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Joeymb77 wrote: The non-fictional historical figure that the story is based on is the premise of Bram Stoker's fictional vampire. The stories are intertwined. You remove the former from the later and you're left with a completely different character altogether. The only way this can work is if the real Vlad Dracula was transported to the (insert world here) and became the vampire from the story.

Alice was based on Alice Liddell, Peter Pan was also based on a real boy, Jekyll and Hyde were inspired by real people, and so were Mulan and Robin Hood.