"And Erudite Stranger, I dont see Dracula in this song at all....... "
clearly this song is about dracula, or at least vlad "tepes" Dracul.
firstly "nightfall take my hand" is a reference to how vampires are embraced by nightfall and become creatures of the night.
"creeping from the shadows to kill" shows how vampires creep from the shadows to kill their victims.
secondly "I shrug off the shroud of preternatural sleep" shows being immortal and undead as the "preternatural sleep" is most likely death, hence he is a vampire.
thirdly carpathia(15th century romania) is where vlad was thought to have lived, a clear reference to him.
fourthly a "Draconist" was someone of the order of the dragon, which vlad tepes was which gave him the name dracula.
fifthly "death etch cruelly, upon my lineage" means that death became part of his kinship (descent) so his children were vampires
sixthly "blessed with darkness forever more" means that he has been "blessed" by eternal darkness ie vampyrism
and most obviously as Necrophagus2Coming said, "supreme vamyric evil"
"And Erudite Stranger, I dont see Dracula in this song at all....... " clearly this song is about dracula, or at least vlad "tepes" Dracul. firstly "nightfall take my hand" is a reference to how vampires are embraced by nightfall and become creatures of the night. "creeping from the shadows to kill" shows how vampires creep from the shadows to kill their victims. secondly "I shrug off the shroud of preternatural sleep" shows being immortal and undead as the "preternatural sleep" is most likely death, hence he is a vampire. thirdly carpathia(15th century romania) is where vlad was thought to have lived, a clear reference to him. fourthly a "Draconist" was someone of the order of the dragon, which vlad tepes was which gave him the name dracula. fifthly "death etch cruelly, upon my lineage" means that death became part of his kinship (descent) so his children were vampires sixthly "blessed with darkness forever more" means that he has been "blessed" by eternal darkness ie vampyrism and most obviously as Necrophagus2Coming said, "supreme vamyric evil"