Snafu the Great
Long before Simon, Trevor and Richter came along, their ancestor, Leon Belmont had his first run-in with the forces of darkness, and thus, set their family's destiny into motion as the premier vampire killers.
(From Mr. P's Castlevania Realm)
Leon Belmont was a church knight in the eleventh century during the Gregorian Reforms and the concurrent Christian Crusades. He was a courageous young man who lived without fear, and his combat abilities were unmatched. He joined together with Mathias Cronqvist, a genius tactician and his trusted friend, to form an unbeatable company that would fight in the name of God. When informed, mysteriously, by a bedridden Mathias, whose wife had recently died, that Leon's betrothed, Sara Trantoul, had been kidnapped by the vampire Walter Bernhard and taken to a castle within the Forest of Eternal Darkness, Leon renounced his title as baron of the knights, thereby throwing away his fame and security in order to avoid disobeying the church's orders to not against fight monsters. In his journey, he met Rinaldo Gandolfi and received a Whip of Alchemy. After Walter vampirized Sara, Leon used this new weapon, at her hopeless request, to transform it into the Vampire Killer.
Leon eventually destroyed the now-vulernable Walter only to find that Mathias was behind the whole ordeal, having used all parties involved in a genius plot; that is, Walter would die through Leon's vengeful actions, his vampire soul would be extracted, and Death would channel it into the dying Mathias using the Crimson Stone, thus granting him new life and crowning him Lord of the Vampires. Leon resisted the disappointed Mathias' plea to join together in this unholy afterlife, where they would curse God and bear their vengeance, and would thereafter never again see his friend. However, in removing Death as a threat, he told the dark angel to deliver to his new master a message: "From this point forward," he said, "the Belmont Clan would hunt the night!"
As the earliest noted Belmont, Leon gave us a dose of just how powerful this family would become. Leon, in part, created the Vampire Killer whip using the Whip of Alchemy received from Rinaldo--it was truly a divine killing machine born of Leon's hatred combined with the generous soul and will of Sara. It was also during his quest where he located five weapon types that had been dropped by previous hunters who had failed in Walter's game; he mastered in their use by collecting seven orbs that allowed him to temper them with mystic power, thus creating four of the basic family weapons and the exclusive crystal. It was these weapons that were passed on into the family for centuries, eventually to be used in the family's never-ending war against Mathias, who renamed himself Vlad Tepes Dracula.
(From Mr. P's Castlevania Realm)
Leon Belmont was a church knight in the eleventh century during the Gregorian Reforms and the concurrent Christian Crusades. He was a courageous young man who lived without fear, and his combat abilities were unmatched. He joined together with Mathias Cronqvist, a genius tactician and his trusted friend, to form an unbeatable company that would fight in the name of God. When informed, mysteriously, by a bedridden Mathias, whose wife had recently died, that Leon's betrothed, Sara Trantoul, had been kidnapped by the vampire Walter Bernhard and taken to a castle within the Forest of Eternal Darkness, Leon renounced his title as baron of the knights, thereby throwing away his fame and security in order to avoid disobeying the church's orders to not against fight monsters. In his journey, he met Rinaldo Gandolfi and received a Whip of Alchemy. After Walter vampirized Sara, Leon used this new weapon, at her hopeless request, to transform it into the Vampire Killer.
Leon eventually destroyed the now-vulernable Walter only to find that Mathias was behind the whole ordeal, having used all parties involved in a genius plot; that is, Walter would die through Leon's vengeful actions, his vampire soul would be extracted, and Death would channel it into the dying Mathias using the Crimson Stone, thus granting him new life and crowning him Lord of the Vampires. Leon resisted the disappointed Mathias' plea to join together in this unholy afterlife, where they would curse God and bear their vengeance, and would thereafter never again see his friend. However, in removing Death as a threat, he told the dark angel to deliver to his new master a message: "From this point forward," he said, "the Belmont Clan would hunt the night!"
As the earliest noted Belmont, Leon gave us a dose of just how powerful this family would become. Leon, in part, created the Vampire Killer whip using the Whip of Alchemy received from Rinaldo--it was truly a divine killing machine born of Leon's hatred combined with the generous soul and will of Sara. It was also during his quest where he located five weapon types that had been dropped by previous hunters who had failed in Walter's game; he mastered in their use by collecting seven orbs that allowed him to temper them with mystic power, thus creating four of the basic family weapons and the exclusive crystal. It was these weapons that were passed on into the family for centuries, eventually to be used in the family's never-ending war against Mathias, who renamed himself Vlad Tepes Dracula.