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The Castle Keep is a recurring environment in the Castlevania series. It sits at the very top of the Demon's Castle and is generally preceded by the clock tower. The throne room is traditionally found here, and it is also in this place where Dracula (or that generation's lord of the castle) usually awaits the hero for the final confrontation.

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The Castle Keep is a rather small area of the Demon Castle; even though there are slight differences between games, it usually consists of a long hallway or a sumptuous banquet room housing a large dining table, with the throne room at its far end; or, in some instances, a simple chamber is found instead, where lies the vampire's coffin.

The keep is traditionally found suspended in the air and apart from the castle's main structure, possibly held up by magical forces since the castle itself is a creature of Chaos. It is generally located after the clock tower and is generally reached by climbing a long staircase suspended high in the sky (from where the face of the clock can usually be seen in the distance), which just by itself would make it impossible to hold the weight of the whole structure.

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  • In the original Castlevania, the Castle Keep can be seen from a distance near the end of Stage 09.
  • The final stage in Castlevania: Dracula X is supposed to be the Castle Keep, but for unknown reasons the developers used the level map from stage transitions as the background of the level, meaning the player can look at the Castle Keep exterior from the Castle Keep interior itself.

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