He showed signs of darkness, including renouncing his humanity, hunger for violence, and partial insanity. After unlocking the doors, he found The Forgotten One emerging from lava, climbing the rocks to open the portals to the original realm, despite the demon being in a weakened state. The two fought and came to a draw, causing The Forgotten One to retake his power and move on to the Underworld, the final plane before entering the mortal realm. Gabriel destroys the Vampire Killer.
Gabriel followed The Forgotten One and showed more signs of darkness. He claimed that he was darker and more terrible than The Forgotten One and that the creature would beg for mercy before the end. He confronted the demon again, and after the battle, The Forgotten One finally opened the portal, mocking Gabriel that the portal was open and that he would let him live to watch the world's destruction and claimed that he had failed his mission.
However, just when the Forgotten One was about to reclaim the part of his power he had sent to unlock the seal, Gabriel intervened and absorbed the Forgotten One's demonic power. While the Forgotten One begged for mercy, Gabriel used his new-found power to destroy the demon once and for all. Just before leaving the Underworld, Gabriel destroyed the Vampire Killer, leaving the pieces lying broken and forgotten within the dark dimension.
Gabriel, now known as Dracula, in Mirror of Fate. Gabriel became an immortal vampire and took on the name of Dracul, but the people knew him as Dracula. He made Carmilla's castle his own fortress and grew to master new forms of magic, such as the Void and Chaos, as well as command new legions of monsters.
The Brotherhood of Light sought to kill Dracula, being partially responsible for his fate and for being a vampire and sent many knights to the castle to slay him, all of whom failed. At the same time, Dracula sought to take his revenge on the Brotherhood and remake the world as he saw fit. When he came of age, Gabriel's son, Trevor , was finally informed by the Elders of the truth of his parentage and started a journey to defeat his demonic father and avenge his mother.
Dracula was confronted by Trevor at the top of his castle, in the chamber of the Mirror of Fate where years ago Gabriel fought Carmilla.
He saw that he carried a copy of the Combat Cross, and asked for the name of its user. Trevor did not tell his name but did tell him he knew who and what his father was and that he was there to remove the stain upon his family name and avenge the death of his mother.
Dracula was amused by Trevor's personal motives and the dark lord took a moment to explain his nihilistic views of life and death, believing he sent his victims to a better place before making it clear he had no intentions of knowing them and that he did not know his mother.
Trevor vehemently told his unknowing father that he did know her, and he swore to tell him her name when he killed him. Angered by the boy's arrogance, Dracula summoned his Void Sword and an intense battle began between father and son. During combat, Dracula switched between his Void Sword and Chaos Claws, using his new powers to their fullest extent against Trevor, but the younger warrior countered with his own combat skills and Light and Shadow magic to match Dracula's weapons.
Dracula took the fight into the air but was knocked back down to the chamber below, with Trevor falling after him and roaring he would know his mother's name. Infuriated, Dracula swore he would never be defeated and met Trevor's final attack head-on. With a violent burst of blood, Trevor was defeated, stabbed with his own weapon. Dracula discovers Trevor 's identity. As Trevor lay dying, he looked into the Mirror of Fate and, realized the truth of Gabriel's fall into darkness, told him that they were opposites.
Gabriel had accepted his fate even when he was betrayed at every turn while Trevor had fought against his fate even though it was in vain. He told Dracula that he pitied him and revealed himself as his son. Looking into the Mirror of Fate himself, Dracula saw the truth of Trevor's words and was filled with outrage, horror, and regret. Remorseful, Dracula desperately attempted to revive Trevor by feeding him his blood, weeping to his son to live.
As it did not seem to have any effect, Dracula placed his son's body in a coffin, on which he wrote the name Alucard , since he never learned his son's real name but possibly remembered what Trevor had said about them being opposites.
Dracula would also place Trevor's clothes and Combat Cross in a secret chamber in the library, as a sort of memorial shrine to him. Blaming the Brotherhood for his son's demise, he sent his werewolves to attack the Brotherhood's sanctuary, killing all who lived there, save Trevor's son Simon , who escaped to the mountains at the cost of his mother's life.
Years later, Dracula witnessed the meeting of Simon and Alucard, smiling, before he teleported away. Soon after, Simon confronted Dracula in his throne at the top of his castle. Though impressed by Simon's skills, he made it clear that he was no match for him, and as he prepared to attack him, Alucard entered the room.
Dracula had hoped Alucard would side with him, but when his son refused, he decided to kill Simon despite Alucard's protests that it was their battle. Dracula had come to despise the Belmont name and refused to allow the bloodline to continue.
Dracula fought both of them at the same time but refrained from using his full power as he had against Trevor, only making use of his Shadow Whip and fireballs. He knocked Simon out and dueled Alucard for a while before teleporting back to his throne and seizing control of Simon, forcing Alucard to fight his own son. Dracula mocked Alucard for holding back and refusing to harm Simon and became disgusted when Alucard successfully freed Simon from his control.
He nearly strangled Alucard to death with his whip, but Simon saved him at the last moment. Dracula is defeated by Simon and Alucard. Dracula managed to knock Simon down again with an intense burst of dark magic, but Alucard finally managed to get his father in a hold and keep him in place, allowing Simon to stake him with Trevor's Combat Cross.
Dracula was finally defeated for the first time and disappeared into a mysterious red light, melting into a pile of ash. Alucard remarked that Dracula's "death" was atypical of a vampire, suggesting that he survived the encounter. His castle collapsed shortly after his supposed demise.
Dracula faces the Brotherhood of Light soldiers who breached in his throne room. Dracula managed to survive his supposed "death" by the hands of Simon and Alucard and remained in his reconstructed castle, his rule going unchallenged for over five hundred years as he continued to hunt down humanity and strike at them with his legion of monsters, though he began to long for a true death, despairing of his immortal life.
The Brotherhood of Light wished to finally be rid of him, and so launched a massive invasion of his castle in Listening to their hopeful words as they believed they could kill him, Dracula only smiled and raised his empty goblet, stating, "What a timely coincidence. I'm dying for a little drop of blood! Dracula then engaged the large group of knights single-handedly using his Shadow Whip, Void Sword and Chaos Claws to their full extent, wiping out the knights in short order.
He then exited his throne room and stepped out onto a balcony overlooking the entire castle, watching the massive legions of knights invading his home. Disgusted, he mused to himself for a moment before noticing the advancing Siege Titan and dodged its punch that shattered the balcony, forcing him onto a lower one.
Dracula merely sneered, "That will be your ruin! Before their fight could finish, the Siege Titan struck again, and the Paladin retreated with Dracula in close pursuit, leaping onto the Titan to follow after him. Dracula then scaled the mechanical monstrosity, easily surviving the legions of knights pouring out from inside it, the Paladin's flaming arrows and the Titan's own attempts to shake him off by attacking the castle.
Dracula reached the top of the Titan and corrupted its power source, a holy crystal, by vomiting his tainted blood onto it. The Titan fell, killing hundreds of soldiers and greatly damaging Dracula's castle. Dracula confronts Roland de Ronceval. Dracula easily survived and emerged from the wreckage to confront the Paladin once again. Dracula emerged victorious, shattering Roland's helmet, wings, and blades.
Desperate, the fallen Paladin pulled out a battle cross and began reciting in Latin, calling on the power of the seven archangels to destroy Dracula. Dracula, however, merely pitied the Paladin before explaining that the power of God would never harm him, as he was still His chosen one. To prove his point, he joined Roland in his chant but turned the holy power against him, and the explosion wiped out the entire army of Brotherhood Knights and Dracula's own castle.
Dracula stood alone in the aftermath, surrounded by bodies and holding the ruined battle cross before discarding it. While behind him his wayward son, Alucard approached. Dracula asks what Alucard wants with him since he knows that he cannot be killed. Alucard agrees saying that "only his father, Gabriel Belmont can destroy Dracula". Dracula says it is too late for him, explaining that the roots of evil are deep and using himself as an example, how he was the most devoted warrior of God once, but that even he, fell into darkness becoming "The Prince of Darkness", saying that both Satan and Zobek are afraid of him, and even if Dracula was gone, they would replace him, therefore evil would prevail one way or the other.
Alucard, however, proposed a way to truly eliminate evil and explained his plan to lure Zobek and Satan out of hiding. His sword the Crissaegrim will put his father into a deep sleep that will lead Satan to believe that Earth is safe to conquer, and Zobek, out of fear of Satan, will desperately seek out and revive Dracula knowing that he doesn't stand a chance against Satan by himself.
On the brink of Satan's return, Alucard will remove the sword from his body, reviving the vampire lord but also with his mind and body broken so that Zobek cannot read his mind. Zobek will forge an alliance with Dracula with the promise of the one thing he truly wants, a permanent death through the use of the reforged Vampire Killer. Then after Dracula regains his power they will kill Zobek, Satan, and finally themselves ridding the world of evil.
Reluctantly agreeing to the plan, Dracula impales himself on the sword and Alucard proceeds to hide his body. Dracula found himself awakening in his old castle in the approximate year of with no memory of the pact he made with Alucard, nor how he came to lie in a centuries-long slumber. As Alucard had predicted, Zobek sensed Dracula's awakening and came to him, informing him that Satan's return to the earthly realm was not far off.
His "old friend" urges Gabriel to prevent the resurrection. Gabriel attacks Zobek, who effortlessly throws him out a window, and reveals that making a deal with Zobek is Gabriel's only chance to be freed from his immortality. Dracula disappears at the end of the conversation, transforming into a flock of bats and returning to the cathedral. After leaving the cathedral and emerging into Castlevania City , Dracula, who is on the brink of death by starvation and has almost no strength, is effortlessly subdued by one of Satan's Soldiers , but rescued by Zobek's Lieutenant.
After Dracula regains his strength by feasting on an innocent family, Zobek explains to the vampire lord that Satan's Acolytes are preparing his return, and unless they are stopped, Satan's return is guaranteed. To this end, Zobek believes he has located the first of the Acolytes are in the Bioquimek Corporation though he doesn't know who it is. Without his full powers, Gabriel is forced to rely on stealth during the trek into the locked-down building. Once inside the building, Dracula is lured to an otherworldly version of his Castle in its prime by a hallucination of a little boy that he eventually somehow recognizes as his own son, Trevor, as he looked as a child.
Once inside, Gabriel soon learns that his castle has turned against him: if Dracula succeeds in his quest to die, then the castle and its inhabitants, which are magically linked to the Vampire Lord, will also die.
Thus, the Castle seeks to injure Dracula badly enough that it can trap him there and keep him alive forever. Dracula meets Raisa. To this end, in order to regain his Void Sword , Dracula must fight the Stone Golem , which is animated by a thick, viscous "Evil Blood" that seems to represent the castle's corruptive influence.
After returning to Castlevania City, Dracula encounters Bioquimek's CEO, Raisa Volkova , who has transformed herself with a demonic virus engineered by the corporation, becoming a powerful demoness in the progress.
Bioquimek intended to release the virus into the atmosphere on that very night, transforming the people of Castlevania City into misshapen demons called Possessed Citizens.
Upon sensing Dracula's presence, Volkova deliberately releases this virus in the lab, which begins spreading through the air, infecting the Bioquimek scientists and transforming them, to slow Dracula down. Afterward, when she attacks him again, Gabriel defeats Volkova and brings her back to Zobek for questioning.
Before being able to reach Zobek, Dracula is stopped by Trevor, who brings him inside the castle once again. Dracula must reclaim his Chaos Claws , which have been hidden by the Gorgon Sisters , who remain loyal to him. After encountering Euryale and Stheno , Dracula understands that Medusa has the Chaos power he seeks.
On his way to her, he frees the Chupacabras , who he imprisoned sometime after becoming the Lord of the Castle upon becoming too annoyed by the creature's antics.
He warns the dwarf that if he tried any of his tricks, Dracula would kill him, and the little spirit tells him where to find Medusa, the last sister.
After the Chupacabras open the path to Medusa, Dracula told him to get out of his way coldly but agrees to let him start his shop again without saying a word in exchange for the dwarf to behave. Dracula confronts the Gorgon. Upon acquiring the Chaos Claws, Euryale and Stheno meet him there. However, when she makes her appearance, Medusa reveals herself to have been corrupted by the Evil Blood, and after vomiting up a huge amount of blood, she drags her sisters down with her, spreading the taint to them too.
The three corrupted sisters unleash their ultimate power against their former master and combine into a massive creature called the Gorgon , which Dracula is forced to fight and slay. On his way to Zobek's lair, Dracula saw the sign pointing to the Chupacabras's shop and goes there and is greeted respectfully and kindly by the dwarf, although he looks merely annoyed and stoic throughout the entire time.
Dracula is given the Talisman of the Dragon by the Chupacabra, thus allowing him to access his true draconic form, although again he does not thank the Chupacabra. Back in the present, Bioquimek has released the virus right on schedule, and Castlevania City is under a hellish siege, with people both transforming into monsters and slaughtering innocents who haven't. In Zobek's lair, Dracula confronts the imprisoned Volkova but accomplishes nothing.
Zobek explains that her brain is full of confusion, and theorizes that the corporation must have created an antidote to the virus and that it could help Raisa become human again, which would make it easier to read her mind and learn about the Acolytes and their plans. Zobek, however, cannot send Dracula back there using the Portal as it is too risky and he is thus forced to travel on foot, which forces him to fight through not only the demons in the city but also the riot police send to deal with them.
Eventually, Dracula reaches a train station, where a soldier from Satan's army attacks him. After an intense fight on the train, Dracula jumps right before the train crashes into the next station, killing many of Satan's minions. There, Zobek's Lieutenant gives Dracula a hand to continue his search but soon departs, as Zobek needs him.
Alone, Dracula is called by Trevor, who says his mother Marie is in danger. Dracula goes back to the Castle and encounters Carmilla, reborn in a human-seeming form. After biting Carmilla, who presented herself as a loyal servant of the Vampire Lord, Dracula realizes her blood was cursed, and that it would eventually make him Carmilla's slave. Enraged, he prepares to confront Carmilla, but when the next door opens, Marie appears instead, to the surprise and happiness of Dracula.
Dracula reunites with Marie. Dracula wonders if Marie is real, or just an apparition. He expresses regret regarding what happened to them a millennium ago. She explains the Brotherhood of Light prevented her from telling him everything, which Dracula scoffs at, saying that the Brotherhood had deceived her by pointing out what happened to her and how he ended up being enemies with their son. When Marie said he is no fool and calls him Gabriel, Dracula then angrily states that "Gabriel" disappeared a long time ago and that he is and will forever be Dracul.
Marie then asks to help him slowing Carmilla's curse: Dracula bites and drinks Marie's blood, which eases the symptoms of the curse. Dracula then escapes the library after evading Carmilla. He confronts her at the top of a tower, where she seeks to murder Marie. After a brutal fight, Dracula kills Carmilla again, taking her Mist Form powers in the process, and rescues Marie. Gabriel returns to the present and continues his search for the antidote. Released in , Castlevania: Lords of Shadow was set in the year and followed Gabriel Belmont, a valiant knight within the Brotherhood of Light who dedicated his life towards battling monsters that threaten humanity across Europe.
After his beloved wife Marie is murdered by the forces of darkness, Gabriel sets out to recover pieces of the God Mask from the eponymous Lords of Shadow to resurrect her. While the main Lords of Shadow campaign would culminate in Gabriel facing off against Satan himself, the monster hunter's story would continue on in two DLC epilogues set after the main campaign that revealed Gabriel's undead fate teased in the base game's post-credits scene that saw Gabriel resurface in modern-day as a vampire bearing the name of Dracula.
When an ancient evil entity known as the Forgotten One was poised to break free from the vampire Carmilla's castle to conquer humanity, Gabriel ventured inside the castle only to learn he needed to transcend from his mortal form to access a magical portal and confront his enemy.
This led to Gabriel consuming the blood of Carmilla's daughter Laura, effectively transforming Gabriel into a vampire. The second DLC epilogue had Gabriel successful in destroying the Forgotten One but left him corrupted by the monster's corrosive influence as he destroyed his trusty Combat Cross and embraced his dark side.
While 's Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 would follow Gabriel into the 21st century and pit him against the last of his lineage , it was the game Castlevania: Lords of Shadow - Mirror of Fate that revealed what became of the rest of the Belmonts in this rebooted timeline.
Alucard's lifelong destiny had been to destroy his father and, with the two men now together and having vanquished the ultimate evil in Satan and Zobek, their deaths would put an end to an age of monsters. Lords of Shadow 2 also saw the death of the final human Belmont, Gabriel and Trevor's distant descendant Victor Belmont , meaning that Dracula and Alucard destroying themselves would effectively end the Belmont line as well.
While Lords of Shadow 2 remains a divisive entry in the Castlevania franchise, the Lords of Shadow timeline did introduce the Konami property to a new generation of gamers and pushed the Castlevania mythos into new and exciting directions the main timeline never could, as it was always held back by its own extensive history. While not explicitly stated outright, Lords of Shadow 2 presents a definitive end to Dracula and Alucard, ending this complicated father-and-son dynamic on a decidedly tragic note that perfectly falls in line with the tone of Gabriel Belmont's life and times as the monster hunter eventually become the biggest monster of them all.
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