Elizabeth Bartley

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Background

Elizabeth Bartley is a character and boss featured in Castlevania: Bloodlines. She is portrayed as the vampiric niece of Count Dracula and serves as one of the game's primary antagonists.

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Early Life Elizabeth was born in 1560 in Transylvania, Hungary, to the Bartley family, who had deep ties to the region and a rumored connection to the Tepes lineage. As a child, she was forcibly betrothed to Nadazy Ferentz, marrying him at the age of 15 in 1575. They settled in Cheyte Castle, located in Nietots, Hungary. However, Nadazy's frequent absences from the castle left Elizabeth frustrated. During this time, she began studying magic under the guidance of the sorceress Drolta Tzuentes and torturing servants in the castle’s basement. In her quest to maintain her youthful appearance, Elizabeth turned to a gruesome practice: murdering young virgins to use their blood. Even after Nadazy’s death in 1600, when Elizabeth was 40, her violent obsession continued, resulting in the deaths of thousands. Rumors of her horrific acts eventually reached the Hungarian king in 1610, prompting him to order Count George Turzo to investigate. Upon discovering the bodies of countless victims, Elizabeth was confined to a sealed room within her castle, with only small openings for air and food. She remained there for four years, and her ultimate fate remains uncertain. Events of Castlevania: Bloodlines In the early 20th century, Elizabeth was revived from a 300-year slumber by Drolta Tzuentes, who had somehow escaped execution. Awakened at the ruins of Castle Dracula, Elizabeth sought vengeance against the Austrian imperial family, blaming them for her past imprisonment. She orchestrated the assassination of the Austrian prince, using the chaos of the ensuing war to her advantage. Her ultimate goal was to harness the souls of the countless war dead to resurrect her uncle, Count Dracula, whose restless spirit lingered after his defeat by Quincy Morris. In 1917, Elizabeth turned Lucy Seward, Eric Lecarde’s fiancée, into a vampire, though her reasons for doing so remain unclear. As part of her plan to revive Dracula, Elizabeth set out for Castle Proserpina in Whitby, England, where his spirit awaited. However, her progress was thwarted by Eric Lecarde, determined to avenge his fiancée, and John Morris, Quincy’s son. The duo pursued her across Europe, ultimately confronting her at the castle before she could complete the resurrection ritual. Elizabeth was defeated, and her plans were brought to an end.

General Information

Name: Elizabeth Bartley

Other Names: Elizabeth Bathory (エリザベート･バートリー Erizabēto Bātorī), Erzsébet Báthory, The Blood Countess

Origin: Castlevania: Bloodlines

First Appearance: Castlevania: Bloodlines

Latest Appearance: Vampire Survivors

Company: Konami

Creator: Hitoshi Akamatsu, Koji Igarashi

Sex: Female

Sexuality: Heterosexual

Pronouns: She/Her

Age: 357 (The Castlevania: Bloodlines EGM fax notes that she was born in 1560, where Bloodlines takes place in 1917)

Birth Year: 1560 (The Castlevania: Bloodlines EGM fax notes that she was born in 1560)

Homeworld: Earth

Residence: Dracula's Castle

Story Role: Secondary Antagonist

Classification: Countess, Dracula's Niece, Witch

Species: Vampire

State of Being: Regular

Physiology: Vampire Physiology

In-Universe Creator: Chaos

Occupation: Unknown (The Castlevania: Bloodlines EGM fax lists her occupation as a "?")

Affiliations: Dracula (Her uncle), Death, Drolta Tzuentes (Elizabeth's servant)

Enemies: John Morris, Eric Lecarde

Height: Unknown

Weight: Unknown

Status: Deceased (Killed by John Morris & Eric Lecarde)

Date of Death: Allegedly died in 1614 (The Castlevania: Bloodlines EGM fax lists her as "1560-1614?"), 1917 (Bloodlines takes place in 1917)

Alignment: Chaotic Evil (Gave all of her possessions of the human souls in Europe to cause the World War, wishes to revive Dracula and plunge the world into darkness. Transformed Eric Lecarde's girlfriend into a vampire)

Threat Level: Global Threat (Wished to revive Dracula traveling across all of Europe to enlist help from all the powers of darkness conducting an unholy ceremony that caused the World War)

Codex Statistics

Grade: S

Tier: At least 7-C

Cardinality: Finite

Dimensionality: 3-D

Attack Potency: At least Town level (Potency) (Vampires are considered far larger threats than standard creature of the night monsters, which would put her above creatures such as Golem, from Castlevania Judgement, 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 harm and fight against enemies stronger than characters who can take hits from neutron bomb, that have a yield range of 1-10 kilotons of TNT. Can fight and harm John Morris and Eric Lecarde. Elizabeth can channel the powers of the likes of Medusa, who serves as one of the four pillars that guard the castle, being ranked by its prevailing magic powers)

Durability: At least Town level

Striking Strength: At least Town Class (Potency)

Lifting Strength: At least Class 10 (Vampires are considered far larger threats than standard creature of the night monsters, which should make her 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 and Hector's battle-type innocent devils can lift open large iron doors that "no man could force open")

Travel Speed: At least Superhuman regularly (Vampires can assume the shape of a wolf, a bat or fog). At most Faster Than Light at top speed (Vampires are loved by the night, beyond even the typical Creature of the Night, making her 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. Alucard in his suppressed Genya Arikado form can still move so fast that an afterimage made of light is behind him)

Attack Speed: At most Faster Than Light

Reaction Speed: At most Faster Than Light

Stamina: Limitless (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)

Range: Standard Melee. At least Several Meters with Attacks (Her attacks can cross an entire room span)

Intelligence: Supergenius Intelligence (Elizabeth is a master of magic, 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")

Knowledge: Grandmaster level

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Powers and Techniques

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), 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. 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 (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 (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 (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 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. 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 huamns), 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 (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 (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 (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)

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 (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)

Afterimage Creation (Can create afterimages as she moves around), Magic & Principle Manipulation (A natural wielder of magic where magic comes from alchemy, a field that experiments with the principles of God's creation of the world), Invulnerability (Metaphysical Invulnerability; She creates projectiles floating in the middle of the screen, requiring one to hit her equal to the number of projectiles floating on the screen to actually deal damage to her), Summoning (If one does not hit her equal to the number of projectiles she put on the screen in time, the projectiles will slam to the floor and summon enemies), Flight (Naturally flies while creating the projectiles to give her invulnerability), Teleportation (Freely teleports around), Weapon Creation (Elizabeth can create daggers to induce physical-based attacks), Transformation (Shapeshifting) & Power Mimicry (Elizabeth can channel the powers of the likes of Medusa. Her transformation state does nothing to her actual body as she will simply come back in her human state), Fire Manipulation (Can shoot out fireballs. Causes a massive pillar of fire if one fails to hit all of her magic orbs in time. Can create orbs of fire for fire based attacks), Electricity Manipulation (Creates orbs of electricity for electricity based attacks).

Resistance to Dracula's Castle (As she is naturally fought within Dracula's Castle right before Dracula and she feels none of the effects of it) 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)

Natural Weaponry (Through her claws, can try an claw into John or Eric), Body Control (While in her Medusa form, can extend her tail outwards as an attack), Breath Attack & Fire Manipulation (Can shoot out a massive fire wave attack from her mouth)

Elizabeth can channel the powers of the likes of Medusa, which gives her: Weapon Mastery (Bow Mastery; Medusa can use a bow and arrow in combat against her opponentets. Sword Mastery; Uses a sword against Alucard. Uses a large sword against Desmond. In the Castlevania Legends timeline, Medusa has shown to be skilled with a sword in combat. Shield Mastery; Uses her shield against Alucard to stop any attacks from in front of her), Acrobatics (Can leap extremely high into the air and far distances), Spin Dash (Can curl into a ball and roll around the battlefield), Body Control (Can use her own tail for tail swipes in combat), Transformation (Transformative Arsenal; Can transform into a gigantic snake), Large Size (At least Building Sized; Large enough that her body can spread across an entire room), Aura (Has a blue aura around herself as she curls into a ball and spins around), Multiple Organisms (Medusa has around eight snakes on her head, each having their own mind, which she can order to attack with), Fusionism (Medusa can be formed through multiple snakes merging into one), Flight & Irregular Physiology (Medusa can live as a giant floating head), Petrification (Medusa is the one responsible for all of the stone statues with Leon noting that Medusa is the legendary monster that turns people to stone, being capable of turning Leon to stone during her boss fight. Can turn Trevor Belmont to stone. Can turn Simon Belmont to stone. Can turn Alucard to stone. Can turn Carrie Fernandez to stone), Telekinesis (Can telekinetically control and throw severak stone statues at the enemy when low on health), Summoning (Can summon Medusa Heads to attack with her), Energy Projection (Medusa can fire out energy projectiles in battle), Homing Attack (Can shoot out multiple projectiles that home in on the opponent), Light Manipulation (When attempting to turn her enemy to stone, she projects a flash of light from her eyes), Animal Manipulation (Can have snakes come out of her mouth to run and attack her enemies), Explosion Manipulation (Can throw out multiple projectiles that explode upon impact), Fire Manipulation (Elizabeth Bartley channeling the powers of Medusa, can shoot out a massive fire wave), Electricity Manipulation (Can shoot out electricity that homes in on a target. Electricity is shown to naturally produce around her body)

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Equipment

Nothing notable.

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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.

Medusa Transformation

Elizabeth Bartley assumes the form of the gorgon Medusa, a monstrous transformation that grants her devastating offensive abilities.

• Fireball Barrage: Medusa spews two fireballs that undulate across the screen in high and low arcs, creating a deadly pattern for enemies to navigate.
• Flame Stream: Breathes a vertical stream of fire that ascends before descending near the ground, scorching everything in its path.
• Tail Whip: Lashes her serpentine tail across the floor in a whip-like motion, striking with immense force.
• Claw Swipe: Performs short lunges while swiping with her claws to attack enemies in close range.

Elemental Orb Summoning

Once Medusa is defeated, Elizabeth reverts to her vampiric form and takes a more magical approach to combat.

• Orb Summon: Conjures multiple elemental orbs that circle her, each representing an attack type: magic, fire, lightning, or physical damage.
• Elemental Assault: Commands an orb to transform into an elemental attack, such as a magic blast, fire burst, lightning strike, or a high-speed dagger.
• Teleportation: Continuously teleports across the chamber to evade attacks and reposition herself for counterattacks.

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Other

Standard Tactics

• Elizabeth Bartley reveals herself in an ornate chamber, flanked by statues and a coffin, but quickly transforms into the monstrous gorgon Medusa.
• Medusa launches two fireballs that travel in undulating patterns—one high and one low—forcing precise positioning to avoid them.
• She exhales a column of flames that rises and then descends near the ground, requiring crouching to evade the attack.
• Her tail strikes the floor with a whip-like motion.
• Between her main attacks, Medusa advances gradually, lunging forward and slashing with her claws.
• Elizabeth summons elemental orbs that orbit her while teleporting to distant points in the room. Each orb represents an element and transforms into an attack, such as fire, lightning, magic, or a swift dagger symbolizing physical damage.
• Striking Elizabeth forces her to teleport, removes one orb, and once all are removed she'll finally take damage.
• Once all the orbs are destroyed, she conjures a new set and continues her assault.

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: Nothing notable.

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.
• 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.

Trivia

Erzsébet Báthory

• Countess Erzsébet Báthory was an infamous serial killer –one of the most prolific female ones in history– who's thought to have killed up to 650 victims over her life, all young women. This, along with myths about her bathing in their blood to keep herself youthful, has led to her commonly being associated with vampires. In addition, the Countess was distantly related to the historic Vlad III Drăculea, but, contrary to the game's background, she was his cousin rather than his niece.
  • Bartley's Japanese name, Erizabēto Bātorī (エリザベート･バートリー), is an antiquated way to render Erzsébet Báthory's name and was probably intended as a direct reference to the historical figure. The Japanese version also places Elizabeth's death in 1614, further reinforcing the connection, as this was the year of Erzsébet's death.
  • According to an internal document shared by Konami's Chicago offices to Electronic Gaming Monthly as part of the prerelease of Castlevania: Bloodlines, the idea of Bartley being Báthory is brought up, giving her backstory up to her execution in 1614, including her marriage to Ferenc II Nádasdy and occupation of Čachtice Castle. Her executioner is stated to be György Thurzó in the document, while her relationship with Drolta is reversed, with the sorceress instead being the one who inspired Elizabeth to "torture her servants in the basement".
• The game states that Elizabeth had assassinated the Crown Prince of Austria to trigger the events of World War I. In reality, the crown prince, Rudolf, took his own life in 1889. It was his cousin, the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, whose assassination in 1914 led to the war.
• In the fight against her, it is argued whether she either transforms into or summons Medusa, and is referred to as "Medusa" in the end credits of the American localization. However, it is more then likely she transforms into Medusa. The in-game animation showcases it as a form she takes, as the sprites are simply swapped out. Supporting the idea that Medusa is indeed Elizabeth under that form, is that when playing on Easy mode Elizabeth dies right after killing Medusa, as Medusa was her all along, and when killed and losing her powers, she is forced to return to her humanoid form while dying.

Báthory family's coat of arms.

Medusa

• The color and uniquely dragon-like form of Medusa might be a reference to the historical Báthory's coat of arms, which featured a long, light-green dragon with a prominent claws (or fangs) motif and a long whip-like tail coiled numerous times along it, very similar to how Medusa has hers in the game.
• Elizabeth Bartley was a planned character for Castlevania: Symphony of the Night but was scrapped.
• The lead female antagonist in the canceled game Castlevania: Resurrection, known as The Countess, may in fact be Countess Elizabeth Bartley; however, she was portrayed as Dracula's lover rather than his niece in that game, so this link is uncertain and unlikely.
• Bartley's actions were indirectly responsible for the events of Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin (which is the direct sequel of Castlevania: Bloodlines), as her triggering World War I led to the deaths of Brauner's daughters and ultimately to his turning to villainy, and which in turn led directly to Eric Lecarde's death at the hands of Brauner and his own vampirized daughters, Stella and Loretta.
• In Castlevania Judgment, the bathing in blood element of her backstory is given to that game's version of Carmilla. They are separate characters, though. Eric's ending mentions "Dracula's niece" (Elizabeth Bartley), not Carmilla (who has no known blood ties to Dracula).
• Her name resembles that of her uncle Dracula's (Mathias Cronqvist) first wife, Elisabetha. However, it's unknown if there is any relation between both. More so, because other than Elizabeth's family relationship to Dracula and her date of death, no other details are given.
  • The original Japanese version of Castlevania: Bloodlines states that she died in 1614 (the English version sets her death in 1421) and it's heavily implied that she was already a vampire by then, the Castlevania: Bloodlines EGM fax also notes that she was born in 1560.
  • It must be noted, though, that Castlevania: Lament of Innocence was released several years after Bloodlines, and the choosing of name for Mathias's wife could have been either deliberate or merely coincidental, the latter without any intention of implying a reference between both characters.

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• John Morris & Eric Lecarde - Fight
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  • Location: Stage 6-8 of Castlevania: Bloodlines

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