A painfully short prologue to the main story, in the style of the narrative intro from Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening.
Narrator: Trish
Forgotten Chapters
Many know the story of Sparda, the savior of mankind two millennia ago during the First War with the Prince of Darkness. He is a legend, they say, that symbolizes the struggle between good and evil, and how the good would even attract evil to fight against their own, and ultimately be the victor. Most sources claiming to be firsthand eyewitness accounts of Sparda were never dated later than one-and-a-half millennia ago, nor were there any other records that speak of him after the First War, of which the existence of such a war has been debated to be apocryphal to this day. Many also do not know of the rumors of Sparda and his post-war appearance which have survived through the centuries.
All had thought it was only a myth, a legend, until a man named Dante suddenly appeared and claimed to be the Son of Sparda. Many doubted, but his inhuman strength, endurance and reflexes were proof of his lineage, and thus those who reminisced of the tales of the Legendary Dark Knight went back to the forbidden sections of obscure libraries and studied them all the more for the inevitable…
For detailed accounts of the Forgotten Chapters, kindly refer to my other work of the same name.