Ten years before the events of Castlevania: Circle of the Moon, there existed an untold tale of Dracula versus the family of legend (or at least a faction of the family bearing blood relation to the Belmonts). After Richter Belmont vanquished from this world the hated Count, the clan pulled a disappearing act and relinquished possession of the Vampire Killer and the mystic sub-weapons due to an unexplored policy that it not again touch the hardware until Dracula's next in-cycle resurrection--one requiring approximately one hundred years of rest on the part of the Dark Lord. Fearing that deviants, as they always had, might attempt to resurrect Dracula early, the clan left the weapons to the care of the Baldwin and Graves warriors, who were related to the Belmonts by blood. It would be their job to in the meantime counter any threat.

When Dracula did indeed return to this world, early, it was Morris Baldwin and members of said Graves family who battled the resilient Count and removed him from this world.

After the epic struggle, Morris came to realize the near-unlimited power of Dracula, and in researching history, he lived in fear that Dracula might return sooner than believed--that his followers would seize a golden opportunity, a Belmont-less scenario, and hastily try again, or that Dracula was simply feigning defeat in order to hide out and over time regenerate enough power to orchestrate a surprise return. To prepare for such an event, he took under his wing two youths: His son, Hugh Baldwin, and Nathan Graves, the offspring of his relatives; he trained the two boys to be expert vampire hunters. Though, in a move that shocked everyone, Morris, as the elder entrusted with the whip and the weapons, decided that Nathan should be the next hunter in line and not Hugh, his son, who seemed to be the more logical choice due to a superior skill-level. This decision affected the two youths in different ways. Morris was deeply disappointed to learn that Hugh came to despise Nathan, his former friend, who he now saw as his bitter rival.

Years later, notwithstanding, the event that Morris feared was coming to fruition: The countess Camilla had been resurrected and was preparing to do the same for her master, Lord Dracula. Morris and his students sensed this imbalance in nature and sped toward the castle to prevent such a ritual from occurring. They were too late, and for Morris, this resulted in his untimely capture, whereby Dracula would slowly drain the old hunting master's life-force and use it to replenish his own. His pupils were discared into an abyss and the catacombs below.

Morris survived the process long enough for Nathan, and later Hugh, to arrive and carry him off to safety. While Hugh was proud of Nathan's efforts in vanquishing Dracula from this world, he was even more proud of the fact that through their castle-wide encounters his two students learned to work out their differences and accept their separate distinctions.