Born Vlad Dracula in 1430 in Schassburg, Transylvania (now Sighisoara, Romania), he was the second son of a nobleman from Transylvania. He was named prince of Transylvania and voivode (prince) of Wallachia and became ruler when he was still a child. Over the next few years, he fought against the Ottoman Turks, losing and regaining his throne. Through an arranged marriage with a woman of the Hungarian nobility, Zofia, she fathered her daughter, Lilith. He threw his wife out and married a woman named Maria, with whom he had a son named Vlad Tepelus. He had a son with his third wife Domini named Janus.

In 1459, Dracula was mortally wounded by the Turkish military leader Turac, who took Dracula to a gypsy named Lianda to be healed. However, Lianda was a vampire, and in revenge for his persecution of the gypsies, he transformed Dracula into a vampire as well. Turac raped and killed Maria, Dracula's wife, and in revenge Dracula killed Turac, turning him into a vampire as well. Dracula gave his son Vlad Tepelus to the gypsies to be raised.

Dracula defeated the vampire Nimrod in battle, and thus he succeeded him as king of the vampires of Earth. Soon after, he improved his own blood with Varnae's, giving him more powers than any other vampire. In 1471, Dracula abdicated his princely.

In the 19th century, he faced opposition from Abraham Van Helsing and Jonathan Harker in England, the exploits of which were recorded in the 1897 novel by Stoker, Dracula. When humans destroy Dracula, his remains were placed in his coffin, hidden inside a cave blocked by a huge rock. In Frankenstein's Monster, the story monster was tricked into unsealing the cave and opening the coffin, thus freeing Dracula.