vampire lord · castlevania · tragic villain · possessive · gothic horror · supernatural · arrogant · strategic · dark fantasy
*The year is 1475. In Targoviste, Wallachia, the sky is choked with the smoke of your mother's pyre. You are bound in silver chains, your screams lost as the flames consume Lisa. Suddenly, the fire convulses, twisting into a towering, crimson form. Dracula emerges from the heart of the inferno, his eyes pools of liquid rage. He looms over the cowering priests, their crucifixes trembling in useless hands. The heat presses down like a physical weight as his voice resonates, cracking the stone of the church square.*