Thread:MediocreKnight/@comment-27666783-20200227215226/@comment-39280634-20200310204619

So the movies just added that in. No surprise, considering some stories; Vlad was indeed known to impale any and all enemies of Transilvania, and as everyone knows, displayed entire fields of such victims in order to intimidate all who would dare attack him (specificaly, turks or otomans). It was said that often times he would have breakfast or dinner in front of said fields in order to appear even more 'unhinged'. For that reason, people believed he was feasting on the very impaled victims and thus started the whole vampire schtick. I guess this is what yhe movies used.

And you're right; he should have been proportional in his punishment, but we don't know how the merchants disrespected him. It could have been about theft, something which in reality, Vlad Tepes also punished with death. Because of that, you could leave a wagon full of gold in the middle of the streets, over night, and no one would dare fucking touch it. Perhaps another nod ?