1748 A.D. - CASTLEVANIA : HARMONY OF DISSONANCE ( GBA )

Lydie Erlanger, a Transylvanian youth, has been kidnapped and brought into the mysterious castle in the fog. Her friend, Juste Belmont (possibly the grandson of Simon) and Maxim Kishine, must enter the once again and slay the forces within. Once inside, Maxim begins to act funny - in his jealousy, could he be conspiring against the Belmonts? It is discovered that Maxim tried to recover the body parts of Dracula burned by Simon in order to prove his worth as a Vampire Hunter, and ended up being possessed by Dracula, and kidnapped Lydie so he could resurrect once again. Naturally, Juste puts a stop to all of these plans, and the world becomes safe once more.

1788 A.D. - DRACULA X : THE CIRCLE OF BLOOD ( PCE ) *

Count Dracula is resurrected prematurely by the dark priest, Shaft. The great-grandson of Christopher, Richter Belmont, finds his loved ones being kidnapped by the Count in a fiendish plot of vengeance against the Belmont Clan for the acts of his ancestors at age 19. Dracula had kidnapped his beloved Annette, her sister Maria, a village Nun named Tera, and the village doctor's daughter named Iris. Richter, and with the added help of Maria, follows in the footsteps of Trevor and Simon as he fights Dracula, emerging victorious.

When Shaft resurrects Count Dracula a short time after his last defeat, the King of Vampires resurfaces, repeating his kidnapping modus operandi. Richter again defeats him and rescues both Maria and Annet.

1792 A.D. - CASTLEVANIA : SYMPHONY OF THE NIGHT ( PSX/SATURN )

Another hundred years having passed since his last, the evil of Dracula and CastleVania restore themselves once again for the third centennial time in 1791. When Richter mysteriously disappears four years after his last confrontation with Dracula, Alucard returns from his self-imposed slumber in 1792 after three centuries. Fearing another return of his father to be behind it, Alucard challenges the evil of Dracula, embarking on a long quest through the Count’s topsy-turvy castle that concludes with another slaying of the vampire. It is a quest that would also forces him to confront Richter himself, who became possessed by the dark priest Shaft’s power. Richter himself and an older Maria Renard aid Alucard on his journeys.

1830 A.D. - CASTLEVANIA : CIRCLE OF THE MOON ( GBA )

At the site of an old Austrian castle, a dark priestess named Camilla successfully resurrects her dark master, Count Dracula. Using the life power of the captured elder vampire hunter Morris Baldwin, Morris' two young disciples, friends/rivals Hugh Baldwin and Nathan Graves, had not only to save him but stop yet another coming of Dracula.

1844 A.D. - CASTLEVANIA : LEGACY OF DARKNESS ( N64 )

Count Vlad Dracula, with the help of the Grim Reaper himself and his minions, is resurrected by the sacrifice of the blood of an innocent girl. After destroying local villages, he begins to kidnap children, looking for a suitable body to host his undead soul. It is then when man-beast Cornell ("Blue Crescent Moon") steps in and attempts to stop this plan and save his adopted sister, Ada. Along the way, in a Villa he passed through, Cornell rescued a young boy named Henry Oldrey. Eight years later, in early 1852, Henry, now a gun-wielding knight, returned to go on a quest to rescue six children Dracula's minions sought to use toward their dark master's resurrection before CastleVania returned from whence it came.

After Cornell's quest in 1844, a priest of the Eastern Orthodox Church gave this prophecy: "One clear night after 7 days of thunder and rain, a blood moon will shine down on a foggy lake and children of darkness will gather in the old castle. An infant with blue eyes and blue hair will be born on this night to a young couple living in a small village in the forest. On this child's eighth birthday, the soul of the true devil will wake from a deep sleep and play a destructive melody."

Cornell and Ada had gone to the forest to start a new life together. Could the infant of the prophecy have been their son? It seems a strong possibility. Cornell and Ada played key roles in Dracula's plan for rebirth, so for Dracula to be reborn into the body of their son would seem to fit the puzzle.

1852 A.D. - CASTLEVANIA [ 64 ] ( N64 )

"He changes into a bat, into a wolf and fog, He
adores the night, despises the day, and curses God,
He requires the blood of young women to keep his eternal life,
It is the ressurection of Dracula, the castle's owner
and the demonic deity."

"He has risen."

- From the Wallachian Journal of Entries, 1849

At age 25, Belmont Clan descendant Reinhardt Schneider receives a warning from his father, Michael Gelhart, "Some day, you may have no choice except to fight." After Reihnhardt's father passes away, Reihnhardt accepts his destiny to be a vampire hunter, and trains daily in the mountains of his homeland of Walkia Village, Romania. As the tenth year of his training in the mountains approaches the end, incidents of monsters attacking children lost in the woods increase. Reihnhardt senses the increased activity in a sign of the return of the dark lord and emerges from the mountain. He seeks out Priest Samuel, the only one that remembers the past, to undo the seal on the symbol of the Vampire Killer, the holy whip, heirloom of the Belmont Clan. His success in doing so is just in time for an unexpected resurrection of Count Dracula and CastleVania.

Meanwhile, tragedy strikes again in a young girl's life when Dracula's demonic forces come toravage their village. Her foster mother is killed while diving to save her. Her grief and terror unlock a greater power within Carrie, a power to create an orb, which she unleashes at the demon that bears down upon her. The orb strikes the beast the writhes in agony as it is banished back to the pit. She vows to stop the terror and heads to the castle.a mystically-empowered 12 year-old orphan whose parents were condemned and burned by villagers frightened by anything they could not understand, Carrie Fernandez, descendant of Sypha Belnades and a Spanish family traveling through Europe, joins Reinhardt's effort to challenge the Prince of Darkness and his Demon Castle.

In the end, it all made sense: a young boy born in the forest. Dracula's plan eight years before, by using the wolf power that had been extracted from Cornell, was to be resurrected in a new body. Death went to the village and gathered up the seven children, in order to find the "chosen one" who would now be eight years old. When Reinhardt and Carrie first meet Malus, he seems like an innocent child lost in the castle. They later realize that evil dwells in the soul of the young boy. Reinhardt discovered that Malus is, in fact, Dracula reborn, and that it was he who must be confronted and slain.

1891 - 1896 A.D.

Count Vlad Dracula and CastleVania are revived for the fourth centennial time. Now finding himself in the late nineteenth century, Dracula takes on an aristocratic status, donning the title "Count Dracula of Bistritz." In addition, he takes on a new, more intuitive and subtle agenda in Europe, beginning by looking into the purchase of land in England’s Carfax Abbey property. It is in the interim of this, however, that he marshals a new army - not one of undead skeletons, zombies, and lizardmen, but a sizable faction of gypsies who pledge their loyalty to the Count.

1897 A.D. - DRACULA ( The Bram Stoker novel )

Lawyer Jonathan Harker becomes the guest of Count Dracula in his bid to turn all of Europe to vampirism. After nearly a year of struggle, Harker, Quincey P. Morris (the latest Belmont Clan descendant), and others manage to finally track down and slay Dracula. Quincey Morris stabs Dracula in the heart with his bowie knife before falling from the wounds he suffered from Dracula’s army of gypsies. His son, two year-old John Morris (with friend, Eric Lecarde), watch the grim battle unfold at the decrepit Castle Dracula from the shadows.

1917 A.D. - CASTLEVANIA : BLOODLINES ( GENESIS )

As the Great War (WWI) continues to play out, John Morris and Eric Lecarde accept the challenge of stopping Countess Elizabeth Bartley’s attempt to resurrect her deceased uncle, Dracula. Chasing her across Europe, they find and slay her at a newly erected castle in England, though not before she succeeds in resurrecting her uncle, forcing what would be the final confrontation with the undead Count.

1997 A.D.

On the eve of the new millennium, a new resurrection of Count Vlad Dracula and CastleVania - as well as the need for the latest descendant(s) of the Belmont Clan to step from the shadows once more - is imminent, his last post-Centennial Resurrection death having occurred in 1897. Or has Dracula already resurrected? Click here for one fictional possibility.