Vlad Tepes.

Indeed. Dracula wasn't some simple-minded movie monster who killed his victims one at a time. His ambitions were far greater.

Next, let's try a test of your code-breaking skills. The message below is coded with a simple substitution cipher. Use the form to swap pairs of letters until you've decoded it. (Follow the "Cryptogram" link down in the "Credits" section if you need some basic code-breaking tips.)

To find the next page, tell me the last name of the author of the coded message.

Credits: [an error occurred while processing this directive]
• Vlad Tepes card: Damnans' V:TES Page
• Cryptogram Javascript: Code Breaker
• "City of Heroes" Universe: NCsoft
• Maze background: Think Labyrinth
• Notepad logo: Notepad.org
• Everything else: Me!