Divine Bloodlines

"Divine Bloodline" (乾坤の血族 Kenkon no Ketsuzoku, literally "Blood Relations of Heaven and Earth") is a song introduced in the 1993 NEC PC Engine game Castlevania: Rondo of Blood as the music for the the stage 1 as well as the stage 1 from the 1995 Nintendo SNES game Castlevania: Dracula X. The song is composed by Akiropito. One of the variation, "Overture", comes with a faster tempo, is the music for the intro animation before stage 0 in the game. It is marked as Richter Belmont's theme in the soundtrack.

There is four major variations:
 * Ending theme of Castlevania: Dracula X
 * "Blood Relations" (異形の血族 Igyō no Ketsuzoku, literally "Monstrous Blood Relations"), which was introduced in the 1997 Sony PlayStation game Castlevania: Symphony of the Night as the music for the battle against Richter Belmont. This version is arranged by Michiru Yamane.
 * "Sign of Blood Relationship" (血脈の印 Ketsumyaku no Shirushi), which was introduced in the 1999 Nintendo 64 game Castlevania as the intro music of the game.
 * "Bloodlines Bequeathed" (-継承- 乾坤の血族 Keisyō Kenkon no Ketsuzoku, literally "The Succession: Blood Relations of Heaven and Earth"), which was introduced in the 2006 Nintendo DS game Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin as the music for the battle against Richter Belmont.

Note

 * "Divine Bloodline" is sometime known as "Opposing Bloodlines".
 * "Blood Relations" is sometime known as "Strange Bloodlines" or "Cursed Bloodlines".