The Historian
Characters in The Historian
5 characters, main characters first.Antagonists
Vlad the Impaler
The fifteenth-century Wallachian prince whose historical reign of brutal impalings is documented in the letters and archives the characters uncover across three generations.
Count Dracula
The undead persona Vlad Tepes is revealed to have become: a vampire scholar-prince who has spent centuries drawing historians into his hidden library.
Supporting characters
Helen Rossi
A guarded, independent scholar of Romani descent who reluctantly joins Paul's search for her estranged father, the vanished historian Professor Rossi.
Paul
A young American graduate student in 1950s Oxford whose search for his missing mentor, Professor Rossi, draws him into the mystery of Dracula that he later recounts to his own daughter.
Bartholomew Rossi
Paul's Oxford mentor, a historian who became convinced Dracula was still alive and vanished in 1954 while investigating the vampire's hidden tomb.