Topic: Castlevania Q&A

[Nagumo]

Sometimes leaving stuff vague or up to the player's imagination is better than explaining every last detail.

Nobody is saying they should do that though, Hero-kun.   

[beingthehero]

Well sombody should so I can feel contrarion about something.

[X]

Sometimes leaving stuff vague or up to the player's imagination is better than explaining every last detail.

Castlevania was have been fine with that in its heyday. However when IGA started making the series very heavily story-oriented it became necessary to have all the little details explained. Unfortunately it was left ambiguous and this left us with more guesses and questions then answers.

[Claimh Solais]

Sometimes leaving stuff vague or up to the player's imagination is better than explaining every last detail.

This would be nice, except for the fact that stuff was left too vague. As a result, people were confused as to why Dracula was confused after his "redemption" in SotN. Also, people believed it was Castlevania taking a hugely anime route by moving the game to Japan (AoS), but there was actually a large amount of backstory behind that. None of which was ever explained and required people to look it up online, and it wasn't even Konami we got the info from.

[Jorge D. Fuentes]

Every time I hear Lore, I think of the AWESOMENESS...

...that was Metroid Prime and its:

    Pirate Data
    Chozo Lore
    Creatures
    Research
    Artifacts

It was amazing the way you scanned that stuff and learned so much stuff.  Of course, it was all optional but it was great.  I gobbled it all up, nomnomnom.

[BLOOD MONKEY]

How do the belmonts work? Do they each live to be around 150 years old or something? Cause in the games, Trevor vs. Drac: 1400
Simon vs Drac: 1500 Juste vs Drac: 1600 Richter vs. Drac: 1700     And Simon is son of Trevor, Juste is son of Simon, Richter is son of Juste (?), and so on and so on.

[theplottwist]

How do the belmonts work? Do they each live to be around 150 years old or something? Cause in the games, Trevor vs. Drac: 1400
Simon vs Drac: 1500 Juste vs Drac: 1600 Richter vs. Drac: 1700     And Simon is son of Trevor, Juste is son of Simon, Richter is son of Juste (?), and so on and so on.

I.. Don't even...

Where did you see that Simon is Trevor's son, or that Juste is Simon's son, or Richter is Juste's son? And you forgot Christopher there.

In Juste's case, the game even explains that Simon has defeated Dracula fifty years before HoD. The game never mentions Juste as Simon's son, but the manuals and some other games refer to the "most recent Belmont" always as "descendant", except in Soleyu's case, where it explicitly says that Soleyu is Christopher's son.

Belmonts pretty much have a common human lifespan, probably.

[BLOOD MONKEY]

Los and various other sources say that simon is trevor's son. Like I said, I'm not sure who Richter's father was though. But all of Draculas defeats are 100 years apart...

[BLOOD MONKEY]

Wait... Nevermind. I feel horribly stupid now. http://rocksclan.com/images/familytree.JPG

[Jorge D. Fuentes]

Simon IS Trevor's Son... in LoS-Verse.
But in that universe, Trevor is Gabriel's Son.
And Gabriel becomes Dracula.

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And when Trevor goes up to Gabriel and eventually becomes turned, he foregoes his Trevor name and goes by Alucard

As for the more expanded Classic/IGA-verse, they're never called out on their exact lineage, except for a few:

-Leon Belmont is the first recorded Belmont in the IGA/Classic timeline.
-We know Trevor Raphael Christopher* Belmont married Sypha Fernandez/Belnades (mentioned in Harmony of Dissonance's developer notes/interviews, confirmed in the Castlevania Judgment dialogue)
-We know for a fact that Soleiyu is Christopher's son.
-We know Simon is descendant of Trevor.  However, he is not Trevor's Son.
-We know Juste is Simon's Grandson

*fixed, after finding out Cornelius is only a fanon surname, and in the IGA conversations, he mentions the C being for Christopher, to tie him somewhat to his descendant, Christopher Belmont.

--from the Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance script--

Maxim: Long ago, you told me of Dracula's remains. Do you remember that?
Juste: Yes, I remember. The story of how my grandfather, Simon, gathered Dracula's remains and destroyed them to undo his curse.

-We know Jonathan Morris is John Morris's Son, and John is Quincy Morris's Son.
-We know the last known Belmonts in the IGA timeline are Julius Belmont and his little sister, Kokoro Belmont.

These are the facts about the Belmont Family.

Now for the speculation.  These is all conjecture, unfounded, only bits and pieces have been revealed, not enough to connect any dots meaningfully:

-Sonia is Descendant of Leon through her Grandfather

-Some rumors exist that Trevor is Sonia's Son (dates are very close together)
-Other rumors exist that Trevor is Sonia and Alucard's Son (some speculation based on the events in Legends, but very vague)
-Other rumors exist that Trevor is a brother or a cousin to Sonia, but not a direct descendant.

-Christopher Belmont is Trevor's Grandston (dates match up)
-Simon is Soleiyu's Son (dates match up)
-Richter is Juste's Grandston (dates match up)
a disappearance of Belmonts happens at this time, making it difficult to know much about the name "Belmont"

-Reinhardt Schneider is a Belmont descendant (the truth).  It is unconfirmed how direct of a descendant from Richter Belmont, the last recorded Belmont so far, this descendant is (the speculation)
-Quincy Morris is a Belmont descendant (the truth).  It is unconfirmed how direct of a descendant from Richter Belmont, the last recorded Belmont so far, this descendant is (the speculation).
-There are rumors that claim that the Schneiders and Morris clans are cousin clans to Belmonts, with a common Belmont ancestor (female Belmonts have existed in the past, and I don't think it would be uncommon for a few daughters to have appeared so far, besides Sonia)

[BLOOD MONKEY]

I wonder if Alucard could call Soma his brother........

[theplottwist]

I wonder if Alucard could call Soma his brother........

Father you mean?

-We know Trevor Raphael Cornelius Belmont married Sypha Fernandez/Belnades (mentioned in Harmony of Dissonance's
developer notes/interviews, confirmed in the Castlevania Judgment dialogue)

Wait... Where is Trevor's complete name mentioned?? Was not the "C" intended to stand for "Christopher"?

-We know the last known Belmonts in the IGA timeline are Julius Belmont and his little sister, Kokoro Belmont.

Kokoro Belmont is not canon to the main Castlevania universe.

WTF Jorge!

[BLOOD MONKEY]

Oh yeah... Or that.

[Koutei]

Wait... Nevermind. I feel horribly stupid now. http://rocksclan.com/images/familytree.JPG

This is an unofficially fan made.



You should check these.
http://castlevania.wikia.com/wiki/Castlevania_Timeline
http://castlevania.wikia.com/wiki/Lords_of_Shadow_Timeline
http://castlevania.wikia.com/wiki/Belmont_Family_Tree
http://castlevania.wikia.com/wiki/Lords_of_Shadow_Family_Tree

[BLOOD MONKEY]

This is an unofficially fan made.

Is it not correct?