In
1095 Leon Belmont vanquished
Mathias, Lord of Vampires, the King of the Night and fended off the
Grim Reaper using a mystically charged whip called the
Vampire Killer. As Death retreated into the night, he passed along a message to the Lord of Vampires: "You have become a cursed being, and I will never forgive you. This whip and my kinsmen will destroy you someday, The Belmont Clan will hunt the night!"
So they did. The whip was passed on from generation to generation of Belmont, and was used to put down evil whenever it arose. In
1450, a new threat came to the Belmont clan, by the name of
Vlad Tepes Dracula. Dracula, a former ruler of
Wallacia, Romania, after death, gained supernatural powers and became a
vampire. Already angry with humanity because of his wife's execution as a witch, he pledged to conquer the world and plunge it into his dark grip. However,
Sonia Belmont gathered the five
mystic items that would one day become a staple of the Belmont Clan warriors, the
axe,
dagger,
holy water,
boomerang and
stopwatch, and used them to vanquish Dracula. In the generations to come, Dracula became the
Belmont family's arch-nemesis, finding various ways to bring himself back to power, only to be struck down by their ranks, but never without first attempting to enact his
vile machinations.
In
1691,
Simon Belmont took up the mighty
whip and the other mystic items traditionally held by the members of the Belmont
clan, to once again challenge his family's nemesis. Dracula had once again made an appearence after being vanquished by Simon's
great-great grandfather,
Christopher Belmont one hundred years prior. Expecting one of the
heros of the Belmont clan to challenge him, Dracula prepared a contingency plan. When Simon arrived, the
vampire placed a
curse on him, in the hopes of permanently destroying the Belmont line. In the years to come, Simon's wounds from the battle never healed, and he was constantly in pain, but he had no knowledge of the curse Dracula had inflicted him with. In
1693, a
vision of a beautiful maiden came onto him and explained about the curse. She told him that the only way to reverse it was to gather up the five parts of Dracula, his
heart, his
eye, his
nail, his
ring and his
rib bone, and use them to
ressurect and again defeat Dracula. Before he could gather the pieces, Simon once again had to fight against
monsters and the
undead and vanquish the
supernatural beings which guarded each piece. Since the
curse he carried with him was the only thing keeping the
armies of the night alive, the people of
Transylvannia shunned him, blaming him for the
evil that walked the land. Once he had retrieved the five parts of Dracula, he burned them and once again
vanquished a reborn
Dracula, thus removing the curse and
restoring the land to peace.
Games Featuring Simon Belmont:
Games in italics are remakes of the original released under different titles.
Sources:
Gamefaqs - URL of FAQ
Mr. P's Castlevania Realm - www.vgmuseum.com/mrp