Saint Germain

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“	Walk the path that is meant for you without fear... For you are no longer alone...	„
	~ Saint Germain to Hector

Background

Saint Germain is an enigmatic time traveler featured in Castlevania: Curse of Darkness. He possesses a vast knowledge and the unique ability to alter his position within the flow of time, along with alter the flow of time itself.

Saint Germain first appears in Garibaldi Temple, dressed as a refined gentleman with a top hat and polite demeanor. He urges Hector to abandon his pursuit of Isaac. Saint Germain is later revealed to oppose Zead, dodging his attacks with his time manipulation abilities and vowing to return until Zead yields.

Saint Germain eventually falls into Zead's trap at the Eneomaos Machine Tower, losing some of his power. Although he isn’t truly an enemy, he challenges Hector to keep him from pursuing Isaac further.

After Hector defeats him, Saint Germain acknowledges his strength and encourages him to follow his path. Before leaving through a golden portal, he sarcastically asks Hector to send his regards to Zead. In a post-game message, he addresses the player, reflecting briefly on destiny and purpose, often hinting at the future with ambiguous comments, especially during his conflict with Zead.

General Information

Name: Saint Germain

Origin: Castlevania: Curse of Darkness

First Appearance: Castlevania: Curse of Darkness

Company: Konami

Creator: Koji Igarashi

Actor

• Japanese Voice Actor: Tetsuo Sakaguchi
• English Voice Actor: Adam D. Clark

Sex: Male

Sexuality: Heterosexual

Pronouns: He/Him

Age: Unknown (Similar to Aeon, where his age is unlisted due to being a wanderer of time)

Time Period: 1476 (During Curse of Darkness manga), 1479 (During Curse of Darkness)

Timeline: Main Timeline

Homeworld: Unknown (Similar to Aeon, where he has no era of his own to return to, merely wandering time eternal, observing all that occurs)

Residence: Unknown

Story Role: Temporal Entity, Mysterious Character

Legacy: Unknown Legacy

Influence: Unknown Influence

Language: English

Classification: Member of Time Watchers

Species: Unknown

State of Being: Regular

Physiology: Humanoid Physiology

In-Universe Creator: God

Occupation: Time Watcher

Affiliations: Aeon (Aeon and Saint Germain are apart of a group of time watchers)

Enemies: Death

Height: Unknown

Weight: Unknown

Status: Alive

Alignment: Lawful Neutral (Saint Germain cannot act upon the knowledge he has or interact with the world beyond just observing)

Protection Level: Cosmic Protector (Whenever the fabric of time is distrubed, the time watchers will either repair it themselves or enlist someone to repair it)

Codex Statistics

Grade: S

Tier: 7-C

Cardinality: Finite

Dimensionality: 3-D

Attack Potency: Town level (Potency) (Holds an immortal fragment, which is described as a piece of eternity itself that releases an endless amount of energy. Can fight and harm Hector, who can fight and defeat a weakened Dracula, who even while weakened 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)

Durability: Town level

Striking Strength: Town Class (Potency)

Lifting Strength: At least Peak Human (Should be comparable to Hector, where he is able to lift and easily wield large weapons in combat casually)

Travel Speed: At least Superhuman

Attack Speed: At most Faster Than Light (Can tag Hector, who in turn can tag Curse of Darkness Dracula, 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)

Reaction Speed: At most Faster Than Light

Stamina: Limitless (Holds an immortal fragment, which is described as a piece of eternity itself that releases an endless amount of energy)

Range: Standard Melee, Extended Melee with sword, Hundreds of Meters with pistol, Universal with Time Manipulation (Can stop Hector in time)

Intelligence: Cosmic Intelligence (Saint Germain is a time watcher, knowing all about time and all of its events)

Knowledge: Cosmic level

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Powers and Techniques

Innate AbilitiesPotential Abilities Shared with Aeon

Standard Abilities Granted From MagicUnique Abilities

Magic & Principle Manipulation (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". 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)

Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Penetration Damage (Physical Penetration) & Weapon Mastery (Sword Mastery; Can wield his sword deftly in combat. Gun Mastery; Can use a pistol deftly in combat), Breaking the Fourth Wall (Saint Germain directly speaks with the player at the end), Cosmic Awareness (Saint Germain is a time watcher, knowing all about time and all of its events), Immortality (Ageless; Time watchers wander time eternally), 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), Flight (Able to casually levitate off the ground), Intangibility (Temporal Intangibility; Can pull a weapon from a time axis that cannot be seen), Energy Absorption (Saint Germain can get hearts out of objects and enemies, where hearts are a measure of one's stored energy, thus one is absorbing energy when gaining hearts), Time Travel (Saint Germain is one who travels through time), Teleportation (Teleported away after sending his warning to Hector, teleported to Hector after he spoke with Zead. Easily teleported around Death's attacks. Can teleport around during his boss fight), Glyph Creation (Makes a gigantic glyph that shoots out fire), Healing (Through rewinding time, he can heal himself), Power Nullification (Saint Germain can break Hector's time stop entirely), Time Stop (1-T; Can stop Hector in 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), Time Manipulation (Can advance time causing objects to grow and decay quickly. Can rewind time to heal himself), Portal Manipulation (After finishing his speech to the player, he made a portal to leave the era of time he was in), Poison Manipulation (Can inflict poison with his attacks, which he can speed up the course of time to speed up the poison), Plant Manipulation (His advancement of time causes plants to grow and decay).

Standard ResistancesCastle Resistances

Resistance to Earth Manipulation (Saint Germain has a resistance to earth elemental attacks), Light Manipulation & Holy Manipulation (Saint Germain has a resistance to light elemental attacks), Time Stop (1-T; Cannot be stopped in time, only his advancement and reversal of time are halted), Death Manipulation & Fate Manipulation (Temporal Fate; Death could not kill him and instead needed to make a barrier that is freed from the fetters of time to keep Saint Germain trapepd. 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)

Resistance to Dracula's Castle's Abilities (Saint Germain is able to travel within the castle without any adverse effects done to him)

The Castle Abilities Include:

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), Possession (The castle possesses objects with its magic, such as a ouija table), 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), 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), 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), 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), Abstract Manipulation & Hell Manipulation (The castle can create a core of evil made from hatred, envy, anger and other dark emotions), Text Manipulation & Plot Manipulation (The vital souls are noted to be apart of the Castle's power, 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 (The vital souls are noted to be apart of the Castle's power, which alter grimoires, which do not adhere to the laws of reality), Power Modification (The vital souls are noted to be apart of the Castle's power, 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)

Should have similar abilities to Aeon, which would include: Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Cosmic Intelligence & Cosmic Awareness (Aeon wanders time eternally and observing all that occurs, being able to detect whenever the fabric of time is disturbed. Aeon's able to tell exactly when one lands into the time rift, and that a being from 10,000 years in the future, is trying. to destroy. the very fabric. of time), Precognition (Perfect Precognition; Aeon is able to tell all moments that are meant to happen, even in rifts in time), Immortality (Ageless; Aeon wanders time eternally), Singular Existence (Heavily implied there is only one Aeon, to having a clone match will have Aeon state one is "mimicking his form"), Reality Separation (Chronolock; Aeon is a being that exists outside of time, having no era to return too, merely wandering time eternally and observing all that occurs), Personal Nonexistence (Aeon is described as a man who seems not to exist at all), 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), Energy Absorption (Aeon can get hearts out of objects and enemies, where hearts are a measure of one's stored energy, thus one is absorbing energy when gaining hearts), Time Travel (Noted that as a guardian of time, Aeon has journeyed through the ages. Death calls Aeon a traveler of time. Noted by Alucard that Aeon "wanders through time"), Afterimage Creation (Aeon can move so fast he creates afterimages from the light projections being unable to keep up with him), Energy Projection (Can shoot an energy laser out of his weapon), Time Stop (1-T; Aeon can call upon time to fully stop his enemies in time, and can do this when his clock has a gold aura, working on those who naturally resist time stop. 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), Time Manipulation (Shown in the intro to the game to be speeding up the flow of time), Forcefield Manipulation (With Nullifying Barrier, Aeon conjures a barrier from his clock that nullifies attacks from all directions)

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Equipment

• Sword: A sword he wields in combat, using deft and quick strikes with them.
• Pistol: A pistol he wields in combat, using it for quick shots.

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Notable Techniques

• Stop!: Saint Germain shouts "Stop!" as he stops the flow of time and attacks his opponent.
• O time advance!: Saint Germain shouts "O time advance!" as he speeds up the flow of time, he will always do this if he's inflicted a status effect on his opponent. While time is advancing he will also have plants grow and decay at fast speeds, hurting anyone they come into contact with.
• O time reverse!: Saint Germain shouts "O time reverse!" as he reverses the flow of time, allowing him to heal himself of his injuries and recover his stamina.
• Teleportation: Saint Germain constantly teleports around his opponent and attacks them as he comes out of the teleportation.

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Other

Standard Tactics: Saint Germain is an observer who cannot physically interact with the world, but in situations where he's freed from the fetters of time, he has utilized rapier strikes and manipulates time, either stopping time entirely or dealing a status effect on the target and speeding up time so the target repeatedly gets hit with the status effect. He has also used time to restore his own health bar.

Weaknesses: Saint Germain cannot act upon the knowledge he has or interact with the world beyond just observing. Saint Germain is not allowed to have a direct physical effect, as a traveler he can only pass through, touching nothing and changing nothing, only being able to fight in areas free from the fetters of time. Saint Germain has a weakness to thunder and dark elemental attacks. If one stops time, Saint Germain's advancement or reversal of time is nullified.

Note

• 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.

Trivia

Comte Rakoczy de Saint-Germain

• Saint Germain is likely a reference to the hero of Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's well-known book series The Saint-Germain Chronicles. In turn, the Count Saint-Germain character is based off a true historical figure, Comte Rakoczy de Saint-Germain. St. Germain lived most of his life in London and was an active occultist, philosopher and composer. Much of his origins are shrouded in mystery. He claimed to be centuries old and a son of Transylvanian prince Francis II Rákóczi.
• Coincidentally, the union of Romania with Bukovina in 1919 was ratified by a document named the "Treaty of Saint Germain". Bukovina is one of the significant locations in Bram Stoker's 1897 novel, Dracula.
• While Saint Germain himself does not appear in Castlevania Judgment, he is alluded to. He appears to be a member of the time traveler organization Aeon belongs to, and is implied to be an individual whom Aeon enlists to fix issues through the timeline.
  • Aeon's alternate color scheme matches Saint Germain's. It is also possible to unlock a Silk Top Hat and the Angel Continental mustache which, if put on Aeon's alternate costume, will give him an appearance similar to that of Saint Germain.
• Koji Igarashi later revealed through an unofficial interview that Saint Germain is a member of a group he dubbed "time watchers".
• He is the only character in the series to break the fourth wall.
• In the ending to Curse of Darkness, when addressing the player, he implies that he knows about the Demon Castle War of 1999 and Dracula's final death during that time.
  • In the Japanese version, it is explicit that his intervention was to fix a possible problem through the timeline that would prevent the Demon Castle War from taking place.

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.

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.

Battle Records

0-1-1

VictoriesLossesInconclusive

None.

• Hector - Fight
  • Conditions: None
  • Location: Eneomaos Machine Tower

• Death - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Forest Jigramunt
  • Note: Saint Germain easily dodged most of Death's attacks and merely left after dodging them.