I always thought that Dracula was the master but apparently not, So who turned the Master?
shareIt was a demon, who tricked him. Promised him power, then cursed him to be stuck in the cave. That's who he was going after at the end. Remember, he said that once he was freed, he'd recruit Drac to help him get revenge on the one who trapped him there. That's why he was following him at the end. Of course, why he waited 500 years, is beyond me.
shareAlthough the movie doesn't go into it, Judas Iscariot is one theological origin of vampires. "Hide your silver. It offends me." Those two lines in the movie and the historical weakness of vampires to silver is where the theory comes from.
It's just fantasy, but it's fascinating to think about. When Luke Evans is first using his senses as a vampire, he gazes upward, looking at a cloudy sky. His vision supposedly pierces the clouds and sky to see stars above; that scene is depicted beautifully in the movie.
Pretty sure that was only in Dracula 2000. Interesting idea, but it has nothing to do with this movie or original Dracula or vampire lore. Silver's also not traditionally a vampire weakness, that's werewolves.
In this movie, it's clearly stated the Master Vampire was made by a demon he summoned, who gave him the powers but trapped him in the cave.
I agree about the stars scene though, that was well done.
Bram Stoker, likely drawing from Gerard's work, referred to it twice in Dracula, once in chapter 18:
The Draculas were, says Arminius, a great and noble race, though now and again were scions who were held by their coevals to have had dealings with the Evil One. They learned his secrets in the Scholomance, amongst the mountains over Lake Hermanstadt, where the devil claims the tenth scholar as his due.
And in chapter 23:
He dared even to attend the Scholomance, and there was no branch of knowledge of his time that he did not essay.
Stoker's reference to "Lake Hermanstadt" appears to be a misinterpretation of Gerard's passage, as there is no body of water by that name. The part of the Carpathians near Hermannstadt holds P?ltini? Lake and Bâlea Lake, which host popular resorts for people of the surrounding area.
When God created the universe and Earth, he began populating the world with various creatures, one of the species was vampires, not quite human form, and in great number. The vampires gorged their desire for blood destroying many of the earth creatures that God just created. Angered by the vampire species' reckless thirst, God reduced the vampires to small ground hugging snakes, allowing them to keep only their fangs.
God then created humans, but the bitter vampires-now-snakes seeked revenge on God and set out to corrupt His new prize, the human species. So a vampire/snake entered the Garden of Eden and corrupted humans. Furious over the snake's treachery, God banished the snake to be forever imprisoned in the dark of night. Daylight, among other causes, would destroy a vampire. The snake targeted it's wrath on humans, draining their blood for millennia and eventually took human form.
So the truly original vampire was the snake that entered the Garden of Eden.