Chaos

Chaos is the final boss of Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow and the overarching antagonist of the Castlevania series. It is an entity born out of humans and the source of Dracula's power.Kabuchi no Tsuisoukyoku fan translation: 
*"The castle is the symbol of the chaos within humans and as long as people exist, it will not be completely sealed."
*"As I've said, I would equally gain control over the human world and the source of Dracula's power, chaos. I do not intend to obey someone else's mind aside from my own. That includes you who were born out of chaos."
*"If I could control the even heart that is the root of humans... Would the chaos that is born from them no longer exist? I have no interest in tranquility but it could be fun to challenge that." It is the root of all chaotic things.
==History==
As the antithesis of God, Chaos grants powers of control over monsters and corrupted humans with negative feelings –called the Power of Dominance– to the one in position of Dark Lord, acting as its herald on Earth. Dracula, through a pact with the Evil God in the year of 1476, obtained the powers of Chaos in order to obtain enough power to carry out his revenge plan of extermination of mankind.Akumajō Densetsu opening narration.
Chaos chose Soma Cruz to become the next Dark Lord due to his inheritance of Dracula's soul. Realizing this, Soma set off to somehow enter the Chaotic Realm and fight his own fate, not without first measuring strengths with Julius Belmont and making him promise that in case evil finally overcame him, he should kill him.
Despite all of Chaos's efforts, Soma eventually felled the eldritch personification of darkness, thus finally making Dracula's Castle to exit the eclipse it was trapped in, while crumbling and disappearing from this world at the same time.
As Soma slowly descended back to Earth as if he was waking up from a dream, in his mind, he could hear the voices of his friends Yoko, Hammer, Julius and Genya, congratulating him and bidding him farewell. As he regained consciousness, he found himself lying safe and sound within Mina's arms back at the Hakuba Shrine.
==Boss battle==
===Phase 1===
Right as Soma Cruz enters Chaos's chamber in the Chaotic Realm, the entity will immediately start the battle by stealing all of his collected souls (save for Ability Souls) and fight him in the form of a giant wheel featuring three demonic statues, each which performs a different attack.
;Attacks
*The statue holding the red orb retains all of Soma's Bullet Souls and shoots out three crystals.
*The statue holding the blue orb retains all of Soma's Guardian Souls and transforms into a rushing gargoyle.
*The statue holding the yellow orb retains all of Soma's Enchanted Souls and summons a targeting reticle to lock-on to him and steal his MP.
Destroying each statue will release all of its respective captured souls back to Soma, immediately restoring him usage of their powers for the remainder of the battle.
===Phase 2===
Once all three statues are destroyed, Chaos will transform into its true form: a black orb in the middle of the room with black prominences in such fashion that it resembles a dark sun (or a solar eclipse). The boss's only weak spot is this core.
;Attacks
*Four energy orbs: The core launches four small energy orbs, each toward each corner of the room, which will then slowly home toward Soma, dealing heavy damage if they manage to make contact with him. These can be destroyed by damaging them enough.
*Circle of needles: The core surrounds itself in a circle of needles, which it then launches outward one by one in quick succession in a circling motion.
*Skeletal serpent: A giant skeletal serpent will incessantly slither around the room, dealing heavy damage if Soma comes into contact with it. It will sometimes make a brief stop in its track and spew a large ball of the same energy as the core's small orbs, which will then ricochet a couple of times on the chamber's walls and then exit the screen. The serpent is impervious to any form of damage, and it will often target Soma directly.
*Four eyes: Four demonic eyes are placed on each corner of the room; while these don't have any direct form of attack, making physical contact with them deals heavy damage. Defeating each eye will cause it to burn away and decrease the defensive stat of the main core for a determined amount.
If Soma manages to defeat Chaos, its core will shatter and the true ending will play. However, if Soma loses this encounter, a cutscene will show a start of a battle between Julius Belmont and him already as the Dark King.
==Enemy Data==
==Notes==
*Each part of Chaos (three statues, eyes and the core) has 3,000 HP.
*Chaos's core defense is reduced for every destroyed eye.
*According to the original Japanese text, the Chaotic Realm itself is Chaos while the boss confronted in that area is Chaos inhabited in Dracula's soul residing in Soma Cruz, this is further indicated in the name of the achievement "Victory Over Yourself: Defeat Chaos - Aria of Sorrow" in the Castlevania Advance Collection.
==Gallery==
The Final Battle Begins (Aria of Sorrow).JPG|Entrance to Chaos.
AoS 113.png|Chaos scrapped enemy list entry from Aria of Sorrow.
AoS Bone Dragon King.gif|The skeletal serpent resembles a Skeledragon.
==Trivia==
*Chaos is one of the three enemies in Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow that doesn't drop any souls, along with Julius and Graham.
*In The Dracula X Chronicles, during the final battle, when Dracula enters his third form, a large eye in a black void can be seen through a large, cracked hole in the background. It is possible that the eye belongs to Chaos, signifying Dracula's usage of his full power. However, this is just speculation.
**The same could be speculated for the final battle in Circle of the Moon, as a similar black void can be seen in the background while fighting against Dracula's final form. However, like the above, this is unconfirmed.
*According to the novel Akumajō Dracula: Kabuchi no Tsuisoukyoku, Olrox seeks to control both Chaos and Humanity.Fan translation (by Shiroi Koumori): "The magic I received from the castle will not be used to bind humans to chaos and other similar things. I would like to equally gain control over both humans and chaos."
*Chaos originally had a planned enemy list entry which showed a picture of it not used in the game. This entry was eventually dropped from the final version, although it still remains in the game's files and can be viewed through hacking.
==See also==
*Evil God
*Satan
==References==
==External links==
*Chaos (Castlevania) at the Villains Wiki
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