enemies
Chad prince: defeats his enemies
Vlad, Prince of Wallachia: I M P A L E
You know how all weapons of war tend to be fallic symbols/ Well, Vlad takes that shit to a whole new level!
Great episode
That is one epic mustache for a 17 year old.
You need to make a history video about the 1955 Le mans because it never gets talked about as much
Those ayes bring a new meaning to the death stare
Comet : ayo bro im just passing
Vlad : a blessing from the lord
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)
My favorite historical despot
"politics isn't personal" now there's a statement rarely utilized in history XD
"It was personal to me" says every avenger.
Make Mehmet II series please
Intro gave me chills I love it
Vlad is a hero