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By the time Belmont sees the castle and his home again, Alucard will have built up a community

Disclaimer: Im ignoring the games, and going off how the story seemed to work.

As much as Alucard wants to be emo janitor for the locations, people are going to wonder what the explosions were, that were caused by the castle relocating.

As people investigate, they encounter Alucard, who tries to scare them off, but fails because he’s unwilling to kill anyone. They offer help, he’s not happy, but the crushing loneliness is getting to him. He warms up eventually, and becomes the opposite of his father: a vampire who protects humans (at least that location).

A small sort of university builds up. Alucard takes it as an opportunity to train Belmont-style hunters, but with a less indiscriminate code about what they hunt. This way, humanity doesnt have to “fear what it doesnt understand” and keep the human / vampire conflict to a minimum.

By the time Trevor and Sypha return, he’s a local legend for being a Belmont.

  • Confirmed in season 4, as Alucard lets the people of Danesti take refuge in the castle, and they settle down at the lands around at the end of the series.

The Belmonts were excommunicated from the Church because of their leadership.
In the series, it's shown that when Trevor rallies up the people of Gresit against the corrupt clergy and leads them in fighting the demons invading the city, he is a capable and charismatic leader as well as a formidable vampire hunter. This capacity for leadership was present in all the Belmont clan, going back to (if the games' canon is taken into account) the very first Belmont vampire hunter, Leon Belmont, who was a soldier in the Crusades (and who, even back then, was disgraced by the Church). This is the true reason the Church excommunicated the Belmonts: fear that they can inspire and lead in a way that challenges the Church's authority. After all, having a vampire hunter under their employ is of nothing but benefit to the Church, so it must take something they see as a MAJOR drawback for them to excommunicate such a powerful asset.
  • And not just leadership, but knowledge as well. The Church, especially at the time the series is set, has a long history of fearing anyone who claims knowledge beyond what the Church condones. In the Belmonts, you not only have charismatic leaders and monster hunters, but ones who know killing monsters is more complicated than praying to be delivered from evil. If something as simple as coating a pitchfork in salt can let a peasant kill a demon, how necessary are the clergy for protecting the people from monsters?

The Bishop in the Netflix series will become the Dark Priest Shaft.
There's a striking resemblance.
  • Honestly, I doubt Dracula - who was willing to accept the death of thousands of innocents - would make the man most responsible for his wife's death into one of his most loyal servants.
  • Severely Jossed.
  • Not entirely Jossed, as it turns out. He's not exactly Dark Priest Shaft, but he is indeed briefly brought back as a semi-sentient undead conducting a dark ritual before dying for good.

The Cyclops was sent by Dracula to guard Alucard
When Trevor is angry with Alucard because his traps almost killed them, Alucard retorts that the traps were all mechanical. However, the Cyclops is flesh and blood. He also added that he didn't intent to kill innocent people, which would probably extend to any monsters under his orders. Who else could have placed the Cyclops there? Dracula probably figured out that Alucard was sleeping there, but didn't want to kill him, so he placed the Cyclops there to both keep him safe from angry villagers and to turn Alucard to stone (nonlethally) if he tried to leave.

Contrary to that, Alucard sent the Cyclops to guard him so that no innocent people would die.
The Cyclops's stone victims are released if he dies, because he's actively feeding energy into keeping them stone. Presumably, if it wanted to, it could release them. Alucard chose the Cyclops because it would keep threats out, and when Alucard had to leave he could make it unfreeze its human victims. The Cyclops probably didn't intend to kill the statues that weren't Sypha, because it would lose its food source.

(Meta) If this series succeeds...
Then we could potentially see adaptations of the other games in the series!
  • Sweet floating vampire Jesus, I hope so! How cool would it be to see the Rondo of Blood/Symphony of the Night Duology done in this series' style? Actually, given the that it continues Alucard's arc started here, that might actually be the most logical next step!
    • The Speaker's prophecy about Alucard is supposedly erroneous, as he's only been asleep for a year, not a century, before he awakens to fight Alucard, but that is EXACTLY what happens in SotN.
  • Well, the creators have mentioned they wanted to do more adaptations, but of other franchises like Metroid instead. Not Castlevania, but still. Imagine if they decided to tackle the Battle of 1999 in animated form since the games probably couldn't do it justice.

Lisa's spirit will aid Alucard.
Most likely while in battle with Dracula, to show her vengeful husband just whose side she's on.
  • Jossed literally but Confirmed metaphorically, while not her actual ghost the memory's of Lisa while fighting Alucard in his room is what ultimately leads to his death

The nameless Bishop isn't done with.
We'll find out in a later season that he is actually an avatar of Death, or was under his control somehow, and everything he did was part of a plan to get Dracula back on track as the Prince of Darkness. His name may even be Zobek, as an easter egg from the more recent entries in the game series.
  • Jossed in the sense of him being an avatar of Death or Zobek, not jossed in the sense of him not quite being done with as of S2.
    • Jossed in the sense of being done with him in season 2. His remains are revived by Hector and made to bless the river, which makes him disintegrate.

Dracula's Magitek was divined from the future.
It is established that those who dabble in magic like the Speakers are cable of perceiving the future. This is made evident from the prophecy of the "Sleeping Soldier", a messiah figure that would save mankind from evil. It is revealed that this "Sleeping Soldier" was in fact Alucard. This clincher is that he was only sleeping beneath grist for a year and the prophecy was made centuries prier. This is explained that he used the prophecy divined by the Speakers as a cover, knowing fully well that the Speakers saw the future and essentially created a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy.

The 15th century was a Dark Age in Europe, with the wooden catapults being about as advanced as they got. Even if Dracula was able to use his advanced sorceries to make his castle fly or to make torches light themselves, he is clearly using advanced tech like light-bulbs as artificial lighting. Even better, the light bulb was not invented until the late 19th century. He is even keenly aware of practical, objective sciences far ahead of their time like medicine.

Because Dracula is so powerful that he was single-handedly able to literally unleash Hell upon the Earth, my guess would be simple divination would be an easy task for him. The reasons why vary, ranging from riding a way to curb his immortality-induced boredom or just make his un-life slightly more convenient, one cannot say.

  • Not strictly true: keep in mind, the 15th-16th centuries were the Renaissance and the beginning of the Scientific Revolution. Printing presses were being used by the 1470s, and cannons were used regularly in warfare since the 1420s. While handheld guns hadn't taken over arrows, pikes, and knights, they were still invented and being used by the 1450s. So yes, concepts like electricity, teleportation and chemistry were still centuries away from being fully understood, it doesn't mean that Europe was in a "Dark Age."
    • Season 2 treats his science as "lost knowledge" from long dead civilizations.

Season 2 will go into more detail of Dracula and Lisa's relationship.
  • Jossed. Very little is shown at the beginning of the season, and it still didn't reveal much.

Grant will be a Composite Character.
When Grant appears in the series, he'll have features from both III and Judgment. The end result will likely be his pirate garb with added bandages.

Hector and Isaac will appear as cameos
It would be a bit of a waste to not show them, since there aren't many other characters in that era. They probably won't be Devil Forgemasters, because Dracula gave up his Impaler schtick long before the series and therefore had no reason to train them in creating monsters, and you can't make someone an expert in a year. They could be:
  • Dracula's apprentices in science. He took them on after Lisa persuaded him to start liking people.
  • Normal blacksmiths who still get into the same situation as in the game (Isaac accusing Rosalie of witchcraft, Hector taking revenge, etc.) They share a love of making monster statues, unusual weapons, and chairs.
  • Two visually distinct spear carriers who are named and have a few lines.
  • Hector is confirmed, at least, and does appear to be acting as a Forgemaster, given that his appearance is lifted nearly straight from the game.
    • Going off of that, maybe he joined Dracula because of the witch hunts. Hector comes to him while Dracula was preparing to raise Hell, and got his attention by saying that his wife was also killed. He already knows how to fight/forge, but Dracula teaches him magic for a year.
    • Or maybe he's Dracula and Lisa's adopted son? They might not have known that vampires could have children, so they adopted him before they had Alucard.
      • More than cameos, Hector and Issac are full characters; Dracula's loyal Forgemasters, converting human corpses into his Night Horde.

Leon Belmont will make a cameo as a statue or tapestry in Dracula's castle, which confuses Trevor and Alucard
Dracula never forgot about his old friend, and kept something with his image. Likewise, the Belmonts kept his portrait or something. Trevor wonders what Leon's image is doing in Dracula's castle, and Alucard doesn't know because it was a sore subject for his father.
  • There is a callback, but not in Draclua's keep. Leon Belmont was the one to move the family from France to pursue the monsters traveling East. A portrait of him is hung in the Belmont Hold.

Possible callbacks/references to the games:
  • Wall Chicken. We all know it'll happen eventually, it's just a matter of How.
    • It appears in a crumbled bit of wall as the trio fight some vampires, and is only barely visible. It's the same color as the wall, making it look like a decoration or statue... or severely petrified.
  • Alucard will get caught off guard and attacked while on a set of stairs, in reference to his original game counterpart's inability to attack while using stairs.
  • The current trio will get split up somehow, with Trevor being forced to choose between sticking with either Sypha or Alucard, in reference to their routes in the game being exclusive.
    • Whoever Trevor doesn't choose will have a day in the limelight episode where they end up meeting Grant.
    • Alternatively, Trevor will end up on his own and will run into Grant by himself.
  • There will be issues with swimming or some kind of near-drowning, what with water being an insta-kill in the original games. Alucard in particular might be the source of this, considering how water damaged him in SotN.
    • Trevor, naturally, will tease him about this by splashing him. Or just asking, very incredulously, how he can drink.
    • Probably not. Touching water didn't hurt him, only being submerged ((I.E. Alucard inherited his mother's bothersome need to breathe)).
      • There was a reference, but all of the examples here are Jossed. Carmilla's army falls into the river when Castlevania disappears, after she had the Bishop revived and made him bless the water. Most of them die, with only the handful near the other end of the bridge having enough time to get to safety.
  • Someone will call Trevor "Ralph", in reference to his original name in Japanese.
    • No, but they did make light of the etymology of the name Trevor itself.

The protagonists will journey to Trevor's old hometown
It will resemble Richter's village, but will be called Wygol Village.
  • Confirmed. The trio return to the ruins of the Belmont Manor to access the Belmont Hold, a trove of knowledge and weapons buried underneath.

Season 2 will begin with lots of people staring very awkwardly at Alucard
Whether it's the fact that he's the Sleeping Soldier, he's a vampire, or because of his weird clothes.
  • Jossed: The only human, apart from Trevor and Sypha, who interacts with him is Isaac, and he stares at him because he's his master's son (wot wants to off 'im).

The wineglass scene will happen
We all know it's coming. There are several ways it can go; it's different every time. In Symphony, the glass is half full, then Dracula drains it, and tosses an empty glass nonchalantly to the side. In Aria, Dracula doesn't drink and instead tosses a full glass nonchalantly to the side. In Dawn, Dracula takes a sip, but pushes a mostly full glass forward. In Lords of Shadow, it's a goblet that's drained and thrown forward underhand. Of course, Trevor will snark at the theatrics and grumble about a waste of good glass.
  • Sadly Jossed. In fact, it's implied Draclua's been starving himself since he started this war. But no wineglass scene.

(Netflix series) That guy Isaac killed and revived as a monster was Grant.
Hector and/or Trevor will fight and cure him, and everything he's been through will convince him to turn over a new leaf, fighting alongside them.

The Bandit that had his face ripped off is Grant
We never see any actual confirmation of his death,his horse simply wanders off into the desert, while one is unlikely to survive such a wound its not strictly impossible especially in a world where magic exists, so a former thief defeated by someone who turns people into demons, a dead ringer for Grant though hes avoided being turned into a demon himself this time, he is undoubtedly disfigured which means if there is a season 3 he will likely have the bandages of his judgement incarnation
  • This WMG is the same as the one above it.
    • Similar but talking about two separate bandits and based on different interpretations(the above being closer to the original game where he got turned into a demon, this one based on him staying human but having some traits from his Judgement version)

Dracula's ultimate plan is to have a world with just him, Hector, and Isaac
Godbrand says it himself: if there aren't any humans, there's no blood around to drink. Dracula notes that his generals won't last the year. He likes Hector and Isaac, and he'll let them live, but his vampire generals and every other human will be killed. Then again, Alucard says that he's just suicidal.
  • Probably true except without Dracula. He sees Hector and Isaac as the only redeemable humans in the world, and Fridge Logic means that includes vampires who ARE (or at least were) human. He'd most likely let the two of them live out the rest of their lives.

If there's a season 3, it will cover both Rondo of Blood and Symphony of the Night
Both games are set within 4 years of each other (and indeed got a PSP compilation), Castlevania: Symphony of the Night takes place after Alucard's been asleep for a few centuries (with Trevor being the last Belmont he met face to face). Since he's been established as a major character, it would make sense to pick up where he next appears in the timeline (possibly In Medias Res after the events of Castlevania: Rondo of Blood). He mentions that the prophecy of the Sleeping Soldier came from the future, so it's entirely possible that the season could be split between him exploring Castlevania and trying to beat some sense into Richter, while Trevor and Sypha are doing their thing in the past but getting messages from him.
  • Adding to that, Richter will contrast with Trevor. He'll be cheerful, optimistic, and cocky.
    • It seems more likely at this point that the next season will deal with the fallout of season 2's conclusion - Dracula is dead and there's a power vacuum that both Isaac and Carmilla want to fill. Castlevania: Curse of Darkness seems like a more logical game to adapt next.
    • Now that it's established that time travel might be a thing thanks to the Infinite Corridor, and Alucard is feeling a bit cynical about humanity (basically where he was before going to sleep), this is looking more likely.

Something will happen to Alucard to make him sleep for centuries
Alucard has no intention of going back to sleep, but he doesn't get involved with the Belmonts until three hundred years later. Something happened between Trevor's and Christopher's time.

If this series adapts more than just Dracula's Curse, it'll end with Soma
The story began with Dracula and Lisa, and the last canon is Soma and Mina. It might not detail his trek through Castlevania, but at least it will show Alucard watching his father's reincarnation. Soma and Mina will have some interactions reminiscent of Dracula and Lisa. If they do adapt Aria, Soma will be recklessly self-destructive and tries to kill every monster he comes across, just like how Dracula is suicidal and wants to kill all humans.

If this does become a generational saga, each of the Belmonts will have a contrasting personality
Trevor's already the weary, cynical drunk. Maybe...
  • Leon is a pious, devoted, and noble knight in shining armor who is a little boneheaded.
  • Christopher is nervous, trying to live up to his famous ancestors' legacies. He had no idea that Dracula could rise again.
  • Simon is a rebel who was forced into the business. He's furious when Dracula curses him to die within a few years.
  • Juste is a cultured nobleman who doesn't like to fight, but isn't afraid to get his hands dirty.
  • Richter is a cheerful, optimistic, but brash Blood Knight.
  • And Julius is a naive but strong fighter who puts his ancestors on a pedestal, and is a little shocked when he finds how foul-mouthed they were.

The scene where Dracula pushes a cloak into his magic mirror will be significant later
Nothing comes of it. Maybe it's foreshadowing for how he'll be revived.

Isaac will become the Dark Priest Shaft and try to resurrect Dracula
1. Isaac is a Devil Forgemaster, meaning he has some control over resurrection and death 2. Dracula is the only person that Isaac was intensely loyal to, and willing to die for 3. We already know that Isaac is preparing to raise an army of the undead to further Dracula's goal of eradicating humanity. It doesn't seem to far-fetched that Isaac would at least TRY to contact and/or resurrect Dracula.
  • this would explain why Dracula continues to be an antagonist when by the end he simply wished to die, the demon forgemasters do not bring people back to life as they were but as demonic servants, so it would make sense Dracula would not revive as he was when he died but as Isaac sees him, and filled with his own hatred at the death of his master, so Dracula is revived filled with all the malice and hate he felt at his lowest point but without any of his remaining humanity, it would also explain the demonic transformation he has in many games, as that's possibly his new true form with his humanoid form being simply a disguise accomplished with magic

Vampire Society was started by elves who refused to retreat to the West.
They found a way via blood to maintain their powers since the Light no longer smiled on them. The original elvish progenitors turned their human servants and the human servants Turned Against Their Masters. You can still see the elven craftsmanship in places like Carmilla's Knights and the elvish weapons in the games starting with Castlevania: Symphony of the Night.
  • Dracula himself is not part of the fallen elf lineage. He became a vampire via different methods.

Grant will finally make his debut in season 3
He will join Trevor and Sypha after hearing of their reputation, he claims to want to help them with the vampires but actually just wants to steal their stuff (especially the Vampire Killer). After being saved at some point, Grant will eventually undergo a Heel–Face Turn and become a sincere ally.

Order of Ecclesia and Bloodlines will be merged into a single story, where Shanoa teams up with John Morris and Eric Lecarde to fight Barlowe and Elizabeth Bathory.
There is admittedly a time-gap between the two games, but since the show has shown that it's willing to play around a bit with the established storylines of the games, it could be workable, if Ecclesia was bumped up a bit, and feature a similar plot-thread of the Belmont family being in decline/missing and other heroes needing to step up and fill the gap. Elizabeth Bathory and Barlowe would be the Big Bad Duumvirate working to resurrect Dracula via the Dominus Runes using the chaos of World War I to assist (all the death and destruction probably helps). John and Eric are attempting to hunt Bathory, but don't know about her involvement with the Order of Ecclesia, while Shanoa would still be sent out to hunt Albus (who might come into contact with John and Eric first and fill them in?) and be drawn into a conflict with the two of them before they inevitably team-up, which would conveniently give the show another good Power Trio.

Season threes predictions.
The season will start with Hector escaping from Carmilla (the monsters he makes are loyal to him after all.)She will be pursued by Trevor and Sypha who are still looking for the other speakers. Issac will have a running subplot of killing whole town and converting them into monsters. Trevor and Sypha will come across one such town and its lone survivor a badly wounded pirate by the name of Grant Dynasty. Hector will be found by Issac trying to live peacefully with a kind girl who is unbothered by his "pets" tragedy will follow.
  • Alternately Season three will start with Alucard reading through the Belmont library and finding a record of Leon Belmont's adventures that we get to see play out. as he does though Trevor, Sypha, Hector and Issac experience the lead up to Castlevania: Curse of Darkness.
  • Season three will set up the cycle of Dracula's regular reincarnations. While circumstances will force Alucard, Sypha and Trevor to deal with Camilla, Isaac will take control of Dracula's Castle and the Belmont Hold, and use the collected knowledge of the two to find a way to revive Dracula. His efforts will be stopped by our heroes, with the help of a freed Hector(effectively becoming a loose adaptation of Curse of Darkness in the process), but through his passing he will create a connection between Dracula and Death which will succeed in causing Dracula to reincarnate regularly, cause the castle to become linked to Dracula(thus making it the "creature of Chaos" Alucard called it in SOTN), and also bring Death into the picture as a recurring villain for future generations.
  • Season 3 will be an adaptation of Curse of Darkness. Isaac said he wasn't joking when he asked Hector if they could kiss, and COD takes place three years after Dracula's Curse. Given how the story ends with Dracula dead, Isaac distraught from losing his friend and ally, and Hector finally beginning to see how things would have actually ended, it looks like things are being set up for it.

Isaac will become Death.
He pretty much fits Death's role as Dracula's closest friend, is still loyal to him after his master's death, and in the game where Isaac debuted, Death's disguise, Zead, is a tall bald man, just like Isaac here.
  • Alternately, they may be separate entities, but Isaac makes a deal with Death or becomes his mortal host.

The final scene will be of Simon Belmont entering Castlevania.
Somehow, Dracula is revived, alongside his castle. By this point, Alucard is out of the picture, and Trevor and Sypha are gone. The scene focuses on the castle's gates as a certain Belmont, with red hair and black armor walks up to them.

There will be a Take That! towards Captain N: The Game Master
If the show never tells Simon's story, Trevor and Sypha encounter an egotistical pervert who wears goggles claiming to be a Belmont so that he could get laid. At the end of the episode, after dealing with him, they will admit that his alias, "Simon Belmont," does roll off the tongue.

The epilogue of the Grand Finale will be a Distant Finale with Soma and Mina getting married and having a baby.

In this continuity, Simon will be the son of Trevor and Sypha.
There's somewhat of a precedent to this. In the original games' timeline, the father of Simon was named Christopher, and he appeared in the Game Boy Castlevania titles. However, there's some conflict between translations and sources whether or not Christopher and Trevor are the same character, especially since Trevor's middle initial is C. Furthermore, in the Lords of Shadow timeline, Trevor is the father of Simon as well.
  • This doesn't mesh with the timeline, though, since Simon doesn't fight Dracula for another 200 years.

Should Dawn of Sorrow be adapted, there will be Multiple Endings.
And how it works? During the spoiler-heavy specific event, the viewer is given optional prompts to "SNAP". Letting the timer run out leads to the adaptation of the Good Ending, while even once accepting a prompt leads to the adaptation of the Bad Ending.

Dracula is an insane Time Lord
I'm honestly surprised that this isn't listed already. There is a near immortal being who is in a structure that is able to teleport around while carrying technology that is vastly superior and anachronistic to the era. We've seen that insane Time Lords have little issue with killing humans (see the Master). Also, getting stabbed through the heart didn't seem to quite kill him, seemingly requiring for his head to be cut off and his body burned to finish the job.

In one way or another, Death is coming in Season 3.
If the show is to follow the timeline of the games, then the next game up to be adapted is Curse of Darkness, which prominently featured Death as an antagonist - meaning that for a proper adaptation, The Grim Reaper himself will have to appear sooner or later. Building off of an above theory, Isaac may be relevant to his introduction, given Isaac's similar appearance to Death's human disguise, Zead. Either Isaac may become Death, be the one to summon him, or be entirely irrelevant in his appearance. Either way, though, Death's big debut is inevitable at this point.

Dracula will be resurrected.
One of the defining characteristics of Dracula (both in the franchise and pop-culture in general) is that no matter how many times he is put down, he will wind up coming back stronger than ever just in time for the next Belmont to kill

With the above theory that Isaac will be the host of Death, it is likely that he will use his skills as a Devil Forger, combined with the powers of Death (or some other explanation) to bring back the only person who's life he valued. Even then, it is obvious that Dracula is no ordinary vampire, so it is likely that even after starving himself, getting staked, beheaded and immolated, he won't stay dead.

Besides, we did not get to chance to see any of his many One-Winged Angel forms, so it is likely that they have been saving that for later.

The redhead in the poster is Rosalie
She's holding a suffering Hector in a Pietà Plagiarism, and Rosalie did save Hector before they were married. She could also be Julia, and she may or may not be Isaac's sister.

The red-haired woman is Laura
A young, beautiful vampire girl in fine clothes that project innocence rather than sensuality? Sure sounds like Carmilla's companion.

On the twitter art, the black-haired vampire next to Carmilla is Zephyr
Maybe it's the hair and scarf, but they look a lot like Part 1 Dio Brando. Zephyr is a living Shout-Out to Part 3 Dio, but Part 1 Dio's outfit is less likely to be hit with copyright.

More flashbacks of Lisa and Dracula in season 3
We got flashbacks into the first episodes of the first 2 seasons and Alucard was having flashbacks in the season 2 finale. So, given he's at his childhood home and in grief from what became of his family, he'll probably be remembering more of his childhood.

Alucard is a Heroic Bastard
In this official art that was shown in the series, Dracula can be seen not wearing his wedding band. Now, there has been a great emphasis placed on his ring throughout the series and a good amount of emphasis on Dracula's left hand in the picture. Given that, Dracula and Lisa weren't married until sometime after their son was born.

The reason why Dracula didn't turn Lisa
Simple. She didn't want to and he respected her choice, even if he didn't like that. Why she didn't may be explored in season 3. Alternatively, maybe she was thinking about being turned but couldn't make up her mind and was unable to given she was murdered beforehand.

Season 3 will show a brief scene of Lisa and Dracula making love
Either the beginning or aftermath. Either way, it would be something to see.

Julia and Hector will be a Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy duo
With his gentleness and naïveté, Hector displays many traits considered feminine. Julia is bound to have endured a hard life she needed to toughen up for, especially if she is still Isaac's sister, thus Black and a witch. She will inspire strength and courage in Hector, while he convinces her there are things worth being soft for.

Julia will have markings like Isaac
Instead of black tattoos/scars, her's will be white paint and only worn whilst working magic. The colour represents her alignment, and the temporality represents her flexibility and lack of appreciation for pain.

"Rosaly" will be Julia's alias
She is hiding either from Isaac's enemies or Isaac himself. This would serve as a nod to the original Rosaly and Julia's informed resemblance, and as a Composite Character, she can serve both women's roles in Hector's life and simplify his story.

In the future, this series will veer off into Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night continuity instead
This is mostly based on Dracula's use of advanced technology in this series. In Bloodstained, which is set almost half a millenium after Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse, it has been noted that demonic forces have known advanced technology such as passport-reader and electric guitars when human world has only begun to use steam technology like steam train.

Also, Bloodstained's WMG has also imagined that one such technologically sophisticated character, Orlok Dracule, is probably Alucard in an Alternate Timeline from the normal Castlevania. Given that here, Alucard, at the end of season 2, is left in charge of Dracula's Castle AND Belmont's Hold, both being massive repositories of knowledge, it is possible that Alucard's transition into Orlok Dracule would happen in the future of this series.

Season 4 will be Hector's Roaring Rampage of Revenge
His story segment verges on being Torture Porn at this point. The guy spends Season 2 and 3 basically being everyone's bitch. It's unlikely that the showrunners are just kicking him down for the hell of it. They are probably building up his pain and humiliation so that his rebellion from The Styrian quartets will be all the more cathartic. Remember, Hector is the one who rebels from Dracula's army in the game continuity. The show does not adapt that, but it may still show him rebelling against a different vampire army.
  • Hahahaha...ha, understatement. I'd be a little surprised if he doesn't go full Saw on all four of them & everything they've ever achieved.
    • She said he couldn't use his powers to harm her & he can't disobey her- but she's too arrogant to think to tell him he can't kill her... which may be good, cause in this series that'd end in And I Must Scream territory so bad the audience would pity her.

Hector will turn himself into a night creature
He is bound by the rings magic to obey Camilla and her sisters, but it keeps him in line threw pain, something most night creatures seem to not have much issue with, assuming whatever damned soul possesses his body is still bound to the rings magic

The Judge is Shaft
He is bald, his name is never stated, and the show went out of his way to establish him as an evil person who would end up in hell, even though he was an ally, the season also established that some night creatures retain intelligence and memory, so its entirely possible for isaac to return him to life as an intelligent night creature, one to help in his desire to resurrect Dracula

Hector will overthrow the sisters through sheer Heroic Willpower
The ring only puts Hector in extreme pain if he disobeys, not makes the night creatures directly loyal to the sisters. Theoretically, if he can withstand the pain through sheer force of will for long enough, he can command his troops to take out the sisters. Bonus points if that scene draws direct parallels to the scene where Isaac removes his mind-control halo.
  • Alternately, Hector will use Isaac's philosophy about pain helping him clear his mind.

The self-proclaimed "pirate of the roads" is Grant
Because who else has A: a history with Trevor and Sypha and B: is a pirate?

The Infinite Corrador will be the lynchpin behind the 'bootleg multiverse'
Self-explanatory. Perhaps the Corridor can open up to Mallet Island or Fortuna or Redgrave City or, Hell, even Vie de Marli.

Dracula will stay dead in the anime and never be revived

His brief cameo in Season 3 with him not getting revived was the writers'way of saying "No, we are not doing that."

Lenore isn't as loyal as the others think she is
Carmillas the leader, probably the sire of the other 3, Striga and Morana are a couple, and are probably grateful to Carmilla for the fact that they are together forever, also, both are good at things that make sense for a vampire, Striga is a fighter, and Morana is a torturer/intelligence type, Lenore is a diplomat something that the other 3 don't see much use in, except for the one time they do need her, which is to get Hector loyal, gaslighting or not, she has Hectors loyalty, whereas the others see him as a tool for their use, Lenore at least treats him as a "pet" she hasn't been happy with the way things work, as her talents put her at the bottom of the ladder in terms of standing, being a diplomat, she sees an oppertunity to change the balance, making Hector loyal to her, not Carmilla, Striga or Morana, she will end up wanting to use him to either take over as the head of the group, or outright kill them (the first option seems more likely, but the second option is also possible if she is pragmatic), she is fed up of being treated as the "baby" of the group, and seeks to correct it, being actually much more smart than they give her credit, after all, they thought making Hector loyal was an "impossible task" and she accomplished it with a leash, a larger cell space and some vampire-nookie.

Hector will escape his enslavement by cutting off his finger
He's forced to be loyal to keep the ring from torturing him. As Issac's army attacks, Hector will slice off his finger with the forgemaster blade to free himself. He'll then order his army to attack the Styrian Quartet. Even they can't survive two armies of Night Creatures at once.

This version of Alucard is bi, but much more attracted to men
This is based solely on when Taka and Sumi try and seduce and kill him, When Sumi kisses him, he doesn't exactly respond, but when Taka kissed him, he actively kissed him back, so it seems that Alucard seems more interested in males than females.

Alucard will become the new Dracula
He was slowly going mad from isolation at the beginning of season 3, and Taka and Sumi's betrayal at the end didn't help matters. Events in future seasons will slowly drive Alucard to pull a Face–Heel Turn and become the new Dracula. Any future plots where Alucard needs to be a hero will have Soma Cruz fill the role instead, which will result in Soma being a Composite Character of himself and Alucard.
  • Jossed; Alucard ends season 4 still on the side of good, and Soma is completely absent.

Lenore will use her ring to control her 'sisters'
We see the ring on Hector's finger matches the rings on the Carmilla's councils fingers...except one...Lenore herself, which means she might have command over them all...Lenore is VERY dangerous as we know, and we see she did not like having her diplomatic skills mocked, so what better way to get back at them then use their own tactics against them..but better? Or alternately...

Hector will find a way to turn his own ring into a command ring on the council
Because wouldn't that be sweet revenge on the highest level? Perhaps even referring to them all as "bitches" at some point as payback for their "puppy/pet" and "good boy" comments.

Hector will lose the hand with the ring on it
Whether by his own volition or by an attack from Issac or the heroes, he will lose his hand with the ring on it binding him to Lenore and the others. Or maybe just the finger. Trevor is good at getting off just a finger.

The woman in the Infinite Corridor is...
  • Saint-Germain's daughter, and this show's incarnation of Maria Renard. "Saint-Germain" is one of the man's many alias, Renard being his true surname. This furthers his stance as a foil to the Judge of Lindenfeld, as a Papa Wolf to counter a Child Killer.

Grant will eventually appear
  • Warren has said it made no sense for a pirate to exist in Wallachia but Season 3 mentioned a guy riding a boat on wheels. So when he does appear, he will be a Cloud Cuckoo Lander.

The series will end with Alucard living in the future.
Either via Time Travel or a prolonged coffin sleep, Alucard will leave the 15th century behind and be welcomed into a new world by Trevor and Sypha's descendant, likely Richter Belmont.

That is, if he is "trained" at all. Two things about Hector: He doesn't think very far ahead, and he hates to be outside his comfort zone. He is implied to be a Child Prodigy in the art of Devil Forging, and he could have learned the name and basics of the skill from his alchemist father. However, Hector would have stagnated in the first process he found, never wanting to evolve. By learning more about forging and magic, either by study or a new character who teaches him, Hector will finally achieve his game counterpart's level of badass.
  • Maybe Hector could learn to imbue weapons with demonic souls, similar to Devil Arms from Devil May Cry.

The Castle is the way out of the Infinite Corridor
The movements of Dracula's Castle are similar to the Corridor's portals, and the bizarre dimension Saint Germain's loved one is in resembles the inside of the castle, so there may be a connection. The state of the mechanism means Dracula's Castle can no longer teleport, put the power to teleport is still there. Theoretically, Saint Germain can use the Castle's power as an anchor for himself and his loved one to create a portal back to Wallachia.

How Grant Danasty will join the protagonists.
This theory coincides with the one saying he is the "pirate of the roads" mentioned in Season 3. Trevor and Sypha will run into the wannabe pirate again, and an altercation between them and Night Creatures occurs. Grant's boat on wheels is destroyed in the battle, and his crew abandons him. Blaming "Belnades and Belmont" for his misfortune, Grant decides to follow them on their journey to badger them into providing a new vehicle or enough funds for one. The three eventually become friends, and Grant's claim to only care about treasure and a new boat will only stick around as a joke.

Lisa is in Hell of her own volition for her husband.
The theology of this world is portrayed not based around faith, but in moral actions. The priest of Gresit, as maniacal and narcissistic as he was, was a true believer and committed terrible things out of faith in the Christian God. Yet these terrible actions allowed the night creatures to enter his church, mock and kill him, implying that his wickedness desecrated the building. This implies that faith alone is not what determines salvation or damnation, but actions. The talking fly-monster Isaac converses with in Season 3 emphasizes that his damnation was not done because he was a philosopher who questioned the nature of God (or possibly for being Pagan), but because he ratted out his fellow persecuted philosophers and sacrificed them under the belief that it would save himself.

Lisa is portrayed as having an iron will, high intelligence and faith in humanity's capacity for reason. She confronts Dracula with the intent of learning medicine, believing that humans are capable of good when brought out of ignorance. She brought out the best in an incredibly powerful man and even as she died, she pleaded not for herself, but for Dracula not to take out his rage for her death out on the very people condemning her to death. She might not have been a woman of faith, but for someone like this to suffer damnation with the established set-up of this universe is almost unthinkable.

So it is likely that Lisa is in Hell not for any of her sins, but rather she was somewhere else and she ventured into Hell to be reunited with Dracula and comfort him in Perdition. She could leave any time, but she chooses not to.

Dracula being reunited with Lisa in Hell will turn out to be a Yank the Dog's Chain moment for him.
As the theory above suggests, Lisa did go to Heaven but descended down to Hell just to see her husband. However, she can't stay in Hell forever and is forced to return to Heaven, leaving Dracula to despair again.

Or maybe the situation is even worse than that. Dracula isn't really hugging his dear wife — this is actually some sort of illusion or mind trick that's being cruelly played on him, and at just the wrong moment he discovers that this "Lisa" isn't the real deal. After all, what kind of place would Hell be if one of its worst sinners isn't being punished?

Count Saint-Germain will return far more powerful than before.
The reason he's an Adaptational Wimp is because he hasn't had what he needed before. I believe the place his loved one and he ended up in through the Infinite Corridor is the Akashic Records. All the knowledge in the universe at his fingertips. Knowing where to look, he could quickly become the Time Master he was in the games and come back better than ever.

Sypha's emotional state will only get worse.
The events of Lindenfeld have shaken Sypha's belief in her ability to save people, and people in general. Later on, her precious knowledge will be proven wrong too, e.g. she learns God Is Good, angels are not angelic, and (considering Saint Germain's presence) humanity is just as malevolent in the future. This Trauma Conga Line leads to Sypha worrying that magic is all she's good for, so she starts fighting without a care for her safety. In a reverse on their dynamics, Trevor will have to give her the "You Are Better Than You Think You Are" speeches.

Lenore is of a weaker vampire subspecies
Lenore is based on the traditional Castlevania enemy, the Succubus, which are from the Lady Bats/werebat family in the games. While still stronger than a non-hunter human, Lady Bats are weaker than real vampires. This would explain why Lenore prefers manipulation to fighting: Her power isn't on the same level as her sisters.
  • Alternatively, Lenore could be a dhampyr like Alucard, a secret she is keeping from the other Vampire Sisters.

Isaac will use his Devil Forging powers to bring Dracula back using Hector's body
Devil Forging makes bodies for sinners in Hell, and the game Dracula's plan is to revive in Hector's body. Or Isaac sacrifices himself for Dracula instead. Or they both work together to bring him back.

Hector will learn to forge with souls from Heaven.
Down in the deep hole he's dug for himself, Hector takes drastic measures: He prays. While it seems fruitless at first, God delivers by Hector either discovering his new ability, or coincidently finding a means to learn it. This is something considered Beyond the Impossible by the nature of Devil forging, and serves as proof of Hector's true potential.

Striga or Morana will be Driven to Suicide after the other's death.
These two have become fan favorites as the show's token gay couple, and one way to milk this popularity is to put a tragic spin on their deaths.

Aeon and Galamoth are coming.
The show is in need of a Big Bad with Dracula gone, and with the presence of a character like Saint-Germain, a possible time/dimensional traveler, that opens the doors for two other characters associated with the timeline and alternate realities. It will go down like this: Galamoth is an Eldritch Abomination from another dimension accessible within the Infinite Corridor. Aeon is a Gnostic Aeon (a lower tier god made of divine light) tasked by God to guard Galamoth from escaping its own world to ravage the Earth. As Galamoth finally comes closer to breaking free, the Aeon calls on the only people of Earth who can help reseal Galamoth. To not overwhelm humans so much, a stained glass depicting angels will inspire the Aeon to take on a similar form: A white-haired pretty boy like his video game counterpart.

Alucard will have a My God, What Have I Done? moment, and then go to sleep for SotN
Season 3 ends with Alucard killing Taka and Sumi in self-defense, and then rejecting human contact. After a while, Trevor and Sypha will show up after rumors of the Impaler returning, only to find Alucard sitting on the doorstep. With or without a fight scene, Alucard will decide that he's too dangerous to live, and willingly sleep.

Morana is a Romani (Gypsy).
The Romani people are descended from Indian nomads who migrated to Europe during medieval times. This would likely explain why Morana has such dark brown skin, despite otherwise being dressed like a European woman of the time period. And given how much the Gypsies have suffered racist persecution throughout their history living in Europe, this would also explain why she became an evil vampire who rejected her former humanity.

Season Four's Central Theme will be "Family".
  • Trevor and Sypha will reunite with Alucard, help each other finally face the trauma they've all endured and come out strong enough to fight a new enemy. This plot represents found family.
  • Sypha will learn she is pregnant, and she and Trevor will face the fears and joys of bringing a child into their Crapsack World.
  • Saint Germain and his loved one (presumably his daughter) will return and their backstory divulged. This plot represents the power of familial love at its fullest.
  • Isaac's sister, Julia, will be introduced and her loyalty to her increasingly unhinged brother will be tested. This plot represents when a toxic loved one must be cut out.
  • The Styrian Sisterhood will fall to infighting, spelling their defeat. This plot represents how even a "family" held together by superficial bonds will inevitably fall apart.

How Lenore will die
She's a reimagining of Succubus, a reoccurring boss in Castlevania games, and the final clash with her will be a big Mythology Gag to this fact: By the time Hector has become a badass, and met and fallen for Rosaly/Julia, Lenore will try getting the jump on him by disguising herself as Rosaly/Julia. However, Hector will see through the illusion (potentially by her distinctive smell), and Lenore's dirty trick will only make him angrier. This scenario is also shows symbolically that Hector has learned the difference between true love and fake romance.

Eventually, Hector will join up with Trevor and co.
When Hector escapes his enslavement, the company of monster hunters will arguably be the safest place he can get to. He and Trevor specifically made it to semi-allies in Castlevania: Curse of Darkness.

Hector will become a werewolf or gain werewolf-themed abilities
All the motifs of lapdogs he's forced into is foreshadowing that he will become associated with something far more majestic and fearsome. This series could use a little Fur Against Fang, anyway.

The series' version of Grant will be a Rebel Prince.
Grant coming from royalty has long been speculated by fans because his last name, Danasty, is based on Dănești, a real life noble house of Wallachia. He is heir to Wallachia's vacant throne, but ran away to become a bandit. Grant either did it out of pragmatism, what with the country being too overrun to adhere to rulers, or selfish desire to live unburdened by duty. Grant's time with the heroes matures him immensely, and, after defeating the next main threat, he decides now's the time to accept his crown and start rebuilding Wallachia. If the finale has a "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue, Grant will be depicted as The Good King.

Count Saint Germain will provide a surprise Framing Device.
Keeping in line with the games' canon where he is a time traveler and observer of events, when Saint Germain and his loved one finally return home, it will be revealed the series is a telling of his (mostly secondhand) account, possibly from the journal seen in "The Good Dream". The finale will close on a voiceover of Saint Germain narrating the last lines of his finished book, briefly describing what became of the heroes after the last battle and/or a poetic quote.

The next Big Bad will be Castlevania itself.
The castle is Genius Loci empowered by raw chaos in the games. In search of a new master, it will attempt to drive Alucard mad (possibly having used More than Mind Control on Taka and Sumi) to mold him into a new Dracula. When Alucard's friends ensure that doesn't happen, the castle will have a Suicidal Cosmic Temper Tantrum intending to destroy the world. When the heroes beat the castle, it will undergo the game tradition of disappearing from the world and resurface in the next century or so.

Isaac will end up looking like his game counterpart.
Without Dracula's presence to give him direction, Isaac is indulging in bloodlust and malice as his CoD self does. Over time, his hatred for humans will reach its logical extreme: Either he will turn himself into a monster, or he will be turned by a new villain. The new form will still look fairly human, with red hair, more intricate tattoos, and black armor (or an exoskeleton) that resembles the "clothes" game Isaac wears.

Julia will show signs of Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!
The Laforeze siblings are a clearcut example of Sibling Yin-Yang in Curse of Darkness, and that will prevail in the show despite the overhaul of Isaac's character. She will contrast Isaac's most prominent traits, wrath and one-track mind, by forgiving humans for persecuting her and having trouble keeping focus on one thing for very long.

Hector is Touched By Death.
Hector died when he was born, but the reaper sent to claim his soul instead restored him to life, possibly under God's orders. In doing so, the baby sustained a connection to the afterlife, proven by Hector's Mystical White Hair and Occult Blue Eyes. This explains why Hector is special, e.g. the Implausible Hair Color and natural proficiency with magic, and why his mother considered him born "wrong". A stillbirth is traumatizing enough, your baby being inexplicably changed is worse.

Isaac will lose an eye.
A) For a Mythology Gag to his bangs in Curse of Darkness, perhaps justifying him getting them, B) For karma as Eye Scream is a preferred tactic of his, and C) For symbolism, because he literally and figuratively cannot see the world clearly.

Miranda is Death.
Similar to Zead, Miranda is an unassuming disguise Death has taken as part of a gambit to revive Dracula. Unlike Zead, who manipulated Hector, Miranda is setting up events for Isaac to lose himself in bloodshed, and become crazy enough to cross all the lines to get their master back.

Isaac is from Andalusia.
Isaac and his sister were implied to be Spanish by birth in Castlevania: Curse of Darkness (their names, a sarabande as Julia's theme, and a mention of The Spanish Inquisition). Where else in 15th century Europe would a Muslim be found but in the Islamic realms of southern Spain?

If there's a Season 5 that takes place in modern times and Castlevania is still around, a city will be built around it.
If the series does a Time Skip to modern day with Alucard waking up, he'll find that his father's castle has now been turned into a kitschy tourist trap and not a grim reminder of the violent past. Of course he's waking up because something worse has come around and a new generation of Belmonts and Belnades need his help to put it down, with him seeing it as a case of Here We Go Again!.
  • Adding to this if season 5 takes place in modern times Soma Cruz will be one of the protagonists.
  • Julius Belmont will be the tritagonist to Some's protagonist and Alucard's deuteragonist. He will be a sleazy drunkard with a heart of gold and remarkable skill; Alucard will make a lot of remarks, both positive and negative, on how similar he is to his ancestor.
  • Mina will play a larger role and her relationship with Soma will have similar beats to Trevor and Sypha's. Hammer will also have an expanded role where we finally see him fight.
  • Graham Jones will be a Disc-One Final Boss, with Chaos as the true Big Bad.

Dracula and Lisa become Sparda and Eva in England.
Seems really random that Dracula and Lisa are resurrected in the finale and run away to England... until you remember that the next project the studio is working on is going to be a Devil May Cry series and it's supposed to be in a Shared Universe with this series. Dante and Vergil's childhood home is implied to be in England since Red Grave City is inspired by London. This is a subtle Sequel Hook!
  • Granted, the England thing is a reference to the original book Dracula; in the book, Dracula bought Carfax Abbey in Whitby, which is where our Dracula plans to move. But it's still possible.
  • Unlikely as Lisa would be long dead by the time Dante and Vergil would be born assuming Devil May Cry will still take place in the modern era.

Dracula and Lisa were brought back by God.
In a literal Deus ex machina, God showed mercy on Dracula and decided to give him a second chance, bringing him back to life with Lisa so that he may have a second chance at happiness and find redemption.
  • To borrow from The Dresden Files when the titular character Harry Dresden prior to making a choice to take a Lesser of Three Evil options, Harry calls on the Archangel Uriel for help. The Archangel refuses to give him help, save confirming the child he is going to rescue is Harry's daughter, and telling Harry whatever path he takes, do it for love. Because if he does it for that, then there is still a path back to the side of good. In a similar vein, Dracula was pretty stagnant for his evil before Lisa came into his life. He wasn't seeking anything, just staying in his castle and tinkering with his sciences. Lisa awakened his capacity to love and sacrifice. And when she was cruelly burned at the stake, this injustice was even more pronounced to Dracula because of his love for her. His war, his suicide mission, was done for love. And that love is what also made him finally relent, when the love for his son shocked him into recognizing how wrong he had gone. He let himself be killed out of love for his son and late wife. He found a path back to doing some good. Had he been killed still fighting, God might not have given him this second chance, but that he surrendered out of love, he earns this next chance.

Stuff for recounting adventures of past Belmonts
Since the spinoff is skipping straight to Richter.
  • A bigger deal is made about Leon being their ancestor, because he was a French nobleman.
  • People keep forgetting about Christopher, as an oft-forgotten Belmont.
  • Simon is the most famous ancestor, and there might be several flashbacks or paintings of him, each in different outfits and hair colors, as a reference to his constant redesigns.
  • Juste Belmont designed their house. He might even be alive as Richter's grandfather.
  • They might mention an American cousin named Morris.

The Belmonts in Richter's time will be noblility, and suffer from Hero with Bad Publicity
  • They're not just nobles during the French Revolution, their imagery would look rather suspect by Revolution standards.
    • Their hereditary weapon is a whip? The audience knows it's for slaying vampires, and from the scene where Cho toys with a samurai, the flexible whip can't be broken as easily as a sword. Revolutionaries might see it as a symbol of oppression.
    • Their claim to fame is that they slew vampires? The audience knows that's real, but it's easy to interpret that as justifying their rule over peasants by claiming to protect them from imaginary creatures.
    • On a non-revolutionary front, they're descended from witches and heretics. We don't see much of the Belmont fall from grace, but it would be interesting if the opening showed peasants ominously gossiping about the castle on the hill where the residents practice witchcraft... and it's the Belmonts.

Alternately, Richter is a distant relation of the French noble house of Belmont
  • Someone theorized that Leon Belmont was a younger brother, because if he were the eldest, he couldn't go on Crusades. So even though Leon left to found the Belmonts in Wallachia, his brother kept the family title.

The Big Bad Richter and Maria will have to confront will be Dracula

The girls Richter had to save will all have expanded roles
  • Annette in particular will have some of her own adventures trying to escape Dracula's castle.

Death in Season 4...
... is actually Time Reaper, Galamoth's minion, who adopts the name Death for simplicity's sake. And with Time Reaper dead, Galamoth will take to the scene as the Big Bad of the Rondo of Blood adaptation.

Dracula will be a Legacy Character
  • Vlad returned under his human alias in the finale, but who's to say another man won't be tempted into darkness like he was? Perhaps the series will treat "Dracula" as an identity that the antagonists take after being driven to madness and becoming vampires, and the Dracula that Richter fights will be a completely separate entity from the one Trevor, Sypha and Alucard fought.
  • Adding to this, if the series gets to "Portrait of Ruin, The "Dracula" could be Brauner, who could be a Foil to Vlad:
    • Unlike Vlad whose's the oldest and most famous vampire in the series, Brauner could be a new vampire, a classic From Nobody to Nightmare.
    • Brauner could stay on the denial stage of grief, firmly believing he can resurrect his daughters and make the earth a paradise, in contrast to Vlad's anger, depression and acception
    • Brauner's lack of strategy can summed up as lack of experience, rather indifferent to winning or losing.

Dante and Vergil in the Devil May Cry spinoff will be descendants of the Belmont Family.
  • Somewhere along the timeline from the days of Trevor Belmont to the modern day, one of the Belmonts will be a woman who married into a new family name. In time her bloodline would lead to Eva, who would marry Sparda and birth the twins. While Dante and Vergil don't carry the name Belmont, they have the legacy, which combined with their demonic heritage will further grow their own legend.

The Captain was God in Human Form.
The Captain is unafraid of Isaac, unlike every other human in Season 3. He does not judge Isaac or his demons, and speaks to him kindly. He drops a few hints about his crew being "freaks" but otherwise seems to have no supernatural abilities whatsoever. And when Isaac asks him his name, the Captain merely says "God knows, forgot it long ago." With heavy emphasis on the word God.

Draculas Wraith will be the new big bad in the sequels
Since Dracula himself (who might start giong by Mathias again now that he has abandoned his role as the evil overlord) is likely not going to suddenly do ANOTHER face heel turn and threaten humanity but he has to direct a role in some of the games to be absent entirely unless they are really going off the rails, though Mathias may give himself up to be possessed by it and return to his evil ways so as to give the Wraith a physical form and thus be able to be slain.

Alternatively, Count Orlox will become an Ascended Extra and takes over the role of the Big Bad vampire lord now that Vlad has long since passed peacefully

Nocturne will have a timeskip, after which Richter's design changes to his SOTN design
He grows his hair out, and starts wearing sleeves to cover up injuries.

There was no Great Schism in this universe
Vampires are repelled by holy water. Demons cannot walk on consecrated ground. Both fear blessed weapons. True priests can create holy water, consecrate ground, and bless weapons. This creates a very simple litmus test for who does and does not have God’s blessing, as the Bishop learned. Thus, neither the Eastern nor Western side of the church could deny that the other was, at the very least, holy, forcing the two sides to debate each other and ultimately compromise, thus preventing the schism and justifying the Catholic architecture in a historically East Orthodox nation.

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