- For the original timeline version of this place, see Infinite Corridor.
- "The Infinite Corridor is a route to many other worlds, and it's certainly possible that one of them is Hell. However, in the experience of those of my particular expertise, it is in fact a system of doors to other lands, separated from our own by space and time. Portals to the Corridor are few and far between, and they drift in and out of existence."
- — Saint Germain
The Infinite Corridor is a location in the Castlevania animated series. It is an alternate realm that gives access to many different lands separated from this world's space and time.
Overview[]
The Infinite Corridor is presented by Saint Germain as a mystical path out of time and space, which acts as a central waypoint linking our world to many others across different dimensions. Looking like an endless tunnel of swirling turquoise and pink energy to those in it, most people do not know of its existence, save for a few scholars educated in the magical arts and those knowledgeable in the arcane. However, like with Alucard, even some of those with this knowledge believe it to be nothing more than a fairy tale.
In spite of how ephemeral the doors to the Corridor itself are, flickering in and out of existence, they take an excessively-high amount of energy and will to open. For instance, the Visitor, willingly crucified under the Priory of Lindenfeld had to undergo gruesome mutilation and duress while instructing the unwitting monks on how to open one such door, instructing them to carve the alchemical rune of Saturn on the town's houses, and alchemical sign for sulfur (Hell) on the floor with its blood. When they started the ritual to open the Corridor, the runes ignited, immolating the houses and the people within, thus causing a confluence of souls that was then swallowed by the Visitor, and breathed into a preexisting planar crack leading to the Corridor, opening it completely.
The only known way to open a gate to the Corridor from scratch (wherever it was desired to be accessed) was shown by Saint Germain to involve the Alchemist's Key, charged with innumerable deaths, to tear the fabric of reality, and open it wider via a ritual involving the harvest of demonic souls in a ritual of death magic to pull Dracula and Lisa's souls from Hell.
Once in the Corridor, those with magical aptitude can try to open doors on its walls that leading other realms, however, doing so demands great power, and only those with suitable amounts of will, or access to a considerable magical source, can control the energies of the Corridor with any degree of accuracy. As per Saint Germain's words, it took him one year to recover his strength after using the Corridor once.
In the series, only two named entrances to the Infinite Corridor exist. One is under the Priory in the town of Lindenfeld, and the other, according to Trevor Belmont, who tells of an ancestor who found the a portal, then constructed the fortress atop it, is in a Livonian castle. These entrances are invisible to the human eye unless sensed with magical relics such as Saint Germain's jewel, made or enchanted with Lithomancy, or otherwise opened via a ritual that requires "defilement of the soul", when not the sacrifice of dozens of others.
As part of the destinations the Infinite Corridor can take someone to, the following were witnessed by Saint Germain:
Trivia[]
- Some worlds that Saint Germain contemplates during his dream in "The Good Dream" could be references to other Intellectual Property's universes:
- The first world (Savannah with mech) could be a reference to the Metal Gear series, where a giant bipedal tank resembles the titular weapon.
- The third world (Shattered moon and spaceship) could be a reference to Prometheus from the Alien franchise, with the crescent moon-shaped ship looking like the Juggernaut.
- The fourth world (Australian Outback) could be a reference to Gateway, a character from Marvel Comics who, in addition to the likeness, is able to open dimensional portals by waving a Bullroarer.
- The concept of the Infinite Corridor being able to access multiple worlds could be inspired both by the scientific concept of wormholes, and/or Multiverse Theory.