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« Last post by zangetsu468 on August 14, 2025, 09:02:44 PM »
I'm going to place Judgement (literally and figuratively) to the side for a moment, given it deals with timeline@$$f!!!ery..
My general understanding is as follows:
- Alucard aka Kid Dracula defeats Space Emperor Galamoth in the distant future,
- Galamoth, having been defeated, has a second crack at Alucard, during SOTN in 1797**, and
- Whether the events of Kid Dracula repeat, are currently an unknown. However, it is likely that the events of 1999 occurred regardless of the feud between Alucard and Galamoth.
**Note: This event likely involves time travel and occurs while in the 'underworld'(in this instance, the inverted Castle).
While the above contains 'head canon' my understanding is that it is true, namely for a few reasons:
- It has been noted and seen in other instances that Castlevania materialises, essentially keeping the gates to the underworld/ 'hell'. A similar instance occurs in OOE, with Shanoa accessing the gates of hell via the castle itself. This is also similar to DoS, although given this particular portal/ gate wasn't in Castlevania. Coincidentally, these all seem to occur in non-centennial resurrections, perhaps because Dracula's resurrection is incomplete and/ or in the process of trying to be brought about by a third party (Shaft, Ecclesia, Celia's Cult, etc.)
- Dracula in SOTN manifests in a non-humanoid form, or rather a humanoid figure throned upon a non-humanoid chaos-like form. As opposed to his centennial or 'complete' resurrections, whereby his first form always appears human, with the demonic form(s) to follow. (OOE and possibly POR being exceptions to this rule, which I won't go into here) SOTN's Drac appears to be a mish-mash of both and the context of where the fight takes place is more so, key, given Castlevania is noted as a 'creature of Chaos'.
- The 'Galamoth' soul, which is termed a 'fixed drop' in AoS, allows Soma(the new Dark Lord candidate) to bypass areas to do with time being stopped by the Chronomage. Again, where this is obtained is in Castlevania's underground cemetery, post-Legion boss battle, which directly links back to the inverted floating cemetery of SOTN (presumably because Castlevania is now in the eclipse, it's beyond human reach, either in the underworld/ astral realm/ some kind of interstice, meaning the characteristics of the inverted castle and actual castle are the same thing, or the dev's simply carried through the idea of linking Galamoth and Legion because of SOTN.)
- Galamoth either being dead/ of the underworld and not yet of King/ Emperor title during SOTN makes sense, given the premise of Kid Dracula is Galamoth's attempt at taking over Dracula's army, during his absence.
- Castlevania wiki says this re: Kid Dracula:
"he[Kid Dracula] finally arrives to Garamoth's lair and defeats him in a one-on-one battle, after which Garamoth is banished back to his own dimension, not without swearing to get revenge first".
Given Galamoth's depiction in SOTN, the association with 'underworld' Egyptian Gods as well as SOTN's bestiary description for Galamoth stating: 'Magical being with plan to rule the netherworld' may have originally indicated - prior to Judgement's release - that while Galamoth was indeed banished in KD, he re-emerged during the events of SOTN, attempting to do the same thing as he was in KD. (Judgement's narrative potentially retcons this, however, since it doesn't take place in any set year, I've placed it outside of the known timeline(s) that exist in the CV Verse).
EDIT:
While Galamoth exists in SOTN, he is an optional boss. While how canon this battle is remains debatable, Alucard can defeat him, so this is entirely plausible, given there are both equip and use items which resist thunder, making the job easier.
It is also possible that Galamoth's defeat in SOTN was either not part of the lore and he was accumulating power, prior to KD. However, given that very few boss fights that have been included in-game are cosnidered as non-canon and these are typically placed in secondary game modes(AoS Julius, DoS Julius/Yoko/Alucard, PoR Sisters & Richter/Maria) one assumes the boss fight was intentionally included. This also gets me to thinking. It's possible that KD occurs in one of the supplementary timelines, then Galamoth, via either time travel/ the underworld/ similar events to Judgement may possibly make the appearance in SOTN (being an alternate timeline he travelled back to) kind of similar to Cell in DBZ leaving his original timeline to travel back to the main one via the time machine..
I mentioned in my OG post that SOTN's appearance of Galamoth was potentially retconned by whatever occurs in Judgement, however, it's possible (given that time travel is thrown into the mix) that both events are occurring, given Judgement appears to happen outside of the timeline, or at least in a specific pocket of time whereby there's no set year.
An interesting post, Crisis
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