‘Castlevania’ Season 3 Ending Explained: What Happened at the End and What It Means for Season 4? – Newsweek

After the last season of Castlevania on Netflix saw many of the main cast of characters battling against Dracula (Graham McTavish), Season 3 saw most of our characters split up, with Alucard (James Callis) and Carmilla (Jaime Murray) in their respective castles, Isaac (Adetokumboh M'Cormack) exiled in the desert while Trevor (Richard Armitage) and Sypha (Alejandra Reynoso) find themselves in Lindenfeld, a village practicing strange occult practices.

By the ending of Castlevania Season 3, however, the Netflix show is hinting that the characters could all be reunited in an epic vampire war, with Dracula either returning from Hell or being fought in the upside-down world discovered by Saint Germain (Bill Nighy).

To best understand Castlevania Season 3, Episode 10, titled "Abandon All Hope," it is best to look at how each character's (or group of characters') storyline ties up separately, and what that means for them going forward into Season 4:

By the end of Season 3, Alucard's heritage has won out, with the dhampir becoming as isolated and violent as his father, Dracula.

Earlier in the season, Alucard found himself lonely after the departure of Trevor and Sypha, and so allowed vampire-hunting students Sumi (Rila Fukushima) and Taka (Toru Uchikado) into his estate.

He starts to open up to them until he realizes that their plan is to take all of his secrets, lure him into bed and try to kill him. This forces him to slit both their throats, and in the final episode we see him impale their bodies outside his new home.

This seems to suggest that in Season 4 we will see an Alucard disowning what is human in him and embracing his vampire nature, which could mean that fans see him become an antagonist on par with Dracula in the next set of episodes.

After being tricked into betraying Dracula by Carmilla in the last season by getting him to unwittingly support her plan to ambush the vampire, she manages to trick Hector (Theo James) again at the end of Season 3. She persuades Lenore (Jessica Brown Findlay) into seducing him, and when the pair are in bed Lenore puts a magic ring on him that gives her full control of him. She then gives rings to Carmilla and her allies so they can all control him and force him to use his forgemaster abilities to raise an army for them.

This also suggests that Carmilla is building an army ready for a Season 4 war too, setting up a possible second antagonist for the future season.

The ending of Season 3, however, already hints at the way that Carmila could be defeated. Isaac is determined to kill Hector for his betrayal of the Dark Lord in the last season, and by the end of the current season he and his army of Hell monsters have found a mirror that allow them to travel to Styria to take on Hector.

Without Hector and his forgemaster powers, Carmila's campaign for power could be over before it begins in Castlevania Season 4.

Throughout Season 3, the pair find themselves wondering about the strange occult practices of Lindenfeld, the strange symbols that keep appearing in the village and everyone's obsession with apples.

In the finale, they discover this is part of a plot to open a portal to Hell to allow Dracula to return, by feeding the souls of the villagers to a demon they have in a dungeon, who will then open a door to the pathway between worlds called the Infinite Corridor that will allow them to bring Dracula back. The ritual starts and the villagers all die, but Saint Germain manages to close the door to Hell, using a stone he acquired last time he entered the corridor. Last time we see Saint Germain, he is heading back into the Corridor to find someone dear to him who had previously got lost in there.

Though Dracula does not return in Castlevania Season 3, the ending hints he could soon be back. Saint Germain's actions in the Infinite Corridor could somehow trigger the Dark Lord to return, and he is sure to be furious if he has to return to Earthafter all, this would mean he was separated from his wife Lisa (Emily Swallow) yet again.

As Saint Germain travels through the corridor, one of the realms he finds himself is an upside-down realm. This could either be merely an Easter Egg reference to the Castlevania video game Symphony of the Night, where this world first appeared, or a hint that like in that game we will see an epic battle between Alucard and his father in this reverse world.

As things stand at the end of the season, then, multiple threats have been teased for Season 4. Alucard is becoming more like his bloodthirsty father, both Isaac and Carmilla have armies of their own, and Dracula could soon be back on Earth. Exactly which of these forces might be triumphant, however, will only be revealed if and when Netflix recommissions the show for another season.

Castlevania Season 3 is streaming now on Netflix.

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Reviewed and Recommended by Erik Baquero