I'd like to see a prequel movie detailing Mathias meeting Lisa, conceiving Alucard, and her execution spiraling into him becoming Dracula long before I ever see a guy with a whip.
Yes, I know that's basically asking for a better version of Dracula: Untold, but it's what I want goddammit.
I'd like to see a prequel movie detailing Mathias meeting Lisa, conceiving Alucard, and her execution spiraling into him becoming Dracula long before I ever see a guy with a whip.
Hey Vlad, hon, let's show that Edward and Bella how vampire-human sex really works!
Sounds like a good outline for a gothic porno film.
Hmm....... just no. That would be going beyond the cringe-worthiness of the latest pachislot outing, and Judgement. Way to ruin a really lovely part of the series.
LOI with a short prologue that takes place before the game's events.
For some reasons, I always picture a CV3 movie being made. I think it'd be awesome to start with a flashback of Dracula losing Lisa and casting his curse on Europe, with Alucard witnessing it. My amateur filmmaker's mind is full of ideas.
It isn't like we've had very many good game-to-film adaptations to establish a good track record of them being made, after all. :(
That could be cool, showing Mathias and Leon in the middle of the Crusades... I'd actually want to see a full prequel movie leading up to the events of LoI. A while ago, I read a rather good fanfic set in around this time, before Mathias succumbed to darkness. I can see events in the Crusades where you see how effective they are, all while Mathias is practicing alchemy in secret. In the fic (or another for that matter?), I remember Mathias holding an old family grimoire, and it had a dragon emblem on it, as a possible link as to why Mathias changed his name to Dracula.
Edit: I've found the fic: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/1915428/1/Castlevania-Tales-Prelude-to-the-Dark-Abyss (https://www.fanfiction.net/s/1915428/1/Castlevania-Tales-Prelude-to-the-Dark-Abyss) .
That is basically the idea I go with in a Mathias pre-LoI fanfic I am writing, which I am already 28 pages into. I took it down more of a Lovecraftian/Occult road so that I can eventually make it into something original. But it is all about how what Mathias is doing is the actual reason he loses everything. He blames god because he cant face the truth, that it's his fault. This and his quest for knowledge and power leads him down the road of what I like to describe as the demonic/alchemist Walter White.
Yes. Basically he is using some kind of dark, occultish magic to help his company. For a while the give and take nature of this kind of magic is handled by the scores ofndead enemies. I.E. you get enhanced on the battlefield, we take your fallen enemies as sacrifices. But as power seeking people often do, Mathias steps over the line, and a higher, more personal sacrifice is required. Elisabetha falls ill for this reason, but Mathias refuses to accept it. He's kind of justified to himself that if he is fighting for God, whatever he does is justified. End justify the means and what have you.
>reads last few posts
>see alchemy being assigned absolute morality
>see alchemy being confused with black magic
>see alchemy being turned into something that's not alchemy at all
>see alchemy being applied as an umbrella term because it sounds cool or whatever
Like I know CV's already got a slightly off-center concept of alchemy and how it works thematically and symbolically
but this is ridiculous.
If you want a better look at a theory to incorporate the Magnum Opus into Castlevania, look no further than Mathias' collarbone--the Crimson Stone IS the Philosopher's Stone, born from the Prima Materia that is Chaos and providing eternal life through vampirism.
"You want more power, shed your humanity?" That's not really how equivalent exchange would work
This isn't really alchemy. It's black magic and occultism being worded as alchemy purely for the sake of semantics.
Bullshit. The Philosopher's Stone and the Crimson Stone are two different things. In context of CV we learn there are 4 stones of Alchemy; Ebony, Crimson, Philosopher's and one unnamed.
St Germain is also a figure who in the Alchemical sense was known to have mastered Alchemy and gained eternal life. Within CV's context he would have had to create the Philosopher's Stone to attain eternal life, more than likely in some capacity by which Rinaldo informs Leon about in LOI.
St Germain is also a figure who in the Alchemical sense was known to have mastered Alchemy and gained eternal life. Within CV's context he would have had to create the Philosopher's Stone to attain eternal life, more than likely in some capacity by which Rinaldo informs Leon about in LOI.
As D9 said, his intentions were good in the beginning, he was devout in his Faith, and the alchemy itself as 'neutral' in nature, having both lighter and darker parts to it. However, most likely in my eyes, it was Elisabetha's death which pushed him over the edge and succumbing to the darkness in his heart, turning to the darker side of magic completely, which I guess he'd be aware of and maybe dabbled in to some extent, separate to his alchemy?
Ah, alright. Without the Master Alchemist specification, I went with the most obvious iteration of SG in the Comte.
And my apologies--things like "need a hug?" and calling bullshit were interpreted the wrong way.All good, no apologies necessary. :)
Lastly, I understand that Rinaldo is used as a sage-wisdom kind of character to Leon, who knows next to nothing about the subject, but that doesn't make his perspective infallible. Leon knows nothing about alchemy--Rinaldo could have just as easily told him alchemy required you to strip naked and run around the woods for seven years to become one with the earth or something and Leon wouldn't have known any better.^Ideal Castlevania Movie^ right there...
Rinaldo is wise to his end, but even the wisest of people have the capacity to be wrong and have their judgment clouded by personal bias.
And yes, alchemy, esotericism, occultism, all of these things fascinate me intently. To see how older generations viewed and sought to understand the universe around them and their place in it--this is immensely captivating for me, and many of the philosophies therein ring true even today; particularly, the paradoxial logic of alchemy being absolute in its relativism. Shit's a head-spinner, but it's an amazing head-spinner.
Wasn't Dracula Untold basically LoS1, though? :D
It came across to me as a weird cross inspired by a mix of LoS and the main timeline. The Master Vampire sort of fulfills the role of a cross between Zobek and Carmilla (in terms of her function of turning Vlad, and telling him that he will end up turning completely). I even had this crazy idea for a crossover fic in my head where I picutured Ingeras growing up and ending up becoming Alucard. :) That said, an all-out Castlevania LoS film could be quite fun.