So my article got picked up by Now Loading.
https://nowloading.co/p/netflix-castlevania-whats-after-season-2/4319961I'm willing to bet not a single thing from LoI will be referenced. Instead, I think that line about Trevor's great-grandfather was supposed to be a hint about how the Belmonts family and Dracula are related in this universe. If the series continues past season 2 I think Ellis is just going to do his own thing. Perhaps he's going to adapt certain events from the IGA timeline but he's going to put his own spin on it. Basically how the MCU sometimes adapts comic book arcs but is still separate from the comics.
You know, while I wouldn't be shocked if it went that way, given my own interactions with Adi Shankar on social media I know that he really is a fan of the series. And now that future seasons will be built from the ground up squarely under his watch I don't think it will deviate quite as much from the source material as you seem to. I think the comment about Trevor's great grandfather was just to explain how Trevor knew what the inside of the castle looked like, I never got the impression that it was a reference to the origin of the Belmont/Dracula relationship. I doubt they will be as loose as the MCU, but somewhere between that and a beat for beat interpretation.
I also think Ellis' comments about moving away from the canon is just in the fact that now we'll actually see the events of the game play out, and they will have to be edited significantly in order to be more than 180 minute action sequence. Everything we've seen so far has been pre-game, basically them telling their own story in the world. So it couldn't really conflict with anything, given that it took place before the game. And yes I know about Japanese manuel translations, but I doubt Ellis does, and to be honest I don't think he really needs to.
The Belmonts are cleary legendary, heroic monster hunters, exiled, driven to the fringes of society. They wield a powerful whip, as well as swords and other edged weapons. Contain vast, passed down knowledge for dealing with supernatural creatures.
Dracula is a powerful Vampire sorcerer with an army of monsters and frightening castle riddled with death traps. He's waging war on humanity for killing his wife Lisa for witchcraft.
Alucard is Dracula and Lisa's son, a powerful swordsman, who tests Trevor Belmont to make sure he is ready to take the fight to Dracula. Trevor even mistakes him for Dracula at first, as many people did Alucard in Cv3, when the game first came out. What an incredible reference.
Yeah Sypha's background was changed, but personally I thought a mage within a group of gypsy/monks makes a lot more sense than a witch working for the medieval church. She was still the blue clad, elemental magic user from the game.
The writing was very good, and that was Warren Ellis' job. I'm sure some of you disagree, but the vast consensus is that he nailed it. At ;east from a storytelling perspective. I trust Shankar to keep it in line with the games from this point forward. Especially given what we now know about his history with this project.
https://www.polygon.com/tv/2017/7/11/15952898/castlevania-live-action-adaptation-netflix