KMC Forums - Count Vlad Tepes Dracula (Castlevania)

The ruler of Castlevania and the the thorn in the Belmont clan's side since the days of Nintendo, Drac is indeed an icon and deserving of this respect thread.

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Count Dracula, circa Symphony of the Night.

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Mathias Cronqvist, before he became Dracula.

Dracula's Bio (from what I managed to come up with through research)

Full Name: Vlad Tepes Dracula (in Symphony of the Night, his name is Dracula Vlad Tepes)
Original Name: Mathias Cronqvist
Date of Birth: Unknown. Sometime between 1060 and 1070 (Lament of Innocence takes place in 1094)
Height: Unknown, but he is way taller than the Belmonts chasing him, probably at 8-9 feet tall.
Weight: Unknown
Family: as Mathias Cronqvist - Elizabetha Cronqvist, wife (deceased); as Dracula - Dr. Lisa Farenheits, wife (deceased); Adrian Farenheights Tepes (Alucard), son; Elizabeth Bartley, niece
Dislikes: The Belmont Clan
Theme Music: You Goddamned Bathead!

Originally named Mathias Cronqvist, it was during this time when he was best of friends with a man known as Leon Belmont. (This name may be a reference to Matthias Corvinus of Hungary a man known to have had ties with the real, historical Vlad Dracula.) Together, the two formed an undefeatable company, that fought in the name of God. Mathias served as the tactical genius, while Leon was a warrior without peer. However, shortly after losing his wife, Elisabetha Cronqvist, Mathias would become bedridden and would reveal to Leon that his own betrothed, Sara Trantoul, had been kidnapped by the vampire, Walter Bernhard, and taken to a castle within the Forest of Eternal Night.

It was a ploy. Mathias had come up with a brilliant plan. Blaming God for taking his wife away from him, he turned to evil and was merely using Leon to kill Walter so he could steal the vampire's soul with the use of the Crimson Stone. After Leon defeated Walter, Mathias disappears and then becomes Count Dracula.

At the end of the game, it is revealed that Mathias was in possession of the Crimson Stone, an alchemical artifact that passes the spiritual essence of any slain vampire into whomever wields it. The power of the stone was what transformed Mathias into a vampire (not the traditional blood-gift). Possessing the stone over the course of centuries is what transformed Dracula into the world's strongest vampire and presumably what assures that he is resurrected whenever he is slain. (This strange loop suggests that whenever Dracula is killed, as wielder of the Crimson Stone, his power is transferred directly back to him every time.)

However, although his dark designs went down exactly as he had planned, Mathias had not counted on the grief and rage of his former best friend. At that moment, Leon swore an oath that he, his children, and all future generations of the Belmont family would "hunt the night" and protect humanity from supernatural evil. The whip that Leon used to destroy Walter, the Vampire Killer, which was created from a power released upon the death of Leon's beloved Sara, would eventually be passed down through generations of Belmonts to become legendary in its own right.

Through various actions, Dracula had gained immortality. Not only would he live forever, if his physical body was destroyed his spirit would live on and resurrect in physical form periodically as long as human wickedness existed to fuel him (the general timetable for his resurrection is every 100 years, but premature resurrections are not uncommon). Not much is known about what Dracula did during the time following the events of Castlevania: Lament of Innocence. It is known that he would have a relationship with a human woman by the name of Dr. Lisa Farenheits. The time frame of this union is still unknown. This woman looked exactly like his deceased wife, Elisabetha. The union would bear Dracula a son, who was named Adrian Farenheights Tepes, but would be later known as Alucard.

Lisa was later taken from her home and executed as her expertise in medicine was mistaken as "witchcraft". This heinous act enraged Dracula beyond belief. Hurt deeply, he vowed to make humanity pay once he mastered the use of the unlimited power he now had.

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