Dracula (Castlevania)

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Main Timeline	Count Dracula - Dracula Wraith - Soma Cruz
Alternate Timelines	Malus - Haunted Castle - Legends - Circle of the Moon
Non-Canon	Netflix Castlevania - Lords of Shadow - Smash Bros.

“	We have risked our lives and fought for the sake of God... But God mercilessly stole away the one I love most... When all I ever wished for was Elisabetha's safety!! If limited life is God's decree, then I shall defy it!! And within that eternity, I shall curse Him forevermore!	„
	~ Mathias Cronqvist to Leon Belmont

“	The powerful always judge the weak. The humans made their judgement of me, as well. Thus I sentenced them... to extinction. Sympathy is merely a form of weakness. You betrayed me, Hector... And for that, the punishment is death.	„
	~ Count Dracula to Hector

“	As ever, the ally of worthless humans!	„
	~ Count Dracula to Christopher Belmont

“	I am eternal, neither you nor any of your descendants will ever defeat me.	„
	~ Count Dracula to Desmond Belmont

“	It is not by my own power that I am resurrected. It is a greed of humanity which calls me back. And thus, by might, I rule. Might becomes the one and only justice in this world!	„
	~ Count Dracula to Richter Belmont

“	Such a lovely maiden... Are you the one whom I owe this great pleasure? Tell me your desire, child. Is it eternal life you seek? A place at my side?	„
	~ Count Dracula to Shanoa

“	I look forward to seeing who will have the last laugh.	„
	~ Count Dracula to Jonathan Morris and Charlotte Aulin

“	As you wish.... the power of the true Lord of Darkness is upon you!	„
	~ Count Dracula in Judgement

Background

Count Dracula, formerly known as Mathias Cronqvist, is the main overarching antagonist of the Castlevania series, appearing in every title to date. Once a simple tactician, Mathias lost his beloved, Elisabetha, which fueled his hatred into becoming the immortal vampire Dracula. For the next several hundred years, Dracula would lead attacks on humanity, while being fought off by the Belmont Clan of Vampire Hunters.

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Mathias Cronqvist, born in 1062, was a member of the legendary Cronqvist family. Born in a time where the world was lacking in education, the Cronqvist family stood out as a beacon of incredible knowledge; the family orally passed down teachings of alchemy and magic, which eventually ended up in Mathias’ hands. Mathias, possibly the smartest and most prodigious of his family, wrote down these teachings in a notebook and studied them for years. Years passed and Mathias quickly became friends with a young knight named Leon Belmont. With Mathias fighting for the church as a master tactician, and Leon fighting as an unrivaled swordsman, they made their company of knights nigh-invincible. However, one fateful day, Mathias received news that his wife, Elisabetha, died from illness. Horribly wounded by this news, Mathias headed home and was bedridden. During his time alone and suffering from horrible grief, Mathias’ mind began to twist. Realizing that all he ever prayed for during his expeditions was Elisabetha’s continued safety, he grew to develop a deep hatred of God for taking away the only thing he ever asked to keep safe. Using his immense intelligence that surpassed nearly everyone on Earth, Mathias devised a master plan. Losing all ties to his friends, blinded by his grief and anger towards God, Mathias used everyone he needed to use in order to realize his goals; he used Leon Belmont, Leon’s betrothed Sara Trantoul, the alchemist Rinaldo Gandolfi, and even the vampire king Walter Bernhard, to finally obtain a powerful relic known as the Crimson Stone. The Crimson Stone was a godly relic written about in alchemic text, which Mathias had studied and finally obtained. Absorbing Walter’s vampiric soul into the Stone, and then absorbing the stone itself, Mathias’ power grew immensely; not only did he gain vampiric powers from Walter’s soul, but also eternal life, which he would use to spite God’s decree of mortals having limited life. Furthermore, because he was the embodiment of everything that opposed God’s order and law, Mathias’ power source became the primordial entity, Chaos. And, due to becoming the King of the Crimson Stone and the Dark Lord, the entity known as Death became subservient to him. Although Leon knew he had to defeat Mathias, the vampire quickly escaped and left Death to deal with his old friend. From that day on, Mathias had kickstarted a blood feud between him and his former brother-in-arms; and the Belmont Clan would go on to hunt Mathias for the next several centuries. Eventually, as Mathias continued to plague the lands as the Dark Lord, he went to change his name to Dracula Vlad Ţepeş; widely known to the public as Count Dracula. He continued his hatred of God as a bitter, immortal man, until one day he came across a woman known as Lisa. Dracula was shocked by how much Lisa fully accepted him, and how much she bore resemblance to his former wife, Elisabetha. Slowly but surely, Dracula warmed up to Lisa and let her into his life, and the two got married. They bore a child together who possessed the powers of a vampire but the heart of a human, named Adrian Fahrenheit Ţepeş. Their family lived very happily for a time, until the church caught on to Lisa’s marriage to the Dark Lord. Lisa was quickly taken and crucified in front of her son, Adrian, though Dracula was away at the time. However, when Dracula eventually found out about her murder, he was infuriated. Yet another wife, another person he let into his life and fully loved, taken away from him. Unstoppably infuriated, Dracula turned his hatred from not only being on God, to humanity as a whole. This is what truly sparked Count Dracula’s war on humanity. Because of this war, the Belmont Clan was alerted and rushed to the Transylvanian countryside to finally take out Dracula. Trevor Belmont, teaming with several other powerful warriors (including Dracula’s son, who now went by Alucard,) confronted Count Dracula and was the first one to slay him. Dracula was killed, but this would only be the first of many times. For the next five hundred or so years, the Dark Lord would be resurrected and slayed by vampire hunters time and time again. Eventually, the day came in 1999, when Dracula was revived at his peak of strength. A massive war began, between Dracula’s forces and the armies of mankind. Spearheading the charge on the side of mortals was Julius Belmont; a distant descendant of Mathias’ old friend, Leon. Julius reached Dracula and finally slayed the Dark Lord for good, sealing him away in the lunar eclipse, along with the Belmont Clan’s legendary weapon, the Vampire Killer whip; the Vampire Killer being sealed alongside Dracula’s soul would serve as a magical seal, keeping him away for the rest of time. For the first time in the past 900 years, Dracula was dead with no way to resurrect himself. As a result, with no other option, Dracula and his powers were reincarnated into a new body completely unaware of his past. This new body was that of a Japanese high-schooler named Soma Cruz, who would spend the majority of his teen years trying to suppress Dracula’s dark powers from taking control of him. However, Soma would finally find the source of Dracula’s power in the Chaotic Realm, with the entity known as Chaos. Directly challenging it and taking it out, Soma finally ended the source of the Dark Lord’s power, and the book closed on a long saga of hatred and grief.

Codex Statistics

Key: Mathias Cronqvist | Count Dracula

Tier: High 3-A | At least 2-C, Higher every resurrection

Name: Mathias Cronqvist | Count Dracula Vlad Ţepeş

Origin: Castlevania

Sex: Male

Age: 32 years old | 32 years old - 937 years old

Classification: Tactician, Alchemist, Vampire, Dark Lord, King of the Crimson Stone

Alignment: Chaotic Evil (Is completely and utterly self-servingly evil in everything he does. Despite being methodical in his actions, every act Dracula takes is sourced in chaos and performed for his own gain. All of his motives are selfish, defying both God and humanity as revenge against them for the deaths of his wives, and he is eternally bitter for that)

Dimensionality: 3-D

Attack Potency: Multi Supercluster level (Due to wielding the Crimson Stone and renouncing God’s Order, Mathias’ powers had become sourced from Chaos; Chaos created the Chaotic Realm, which contains swirling cosmos and is parallel to the main universe, which is comparable to this levels of energy) | At least Universe level (Was able to directly destroy the Time Reaper, and is superior to the Time Reaper's master, Galamoth; The Time Reaper was going to erase the Castlevania Timeline), Higher every resurrection (Dracula grows stronger with each resurrection)

Durability: Multi Supercluster level | At least Universe level, Higher every resurrection

Striking Strength: Multi Supercluster Class | At least Universal Class, Higher every resurrection

Lifting Strength: At least Peak Human

Travel Speed: Superhuman (Should scale above Leon Belmont, who was able to escape Walter's Castle by running from the top floor to the entrance, before the entire structure collapsed), Superhuman as a bat, (Bats can fly at over 100 miles per hour)

Combat Speed: Faster Than Light | Faster Than Light

Reaction Speed: Faster Than Light (Holding the Crimson Stone puts him far above Walter Bernhard who is comparable to Leon; Leon was able to outpace Medusa, who could produce beams from her eyes on several occasions; these beams were confirmed to be comprised of light) | Faster Than Light (Should be just as fast as before. He generated a light beam. Scales to Trevor Belmont, who outpaced Nuculais, a being composed entirely of light. Should be just as fast as before. Due to owning the castle in which he resides, he is above Count Olrox, who could generate a beam, which was confirmed to be light-based. Should scale to his reincarnation, Soma Cruz, who could outpace Paranoia; Paranoia can generate beams of energy from its hands, confirmed to be comprised of light)

Stamina: Limitless (With the Crimson Stone, Dracula was given immortality and longevity that allows for him to keep going naturally, unless he is killed through outside means. His power is sourced in the primordial god, Chaos, who should not have stamina whatsoever. The only time he is seen sleeping is when he is biding his time, or during times when he is dead)

Range: Standard Melee, Tens of Meters with teleportation, Multi-Universal with powers (his power is sourced from Chaos, which resides in a completely separate realm)

Intelligence Supergenius (At just 32 years old, Mathias and the Cronqvist Family were geniuses in tactics and alchemy, even in a time when the world lacked education; the Cronqvist family orally passed down incredible knowledge of alchemy that Mathias would then write down. Mathias himself was able to completely play people like Leon Belmont and Walter Bernhard into being his puppets, serving his ultimate goal of becoming a vampire. Dracula would go on to be the most accomplished alchemist and scientist for the next 900 years, having designed his Castle himself, which itself is a marvel of the scientific world. Dracula’s Castle is capable of defying and altering physics from room to room, warping gravity in enclosed spaces, containing pocket dimensions within it, and warping itself to fit the mindscape of the castle’s Lord. After renouncing God and his Order, Dracula has become the source of Chaos and thus naturally maintains the cosmos of the Chaotic Realm)

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Powers and Techniques

Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Genius Intelligence, Immortality (Type 1; Dracula has eternal life through the Crimson Stone. Type 3; Dracula can regenerate from just blood, and from having his soul obliterated. Type 4; Dracula will always return as long as the entity Chaos lives. Type 7; Dracula has been killed several times and raised from the dead. Type 8; Dracula can always be brought back so long as evil exists in the hearts of humans), Regeneration (Low-High; Dracula can fully come back from just blood. Mid-Godly; Dracula can fully come back after his soul is obliterated), Resurrection (Dracula naturally revives every century), Mind Manipulation (Dracula’s and his minions can control others), Metaphysics Manipulation (Soul Manipulation) and Mimicry (Power Mimicry; With the Power of Dominance, Dracula can absorb the souls of monsters and copy their abilities), Chaos Manipulation (Dracula’s powers are rooted in primordial Chaos, opposite to God’s Order), Non-Standard Interaction (Dracula can interact with souls and creatures of the night), Shapeshifting (Can morph his body into a bat, and a wolf), Transformation (Dracula can transform into a variety of different forms), Sleep Manipulation (Possesses Walter Bernhard’s soul, who can induce sleep), Pocket Reality Manipulation and BFR (Type 1; Dracula can bring people into his own pocket space), Blood Manipulation (Dracula can control his own blood), Curse Manipulation (Dracula inflicted a curse upon Simon Belmont), Teleportation (Dracula can teleport), Law Manipulation and Physics Manipulation (Can summon a castle floating upside down, which as candles that function upside down as well), Hellfire Manipulation and Fire Manipulation (Dracula can summon and control flames, this move is called Hellfire), Electricity Manipulation (Dracula can summon bolts of electricity), Flight (Is capable of flight), Holy Manipulation (Can use Demonic Megiddo, which contains holy power), Death Manipulation (Has complete control over Death due to possessing the Crimson Stone), possible Fusionism (Fused together a bat and a human in another timeline), Attack Reflection (Dracula’s Rib will deflect projectiles), Power Bestowal (Dracula’s Nail grants the ability to break things he otherwise couldn’t), Statistics Amplification (Nail, Fang, and Ring of Vlad all increase Dracula’s stats).
Resistance to Illusion Creation (Standard Illusions; Dracula’s Eye lets Dracula see beyond false blocks).
Resistance to Curse Manipulation (Eye of Vlad prevents all curses).
Resistance to Poison Manipulation (Rib of Vlad prevents poisonous effects).
Resistance to Petrification (Heart of Vlad prevents petrification)

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Equipment

• Crimson Stone: A legendary alchemic stone that grants eternal life and incredible power, at the cost of also inflicting the one who possesses it with vampirism.
• Satan's Ring: A ring that Dracula used to wear until his final death, which was then found and worn by Soma Cruz.
• Dracula’s Rib: The rib bone of Count Dracula, which will deflect projectiles from enemies and prevent Dracula from being poisoned.
• Dracula’s Heart: The heart of Count Dracula, which prevents him from being petrified.
• Dracula’s Eye: The eye of Count Dracula, which allows Dracula to see past illusions such as fake blocks. It also prevents him from being inflicted by a curse.
• Dracula’s Nail: The nail of Count Dracula, it grants Dracula strength to break blocks he usually couldn’t. It also increases his strength.
• Dracula’s Ring: A ring worn by Count Dracula, the final item needed to grant access into Dracula’s Castle. It also increases his luck.
• Dracula’s Fang: Count Dracula's fang, which increases Dracula's defense.

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Other

Weaknesses: Dracula is extremely weak to holy powers and weapons blessed by the church, as well as sunlight. His head seems to be his weak point and takes far more damage than any other part of his body, including his heart.

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