Although this series (including the first season) wants to be accurate there are a lot of important "details" that were missed. In this first episode of the second season one of the major misses is the image of Vlad as a master-impaler. Although that was his preferred method of execution, impaling was not his invention. It had existed for a long time and he learned of it during his detention at the Turkish court. The Ottomans performed that commonly and it was present even on the seige of Constantinople. Not even they invented impalement, but it came from the fogs of history. Even in Western Europe impalement was occasionally performed in Germany 200 years after Vlad Tepes.
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