I don't think Chaos is sentient to that degree. I imagine it's more that humankind is very orderly in its mannerisms and social constructs; and what opposes chaos better than order?
The best displays of cunning from Death in the entire series, for me, are in Curse of Darkness, and the Ricordanza novel.
In CoD he's able to escape even a time travelling individual, and in Ricordanza he uses the body of a human to achieve his goal. I like the last one because it shows that Death has a kind of code of honor, and a soft-side, even.
But he's still as cruel as always.
Ultimatelly, I don't think he's the one pulling the strings. I think Chaos is the "thing" behind Death. Chaos yearns for mankind's downfall, needing an agent to carry it out. So Death is the one responsible on finding and protecting this agent.
I don't think Chaos is sentient to that degree. I imagine it's more that humankind is very orderly in its mannerisms and social constructs; and what opposes chaos better than order?
You should read Ricordanza to understand more about Death's loyalty to Dracula. For now I will only tell that Death wouldn't betray him and so thinking that it has something to do with Lisa being killed doesn't seems right.
There isn't no need to do that also, since at this time if you did something different to cure people and were a woman chances were high that they would accuse you of witchcraft.
I'd love to, but Konami doesn't care about translating their stuff into English anymore. Or even making the Japanese version available.
But I still think Death was a factor in Lisa being killed. After all Isaac is essentially his human equivalent in Curse of Darkness: Isaac was similarly loyal to Dracula, and Hector's best friend and confidante. He clearly valued having Hector around, and not just as an asset to use. But he still threw the first stone at Rosalie, as it were, when he felt Hector was getting soft, causing Rosalie to be burned as a witch, which is also how Lisa died. Almost to a T.
I don't doubt that Death is a good friend around Dracula, and probably truly values his presence and partnership, but really, he's routinely shown to be one of the most evil characters in the series. Never make an assumption about a force you know to be dyed-in-the-wool evil, unless that assumption is "he's totally going to be picking on people smaller and more helpless than him for any or no reason." That's kind of the calling card of evil.
Goddammit son, Shiroi does what Konamidon't. (http://castlevaniadungeon.net/forums/index.php/topic,6118.0.html)
Who is the author of the original novel? I want to beat him to death for his mad writing style. I've read some translations of Japanese novels before but holy crap that was just terribly written. I'm not even talking plot (although that was plenty bad too, imo), but just... the structure and flow offend me on about every level a written work can. I'm sure Shiroi did as best as was possible with the translation, but a great translation doesn't matter if the source work is terrible. Can we just rewind everything to before that book was written?
Damn, where'd I put that brain bleach?
...There was a fourth season to Torchwood?
@Lely, fyi Bloody Rayne originally spoke about Elisabetha being killed by Death and not Lisa. They're 2 different people living in 2 different eras.
I understood I just interpreted your first response was regarding Elisabetha. Sorry my bad :)
Just ignore that the symbols [] exists and remember that if you read something like that > "is because someone is talking, like me right now". If a text lacks a "" it is because someone is thinking or the narrator is talking to you. :P
since the work would lose the touch of the author.