List of Castlevania characters
Listed below are characters from all of the Castlevania video games and related media adaptations, in the order of their introduction and the work's release.
Video games
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Dracula
The main antagonist of the Castlevania series is Dracula, based on the original character by Bram Stoker and his depiction in film. His real name is Dracula Vlad Tepes, and he is estimated to be over 800 years old by the time of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. With a few exceptions, he has starred in every title. The series mainly takes place in the eponymous castle of Count Dracula, which resurrects every hundred years to take over the world. Players often assume the role of the Belmonts, a family of vampire hunters who have opposed Dracula and his forces for centuries using the Vampire Killer, a legendary whip.Dracula debuts in Castlevania, as a vampire who was once defeated by Christopher Belmont one hundred years ago in Transylvania. He rises from the dead after his followers hold a black mass. Christopher's descendant, Simon Belmont, enters Dracula's castle and defeats him. Later titles introduce Dracula's son, the dhampir Alucard, who sided with Trevor Belmont against his father. Symphony of the Night reveals Alucard's mother to be Lisa, a human Dracula fell in love with. Her execution for false charges of witchcraft left him griefstricken.
The 2010 reboot, Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, reintroduces Dracula as Gabriel Belmont, a member of the Brotherhood of Light who fights the Lords of Shadow to obtain the God Mask, which he believes can bring back his deceased wife, Marie. Gabriel eventually becomes a vampire and stars as Dracula in the sequels Castlevania: Lords of Shadow – Mirror of Fate and Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2, where he searches for a way to end his immortality.
Death
Death is present in all Castlevania games, except for Haunted Castle, Castlevania: The Adventure and Castlevania II: Belmont's Revenge. He is considered Dracula's second-in-command and most trusted minion, and is often a boss fought toward the end of the game. As well, he has sometimes played an important role in the storyline, such as in Castlevania: Lament of Innocence. He is a playable character as the skeletal knight in Castlevania Judgment.In most appearances, Death closely resembles the cultural personification of the Grim Reaper, being a legless skeleton who wears a hooded cloak and wields a scythe. Like Dracula, he can change into a second form upon being defeated, although this ability is not used as often.
Death also appears in the 2018 crossover fighting game Super Smash Bros. Ultimate as a background character on the Dracula's Castle stage. Simon and Richter's reveal trailer features Death claiming the soul of a panicked Luigi before Simon intervenes.
The character of Zobek, Lord of the Dead in the reboot Castlevania: Lords of Shadow has been speculated to be the version of Death in this universe, due to his relationship with Dracula. Additionally, the Lord of the Necromancers is at one point referred to as "Death itself". In the game's sequel, when Gabriel Belmont is forced into a confrontation with Zobek, he sheds his human form and takes on an appearance resembling a more traditional depiction of Death, including wielding a large scythe.
Simon Belmont
Simon Belmont is the first protagonist to appear in the series. He has appeared in Castlevania, Vampire Killer, Haunted Castle, Castlevania II: Simon's Quest, Super Castlevania IV, Castlevania Chronicles, Castlevania Judgment, and Castlevania: Harmony of Despair, as well as in other games, such as ''Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.''Carmilla
Carmilla is a devoted worshipper of chaos and Dracula. Her name is a reference to the title character of the 1872 novel Carmilla, which predated Bram Stoker's Dracula by 25 years. Her first appearance was as an antagonist in Castlevania II: Simon's Quest. She later reappeared in Castlevania: Dracula X, Castlevania: Circle of the Moon, and Castlevania Judgment.Carmilla's appearances and names have differed. In Simon's Quest, she was originally known as Vampira in the instruction manual, though the in-game hidden clue refers to her as Camilla. The Camilla spelling is also used in Circle of the Moon, while all other appearances favor the Carmilla spelling. Her initial appearance in Simon's Quest was interpreted as a mask that leaked tears of blood, while later appearances give her a humanoid form.
In Circle of the Moon, she successfully resurrects Dracula in her Austrian castle in 1830. However, he had not regained his full power, so to restore it they plan to sacrifice the vampire hunter Morris Baldwin, father to Hugh Baldwin and mentor to Nathan Graves, during a lunar eclipse of the full moon. As Nathan makes headway in his efforts to rescue his master, Camilla brainwashes Hugh and challenges Nathan to a battle in the Underground Waterway. Despite dying, Camilla revels in the fact the rite to restore Dracula's power is nearly complete.
In Rondo of Blood, Carmilla has a blue-haired companion called Laura, named after the central protagonist and narrator from Carmilla. She is a non-boss enemy in Portrait of Ruin, but is referred to as "Carmilla's eternal servant" in her bestiary entry. In the reboot Lords of Shadow, Laura is Carmilla's daughter, who challenges the main character Gabriel with dangerous games.
In the reboot Lords of Shadow, Carmilla is played by Sally Knyvette. She is one of the titular Lords, ruling over the vampires and is the second lord faced by the protagonist, Gabriel Belmont. She has a vampire "daughter" named Laura. Before sacrificing her soul to heaven, she was known to be a kind woman who loved all of Earth's creatures, and became the opposite as a Lord of Shadow. This is a marked departure from the description of her in life in the original novel. However, the explicit sexuality sometimes attributed to her, most prominently in Castlevania: Judgment, is a reference to her characterization in the novel. She reappears in the sequel, Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2, with a different appearance.
She appears in the 2018 crossover fighting game Super Smash Bros. Ultimate as a background character on the Dracula's Castle stage, based on her appearance in Simon's Quest. She also appears at the end of Simon and Richter's reveal trailer, frightening Luigi as his soul is about to re-enter his body.
Ferryman
The Ferryman is a character whose task is to carry people across dangerous rivers, and takes characters to "meet their destiny". He first appeared in Simon's Quest, helping him to reach Rover Mansion. He later appears in Rondo of Blood and its remake, The Dracula X Chronicles, Symphony of the Night, and Legacy of Darkness.''The Adventure">Castlevania: The Adventure">The Adventure'' and ''Belmont's Revenge">Castlevania II: Belmont's Revenge">Belmont's Revenge''
Christopher Belmont
Christopher Belmont starred in three Castlevania games as a protagonist, two for the Game Boy and one for the Wii. He was a pre-existing character in the Castlevania universe even before the games he starred in were released, as he is mentioned by name in the Japanese manual for the first Famicom Castlevania title, as the last Belmont to have defeated Dracula, one hundred years before Simon. The two Game Boy games were Castlevania: The Adventure and Castlevania II: Belmont's Revenge; in the former, Christopher sets out to defeat Dracula, while in the latter, he has to rescue his son, Soleil Belmont, after he is kidnapped by Count Dracula. He also appears in the Nintendo Wii game Castlevania: The Adventure ReBirth, which is a remake of The Adventure. He also was the protagonist in the limited Castlevania: The Belmont Legacy comic book series released by IDW Publishing.Soleil Belmont
Soleil Belmont appears as a non-playable character in Castlevania II: Belmont's Revenge, which was released for the Game Boy in 1991. He was called Soleiyu in the original release of Belmont's Revenge, which was later corrected to Soleil in the 1998 re-release of the game for the European market.In 1591, Soleil, who has recently celebrated his coming of age, is captured by Dracula's minions and bewitched to do his bidding. With Soleil's powers, Dracula is able to take human form once again. Christopher Belmont, his father, sets out to stop Dracula and rescue him, which he ultimately succeeds in.
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Trevor Belmont
Trevor Belmont, known as Ralph C. Belmondo in Japan, appears in Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse, Castlevania: Judgment, Akumajo Dracula Pachislot, and as a supporting character in Castlevania: Curse of Darkness.In Castlevania III, Trevor defeated Dracula with help from Grant Danasty, Sypha Belnades and Alucard. He later marries Sypha Belnades and has children with her, adding the prodigious magical powers of the Belnades line to the Belmont line, which would be most prominently seen in Juste Belmont.
He later plays a secondary role in Curse of Darkness, where he investigates the rise of Dracula in the region. He confronts the Devil Forgemaster Hector, and although he initially treats Hector with contempt, he aids him in his quest. After Isaac injures him, Julia LaForeze gets to him in time, but he is unable to help in the battle. Meanwhile, Hector succeeds in stopping Isaac and sending Dracula's castle back into the abyss, effectively lifting the curse placed three years prior. In the game, he is unlocked after beating the game with Hector.
He, along with Sypha Belnades and Grant Danasty, later makes a cameo appearance in Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, when zombies impersonate them to antagonize Alucard. These zombies also appear in Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin, as [|Jonathan Morris] and Charlotte Aulin trek through the Nest of Evil.
As shown in Castlevania: Judgment, by the time of Simon Belmont's era, Trevor Belmont is looked up to by his future descendants, along with his wife Sypha, his ally Alucard, and his friend Grant, who are known as the "Greatest Three". This pushes Simon, who is trapped in the Time Rift, to seek them to prove his worthiness. According to the Bradygames Official Guide, Trevor is approximately tall.
In the Lords of Shadow series, Trevor is the son of Gabriel and Marie Belmont. He debuts in Mirror of Fate, which reveals that, under orders from Pan, who foresaw Gabriel's turn to darkness, the Brotherhood of Light kept his existence secret from his father, and he was not told of his parentage until adulthood. Shamed by his lineage, he ventures to Dracula's castle to defeat his father and avenge his mother, but falls to Dracula and is impaled by his own combat cross. The Mirror of Fate reveals the truth of his father's circumstances to Trevor, leading him to pity Dracula and reveal his identity as he dies. Horrified, Dracula attempts to revive Trevor by making him drink his blood, but seemingly fails. Never knowing Trevor's true name, Dracula buries him within his castle in a coffin bearing the name "Alucard". Thirty years later, Trevor reawakens as a vampire and takes on the name Alucard, after what was engraved on the coffin. He returns in the sequel Lords of Shadow 2, where he plays an important part in his father's journey of redemption.
Trevor is voiced by Richard Madden in Mirror of Fate.