Master Vampire

the Master Vampire (real name: Caligula) is the key minor villain, later true main antagonist of the 2014

dark fantasy horror-action film ''Dracula Untold. ''He is the world's ancient first vampire who actually gave Vlad Tepes to drink his own blood in order to become a vampire so he would be able to save Transylvania and his family.

He was portrayed by the legendary actor Charles Dance who also portrayed Benedict.

Background
Many years ago, a man known as Caligula went on to a dark mountain at Transylvania called "The Broken Tooth Mountain". There, he made a deal with a mysterious and powerful demonic creature. As he maked the deal, the creature actually arranged the man and betrayed him as he became into extremely powerful inhuman and fast humanoid creature with shining red eyes and pointed teeth. The man took the alias the Master Vampire and given by the creature a punishement; live in the darkness of the Broken Tooth Mountain forever.

In Dracula Untold
As Vlad received a message by the Turkish Empire messenger that Sultan Mehmed II is wishing to take the entire children of Transylvania ,including Vlad's son, Vlad went to the mountain in order to make a deal in exchange for saving his family and his land.

When Vlad became a vampire ,he saw that his wife fell to her death. When he arrived and failed to save her, she told him to drink her own blood so he would be able to save their son. While he attempted resisting, the Master Vampire himself manipulated him to drink her blood so he himself will be able to get out free from the mountain, as he managed to do it, Vlad had bitten Mirena ,showed his true colors as a monstrous vampire and then ,as he was equipped with enough power ,he managed to defeat and destroy the entire Turkish Empire ,including Mehmed as he decided to reject his name and to call himself '''Dracula. '''

Present Day
As the events of the film ended, Vlad was revived by the mad thief ,but Dracula denied that the madman would be his servant. Anyway, the film moved up to the present day of 2014, in an unknown city, Vlad met a beautiful woman named Mina Harker and fell in love with her and so does she. While Vlad and Mina went from the market, the Master Vamipre whose been exposed to wear a human form of an old man wearing a suit and tie, he went and followed after Vlad and his new girlfriend.

Personality
The Master Vampire is a very manipulative, cunning and malicious individual. Even if he is a monstrous vampire, he is very powerful and manipulative.

He managed to manipulate Vlad to drink his own blood so he would be able to get out from the mountain and kill the creature who betrayed him. Besides being cunning or manipulative, the Master Vampire is a very malicious being who killed hundrends of thousands of Turkish knights in his caves at the mountain.

As he followed in the present after Vlad, this proved that the Master Vampire is revealed to be the true main antagonist of the film itself as he pulled the strings upon Vlad only to get out from the mountain.

Powers and Abilities
As a vampire, the Master had extremely powerful superhuman powers and abilities such as:

Powers

 * Superhuman Strength: After becoming the vampire he is today, the Master gained extremely powerful strength at superhuman levels.
 * Superhuman Speed: He can move at very amazing speed, a well-known power of the vampires.
 * Superhuman Reflexes: Although he is old and ancient, the Master actually had inhuman reflexes.
 * Superhuman Sight: He can see at very amazing thermical sight which giving him the power to see which indivual has blood and who not.

Abilities

 * Intelligence: The Master is a very intelligent man ,he is smarter and sophisticated than any other human being, possibly much more than Vlad.
 * Feelings Sense: As he met Vlad for the first time, he asked wether he killed hundrends of innocent people ,but when he lied, The Master told him that he knows when he is lying and tells the true answer; thousands.
 * Manipulation: In some scenes of the film, the Master managed to manipulate Vlad several times, including into biting his wife.

Trivia

 * This marked the first time Charles Dance portrayed a vampire.
 * In the 1993 action comedy fantasy film Last Action Hero, Dance portrayed the film's antagonist, Benedict. As Benedict, he told he would release many cinematic villains, and refreneced Dracula in some point. In the film's trailers, we can see that the Master, portrayed by Dance, tells to Vlad that he had been waiting for him and reffered to him as "Dracula".