User blog comment:IndigoOnIceCream/What Would They Think/@comment-1630894-20120331222342/@comment-4206034-20120403141121

Actually RWG, Vlad did consume blood.

What he had was stakes in his castle garden or something and he used to drive stakes through the enemies he captured, as torture and eventually killed them. The higher the stake was, the higher the ranking of the person killed. Say he had a normal soldier and a general for example, he would have the soldier's stake at normal height and the general's stake at a much higher height.



It was almost like trophies for him, and I think he collected the blood the bodies gave out and sometimes drank them. An aftereffect of all this blood going to the soil would be that the soil became rich with nutrients.

Here is a picture: