That episode might be under a paywall for now, but it's just another part of Christian heritage that needs to be corrected as they tried to turn him into a cross hating jew vampire (I even thought dracula was based on the jews, but it's the Hollywood version that's inverted that way).
I doubt he was sitting around torturing and impaling mice either, probably all made up stories. The people he impaled were Islamic invaders threatening his Christian people, and that terrified them enough to stop.
Vlad meme, Sultan slowly walks away:
https://files.catbox.moe/n5etp8.png
https://www.christianpost.com/news/historical-dracula-was-actually-a-committed-christian.html
“Think, when a man or a Prince is tough and strong within, then he can make peace as he pleases; and when he is powerless, a stronger one will come upon him and do whatever he wants with him.”
-- Vlad the Impaler
“Just to know, your Highness, that we have broken the peace with the Turks, not for any benefit of ours, but for the honor of your Highness and the Holy Crown of your Majesty and for the preservation of the whole of Christendom and for the strengthening of Catholic law.”
– Vlad the Impaler
“And if we reach, God protect us, a bad ending and if our country perishes, then your Grace will have no use and benefit of such a thing because it will be a loss for the whole of Christendom.”
– Vlad the Impaler
I doubt he was sitting around torturing and impaling mice either, probably all made up stories. The people he impaled were Islamic invaders threatening his Christian people, and that terrified them enough to stop.
Vlad meme, Sultan slowly walks away:
https://files.catbox.moe/n5etp8.png
https://www.christianpost.com/news/historical-dracula-was-actually-a-committed-christian.html
“Think, when a man or a Prince is tough and strong within, then he can make peace as he pleases; and when he is powerless, a stronger one will come upon him and do whatever he wants with him.”
-- Vlad the Impaler
“Just to know, your Highness, that we have broken the peace with the Turks, not for any benefit of ours, but for the honor of your Highness and the Holy Crown of your Majesty and for the preservation of the whole of Christendom and for the strengthening of Catholic law.”
– Vlad the Impaler
“And if we reach, God protect us, a bad ending and if our country perishes, then your Grace will have no use and benefit of such a thing because it will be a loss for the whole of Christendom.”
– Vlad the Impaler
Young Vlad and his brother Radu were sent as wards to be raised by the enemy muslims as a peace agreement. While his brother fully converted and became muslim, Vlad was defiant all the way, only taking from his enemy their brutal torture methods.