High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! This is a list of characters of Konami`s action-adventure games Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow and Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow, part of Konami`s Castlevania video game series. The games take place in 2035 and 2036 respectively, and each game deals with the effects that the death of Dracula, the primary antagonist of the Castlevania series, has had on the world. Aria of Sorrow features the coming of a prophecy that Dracula`s reincarnation will inherit all of his powers, and the paths of the game`s characters are led to Dracula`s castle by this event. Dawn of Sorrow takes place one year later, with the antagonists seeking to revive the dark lord when he did not surface in Aria of Sorrow.