Topic: Castlevania: Umbra of Sorrow (1999 Fan Project)

[theplottwist]

I see. Wygol village is the same village from Dawn of Sorrow.

You are correct. The Lost Village is Wygol, and I have one or two snippets of evidence to back it up (of course, it's just "backwards justification", but you get my point).

Somewhere in time, Wygol became deserted as some sort of catastrophe ravaged its inhabitants. I believe that would be the appearance of monsters summoned by Celia, akin to LoS2's plot. There is some evidence that this catastrophe happened not very long before Dawn of Sorrow, and caused everyone to flee. The zombies turning up in the abandoned houses might be the result of casualities on the town. This all actually fits with Genya's assertion of this being a "rapidly growing cult."

Until now I hope I'm doing a good job with this all. If any of you dudes want to point something out, please do so!

That last part with the Condemned Tower is soooooo cool. Man, you're a boss at reconnecting things.

Thanks a lot man. I'm trying my best to lay a cool base for the main story.

[X]

Until now I hope I'm doing a good job with this all. If any of you dudes want to point something out, please do so!

Well the only thing to keep your mind on is that the castle from DoS isn't Dracula's castle as it's still encompassed in the eclipse. That's about it 

[theplottwist]

Concept Art created by the artist Junki Sakuraba for Umbra of Sorrow based on the 1999 Alucard sprite I created:



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Junki was already featured by Bloodstained too. This guy is a fantastic artist!

[Chernabogue]

Oh wow, it looks great!

[X]

That is very nice! Although he looks tired with those bags under his eye    His outfit however doesn't speak to me of 1999 so much as it does of 1899. Might wanna suggest to Junki Sakuraba to bump the look up by at least a hundred years    other then that it's a good picture 

[Shiroi Koumori]

Oooooohhhhhh! ♫
I love that picture! ♥

[Lelygax]

It seems that Alucard only updated his wardrobe after the DCW xD
Even so, very cool looking design and fanart, some details remind me about Hector.

[darkmanx_429]

Concept Art created by the artist Junki Sakuraba for Umbra of Sorrow based on the 1999 Alucard sprite I created:



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Junki was already featured by Bloodstained too. This guy is a fantastic artist!

That looks fantastic!

[Jorge D. Fuentes]

Wearing Joachin's armor?

[theplottwist]

Wearing Joachin's armor?

Now that you mention it, it does look slightly like it. But Junki did base this on the sprite and my brief description.

[BalancedHydra]

Well. I just finished going over everything and... Wow!

This is really great stuff. So much so that I got nothing to add other than keep these coming.

[theplottwist]

Well. I just finished going over everything and... Wow!

This is really great stuff. So much so that I got nothing to add other than keep these coming.

Thanks a lot, but keep tuned. There is a whole lot more to come.

Speaking of it, I got slightly lost in the Julius thing, but I'm almost there (Again).

[theplottwist]

Okay dudes, a small-ish update:

The BIGGEST issue with Julius' origin is finally solved: The origin of the Lecarde family.

This doesn't exactly intersect with Julius himself and I could've explained his own birth alone, but it's important to set-up why did the Lecardes inherit the Alucard Spear, and the whole "Morris and Lecardes take the place of the Belmonts" shebang. Alucard is behind the method through which Julius' birth was possible, and both stories interwine with him.

I won't post it just yet, but here is a brief summary:

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The Lecarde family was NOT blood-related to the Belmonts before a certain someone entered their family by 1800~1820. No game ever mentions where exactly did the Belmonts branch into the Lecardes, as opposed to the Morris, which was by the time of Trevor Belmont. But the Lecardes were next to the Belmonts as a friend-family of sorts.

This certain character carries the blood of the Belmonts, but is not a main Belmont descendant, and when they make contact with the Lecardes, the descendants become blood-tied to the Belmonts automatically, of course, but as distant relatives. This character is also the reason why Alucard trusts them to pass his spear to them.

But, of course, I may be missing information on this matter. If someone knows where the Lecardes branched from the Belmonts, please let me know. My research of the lore brought NOTHING but bits and pieces that I used to build this background.

Ah and no, they have nothing to do with Alucard besides the spear. They are not his relatives in any way, shape or form. I'm aware that some fans suspected them to be his descendants or something, but Alucard is trying to rid the world of his bloodline. It'd make no sense for the Lecardes to have anything to do with him.

And one more update: While trying to write this part of the background above, I made an artwork to illustrate part of the 1999 plot itself:

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This is Dracula's Castle 1999. There is a complete map to be overlaid on top of it designed to follow details on my story, but ALSO to be used if a fangame ever comes from it. I won't show the internal map yet, but believe me: It's huge. But I'll show you this:


The general shape of this castle, if no one notices, is a homage to the NES Castlevania's map. It happened that my story-game system required the Clock Tower to be at the center of the castle, and that I wanted it to be divided into two very separated wings, so I made a full-on homage.

That's it for now, dudes.

[X]

Nifty castle    I like the parchment touch to it as well. But didn't IGA say that the castle in AoS was in fact the very same incarnation that appeared in 1999? With that logic shouldn't the castle resemble the one from AoS?

[Chernabogue]

Neat castle!