The Bloody Vampire Family

Background Information

Most of the Castlevania video game franchise is about a war between the Belmont family of vampire hunters and Dracula.

Almost every 100 years, Dracula is resurrected and the Belmonts must defeat him before he takes over the world.

Though most games in the series involve the Belmonts or their descendants, some protagonists, such as Soma Cruz and Shanoa are completely unrelated.

The series is loosely based on Bram Stoker's novel Dracula. The novel is included in the official timeline of the series, with Castlevania Bloodlines taking place shortly afterwards.

The connection even goes so far as to claim that Quincy Moris, a character from the novel, is in fact a Belmont descendant.

One of the most iconic weapons of the series is the Vampire Killer Whip. It is described as a legendary weapon used by the Belmonts in the battle against Dracula although it is sometimes passed through other families as well. Other names and terms used for it are the "Mystic Whip," and the "Whip of Alchemy."

The most accurate story of its origin is shown in Castlevania: Lament of Innocence, where it is created by Rinaldo Gandolfi for Leon Belmont, a Crusader, through the use of alchemy.

This whip is later fused with the soul of Sara Trantoul to create the Vampire Killer, which would be present, in one form or another, in almost every Castlevania game.

The whip helps some of the Belmonts harness their latent superhuman abilities.

Only those possessing the "Belmont Warlord Chromosomes" are able to use the whip's full potential without paying a price, for the whip simply drains the life of users who are not of the Belmont lineage. This was learned by John Moris, for after his battle with Dracula, he noticed that his injuries never healed. Unable to fully utilize the Vampire Killer Whip's powers without harming his own life, he soon succumbed and died.

However, his son, Jonathan Moris, was able to receive the whip's full power for a short time through a ritual that was performed by the Lecarde Sisters. The ritual required Jonathan to defeat the whip's memory of the previous owner, which was an entity bearing the likeness of Richter Belmont.

After Jonathan defeated Dracula, the whip was soon returned to the Belmont family. Julius Belmont then confronted and finally defeated Dracula in 1999.

(The series has sold so many copies and released at least one game on almost every console, truly epic)

The newest games in the series, the Lords of Shadow trilogy, has started a separate continuity.

Standing in the Battledome

The verse is a quite strong due to loads of broken abilities such as time stop, petrification, soul manipulation, curses, etc. However, they lack decent speed feats.

This has changed recently, and with review of Chaos and what it has done Castlevania has made more than a few leaps in power. Namely that Dracula even as a disembodied spirit is able to create dimensions big enough to be solar systems and in some cases they contain supermassive black holes and dozens of stars, and that Chaos seems to be able to create multiverses and throw around handfuls of galaxies at faster than light speeds. As well as the likes of the Time Reaper which is a multiversal threat (and who was going to destroy the time-line in Castlevania: Judgement), and Aeon who can create alternate universes. Who are both beneath Galamoth who gets routinely manhandled by Dracula.

Then there's God who supposedly created the universe, and acts as the counterpart for the Dark Lord. The two being treated as being in the same league, and as counterbalancing opposites.

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