Board Thread:Mirror of Fate/@comment-65529-20130310184311/@comment-86.18.95.65-20130311024528

There's nothing I've seen that completely rules-out the possibility that Lament of Innocence is considered (by MercurySteam) canon to their Lords of Shadow series. They seem to pick that game for a whole lot of references.

Rinaldo Gandolfi is long-dead, so LOI takes place in the distant relative past, at the point before Rinaldo made the Combat Cross. The ending of LOI has Matthias Cronqvist become Dracula (or equivalent), and since it's possible that Gabriel's of his bloodline he was perhaps more succeptible than most to turning to the dark side.

With Mirror of Fate we even find out that it was Walter Bernhard himself who cursed the Toy Maker. Let's not forget that his castle ultimately became Camilla's, which ultimately became Dracula's Castle.

Of course, Leon being a Belmont doesn't need to mess with Gabriel's own reasons for taking that surname. The given reason in LOS only explains why Gabriel chose that name, it didn't mean to say there weren't other people out there also called Belmont.