Dracula

"'Ha! Mankind. A cesspit of hatred and lies! Fight for them, then...and die for their sins!'" "- Dracula to Richter Belmont, Castlevania Dracula X Chronicles"

Dracula Vlad Ţepeş (formerly known as Mathias Cronqvist) was the most powerful vampire to ever exist. Dracula fell into madness after the death of his first wife, and became a vampire thanks to the Crimson Stone. He was sealed away from 1095 to 1429. He took control of Bernhard Castle and built an army of monsters, only to meet Lisa and change his ways for a time, having a son with her and raising several other children. When she was killed in 1444, he started a war on humans, and ruled over Wallachia from 1445 to 1476, when he was destroyed with the combined efforts of Trevor Belmont, Syfa Fernandez, Grant Danesti, and Alucard. He revived himself once every century after that until 1999, or was resurrected through other means. Every time he revived, he was killed by a descendant of Trevor Belmont(with the exception of 1479, in which it was Hector Wesker, and 1829, in which case it was Shanoa). He and his father Satan ruled independently of one another for centuries as the two highest and most feared authorities that almost all demons and monsters answered to, until his "true death" in 1999.

1062 - 1094: Human Life
Mathias Cronqvist was born in Cronqvist Castle, Segasvar, Hungary, on December 25th, 1062 to Krisztina Atilla and the Devil himself. The one who helped deliver him was a priest called Lord Blois, who was deceived by Satan that in Mathias's birth, he would be given control over Mathias and thus the powers the child would have. The man who was believed to be his father was Janos Cronqvist, but several people suspected his real father, as he looked nothing like Janos Cronqvist and there were demonic signs - the particularly religious always suspected the Black Man, but otherwise they suspected the incredibly attractive nobleman Louis Cypher - who was Old Scratch’s earthly identity in the 11th century.

Soon after Mathias was born, the clergyman who baptized him noticed his birthmark - the Mark of the Beast, 666. The clergyman, after Mathias was baptized, took Mathias and attempted to strangle him, shouting that the infant was the son of the Devil. Janos immediately ordered his guards to kill the clergyman, and they did, drawing their blades and beheading him. Janos was not persecuted, as he was very powerful in the sense of money, underground connections, and political status. Though Janos always had a feeling as well that Mathias was not his child since he did greatly resemble Louis Cypher, with an almost identical face, black hair (though he was born with blonde hair, by his 11th birthday it was pitch black), and blue eyes, though he lied to himself and made himself believe Mathias was his child. Mathias was raised in Cronqvist Castle, a castle now completely lost to nature and not documented in any records, as if the castle never existed. There, he was taught by Janos everything he knew in swordsmanship. He was taught all the basic fundamental academic things a child would need to learn, but he focused on and was fascinated by Alchemy, the field of experiments with the principles of God's creation of the world, and was one of few at that point in history to truly understand it. Rinaldo Gandalfi, a close friend of Janos's, was the one who introduce Mathias to Alchemy. Nearly every day Mathias would spend in the study of his father’s castle reading countless books on Alchemy. By the time he was an adult, Mathias knew almost everything there was to know on the subject. Though, we’re not at his adult years yet. Janos also taught Mathias how to fluently speak Hungarian (his native language), Latin, Old Church Slavonic, English, and the classical arts and philosophy. On his own, over the course of a few years, he fluently learned Enochian because of his own interest in angels and demons. He also was taught by Janos how to play the piano, and then he taught himself how to play many instruments, and became the best at the violin. He also taught himself how to paint, and as he grew became a very good artist.

Krisztina Atilla was once a great warrior. Before she settled down to raise Mathias with Janos, she made several friendships at war. One of her friends was Rosalina Belmont, an incredible warrior as well. Rosalina Belmont visited Cronqvist Castle often by the time she decided to settle down when Mathias was 13 years old, and always brought her two children – the 3 year old Leon Belmont and 13 year old Elisabetha Belmont. Mathias and these two grew up alongside one another throughout their adolescence and formed a very strong bond. Mathias, as a child and a teenager, was very depressed, sometimes for no sensible reasons. But Elisabetha always quelled his dark thoughts, and actually saved him from suicide several times. Along with his depression, he held no regard for life of any kind, except his loved ones, that is. He was also obsessed with impalement. Often, when alone in his room, he would capture rats or other small animals that were able to get into his quarters and impale them on sharpened sticks. Often through the anus and out the mouth, as it was the easiest way. He also impaled fish he caught by the river near Segasvar, or other animals that came to the river, on sharpened sticks. He implanted these sticks in the ground, beginning a collection. Every weekend he would go to this river and add to it. He was caught doing this one weekend by a couple from Segasvar who came to the river to fish. They ran in fear and told the Segasvar guards, who came to the river and brought Mathias back to Cronqvist Castle, telling Janos about what Mathias had done. It strongly added to the belief many held that Mathias was the child of Satan.

He was taken to a psychiatrist for his impalement of animals, but it went nowhere, and he continued even after being caught again and again. Elisabetha actually found out eventually, and only she was able to convince him to stop this disturbing habit. He was ashamed of himself for his actions for months, saying he was unfit to be seen by his loved ones, and often put himself through physical torture, placing hot metal crosses on his skin, saying he was the son of the Devil and needed to be “cleansed.” This also ended once Elisabetha caught him and made him stop, but he hated himself for what he did for years.

It is also worth noting that sometime during his adolescence, a succubus called Morgan Iceland came into Mathias’ bedroom, seduced him, and slept with him. Nine months later, she would have a daughter by Mathias, unbeknownst to him for centuries. Mathias had fallen in love with Elisabetha very early on, as she did with him, and became engaged when Mathias was only 16, intending to marry her once they were of age. And marry each other they did in 1080. However, Mathias had made a promise to his mother that he would become a knight and fight under the Pope. To keep that promise, after marrying Elisabetha, Mathias signed up to become a knight. Mathias was already quite the soldier, undefeated for nine years, and then when Leon was 17, he became a knight as well, following in his own mother's footsteps like Mathias. In a matter of a few years, Mathias Cronqvist and Leon Belmont became two of the greatest warriors the Pope’s armies had ever seen. Mathias the expert tactician and Leon the expert swordsman, their company was unstoppable. Campaigns with these two were never lost. Mathias also became known throughout the army and by his enemies not only for being undefeatable, but for impaling opposing knights like he used to do with small animals as a child. Leon was worried about his obsession, but never tried to put a stop to it, as it helped the war effort, striking fear in the hearts of their enemies. Leon and Mathias never told Elisabetha about it, nor did she ever find out.

Then a day came in 1093 when both of the 35 year old Mathias’ parents were killed by a common thief. Mathias left a campaign to come home and mourn their deaths. He stayed home for about a week, and overcome with great sorrow, he tried to commit suicide in his bedroom. But before he did, Elisabetha came to the bedroom just in the nick of time, telling him how much she loved him, how much she appreciated him, that Leon loved him like a brother as well and would greatly miss him – and that she was pregnant. After hearing this news, Mathias found a new great will to live. Though still devastated by Janos and Krisztina’s deaths, he knew he had to be there for Leon, Elisabetha, and his child.

Then, after all seemed well, November turned into December, and just as Mathias had made his way back from a victorious campaign, preparing to celebrate his own birthday, Elisabetha died from an illness that she never told Mathias she had, killing the baby inside of her, too.

Upon hearing this news, Mathias went mad with grief, overwhelmed as now his wife and soon-to-be child had died too – and was furious at God himself. Mathias had believed in God’s existence his entire life, as he was raised to know no other belief, but never really cared for him, and now, to him God had taken his wife, despite the fact that he had fought for God’s sake and the preservation and spread of Roman Catholicism. To pour salt on the wound, rich friends of Janos and priests continued saying her death was "God's will." He swore that he would somehow avenge her death. He stayed at the castle and led Leon and everyone else to believe that he was bedridden with grief, but really he was searching for a way to somehow get revenge against God. Though Leon’s grief was also profound as Elisabetha was his sister, he fought on to keep their company of knights undefeated. Mathias searched his father’s library, even though he had already read every book in it, but was unable to find anything.

One night, as Mathias slept in the library after hours of failed research, Satan himself came to Mathias in a dream, revealing that he was Mathias's true father, and then told him of two arcane gems. One was called the Ebony Stone, a purple gem which gave the wearer the ability to cloak an area into eternal night, and control the creatures of the night. The other was the Crimson Stone, a red gem that turned the wearer into a vampire, and gave the wearer the ability to obtain the souls of supernatural beings the wearer killed, and also gave the wearer the servitude of the primordial embodiment of death. The Devil told him the Ebony Stone was created by a member of the Cloud family, and that the Crimson Stone was created by Mathias's grandfather long before Mathias was born. Both stones were failed attempts to alchemically forge the Philosopher's Stone. Then Satan told Mathias he sealed the share of Mathias's power he had received in birth from him within the stone, in fear of Mathias's power killing Krisztina, whom the Devil had fallen in love with. He told him once he obtained these stones, he will take his rightful title as the King of the Night, the Lord of Darkness in our world.

Lucifer then gave Mathias a vision of somewhere in the mountain range in Bulgaria surrounding the castle of the King of Vampires, Walter Bernhard, hinting at the location of the Crimson Stone and the Ebony Stone. So, in the middle of the night, Mathias awoke, packed his things, and immediately left Cronqvist Castle, a place to which he wouldn’t return for a long, long time. The knight and nobleman headed for the Carpathians. It took him nearly an entire year accounting for the journey to Bulgaria from Hungary, but by December of 1094, he came to the small mouth of a cave in the mountains. Inside this cave, he found a large door. It read in Enochian:

"'Within lies the ancient precious stone that once laid atop the crown of our true divine master, the Lord of Darkness, Samael. This relic shall go to his only Assyan-born son, the Beast, whom our Lord sends with wrath. Upon obtaining this stone, he shall follow in his father’s footsteps and smite this world with a terrible darkness and be the end of the miserable humans.'" After reading this, Mathias tried to open the door, but it would not budge. Then, a part of the wall beside the large door opened, and out came a stone statue of a skeleton. In one hand, it held a goblet made of gold, and in the other, it held a dagger. Mathias already knew what it wanted. He took hold of the dagger and cut his arm, and let blood drain into the goblet. When his blood entered the goblet, its eye sockets shone with a crimson light. The door slowly opened, and when Mathias entered, torches lining the temple’s walls lit by themselves, and at the end of the hall sat a medallion upon a pedestal, with a red gem set in it. Knowing this was the Crimson Stone he searched for, Mathias took the medallion and put it around his neck. Immediately, Mathias’ stomach felt as if it was imploding, and Mathias began violently vomiting blood. He then fell – he was dead, on the floor of the temple.

1094: Events of Castlevania: Lament of Innocence
"'We have risked our lives and fought for the sake of God. But God mercilessly stole away the one I loved most. When all I ever wished for was Elisabetha's safety! If limited life is God's decree, then I shall defy it! And within that eternity, I shall curse him forevermore!'"

"- Mathias Cronqvist to Leon Belmont" He awakened later, back to “life”, to find that all his senses had been greatly increased. Then, the embodiment of death, whom Mathias knew from folklore as Death and thus called him by that name, appeared before Mathias, and told him that he bound himself to the Crimson Stone because of a promise he made to Samael. However, Death said he would not consider Mathias his master or take his orders until Mathias proved himself a worthy master. Mathias then thought of a plan that would insure he would achieve his goals. In stories Mathias had heard as a child, it was told that the vampire lord Walter Bernhard loved to play games of “cat and mouse” with those that came to his castle wishing to defeat him, usually to save a loved one. So, Mathias would tell Walter of Leon Belmont and how great of a holy warrior he was, and of his wife, Sara Trantoul. Mathias knew that Leon would do whatever it took to save her, and that with Leon’s combat skills and will, Leon would eventually kill this Lord of Vampires, and thus Mathias would obtain Walter Bernhard’s soul and become the most powerful vampire in existence, and then Death would be his servant. Finally, Mathias would make Leon a vampire as well and they would be unstoppable forces of darkness. After telling Death of this plan, he head for Bernhard Castle, accepting that he was the son of the Devil. As Mathias expected, ultimately his plans were fulfilled. Walter kidnapped Leon’s wife, and Leon renounced his title in order to face the Vampire King and rescue her. He obtained a new weapon, called the Whip of Alchemy, which initially wasn’t powerful enough to destroy Walter Bernhard. But, after Walter turned Sara into a vampire, Sara, in the last of her humanity, sacrificed herself to give the whip new power that would deal deadly damage to anything supernatural and eventually kill it. Leon used this whip and his ability in combat to defeat Walter Bernhard in battle.

Death, accepting Mathias as his master, appeared before Walter, who thought Death served him. Death took his soul, and gave it to Mathias. After taking it, and becoming the second most powerful vampire in existence, he manifested before Leon, and revealed all of his plans to him. Mathias offered Leon immortality, but Leon refused, saying “eternity without [Sara] would be nothing but emptiness.” He said his goodbye to Leon then, and left the castle as a vampire bat, giving Death permission to kill his old friend. After a desperate battle, Leon still defeated Death. Though Death would rise from the dead “as long as [Mathias] lives.” So, Leon told him to give Mathias this message: “You have become a cursed being, and I will never forgive you. This whip and my kinsmen will destroy you someday. From this day on, the Belmont Clan will hunt the night!” With that, Death was destroyed. Leon left the castle, and it collapsed. Day finally came to that area of Bulgaria for the first time in centuries. As Death said though, only about an hour passed and Death resurrected, and told Mathias, who was going for a bite to drink, Leon’s message. All Mathias had to say was “So, that’s how it is, then.”

Because the Whip of Alchemy killed Walter Bernhard, it was renamed “Vampire Killer” by the Bulgarian people.

1095 - 1450: Interlude
Mathias planned to return to Bernhard Castle to use it as his fortress, but first, even after the power he had obtained, he left Bulgaria in search of more power. Mathias then enrolled in the Leslie Fernandez Academy of Sorcery in 1095, hidden by potent sorcery on a still undiscovered island. The only way Mathias found the location was because of Death. There, Mathias met Imamiah Cloud, Odia Finch, Katherine, and Juliette Fernandez. Under Odia Finch, he learned how to control the Hellfire ability he obtained from Walter, and how to cast illusions. He turned Katherine, whom preferred to be called Kate, into a vampire, and began teaching her how to use the powers she inherited as his fledgling. After very few days had passed, the vampire Joachim Armster attacked the school, knowing it was where Mathias, who had Walter Bernhard's soul, had made his new temporary home. Joachim was defeated in a shorter battle, along with the army of monsters he had amassed, and Mathias killed him and took his soul, obtaining his power. Juliette Fernandez, the head of the academy, decided to reward Imamiah, Mathias, and Kate for excelling in Odia's teachings with a vacation. Mathias, along with Death, Imamiah, Kate, Odia, and Juliette, boarded an airship, the last one in existence, and flew to what would come to be known as North America. Mathias was led underground, along with the others, to a large dark cave. Many Strigoi prepared to attack, but recognized Juliette and did not. A large door opened into the city of Agharta, where many monsters safely lived under the rule of Eve, the first human woman and the first vampire.

Juliette led Mathias and the others to Eve's throne room, where she granted them access to a spring. Mathias changed into clothes for swimming, and swam for a while alongside vampire women and his peers, but then Eve crashed into the spring, fighting with Odia. Mathias, along with Imamiah and Kate, helped Odia fight Eve. Odia wrapped Eve in chains and cast a potent illusion around her. Death appeared with intention of killing her, but Odia told him to wait so that she could be tortured for six more minutes. After six minutes passed, Death slew Eve and gave her soul to Mathias, making him the most powerful vampire in existence or that had ever existed. Mathias followed Juliette and the others out of Agharta. The Strigoi started to attack them, but Juliette warped Mathias and Kate out of the cave and held aloft a candle with a light that paralyzes vampires. All the Strigoi were, of course, paralyzed and fell to the bottom of the cave. Juliette warped everyone to where Mathias and Kate were, then placed a powerful seal on the entrance to the cave that led to Agharta. However, not long after, a great black cloud erupted from the entrance, and out from it came Asag. Asag declared that he was going to resume his mission to make the world the perfect meal and devour it, then left. Juliette tried to start their airship, but without a powering gem, it did not work. Juliette left using a warp crystal that only worked for one person, to go inform the High Council of Asag's return. Death and Odia attempted to place a barrier around the airship that would hide it from Asag, but it failed, and caused the airship to fall and crash, which Asag heard.

Asag returned to their position and attacked the group. Mathias and the others attempted to fight him, but to little avail. Odia managed to distract Asag with his magic, and they all warped to another position far away from him. However, after a few moments passed, Asag hunted them down and attacked them again. Odia again distracted Asag with magic, and they teleported to another area. Juliette returned, and Mathias and company agreed to summon the Devil for help, as he defeated Asag millennia ago. However, Satan declined, and then vanished. Juliette repaired the airship, changing its design for sea travel, deciding to return to the academy via the ocean. They set sail. Juliette, feeling as though the ride from there to the European island would be boring, sent out a shock wave of power to attract sea monsters to their ship. It first attracted the god Poseidon, but then attracted Asag himself. He killed Poseidon rather quickly and absorbed his power, giving him control over aquatic life and sea monsters, as well as water. Juliette managed to scar Asag with a weapon called the Oath Breaker, and then when Asag attempted to swallow Mathias, Death struck the inside of Asag's mouth with his scythe. This harmed Asag and caused him to retreat. Odia later returned with news that Asag had risen an army of hundreds of demons to lead an attack on the Sons of Darkness and search for the other pieces of his soul so that he could regain his full power.

Mathias and the others decided to turn back to the land of the New World as Mathias suggested that they find the civilization of the Mayans, who had been said, according to the research of Joshua Cronqvist, to possess magical prowess and relics that could help in the battle against Asag and his forces. Juliette turned the ship around and they stopped at an ancient temple that had engravings and hieroglyphics lining the temple walls. Odia and Mathias studied the hieroglyphics and engravings which seemed to depict an unusual creation scene as well as an unusual history of the universe, depicting God and an unknown female deity creating the universe together, as well as many other deities from many other religions surrounding the creation scene. Then, it depicted the female deity being pregnant with winged infants, which Mathias and Odia presumed to be archangels. Translated from the hieroglyphics, it was discovered the goddess's name was Asherah. Mathias went to sleep in his coffin, as did Kate, Juliette, and Imamiah, but Odia stayed up the entire day (they were going by a vampire's sleeping schedule) documenting what he could translate from the hieroglyphics and writing down theories about what he found. That dusk, Mathias and the group prepared to leave the temple to find another place to stay as they journeyed to the fabled Mayan city, but suddenly, in static, Mathias and Kate were taken to another dimension. Juliette, Odia, Death, and Imamiah followed behind. They were stalked by a being known as Das Ritter in Joshua Cronqvist's journal. They each attempted to harm it, but were barely able to, much like in their previous fights with Asag. However, just as Das Ritter was about to kill Kate, Satan appeared in the dimension and ripped out Das Ritter's heart. It erupted into black blood, and Satan apported the group to a waterfall.

Death discovered that behind the waterfall was not the Mayan city, but the city of Ank'hem, whose inhabitants curiously spoke Old English. They revealed that they had a book called the Tome of Asherah that was supposedly given to them by Asherah herself. Mathias told a plan to Death and Kate that a civilization that wielded such power could not be allowed to live. Once they had attained the knowledge they needed from its people and the Tome, they would kill its entire population and destroy the city. The King of the city, King Hae'ldrea, hosted a feast with his guests. However, Mathias and Kate, as vampires, found the food absolutely repulsive, whilst the others were delighted with its taste. This arose suspicions in the king's mind. Kate brought Mathias outside, calling him a fool for taking her to the feast. They fed on guards who overheard they were vampires, to Odia's dismay, and then returned to the table. Death went to aid the High Priest in finding a potent spell from the Tome to hide them from Asag and his forces. Juliette, Odia, and Imamiah went to learn more about the culture. Mathias went to feed on more guards, telling Kate to come with him. She refused to attack them, as they were innocent, so Mathias began slaughtering them. However, one escaped, and informed the king of their attack. Kate went to the king's throne room and killed him suddenly, then the guard and all other guards that attempted to stop her.

Mathias, his cover blown, but also with the Tome of Asherah already taken by Death, decided to wipe out the city's people and destroy it. He sent a large ball of the fires of Hell down at the city, engulfing much of it in the flames. Mathias went to the throne room, and asked Kate why she killed the king and these guards, but not the guards he had told her to kill. She suddenly told him that she no longer wanted him in her life. Mathias said "Fine. You can rot for all I care." and walked off. Death told her to reconsider, but Kate silenced him. He followed Mathias. Juliette made Kate follow them out of the city anyway, as she could not leave behind a student. Mathias prepared to destroy the rest of the city, but Odia told him not to, as it was a piece of history that needed to be preserved. Mathias followed them, and Juliette warped them all to the ship. After a week, the ship returned them to the academy. They were to return to their school life and hunt down Asag's minions that revealed themselves over time, but instead, Asag abruptly appeared at the academy, and began killing students. Odia, Imamiah, Kate, and Mathias all attacked Asag, but Juliette and Death were curiously absent. Odia managed to have Asag choked by a purple mist, and then they all combined their powers and blasted a beam of their magicks into Asag's gaping mouth. Then, Juliette and Death appeared, combining their powers as well and doing the same. Asag exploded in a burst of power, and then Death quickly took his soul and gave it to Mathias, in more of a ceremonial fashion as he did with Walter Bernhard's soul.

When Mathias absorbed Asag's soul, immense power surged through him, and after a dramatic display of his newfound power, he now had white hair, much paler skin, and his clothing's color scheme changed from green and black to red and black. His eyes were now completely black, except for his irises, which were crimson. Death kneeled, asking for his orders, and Mathias ordered destruction of the school and all its inhabitants. Death gathered many, many ghostly spirits, forming a large green orb, and threw it down at the school. However, Odia was able to deflect it. Juliette attacked Mathias, but he immediately shattered the source of her power, her scepter. After a rather long conflict of Death and Mathias against Odia, Imamiah, Juliette, and Kate, Mathias grew tired of the fight and summoned up all of his power. He let out an explosion of power that was the combined power of Satan and himself, which consumed the entire school. Juliette conjured a spell that summoned many chains. These chains wrapped around Mathias, Death, and accidentally around Kate as well. A coffin lid appeared on one side of the three, and on the other the actual coffin. It closed in around them, and then more chains rose from the ground. The chains pulled the coffin under the academy, which was blazing with fire and rapidly burning to the ground, and sealed Mathias, Death, and Kate inside.

It should be noted that, in the following events, as of now, it is unknown what happens to Kate.

After 328 years passed and 1429 came, a dark sorcerer calling himself Darkside had heard of these two very powerful entities of pure darkness, and found their sealed coffin prison under the long forgotten academy ruins. With several other black mages, he conducted a black mass and called upon Satan to destroy the seal. Their pact with the Devil was successful, and the seal on the coffin was lifted. The chains around the coffin shattered, and the coffin’s lid flew off. A bright golden beam burst from the coffin, and out from the coffin came swarms of vampire bats and crows. The crows all came together and manifested Death, and the vampire bats did the same and formed Mathias. Darkside and his cult knew that the skeleton with robes was Death, and knew the vampire they released was the Antichrist himself, but they did not know his name. When Darkside asked him, Mathias said his name was “Dracula (Son of the Devil) Vlad (Ruler) Țepeș (the Impaler)”, but they were to address him as “Lord Dracula”. With his new followers, Dracula left to return to Bernhard Castle in Bulgaria, which had since become the country called Wallachia. Dracula turned the black mages into vampires and appointed them as nobles in his Vampire Nobility. Most of them were also ranked as Lieutenants in his army by Dracula. Their names were Olrox Schiffer, Brauner Schiffer, Fumio Karr, and Lucal Wesker. However, the lead sorcerer Darkside surprisingly wanted to keep his humanity, but accepted the rank of General for being the head of the operation to free Dracula and Death. The last member of Darkside’s cult Dracula turned into a vampire, Gilles de Rais, was ranked a General merely because Dracula thought Gilles de Rais was the prettiest of the black mages. Gilles was also the most “compatible” with Dracula’s blood. When Gilles drank human blood for the first time, he immediately obtained many of Dracula’s powers. However, he usually did not use them, as he preferred using his card-activated magic as he did when he was human. Dracula adopted Isaac Karr and Julia Karr, the children of Fumio Karr, and Hector Wesker, the son of Lucal Wesker, and would raise them to become proficient Devil Forgemasters. Dracula began using minions to construct several fortresses, great walls, and towers throughout Wallachia for his nobles to live in and to defend from holy human armies, where he would spend eternity existing as a curse to God and enslave mankind, reducing them to little more than cattle for vampires and other monsters that survived on humans, to show God that he no longer ruled the Earth, and out of a hatred for humans having such blind faith in God and for being his "anointed species". Bernhard Castle reconstructed itself when Dracula arrived as it recognized Dracula as its master. He didn't rename it, but humans would come to call it “the Castlevania”, obviously combining the words castle and Transylvania, or most famously, people called it “Castle Dracula” or simply “Dracula’s castle”.

A day came in January of 1430 when he met a beautiful woman named Lisa who looked remarkably similar to his long-dead wife, Elisabetha. He believed Lisa to be her reincarnation. He had intended to drink her blood and add her as another member of his harem, but he couldn’t bring himself to turn her. Instead, he went on several dates with her. He fell in love with Lisa very soon, and she fell in love with him. In April of 1430, Lisa witnessed Dracula drinking the blood of a woman from his harem. Dracula was ashamed, but Lisa said she did not care that he was a vampire, nor that he drank another woman’s blood. Lisa had already had a child with another vampire six years before Dracula and Death were freed from their sealed coffin. Her name was Akasha Bloodriver, and the father vampire’s name was Elias Bloodriver, a Japanese nobleman. That night, she introduced Dracula to Akasha. Dracula and Akasha would form a strong father-and-daughter-like bond from that point forward. Dracula since considered Akasha his actual daughter, and she remembered him as only her father, since, as she grew, she couldn't remember anything before she was six.

On December 21st, 1431, a mere four days away from Christmas and Dracula's own birthday, she conceived another with him. Lisa named him “Adrian Fahrenheit Țepeș”. Dracula and Lisa married the day after in Bernhard Castle’s Royal Chapel, which Lisa ordered the construction of as she was religious despite having children with two vampires and not caring that Dracula, in the vampire’s way, cheated on her earlier in their relationship. Since Dracula was educated by whom he originally thought was his father, he taught Akasha and Adrian everything Janos Cronqvist taught him, and other things he had learned since. He also taught the same to Hector, Julia, and Isaac, whom as said before, he raised as the members of the cult that freed the Count wanted nothing to do with those children. In 1435, Morgan Iceland, the succubus who took the virginity of the human Dracula, came to live with him and brought the daughter she conceived with Dracula all those centuries ago, Lilith Iceland. Later that same year, Dracula and Lisa had another child, Krul Țepeș. In 1443, Morgan and Lilith both came into Adrian’s bedroom and had a threesome with him, losing Adrian’s virginity. Succubae cannot keep their privates to themselves. Though it’s not their fault, as they literally require semen inside of their womb, past their rectum, or in their throat to survive, all fresh from a penis. I just did the research, don’t look at me. Sometime during this period, unbeknownst to Dracula, the young Adrian met a girl, Sonia Belmont, who lived in the part of the old town of Warakiya that was not in ruins. He was smitten by her beauty and personality, and began sneaking out of the castle to go see her in the village. He would do this successfully for years.

Then, one year after this woman-filled part in the life of Dracula’s half-breed son, in December of 1444, Lisa was captured by the villagers of Alba when she went to visit her mother and father’s grave. The villagers knew that she was the bride of the King of the Night who had his castle in the mountains. They did not fear him, as he had always been a peaceful vampire who kept to himself, but they still hated him because he was a vampire. They only knew this, too, because Count Brauner, whom Dracula had made a vampire noble over a decade ago, told them, tired of Dracula’s passiveness with humans, as Brauner knew once the Alba townspeople killed Lisa, it would enrage Dracula, causing him to wage war on the humans that Brauner was once a member of, but hated. Lisa was tried as a witch and was tied to a crucifix. When she had been gone for an unusual period of time, since most people in Castle Dracula were sleeping including Dracula, Adrian traveled to Alba to see about his mother. There he found her tied to the crucifix, angry villagers surrounding it with pitchforks and torches. Adrian unsheathed the sword he had just gotten for his 13th birthday, the Crissaegrim, intending to use it to kill the villagers and save her, but she told him to merely stand there. She said to him and to tell Dracula, “Do not hate humans. If you cannot live with them, then at least do them no harm, for theirs is already a hard lot.” She then said that she would love Dracula, Adrian, Akasha, Krul, and Death for all eternity. After she said this, the crucifix was lit with a great fire, and Lisa was burned at the stake, though it was as if she felt no pain, because she did not move nor scream.

Dracula awoke that night on Christmas Eve to the news of his beloved’s death at the hands of what he saw as mankind. Dracula begged Death to return Lisa to life, but in tears and grief, Death said he could not, as he could only rise her again as a mindless zombie. He then called upon the Devil to do the same, who refused, saying it "went against the law of [his] compromise with [God]". As Brauner had planned, Dracula was furious, and his roar of pure anger and grief, which was like that of a humongous and terrible dragon, was heard all throughout the lands that surrounded Dracula’s castle. All who heard it were now very afraid of what the Lord of Vampires would do. And rightfully so. Dracula summoned all of his armies throughout the land of demons and beasts and creatures of the night, called Olrox Schiffer, Brauner Schiffer, Fumio Karr, Lucal Wesker, and Gilles de Rais from their castles throughout Wallachia, and Death, and ordered them to lead strikes against all of the world. They all did, as they had been waiting for this moment for a decade. Though Death was the primordial darkness and embodiment of death, he was almost disappointed that Dracula would make this order as Death had come to love the peaceful vampire, his wife, and their children. They were his family. But, regardless, he followed his Master’s orders, and led a global-scale attack on humankind. Dracula went from the title of a peaceful vampire lord, to accepting his role as King of the Night, Lord (or Prince) of Darkness. All beings of darkness would know the Antichrist by these titles and others from then on.

Adrian would lead several attacks against countries in Europe. But he never enjoyed doing so. The loving father he was raised by was now gone. All that was left after Lisa’s death was a cold, ruthless, evil vampire. His eyes weren’t even the same. Once, the irises were cyan, and the whites of his eyes, well, white. But now, Lord Dracula’s irises were crimson as blood, and all of the rest of his eyes were pitch black. His skin was once warm, as was his breath, and humanlike, but now it was a shade of blue, his breath as well, cold as death. Seeing all this death at the hands of Dracula turned Adrian away from his father. Akasha, Lilith, and Krul left the castle to hide from what was once their father. Though Adrian stayed. At this point, Hector left as well, also seeing that the father figure that raised him was no more. Isaac stayed, relishing in the bloodshed.

1450: Events of Castlevania Legends
"'On the contrary, I am just the one to use this power, and I will be the king who rules over the entire world. Give yourself to me, young lady. There may be merit in having your power, in having your strength.'""- Dracula to Sonia Belmont"Adrian found that Sonia was pregnant with his child. Knowing that now, the Lord of Darkness would kill this child, he decided he would destroy Dracula himself, using the Crissaegrim. It pained him since Dracula was his father and raised him as this superhero, protective, loving father, but not enough to stop him from actually convincing himself to kill him, as what Dracula was now was not his father. Now he was no longer Adrian, he was Alucard, spelling his father’s name backwards was to represent that he stood against everything Dracula was. He said for Sonia to call him by this name as well. On December 25th of 1450, Alucard went to Dracula’s throne room, preparing to kill him, but the King of the Night was not there. Then, to Alucard’s surprise, Sonia entered the throne room. Sonia was also surprised to see Alucard. Sonia said she had come to kill Dracula herself, but Alucard didn’t think she could do it. To prove herself, Sonia engaged in battle with Alucard. Alucard was actually defeated, though surprised that her weapon the Vampire Killer actually hurt him and made him bleed considerably, he didn’t tell her he held back a lot in fear of hurting her, and he lied to himself that he used all of his resolve.

It was foolish of him.

Sonia Belmont went to the underground Colosseum, where the Lord of Darkness was watching a play. Dracula and Sonia engaged in combat. Dracula was already impressed that Sonia had wiped out nearly all of Dracula’s forces in order to get to this point, but through most of their fight, Dracula merely toyed with her. When the Vampire Killer was stabbed into his back when the Dark Lord was taken by surprise (though it missed is heart), the intense pain Dracula felt enraged him, causing him to use all of his strength (in that form and weakened by the Vampire Killer) to punch her in the ribs. It immediately shattered them, her lungs, and her heart, and she flew against the stone wall behind her. Blood erupted from her mouth. She fell to the floor, gasping for air, and died. Then Dracula threw her off of the balcony into the gap between it and the stadium, which led all the way down to the exit out into the Dead Sea. When Alucard found Sonia at the bottom of a chasm under the Colosseum half an hour later, he was absolutely furious with Dracula. After giving Sonia a proper burial, he took the Vampire Killer, went back to the castle, and caught Dracula by surprise, stabbing him in the heart. Dracula felt even greater pain because of what this weapon was made of and it was in his heart, but nothing happened. Feeling betrayed that his own son would try to kill him, he restrained Alucard and told Darkside to seal Alucard within his own coffin, and put the coffin deep below the castle. Darkside did just that, placing vampire-warding things, like a giant-silver cross, throughout this prison for Alucard.

Dracula set the Vampire Killer in an indent shaped like it on the lid of the coffin. Anyone who removed the Vampire Killer from where it was set would awaken Alucard, whom after going a long time without human blood would be very thirsty and would unleash his true inner vampiric self in order to get it. This trap obviously meant for the son of Sonia Belmont and Alucard, whom Dracula would have killed, but could not find. To prevent someone like Sonia Belmont greatly deplenishing the number of Dracula’s minions again, Dracula summoned two of the most powerful demons in Hell – Camastotsz and Pazuzu, and also two Leviathan Spawn. As the years went by, the entire world came under the power of Demon Lord Dracula. Yet, this would change sooner than most thought.

1450 - 1475: Interlude
For years, mankind was ruled with fear under Dracula, with Rome struggling to fight off his forces. France, protected by the prince-warrior Cosmar Finch, miraculously withstood the Order of the Dragon until 1474, when Dracula invaded France himself and killed Cosmar. Also during this period of time, the son of Sonia Belmont and Alucard, Trevor Belmont, underwent all of his training and prepared for his battle with the Lord of Darkness.

1476: Events of Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse
After almost 3 long decades of humans living in fear, ruled by monsters, the 26-year-old Trevor Belmont finished his training in 1476 under the Holy Roman Empire’s greatest Paladins. Though these Paladins were powerful, they were still very afraid of the Lord Vampire of the Mountains. However, when Trevor showed just how powerful he was, like hypocrites, they became afraid of him, too, and exiled him from their safe haven in Transylvania. They sent others who were raised alongside Trevor to be powerful warriors; Syfa Fernandez, a very powerful sorceress whose parents were killed when she was a toddler by the very Paladins who raised and trained her to use her powers; and Grant Danesti, who was taken in by the Church after his parents were killed by Dracula. However, Syfa was turned to stone by the Gorgon Medusa, and Grant was turned into a ravenous monster by Darkside. Having no other options again, they brought Trevor out of exile, gave him a whip called Morning Star, and sent him to kill Dark Lord Dracula Vlad Țepeș, who still ruled from the great dark stronghold Castlevania, now surrounded by a forest of humans impaled on iron spikes and spears.

Trevor destroyed all of Dracula’s minions in his path, turned Syfa Fernandez back from stone, and lifted the curse on Grant Danesti. He also found the Vampire Killer in the catacombs where Alucard was trapped within his own coffin, releasing Alucard. Because of the great dark aura that Alucard emitted and the obvious resemblance to Dracula, the three thought that he was Dracula. However, eventually, after they all fought him, he snapped out of his thirst for blood and took back control of his body from his inner vampire. Together the four also killed Camastotsz, Pazuzu, the two Leviathan Spawn, Darkside, and Death. Hearing the news that these four warriors destroyed these powerful beings, the Vampire Nobility went into hiding. However, Dracula stood ready to face them, confident, as his power was far greater than any of these beings. When the four entered the Throne Room, Dracula attempted to turn Alucard over to his side again one last time, but Alucard adamantly refused. So, the Lord of Darkness engaged in combat with these four vampire hunters. Though they had a lot of trouble with Death, they greatly underestimated Count Dracula. Through the entire fight, Dracula had them barely doing damage to him, as he did not underestimate them. Throughout the fight, the Vampire King kept telling Alucard to give into his vampire side and do away with his weak human side, but he wouldn’t, leaving his power considerably weaker than his father’s. During the battle, Dracula broke Syfa’s neck and left her seemingly lifeless in the Throne Room floor, then stabbed Grant Danesti with his own dagger. And this was only in his first form.

Then, Trevor and Alucard were able to get him to transform into his second form, which was just five giant heads with a large brain in the middle. The heads were Lisa’s, Elisabetha’s, Janos’, Krisztina’s, and Dracula’s head as Mathias Cronqvist. They were all bleeding from their nostrils, eyes, ears, and mouth, and spitting acidic blood at Trevor and Alucard. After Alucard and Trevor destroyed all the heads, Dracula transformed into his third form, a large satanic figure with six dragon wings. In this form, Alucard and Trevor were able to do absolutely no damage. After several minutes, Alucard and Trevor were on death’s door, bleeding profusely and tired. At the last moment, Trevor made a plan. He told Alucard, Syfa, and Grant through telepathy that he wanted to try Soul Resonance and combine all of their powers to destroy the Prince of Darkness. He successfully combined his soul Syfa’s, Alucard’s, and Grant’s, and their powers all entered the Vampire Killer and amplified its potency exponentially. Tapped into his soul, descended from the archangel Michael, Trevor plunged forward and dug the Vampire Killer into Count Dracula’s heart.

As Dracula’s body began to explode and release great amounts of demonic energy, Dracula commended Trevor Belmont for being able to destroy him. In his final moments, he said “As long as there is evil in men’s hearts, and as long as evil exists…as long as there is darkness…as long as your enemy the Devil walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour…I will rise from the dead, and smite this world! I will never truly die…I will always…be here. And someday, I will win. Evil…will prevail.” He then uttered a curse to plague all of Wallachia. With that, beams of sunlight crashed through the windows of the Throne Room, and he burst into flame, and then dissipated into smoldering ashes. The castle immediately, with no Master, began to collapse, and it fell into the sea. They were all able to escape. Atop the peak of the Transylvanian Alps were erected four statues, one for each of the warriors – one for Grant Danesti, Syfa Fernandez, Alucard, and Trevor Belmont. Trevor Belmont and Syfa Fernandez would later have a child and continue the Belmont bloodline. Grant opened a shop in Warakiya. As for Alucard, he laid himself back in the coffin where he was sealed away 26 years ago, and dove the Crissaegrim into his heart, putting himself into a deep sleep. Before doing so as well, he told Trevor to tell his descendants to remove the Crissaegrim should they ever need Alucard’s help when Dracula resurrects.

1479: Events of Castlevania: Curse of Darkness
"'The powerful always judge the weak. The humans made their judgement of me, as well. Thus, I sentenced them...to extinction. Sympathy is merely a form of weakness. You betrayed me, Hector. And for that, the punishment...is death.'"

"- Dracula to Hector"

Death soon self-revived after his defeat at the four warriors' hands, and began searching for a way to resurrect his Master. Even with all his wisdom, being around as long as he had, it took him three years to find a sufficient ritual to resurrect the Count, and several months to get the rites in order. He planned to use the traitorous Devil Forgemaster, Hector, as a host for Dracula's return. Death took human form and appeared to him several times, going by "Zead", each time sending him in the right direction to fulfill Death's ultimate goal. Though the host would have to be completely consumed by Dracula's Curse. After Hector had a battle with Isaac, Zead conducted the last of the rites, and through the massive pool of dark magic that was emitted from Hector and Isaac's fight, he convinced Bernhard Castle that Dracula had been revived. The castle rose from the sea, though still in ruin. Then, Isaac mortally wounded Trevor, who was aiding Hector in his quest, while his guard was down, making Trevor unfit to help fight Dracula should he return. Julia barely saved his life. Hector investigated to see if Dracula had returned, now with the courage to face his former Lord. Though Hector was perfect as the Dark Lord's host, he rejected the Curse, and defeated Isaac in a battle meant to cause Hector to forcefully succumb to the Curse. Seeing as Hector would not give in, Death used Isaac as the host instead. In the battle with Hector, Death, to his greatly wounded pride, was vanquished by Hector. As the resurrection was only partially completed, causing Dracula to be pathetically weak, paling in comparison to his former power, Hector was able to kill Dracula and then nullify his Curse, finally freeing Wallachia from its grip. With Dracula destroyed once more, the castle collapsed around Hector. He planned to accept his death, but his friend, Julia, appeared and warped him out of the castle.

1579 - 1591: The Legend of Dracula
The Wallachian people, and the people of Europe, had lived in peace for a century. Then, on a cold and white Christmas Eve, the Vampire Castle reconstructed itself. Though Castle Dracula was a very large and tall dark stronghold, it was only visible from the town of Warakiya, as it was surrounded by mountains. The people of Warakiya began to panic, but the mayor of Warakiya surrounded his town with sword-wielding guards to keep them from leaving the villagers and notifying other villages that Dracula had no doubt returned, trying to prevent the spread of mass panic throughout Wallachia. The mayor sent Christopher Belmont, the great grandson of Trevor Belmont, to again slay Count Dracula. Christopher crossed the great bridge to Castlevania. He destroyed all of the Dark Lord’s minions in his path, including Death. Then, after a rather long battle, he plunged the Vampire Killer’s stake end into the heart of the Count, who had taken the form of a large vampire bat. Because he had just resurrected himself and was far from his full power, though this was tough, it was much easier to do than it was when the Four Warriors of Wallachia faced him, as Christopher did so alone with all of his body still intact, despite some painful wounds.

Or so it seemed. Just before the Vampire Killer could reach his chest, with the last of his power in his weakened and defeated state, Dracula cast an illusion, causing Christopher to see and feel that he had stabbed the vampire, and then turned into mist and left the Throne Room through the window. Then, he made the castle collapse as if he had died. Christopher naturally escaped. But, when he attempted to return to his human visage, he simply could not. Dracula was trapped in this form, and it would take a very long time, around a century, without access to human blood, for his power to replenish enough so that he could take his normal form again. It was as if he was destroyed. Though, as in any of his forms, he could still speak, despite having no mouth, just as he could see even though he had no eyes, and hear though he had no ears. Dracula decided that he would possess the body of Soleiyu Belmont, Christopher Belmont’s son, and use the child to torment Christopher until he could think of a plan to allow him to take human form again.

It actually took until 1591, since Dracula was enjoying tormenting Christopher using his own son for 12 years, but he finally came up with a plan. Using Soleiyu’s body, he returned to his castle’s ruins, and contacted Death, who had been in a deep sleep there for all those years. He told Death to rise Darkside from the dead, even if it meant as a zombie. Death followed orders, but because Darkside had been dead for 115 years, he was just a skeleton in tattered robes, though he still had his staff. Because of his magic power, to Death’s surprise, Darkside still had his self-awareness and consciousness. Using his own magicks, Darkside completely restored his body and youth as well. Dracula, still possessing Soleiyu, told Darkside to rise four of the elemental castles of the Sons of Satan, so he could draw their demonic power from them and be given back the use of all of his powers again. So, Darkside rose from Hell the crystal castle of Mammon (whom was not in the castle when it was risen, so Darkside made it his own castle), the castle of Kokabiel (whom was also not in this castle when it was risen, so Death made it his own lair), the castle of Asmodeus (whom was not in her castle so it was watched after by her plant demons and her guardians Kumulo and Nimber), and the castle of Astaroth (whom was actually at his castle).

Christopher Belmont killed each of the guardians of these four castles and sent the castles back to Hell. Still unable to take human form and use the majority of his powers, Dracula possessed Soleiyu again, planning to use his body eternally. He engaged in battle with Christopher, but before the vampire hunter did any fatal damage to his son, Christopher was able to expel Dracula from Soleiyu’s body. Father and son were reunited, and Christopher went to the heights of the castle to face the Lord of Darkness. Before Christopher reached the Throne Room, Christopher fell into a gap Dracula opened and into the Ceremonial Room, trying to catch Christopher by surprise. There, Death sacrificed his own soul as a last resort, which restored Dracula's full power as he had in 1476. Christopher and Soleiyu seemed doomed, but as Dracula was distracted toying around with Christopher, Soleiyu stabbed the King of the Night in the heart with the Vampire Killer and then cut off his head with his silver dagger.

1691 - 1692: Dracula's Curse
After another century passed, Dracula resurrected himself again. His great dark castle arose in the Carpathian mountains, and this time Simon Belmont brandished the Vampire Killer whip and journeyed to Castlevania to slay the Prince of Darkness and Death itself. He did so successfully and alone, as the Prince of Darkness was only as powerful as he was in 1579, however in the heat of the battle, Dracula broke Simon’s back, and just before the blow to Dracula’s heart by the Vampire Killer put the King of the Night back to rest, he cast a curse upon Simon Belmont, though Simon had no idea what he said, dismissing his words as inane ramblings. Simon Belmont returned to his normal life of slaying lesser undead, monsters, and demons. But then Dracula’s Curse began to take its toll on him. Simon Belmont craved to brutally slaughter others like never before, and took much more enjoyment in killing those he hunted then he ever had. In the mirror, he would begin to see Dracula instead of himself, and at night he had dreams that he ­was Count Dracula. Soon every day, too, he began to cough blood, and he went from coughing blood to upchucking very alarming amounts of blood. None knew what had befell the great vampire hunter.

In 1692, a year after Dracula’s death, Simon Belmont lived with his wife Talia Belmont in the village of Jova, as this is where his wife wanted to live instead of what was once Warakiya. Now I have to explain. Warakiya had split into two villages during Soleiyu Belmont’s lifetime. These villages being Doina (a prosperous dock and fishing village) and Yomi, “the Town of the Dead”, called this as the local Wallachian people believed Yomi was cursed as it was so close to Castle Dracula and it was the sight of Lisa's death and the sight of a massacre at Death's hands in an act of vengeance. The only person that lived in Yomi was an Undertaker, as Camilla Cemetery was the only thing in between Yomi and the bridge to the ruins of Castlevania. In order to get to Yomi, one has to take a detour through the Warakiya Woodlands, as Doina and Yomi are separated by a stone wall.

In the village of Jova, something began to cause many of the townspeople to miscarry. Simon really thought nothing of it, until his wife miscarried their son, after a long time of trying with his wife to have a child. Enraged, Simon Belmont hunted down the source of all these miscarriages and found that the demon Lamashtu, an adopted daughter of the Devil, had been behind the miscarriages. Though she was a powerful demon in her own right, she proved a minimal challenge to the vengeful and already bloodthirsty Simon Belmont. Before she was destroyed, she told him he had been afflicted by Dracula’s Curse, and in only seven days’ time, he would die after killing everyone he held dear.

Simon then began looking through libraries in every village in Wallachia for a way to lift Dracula’s Curse. By the 4th day of the days he had left, he eventually found in a monk’s temple that the only way to lift the curse was to resurrect the Lord of Darkness himself and kill him again. So, Simon Belmont did just that, travelling to all of the castles throughout Wallachia where, in each, one of Dracula’s vital remains was held. Simon found Dracula’s heart, rib, nail, eye, and ring, and went to one of the Ceremonial Rooms under the ruins of Castlevania. He revived the Count, who in his very weak very-early-and-freshly resurrected “Dracula Wraith” state was much easier to defeat than before. After Dracula was again killed, Dracula’s Curse was lifted from Simon on the 7th day of his curse, just before he was about to succumb to the curse. For another 100 years, Transylvania had relative peace without a mad Simon Belmont and without the King of Blood. Simon and his wife, the next year, were able to continue the Belmont bloodline should the Son of the Devil rise again, as they knew he would.

1792 - 1800: The Dracula X Chronicles
"'Freedom is always sacrificed to faith, good hunter. Or are you truly here by choice?'"

"- Dracula to Richter Belmont" Wallachia, Moldavia, and Transylvania had banded together to become the nation of Romania. Dracula was revived by the dark priest Shaft Virgil in the self-reconstructed Castlevania, and Shaft’s Devil-worshipping cult, “Darkened Dawn”. Though Dracula was due to resurrect without the help of this dark priest in a few months regardless, the Dark Lord thanked Shaft by giving him and his cult their own quarters in Castlevania’s Marble Gallery, and command over a very large portion of Dracula’s legion of darkness, including the vampire nobles. Only Death and Gilles de Rais ranked above Shaft.

This is Dracula’s appreciation for those who pay him a great tribute such as this and support his cause, even if they are human, as Shaft and his cult was. Dracula then ordered an attack on several Wallachian towns, sending his minions to ransack and burn the villages to the ground. He also told his men to take the absolute most beautiful women out of all of the province of Wallachia and bring them to his castle. These women were; Tera, a very religious woman from the village of Alba; Iris, a nurse from Aljiba; Annette Renard, Richter Belmont’s own wife from Jova; and Maria Renard, Annette Renard’s 12-year-old sister, who also lived in Jova, but was often away because she was a vampire-hunting mage, as the Renard family descended from the Fernandez family.

Richter Belmont, the descendant of Simon Belmont, was hunting a wendigo in a village in the province of Transylvania when he heard of these attacks. He immediately made his way on horseback to Jova to try to save Annette before she could be captured, but Death appeared and slowed him down, and initiated a short fight to test Richter’s abilities. Death departed after Richter impressed him, shouting “Next time, it won’t be so easy!” Richter was unable to get to Jova in time to rescue Annette. Thus, he went to the source of these attacks – the Vampire Castle in the mountains, ruled by the great and powerful Lord of Darkness, Count Dracula Vlad Țepeș. Richter arrived at Castlevania, rescued all the kidnapped women, and as his ancestors did, killed every one of Dracula’s minions that got in his way, including the final minions of great power – Death and Shaft (whom also returned just before Richter came to the stairway to Dracula’s Throne Room, using his magicks to come back as a ghost no less in a final attempt to kill the vampire hunter). Though, he also had a great deal of help from Maria Renard, whom after she was rescued was able to show off her great powers and control over ancient deity animals.

Though Dracula was defeated, the dark priest Shaft had a surprising will about him. Shaft, in the pit of Hell itself, was able to strike a deal with Lucifer, which was that if he was freed from Hell and given back his life, he would resurrect Dracula and ensure he was revived at his full true power, so Richter Belmont alone could not destroy him again. The Devil agreed to this, and gave Shaft back his life. Though Shaft did not know how to go about immediately resurrecting Dracula with his full power. So, Shaft spent five years trying to find out a way to do this, researching all he could, travelling the world for all the knowledge to achieve his goal. Once every year, the Devil would appear before Shaft to see how the dark priest’s plans to revive Count Dracula were progressing.

Finally, in 1797, he figured out how he would revive the Dark Lord at full power. Instead of returning Dracula’s soul to its remains, he would make Dracula's soul physical in Assiah, thus immediately giving Dracula the use of all of his powers. He put his plan into motion, and conducted a spell to reconstruct Castlevania as it had not yet risen on its own, even though it rises whenever it wants, often long before Dracula is ever resurrected. Using his magic, Shaft created a temporary hidden alternate plane of existence where he could conduct his spell in peace. On this alternate plane, Castlevania was upside-down. And that’s really the only difference. The plane did not go past the gate of Castlevania’s outer wall. If one were to exit that gate, there would be nothing. Literally, absolutely nothing, void, emptiness. Shaft then, to insure none would be able to stop him, found Richter Belmont and used black magic to possess him, to keep him out of the way as well as all other vampire hunters while the ritual was conducted by the vampire nobles, as they were all once human members of Shaft’s cult.

Shaft’s plan seemed foolproof as no vampire hunter alive had the power or weapons to defeat Richter. However, suddenly Alucard was awakened again for the first time since 1476. Alucard defeated everyone in his way and then expelled Shaft from Richter in combat. Alucard entered the inverted castle that Shaft had created, then found Shaft just as the ritual was near completion and killed him. Then, Alucard entered Dracula’s soul and defeated the Lord of Darkness from within. Before Count Dracula was returned to Limbo, he asked his son the last words of Lisa. Alucard told him all that she said. Dracula asked for Lisa’s forgiveness for going against her dying wish, and then the inverted castle dematerialized and Castle Dracula also collapsed. Alucard had some last words with Richter and Maria, before putting himself to sleep once more until he was needed again by humanity. Though Count Dracula’s final words would hint at the Vampire King forever ending his war against the humans, his intense hatred for humans was too much. He felt guilty for not honoring Lisa’s dying wish, but the next time he was resurrected he still planned to make all humans suffer for Lisa’s death. In 1800, he was resurrected by Carmilla and killed again by Rusty Belmont, daughter of Annette Renard and Richter Belmont.

1820: Events of Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia
After 1800, the Belmont Clan faded into obscurity after Rusty Belmont married a member of the Morris family and moved to America. In fear of Dracula’s next return, many organizations rose in Romania in search of a way to defeat him without the Belmont Clan and their Vampire Killer. The most successful was Ecclesia, led by a sorcerer named Barlowe. They made a breakthrough with the creation of what they called Glyphs, types of spells that utilized the power within souls. Because of Ecclesia’s success, people in positions of authority were trusted with the remains of the Prince of Darkness. From Count Dracula’s remains, Barlowe created Dominus in 1820, the ultimate Glyph, and the most powerful one Ecclesia had formed. Barlowe said that Dominus would be used to destroy Dracula, as Dominus and Dracula’s soul would cancel each other out. But, Barlowe’s true intentions were to use Dominus to resurrect the King of the Night at his full power. Barlowe needed someone to be the vessel of the Dominus Glyph. He chose one of his disciples, a mage named Shanoa, who was unaware of the true intentions of Barlowe and that using the Dominus Glyph would kill her.Shanoa in time discovered the truth, and defeated Barlowe in a battle. Dracula’s remains then surged a large amount of dark energy into Barlowe, which he was able to use to resurrect Dracula with Dominus at the cost of his own life. Castle Dracula arose in the province of Wallachia and the King of the Night with it. Shanoa headed to the Vampire Castle to destroy Count Dracula herself before his reign of terror could begin anew. When Shanoa reached the Throne Room after defeating all of Dracula’s minions with her great power, Dracula offered to turn her into a vampire and a place to rule at his side. She declined. Amused, Dracula initiated their battle. A few minutes into their fight, Shanoa still hadn't done any damage to Dracula. She had destroyed Death earlier, but because the Dark Lord had been revived through Dominus, he was at full power, where he far surpassed Death. Disappointed with this opponent, he decided to use the Demonic Megiddo, an attack of his that released the combined full dark power from within himself and the Devil’s power in the form of an explosion of energy to quickly finish her off, not considering her a worthy foe. Shanoa had researched this attack, and knew she would immediately be obliterated. However, at the last moment, she remembered that within her she held Dominus. Just as the Count used Demonic Megiddo, Shanoa used Dominus. It cancelled out the Demonic Megiddo and, to his great shock, sent the Prince of Darkness to his death, reducing him to smoldering ash.

1893: Events of Dracula
Count Dracula Vlad Țepeș was again resurrected 96 years later, 6 years ahead of when he was inevitably to return. He was called back to the world of the living this time by three teenage witches, who were all sisters that lived in the province of Moldavia in Romania, performing the ritual in his castle’s remains, eager for his return. They were ecstatic when they saw that the ritual was a success. One of them said, “Lord Dracula! We have risen you!” To that, he merely said “…It was my will.” Like, BITCH. To thank these three women for bringing them back to this world, he turned them all into vampires. In many depictions of Count Dracula to come because of the book written about these events, these three vampire women would forever either be called “the Three Sisters” or, most famously, “The Brides of Dracula”. Though the sisters craved the destruction Count Dracula was said to have caused in the 15th century, to their surprise and confusion, he instead wished to buy an abbey in London, England. The Count told them that it was for an underground takeover of England, though in actuality, he felt as though Elisabetha had again been reincarnated somewhere in London, this time named Wilhelmina Murray.

Count Dracula arranged for a real estate agent called R.M. Renfield to come and allow him to buy Carfax Abbey. Dracula commanded all of his minions to stay out of the area of the castle called the “Castle Corridors” and to steer clear of the human. When Renfield arrived, Dracula used his hypnotic powers to drive Renfield insane and become a slave to the will of the Prince of Darkness. He sent him back to London, as a warning to vampire hunters, to keep them away from his pursuit of his reincarnated beloved. So, another real estate agent was assigned to his case. His name was Jonathan Harker, and he was Wilhelmina’s fiancé. When he arrived, this time Dracula signed the papers, and after dinner (where he learned Wilhelmina went by “Mina”), told Jonathan he was to stay an entire month in the castle. When Jonathan asked “Do I really have to stay so long?” the vampire replied in an intimidating tone, “I will take no refusal.” Dracula showed Jonathan to his quarters and that he was not to try to enter any locked doors. Jonathan was restricted to a small area of the Castle Corridors around his quarters and to the dining hall, as doors outside of the Castle Corridors (to the Royal Chapel and Marble Gallery, etc.) and many inside this area were all locked. In Jonathan’s first night at the castle, the three vampire sisters seduced him and began drinking large amounts of his blood.

Dracula almost immediately found out as they were doing it, and was furious with them, as he wanted to keep Jonathan alive for an entire month to drive him insane for and very slowly kill him for being Mina’s fiancé. Instead, he fed them a human baby for their meal that night, to Jonathan’s great horror and shock. When Jonathan awoke the next day, he tried to leave the castle. The doors to exit the main hall were not locked, but the main gate was shut and the drawbridge was up as well. Jonathan Harker now knew he was a prisoner in the Vampire Castle. In the week prior to the arrival of the ship to England, Dracula had Jonathan write many letters to Mina to make it seem to her like he was well and enjoying his stay at the castle. On the final day before the night Dracula was to leave, Jonathan discovered where the King of Blood had been during the day when he found a way to the ruins of the Royal Chapel through an open window. To his terror, he found Count Dracula asleep in a coffin.

On the Demeter, the ship on course to England, the Prince of Darkness slept in a box large enough for him. On the day of the ship’s arrival at London, a few miles before the shore, Dracula summoned a terribly violent thunder storm. He left his coffin in the form of a wolf, and mutilated the entire crew, their blood painting a lot of the boat’s surface crimson, organs thrown this way and that. The ship reached land with a great fog surrounding it, and he left the Demeter still in the form of a wolf, scaring the people around the boat. The story of the large wolf leaving the ship and the mauled crew made the front page of many newspapers in London.

Count Dracula roamed the streets of London, searching for Mina. He now looked like he did before he became a vampire, with black hair, clear eyes and blue irises, and skin that wasn’t as pale as a ghost. He wore his hair in a ponytail and dressed like a 19th century English nobleman to not stand out too much. He eventually ran into Mina. He flirted and used his incredibly attractive charm to “woo” her, but she asked him if she knew his husband. Dracula acted surprised, and began to walk off, but then Mina called him back. He introduced himself as “Prince Mathias of Wallachia”, and said he was “her servant”. They went to see a comedic silent film together. Mathias said he was amazed by the modern world, as he actually was, saying “the wonders of Science know no bounds.” Mina was not as impressed and thought it was silly. She was incredibly attracted to Mathias, but she thought about Jonathan and told Mathias she shouldn’t be with him. When a wolf that had escaped from the zoo entered the theatre, Mathias tamed it, impressing Mina. They spent several more hours together, before Mathias took her back to the mansion of her rich friend, Lucy Westenra, late in the night.

Thirsty, Dracula lured Lucy out of her quarters, and began to drink her blood while having sex with her and feeding her his blood to make her a vampire. Mina found Lucy and brought her back to her room. The next day, Lucy was very ill. One of the people who asked Lucy to marry him, Doctor John Seward, came to see what was wrong with her, but was baffled and had never seen an illness like Lucy’s. So, he called the man who once mentored him to help, Professor Abraham Van Helsing. When Van Helsing arrived, and found the puncture wounds on Lucy’s neck, he immediately knew that they were the work of a vampire. Dr. Seward and the other people who asked to marry Lucy, Sir Arthur Holmwood and Texan Quincey Morris, all thought he was insane for suggesting a vampire was behind this. But, Van Helsing managed to convince them through his words that vampires were real. Arthur Holmwood, Quincey Morris, Dr. Seward, and Van Helsing all performed blood transplants with Lucy, trying to replace the blood of Dracula with their human blood to keep Lucy from becoming a vampire. Then, they lined the room with garlic.

Mina and Mathias began to meet for dinner at restaurants in London. Mina, even though she had just met this man, felt like they had a long history and was in love with him. Meanwhile, in Romania, Jonathan Harker was on the brink of death because of the three vampire sisters. His hair had turned white. One night, Jonathan managed to escape Castle Dracula, and was rescued by nuns. Jonathan wrote Mina, telling her that he was alive and to come marry him in Romania at the church where he was rescued. Mina did, and when Mathias found out, he cried for hours and hours. His sadness turned to rage, and he summoned another thunder storm, and he again abandoned the name Mathias. Van Helsing, reading one of his books about vampires, was surprisingly incredibly excited when he was able to confirm that the vampire he was hunting was Dracula, the vampire he had obsessed over his entire life. Now an old man, waiting his whole life for this, he could hunt the Lord of Darkness.

Dracula killed some of the people guarding Lucy’s quarters, and then completed the process of turning Lucy into a vampire. Lucy died as a human. They put Lucy in a tomb. Van Helsing told Quincey Morris, Arthur Holmwood, and Dr. Seward that they would have to drive a stake through Lucy’s heart and cut off her head, as she was going to rise from the dead as a vampire. So, they entered Lucy’s resting place, to find Lucy was not in her coffin. Though, almost right after they found her coffin empty, Lucy entered her tomb, carrying a small child that she would soon drain of blood. Van Helsing and the others all held crucifixes in Lucy’s face while Van Helsing repeated a prayer. The prayer and crosses caused Lucy to go back to her coffin, where Van Helsing staked and decapitated her, killing her for good.

Van Helsing then told the three new vampire hunters and the returned Jonathan Harker that they would have to go to the Carfax Abbey and destroy all of Count Dracula’s resting places, leaving him no refuge. They were able to do this without disturbance, as meanwhile, Dracula was in Mina’s room, having sex with her and drinking her blood while she drank his of her own will, desiring to become a vampire to be with Dracula for eternity. Though while this transpired, the five vampire hunters had finished destroying the vampire’s resting places, and barged in Mina’s room. Van Helsing said prayers while holding out a cross, but Dracula did not seem to be affected by this, and lit the cross on fire. Taking the vampire by surprise, Jonathan Harker stabbed him in the heart with a stake, and Quincey Morris quickly cut off his head. But, Dracula’s head reattached. He tore the stake out of his chest, and threw it at Van Helsing, whom quickly avoided it. Dracula turned into a great swarm of vampire bats and left Mina’s room through a window.

Van Helsing knew Dracula was going to start heading back to Romania to regain his strength at his castle. After taking a ship, the vampire hunters and Mina took a train to the Transylvanian Alps to circle around and catch Dracula by surprise before he could reach his castle. On this train, Van Helsing read through his books to find what he missed that he would need to kill the Antichrist. He had forgotten, but his memory was refreshed, that he would need the Vampire Killer and someone who had the blood of the legendary Belmont Clan to wield it and kill the Dark Lord. Once in Wallachia, the group went to the last known location of the Vampire Killer. Here, while they searched, Van Helsing was seduced by Mina who was getting closer and closer to becoming a vampire, but he put a wafer from the Church on her forehead (the bread that is used ceremonially as Jesus Christ’s skin), which burned her forehead and also slowed down the transformation from human to vampire. Van Helsing and Mina were attacked by the three vampire sisters, but after a night of staying within a circle of Holy Fire, Van Helsing staked and decapitated them all that morning.

In a large system of catacombs, Quincey Morris, Arthur Holmwood, Dr. Seward, and Jonathan Harker all finally found the Vampire Killer in a large underground temple. Jonathan, John, and Arthur were all unable to remove it from its pedestal, but Quincey did. This meant that Quincey had the blood of Belmont in his veins, and thus the capacity to destroy the Master of Evil. Several vampires then attacked them, and with the Vampire Killer’s chain whip, Quincey was able to kill all of them, to Jonathan, John, and Arthur’s amazement. The four took one carriage while Mina and Van Helsing rode their own horse and chased after the carriage driven by gypsies headed to Castle Dracula, which held Dracula sleeping in a box within it. At the end of dusk, a gun slinging battle ensued between the vampire hunters and the gypsies, in which the vampire hunters emerged victorious. Then, at the brink of night, Dracula burst from his coffin, but before he could attack, Quincey stabbed him in the heart with the Vampire Killer. Almost at the exact same time he was stabbed, Dracula cut Quincey’s throat open with his hand. Mina and Dracula had one final talk, before he turned to dust. Quincey soon followed in death.

Abraham Van Helsing entrusted Dracula’s remains with Quincey Morris’s closest friend in Texas, Daniel Lecarde. Daniel Lecarde hid these remains near his house in his hometown, Darkened Dawn, Texas. In 1897, before he died, Van Helsing would compile the diaries and newspapers related to the events of 1893 and hand them over to aspiring author Bram Stoker, and retell them to Stoker on his deathbed. That year, Dracula was published.

1917 - 1944: World Wars
As a new century had just begun, in 1917, a state of political unrest and tension between many countries had arisen. All that was needed was a spark, and the entire world would be plunged into war. Elisabeth Bathory, more famously known as “Carmilla”, was the niece of Count Dracula. She had recently been accidentally resurrected by a witch after she was killed by Rusty Belmont in the events of 1800. She immediately desired to see her uncle resurrected, as she admired him and idolized him. As she did not know where Count Dracula’s remains were, she found another way to resurrect him. If a global-scale war was started, and mass amounts bloodshed, death, and chaos was spread all throughout the earth, then Dracula would be revived. So, Carmilla started an organization called “the Black Hand”. With Carmilla’s promise of immortality, Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip assassinated Franz Ferdinand, archduke of Austria-Hungary. This propelled the major European military powers towards war, just as the Blood Countess expected.

With all this global death, violence, and hatred, Dracula was reborn. Carmilla traveled to Texas to bring her prince home. Daniel Lecarde tried to stop them, but was fatally injured and failed. On his deathbed, Eric Lecarde, Daniel’s 13 year old grandson, told him that he would go kill Dracula and Carmilla himself. Daniel told Eric to not go alone, to take Quincey Morris’s 30 year old son, John Morris, with him. Eric agreed.

John Morris and Eric Lecarde travelled all the way from Texas to the Romanian province of Wallachia. However, when they arrived at Castlevania, it was still in ruins. They made it to what was left of the Throne Room, but instead of Count Dracula, they found Sir Grakul, a large set of armour possessed by the spirits of thousands of dead warriors, and a Lieutenant in Dracula’s army. John and Eric defeated Sir Grakul, and learned from it that Dracula, Death, and Carmilla were staying at the Castle Persepina in England. So, they travelled Europe, defeating the minions of the Lord of Darkness that had lairs throughout the continent. They found the Castle Persepina in a vast forest in England, separate from any human dwelling. Eric and John destroyed all under the Count’s command in the castle. Mostly because of Eric, let’s be honest, they were able to destroy Death and Carmilla. Then, after a long battle with Dracula, John beat the Count with blows from the Vampire Killer’s chains, and then when he had been beaten enough in his third demonic form, John pierced the vampire’s heart with the Vampire Killer. Dracula was again destroyed.

27 years passed, and without underground aid from a vampire Countess, World War II took the powers of the world by storm. This World War was far worse than the first. The body count reached unimagined heights like mankind had not seen for quite some time. Because of this, Castlevania rose. The Grim Reaper returned to the castle, but Count Brauner of the Vampire Nobility took control of Castlevania, as he desired the castle’s power and legions of monsters for himself, so he could use them to get his revenge on mankind for killing his two daughters, who had been reincarnated as the daughters of Eric Lecarde and made into vampires by Brauner. He had no intentions of serving the Lord of Darkness, who had failed to destroy the humans for centuries. The noble vampire kept Castlevania under his control by creating several rifts in space through magical paintings, as Brauner was a skilled artist.

John Morris’s son called Jonathan Morris, and his partner, a magician named Charlotte Aulin, were dispatched by the Church to investigate the castle and the possible resurrection of Dracula Vlad Țepeș. Jonathan and Charlotte shut down Brauner’s operations, destroying all the dimensional painting seals (unbeknownst to them, freeing Dracula), and defeated Brauner. Then Death appeared before them, killed Brauner instantly, and revealed to them that Count Dracula was now resurrected. Jonathan found that he would not be able to kill the Lord of Castlevania as he was then, unable to wield the Vampire Killer. So, he underwent the Vampire Killer’s trials, battling its past owners to prove that he was worthy enough to wield it. He passed the trials, and then went with Charlotte to the Throne Room to engage in battle with Dracula. This time, Dracula and Death fought side-by-side against Jonathan and Charlotte, making the fight even more difficult for the vampire hunters. They were able to defeat Count Dracula in the form he was in, but then Death offered Dracula his soul. Dracula accepted, and the two already powerful beings combined their power. Though the odds were against them, Jonathan and Charlotte were able to destroy the Prince of Darkness. Jonathan took his remains back to Texas and locked them away where John had.

1999: The Demon Castle Wars
"'That is, or rather was, me. Or, at least, what remained of me after I allowed my grief and rage to consume me after the loss of Elisabetha. My ancestor had left extensive notes on the behavior and function of the Crimson Stone, but he had failed to mention that the stone imprisoned the soul of its master as well.'"

"- Mathias Cronqvist to Julius Belmont, Souls" On February 15th, 1999, Dracula was resurrected again by Shaft, who had escaped from Hell and repossessed his body, an incredible feat that few humans have ever accomplished. When he was resurrected, Alucard and Cosmar Finch immediately tried to kill him at the sight of his return. Cosmar, after being killed by Count Dracula in the 15th century, had become an angel, and then became human again earlier in 1999. However, Death threw Alucard out of the Clock Tower, and then Shaft imprisoned Cosmar in a soul crystal to use him as a sacrifice to give Dracula full power during the blood moon that would happen after midnight. Cosmar was freed from the crystal a few hours before the blood moon by the Pendant of Righteousness, a family heirloom of the Finches that contained Alexis Finch’s soul. Dracula attempted to stop Cosmar from escaping, but the Stone of Righteousness repelled him. However, Shaft was able to steal the Pendant of Righteousness while Cosmar was escaping. When Cosmar was in the Royal Chapel, he ran into Alucard who was trying to make his way back to the Throne Room. Alucard told him that the Pendant of Righteousness was gone, so they came up with a plan to reobtain it. Alucard would distract Death while Cosmar retrieved the pendant from the Throne Room. However, while Alucard was fighting Death, Cosmar accidentally woke Dracula up, and just as the blood moon occurred, Shaft imprisoned Cosmar within the soul crystal again and Dracula took Cosmar into himself, restoring his full power. Alucard ran to Dracula, enraged at Cosmar’s death, and pounded his father’s chest over and over, saying he hated him for not honoring Lisa’s dying wish. Death watched. Shaft prepared to attack, but Dracula put up his hand, signaling him to not attack. The Count disappeared, and Alucard left the castle.

Dracula later went to Darkened Dawn, Texas, United States to kill those who destroyed him in 1944, Jonathan Morris and Charlotte Aulin. The vampire hunters were now an old married couple, who had a grandson that lived with them, Julius Morris. Dracula found where they lived and killed them easily, slaughtering them right in front of their grandson. Julius attempted to attack the Vampire King, but he merely threw Julius aside. Death recommended to kill Julius, but Dracula said to let him live so that he might make a worthy opponent someday. They returned to Wallachia. Meanwhile, Shaft stayed in Darkened Dawn with Lord Dracula’s permission, and met with Selex Finch, who Shaft was partners with when he was a vampire hunter with no memories. He asked Selex why he had been gone so long, and Selex would not tell him. Shaft said in exchange for doing some simple tasks for the Dark Lord, Dracula would do the same for Selex. Selex accepted this proposal. After Selex completed his side of the bargain, he was given servitude of Sir Grakul. Selex used Sir Grakul’s mobility to find all the things Selex needed for a ritual. When Sir Grakul had found all these things, Selex used them to rise Atem, the Father Egyptian Deity who had been sealed away by God himself during the Biblical Exodus. Atem in turn began to resurrect all of his children gods, who were all killed by the archangels around the same time Atem was imprisoned. This began a war between the Egyptian gods and the Host of Heaven.

Julius Morris had arrived in Wallachia, wielding the Vampire Killer, with a lust for revenge for his grandparents’ murders. He had recently killed Shaft, and achieved the power of Archangel St. Michael. However, Julius was still killed by Dracula, despite the vampire's usual arrogance leading to him being killed by much weaker Belmonts than he. His body was thrown into the Dead Sea, and Dracula took the Vampire Killer from his corpse. The Count began searching for a way to disable the Vampire Killer’s power. He learned from Death that the weapon contained the soul of his Sara Trantoul, his childhood friend Leon Belmont’s fiancé. Death attempted to remove the soul from the Vampire Killer, but was unable to at his current state of power as the soul was so strongly bonded to the whip. So, Dracula called upon Anubis, the Egyptian god of mummification and death, for help. In exchange, they would give Anubis refuge from the Host of Heaven. Anubis and Death together were able to remove the soul from the Vampire Killer. Sara Trontoul's soul was absorbed by the Crimson Stone. The Vampire Killer was reverted to the power it originally had in 1094 as the Whip of Alchemy, which is useless against Dracula and Death.

Selex Finch then came to Dracula’s castle in need of knowing where Aaru was, the realm the Egyptian gods called home. The Dark Lord did not know and Death couldn’t remember, so the Count was tasked with asking Anubis where it was. Anubis would not just give this information away, so Dracula had to ease him into it somehow. However, though the Vampire King was a persuasive and charming person when he wanted to be, he failed, and Anubis left Castlevania in fear. With Anubis gone and Atem making no moves on the Host of Heaven, Dracula began his attack. Selex Finch immediately responded. He searched far and wide for Alucard, but could not find him. He attempted to call upon Atem, but he did not respond, nor did Anubis. So, with no other option, Selex went alone. With his power, he was able to destroy all of the minions of Dracula in his way. He engaged in battle with Death. The battle lasted for hours as their powers were almost equal, but eventually, Death’s scythe sliced Selex in half. Selex fell dead, and Regnell flew out, but before Regnell’s bodiless spirit went anywhere, Selex held it down with the last of his will. Death took the malicious spirit, and then in the Throne Room of the castle, Death released Regnell, and the Count quickly absorbed it into the Crimson Stone. Dracula was given an exponential boost in power. He now constantly had a red glow around him and completely red eyes, and the power of Regnell, a spirit of pure, unbridled evil.

With nobody on Earth who could defeat him now, he brought Romania under his control and then began attacks on other nations, starting with the ones that surrounded Romania. First, Hungary was conquered by the Army of Darkness. Bulgaria followed, then Serbia, and Moldova, all conquered within nine days. After a month passed, the Ukraine, the Czech Republic, Croatia, Slovakia, Poland, and Germany had all been conquered. All of these countries sent the largest of their armies to fight Dracula’s at Castlevania, but their guns, tanks, grenades, bombs, etc. were useless against these monsters, undead, and demons. Only zombies and undead skeletons fell to these modern human weapons. The soldiers that died fighting Dracula’s legions were within moments brought back from the dead as zombies. Word of these great losses and deaths would have easily reached the United States and other continents, but the Vatican at Rome kept the news of “the Demon Castle Wars” from leaving Europe by threatening government officials with death. With their holy armies, they began fighting Count Dracula’s dark forces. Like in the 15th century, many of Dracula’s legions fell to the Vatican, however their power was still not enough for the Generals, Death, or Dracula himself.

With nowhere else to turn, the highest Vatican officials, including Pope John Paul II, gathered at Vatican Headquarters to perform a ritual that had not been performed in millenia - a ritual to rise a human from the grave, not as a zombie or otherwise undead, but as a human. The ceremony lasted for hours, and it ended with a long prayer in Latin for archangel St. Raphael to revive Julius Morris. The earth shook, and the windows shattered. The sound of the archangel soul rang through the ears of the priests, clergymen, and the Pope. Then, a beam of divine power hit the corpse of Julius Morris. When it disappeared and everything was silent, Julius Morris was alive and his body in mint condition. The Pope explained the situation to Julius and gave him his blessing. He was given money and an assortment of holy weaponry, and summoned Chiyoko Fernandez, the last known member of the Fernandez Clan, to be his ally. Pope John Paul II tasked Julius with somehow destroying Demon Lord Dracula Vlad Țepeș. They also told him instead of driving or flying a plane to Romania, he must go there by foot in order to gain strength and learn more about his powers along the way, and he must go to Japan first to meet with the Hakuba Clan. Julius officially changed his last name to Belmont, and began his journey. In Japan, Julius Belmont met the Hakuba Clan as the Pope desired. The Hakubas were a family of Japanese mages with magical knowledge passed down for generations and generations, much like the Fernandez Clan. I would go into more detail about his travels and how he came to meet the Hakuba Clan, but this is meant to be Dracula’s story, not Julius’s.

When August of 1999 had come, Vatican had been stalling Dracula’s forces as much as they could for weeks. Annoyed at his men’s failure to crush the Vatican, he planned to go there himself soon and destroy all of Rome in smoldering flames, as to not make the same mistake he did in the 15th century. However, before he did, Julius Belmont arrived at Castlevania with Chiyoko Fernandez and several members of the Hakuba Clan on the 11th of August. Alucard came with him as well. It was much like the situation in 1476, with instead of one, but several very powerful and skilled people against him at once, while he was at his full power. Dracula simply waited in the Throne Room, excited for this decisive battle. He would not lose this time. To his surprise, however, Julius came to the Throne Room alone. Dracula and Julius spoke for a while, and Dracula initiated their fight. After they battled for some time, Dracula said that while his holy relics hurt, without the Vampire Killer, Julius was useless, and then grabbed Julius's neck. He gave Julius a last victorious, boasting speech, and prepared to kill Julius again, but then Julius invoked some sort of spell. The Crimson Stone began to glow white. It cracked, and white beams of light emitted from each crack. Dracula dropped Julius. It cracked again and again, until a sort of roar was heard that seemed to come from the arcane gem, and then the Crimson Stone completely shattered in blinding light. After the light had gone, the remnants of the Crimson Stone laid on the floor in many, many pieces.

The Dark Lord looked around him in shock for a moment, unable to contemplate that the source of his power had been so easily destroyed, then fell to his knees, suddenly dazed. Several small bright points of light rose from the shards and rocketed upward, out of sight. Sara Trantoul's soul re-entered the Vampire Killer, and Julius felt its power completely return. The souls of Regnell, Isaac, Asag, Eve, Joachim Armster, and Walter Bernhard all rose from the gem's remains, then also rose out of sight, and then many more wisps of souls dispersed from the many shards, crying out from their anguish and their lust for freedom. Julius began walking towards the dazed Count, but a final point of light stopped him. The soul took shape to reveal that it was none other than Mathias Cronqvist. Mathias explained that the dazed vampire behind Mathias "is, or was" him, how Dracula was himself after he had allowed the grief and rage of the loss of Elisabetha to consume him. But he also did not blame his actions on what he became after Elisabetha's death, as he could think clearly and knew full well the consequences of his actions, for himself and those he made suffer. After they spoke more, Mathias told Julius to kill Dracula, saying "the part of my soul that is standing here now will not try to stop you, but the portion of it that inhabits my body certainly will." Julius took the restored Vampire Killer in hand, then struck the defenseless Dracula many times with it. Finally, he stabbed its sharp handle through the Count's heart, and the King of the Night was no more. The spirit of Mathias clapped, and tried to warn Julius what would happen in the true death of Dracula, but before the warning had finished and before the Belmont had barely absorbed what Mathias was saying, Dracula Vlad Țepeș exploded, and Julius was thrown into the air, and landed head-first on the hard stone floor of the Throne Room, and was knocked unconscious.

The Vatican had theorized that cutting off Dracula's soul from Bernhard Castle would discontinue his resurrection cycle. The Crimson Stone was preventing the Hakuba Clan's ritual of sealing away the castle from completion, but with its destruction, the Hakuba Clan completed their ritual. Just as the solar eclipse was about to come to an end, Demon Castle Dracula was sealed away inside the solar eclipse. After 937 years, King of the Night Dracula Vlad Țepeș had been utterly and permanently destroyed...or so it had seemed.

Personality
"'It is not by my own power that I am resurrected. It is the greed of humanity that calls me back. And thus, by might, I rule! Might becomes the one and only justice in this world!'"

"- Dracula to Richter Belmont, Castlevania: Rondo of Blood"

Like Satan, Dracula had an intense hatred for humanity, firstly blaming all of them for the death of Lisa, despite only a handful of humans truly being responsible for her execution. He also hated humanity's blind faith in God and despised God for allowing Elisabetha to die even though for a decade during his human life, Dracula endlessly campaigned against heathens in God's name and devotedly followed Him. He also hated humanity for being the creations of God. Dracula had a superiority complex, considering all beings but himself inferior, especially humans. He showed no remorse for the life of humans, but on that note, nor did he show remorse for the life of any other non-human being, except Death, Akasha, Alucard, and Krul. His philosophy was that it did not matter if you were "good" or "evil", power always triumphed, the powerful decide who lives and who dies, and what is morally right and wrong. Humans, being far less powerful than he, ultimately would be defeated. While he acted imposing and prideful around all other beings, he occasionally expressed his intense grief for Lisa and Elisabetha's deaths, and how he greatly missed Akasha, Alucard, and Krul. After his human days, Death was the only one except for Alucard and Lisa who ever witnessed the vampire reveal the humanity he had left in tears and sorrow. Also, the only being Dracula allowed to insult him or jokingly play around with him or criticize him (after Lisa's death anyway) was Death, as Death was his greatest and only friend after Lisa passed.

Like his father, Dracula enjoyed playing with his opponents in battle, taunting them during the fight, and using his great power sparingly to increase the duration of the fight. If he wanted to, during the battles with any of the Belmont Clan, he could have killed them in one move, but always chose to play around with them in his arrogance, which would allow his opponent plenty of time to plan out a strategy, always leading to Dracula's downfall in the case of the Belmonts. Often during his battles he would laugh, talk down to his opponent and tell them how weak they were, and boast about his power. Unlike Satan, Dracula spoke in a very sophisticated manner, and always dressed and behaved like an aristocrat, as he was raised one. He always had aristocratic mannerisms in the way he did nearly everything. He especially treated females with chivalry even in combat, and also easily seduced women with his silver tongue and his attractive looks. Before his fight with Shanoa, he first asked her if she wished to become his bride. Like Satan, though with a different way of seduction, Dracula's words got a plethora of women to sleep with him. He had many brides and lovers after Lisa's death, but never loved any of them, at least never as he did Lisa. It was always simple for him to seduce women in order to drain their blood for him. And, like many vampires, despite the fact that he could drink the blood of any animal to survive, he chose to drink human blood out of hatred for them and its superior taste to the blood of other creatures. In a similar fashion to easily being able to seduce women, he also was easily able to instill fear in men and women.

His ultimate goal before his true death was to enslave all of humanity and reduce them to cattle for vampires and other monsters that require humans for sustenance, as revenge for killing Lisa, for them being the creations of God, viewing the entire species as the lowest of all living things, and as an insult to God for allowing his wife to die after his devotedness in his human life.

Powers and Abilities
After becoming a vampire and obtaining the soul of the vampire lord Walter Bernhard with the Crimson Stone, Mathias Cronqvist became very powerful. However, his power meant nothing without the knowledge of how to use it. He had to learn how to use these powers at the Leslie Fernandez Academy of Sorcery. During his education, he obtained two more souls - Eve and [Spoiler to James]. Then, after [Spoiler to James], he completely learned how to use all of his powers. He was now the most powerful being on Earth, surpassed by none, his power rivalling the Devil.

Also, keep in mind that this is at his full power, which he had only during the years of [Spoiler to James], 400 years later in 1431-1476, and centuries after that in 1999. Every time he was resurrected in between 1476 and 1999, his power had been exponentially weakened because the resurrection was either early(meaning his last death before his revival was not 100 years ago exactly), fresh, or incomplete.

Lastly, merely because I, the editor (Daeron James) do not feel like rewriting this accordingly, this accounts for the powers he had before he obtained Regnell's soul.

Immortality - As a vampire, Dracula's life span was infinite, and he never aged unless he had not consumed blood for ten hours, and never tired unless he hadn't slept for thirteen hours. Extremely powerful - As the son of Satan, God's most powerful creation, and with several powerful souls within him, as mentioned before, he wielded many powers. He was the last thing keeping Satan, a demon of unfathomable power, from being able to be qualified as the (known) most powerful being in the entire Universe, as they were near equals in raw power.
 * Advanced Regeneration - Dracula had come to the point of power where nothing (but his listed weaknesses) did any lasting damage to him. If an oak stake was stabbed through his heart, he merely removed it and regenerated, and sunlight did not burn his skin. No matter how much of him was torn down by something that wasn't one of his weaknesses, he could completely regenerate his entire body within moments, including, curiously, his clothing. Also, it should be noted that though the longer he goes without blood, the more he ages and grows weaker, but stopping time has no effect on him (Despite the Stopwatch sub-weapon working in the Castlevania games).
 * Dominance - Because of the Crimson Stone, Dracula was able to absorb the souls of demons recently killed or disembodied, which gave him his other powers.
 * Blood Magic - After obtaining the soul of Eve in 1095 and mastering her powers, Dracula could control his own blood or the blood of another being with little limitation, making it easier for him to drain the blood of his victims, allowing him to reduce his body to masses of blood and possess humans as explained below, and reduce his body to a mass of blood and quickly separate the blood cells, allowing him to become a mass of "blood mist". A power he doesn't really need since he can just turn into actual mist anyways.
 * Flight - When he morphs into a vampire bat, mist, or his "true form", he can fly. He can also sprout dragon-like wings in his usual form and fly. Morphing into a vampire bat or mist just increases mobility.


 * Possession - By turning into blood and replacing an animal's bloodstream, he could possess an animal (including humans). Anyone he possessed was automatically doomed for death, as Dracula's blood would within minutes destroy their body and cause it to explode, and if he left before this happened, their body would no longer have any blood within it, causing them to die within moments.
 * Superhuman Strength - His true raw strength was only demonstrated when he effortlessly broke the neck of Jonathan Morris. Otherwise, he was either weakened by the reasons aforementioned, or in the case where he punched Sonia Belmont, shattering her body and instantly killing her, the Vampire Killer was in his chest, just barely missing his heart, causing him to weaken considerably because of the pain and the Vampire Killer's potency and influence. If the Vampire Killer had not stabbed his chest, and he just punched Sonia without holding back, Sonia would have instantly been reduced to a large splatter of blood on the wall.
 * Super-stamina - He's unaffected by diseases and toxins, except for Dead Man's Blood. As said before, he only requires blood for sustenance, but must sleep.
 * Telepathy - As long as Dracula has tasted the person's blood, he can see into that person's mind, speak into their mind, and see into their dreams.
 * Dream Walking - As long as Dracula has tasted the person's blood, he can project himself into that person's dreams.
 * Telekinesis - He can move anything with his mind as long as the being is not stronger than him or if the object is significantly heavier than he is.
 * Supernatural Perception - Dracula can perceive the true form of a being naked to the human eye. He can see through any illusion, and can see through pitch black darkness and the brightest of light.
 * Weather Manipulation - Dracula can change the weather in whatever way he sees fit, being able to cause violent thunderstorms, tornadoes, tsunamis, floods, hurricanes, etc. Not even gods like Zeus or Poseidon have more power over the weather than he does. He and Lucifer would get into struggles of power if they tried to change the weather at the same time.
 * Illusions - He can make most beings see anything he wants them to.
 * Biokinesis - He can control a person's body in any way he wants.
 * Spell Casting - He has considerable knowledge of the dark arts thanks to Odia Finch's teachings during 1095-1102. When he took the souls of some beings, it granted him dark power, and his talent with black magic was inevitable due to being the son of Satan.
 * Teleportation - Dracula can teleport to anywhere he can see, which, when he uses this ability, curiously blasts a golden beam from under him, which then disappears, to reveal he is no longer there. Then, the golden beam appears where he chose to teleport, and when it dissipates, he's there. It is unknown why this happens, though the same thing happened when Walter Bernhard, the soul that gave him this ability, teleported.
 * Soul Absorption - Because of the Crimson Stone, whenever a being dies, if Dracula so chooses, he will absorb that being's soul and it will give him that being's power. This clearly demonstrated when Walter Bernhard was defeated by Leon Belmont, and when Dracula travelled the world, slaying several powerful beings with Death's aid to obtain their souls and thus their power. His primary souls when he was destroyed in 1999 were Walter Bernhard, Eve, and Regnell.
 * Hellfire - As this was Walter Bernhard's favorite power, it is also apparently Dracula's. He can summon the fires of Hell itself and manipulate them any way he wishes. He was most often seen, in combat, summoning three balls of Hellfire and shooting them at his opponent.
 * Shape-shifting - Count Dracula can transform into a vampire bat or multiple vampire bats, a wolf, mist, or a rat or multiple rats, as Walter Bernhard, his primary soul, could do the same.
 * "True Form" - Vampires of significant power all have the ability to transform into what is called their "true forms". When they use this power, they morph into something that, as described by Lucifer, "represents their soul". This greatly enhances their strength and powers. Dracula's "true form" was a very tall, muscular, demonic figure with two large dragon-like wings, two large horns, a monstrous face on his belly, and a long tail. When he took Regnell's soul, his "true form" had four horns, three faces (similar to Satan's description in Dante's The Divine Comedy), six wings, three tails, and a red aura rising from his body.
 * Demonic Megiddo - Given this name by Dracula himself, the Demonic Megiddo is a move that releases all of Dracula's power and Satan's power, either as a vast explosion that erupts from his body and goes outward around him for half of a mile, or condensed as a large orb, and thrown at his opponent, which, upon contact, then explodes around the opponent for half of a mile and consumes the opponent.

Weaknesses
These weaknesses are the ones he had before he obtained Regnell's soul simply because the editor (Daeron James) does not have "the energy" to figure out which weaknesses he would have and which ones he would not after he obtained Regnell's soul.

The Vampire Killer - His most notable and "effective" weakness that harms nearly all creatures of darkness, the bane of evil.

The Spear of Destiny - As the spear that pierced the skin of Jesus Christ and thus blessed with the very blood of God himself, this relic can kill any demon.

The Crissaegrim - As this sword's blade was forged from a shard of the Vampire Killer, Alucard's blood, and the blood of Trevor Belmont, Syfa Fernandez, and Grant Danesti, then forged from the Spear of Destiny, it is an incredibly effective and fatal weapon against Dracula, even when he's at full power and in his "true form".

Katchin - The only material in the Universe that can cut and do far more permanent damage to his skin that he can't just immediately regenerate.

Holy Fire - The flames imbued with God's essence, Holy Fire indiscriminately harms all demons (but Asakku), and vampires - including Dracula - are no exception.

Michael's Weapons - It is rightfully presumed that Michael's other weapons (the Vampire Killer once belonged to him) - Laevatein and Ascalon - can all do significant damage to Dracula, as they are made from Katchin and imbued with Holy Fire.

Crosses - One of two of the only usual vampire weaknesses that can harm him. The cross does not offend his sight, but in contact with his skin, it burns him with Holy Fire.

Holy Water - When water is blessed with the cross and a certain Latin prayer by a priest, it sets the skin of demons ablaze with Holy Fire. Dracula is no exception to this.

High Deities - Gods born from the waters of chaos, such as God and Asag, could quite easily kill Dracula, as they can all other beings. This is at their highest of power, though, as Asag, in the form in which he was defeated by Lucifer, could not kill Dracula with raw power, and Death, in his current state, also could not.

Nidaliadoain - As, in the alternate timeline from which Flow Belmont originates, this Mad God was shown to overpower Lucifer and even God himself, presumably he could easily do the same to Dracula.

Death Tally
Despite his immense power, Count Dracula has been killed a whopping 13 times. The first time he was resurrected by a force other than himself was Death, then he was resurrected by Simon Belmont, then he was resurrected by Shaft twice, then by Carmilla, then by Barlowe, then by three vampire women, then by Carmilla again, then by Death, and the last time by Shaft.
 * Killed by Trevor Belmont, Alucard, Syfa Fernandez, and Grant Danesti all at once, his heart stabbed by the Vampire Killer.
 * Killed by Hector Wesker through a large blast of Hector's Devil Forgemaster power.
 * Killed by Soleiyu Belmont, his heart stabbed by the Vampire Killer and his head cut off with a dagger.
 * Killed by Simon Belmont twice, both times his heart were stabbed by the Vampire Killer.
 * Killed by Richter Belmont, his heart stabbed by the Vampire Killer.
 * Killed by Alucard, his heart stabbed by the Crissaegrim.
 * Killed by Rusty Belmont, his heart stabbed by the Vampire Killer.
 * Killed by Shanoa using Dominus, the complete sum of his own true power, cancelling out his Demonic Megiddo and destroying him.
 * Killed by Quincey Morris, his heart stabbed by the Vampire Killer.
 * Killed by John Morris, his heart stabbed by the Vampire Killer.
 * Killed by Jonathan Morris, his heart stabbed by the Vampire Killer.
 * Killed by Julius Belmont, the Crimson Stone destroyed, his heart stabbed by the Vampire Killer, and his castle sealed within a total solar eclipse.

Family and Relationships
God - He does not know God personally nor has he ever seen Him, but he despises God for allowing his first wife to die, and later for creating humans. This despite, as a human, he was once a follower of God and Christ and fought heathens in the name of Christianity under the Pope.

Alucard - As his firstborn son, Dracula had a great hand in raising Adrian Fahrenheit Ţepeş. He taught him nearly everything he knew as he grew. He and the heir to his throne had an insurmountable love for each other, and Adrian had great respect for his father, though they argued about twice a week. When Lisa died in 1444 and Dracula began slaughtering and enslaving humans indiscriminately, Adrian still stayed at his father's side, while his siblings left, for seven years, and still loved him despite the horrors he saw his father's armies commit. Dracula had almost completely given in to his inner demon, but the last of his humanity loved Adrian, his siblings, Death, and Lisa. When Adrian rebelled, took the name Alucard, and challenged his father in 1476 alongside three companions, Dracula cared little for the lives of Alucard's allies, but found it very hard to kill his son. Alucard, however, found the strength in him to help kill his own father. This helped lead to Dracula's defeat at full power and in his true form in 1476. The next time they met in 1797, Dracula still showed that he loved Alucard, and did not wish to kill him, but "his human side". Unlike his past defeats, when Alucard defeated him, Dracula got emotional and asked Lisa's last words, then asked for forgiveness from Alucard, before succumbing to the final wound from Alucard's sword.

Janos Cronqvist - As the man he had believed for most of his human life to be his father, Mathias looked up to Janos and loved him dearly. This is why he was devastated when Janos died in 1093.

Krisztina Atilla - Since Krisztina is Mathias's mother, just like Janos, Mathias looked up to and loved Krisztina dearly. She was the reason he decided to become a knight in the first place, and fought hoping to make her proud. He was, of course, devastated when she died in 1093.

Elisabetha Cronqvist - As Mathias Cronqvist and Elisabetha Belmont grew up alongside each other, they formed a strong bond with each other and fell in love. They were married in 1080, and were a very happy husband and wife until 1093, when Elisabetha died because of an unknown illness. This devastated Mathias, and made him hate God for letting her die. Her death and anger towards God led him to hunt down the Crimson Stone and find it, becoming a vampire, and then obtain Walter Bernhard's soul, making him the second most powerful vampire, and motivated him to become the most powerful being in the world so that he could conquer the world as an insult to God to show Him that he no longer rules the world.

Leon Belmont - Though he was in love with Elisabetha soon after meeting her, Leon was like a little brother to him, as Leon was only 3 years old when they first met. Mathias, though seen as too old for such a childish thing, often played games with Leon. He also taught Leon things he had learned from Janos Cronqvist. Despite Leon being like the little brother he never had, and Leon knowing Mathias literally as far back as he could remember, this did not stop Mathias, once a vampire, from giving Death the call to kill Leon.

Lisa - As Elisabetha's reincarnation, Lisa and Dracula fell in love after few encounters. They married within weeks, and together conceived Alucard and Krul Tepes, and raised Akasha Bloodriver, Lisa's first child, alongside them. They had an altogether happy family until Lisa died in 1444. Lisa's execution by an angry mob is what drove Dracula to resume his campaign to enslave humanity, as he now had a personal hatred towards humanity itself.

Death - The Grim Reaper himself is Dracula's confidante and only friend. Throughout Dracula's human life as Mathias Cronqvist, Death watched him from the shadows to ensure his safety at the behest of Lucifer. When Mathias obtained the Crimson Stone and became a vampire, after serving the vampire lord Walter Bernhard for several years after a deal with him, he without hesitation betrayed Walter, watching Leon Belmont defeat him and then taking his soul and giving it to Mathias so that Mathias could have Walter's power. Death seems to be the only one allowed to jokingly insult Dracula and suggest what Dracula should do in certain situations, even sometimes tell him what to do if he thinks it is best for Dracula. He has taught Dracula many things as Death has been around before the Big Bang, and told him some secrets about the Universe. Dracula sees Death and Janos Cronqvist as far better father figures than Lucifer ever was. Whenever Dracula is being attacked, even though Dracula's power surpasses Death's, the Grim Reaper protects the Count no matter what. Though, Death has not once resurrected Dracula even though every time Death falls to the Belmonts, he returns but moments later. This is because Death believes that goes against the natural order. Dracula would never fight Death or harm him, and acknowledges how he is more wise, intelligent, and old.

Lucifer - While Dracula detests God, he doesn't really care for Satan either because he has the power to rise Lisa from the dead, but won't. Despite Lucifer being his father, they scarcely deal with one another and they split their power over the demons in Hell and the demons and monsters on Earth. Both are called the Lord of Darkness because of this. Dracula is called the Anti-Christ for being the son of Satan born of a human woman, however the Anti-Christ is considered in most's minds as the son, messenger, and servant of the Devil. Only being his son is the case for Dracula Vlad Ţepeş, though his rhetoric is similar to Lucifer's original rhetoric before his compromise with God. It's also unclear if he will play his role when the Judeo-Christian Apocalypse finally comes and do as Lucifer says. Though it's likely considering he hates humans and God, and has the power and armies to face the Host of Heaven.

Krul Tepes - As his daughter, Dracula loves Krul, and he and Lisa raised her. However, since Krul left Count Dracula's side with Akasha and Lilith's guidance in early 1444 when she was only nine years old, and Krul grew to live alone in a castle in Austria, Dracula and Krul have not spoken, and Krul remembers very little about him.

Akasha Bloodriver - When Akasha was only seven years old, Dracula married her mother, Lisa, and raised her like his own daughter, and considered her his daughter. Like Alucard and Krul, Dracula loved Akasha deeply. Akasha was sometimes jealous, though, of the attention Dracula gave to Adrian, his first biological son. And, Akasha was the first one to suggest that all her siblings leave when Lisa died and Dracula began burning villages to the ground and enslaving humans. They have never spoken since 1444.

Morrigan Iceland - The succubus that Mathias Cronqvist lost his virginity to at the ripe age of 13. Mathias was the first of her lovers to impregnate her as well and the one who took her virginity, as succubi usually abstain from vaginal sex to avoid pregnancy. Morrigan gave birth to their daughter, Lilith, nine months later, but raised Lilith herself.

Lilith Iceland - As Lilith was raised by her mother alone, Lilith did not know Dracula and never saw him for three centuries, until in 1433, she decided to find and meet her father. She lived in Dracula's castle for a decade, and amassed a good relationship with her father to make up for the three centuries they had not spent with each other, but after 1444, Lilith left the castle and never spoke to Dracula again for his acts on humans.

Carmilla - Dracula's niece who adores him and is attracted to him, despite normally being interested in women and being dominant over them. Dracula, to an extent, loved her, but mostly found her a useful servant. She resurrected him once in 1917, after she was resurrected herself some months before accidentally. They became common sex partners after 1576 when she joined his elite, but never had a child. And yes, that is despite him being her uncle.

Trivia

 * He is really the exact same character as Dracula from Konami's Castlevania franchise, however with several details added on, including (but certainly not limited to) being the son of the Devil when the only time the Devil was mentioned in the games was as an alias for Dracula. In the American manual for the MSX game Vampire Killer, they say "The Devil has returned - reborn as Dracula!" and his castle is referred to "the Devil's Castle" several times. The Japanese title for the franchise, Akumajou Dorakyura, translates to "Devil's Castle Dracula".
 * He's loosely based on the character of Count Dracula from the Bram Stoker novel, which has been said to have been inspired by the historical voivode of Wallachia, Vlad III Dracula. His nickname given to him by the Turks was Kazikli Bey, which means "Lord Impaler", and his epithet given to him by historians later in the 16th century was Vlad Ţepeş, Vlad the Impaler.
 * In the canon of Dawn of Darkness Chronicles, each part of the name he took after being released in 1429, Dracula Vlad Ţepeş, comes from those names. Those names each describe what he is - Dracula meaning "Son of the Devil", Vlad meaning "lord", and Ţepeş meaning "impaler". He's Satan's son, he's the Lord of Darkness, and his favorite method of killing is impalement.
 * His name being specifically in the order "Dracula Vlad Ţepeş" comes from what he said in Castlevania on the Nintendo 64; "I will crush you. I, Dracula Vlad Ţepeş! Slaves, welcome the return of your master!"


 * In the first roleplay universe, Dracula was a (disgusting) combination of Gabriel Belmont (a la Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, Castlevania: Lords of Shadow - Mirror of Fate, and Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2) Mathias Cronqvist (a la the official canon of the original Castlevania continuity), Judas Iscariot (a la Wes Craven's Dracula 2000), and Vlad the Impaler (a la the historical figure and Alucard of the Hellsing manga), as Daeron James loved all of those Dracula incarnations and did not wish to pick just one. In the second roleplay universe, it was written that, as a human, he was Vlad the Impaler, following the origin story told in Dracula Untold, but as well many of the Castlevania games were canon, and Hellsing was also canon. In the third roleplay universe, it was decided he would be Mathias Cronqvist, but also the son of Satan and thus the Biblical Anti-Christ, and Hellsing's Alucard. In the current continuity, as a human he was Mathias Cronqvist, he's the son of Satan and Biblical Anti-Christ. His character becomes less of a jumbled, ridiculous amalgamation of his incarnations in each reboot, and that's coming from his portrayer.
 * In the first roleplay universe, he was ridiculously way too overpowered. He almost fatally injured God himself several times and once warped Heaven into a dark perversion of its former self. Besides that, he encountered and defeated Satan several times in Satan's weak form on earth, a flaming skeletal dragon, but later invaded Hell and single-handedly killed Satan, who was at full power in Hell. Literally nothing could kill Dracula, not even the Vampire Killer, at the level of power he was at. But, before his death in 1999, he was still very powerful in the current canon, as his power rivaled the Devil's.