I guess it truly was a land of opportunity, where even the most humble killers of the undead could have a fresh start, and with hard work and a little ingenuity, could slay their way from rags to riches. Kind of interesting that even vampire hunters eventually started immigrating to the US in the late 19th century. Well, not the Belmonts exactly, but a distant relative, John Morris, a fully trained vampire hunter living in Texas. It does start to seem pretty obvious once you think about it, though.įortunately, the Belmont clan is there to stop Dracula before his resurrection. I had to learn that lesson from the intro to Castlevania: Bloodlines. And our history books never told us anything about the sorceress working behind the scenes, creating tensions between nations and plotting the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand to start the war, so that Dracula could harvest millions of souls and return to power. When we about learned the the four “-isms” that led to World War I, Vampirism wasn’t on the list. Ok, so that’s not something they teach you in school. Perhaps most significantly, it nearly led to the premature resurrection of Dracula. It was essentially the final blow to any kind of meaningful aristocracy in Europe, led to the collapse of some previously powerful empires, and ushered in a modern era of warfare, with astronomically higher casualty rates than nearly any previous conflict in history. But there were a lot of other historically important consequences of the Great War. Most obviously, it set the stage for World War II. World War I doesn’t get a lot of attention in history books or other media, but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t significant.
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