Dracula Wraith

The Dracula Wraith was an evil spirit spawned from Count Dracula’s remains in conjunction with Maxim Kischine’s mind. This evil spirit, having been born from Dracula’s remains, takes on Dracula’s form and possesses a small bit of the Dark Lord’s intelligence.

After the Dracula Wraith was created from contact between Maxim and the Dracula remains, it went on to house itself within Maxim’s mind and take control of him, developing a persona within him that came to be known as Dark Maxim. With Dracula’s Wraith risen, Dracula’s Castle rose with him; furthermore, Maxim’s split personalities spawned a parallel dimension, a complete copy of the castle, known as Castle B.

Now as Dark Maxim, the Dracula Wraith headed back to Maxim’s hometown and kidnapped Maxim’s childhood friend, Lydie Erlanger. He then took her to the castle, which he did to draw out Maxim’s friend, Juste Belmont. As expected, Juste entered the castle immediately and searched for Lydie.

Eventually as Juste was through with traversing both Castle A and Castle B, he reached the room where Lydie was being held. The Dracula Wraith revealed himself within Maxim, and was finally forced out of his body by Maxim’s willpower. Realizing that he needs blood to achieve his completed form, the Dracula Wraith attacked Juste Belmont.

Unfortunately for it, the Dracula Wraith was completely destroyed and wiped from existence by Juste Belmont. Fully completed, the Dracula Wraith stated that the Belmont Clan would be cursed to fight for eternity, and then it was gone. The real Count Dracula would then be resurrected nearly 44 years later.

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Dracula Wraith
Dracula WraithTransformedDark Maxim ArtworkIn-Game Model ArtworkIn-Game Model “ I will now fade from this world... but I find some pleasure in this... with the cursed powers of yours, destiny calls you to hunt for all eternity. „ ~ Dracula Wraith to Juste Belmont
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Origin
Origin	Castlevania
Creator	Koji Igarashi
First Appearance	Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance
Voiced by	Takuo Kawamura
Characteristics
Species	Wraith
Gender	Male
Pronouns	He/Him
Sexuality	Heterosexual
Age	1 year old (Physically 18 as Dark Maxim; mentally much older)
Height	Unknown
Weight	Unknown
Status	Deceased
Alignment	Chaotic Evil
Archetype	Dark Lord
Occupation	None
Time Period	1748
Language	English
Homeworld	Earth
Relationships
Affiliations	Maxim Kischine
Enemies	Juste Belmont

General Information

Name: Dracula Wraith

Other Names: Dark Maxim

Origin: Castlevania

First Appearance: Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance

Company: Konami

Creator: Koji Igarashi

Actor: Takuo Kawamura

Gender: Male

Sexuality: Heterosexual

Pronouns: He/Him

Age: 1 year old, physically 18 years old (as Dark Maxim), mentally much older

Time Period: 1748

Timeline: Main Timeline

Homeworld: Earth

Residence: Castlevania

Story Role: Main Antagonist

Legacy: Unknown Legacy (Killed by Juste Belmont as soon as he was formed)

Influence: Personal Influence (Influend the darkness and evil in Maxim Kischine through his jealously of Juste Belmont)

Language: English

Classification: Wraith, Ghost, Phantom, Evil Spirit, Dark Lord, Child of the Night

Species: Wraith

State of Being: Spirit

Physiology: Wraith Physiology

In-Universe Creator:

Occupation: None

Affiliations: Maxim Kischine (His body is what Dracula Wratih uses to create his form)

Enemies: Juste Belmont

Height: Unknown

Weight: Unknown

Status: Deceased (Killed by Juste Belmont)

Date of Death: 1748

Alignment: Chaotic Evil (Has become a complete copy of Dracula to his very core, which includes his personality and motives. Dracula despises the world for the deaths of his wives and seeks vengeance, eternally throwing the world into chaos for his own selfish goals. He took over Maxim Kischine and manipulated Juste Belmont all for these selfish ambitions)

Threat Level: Global Threat (A complete copy of Dracula, where in Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse, Dracula plans to take over all of Europe, proceeded to amass an army to kill hundreds of soldiers to take over Europe, plagued the beautiful land located in the Southern Part of Romania into darkness by having devils attack it, planned to spread his evil grip to the rest of Europe)

Codex Statistics

Grade: S

Tier: At least 7-C

Cardinality: Finite

Dimensionality: 3-D

Attack Potency: At least Town level (Potency) (Absorbed Dracula's remains into him, where he serves as the absolute evil, the opposite to God, where for God to be perfectly good, there must be a being of perfect darkness, being the entity opposite to God, with such power making him far superior to Golem from Castlevania Judgment, as he died to a random unknown hunter after his return from the time rift. Golem with his ultimate can shoot out a mouth blast that vaporizes everything it touches as far as the eye can see getting these results. Can fight and harm Juste Belmont)

Durability: At least Town level (Juste Belmont can only attack his head to harm him)

Striking Strength: At least Town Class (Potency)

Lifting Strength: At least Class 10, likely Higher physically (Absorbed Dracula's remains into him, who serves as the absolute evil, the opposite to God, where for God to be perfectly good, there must be a being of perfect darkness, being the entity opposite to God, making him far superior to Hector's Battle-Type innocent devils who can move entire tree logs that are blocking roads out of the way where logs can weigh around 15 to 5 tons. Hector's battle-type innocent devils can lift open large iron doors that "no man could force open"). At least Class G with Magic (Even with just the remnants of his magic, Dracula's magic could lift his entire castle), Far Higher with Empowerment

Travel Speed: At least Superhuman regularly (Absorbed Dracula's remains into him, who can take many forms when traveling, whether it be a wolf, bat, or a beast who moves so fast it catches on fire). At most Faster Than Light at top speed (Absorbed Dracula's remains into him, who serves as the absolute evil, the opposite to God, where for God to be perfectly good, there must be a being of perfect darkness, being the entity opposite to God, making him faster then enemies such as the Sky Fish who moves so fast that it appears as a beam of light and is only slowed down when time is stopped and the White Demon, who can move at the speed of light at short distances. Vampires can move so fast that the light itself cannot keep up with them, leaving an afterimage behind, along with Belmonts such as Juste Belmont, moving so fast that the light afterimage behind him cannot keep up. Alucard in his suppressed Genya Arikado form can still move so fast that an afterimage made of light is behind him). Far Higher with Empowerment

Attack Speed: At most Faster Than Light. Far Higher with Empowerment

Reaction Speed: At most Faster Than Light. Far Higher with Empowerment

Stamina: Limitless (Absorbed Dracula's remains into him, where the source of Dracula's power comes from the chaos that exists in the center of Dracula's castle, a product of wicked human intentions and hearts that seek destruction, with the castle itself being a spiritual world existing as a product of Dracula's magic where a stream of chaos exists within it, this stream of chaos being the entire chaotic ream)

Range: Standard Melee.Thousands of Kilometers with Curse Manipulation (Absorbed Dracula's remains into him, who after being defeated by Trevor and his friends, Dracula left a demonic curse that enshrouded all of Europe in misery and torment), Multi-Universal with his powers (Absorbed Dracula's remains into him. Where the castle is directly steered by Mathias' power, which exist on top of another dimension. The castle is directly steered by Dracula's power. The Castle can summon creatures of chaos to spawn and attack whoever enters a room through enemies spawning from glyphs. The castle can make glyphs that teleport one outside of the castle by standing over it. A lot of these creatures are summoned from Hell. The castle has magic energies that seal the gateway to hell)

Intelligence: Supergenius Intelligence (Absorbed Dracula's remains into him, where Mathias is the only person who truly understands alchemy, having studied and being a lead component in the secret arts of alchemy, a science that experiments with the arcane, and experiments with the principles of God's creation of the world, along with being said to be as great a task as recreating God's creation of the Earth. Alchemy and Magic are one and the same, where magic requires one to have a deep understanding of Quantum Physics to utilize it to its fullest, requiring understandings of theories such as "Curse Amplification". Mathias is a genius tactician, who they call "Cronqvist the Wise")

Knowledge: Grandmaster level (Absorbed Dracula's remains into him, who is noted to have a detailed knowledge of alchemy, a science that experiments with the arcane. Due to the passing of his wife, Mathias devised a plan to take revenge on God for stealing Elisabetha by becoming a vampire and living eternally, manipulating Leon, Sara, Walter and his monsters to obtain his goal. Mathias' learning made him an exception to a largely illiterate society)

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Powers and Techniques

Chaos Creature AbilitiesStandard Abilities Granted From MagicDracula Abilities

Creature of the Night AbilitiesVampire Abilities

Is a Creature of the Night, which gives:

• Superhuman Physical Characteristics (Even the smallest creatures of the night can destroy a bridge, one of Dracula's bats easily destroyed a stone ground block)
  • Superhuman Strength
  • Superhuman Durability
  • Superhuman Speed
  • Superhuman Reaction
  • Superhuman Lifting
  • Superhuman Energy Efficiency
• Intimidation (Creatures of the nights appearances can cause one to have their body's cells cry out in terror)
• Immortality
  • Ageless: The biggest hindrance to humans when attempting to accomplish something is their limited lifespans, a limitation that cannot be overcome, however, dwellers of the darkness do not apply to the laws of the human world, ignoring such limitations.
  • Immortal Metaphysical Aspect: Creatures of the Night can continue to exist even as a spirit and use their spirit form to form bodies out of inanimate material around them.
• Acausality (Causality Immunity; All immortal beings disrupt the flow of time according to Aeon, along with ignoring the very passage of time. With their souls being completely free from time. The biggest hindrance to humans when attempting to accomplish something is their limited lifespans, a limitation that cannot be overcome, however, dwellers of the darkness do not apply to the laws of the human world, ignoring such limitations)
• Free Will (Creatures of the Night do not follow the hand of God and instead choose of their own free will)
• Empowerment (Creatures of the night are empowered by the night, becoming stronger when it's night time)
• Evolution (Creatures of chaos can inherit evil natures awakening into stronger enemies with new abilities and less weaknesses)
• Resurrection (Self-Resurrection; Creatures of chaos can be brought back to life from the power of hate. This has also been shown with slain heads reviving as an angry wraith)
• Regeneration (Mid-Godly overtime; Even the castle from Castlevania is a Creature of Chaos, where they are always rebirth from Chaos with each rebirth, the creatures takes a new form, with this state being referred to as a "regeneration cycle")
• Invisibility (Creatures of Chaos possess a natural aura of darkness, which makes one unable to see those with an aura of darkness by the naked eye)
• Time Manipulation (1-T, Passive; All immortal beings disrupt the flow of time according to Aeon)
• Darkness Manipulation & Subjective Reality (Creatures of chaos very existence causes dark powers to flow beyond the control of the Elgos' grimoires, due to them collecting documented information on Dracula and his castle. Causing their power to materialize in the real world in the form of monsters. With the real world and world of grimoires being considered the same or "equal", compared to the like of Brauner's painting worlds that are quantum multi-layered spaces requiring understandings of theories such as "Curse Amplification")
• Text Manipulation & Plot Manipulation (Passive; Creatures of the night's dark powers allowed them to rewrite the Grimoires to strengthen their dark powers greatly. It is noted by Lucy that the "vital soul" of a monster is the cause of the grimoire chaos. Their vital souls are causing the grimoires contents to be overwritten changing history to things such as Jonathan Morris is now at a disadvantage in battle, or Charlotte fading from existence due to them messing with the history of the Grimoires, Maria starting to fade because Richter's history is being rewritten, where if the contents of the book change the creatures magic will keep growing and eventually overflow into reality, causing the grimoire to fall into chaos and even more monsters materializing into the real world. The text alterations also make the monsters stronger. With the real world and world of grimoires being considered the same or "equal", compared to the like of Brauner's painting worlds that are quantum multi-layered spaces requiring understandings of theories such as "Curse Amplification")
• Law Manipulation (Creatures of Chaos can alter grimoires, which do not adhere to the laws of reality)
• Power Modification (Creatures of the night alterations of the Grimoire can greatly limit the powers of those far stronger than them, such as Jonathan Morris' power being limited due to the alterations. The Chaos of the Grimoire destabilized the magic of the others).

• Resistance to
  • Ice Manipulation & Absolute Zero (All enemies in Castlevania III: Dracula's curse can eventually break out of being frozen from Sypha's ice magic. Along with this to protect against ice attacks in series, one normally wears rings that help them resist against absolute zero)
  • Time Manipulation (1-T; All immortal beings disrupt the flow of time according to Aeon, with their souls being completely free from time. With time in Castlevania being so potent that not even eternity can withstand time, along with even artificial life being subject to the laws of time. Some creatures of chaos are immune to time stop, normally being boss-level creatures)
  • Fate Manipulation (Temporal Fate; All immortal beings disrupt the flow of time according to Aeon, with their souls being completely free from time, with fate being a truth wound by time)

Is a Vampire, which gives:

• Superhuman Physical Characteristics (Vampires are considered far larger threats than the standard creature of the night monsters)
• Stealth Mastery (Vampires are able to attack stealthily in search of human blood)
• Disguise Mastery (Vampires will sometimes disguise themselves as villages in order to get near one)
• Immortality
  • Ageless: Vampires defy God's decree that life should be limited, and exist for eternity, with Mathias noting he has eternal life. Aeon notes that vampires exist for eternity. Walter is noted to be a vampire that has eternal life. The biggest hindrance to humans when attempting to accomplish something is their limited lifespans, a limitation that cannot be overcome, however, dwellers of the darkness do not apply to the laws of the human world, ignoring such limitations.
  • Immortal Metaphysical Aspect: Vampires will someday come back to life despite them being killed due to being immortal.
• Acausality (Causality Immunity; All immortal beings disrupt the flow of time according to Aeon, along with ignoring the very passage of time. With their souls being completely free from time. The biggest hindrance to humans when attempting to accomplish something is their limited lifespans, a limitation that cannot be overcome, however, dwellers of the darkness do not apply to the laws of the human world, ignoring such limitations)
• Free Will (Vampires do not follow the hand of God and instead choose of their own free will, defying God's decree)
• Enhanced Senses (Vampires can smell that Reinhardt Schneider and Carrie Fernandez smell different from the usual adventurer)
• Surface Scaling (Vampires can stand on ceilings)
• Flight (Vampires can either naturally levitate grow wings to fly, turn into a bat, or into mist)
• Immersion (Vampires can infuse magic into paintings to increase their power)
• Empowerment (Vampires are loved by the night, making them so powerful that vampires like Walter Bernhard never been defeated before Leon Belmont gained the vampire killer. Noted by Leon that the night should help Joachim Armster as well due to him being a vampire, with the only reason it doesn't is due to Walter holding the ebony stone)
• Resurrection (Even if one somehow manages to kill a vampire, they will someday come back to life despite them being killed due to being immortal)
• Transformation (Shapeshifting; Vampires can assume the shape of a wolf, a bat or fog. Vampires can disguise themselves as humans)
• Teleportation (Vampires possess the ability to teleport freely. Even non-threatening vampires such as Rosa, fade out from view)
• Power Suppression (Vampires can submerge their own vampiric powers if needed)
• Life-Force Absorption (Vampires can consume one's lifeforce, allowing them to heal themselves through biting into a victim)
• Vampirification (Vampires can turn others into vampires, Walter turned Rinaldo's daughter into a vampire)
• Invisibility (Vampires possess natural aura of darkness, which makes one unable to see those with an aura of darkness by the naked eye)
• Time Manipulation (1-T, Passive; All immortal beings disrupt the flow of time according to Aeon)
• Animal Manipulation (Bats serve under the control of vampires, being freely spawnned by any vampire)
• Cloth Manipulation (A vampire's blood can transform clothes, such as Hector combining a vampire's blood with a prince's clothes to get Dracula's clothes)
• Electricity Manipulation (Vampires can sometimes have electricity form around them as they transform)
• Soul Manipulation (The candles in Castlevania are people's souls that were taken by Death or by vampires)
• Text Manipulation & Plot Manipulation (Passive; Vampire's dark powers allowed them to rewrite the Grimoires to strengthen their dark powers greatly. It is noted by Lucy that the "vital soul" of a monster is the cause of the grimoire chaos. Their vital souls are causing the grimoires contents to be overwritten changing history to things such as Jonathan Morris is now at a disadvantage in battle, or Charlotte fading from existence due to them messing with the history of the Grimoires, Maria starting to fade because Richter's history is being rewritten, where if the contents of the book change the creatures magic will keep growing and eventually overflow into reality, causing the grimoire to fall into chaos and even more monsters materializing into the real world. The text alterations also make the monsters stronger. With the real world and world of grimoires being considered the same or "equal", compared to the like of Brauner's painting worlds that are quantum multi-layered spaces requiring understandings of theories such as "Curse Amplification")
• Law Manipulation (Vampires can alter grimoires, which do not adhere to the laws of reality)
• Power Modification (Vampire's alterations of the Grimoire can greatly limit the powers of those far stronger than them, such as Jonathan Morris' power being limited due to the alterations. The Chaos of the Grimoire destabilized the magic of the others).

• Resistance to
  • Temperatures (Vampires bodies turn cold, with them feeling no heat)
  • Biological Manipulation (Vampires biological functions are no longer required for them)
  • Time Manipulation (1-T; All immortal beings disrupt the flow of time according to Aeon, with their souls being completely free from time. With time in Castlevania being so potent that not even eternity can withstand time, along with even artificial life being subject to the laws of time)
  • Death Manipulation ("Death" loses all meaning for Vampires, as they defy God's decree that life should be limited, and exist for eternity. Where even if one "kills" a vampire they will simply just come back as they are not bound to death)
  • Fate Manipulation (Temporal Fate; All immortal beings disrupt the flow of time according to Aeon, with their souls being completely free from time, with fate being a truth wound by time)
  • Law Manipulation (Vampires defy God's decree that life should be limited, and exist for eternity)

• Magic (Through utilizing magic, one has to have a deep understanding of Quantum Physics to utilize it to its fullest, requiring understandings of theories such as "Curse Amplification")
  • Alchemy & Principle Manipulation (Magic comes from alchemy, a field that experiments with the principles of God's creation of the world, along with being said to be as great a task as recreating God's creation of the Earth)
• Non-Standard Interaction (Extra-Planar Interaction; Magic is able to interact with beings such as Camilla Fernandez, Physical attacks are difficult to land as Camilla lives in the Astral plane, and her earthly body is completely ethereal)
• Limited Immersion & Dimensional Travel (3+1-D; Magic users can align their magic with the magic of another to enter into painting worlds)
• Summoning (Magic can be used in order to summon weapons and items inscribed in grimoires)
• Soul Manipulation (Yoko through the use of magic discovered a new ability to draw the monster souls out and use them)

Unique AbilitiesThrough his Castle

Superhuman Physical Characteristics (Noted that Dracula's strength exceeds even that of a werewolf), Intimidation (Put fear into Isaac who felt he spoke out of line from just a glance. Dracula is noted to be the most terrifying creature in existence), Large Size in some of his true forms (Supersized; Appeared this large when unleashing his true form against Reinhardt Schneider/Carrie Fernandez), Aura (Dracula merely pushing out his aura was enough to make Richter and Maria flinch. Dracula's evil aura is far greater then the fake Dracula he sent to fight Reinhardt and Carrie. Dark Lord Soma has a thick darkness and suffocating evil due to having Dracula's aura. Dracula has a natural aura of Darkness around him), Immortality (Ageless; Mathias through absorbing Walter's soul denied God's decree of limited life and lives for eternity. Life and Death Immunity; Death serves Dracula with unfailing loyalty, where Death is noted to govern the fate of death, being noted to have the power to govern the end of all living things, and can use his scythes to kill abstractions such as distance and sound. Death decides who lives and who dies), Reincarnation (Non-Cycle, Memory Remembrance; Despite being killed for good by Julius Belmont, Dracula's soul reincarnated into Soma Cruz), Regeneration (At least Low-Godly normally; Freely burned away his body to fly out with his soul to create a new form. Can regenerate from just his blood. Regenerated back a new body from just his head. His Wraith Spawn while heavily weakened regenerated from his entire body being destroyed. Mid-Godly with Regeneration Cycle; Dracula has a regeneration cycle that allows him to come back as long as chaos exist within humans, only being ended by sealing his castle within a solar eclipse), Reliance (On Humanity's Evil; Dracula will keep coming back to life due to the evil minds of human beings. It is noted that Dracula's resurrection is not fueled by his own magic but through the lust for power, jealousy of others, belief in evil, the human emotions that fuel his resurrection), Supernatural Resilience (Can live as just a head, using his head to form an amalgamation of five demonic faces with an exposed brain), Supernatural Luck (Dracula's mere eye grants one a boost of luck), Extrasensory Perception (Dracula's eyeball can see invisible objects. Dracula's eyeball can see something that has been cursed away from sight. Dracula could sense the connection between Annette and the Belmont family. Can see the Bitterfly, a mutated insect, visible only to magicians. Soma Cruz upon awakening to becoming Dracula could sense where Alucard was), Transformation (Shapeshifting; Dracula can transform into different manners of beast and alike, during his fight with Simon Belmont he turned into a large white creature. Appeared before Simon Belmont as a flock of bats. Mathias can transform into a bat. Can transform into a werewolf. RemovalfcmY6_uRlgsGzXGnJ2/view?usp=sharing Dracula used what remained of his magical powers to transform his body into mist after Christopher defeated him. Can turn into a beast that moves so fast it catches on fire. Body Morphing; Can morph his body to sprouted wings, allowing him to fly with that, asides from his occassional levitation. Has done this against Richter/Maria to unleash his full power), Flight (Dracula can fly in a manner of different ways he can either call upon the Power of Darkness, giving him a form with massive wings, transform into a bat, naturally levitate), Afterimage Creation (Moves so fast he leaves afterimages behind), Intangibility (Phasing; Upon appearing in his fight against Simon Belmont, his head phased through the floor and then the rest of his body appeared), Empowerment (Made a pact with an Evil God, allowing him to call upon its power to help him), Resurrection (Self-Resurrection; It is noted by the Elgos, a group that fully documents all of history within the Grimoires, that Dracula normally can only be resurrected once every 100 years without the influence of human emotions causing irregularities. Through this end he can gather the magic needed to revive through negative human emotions. Repeated Resurrection, Resurrection of the Deceased; Through absorbing human blood, even on his corpse, he can come back to life. The battle between Desmond Belmont and Rohan Krause was enough to revive Dracula. Dracula has also shown to be able to resurrect from merely a single drop of blood hitting his body. Resurrection of Multiple Targets, Resurrection of the Deceased; Dracula revived dark gods with his powers), Reality Warping (Passive; Merely through transforming Dracula warped the very background of his castle. Caused the entire background to become warped ad distorted. Against John Morris/Eric Lecarde, completely warped the background once entering his true form), Teleportation & Light Manipulation (In his fight against Simon Belmont, he freely teleported around in his first form. Brings down pillars of light that he uses to teleport around. Dracula's death causes the light beam to come across the entire castle and teleport it away. He can use his light pillar teleportation technique as a means to trick his opponent by creating several, with him only appearing out of one. Teleported to Shaft after sensing a connection Anette had with the Belmont family), Duplication (Can create four giant heads of his to attack with. Dracula can make a figment of his magic that is a re-enactment of memories stored within his powers), Empowerment (Dracula can call upon the Power of Darkness to gain a new form that greatly upgrades all of his statistics), Weapon Creation & Weapon Control (Dracula can create knives that he can freely control to throw at Simon), Non-Standard Interaction (Dark Matter Interaction; Dracula has objects such as dark matter in his castle meaning he can interact with them, which barely interacts with ordinary matter[246]), Possession ([https://youtu.be/VbU1ODXTOKw?t=2347 Can put his soul within a painting and bring it to life to use as an attack. Dracula can possess Devil Forgemasters to bring himself back to life, such as when he possessed Isaac to resurrect himself. Dracula's remains created a second spirit within Maxim that possessed him leaving Maxim's body and possessing Dracula's remains spawnning way to] Dracula's Wraith. Merely absorbing Dracula's magic corrupts one and turns them into another Dracula), Statistics Amplification (Dracula's strength increases each time he revives. Every 100 years Dracula gets stronger and stronger. Noted by Richter to get stronger every reincarnation), Statistics Boost (The more Dracula's hatred increases, the more the power of Chaos empowers him), Statistics Reduction (It's noted that every 100 years the forces of Good mysteriously become weak and the forces of Evil gain a foothold into the world. One that wears Dracula's clothes will have their luck reduced, however it is noted by Simon that Dracula grows stronger ecah time he revives), Telekinesis (Was telekinetically lifting Simon's wife into the air with the affect breaking once he died. Could telekinetically lift the blocks around in his boss fight), Contract Bestowal (Dracula can convince one into making a binding vow with him without their awareness), Battlefield Removal (Forced Teleportation; Can teleport other targets, such as teleporting Simon's wife to his arms. Forcibly teleported him and Reinhardt Schneider/Carrie Fernandez to a different realm when unleashing his true form. Forcibly teleported him and Cornell upon transforming into his true form. Application Based; Upon transforming he caused him and Richter/Maria to be put into a new realm), Breath Attack (Can shoot out attacks and projectiles from his mouth. Can shoot fireballs out of his breath. Can shoot fire out of his mouth. Shoots out glyphs from his mouth. Shot a giant energy ball from his mouth in his true form), Energy Projection (Can shoot out eye lasers. Can shoot energy beams out of his eyes and hands. Can shoot energy projectiles out into 4 directions diagonally. Created energy orbs around him that he can shoot outwards to attack. Can shoot energy projectiles from the sky that split and attack anything on the ground. Can shoot out energy projectiles that split into 3 projectiles that attack in the air. Can shoot out three energy projectiles that expand. Can shoot out a laser attack that travels across the ground and expand outwards), Curtain Fire (Directional; Creates an energy ball that fires multiple small energy bullets in a 360 degree area. Multi-Directional; Causes an entire blood rain to fall, with over hundreds of droplets, where if even one hits, it will deal damage), Homing Attack (Can shoot out several energy projectiles that home in on the target), Shockwave Generation (Upon resurrecting, unleashed a massive shockwave that pushed all of the cult members back. Unleashed a massive shockwave in his true form), Power Bestowal (Dracula’s Nail grants the ability to break things one otherwise couldn’t, along with increase one's strength. Dracula's mere fang can increase one's defenses. Dracula's presence greatly powers the creatures of the night, making them stronger as time goes on. Noted that Dracula can grant humans immortality, with The Order attempting to resurrect Dracula in order to receive greater power and eternal life. Even while sealed and deceased, Dracula's darkness alone covered Barlowe, having his strength return to him and giving him the power to destroy his seal), Fusionism (Dracula was able to fuse the abilities of a bat with those a human, in an alternate timeline), Creation (Dracula's evil and magic is the reason why devil forging exists, which has one create a devil. Through merely the use of his remains and using Maxim's will a castle similar to Castlevania was created), Corruption (RemovalfcmY6_uRlgsGzXGnJ2/view?usp=sharing Dracula used his last bit of magic to turn Soleil Belmont RemovalfcmY6_uRlgsGzXGnJ2/view?usp=sharing into a terrible demon), Attack Reflection (Passive; Dracula's mere rib bone reflects all projectiles back), Nullification (Passive {For all of them}, Curse Nullification; Dracula's mere eye has the power to negate curses. Petrification Nullification; His mere heart has the power to negate petrification. Poison Negation; His mere rib has the power to negate poison. Sealing Nullification; The power of Dominus can completely rid seals. Easily broke a seal placed by the man-beast on a creature), Transmutation (Noted by Dracula that if Hector has betrayed him he would use his magic to transform him into an especially hideous demon where he shall crawl on the ground and drink sewage as a hideous monster), Summoning (Dracula can summon enemies to fight for him. Maxim corrupted by the spirit of Dracula's remains was able to summon a boss to fight Juste), Invisibility (Dracula possesses a natural aura of darkness, which makes one unable to see those with an aura of darkness by the naked eye), Immersion (It is either through Death's help or Dracula's magic that Soma is able to enter the grimoires, , which Lucy notes to be impossible with her being the only one able to send people into grimoires), Absorption (Dracula can absorb any darkness based attack), Lifeforce Absorption (Dracula can bite his enemies and drain their lifeforce to heal himself), Soul Absorption (Dracula is able to absorb Death's soul, and by proxy the soul of others), Power Absorption & Domination (His reincarnation Soma, wields the power of dominance, giving him the ability to wield the abilities of monsters he's killed, this is described by Yoko as the power to rule over and command monsters, coming as naturally as breathing for Soma. Soma himself even refers to it as the power to rule. Some refers to it in Dawn of Sorrow as "the power to seize the souls of my enemies". This domination even applies to inanimate objects giving him abilities) Power Mimicry (One of the Dark Lord candidates that inherit his dark powers, Dmitri Blinov, can perfectly copy techniques after just being hit by them, copied the Power of Dominance from Soma Cruz through touching his soul and copying his ability), Information Analysis (One of the Dark Lord candidates that inherit his dark powers, Dmitri Blinov, who scanned the the memories of Soma's past lives), Subjective Reality (Noted by Maxim that the Castle was forged from the fabric of his mind, bringing what was in Maxim's mind into reality), Erasure (Metaphysical Erasure; Dracula's magic can overpower and erase one's will and spirit, with Albus only surviving due to gaining the blood of the Belmont clan. Abstract Erasure; Noted through Soma using Dracula's power of dominance he can erase Death from existence), Regeneration Negation (Atemporal), Immortality Negation (Life and Death Immunity), & Irreversible Damage (Through Dracula absorbing Death's soul Death was also destroyed along with Dracula, even though Death appearing in the books is through nothing more than him possessing his image written in the text, where he can reform himself endlessly and no damage actually mattered to him), Hellfire Manipulation (Dracula's fire attacks are all hellfire, as even Desmond using fire attacks channeled from him are describe as such. Can shoot out 3 fire projectiles at once from his cape. Can shoot out green fireballs everytime he jumps. Can create two pillars of fire to trap a target and then hit them with a pillar of fire in the middle, sometimes being impossible to dodge depending on the position the person in. Can shoot out large fireballs from his cape. Causes pillars of pinkish fire to rise up. Can create an entire tornado of hellfire. Can burn his body to the point of nothing remaining but his soul. Caused all of the candles in the background to light up and blind the entire room before he appeared. Can set fire enemies that track onto a target. Can conjure fire from glyphs that drop down and spread outwards. One of the Dark Lord candidates that inherit his dark powers, Dario Bossi, has the ability to create fires, being implicated in countless inexplicable fires, and burned an entire room. Along with this Dario can use fire to teleport), Holy Manipulation (Can use Demonic Megiddo, which contains holy power), Crystal Manipulation (Can cause various crystals to come out of the ground to attack his foes), Vacuum Manipulation (Can create a strong vacuum to pull one in so he can bite them), Familiar Summoning, Matter Manipulation (3-D) & Metaphysics Manipulation (Dracula's evil and magic is the reason why devil forging exists, with the mere remnants of his magic being so strong Hector can use them to create an Innocent Devil. Devil Forging has one to giving it a shape and soul, giving it a shell and applying stable power to the shell so the mass of energy without conscious can be transformed into a living devil), Light Manipulation (Causes a beam of light to appear that he can teleport around with), Blood Manipulation (Can spit out blood as an attack. Can create spheres of blood from his attacks. Causes an entire blood rain to fall, with over hundreds of droplets, where if even one hits, it will deal damage), Soul Manipulation (Dracula can use soul steal, to steal one's soul, absorbing their entire existence within him. Can disconnect his soul from his body. God is unable to help the souls of those terminated by Dracula's hand), Animal Manipulation (Can shoot bats out of his mouth. Can shoot out three bats to attack. Sends out bats to attack for him), Mind Manipulation (Dracula put Soleil Belmont under his vampire spell. The suppressed desires of Maxim Kischine caused another spirit to be created due to him holding the remains of Dracula. Dracula's remains alone are enough to consume their mind, even being noted by Barlowe that dominus devours the mind. Not even the sacred blood of the Belmont Clan was enough to keep Albus from subcumming to the effects of the Dominus), Memory Manipulation (Accepting the Dominus interferes with one's memories and emotions. Dominus was the source that took Shanoa's memories. Dracula's magic showed Hector visions of his past with a form of his child self trying to convince him to become a devil and promising to be friends if he does so), Empathic Manipulation (Accepting the Dominus interferes with one's memories and emotions, stripping Shanoa of all of her emotions to the point that she could not shed a tear for Albus despite everything he did for her), Fear Manipulation (Dracula's mere rib bone is enough to make an ordinary hero feel like a spineless coward), Death Manipulation (Metaphysical; One attempting to use the Dominus will cost them their life, Shanoa using it nearly killed her only being saved by Albus taking her place and having his soul fade away), Weather Manipulation & Electricity Manipulation (Caused dark clouds to appear and came from a bolt of lightning. Cause massive electricity around the area before appearing. Causes multiple lightning bolts to rain down as he appears. Sent down electricity attacks against Desmond. Sent out a massive electricity wave. Creates massive electricity orbs from his glyphs. Summoned electricity from his hand that went across a small area. Electricity formed around him while he transformed into his adult state. Easily pushed Cornell back with the electricity field around him), Curse Manipulation (Dracula placed a curse on Simon after Simon defeated him, one that could only be undone by finding the five body parts of Dracula, resurrecting him and then defeating him, though if Simon takes too long he will die from the curse regardless of killing Dracula. The Curse also weakened Simon to where he was starting off with a leather whip, which is a weaker form the whip takes for inexperienced users. After being defeated by Trevor and his friends, Dracula left a demonic curse that enshrouded all of Europe in misery and torment, this curse keeps festering even if Dracula dies, where Hector needed to put all of his life-force and energy into dispelling the curse, greatly tiring him to the point that he was ready to die in the collapse of the Castle if Julia did not come rescue him. Along with this, even with the curse being removed, the curse was far too deep within people, making its mark hard to leave them, with some characters having it where only death could erase the curse), Disease Manipulation (The demonic curse caused a hideous plague and dire famine), Morality Manipulation (The demonic curse had people's hearts turn black and murderous, where the weak were slain without pity. The curse gave Hector an immense thirst for vegeance, attempting to make him kill Isaac so that he could possess his body. Dracula can cloud one's senses in darkness, having the evil eat away at their souls), Madness Manipulation (Barlowe was driven made by the power of Dominus, making him willing to give his life to resurrect Dracula. Those that had evil eat away at their souls were driven to madness, having them make a pact with the devil[395]. [https://youtu.be/hu_2bedvcQE?t=2126 Brauner using Dracula's power was noted by Charlotte that just the sight of him could drive an ordinary person mad), Glyph Manipulation (Conjures glyphs across the ground that create explosions. The glyphs also summon enemies to attack), Explosion Manipulation (Creates massive explosions from his glyphs. Can shoot out explosive projectiles from his lower mouth), Bone Manipulation (Throws out bones to attack with in his true form during his fight against John Morris/Eric Lecarde), Water Manipulation (Creates giant water bubbles that attack the target), Hell Manipulation (Passive; Dracula's existence is the reason why evil around the land is called, with him being defeated, the evil vanishes), Time Manipulation (Passive; Dracula's existence and magic was destabilizing the flow of time. Shanoa with the dominus is using a power of Dracula's, where Aeon notes that power is governed by time. With time in Castlevania being so potent that not even eternity can withstand time, along with even artificial life being subject to the laws of time), Text Manipulation & Plot Manipulation (Passive; Vital Souls are all just a part of Dracula's powers, where is noted by Lucy that the "vital soul" of a monster is the cause of the grimoire chaos where creatures of the night's dark powers allowed them to rewrite the Grimoires to strengthen their dark powers greatly, along with their vital souls causing the grimoires contents to be overwritten changing history to things such as Jonathan Morris is now at a disadvantage in battle, or Charlotte fading from existence due to them messing with the history of the Grimoires, Maria starting to fade because Richter's history is being rewritten, where if the contents of the book change the creatures magic will keep growing and eventually overflow into reality, causing the grimoire to fall into chaos and even more monsters materializing into the real world. The text alterations also make the monsters stronger. With the real world and world of grimoires being considered the same or "equal", compared to the like of Brauner's painting worlds that are quantum multi-layered spaces requiring understandings of theories such as "Curse Amplification". Death was going to use Dracula's magic to rewrite Dracula's defeat to Trevor making it where Dracula defeats Trevor Belmont instead where Dracula would go on living in the rewritten grimoire with each grimoire being its own world and the grimoires influence extends into reality), Law Manipulation (Vital Souls are all just a part of Dracula's powers, which alter grimoires, which do not adhere to the laws of reality), Power Modification (Vital Souls are all just a part of Dracula's powers, which the vital souls cause alterations of the Grimoire that can greatly limit the powers of those far stronger than them, such as Jonathan Morris' power being limited due to the alterations. The Chaos of the Grimoire destabilized the magic of the others).

Resistance to Extreme Heats (Unaffected by moving so fast he catches on fire), Extrasensory Perception (Dark Lords are incapable of being sensed by the likes of Death), Attack Reflection (His reincarnation can attack and harm Graham Jones, where he's absorbed the power of the castle, and inherited Dracula's powers, where Dracula's mere rib bone reflects all projectiles back), Darkness Manipulation & Hell Manipulation (Dracula has a natural resistance to the darkness element. Dracula's mere ribs protects from the powers of wickedness), Holy Fire Manipulation (Can take holy water hitting him, with it only momentarily having him cry out in pain, before emerging just fine), Curse Manipulation (Dracula's mere heart clears curses), Time Manipulation (1-T; Noted that the stop watch has no effect on moving platforms in the castle and most bosses. With time in Castlevania being so potent that not even eternity can withstand time, along with even artificial life being subject to the laws of time), Sealing (Dracula's power allowed Soma to easily repel away a multi-layered seal called aurora a multilayered rectangular barrier ritual that was supposed to isolate Soma and then remove Dracula's powers from him. Even while greatly weakened, when the Aurora was used on Dracula, he greatly resisted it, requiring two master magicians to affect him. Dracula's power is so great that very few magical items can truly hold his magic within a seal, requiring the usage of an entire library worth of grimoires in order to truly seal away just his magic alone. The only reason Brauner was able to seal away Dracula was due to him not reviving completely otherwise his seals would be easily broken by Dracula's power), Fire Manipulation (Dracula is naturally strongly resistant to fire-based attacks), Electricity Manipulation (Dracula is naturally strongly resistant to thunder based attacks), Poison Manipulation (Dracula is naturally immune to poison based attacks), Spatial Manipulation (Brauner using Dracula's power spatially segregated Dracula from the castle), Soul Manipulation (Dracula's soul was put in a vessel, yet despite many organizations efforts, their glyphs couldn't even scratch him), Power Modification, Information Manipulation, Text Manipulation & Plot Manipulation (Dracula's magic and powers have no limits posed on it from the grimoires where heroes summoned from the catalogue are unable to stray too far from its contents and have limited actions they can do having summoned heroes have their powers greatly limited from their true strength), Fate Manipulation & Death Manipulation (Death serves Dracula with unfailing loyalty, where Death is noted to govern the fate of death, being noted to have the power to govern the end of all living things, and can use his scythes to kill abstractions such as distance and sound. Death decides who lives and who dies), Immortality Negation (The Vampire Killer is unable to strip Dracula of his immortality whereas the Vampire Killer can render immortal skeleton death gods like Death, mortal, having him bleed from attacks, giving him mortality as shown when Death dies to his own scythe cutting off his head and having blood spurt out, something not possible as a skeleton, and can kill Death to the point that he requires Mathias to survive in order for him to rise from the dead)

The castle is directly steered by Dracula's power, and has these effects: Magic (The castle pulses with dark magical power. The castle uses magic to do things like re-animate corpses, along with skeletons), Reality Warping (The Castle does not work on standard logic, where changing rooms can have one view a completely different background, such as room with a blue sky that is reflecting up and downwards and having the clouds rotate at a fast speed), Transmutation (Beings that come near are subject to the castle's influence, such as a local barnyard owl which was mutated just from flying near it), Save and Load (The castles magic has rooms where one can sit on a chair and is enveloped in the angelic wings of light, allowing them to save their progress, with these chairs being acknowledged in rooms in the castle with a description), Possession (The castle possesses objects with its magic, such as a ouija table), Bestowal (The castle enables one to keep their mind after dying, becoming a ghost), Mind Bestowal (The castle can bestow a mind through its magic), Soul Bestowal (The castle can bestow a soul through its magic. Imbued the Mud Man with a tormented soul), Power Bestowal (The castle grants enemies to attack under the power of magic. The magic of Dracula's power that empowers the owl enemy), Resurrection (Resurrection of Multiple Targets; The castle uses magic to return creatures of chaos back to life), Sealing (Dracula's magic captured Aguni, a primitive god of fire. The Castle has doors sealed off without solving puzzles. This can extend to walls being sealed off where explosions will not affect it until the seal is gone), Telekinesis (The Castle can lift parts of levels apart. The castle has blocks that float and levitate up and downwards to crush opponents or send them into spikes), Immersion (Can bring paintings to life and have them attack), Mimicry (Physiology Mimicry; The castle contains mirror worlds where perfect clones of oneself can fight. The Castle can also do this without mirror worlds, where they make a perfect copy that have all of their moves and sub-weapons, and can freely switch to a different person to copy their abilities), Teleportation (The castle has access to the teleporter seat, the seat of a device that allows instant movement across Valachia. The castle has objects that fade in and out while trying to platform on them), Invisibility (Parts of Dracula's castle are invisible such as invisible stairs, and invisible platforms), Necromancy (The castle can raise the dead to attack whoever enters a room. The castle reanimates human bones as monsters by its evil magic. The Castle created the Executioner from numerous dead bodies), Fusionism (The Castle can create an abomination made from numerous dead bodies), Mind Manipulation (Everything that enters the castle is under the control by the power of Dracula's castle, the ghost of Eric Lecarde needed to cast a magic barrier to bind himself so he could be free from the control of the castle. The Castle corrupts the minds of those who enter it, such as making Maxim Kischine feel strange ever since coming to it. It also corrupted the mind of Hugh turning him against Nathan with Nathan noting he's being controlled by Dracula. The castle increases one's dark desires, allowing Dracula to easily control them. The magic of Dracula's power that empowers the owl enemy also spurs it to violence), Madness Manipulation (The Castle warped Gergoth, a once-gentle beast and drove it mad), Elemental Manipulation & Chaos Manipulation (The castle infuses some enemies with chaos, giving it all elemental properties), Blood Manipulation (The casle imbues blood all over a skeleton, making them always return to life no matter what damage is done to them. The Castle has areas where its blood can form new enemies), Acid Manipulation (The castle has areas of acid rain falling), Size Manipulation (Magically enlarged a toad through the use of demonic baptism), Fear Manipulation (Even while far away, Curtis and Michelle felt malicious intent from the castle where their bodies seemed to squeal "run away". Michelle even being at the entrance to the castle had her body telling her to not go in and her leg muscles being petrified like stone), Perception Manipulation (The Castle is able to warp the users perceptions, making a room where it is split into three parts that do not operate under standard spatiality and directionality), Poison Manipulation (The very waters of the castle are poisonous, killing one in an instant if they fall into it), Gravity Manipulation (3-D; The castle has rooms with reverse gravity), Curse Manipulation (The Curse status that spirits inflict comes from them absorbing the magic power around the castle. The Castle cursed a human to turn into a lizard man), Life Manipulation (The castle can bring inanimate statues to life to attack. Can cause the glass murals to come to life and attack), Soul Manipulation (Those that die in the castle become one of the floating spirits that wander the halls of the castle for eternity), Plant Manipulation (The castle can cause even the trees to attack. The castle can cause the plants and leaves to form a wraith), Forcefield Manipulation (The castle set up a barrier seal outside of it to make people unable to enter. Evil energy can create barriers blocking one until they defeat all enemies), Fire Manipulation (Can cause fire across an entire room just from causing a chandelier with candles to fall, setting everything, even people on fire), Portal Manipulation & Battlefield Removal (Application Based; The castle can create portals that send one to another dimension, where time is stopped. Brought a wandering merchant in through swallowing him into a dense fog. The castle has magic energies that seal the gateway to hell), Summoning & Glyph Creation (The Castle can summon creatures of chaos to spawn and attack whoever enters a room through enemies spawning from glyphs. The castle can make glyphs that teleport one outside of the castle by standing over it. A lot of these creatures are summoned from Hell), Water Manipulation (The Casles Waters seem to be very hazardous, as it instantly kills enemies upon touching them), Spatial Manipulation (3-D; The castle can shift the room to make it where Trevor needs to escape upwards that will instantly kill him if it reaches him. The castle can make blocks disappear and re-appear, making it difficult for one to traverse around the castle. The Castle made it, where the stairway Soma was walking up with Mina, went longer hen usual, trying to keep Soma from going to the Shrine and instead bringing him to the castle), Sense Manipulation (Caused Soma's senses to dim even entering the chaotic darkness near the Castle), Weather Manipulation & Electricity Manipulation (The Castle is the reason for a massive cloud that covered the entire sky. Can conjure thunderstorms around itself that can summon enemies during it's flashes of lightning. Can summon enemies through the lightning bolts it makes), Dark Matter Manipulation (The castle contains dark matter within it that beings can use for weapon creation).

Resistance to Time Stop (1-T; Areas in the Castle are unaffected by time being stopped, and blocks and objects will still fall. Noted that the stop watch has no effect on moving platforms in the castle. Christopher stopping time on an elevator does not stop the elevator from moving, machinery still moves along, and floating objects still float. With time in Castlevania being so potent that not even eternity can withstand time, along with even artificial life being subject to the laws of time), Power Mimicry (One who copies the Power of Dominance requires their soul to withstand the power that it holds, being unable to control it and having the demons under their dominance come out of them)

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Equipment

• Castle A & B: Castle A & B serve as essentially Maxim Kischine's Castlevania, where his magic flows throughout both castles.
• Eye of Vlad: This is Count Dracula’s eye, which, when held, prevents the holder from being inflicted with curses.
• Heart of Vlad: This is Count Dracula’s heart, which, when held, prevents the holder from being petrified.
• Rib of Vlad: This is Count Dracula’s rib bone, which, when held, prevents the holder from being poisoned.
• Nail of Vlad: This is Count Dracula’s nail, which, when held, increases the holder’s strength.
• Fang of Vlad: This is Count Dracula’s fang, which, when held, increases the holder’s defence.
• Ring of Vlad: This is Count Dracula’s ring, which, when held, increases the holder’s luck.

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Notable Techniques

• Blood Draining: Vampires can bite and drink the blood of their victims. Blood acts as a source of energy and life for vampires and creatures of the night, an example of this being Red Skeletons who endlessly regenerate, from any kind of damage due to it absorbing blood.
• Transformation: Vampires are able to turn into bats, wolves, fog, and other sorts of creatures as they please.
• Super Strength: Vampires are incredibly superhumanly strong, even for the average creature of the night, being noted to be stronger than even Werewolves.
• Super Speed: Vampires can move incredibly fast, to where all of them leave behind light projections due to how fast they're moving, while they can control their speeds even to approach speeds such as sound. They are normally beyond even other creatures in the castle such as the White Demon who moves at the speed of light at top speed.

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Other

Standard Tactics: Much like regular Dracula, Dracula's Wraith does not directly fight the opponent, instead having enemies and the Castle fight them. If the person survives all of these, then Dracula's wraith opens his cape and releases three-directional fireballs. He will then expel seven flaming spheres as his second attack. If defeated in his first form, he will enter his second form, a giant amalgamated version of all of Dracula's remains, where he has a long and extendible tentacle, and will shoot a large energy beam out of his eye. He will also stop for a moment and perform a luning-downward swipe.

Weaknesses

• Creature of the Night Weaknesses: Creatures of the night become weaker when exposed to the morning sun. Garlic significantly weakens creatures of the night, and causes demons to die if its placed on the ground. If a vital soul is defeated, the grimoire will revert back to its original content.
• Standard Vampire Weaknesses: After a vampire is sufficiently weakened, the sunlight can kill them. Otherwise Vampires can stand out in the sunlight just fine. Though some weaker vampires can have the sun burn them overtime, killing them. Oak Stakes are able to break through the magic of a weakened vampire. Defeating a vampire will stop the effects of someone they have bitten, but only before they've turned. This is shown in Harmony of Dissonance where through Juste killing Dracula's Wraith, the bite marks on Lydie have vanished. Vampires reflections do not appear on mirrors, making them easier to identify. Vampires are noted to be weak during the dawn.

• Unique Weaknesses: Dracula's head seems to be a weak point, whereas the rest of his body is immune to damage, his head isn't. Dracula can be separate from his castle through a solar eclipse, which allowed him to be destroyed for good. The most effective weapon against Dracula are opposite emotions, the noble emotions of humanity, being their hopes and dreams. Dracula has a weakness to the light/holy element, though he loses this weakness in his transformed state. This can also further be seen as his resurrection being incomplete, as a Dracula with a completed resurrection had no such weakness to holy attacks. Cutting off the throne room will prevent Dracula's resurrection.

Note

• Dracula's Wraith is not Dracula, he is the suppressed desires of Maxim Kischine while he was holding the remains of Dracula forming a separate spirit entirely. This spirit went on to possess Dracula's remains, becoming the Dracula wraith. The Wraith is also unfamiliar with the power of the Belmonts, with Juste callng it a "Vile spawn of Maxim". Dracula's Wraith also notes that it will fade away for good from the world, not noting the usual thing racula notes of him always coming back due to humanity's greed and want of him.
• Contrary to popular belief, holy attacks and the whips in Castlevania can affect and harm people that aren't apart of the creatures of the night. Leon's doppelganger can use holy water and holy attacks against him in this fight along with the alchemy whip despite Leon being a pure and noble warrior. Simon's doppelganger can harm him with the vampire killer, despite Simon being a noble hero. Holy Water even works and harms enemies such as the "Holy Armor", a knight who has natural holy powers. Corrupted enemies such as Charlie Vincent, use holy water attacks on Carrie and Reinhardt. Characters like Jonathan Morris wear armor like the Holy Mail, an armor that reduces damage from holy attacks.
• The Sky Fish feat moving so fast that it appears as a beam of light and only slows once time is stopped is a natural indication of Faster Than Light travel as at the speed of light, time is zero from its perspective. Soma Cruz having a hard time catching up with it initially does not mess with his scaling either as we know it's an unquantifiable level into Faster than Light at the most.
• While vampires have some weakness to sunlight and can burn overtime in them, higher tier vampires, can stand out in the sunlight just fine without being weakened. It should also be noted even with Dhamphir's like Alucard, in original lore, he was considered a full vampire yet could stand out in the sunlight perfectly fine.

Explanation

Usage of games like Castlevania Legends & Castlevania: Circle of the Moon

Castlevania Legends

The game was originally meant to be a prequel to all the other games in the Castlevania series, this can be seen with Sonia's boss fight against Dracula serving as the first time Dracula ever encountered a Belmont along with the ending of the game saying "this story marks the beginning of the Belmont family legend that has been passed on through many ages". Along with this, Sonia shared a relationship with Alucard, heavily implying that her child is between her and Alucard. The existence of Lament of Innocence already greatly messes with this. The game manual even mentions that Sonia was the first of the Belmont family to leave her name to posterity as a vampire hunter. Despite Leon Belmont being the one to start the legend of the Belmont Hunters being vampire hunters. Along with this, Trevor is canonically the first Belmont to defeat Dracula. Iga has gone out of his way to note too that Castlevania Legends was intentionally redacted from the timeline so that it doesn't conflict with the timing used in other titles.

Castlevania: Circle of the Moon

Although it was in the original 2006 timeline, it was removed by Iga from the timeline, along with Castlevania (N64), Legacy of Darkness, and Legends.

Why abilities from them are still usable for main timeline

These games were at one point officially a part of the original timeline before ultimately being removed, making them hypotheticals that could be done. This is further supported by an interview in the History of Castlevania - Crescent of the Moon book, where executive producer of Castlevania Netflix Adi Shankar noted that even the "non-canon" games are parallel timelines in the overall multiverse, sharing the same spirit and lore. While one could argue his statement shouldn't be used, it comes from a book titled, "History of Castlevania - Crescent of the Moon", where it wouldn't make much sense if his statement was wrong and there was no correction over it. The book even has asterisks to give further context, yet they never claim him wrong. Along with this, it's consistent with the fact that most of the Castlevania games that are "non-canon" now were originally a part of the timeline. Thus this statement is usable. Thus abilities and the likes from these games can carry over to the main timeline games.

Trivia

• Dracula Wraith's Japanese voice actor, Takuo Kawamura, performed four characters in Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance: Maxim Kischine, the Merchant, Death, and the Dracula Wraith.
• When correctly starting a Hard Mode game, the Dracula Wraith's attack phrase is spoken upon confirming.
• Despite the Dracula Wraith using the six relics Juste Belmont obtained to form its body, Juste still has access to them all in the Relic screen during both battles.

Misconceptions

"Gaiden" means "Non-Canon" or "Alternate Timeline"

This stems from the belief that when Iga or a producer calls a Castlevania game a "Gaiden" it is therefore non-canon or an alternate timeline and can be dismissed. This, however, is not the case.

The term "Gaiden" merely just means a side story, spin-off, or a separate tale. The term "Gaiden" does not determine the canonicity of a work, it just lets you know if the game is a spin-off/side-story or if it's a main story. Take, for instance, the Kingdom Hearts series. Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories would be considered a gaiden, as it's a side-story and spin-off title that isn't a mainline numbered title, however, it is in all manners canon and important to play to understand Kingdom Hearts II.

The same can be applied to Castlevania itself, Castlevania Symphony of the Night is a gaiden game. Yet it is very obviously canon and pretty important to play to understand more of Alucard's backstory. The idea of a Gaiden game for the Castlevania series itself would be any game not dealing with one of Dracula's main 100-year-resurrections, which in this case, even Castlevania 2: Simon's Quest is in a way a gaiden, despite being completely canon.

This is all to say that Gaiden does not at all mean "non-canon" or "alternate timeline" and should never be treated as such, the term itself has nothing to do with the canonicity of a product.

IGA Statements Quoted by a Fan

Any statements Iga has made about Judgment that don't come from this IGN interview or a sourced and reputable article are not usable. This is, of course, referring to the popular statements used when discussing Judgment's Canoncity about a fan asking IGA about the game's Canoncity on Facebook, here are some of them below:

Fan: You mentioned Legend of Cornell was an alternate continuity. However, Cornell appears in Castlevania Judgment, which I believe is not an alternate continuity. How does that work? is he from a different universe than the other characters? It is not really explained in the game itself so I was hoping you could give some clarification on the issue.

IGA: Judgment is a work that surpasses space and time and brings them together.

Fan: I get it. So, is the explanation I suggested in the previous reply possibly correct?

IGA: I don't think it's exactly correct. Judgment is a work born of thinking it would be fun to remove all the hedges and bring characters that appeared throughout the series together. I think that you need to view it as an event from another world which does not consider things like timelines or parallel dimensions at all.

Now these seem like pretty clear-cut statements until you start to try to find where these come from.

They come from both a timeline archive discussion on the Castlevania Wiki back on January 15th, 2012 and from a forum post from the same user as the wiki article.

There is no way to find anything sourced or verifiably proven that this person spoke to Iga. Trying to look up the person didn't get any real results either.

Some other issues fall under the inconsistencies within these Iga talks, the person claims that Iga confirmed that Order of Shadows and the Arcade are non-canon because they were intended from the very beginning to be such, however, an officially sourced interview has the lead game designer of Order of Shadows state that Iga was actively involved with ensuring the game was consistent with the current canon, this would be a weird thing to do if he intended it to be non-canon from the very beginning.

He also claims that Iga said Super Castlevania IV was an alternate continuity, when the wiki also notes Iga saying that the games are all legitimate and the same scenario of defeating Dracula, however this quote is also unsourced, they just claim Iga says this with no link or anything.

There is another one not related to the user who spoke to Iga, but a user on reddit who claimed that a magazine claimed that Castlevania: Circle of the Moon was stated to be in a "different time axis". Attempting to get it translated got no wording that said anything like that, with it not even mentioning anything about canon, timeline, time axis, or any other wording of the sort in a machine-translated attempt. Do note however that this is a machine translation so it could potentially be that it is there, but until a reputable and verifiable translator can confirm or deny this translation, the jury is out with it and it will not be used for the canoncity of Circle of the Moon.

Thus all of these quotes are merely hearsay until shown or proven otherwise.

Remakes/Remasters Being Non-Canon

This comes from an Iga quote that says:

"IGA: FC版とX６８０００版ですが、X６８０００版はFC版をベースにアレンジを加えたものになっています。ゲームのアレンジは、その時に応じて、色々と施されるものですので、正直どちらも正統であると思ってよいのではないかと思っています。結論として、ドラキュラと戦い勝つというシナリオで、中間部分の切り抜きが違うと考えてもよいのではないかと考えています。スーパーファミコン版も違いますし…。どうしてもと考えるのであれば、FC版を尊重すべきかと考えます。

Translation: Regarding the Famicom version and the X68000 version, the X68000 version is an arrangement based on the Famicom version. The arrangement of a game is the kind of thing where you add a lot of different things as needed, so honestly speaking, it think they both should be considered legitimate. In conclusion, I think they should be considered as the same scenario of fighting to defeat Dracula, just with a different middle part. The Super Famicom version is different as well... If you simply must have a clear answer, the Famicom version must be given deference."

Now the quote itself doesn't state remakes or remasters are non-canon despite what people believe. It's moreso a quote of Iga stating that all of them are the same scenario, just with differences. However, an interesting point is that Iga says the NES version should be given "deference", as in to defer to the NES version.

Of course, though, this has the same issue as the Judgment quotes, everyone claims Iga said this, but there is no source of him saying this. In fact, in Castlevania Chronicles, there's a reward interview you receive from Iga himself where he talks about the game, Iga pretty much explains how the game came to be and never says anything about the game not being canon or to defer to the original, if anything he treats this as just an updated version of the original. Interestingly to note too, the original he's talking about is not Castlevania on NES but instead, he's talking about the computer version of Castlevania, though it borrows a lot of elements from Castlevania NES.

Overall due to the quote itself having no source, it is unusable. The way we will treat remakes, remasters, or ports here however is that they are all equally canon unless stated otherwise. Most of these tell the same story with the only real differences being extra background information added, such as Haunted Castle having it be Dracula stole Simon's wife, though the same overall story still applies even here. Iga himself has already expressed that the original Castlevania's story is pretty simple and Simon having a wife does not affect anything in the overall narrative. Super Castlevania IV notes that Simon is a vampire, though this was due to a novel writer making him a vampire in their novel. The novel was originally supposed to be an adaptation of Super Castlevania IV but was then dropped and made its own thing. Super Castlevania IV itself is still canon, but the subplot of Simon being a vampire is not. The most recent timeline even acknowledges it as canon.

Iga Only Allows Stuff He Works on To Be Canon

There is a weirdly believed idea in the fandom that Iga only considers works he worked on canon, however, an officially sourced interview has the lead game designer of Order of Shadows state that Iga was actively involved with ensuring the game was consistent with the current canon, along with this Iga did not work on a lot of Castlevania games considered canon, such as the NES trilogy and the Gameboy games. In fact, he has only made 12 Castlevania games, out of the 30 Castlevania games in total, and most of them from the older console eras are still a part of the canon. Thus Iga does not only allow stuff he works on to be canon.

Iga is a Producer of Castlevania: Circle of the Moon

A Nintendo Power magazine calls Iga the producer of Circle of the Moon, with Iga talking like he worked on the game in that interview. However Iga can be found nowhere in the credits of the game. Making this Nintendo Power issue questionable as to if they were talking to Iga or if the game was mixed up. Though we have direct in-game proof that Iga was not a producer of Circle of the Moon.

Elements and Statements can be used from Lords of Shadows for the main continuity

This argument comes from Adi Shankar saying that even "non-canon" games are parallel timelines in the overall multiverse, sharing the same spirit and lore. However, the Lord of Shadow games are directly noted in an interview with the lead developer, that the game has nothing to do with the canon, sharing none of the lore or original stuff for the characters. This directly conflicts with Adi Shankar's statement and it was very likely he was not even thinking of Lords of Shadows when making this statement but moreso games like Castlevania Legends. On top of this, Adi Shankar has no actual position within Konami, and being an executive producer for the Castlevania anime, thus he does not have any true say in terms of how Castlevania canon works and can only be used at most as a supporting piece of evidence.

Codex Statistics Questions

Q: Shouldn't the characters be around Tier 2 for defeating the Time Reaper who would've destroyed the very fabric of time, attempted to destroy the specific era of time, cause all beings everywhere to disappear, forever and that the age was on the verge of collapse?

A: We actually never get a direct outright method of Time Reaper's plan for doing this, from what Aeon mentions to Golem, if the Time Rift is not erased, all beings everywhere will disappear, forever, implying that it's the Time Rift causing this, this is further backed up by the fact that in Time Reaper's boss fight, there is a vortex in the background consuming everything, meaning this is an overtime feat that scales to no one physically.

Q: Shouldn't they get tier 2 for Dracula's influence destabilizing the flow of time?

A: This is a potent ability but has nothing to do with Attack Potency, there is no quantification for "destabilizing the flow of time", along with this, even if it was taken as physically, then it would be overtime as the effects are not noticeable throughout most of Curse of Darkness. Thus this is merely potent Time Manipulation.

Q: Shouldn't Dracula and by proxy anyone that scales to him get tier 2 for him being able to sustain his castle?

A: This goes under our Stabilization Feats standards, which treats sustaining feats are non-combat applicable Attack Potency normally, though in Dracula's case the Castle is speficially powered by the existence of a Dark Lord, and doesn't necessarily need their strength to rise. In the Castlevania novel, the castle rose without a Dark Lord as an example. Along with this, no one scales to the collapse of the castle, in Curse of Darkness Hector would've died to the collapse of the castle if Julia didn't come save him, and Isaac died within the castle. In other cases the Castle does not collapse, but instead slowly fades away. At the end of Dawn of Sorrow Soma Cruz and Genya Arikado (aka Alucard) must escape the collapsing abyss.

Q: Shouldn't Castlevania characters that scale to Death have Infinite speed due to Death being able to kill distance itself with his attacks?

A: Killing distance to attack is not a speed feat, it's a method of Spatial Manipulation by circumventing and ignoring distance, while one can say the attack spawns on you instantly, this is not really something quantifiable. Along with this, it would only scale to characters comparable to Death during post-Dawn of Sorrow, as Soma notes Death is far faster than he remembered from his fight with him in Dawn of Sorrow.

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