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The story begins in Transylvania in the year 1450. In the game (although not the series's overall canon), Sonia Belmont is the first Belmont to confront Dracula.[2][3] She also meets Alucard who seeks revenge against his father Dracula.[3][4] After Dracula's defeat, he swears to Sonia that as long as there is evil in the world, he will be resurrected, and in response she swears her family will always defeat him.[3] The game was also the first game in the series timeline until Lament of Innocence.[3]
- Sonia Belmont is the protagonist of Castlevania Legends. At the age of seventeen she lived in a remote part of Transylvania.[5] She was born with special abilities that allowed her to sense the presence of physical and spiritual beings, and was taught how to use a whip by her grandfather.[6] It is not explicitly stated whether the whip she uses is Vampire Killer or not.
- Within the castle, she encounters Alucard, the half-vampire son of Dracula. She had met him some time before and it can be inferred from their dialog that the two had formed a romantic relationship.[7] Alucard was intent on dissuading Sonia from her goal, planning to stop his father alone. When Sonia would not yield, he challenged her to a battle to test her abilities. After she defeated him, Alucard was confident that Sonia could overcome Dracula and he went into a self-imposed sleep. Sonia defeated Dracula, and spared Europe from his evil influence for a time. Sometime after Dracula's defeat, Sonia bore a child who "would carry on the fate and tragedy of the Belmont family, and the bloodline of dark ways."[8] The child would grow up to fight Dracula again and become a hero.[9]