Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-3025831-20140411090737/@comment-3468598-20140414075026

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Count Dracula is depicted as the "King Vampire", and can control other vampires who were his own victims but also, as per the story "Dracula's Guest", those in farther away lands such as Styria who may or may not have been Dracula's victims. His death can release the curse on any living victim of eventual transformation into vampire. But Van Helsing reveals that were he to successfully escape, his continued existence would ensure that even if he did not victimize Mina Harker further, she would transform into a vampire upon her eventual natural death.

I would argue that wording, and even the notion that he controls other vampires in Dracula's Guest, as there's some serious debate as to weather the wolf in that short story is him or one of his minions. I prefer to think minion, as he seems to have a lot of those, but I don't want to dissapoint those Harker/Count Shippers.

Still, at no time is the word King attributeted to him.

As for your first post. A Count is several steps below a king. And I'm not sure what you mean by him being the only vampire reffered to as a lord. Starting early and fairly obscure there's Azzo from A mysterious Stranger, Rutheven from The Vampyre, and Carmilla who's really Countess Karnstien.

As for more recent works, Immediately The Parasol Protectorate spring to mind, as they have a curiously matriarical system of vampire government, Anne Rice's Queen of The Damned, and as much as I am loathe to bring them into an arguement, The Volturi. Admittedly The Count isn't presant in any of these fandoms. But the point is, there is other vampire nobility around. Also worth noting he shows up in Buffy, for an episode, and while I'm not quite the Buffy enthusiest I should be, I'm fairly certain he's not the king, the first, or even all that amazing by villain standards. Well, except for him cheating with the wizard powers.

Admittedly when he shows up in media with other vampires or monsters he's usually given some status. But that's because he has name value, Dracula has been in more media then any other characer. He may not be king of the vampires, but he's certainly the P.R. guy.