What D9 said. It’s Castlevania. Even when Dracula is killed, he always finds a way back. Aid Shankar and the Deats brothers are too big fans to completely ignore this central pillar of the games’ plots. As far as I’m concerned, all of the scheming and mechanisations of other villainous characters is giving them room to breathe and grow, rather than just having them appear out of nowhere with little given motivation or ambition beyond “Hey, let’s resurrect Dracula!”. It makes for very two dimensional and uninteresting characters. Besides, from the poster itself, there’s a guy that resembles a re-designed St Germaine who didn’t show up in the trailer from what we can see, which, together with Hector and Isaac being present, suggests we are heading towards a take on Curse of Darkness, and thus Dracula getting resurrected a few years after Trevor and co take him down. Why include the devil forgemasters to begin with if a CoD related adaptation wasn’t on the cards?