The system for this game is known as the Glyph System. The basic gameplay is like all other ' metroidvania' style games. It is also said that all records of Ecclesia vanished soon afterward.Д¬haracters Main article: Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia/Gallery CharactersД®cclesia was founded to defeat this powerful vampire in the absence of the Belmont Clan.

Albus's soul disappears, Castlevania crumbles into ruins and Shanoa escapes. He gives up his own in Shanoa's place after restoring her emotions and memories back, but not before he asks her to smile for him one last time. However, Albus's spirit appears and reveals to Shanoa that while using Dominus demands a life in return, it need not be hers. She successfully defeats him using Dominus, but seemingly at the cost of her own life.

Shanoa infiltrates Dracula's castle, defeats many of his underlings, and finally confronts him. With no memories left, no emotions left, and with the death of those who were most precious to her, Shanoa sets for Dracula's castle to put him back into his slumber, and complete the task she has spent her whole life preparing herself for. After Barlowe is defeated, he ends up offering his own life to fulfill his ambition. He also revealed that Dominus is made from Dracula's own essence.Д¬onfronting her master after learning the truth, Shanoa hears from him that his true objective all this time was to bring Dracula back to life using her as a sacrifice. As for her lost emotions and memories, he revealed that Barlowe used them as a sacrifice to gain control of Dominus, a fact he hid from her. He also reveals that the reason he experimented on the villagers was because they were the last descendants of the Belmont Clan, and he (erroneously) believed their blood would have the power to help him control Dominus without it consuming him. However, if all villagers are rescued before Shanoa's final confrontation with Albus, his conscience fuses with hers when she absorbs the final glyph and she learns that Albus's true intentions were to find a way to defeat Dracula without Shanoa using Dominus, as he knew that it would cost her life if she used it. The game ends with her untimely death and Barlowe's master plan completed. If there are villagers left to rescue at that part of the game, Shanoa retrieves the final piece of Dominus after killing Albus and immediately returns to Ecclesia to perform the ritual. But when she finds him possessed by the power of the third and final glyph, she is forced to battle him it transpires his objective in gifting her with the glyphs was to learn her absorption technique. On two occasions, Shanoa manages to track down Albus, who willingly lets her retrieve one of the Dominus glyphs. Although completing the tasks is not required to complete the game, some of the final areas are only unlocked when all villagers are rescued. Each villager rescued provides Shanoa with tasks that once completed, provide new rewards. As Shanoa rescues them throughout the game, she learns that Albus captured them to perform some kind of twisted experiment on them which involved draining samples of their blood.

In her pursuit, Shanoa arrives in the deserted Wygol Village and finds out that Albus kidnapped its inhabitants and keeps each one of them imprisoned in a different location. Upon her awakening, Barlowe tells herВ of the events leading to her memory loss, and orders her to retrieve Albus and the stolen Dominus glyphs. Shanoa is a young lady chosen by the order's leader, Barlowe, as the human vessel for Dominus, but just before the ritual is performed, the glyphs are stolen by Shanoa's best (and only) friend and fellow Ecclesia member Albus, disrupting the ritual and apparently causing the loss of Shanoa's emotions and memories. Between these organizations, the most promising was the Order of Ecclesia who created a triad of magical glyphs named 'Dominus'. As the Belmont Clan had vanished by that time, several organizations are created in order to research countermeasures against Dracula and his army's eventual return.

This game takes place after Symphony of the Night, sometime in the early 1800s.

Order of ecclesia maps