Board Thread:Mirror of Fate/@comment-65529-20130310184311/@comment-86.18.95.65-20130313183328

Baggins wrote:

Alucard may be the same Alucard (originally Trevor), as I can't see there being two 'Alucard's running around out there (not counting Alucart), but SOTN backstory may have to be reinterpreted somehow. Is Adrian Farenheit Tepes an alias? It's been a while since I last played SOTN, so I'm a little rusty on all the various plot elements that game used. That being said, there's one crucial difference with Alucard in that game - he witnessed his mother being burned at the stake, and remembered her last words.

We could liken this (to a certain degree) to Trevor's mother also being killed, and the realisation by Gabriel that Trevor was his son - but it's not exactly the same and Alucard's mother even had a different name.

I tend to believe 'Adrian Farenheits Tepes' is an alias - if only because 'Tepes' literally means 'The Impaler'. It's not a real surname, just a name they gave to the historical Vlad because he used to impale his enemies on stakes. I'm not sure if this is taken into consideration in the Castlevania canon, or whether it's just literally Dracula's real surname - in which case it's only natural that Alucard have it... presuming his actual father was Dracula.

This little detail actually makes more sense in the Lords of Shadow continuity, since the popular assumption, in the majority of vampire media, is that vampires 'turn' humans as their preferred method of procreation.

The only other evidence we have that it might be an alias stems from the fact that we know he's used at least one - Genya Arikado. There's no way of knowing if this is the one and only time he's done this.