Night of Wallachia

"Spin the vermin, reverse the guilt. Reverse the birth, reverse the world. Spin spin spinspinspinSPINKirbyfan103 (talk)!"

- Night of Wallachia, Melty Blood

Night of Wallachia is a villain from Tsukihime, and a playable character in Melty Blood, who is the thirteenth of the twenty-seven Dead Apostle Ancestors and the ancestor of Sion Eltnam Atlasia, given that his real name is Zepia Eltnam Oberon. He is very different from the other Dead Apostle Ancestors, as he can't actually be said to currently exist. His nature is that of a phenomenon known as TATARI, derived from Japan's etymology for the word "curse," a recurring event that grants physical shape to the fears and rumors that circulate within a community. This phenomenon first manifested as the image of a vampire that was falsely believed to haunt the province of Wallachia in Romania, Vlad the Impaler, granting him his title.

He is voiced by Yasunori Masutani.

Background
Originally a genius alchemist from Atlas named Zepia Eltnam Oberon, he was a member of the prestigious noble family of Eltnam, for whose downfall he was responsible. It was during his research that the ability of the Atlas alchemists to calculate and predict the future eventually revealed to him that only destruction would be the absolute result for the world. Obsessed and driven mad by this realization, he sought to oppose a universal law known as Program No. 6, or simply The Sixth, which was said to be the bringer of that ultimate destruction, intent on creating an impossible future that would escape even his calculations. He became convinced that he had to become a vampire in order to reach The Sixth, and in order to become a vampire he had to break the golden rule of Atlas, as everything within Atlas must be kept and disposed of within the domains of the organization. Leaving Atlas, he continued researching outside and transformed himself into a Dead Apostle. His metamorphosis into the Tatari, theorized and formulated as part of his research of The Sixth, was realized through a pact with Altrouge Brunestud, who summoned the Crimson Moon and transformed him into the curse, casting him into a cycle by which he would continually manifest in pre-calculated areas, a journey destined to finalize a few thousand years later with the reappearance of the Crimson Moon returning him to his original form as Zepia Eltnam Operon.