Sypha Belnades

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“	Do not underestimate me! I am Sypha Belnades, a hunter of the church.	„
	~ Sypha Belnades

“	Thanks for helping me. I'm Syfa, the Vampire Hunter. I will follow you if you need my help. I hope a Magic Spirit wil give us the power.	„
	~ Sypha to Trevor

Background

Sypha Belnades was a young woman who grew extremely proficient with magic and became a self-proclaimed witch. Raised by fellow witches, Sypha was only a child when she witnessed the vampire, Carmilla, darken the hearts of men to the point that they grew fearful and hateful towards witches. This sparked the witch trials, which led to the deaths of Sypha's parents.

After barely escaping with her life, Sypha found refuge within the Church. For a time, she trained as a monk, in which she learned how to use elemental magic, such as fire, ice, and lightning spells. Seeking revenge for the vampire who caused the deaths of her sisters, Sypha sought to destroy anything tainted by darkness.

Whilst out destroying monsters around the countryside of Wallachia, Sypha noticed a Time Rift appear before her, which wasted no time in pulling her in. Inside, Sypha met a man named Aeon, who beckoned for her help in defeating a powerful and dangerous being known as the Time Reaper. Agreeing to do so, Sypha fought through the Time Rift. Along the way, she met several warriors from several points in time, including a strange man named Trevor Belmont, who seemed to know her.

After several fights to prove her strength, Sypha made it to the Time Reaper and managed to defeat it. With the Time Rift mended, Sypha was brought back to her own time, where she found that trouble was stirring. A mysterious new vampire known as Count Dracula made his presence known, seeking to kill all of humanity for their transgressions.

Sypha was called by the Church to deal with the threat, though she was still wary that the people of Wallachia would kill her for her station as a witch. In particular, a woman named Lisa had recently been killed for suspicions of being a witch, which, unbeknownst to everyone, was the event that enraged Dracula. Because of this, Sypha disguised herself as a man and came to the countryside.

Once she made it there, however, she was quickly captured by a powerful Cyclops, and turned into a statue. Sypha was then rescued by Trevor Belmont, whom she somewhat recalled from her quest through the Time Rift. Sypha joined Trevor, along with two other warriors named Grant Danasty and Alucard, as they set course directly towards Dracula. Using their combined power, the four were able to slay the Dark Lord.

With Dracula defeated, Sypha grew an attraction towards Trevor, and the two fell in love; they would soon have children that would continue on the legendary Belmont bloodline. As accomplices to Trevor Belmont in his fight, Sypha, Grant, and Alucard were titled the "Three Legendary Warriors," which immortalized them through history.

General Information

Name: Sypha Belnades

Origin: Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse

First Appearance: Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse

Company: Konami

Creator: Hitoshi Akamatsu, Koji Igarashi

Actor

• Japanese Voice Actor: Ami Koshimizu
• English Voice Actor: Dorothy Fahn

Sex: Female (Sypha hid her true self due to her calling and fear of being called a witch)

Sexuality: Heterosexual

Pronouns: She/Her

Age: Unknown

Homeworld: Earth

Residence: Wallachia

Story Role: Supporting Protagonist, Hidden Female

Classification: Witch, One of the Three Legendary Warriors

Species: Human

State of Being: Regular

Physiology: Humanoid Physiology

In-Universe Creator: God

Occupation: Vampire Hunter

Affiliations: Trevor Belmont (Both her and Trevor fell in love), Grant Danasty, Alucard

Enemies: Dracula

Height: Unknown

Weight: Unknown

Status

• During her Time: Alive
• Modern Time: Deceased (As she existed back in 1400s, she is naturally dead from old age)

Date of Death: Unknown

Alignment: Lawful Good (Sypha is a follower of the church, vowing to hunt down the forces of evil and hunt mankind, despite their continued oppression of her and her sisters)

Protection Level: Global Protector (Aided in the defeat 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

Key: Judgment | Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse

Key Information

• Judgment: Covers her Judgment story which takes placae years before the events of Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse.
• Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse: Covers the events of her during Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse.

Grade: A | A

Tier: 7-C, Far Higher with Sheer Will | 7-C, Far Higher with Sheer Will

Cardinality: Finite

Dimensionality: 3-D

Attack Potency: Town level (Potency) (Fought and defeated the Time Reaper, who fought against Golem from Castlevania Judgment, who 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. The powers of everyone in Judgment are essentially equal as the time rift is another world where the impossible is possible), Far Higher with Sheer Will (Simon claims that the Belmonts and Morrises did not defeated Dracula because of the Vampire Killer, with the reason behind heroes' capacity to fight against evil lying not in their physical strength but the noble desire to drive away evil and usher in all that is good, the desire to protect the world for all of humanity, with the courage to fight to protect others being the true essence of a hero and a Belmonts strength, with this even applying for other heroes such as Shanoa, Maria, Charlotte, and even Arikado) | Town level (Potency) (Aided in the defeat of 1400s 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, 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 Frankenstein who can cause the entire room to shake and make parts of the ceiling fall down), Far Higher with Sheer Will

Durability: Town level, Far Higher with Sheer Will | Town level (Though her durability is shown to be lower then the likes of Trevor Belmont, Grant Danasty, & 1400s Alucard), Far Higher with Sheer Will

Striking Strength: Town Class (Potency), Far Higher with Sheer Will | Town Class (Potency), Far Higher with Sheer Will

Lifting Strength: Unknown: True level, Far Higher with Sheer Will | Unknown: True level, Far Higher with Sheer Will

Travel Speed: Superhuman (Shouldn't be far off from her Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse self, who can outrun a room where all the blocks start collapsing), Far Higher with Sheer Will | Superhuman, Far Higher with Sheer Will

Attack Speed: At most Faster Than Light (Can tag 1400s 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), Far Higher with Sheer Will | At most Faster Than Light, Far Higher with Sheer Will

Reaction Speed: At most Faster Than Light, Far Higher with Sheer Will | At most Faster Than Light, Far Higher with Sheer Will

Stamina: Superhuman (Alongside Trevor, Sypha travelled the entire Transylvanian countryside for several days fighting against Dracula's forces, without any rest)

Range: Standard Melee, Extended Melee with Belnades Staff, Tens of Meters with magic spells (Sypha's ice can instantly freeze an entire river), Universal with Time Stop

Intelligence: Supergenius Intelligence (Sypha is a practicioner 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". Able to utilize sub-weapons that possess great attack and power which in Castlevania requires one to have a high intelligence to be able to do)

Knowledge: Grandmaster level (Can fight and defeat Dracula, where he was a genius tactician as Mathias, who they called "Cronqvist the Wise")

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Powers and Techniques

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)

Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Weapon Mastery (Staff Mastery; Asides from using it for magic, Sypha can also use her staff in direct combat), Sheer Will (Simon claims that the Belmonts and Morrises did not defeated Dracula because of the Vampire Killer, with the reason behind heroes' capacity to fight against evil lying not in their physical strength but the noble desire to drive away evil and usher in all that is good, the desire to protect the world for all of humanity, with the courage to fight to protect others being the true essence of a hero and a Belmonts strength, with this even applying for other heroes such as Shanoa, Maria, Charlotte, and even Arikado), Magic (Sypha is directly noted to be a witch), Extrasensory Perception (Sypha is able to sense the energy one radiates, believing Shanoa to believe a vampire when she came across her), Non-Standard Interaction (Elemental Interaction; Can interact with creatures of the night made of fire. Metaphysical Interaction; Can harm and kill spirits and ghost), Nullification (Energy Nullification; Sypha can negate energy projectiles with her staff), Regeneration Negation (Sypha's freezing and then attacking the red skeletons can negate their regeneration, who endlessly regenerates, from any kind of damage due to it absorbing blood), Energy Absorption (Sypha 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), Summoning (Sypha can summon the grimoire to use for her special attack), Subjective Reality (Sypha can utilize the grimoire to send out different magic attacks, With the real world and world of grimoires being one and the same), Text Manipulation & Forcefield Manipulation (Uses the Grimoire to cause a barrier made out of the text from the grimoire to trap her opponent in and proceed to use a massive blast), Plot Manipulation (As Sypha can utilize the grimoire to control the forces of nature, to where she can manipulate the text within it, she can rewrite it. Where overwriting the contents of the Grimoire can change 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. Though it should be noted that it is unknown what exactly is contained within Sypha's grimoire, thus she is only limited to what is in her grimoire), Death Manipulation & Elemental Manipulation (Sypha has harnessed the power of the dead in order to control the elements), Ice Manipulation & Absolute Zero (With the ice magic, can freeze things instantly. Sypha's ice can instantly freeze an entire river. Along with this to protect against ice attacks in series, one normally wears rings that help them resist against absolute zero), Fire Manipulation (With the flames spell, Sypha wields fire magic allowing her to burn enemies to nothing), Electricity Manipulation & Homing Attack (With electricity spell, shoots out three eletrical orbs that home in on targets).

Resistance to Petrification (Can take hits from Medusa heads, who can turn one into stone upon contacting them), Death Manipulation (Can take hits from Death and his scythes, who 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 abilities (Sypha is able to enter Dracula's castle without any adverse effects done to her). 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)

Time Stop (All characters in Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse can make a stopwatch. With the stopwatch, stops 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)

Healing (With meat, restores some health), Intangibility (Phasing) & Invulnerability (Metaphysical Invulnerability; With the invincibility potion, turns one intangible and invincible to attacks), , Holy Manipulation & One Hit KO (With the Rosario, kills all enemies on screen in a single hit)

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Equipment

• Belnades Staff: A treasure of the Belnades Clan, which functions as Sypha's main weapon. It can be used for melee attacks, though she normally uses it to channel through her magic spells.
• Holy Water: A jar of water that was purified and blessed by the Church. When it shatters out of its container, the water erupts into powerful flames.

• Flames: Sypha launches a ball of fire at her enemies.
• Frozen Crystals: Six icicles form around Sypha, and spread outwards as dangerous projectiles. If they collide with an enemy, they will be frozen in place.
• Goodness Gracious Great Bolts of Lightning: Sypha forms three spheres of electricity that home-in on her opponents.
• Jagged Earth: A large and sharp formation of rocks appears in front of Sypha, acting as a sort of shield.
• Gale Force: Sypha launches a powerful green gust of wind to damage opponents.
• Disintegrate: Summoning a gigantic spell book, Sypha preforms an incantation that traps the enemy in a barrier of energy. Spheres of fire, ice, and electricity then surround them, before the entire barrier explodes with them within it.

• Invisibility Potion: Invisibility potion that makes Sypha both invisible and invulnerable to attacks, phasing though enemies, for a limited period of time.

• Rosary: A powerful holy item that destroys all enemies on screen instantly.

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Notable Techniques

Fire

A swift yet strong burst of fire is unleashed at medium range directly in front of Sypha. The flames are very powerful as they annihilate everything in its path.

Cold

Six ice crystals will fan out in front of and above Sypha, capable of freezing both enemies and projectiles. Enemies that are frozen can serve as stepping platforms. Additionally, if the crystals make contact with a body of water, it will freeze completely for a short duration.

Lightning Bolt

Three electrified spheres will spread out in front of Sypha, possessing minor homing abilities and delivering significant damage. The lightning bolt launches zapping spheres in three different directions.

Neutral Combo

Sypha swings her mace overhead, follows up with an underhand swing that launches her opponent upward, and then throws a spellbook directly at them, which vanishes upon impact. At any point during or after this combo, Sypha can initiate a Fireball to Triple Blaze combo.

Directional Combo

Sypha thrusts her mace forward into her opponent, then executes a slight jump to launch them upward.

Jumping Attack

Sypha sends her spellbook diagonally downward towards her opponent while being lifted into the air. This move allows her to follow up with an Ice Storm attack before she lands.

Fireball

Sypha's book hovers open in front of her, from which she conjures and launches a fireball at her opponent.

Triple Blaze

Following the initial fireball, Sypha unleashes a second wave, sending three additional fireballs in a triangular formation towards her opponent. All four fireballs converge at a single point in front of her.

Frost Wall

A series of ice shields form a circle around Sypha. If her opponent makes contact with the shields while not blocking, they will be frozen for several seconds.

Icicle Blades

Continuing from Frost Wall, if Sypha attacks again, long icicles erupt from each of the shields.

Ice Storm

Sypha opens her book, summoning a flurry of ice daggers that shoot out from it. She cannot execute another attack until she lands.

Lightning Strike

A large lightning sphere forms above Sypha's raised hands, which she can launch directly at her opponent. Its slow trajectory can be controlled with the analog stick and will cease moving when the trigger button is released. If performed in mid-air, Sypha holds her hands downward, generating the lightning sphere in front of them.

Hammer of Thor

Sypha delivers a powerful upward swing of her mace. If the attack connects (which cannot be blocked), it knocks her opponent upward and backward. Sypha then points her mace in their direction, unleashing a massive beam of electricity towards them.

Disintegrate

Sypha exclaims "Here it goes," spinning her mace to prepare for an attack. If she hits her opponent, she declares "Grimoire!" summoning a giant book bound in chains from the ground. With a gesture, she causes the chains to snap, opening the book to the desired page. She calls out, "Spirits, heed my call, come!" creating a magic circle around her opponent that forms a barrier. Informing them, "You cannot escape from that barrier," she watches as they panic while the barrier encloses them, lifting them into the air. Massive orbs of fire, ice, and lightning form, spiraling inward toward the barrier. Sypha shouts "Disintegrate," causing the barrier to explode. The book then disappears, and she states, "That is the forbidden power" or "It is finished."

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Other

Standard Tactics: Sypha utilizes her magic in battle, using the grimoire to hit the opponent with various magic spells.

Weaknesses: As a witch, she must hide her identity out of fear, pretending to be a male. Though after coming into contact with Trevor Belmont, she is more comfortable revealing that she is a woman.

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.

Trivia

• Sypha is the only one of the three playable allies in Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse whom the player does not fight prior to getting her to join (as Grant Danasty was forcibly transfigured into a monster before Trevor lifted his curse, and Alucard briefly fought them in order to test them before formally defecting to their side).
• In the PAL and NTSC versions of Dracula's Curse, Sypha is referred to as a male due to technical limitations of the NES - that is, there could only be one programmed window asking the player if they wish to take a companion with them. The programmers decided on "Take him with you?", thus meaning that all three scenarios would use this text box.
  • Likely because of this, her incarnation in the Captain N: The Game Master animated series is a male wizard, despite the actual ending in the game where she is revealed to be female.
• Her name is a mistranslation on "cipher" - an unknown or an enigma. This fits in well with her hidden true nature.
• Sypha and Trevor appear briefly during the introduction of Castlevania: Bloodlines.
• The Fernandez Warrior from Castlevania (N64) was originally conceived as Sypha Belnades herself. The designers ultimately scrapped the idea before the game's release, simply making her another Fernandez.
• In Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance, there is an accessory alluding to Sypha called Cipher's Charm, with "Cipher" being a mistranslation of "Sypha". In the Japanese version of the game, the item is correctly named Sypha's Crystal (シファのクリスタル). The item improves MP speed regeneration, further referencing Sypha's magical abilities.
• In Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow, Yoko Belnades is a playable character whose fighting style –very similar to Sypha's, being her relative– includes the use of various spells and a weak staff.
• Sypha's Judgment characterization was allegedly not popular among fans due to her being single-mindedly obsessed with trying to wipe out the creatures of the night, even by targeting characters who were technically on her side, such as Shanoa, Cornell, and Alucard (with the former even being part of the Church just as Sypha is), and coming across as an hypocrite as a result, something that was not alluded to in either Dracula's Curse or even the Pachislot version.

Battle Records

19-1-0

• Medusa - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Ghost Ship

• Double Trouble - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Ghost Ship

• Frankenstein - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Tower of Terror

• Water Dragons - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Castle Causeway

• Triple Threat - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Castle Bridge

• Death - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Castle Entrance

• Doppelganger - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Castle Gardens

• Dracula - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Dracula's Lair

• Aeon - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Time Rift.

• Trevor Belmont - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Time Rift.
  • Note: Fights against characters in the time rift are technically not the actual characters but one's desires being made within the time rift, such as why some characters like Dracula kill others in their story mode but the characters is alive and defeats Time Reaper in their own story mode, never meeting Dracula.

• Grant Danasty - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Time Rift.
  • Note: Fights against characters in the time rift are technically not the actual characters but one's desires being made within the time rift, such as why some characters like Dracula kill others in their story mode but the characters is alive and defeats Time Reaper in their own story mode, never meeting Dracula.

• Cornell - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Time Rift.
  • Note: Fights against characters in the time rift are technically not the actual characters but one's desires being made within the time rift, such as why some characters like Dracula kill others in their story mode but the characters is alive and defeats Time Reaper in their own story mode, never meeting Dracula.

• Eric Lecarde - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Time Rift.
  • Note: Fights against characters in the time rift are technically not the actual characters but one's desires being made within the time rift, such as why some characters like Dracula kill others in their story mode but the characters is alive and defeats Time Reaper in their own story mode, never meeting Dracula.

• Shanoa - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Time Rift.
  • Note: Fights against characters in the time rift are technically not the actual characters but one's desires being made within the time rift, such as why some characters like Dracula kill others in their story mode but the characters is alive and defeats Time Reaper in their own story mode, never meeting Dracula.

• Maria Renard - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Time Rift.
  • Note: Fights against characters in the time rift are technically not the actual characters but one's desires being made within the time rift, such as why some characters like Dracula kill others in their story mode but the characters is alive and defeats Time Reaper in their own story mode, never meeting Dracula.

• Alucard - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Time Rift.
  • Note: Fights against characters in the time rift are technically not the actual characters but one's desires being made within the time rift, such as why some characters like Dracula kill others in their story mode but the characters is alive and defeats Time Reaper in their own story mode, never meeting Dracula.

• Carmilla - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Time Rift.
  • Note: Fights against characters in the time rift are technically not the actual characters but one's desires being made within the time rift, such as why some characters like Dracula kill others in their story mode but the characters is alive and defeats Time Reaper in their own story mode, never meeting Dracula.

• Aeon - Fight
  • Conditions: Match was a rematch.
  • Location: Time Rift.

• Time Reaper - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Time Rift.

• 'Cyclops - Fight
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Forest of Darkness
  • Note: Sypha was turned to stone by the cyclops.

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