Talk:Castlevania: The Belmont Legacy

The following problem report was sent by 67.163.254.241. Since I do not think that problem reports are the correct place to discuss issues with the articles, I am posting it here along with my reply.: You say that "Juste may be Christopher's father, whose corpse is desecrated by Dracula 50 years later." Yet, Harmony of Dissonance is set in 1748, and stars Juste Belmont, the grandson of Simon Belmont and member of the legendary Belmont family of vampire hunters.

So therefore A) christopher would be in the 1500s, Simon in the 1600s, and Juste in the 1700s making both you and the comic wrong.

Reinhart77's response: You are correct that according to the official timeline and most Japanese sources, Castlevania Adventure precedes Castlevania I and Harmony of Dissonance. For some reason though, the Belmont Legacy decided to make Christopher a successor to Simon Belmont's story, rather than a predecessor. The comic is "wrong", but that is the way it is written. The article does point this out. Evidence of this is the fact that Simon appears a mural in the Belmont's cemetary, as well as a possible statue of him (I don't see the resemblance in the statue myself, but I haven't looked very hard, and someone else thought it was). Also, the story makes it clear that this was not Dracula's first resurrection. The ancestors of the Ivan Bartley had resurrected him a hundred years before the comic (I speculate this was the dark priest who resurrected Dracula in Castlevania Chronicles, their clothes are nearly identical). The game Castlevania Adventure however represents the first time that Dracula had been resurrected, so the comic must not be following the official timeline. The best way to make sense of the chronology in the story is to say that Belmont Legacy takes place 100 years after Simon. Then things fall into place. The clothes they wear also makes more sense. It is unfortunate that the comic is written that way, the authors may have been following the American timeline, which says that Trevor Belmont was the great grandfather of Simon Belmont. It's confusing, since description for the story actually lists the correct year that Castlevania Adventure is supposed to take place, but that was probably an oversight, since the Belmont Legacy does not take place during that year (unless Dracula's curse really took place in the 1300's...). The part about Juste is certainly just speculation, but I actually thought the corpse of Christopher's father kinda looked like Juste and Simon Belmont was Juste's grandfather, so if Simon Belmont was Christopher's great-grandfather, it would stand to reason that Juste was Christopher's father - in this timeline anyways. --Reinhart77 05:55, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

Trevor is on the left, Simon is on the right