nobody really knows the specifics of his origin but we do know this he was the first of his kind
hello everyone and welcome back to my channel where I cover vampires werewolves and other
supernatural creatures in this video I want to talk about Dracula also known as Drake he
is the first and strongest of all vampires in the Blade series let's take a closer look
at his origin his unique abilities why the vampires want to bring him back and a lot
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the channel I appreciate it more than you know now let's get into the video he was born perfect
let's start at the beginning of Drake's story we are introduced to him in the third and final film
in the series Blade Trinity but in the first film we are introduced to someone important
to Drake's Story the ancient blood God la Magra this is the patron deity of vampires and the one
who created the first vampire Drake we don't know the specifics of what happened but most
likely through some kind of ritual or magic La Magra bestowed some of his power to Drake
Dracula is just one of the names he has gone by the Babylonians worshiped him as Dagon and now
he is known as Drake according to the Legends he was born in ancient Samaria around 4000 or 5000
BC this makes him roughly six to seven thousand years old the oldest vampire in the Blade series
we have ever seen by a large margin like I said before no one really knows the specifics of his
origin only that he was created by La Magra he was probably born human and then somehow came
into contact with the ancient blood God or some people have theorized that La Magra got a woman
pregnant and that's how Drake Came To Be Drake is the progenitor of his species Hominis Nocturna to
quote Hannibal King he was born perfect like a great white shark this guy has never had to
evolve he's been there behind the scenes cutting a bloody path Through the Ages until suddenly he
disappeared we learn the reason he disappeared was because he became disgusted with what the
world had become so he retreated to a tomb in Iraq to sleep Through the Ages he was left there
eventually forgotten by all and became known only as a myth that was until Danica Talos and a group
of other vampires decided to venture to Iraq to see if the Legends were true Danica seems to be
one of the leaders of the vampire house they never actually say the name so I'm going to refer to it
as house Talos there are many different vampire houses such as the house of Erebus from the first
blade film and house Damaskinos from blade 2. each house has passed down their own history
and legends it's possible the legends of Dracula have been passed down through house Talos in the
first film blade says that the book of Erebus is basically the vampire Bible and it has legends
about La Magra there's a good chance this book also contains information about Drake Danica
and a group of vampires travel to Iraq to find the tomb they break through a secret entrance to find
where Dracula is showing they must have had some knowledge of the structure and where Dracula was
hidden they pull out one stone causing the rest to fall away and reveal an entrance they climb down
below and begin to search Jerko Grimwood picks up a piece of stone with writing on it Danica tells
them it's cuneiform around 4 000 years old he then poses the question why here of all places Danica
says because it's the cradle of civilization he would have felt comfortable here Iraq is where
early Mesopotamians lived and developed the first agriculture writing and cities that's why it's
commonly referred to as the cradle of civilization Nation we learned this is where Dracula was born
so it makes sense that he would return here to hibernate somewhere familiar to him while
looking around with a special device they find a body buried under them as they stand over the
body the sand suddenly begins to move one of the vampires kneels down to get a closer look and a
hand comes out of the sand and pulls him in they quickly try to pull him out but when they do his
head is missing and he turns to Ash suddenly two armor cladded hands spring forth from the
ground and outcross Drake Dracula appears much different than any other vampire in the series
he resembles a demon more than any vampire I've ever seen he looks slightly different in this
scene compared to when we see him in the rest of the movie I think this is most likely because he
was starved of blood for thousands of years which would definitely take a toll on your body it would
also explain why he had to go on a feeding spree once he was awoken it seemed like Drake was going
to kill all the vampires but Danica Talos, Asher Talos and Jerko Grimwood return to this City with
Drake they must have somehow calmed him down or he realized that they were vampires and not a threat
they bring him back to their vampire headquarters based in a fictional city one of the vampires is
worried if they have enough security but Danica reiterates that they didn't capture Drake he
allowed them to take him in he is still in his demonic form and completely drained five humans
Danica enters the room to speak with him and he takes his human form the first thing he says is
you shouldn't have woken me this is when we find out why they wanted to find Drake Danica says your
blood your sacrament can set us free now Drake becomes enraged and says what makes you think I
care he also adds vampires today are nothing but Shadows of their former selves this shows Drake
has grown disdain for his own people he doesn't want to help them and looks down upon them so what
did Danica mean when she said your blood can set us free well Drake actually tells us the vampires
want to use his blood to try and make day walkers according to Hannibal King it's all a part of the
vampire's grand plan to take over the world they are attempting to follow in the footsteps of Eli
Damaskinos the vampire Overlord from blade 2. he was trying to use genetic sequencing on his
own pure vampire DNA to create a better vampire one that is not weak to Silver garlic or sunlight
however we know this was ultimately a failure although it improved some strengths and even
removed some weaknesses like silver the reaper strain drove the vampire's thirst to insane levels
they were stricken by a constant pain when not feeding and if they didn't feed every few hours
they would start to consume themselves due to the rapid metabolism they would also react extremely
violently to UV light exploding Nomak was the carrier of the reaper strain so he was kind of an
exception all other Reapers were driven completely feral to the point where they couldn't even speak
anymore years I've struggled with all kind of any hereditary weaknesses house Talos wants to do the
same thing Eli attempted to do but using Drake's pure vampire strain instead one of the members of
the night stalkers discovers that house Talos owns or operates a company called Biomedica Enterprises
through this company they purchased genetic sequencing enzymes Tac polymerase bone marrow
growth supplement and probably more everything they need to start creating a new vampire race
Danica also told Drake that they need help killing blade but they already had a plan in place to kill
him so I found that a bit weird they definitely did not wake up Drake just to kill blade they woke
him up to use his blood to create a new stronger vampire if he could kill blade that was just a
bonus now let's take a look at what makes Drake unique compared to other vampires I was the first
to the vampires I'm unique the most important part about Drake is that his vampire strain is
free from 100 generations of selective mutation he said himself vampires today are shadows of their
former selves one thing that has been affected by the weakened vampire strain is their immortality
vampires and blade are not actually Immortal but just age at a much slower rate the age of
Eli Damaskinos is never actually revealed in Blade 2 but it's been speculated by David S. Goyer and
Wesley Snipes on the DVD commentary that he is at least several centuries old possibly a few
thousand years old this is important to note because Eli resembles an elderly man he has
never seen performing any Supernatural feat like strength or speed he also seems very frail this
shows that although slowly vampires do seem to age even pure Bloods normal vampire blood is red but
Eli's is black this could be because his body is dying similar to the ancient vampires from being
human who have black veins Eli seemed obsessed with creating a new vampire as part of his legacy
almost as if he's worried about dying soon even if Eli was a few thousand years old Drake is six to
seven thousand years old and shows absolutely no signs of aging still as strong is the day
he became a vampire this definitely shows the strain has weakened over time and a possibility
that Drake is truly Immortal since there's been many generations even since Eli was born it's
possible a newer vampire might not even live as long as him this guy has never had to evolve
Drake has super strength and speed that far surpasses other vampires blade is able to
physically overpower most vampires he faces but Drake is able to overpower Blade with
little effort throwing him around like a rag doll Drake has shown being able to jump dozens of feet
and leap off buildings with no problem he can also Sprint for Miles while performing superhuman Feats
and was not even out of breath neither was blade though so I guess this is just common in Vampires
since Drake's physical abilities are stronger than other vampires this most likely means his
other abilities like hearing sight smell reflexes and Agility would also be far superior foreign
ability that is unique to him shape-shifting this isn't a supernatural kind of shape-shifting
that we're used to he cannot turn into anything like a bat or Mist but he can look like another
human according to one of the night stalkers Drake is able to do this because he doesn't
have a traditional skeletal structure instead his is similar to a snake having thousands of
tiny bones not sure how they would know this but they must have found some Source or legend that
explained it he is able to alter his appearance at the musculoskeletal level moving these small
bones around to change everything from his facial structure to his height he can also alter his eye
color skin tone and hair this is basically a more biological take on shape-shifting which
I find pretty interesting since Drake does have a human form that he always takes this suggests
that he was most likely a human first and then turned into a vampire the other possibility is
that this human form we C is not him at all and is just a form that he takes on to fit in better
Drake's True Form looks like a demon he has something akin to large sharp horns on his head
large teeth red skin and spikes on various parts of his body he looks quite tall in this form as
well probably somewhere around seven feet since La Magra turned Drake into a vampire I wonder if this
is similar to what La Magra would look like if it could take a physical form I never noticed before
but Drake also has these blue glowing veins all over his body his mouth opens in a very similar
way to the Reapers from Blade 2 with the jaw splitting in the middle the only difference
is Dracula has a few extra fangs and his top jaw also kinda splits you can even see this depicted
on the stone carving of him having a split on the top jaw this means ancient vampires should
also have a split jaw this explains why Nomak looked the way he did it wasn't some kind of
new mutation but an ancient one being unlocked Drake also has a tongue just like the Reapers
they share a lot of similarities and I doubt that it's a coincidence Drake even seems to consume
more blood than an ordinary vampire just like the Reapers although this could have been because
he was hibernating for so long the Reapers could inject a form of neurotoxin when feeding on their
victims that would paralyze them it's unclear if Drake can also do this but it would make sense
if he could Drake was already insanely strong but once he took on his true form it seemed to
increase his physical strength even further once transformed he was able to throw blade around like
he was weightless he also caught an arrow shot at the back of his head while fighting blade [Music]
now let's talk about weaknesses although vampires were created by the blood God La Magra they are in
general less Supernatural than most other vampires they don't have any magic-like abilities such as
compulsion or flight they are also not affected by holy objects such as crosses or or holy water
some vampires including Drake actually wear a cross vampires are still affected by garlic
and silver but this is explained as a severe allergic reaction sunlight turns them to Ash
and as far as I could find it's never actually explained exactly why this happens what about
a stake to the heart well in the first movie Blade says vampire 101 crosses and running
water don't work forget what you've seen in the movies you use a steak silver or sunlight he
also uses silver hollow point bullets filled with garlic and says aim for the head or the
heart blade said you can use a steak or silver so that implies the steak doesn't necessarily have
to be silver it seems like as long as you get them in the head or the heart you're all good
Drake does not have the same weaknesses as today's vampires he is not burned by sunlight
and there's no mention of him being weak to silver or garlic there's nothing said about
being able to stake him either so even that might not work that means that these vulnerabilities
were most likely a consequence of selective mutation over so many generations Millennia
ago all vampires were day walkers but somewhere down the line a genetic mutation caused them to
be weak to sunlight the same with silver and garlic how are you able to survive in sunlight
I am unique it's unclear how Dracula would react to the EDTA blood thinner found in the first movie
it's used in hospitals for clearing out blood clots and for some reason it reacts violently
with vampire blood injecting a vampire with EDTA will cause them to swell up and explode
I don't think this would work against Dracula though blade tried to use EDTA on Nomak from
the second film but it only caused a momentary pain before he laughed it off since Nomak is
more similar to Drake than an ordinary vampire I think Drake would also be immune to EDTA so if
Drake is immune to all vampire weaknesses then how do you kill him the only thing that Drake
was weak to was the Daystar virus created by the night stalkers a scientist was able to work with
synthesized DNA to create a virus specifically targeted at vampires but it wasn't until they
got a sample of Drake's blood that they were able to boost the power of the virus to 100
this is because using Drake's apps absolutely pure vampire DNA allowed them to create a more
deadly version of the virus that would not only kill Drake but become airborne and kill
all vampires when the night stalkers were doing research on Drake somehow they found a piece of
his armor Hannibal King says using this piece of armor they were able to get a basic idea of
what he looked like this one little crumb of armor somehow allowed them to figure
out the rest of the suit including the helmet that's not even attached ready to die foreign
big question I had about Drake is what would happen if he bit someone and turned them would
they inherit his enhanced abilities such as day walking what about shape-shifting I think if he
bit someone they could definitely become a day Walker they would also probably not be weak to
Silver and garlic as for the shape-shifting this is a bit different I doubt if he bit someone their
entire skeleton would change to thousands of tiny bones like his I think it's more likely
that if he wanted to pass on his shape-shifting ability that he would need to conceive a pure
blood child or use genetic sequencing it's also possible this ability cannot be passed down at
all because Drake is unique gifted vampirism directly by the blood God La Magra I wonder
if after thousands of years if Drake ever had a child it seems likely he would have had at
least one forget the movies forget the books there's no happy ending with this guy another
question I had was what would happen if Drake bits someone who is already a vampire would
their abilities be enhanced it seems like the answer is no Drake has an interaction
with Danica where he bites her after this she is still harmed by sunlight and wasn't any stronger
than before so it looks like Drake cannot buy a weaker vampire and enhance their abilities
Drake went to sleep because he grew disgusted with what the world had become when he was eventually
awoken he was especially disappointed with how far his people had fallen nothing but Shadows
of their former selves that was until he fought blade after Drake was defeated he wasn't angry he
was actually kind of relieved after having almost no hope in the vampire race blade showed him that
there are still those who are strong and fight with honor after hibernating for so many years
Dracula could die in peace knowing that the future of the vampire race was in good hands Drake says
this to blade before he dies funny isn't it all this time my people were trying to create a new
vampire when one already existed I don't need to survive the future of our race rests with
you in the end even Drake recognized that maybe a damp here is the next step in Vampire evolution
sooner or later thirst always win that's my video about Drake from Blade Trinity what do you guys
think of the third blade film it's not perfect by any means but I like the comedy in the action for
the most part I most enjoy the deeper dive into the origins of the vampires I only wish they would
have revealed the specifics of Drake's origin and not just say this nobody really knows the
specifics of his origin but we do know this even though it's not perfect I enjoy the extra lore
this movie added to the overall blade Universe it was also cool to see a more modern version of
Dracula without any castles or European accents if you enjoyed leave a like And subscribe if you
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