Castlevanima LoRds Of Shadow 

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sThe Story of Game:

 

Prologue: Castle Siege

"What a timely coincidence. I am dying for a little drop of blood!"

—Dracula before confronting the Brotherhood's soldiers

 

Taking place after the events ofMirror of Fate, the game begins with Dracula sitting in his throne room, drinking blood from a chalice that he is holding. After a few moments of sitting in silence, a sudden noise echoes through the corridor. Upon hearing said noise, Dracula looks up and witnesses the large door to the chamber being breached from the other side. After taking a brief sip of the remaining blood in the chalice, he stands up and slowly walks down from his throne (throwing away his chalice since it's now empty), to face the oncoming threat: the Brotherhood of Light.

Dracula soon discovers that the Brotherhood is storming his castle with legions of soldiers as well as a colossal mechanical titan. After defeating several soldiers inside the throne room, Dracula confronts Roland de Ronceval,‎ a Golden Paladin, outside on a balcony. He slowly makes his way up the Titan while simultaneously battling various Brotherhood soldiers as well as the Golden Paladin along the way. After tricking the Paladin into blasting off various locks that hold different parts of the Titan in place, he finally reaches the Titans power source: a large blue crystal. Dracula then proceeds to vomit a large amount of acidic blood onto the crystal, turning it red and finally destroying the titan. With the destruction of the titan, it slowly begins to break apart, which causes major destruction in the area as well as killing many of the Brotherhood soldiers in the process.

In the aftermath of the battle, and when the dust finally dies down, the vampire lord climbs out of the debris made from the remains of the Titan and proceeds to battle the Golden Paladin once more. Defeated, the Paladin brandishes a large cross and begins praying. Dracula explains that God's power cannot destroy him, as he is God's chosen one. Dracula then touches the cross, much to the Paladin's shock, and begins to pray alongside the Paladin, causing a massive eruption of light that smites the Paladin and all of the remaining Brotherhood soldiers, leaving Dracula alone and unharmed. After all of this, Alucard is seen standing behind Dracula. 

Dracula's Return

 

"Let's get done with it."

—Dracula accepting Zobek's mission

After centuries of sleep and nothingness, Dracula wakes, weakened. The Prince of Darkness burns to reclaim his ancient powers, and desires to get rid of his immortality. Zobek, worried by Satan's imminent return, asks his old friend to help him stop the Devil, with the offer of ending Gabriel's immortality through the use of his reforged Vampire Killer in exchange.

 

Dracula decides to exit the cathedral, and walks in the streets of Castlevania City. A young Trevor appears nearby and Dracula decides to follow him. He encounters a monster a few streets after following the young boy. As he is still weakened, Dracula is easily defeated by his opponent. However, before the monster can finish Dracula, amysterious figure appears and kills the creature before Dracula passes out.

He wakes in a dark room, and finds a human family watching him. Dying for a drop of blood, Dracula brutally murders the family, regaining his young appearance in the process. Zobek approaches him, and explains to Dracula what he must do to stop Satan and his Acolytes. Dracula must regain his powers, as he is the only one that can defeat Satan. The Prince of Darkness then uses a portal to teleport to the Science District, in order to find Satan's first acolyte. 

The First Acolyte

"Stay with us, my Prince... don't go..."

—The Castle, asking Dracula to stay

Upon arrival, Dracula uses his blood power to get back his outfit. He then infiltrates the Bioquimek Corporation. Upon entry and making his way into the building, the young Trevor appears to him and tells him to follow if he wishes to retrieve his sword. Following the boy, the environment changes around Dracula into that of his Castle. Exploring the castle, Dracula finds the Void Sword. However, the living blood of the castle speaks to Dracula and tells him that they do not want him to leave and begins to crumble the floors beneath him to prevent him reaching the Sword.

 

Dracula manages to evade them and reaches the Sword. The blood creates the Stone Golem and attacks Dracula. Defeating the Golem, Dracula acquires the Primordial Void Gem and uses its ice powers to proceed. He finds a Vampire Knight assaulting Trevor, whom he quickly stops. The blood takes possession of the Knight and challenges Dracula. Upon defeating the creatures, Trevor gives Dracula the White Wolf Medallion, allowing him to teleport back to the real world by summoning a white wolf to guide him.

Once in the real world Dracula encounters a group of scientists led by Raisa Volkova who are making a demonic virus that mutates people into monsters, who also turns out to be the Acolyte and the two do battle. Using the Void Sword Dracula defeats her and brings her unconscious body back to Zobek to be interrogated. 

City of the Damned

"...The Dragon returns!"

—Chupacabras, giving Dracula the Talisman of the Dragon

 

Once back at Zobek's tower Dracula is confronted by Trevor again, he informs him that the Gorgon sisters Euryale, Stheno, and Medusa have his Chaos Claws. Once in the past again, Dracula makes his way through the castle's dungeons, and on the advice of Euryale and Stheno, frees a Chupacabra that has been imprisoned to help him locate Medusa who holds the claws.

Once free, the Chupacabra opens the way to Medusa's cell and reopens his store to provide his lord with whatever he needs for his journey. Once in the heart of Medusa's cell, Dracula retrieves the claws and encounters Medusa alongside her sisters. Sadly, Medusa has been corrupted by the castle and corrupts her sisters as well. The three merge into the Gorgon forcing their former master to fight them.

Once Dracula kills the three sisters, he returns to the present with a gift from the Chupacabra, the Talisman of the Dragon. Zobek has had no luck interrogating Raisa, nor can he read her mind with nothing but chaos inside it. Instead, Dracula proposes that they go back to the Corporation to retrieve a antidote to the disease that affects her so that they may return her to her human form. 

Downtown

"This must be a dream..."

—Dracula, about everything happening in the castle

While Zobek agrees to the plan, transporting Gabriel directly back to the facility is too much of a risk for him, instead Gabriel must cross the city on foot. Sadly, Raisa has already released the plague upon the city transforming many of it's inhabitants into cannibalistic monsters forcing Dracula to deal not only with them but with the riot police sent to deal with them as well.

Once inside Bioquimek, Dracula makes his way through its underground complex and arrives at a private train station. Stowing away on the train, he faces off against a powerful demon that attempts to kill Dracula by derailing the train. It, however, only succeeds in killing itself and everyone else on the train but Dracula. With the train destroyed, Dracula runs into Zobek's "Bodyguard" who explains that he's been sent to help.

 

Although the Bodyguard's help proves invaluable after a short time, he returns to Zobek. Gabriel meets up with Trevor again who begs for Dracula's help in saving his mother Marie. Taking Trevor's hand Gabriel finds himself in the past again, where he soon encounters Carmilla and therefore concludes he's in a dream. Accepting her offer of Blood, Dracula soon realizes that it was a trap.

Carmilla explains that as his health weakens she will grow in strength until she has taken control of Dracula's body. Dracula soon runs into Marie who confirms that she is real and not a dream. However, the Vampire lord's joy is soon turned to anger against Marie's defending of God. Nonetheless, she promises her husband that his suffering will soon be over, as the Castle and it's inhabitants need Dracula and his power to stay alive: if he is allowed to die, it will cease to exist.

To this end, she has been sent to help. All that she needs to do is allow Dracula to drink her blood and he will stand a fighting chance against Carmilla. After a game of cat and mouse against the former vampire lord, Dracula enters into a brutal fight against her, regaining his mist form midway through the battle, and uses it to defeat Carmilla. With the "Dream" over, Dracula returns to the present.

 

Dracula returns to Raisa and injects her with the antidote. Instead of her transforming back into her human form however she turns into her true Demon form as the daughter of Satan. While Zobek does his best to hide their presence Gabriel fights and kills Raisa and "falls" into the past again. There he encounters Trevor playing with figurines of various people he knows and asks his father to retrieve the pieces of theMirror of Fate for him. 

Finding the Mirror

 

Exploring the castle, Dracula discovers that it has been taken over by the Brotherhood of Light.

Dracula eventually discovers that Agreus, Pan's brother seeking revenge for his death, has the mirror fragment that he's looking for. Dracula is able to sneak past the Old Godand get the fragment from Agreus's bird. Agreus finally confronts him, and the two are forced to fight, ending with a fall that kills the old god.

 

Dracula then looks for the Toy Maker who holds a second piece of the mirror. After watching a play recounting the sad tale of the Toy Maker, Dracula takes the Toy Maker's heart from one of his puppets and reunites it with its host, awakening him in the process. Although he has one of the Mirror Fragments, the Toy Maker is soon turned against the Dark Lord by the castle and fights him with his Toy Knight, Toy Dragon and Toy Puppet, all of which Dracula defeats. The defeated Toy Maker pukes up the blood and regains his memories, now recognizing Dracula he hands over the Mirror and is left to weep by the dark lord. 

The Protector of Mankind and the Inner Demon

"The most powerful of demons are all out to kill this man. He must be important."

—Dracula about the hooded man, Victor

Returning to Trevor, Dracula learns that there is only one more piece of the Mirror, though the one who holds it isn't in the castle: Dracula is then sent back to the present to get it. Arriving in Zobek's compound, Dracula is informed that the Acolytes already suspect him in the death of Raisa. Zobek knows that someone is searching for him in the Church and Dracula goes to confront him, hoping for a lead back to the acolytes. On his way back to the Church, Dracula encounters a unknown man whom he observes that the most powerful of the demons are all out to kill. After a chase, the mysterious man flees, and Dracula has to defeat a huge demon in the museum's courtyard.

 

Fighting him at the church, Dracula soon realizes that he wields much of the same equipment (including a Combat Cross, the Seraph Shoulders, a Dark Crystal, someSilver Daggers, and the Cyclone Boots) as he himself did before he was Dracula. After a brutal fight, the two fall into a underground city. When Dracula prepares to end the man's life, he realizes people are present in the underground. The man claims to beVictor Belmont, current head of the Brotherhood of Light, a protector of Humanity, and the last of the Belmont line.

The underground city is acting as a refugee camp from the virus and chaos above, but Victor knows they won't be able to hide for much longer. To this end, Dracula gives Victor the antidote to the virus and in exchange Victor offers to help flush out the Acolytes. On their way out of the church, they run into Zobek's Bodyguard again and the three of them battle a group of demons. With that out of the way, Victor uses a spell to set a trap for the Acolytes with himself as bait. The Acolyte possesses a nearby statue and uses it to kill Victor. Dracula takes the last piece of the Mirror of Fate from Victor's body.

 

He is returned to Trevor and together they complete the Mirror. The Castle, enraged by the completed Mirror, possesses Trevor and uses him to summon the dark manifestation of Dracula's soul.

During the fight, Dracula regains his Demonic Wings and they prove vital in defeating his doppelganger. With the twisted copy dead, Trevor is freed from the creature and reunited with his mother. Trevor's last words to his father before he returns to the present is a request that he doesn't let the Acolyte escape. 

The Second Acolyte

"I underestimated you, accept my apology. It won't happen again."

—Nergal, before confronting Dracula

 

Zobek traces the Acolyte to the nearby building where Victor was killed, according to Zobek the company that owns it is the largest manufacturer of weapons in the world and holds great influence over politics and economics. Once inside the building Dracula faces off against the second acolyte, Nergal Meslamstea. Realizing he is too strong in a head-to-head fight Dracula instead lures the Acolyte into the past.

Realizing he is now to weak to fight Dracula directly, the Acolyte possesses a trio of nearby statues to do his bidding. The statues prove to be no match for Dracula whom after defeating each of them, crushes the second Acolyte's head under his foot. With the Acolyte dead, Trevor gives his father the repaired Mirror and recommends he takes a second look at it.

Discouraged from the last time, Trevor instead asks that when the time comes Dracula chooses his family. Dracula answers he already made his choice. Back in the present, Zobek congratulates Dracula on his defeat of the second Acolyte, but there is still one left, one of several religious leaders who have locked themselves inside a monastery for weeks and also he is the most powerful of them all.

Revelations

"When I put my hand on your shoulder, Father."

—Alucard, putting Dracula to sleep, 500 years ago

 

Together with the bodyguard, the two make their way to the monastery and find the acolyte, but at the last moment the Bodyguard disables Dracula and sends him back to the past. There, Dracula is met by his family again who informs him that the way out of the castle, the Throne room just beyond the next gate, is before him.

Dracula finds his diary and regains his lost memories of the Brotherhood's final assault on his palace. After the death of the Paladin, Dracula was confronted by his son,Alucard. The younger vampire acknowledges that neither of them can kill the other. To this end, Alucard believes that only his father, Gabriel Belmont, can destroy the Vampire Dracula, and by extension all evil on Earth.

 

Dracula points out that even if he were to die, the likes of Satan and Zobek would only take his place. To this end, Alucard reveals his sword: the Crissaegrim, forged from the broken fragment of the Vampire Killer that Gabriel drove into Carmilla's heart many years ago.

If Dracula's heart is pierced by the sword, he will fall into a deep sleep, and Zobek and Satan will think him dead. As a consequence, Satan's acolytes will prepare his return, and Zobek will panic, search for Dracula, use him against Satan, buying his favor with the one weapon that can grant him eternal peace: the Vampire Killer.

Only on the brink of Satan's return will Alucard remove the sword and revive his father but the long sleep will make his memory fragmented and Zobek will know nothing of their plan. Once Satan is trapped on Earth, father and son will team up to destroy Zobek, Satan, and finally Dracula himself with the reforged Vampire Killer. Dracula reluctantly agrees to the plan and stabs the sword into his heart with his son's assistance.

Back into the present, the Bodyguard reveals himself to be Alucard. The final Acolyte finishes the ritual and disappears. Zobek takes his place, now aware of their plot. He takes on his true form, Death, and battles Dracula alone at the latter's insistence. After a grueling fight with the Necromancer Lord, Zobek dies laughing at the end of Dracula's blade.

Finale

"Who knows what fate has in store."

—Dracula's final line

 

Dracula proposes he and Alucard split up, so that they can find Satan and his Acolyte faster. They reunite at the church where Dracula first awoke, where once summoned, Satan kills his acolyte for his incompetence. Aware of the fact that he can't buy the vampire's loyalty, Satan instead summons a gigantic Leviathan to help him fight the vampires and destroy the Earth. The two Vampires are able to destroy the beast.

However as its corpse falls back to Earth, Satan possesses Alucard, forcing Dracula to once again fight his son and greatest nemesis at the same time on the corpse of Satan's mount. After a climatic battle, the two crash into the street, and when Satan realizes that Dracula intends to kill him and his son together, he flees from Alucard's body. Dracula takes his chance to kill him with the Vampire Killer, and impales the Devil.

 

With Satan gone forever, Dracula revives his son. The sun begins to rise, Dracula states that it's almost time to go. Shattering the Mirror of Fate after looking into it one final time, Dracula decides that he will make his own fate and leaves into the cathedral, with the final part of the plot he and Alucard hatched so long ago going unfulfilled: his true death.