The Castlevania story is among the most intriguing, if not the most intriguing, in video game history due to the its heavy emphasis on historical themes, inspired from real events, literary fiction, mythology, and the creators' ever-shifting vision. Along the way, as the lineage expanded, its storyline unraveled at the seams, became disjointed and generally losing its way; because Konami's many different teams and divisions have taken control and have shaped the storyline as they so please, with sometimes total disregard for past contributions, incoherence threatened to become the rule. We were handed a proposed story arc that stated, "Dracula will rise every one hundred years," a concept of which has surely been abandoned, since their exist certain titles that have since been created in direct contradiction (such as Castlevania 2: Simon's Quest, Castlevania: Circle of the Moon, Castlevania 64, etc.). While recently supplying a fairly functional timeline, courtesy of acting director Koji Igarashi and team, Konami has never bothered to fully explain the games' overall connection while continuing to add in titles at random for many different systems. Logically, as only suggested, we can draw the conclusion that Count Dracula can rise whenever evil calls upon his name, but he can only reach full power after having been at rest for at least one hundred years (we can from this improvise, or use as a built-in excuse, that the Count was so easy to defeat in titles such Simon's Quest and Harmony of Dissonance due to a lack of required number of years rest). To the rescue is this, my story page, where it's now time to tell the story as it should be told. You can read the story in natural progression using the teaser links found on each page's bottom, or you can zip to a desired chapter by selecting its marking on the presented timeline. Titles which sadly have no storyline positioning, vaguely referred to as "side stories" or "gaiden," can be accessed below the actual timeline, each page of which featuring an examination of the game's story and its potential placement in series history; to view these, click on the marker above a title's name.

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