<P> Details of his early life are obscure , but it is mentioned `` he was in life a most wonderful man . Soldier , statesman , and alchemist . Which latter was the highest development of the science knowledge of his time . He had a mighty brain , a learning beyond compare , and a heart that knew no fear and no remorse ... there was no branch of knowledge of his time that he did not essay . '' He studied the black arts at the academy of Scholomance in the Carpathian Mountains , overlooking the town of Sibiu ( also known as Hermannstadt ) and has a deep knowledge of alchemy and magic . Taking up arms , as befitting his rank and status as a voivode , he led troops against the Turks across the Danube . According to his nemesis Abraham Van Helsing , `` He must indeed have been that Voivode Dracula who won his name against the Turk , over the great river on the very frontier of Turkey - land . If it be so , then was he no common man : for in that time , and for centuries after , he was spoken of as the cleverest and the most cunning , as well as the bravest of the sons of the land beyond the forest . '' Dead and buried in a great tomb in the chapel of his castle , Dracula returns from death as a vampire and lives for several centuries in his castle with three terrifyingly beautiful female vampires beside him . </P>
<P> Details of his early life are obscure , but it is mentioned `` he was in life a most wonderful man . Soldier , statesman , and alchemist . Which latter was the highest development of the science knowledge of his time . He had a mighty brain , a learning beyond compare , and a heart that knew no fear and no remorse ... there was no branch of knowledge of his time that he did not essay . '' He studied the black arts at the academy of Scholomance in the Carpathian Mountains , overlooking the town of Sibiu ( also known as Hermannstadt ) and has a deep knowledge of alchemy and magic . Taking up arms , as befitting his rank and status as a voivode , he led troops against the Turks across the Danube . According to his nemesis Abraham Van Helsing , `` He must indeed have been that Voivode Dracula who won his name against the Turk , over the great river on the very frontier of Turkey - land . If it be so , then was he no common man : for in that time , and for centuries after , he was spoken of as the cleverest and the most cunning , as well as the bravest of the sons of the land beyond the forest . '' Dead and buried in a great tomb in the chapel of his castle , Dracula returns from death as a vampire and lives for several centuries in his castle with three terrifyingly beautiful female vampires beside him . </P>
how did dracula become a vampire in the book
how did dracula become a vampire in the book
Dead and buried in a great tomb in the chapel of his castle , Dracula returns from death as a vampire
Dead and buried in a great tomb in the chapel of his castle , Dracula returns from death as a vampire