Topic: About Vlad III's Existence on Castlevania

[zangetsu468]

Doesn't the idea of how the sword is swung relating to its weight kind of fly out the window, being that Alucard is a Dhampir, and thus has at least some level super strength.  Couldn't Alucard probably wield a fricken zweihander one handed?

Except there are 2 handed swords in the game. It's only going to go out the window for the Osafune katana, Crissaegrim or heaven's sword and the like.

@Bloody Rayne, you mentioned not before the 17th century, noted.
From my understanding the sword is known as the pirate's sword rather than a sailor's sword.
It only states the sword was passed on from Lisa's family, perhaps it was passed to them from their predecessors upon first arriving in Wallachia, who knows.
The Szabla is too curved for my liking, it looks more like the in game sprite of the Badelaire...
There's an actual separate cutlass sword in game, which looks less like a cutlass and more like a slightly curved normal sword..
In fact the "Saber" and its in game sprite look closer to the Alucard Sword

If we're going to go down that road of disregarding the sprites - to which I'm hesitant - I would ditch the sprite altogether and look to the artwork... Problem, the swords in the official art don't match!

We can question the history, but obviously there's also the premise of this thread regarding Vlad III. Where was he? History is not in CVverse what it is in our universe.

Side note: If Alucard's sword was passed to him, he could've used a sword in CVIII, so why didn't he? Canonically the Alucard Sword was in his possession from before CVIII until SOTN.

I think I'm done trying to play connect 4 with this, it's obvious the people who made the game probably don't care as much as those of us in this thread. 

[Lumi Kløvstad]

I think I'm done trying to play connect 4 with this, it's obvious the people who made the game probably don't care as much as those of us in this thread.

Likewise, for the same reasons. The simple fact is that Iga's crew didn't give half a shit about this topic and all this conjecture, fun though it is, will never be more than conjecture.

It's the same thing that sank my Hunter Whip topic in the end: everything is conjecture, nothing can be known as definitively true.

I'm sticking with my idea that the Alucard Sword is likely a Szabla because of reasons I already stated.

A Szabla or other saber weapon would however be a shoo-in, especially as the Szabla is region-appropriate, first entered wide use around that time, and is a weapon style associated with nobility in Poland and Hungary. It's highly probable that a Wallachian Count (or his wife) would have at least one to pass down to their heir. The Szabla is simply the most logical choice.

The fact remains that we as gamers will likely never know, short of asking Iga himself, and there's no guarantee he'd care to remember such a minuscule data point anyway.

[Dracula9]

Gonna chime in one final time on the sword thing, just for the hell of it.

The Magyar sabre is also a strong contender.

Most likely, though - at least on a purely historical basis - it is most likely the sword is one of German descent, as Wallachia did most of its trade with Germany, which lends the probability of weapons and armor dealings (likely your standard German arming swords and knightly equipment, though specialized here because royal vampire power) from the same source. Byzantine Bulgarian blades are also in that running.

But that's neither here nor there as Castlevania's not exactly historically accurate.

[zangetsu468]

But that's neither here nor there as Castlevania's not exactly historically accurate.

Because: Castlevania