The Complete History of Poenari Castle ( Before and after Vlad)

Previously

…It was the melancholy of forgotten peoples, of lost beliefs, of sacrifices made in vain. The whispers of the ancients were growing louder now, no longer just fragments of text, but a palpable presence that seemed to cling to the stones, to the very air I breathed. And I knew, with a certainty that chilled me to the bone, that this was just the beginning of Poenari’s secrets. The Impaler was yet to come, and his reign would add another layer of horror to a place already steeped in ancient dread. The stone had drunk its blood, and its vigil, I suspected, was far from over.