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*** ANNETTE PWNZ J00. * cough* Seriously though - even if Richter didn't have kids (unlikely, in that time period, for this to be the case) - does anyone really truly honestly think the family doesn't have ''any other'' candidates besdiesbesides Richter's theoretical kids to pick up the whip, per generation? It's the 1790s, Richter probably has a bunch of siblings. The whip could be taken up by one of their kids. So, too, would Leon have had a ton o' siblings - and he ''cannot'' be the firstborn son of his family, because if he were, there would be no way in hell he'd have been crusading! We only SEE one Belmont at a time, but given the family's, uh, fortitude...they're probably pretty prolific too. There's probably several kids per generation who can use the whip, but it's the guy (or girl, depending on if you're pro-or anti-IGA; this troper is ambivalent but has seen giant flamewars oh god) who is the most skilled and has the most clout with the subweapons and so forth who goes to kick Dracula in teh harbl. tl;dr Families back then WERE BIG. The only Belmont who's real likely to have been an only child by birth is Julius. The others may have had siblings die, or whatnot, but the Belmonts we see in games would ''not'' be only children. In the time period we're talking, Fridgery aside, that didn't really happen so much. People took the 'be fruitful' business very seriously back in the day!

== The "Castle B" in ''"Harmony of Dissonance" is in Hell. ==

* forFor one, just look at the backgrounds of the first area of Castle B that you see: a Red, Volcanic landscape, and it's established to be a metaphysical place, fabricated through Maxim's mind, going through his own personal hell for the duration of the game.

** We know Julius, Alucard and a Belandes were present at the shrine during the eclipse in 1999, that doesn't mean they couldn't have brought backup. Though I'm thinking they decided against brigingbringing soldiers and called the [[Ghostbusters]]

Early games have said that Dracula comes back every one hundred years. Of course, with sequals up the wazoo, and an attempt to put everything into a semi-coherent timeline, this theory, taken at face value, doesn't fly. However, if one assumes that the forces of darkness ebb and flow like tides, and that there is a cyclical pattern that repeats roughly every hundred years, then it starts to make sense. Dracula could, in theory, be resurrected at any time, but it's far easier to do so when Evil is at a high point. As well, every major appearance by Dracula is followed by a sequalsequel a few years later. Evil may be waning, but it's still high enough to allow an easy resurrection.

== Speaking of Time Lords, Near from [[Death Note]] is Aeon. ==

With the power of the Crimson Stone and Death as his personal servant, each demise-and-resurrection allows Dracula's soul to return to the Crimson Stone over and over, multiplying his accumulated power exponentially. This is the reason he becomes more powerful from game to game. It's all part of a massive [[Xanatos Gambit]] to reach the pinnacle of his power, and either he finally acted on this seriously in 1999 and was narrowly and finally defeated, or even ''that'' was part of his Gambit and he's using Soma and the others post-1999 as [[Unwitting Pawn|Unwitting Pawns]]s to engineer his ultimate victory!

== More specifically, Galamoth is a [[Gradius|Bacterian]], who had travelledtraveled through time and dimensions. ==

Since Dracula is inexplicably stated to be Vlad Tepes in Symphony of the Night and the games starring the Morris family, yet in Lament, he's Matthias ConvqistCronvqist, what does this mean?

Since Symphony of the Night, it has been stated Dracula's main motive is [[Love Makes You Evil|the death of his beautiful wife]], the first from a plague, causing Matthias to [[Rage Against the Heavens]] and made [[Deal with the Devil|a deal with Death to become Dracula]], the second by [[Humans Are Bastardsthe Real Monsters|the hands of the very humans his wife tried to heal]], turning Alucard temporarily against humans, and cementing Dracula's [[Kill All Humans|genocidal tendencies]]

Notice the women looked exactly alike, they even have very similar names, since Lisa is a shorten form of Elizabeth. This can't be just concidencecoincidence, and who would benefit from tearing out the Vampire's non-beating heart and stomping on it repeatedly?

When the Time Reaper was defeated, he became loyal to the new dark lord, "Kid Dracula". When Galamoth made another attempt at the throne, he helped his new liege defeat him. This explains why he appears in the Game Boy game, but not the original. And, of course, this explains all the [[UFO|UFOs]]s, robots, wave beam guns, Statues of Liberty, and other things that would not have been expected in the youth of either Dracula or Alucard.

When Kid Dracula defeats Galamoth, Aeon is freed and time and history reasserts itself, stranding Galamoth in the [[Sot N]]SotN era where he is put down once and for all by Alucard.

* This troper wants to say it's St. Germain, since Judgment is uuuhhhh. Special. Like a short bus. And likely not going to end up core-canon since it sold so badly, and [[Alternate Universe|AU]]s the bejesus out of many characters (Trevor's eyeball and Captain-N-Simon 'tude, anyone?)

* Lisa FahrenheightFahrenheit, Alucard's mum and Mathias's second wife, is convicted of witchery and burnt. Having lost another SO, Mathias takes things up a notch, declaring war on humanity and thus becoming the true Dracula, Lord of Darkness.

The reason the Belmonts couldn't use the whip for a century is because a Belmont was turned while trying to [[Tanz der Vampire|rescue the beatifulbeautiful daughter of an innkeeper who, it turns out, didn't want to be rescued]]. The Vampire Killer would have obviously smelled something wrong, but a naive young adventurer blinded by puppy-love infatuation wouldn't see a succubus under his nose if you dressed her up in a chicken suit. I hear it takes a while to purge vampirism from the blood.

[[God Is Evil|God is really evil]], and Dracula was actualyactually doing the right thing the whole time (be it missguidinglymisguidedly by also blaimingblaming humans). It would be amusing if the final boss in a third Sorrow game was God or another holy being, since all the others have dark-aligned final bosses. Also what kind of good God can only be good if there is a Dark Lord to offset him?

** Only one cult leader made this claim. Thus far, theresthere's been no proof to suggest God can only exist as long as Dracula does.

Wall meat? Random useful items laying around randomly? A gothic cathedral? Angels? Alucard once said that Castlevania is a "Creature of Chaos" in reference to how the castle is never therthe same. I assume he wasn't simply being poetic. Chaos is {{spoiler|the final boss in Aria of Sorrow and the true source of Dracula's power}}. Perhaps Chaos changes the castle on it's own, and even leaves a way for the Belmonts/heros to win despite Dracula's best intentions.

Look at her portrayal in ''[[Rondo of Blood]]''. Anime artwork, blatant [[Token Mini-MoeLoli]], [[Dojikko|sliding and rolling all over the place]], wielding the power of [[The Four Gods]], etc. Despite being ostensibly European, her character is ridiculously Japanese. She's largely considered a [[Lethal Joke Character]].

** Except that Julius is <s>[[Touhou|the strongest]]</s> the strongest Belmont yet (even in his age), armed with the Vampire Killer, and teamed up with Alucard ([[My Friends and Zoidberg|and Yoko]]) in the [[Do S]]DoS one and his mode are far far harder than PoR (mostly due to the lack of healing outside of checkpoints...).

== The Time Reaper is the result of the romance between [[Discworld|Susan Sto Helit]] and [[Discworld/Thief of Time|Lobsang Ludd]]. ==

Unfortunately, since both of its potential purposes were already filled by other [[Anthropomorphic Personification|Anthropomorphic Personifications]]s in its universe, it had nothing to do until Galamoth came along. It's just killing time.

Going off some other bits of info here--Trevorhere—Trevor's eye colour is the same as Lisa's, and at some point, the only way to destroy Dracula is with his own power; the Belmonts and in-laws never had to bother with Dominus. Sonia is the first known Belmont to destroy Dracula, but due to a lack of Tepes blood, couldn't hold him down for long (though it should be noted that defeating him at all was quite a feat). Her descendants had a bit more luck.

This would explain his role in the "final" sealing of Dracula's castle in 1999. As an added bonus, it might also explain why the first phase of Death in [[Aria of Sorrow]] was just his scythe--Juliusscythe—Julius beat him so badly that even 36 years later he was having trouble manifesting on the physical plane, and thus had to possess his scythe since he couldn't properly focus his power.

[[Tropers/X 2 X|I]] already brought this up on the page for the ''[[Castlevania: Chronicles of Sorrow|Sorrow]]'' series, but it really belongs here.

The main character will be Julius (natch), but it will be like Julius mode in [[Do S]]DoS, a homage to Castlevania 3, and star the following characters

== Death hates [[Time Master|Time Masters]]s because they keep taking his favorite spot ==

This explains why there are no monsters in Dracula's Castle in Simon's Quest, but there are everywhere else, they got away from the castle. Dracula's influence is needed to make monsters, but they don't die with him, if he dies, the monsters gain free will, and so, they got away, and spread around Romania, to be destroyed by Simon when he looked for Dracula's remains. Without Dracula's influence, no monsters could be created in his castle, and he was re-killed so quickly, that he had no time to make monsters, this explains why he's easy. Next, the monsters in Harmony Of Dissonance were creations of {{spoiler|Maxim's will}}, and since Castle B is more or less a creation of his mind, he has more control over it's monsters, the Merchant is also a monster, but made with {{spoiler|Maxim's}} good side. In Symphony Of The Night, {{spoiler|Richter's brainwashing gave him the same will to do this, this is why he could summon the monsters in the Arena}}, monsters in Aria Of Sorrow are leftovers from the battle of 1999, and when we get a game featuring the battle, the bosses who were left over shall be [[Bonus Boss|Bonus Bosses]]es. Dawn Of Sorrow has the souls from Soma released and they go to the closest to Castlevania they could find, the so-called replica.

While keeping watch over the remainder of his bloodline--onebloodline—one of whom was Leon Belmont--GabrielBelmont—Gabriel sired Mathias Cronqvist into Clan Tzimisce to save him from his illness. Mathias later orchestrated the confrontation with the Malkavian Walter Bernhard in an attempt to share his power with Leon. Mathias used the power of the Crimson Stone to psychically diablerize Walter, giving him Walter's Malkavian traits.

In the early 15th century, Gabriel Belmont and his childe, Mathias Cronqvist, settled in the province of Wallachia in the guise of the wealthy Ruthven family. Gabriel took the name Tabak Ruthven, the "head" of the family, and Mathias took on the role of his "son", Lambach Ruthven. After Mathias Embraced Vlad Tepes, he discovered that Vlad was a thin-blood and abandoned him. Vlad, coveting the power of the Crimson Stone, tracked his sire down and diablerized him, gaining not only Mathias' power, but also Walter Bernhard's Malkavian abilities. He then used his new power to cripple and diablerize Gabriel so that his control over the Crimson Stone could not be disputed. Until 1999, the four personalities--Gabrielpersonalities—Gabriel, Mathias, Walter, and Dracula--hadDracula—had been warring with one another. This also explains how Dracula was able to conceive a half-vampire son with Lisa, as some thin-bloods have been known to possess the ability to reproduce, whereas normal vampires cannot.