2) Just like its predecessors in Lords of Shadow series, the game retained its title for all regional release including the Japanese version.
3) The Paladin is the first boss encountered in Castlevania Lords of Shadow 2. The word is borrowed from the literary work The Song of Roland. A paladin is a title given to the Twelve Peers in Charlemagne's court.
4) Zobek is unusually fond of wearing the the old-fashioned uniform of the Brotherhood of Light. The one that he wears is owned by his ancestor who is one of the founding members of the Order.
5) Did you know that the game does not follow the original Castlevania timeline and story? Thus, it was given a new series title popularly known as the Lords of Shadow series.
6) In the original series, Simon Belmont is the very first protagonist featured in Castlevania games.
7) Trevor Belmont is also called Ralph Belmondo in Japanese version of the original Castlevania series. He is the third Belmont to be featured as a main protagonist.
8) In the original Castlevania series, Alucard is not an alter-ego of Trevor Belmont but an utterly different person. The two actually fought alongside each other to defeat Dracula in Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse.
9) Alucard's sword, Crissaegrim, is a recurring weapon in the series that was first seen in Castlevania Symphony of the Night.
10) The Crissaegrim also appears in Castlevania Aria of Sorrow and Castlevania Dawn of Sorrow but bears a different name. It is called the Valmanway.
11) The moniker "Dracul" used by Gabriel Belmont is actually a reference to a real-life duke of Wallachia in modern day Romania. Vlad Dracul is actually the father of Vlad III Dracula, the man whom the world branded as Vlad the Impaler.
12) Dracul and Dracula are Romanian patronymic names used by the royalty in Wallachia. They literally mean as "dragon" and "son of the dragon" respectively.
13) In modern Romanian language, dracul is now synonymous to the "devil" while the word dragon is now called "balaur."
