Something's been bothering me for a while now: Elisabetha has only been mentioned in Lament of Innocence, right? Then Lisa came along and Dracula's pretty much forgotten about his first wife. Is this truly the case? And if it is, then is it possible that he's forgotten about his past as Matthias Cronqvist?
There's 400 years between LoI and CV3, dude. Drac got over his loss and fell in love again after a few centuries.
Given the reincarnation angle introduced in the Sorrow games, it's quite possible that Lisa was the reincarnation of Elisabetha.
If Sara is the Vampire Killer, then how come she's not acknowledged by the recent Belmonts or the others, or the franchise itself? It seems rather odd that she's just forgotten like that, considering she sacrificed herself to create the weapon the Belmonts would be using to hunt the night? So yeah, why is she such a wasted character?
It's entirely possible that Leon didn't want to tell anyone, even his own vampire-killing children, because "Hey your Mom died and now she's a whip and I need you to slap her mercilessly against Dracula's bum" is probably a weird conversation to have.
Or the clan just, kinda, forgot a lot of it's history over the course of a thousand years. It's not that hard for oral tradition to get changed or lost. Since the art of fighting evil doesn't look to have advanced much between Lament of Innocent up through Order of Ecclesia, it's safe to assume not much got written down or passed on effectively. The Belmont clan is also a mess to keep track of so it may have just been passed on to a branch family at some point or maybe a Belmont died before he could pass on the secrets to the next one. There's a lot of explanations.
Similarly, why doesn't Mathias as Dracula, just destroy the Vampire Killer whip? There's no given explanation that he can't. In fact if you think about it... shouldn't Dracula consider Sara as his greatest threat or sworn enemy. Sara as the Vampire Killer whip can allow anyone to use her, by either proving your worthy, or by being inherited. Proof you don't need the Belmonts to wield her.
Occam's Razor says "magic whip" plus "power of love" plus "kills vampires" equals "can't be destroyed by a vampire/the guy who betrayed me." We also don't know how alchemy works so maybe the base spell on it makes it indestructable entirely.
To add onto the above, if one keeps in mind the reasoning for Sara choosing to sacrifice herself to complete the Whip of Alchemy in the first place, as well as Leon noting the abundance of rage and destruction that the whip has against vampires? The odds that Sara harbored a serious dislike for vampires in general are far too likely to discount, whether it was a dislike she was born with, or a dislike that she quickly developed as a result of the horrific situation that had been thrust upon her. Considering that, it makes perfect sense that the Vampire Killer whip as is would be impossible to destroy for even Dracula, let alone ordinary vampires. Moreover, as a consequence of Sara's dislike against vampires, its possible - if a little stretchy, considering that as noted above, we don't know how alchemy works - that vampires who so much as physically touch the whip may suffer serious consequences as a result.
Given everything Mathias did in order to become Dracula, how the Hell did he think Leon would even consider joining him?
