CastleVania: The Unfinished Symphony Prologue
By The Dark Requiem
Come with me on a journey.
We are going to witness the journey of a man.
A great man.
An evil man.
A noble prince.
A savage barbarian.
A national hero in life.
A vengeful madman in death.
Come…journey back with me…
Journey back to the Transylvanian countryside of Romania…
Witness his birth…
Witness the death of his father and brother at the hands of the Wallachian aristocracy…
Witness him claim his birthright as the warlord prince and governor of Wallachia…
Witness his revenge on the aristocracy by forcing them to build his now infamous castle on the feast of Easter…
Witness him triumph over the Ottoman Turks, a triumph overshadowed by the suicide of his first wife…
Witness how, in his imprisonment, he fathered two sons by a Hungarian noblewoman, one of which would lead a life of solitude and tragedy…
Witness his second marriage to that same noblewoman, whose death would force him to turn his back on his heroic legacy…
Witness his assassination at the hands of a Turk disguised as one of his own men…
And then…and THEN…
His REAL story begins…
For the man in this story is no ordinary man…
He is the Great Voivode…
He is Vlad III…
He is Tepes…the Impaler…
He is known by many names…but all know him as…
DRACULA!
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