CastleVania (Netflix)

[Sumac]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

The undercurrent was always that Dracula was the real life Vlad Tepes Dracula, 1431-1476 (and Symphony seemed to cement that, though the opening crawl of CVIII did enough, Bloodlines too for sure). Lament of Innocence took that away. At best, Dracula is just a fake name Matthias or whatever adopted in the 15th century. That's lame. Making Dracula not be Dracula and just a FAKE Dracula is lame.

I can agree with that.
Though I don't it close to heart since this series never was historically accurate.

There was even theory amongst fans at the time, that Mathias died between LOI and CV3 and starting with CV3 it was real a Vlad Tepes.