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| - Chaos is the name given to the mysterious entity who rules the Chaotic Realm: a demonic and warped dimensional plane where negative energy and human malevolence gathers, which only Dracula or his reincarnation can enter. The Chaotic Realm is likely the place from where Count Dracula and the Castlevania emerge when resurrected, given that it contains an amalgamation of all parts of the Castle. It might also be linked to Hell and the Demonic Planes where the demons and monsters come from, as it spawns many monsters. Very little is known about Chaos and its nature led to much fan speculation. Its entry in the Enemy Data (which was written out when the game was released) states that it is the root of all chaotic things. This means that it is the Source of All Evil, and the anti-God of the Castlevania universe; likely born from the negativity that festers in the Chaotic Realm. Chaos is the force that makes Dracula into the King of the Night: the antithesis of God described in Dawn of Sorrow to be necessary in the balance between Good and Evil. It is clearly sentient but has no dialogue and does not display any personality or sapience, apparently acting more out of instinct than anything else. Whether or not Chaos chooses the King of the Night and controls his actions is never explained; but Aria of Sorrow and especially Dawn of Sorrow imply that only Dracula's reincarnation can succeed him as the King of the Night. Given that Dracula is described as Evil Incarnate, it seems that Chaos is not a superior power but that Chaos and Dracula are one and the same. It can be assumed that Chaos is bound to the Chaotic Realm and that it merely fulfils a cosmic role, needing the King of the Night as an avatar to influence the Physical World. Chaos was apparently was personified as Dracula as long as the King of the Night existed, and was cast back into the Chaotic Realm after his final destruction. Chaos itself is an Eldritch Abomination impossible to describe properly. It first appears closed like a shell covered with limb-like vines looking like carved statues; and sports three figures shaped like winged-humanoids holding a glowing orb. Chaos' true form appears as a stone-like symmetrical shape with no beginning or end, surrounding a Dark Core of changing color from which protrudes a seemingly endless structure of bone-like appendages basked in a pale red light. Chaos' picture for the Enemy Data looks nothing like how it appears when met in person. It depicts several grey, stone-like, floating diamond-shaped figures in a somehow pyramidal arrangement, with two floating outside and shapeless white masses of energy below the "pyramid", that seem to emerge from the diamond-figures.
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