The Castlevania games revolve around vampire hunters and deadly night creatures waging war against one another. This means that casualties are inevitable: even in the ranks of the vampire hunters, their loved ones and companions are not safe from getting killed throughout the campaign. This grim reality is even more dire for the innocent villagers who are caught between the forces of good and evil.
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The deaths on the side of the heroes are more heartbreaking since these are often catalysts for the surviving vampire hunters to strengthen their resolve and push through to accomplish their task. Here are some examples of such untimely demise from different characters in various Castlevania titles. For those not yet well-versed in the games, proceed with caution, as there will be spoilers.
5 J.A. Oldrey – Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness
The evil of Count Dracula has swept the nearby villages where his castle appears. In Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness, the Oldrey family suffers the unfortunate fate of falling to the evil vampire’s influence.
The game’s main protagonist, the man-beast Cornell, chances upon the villa of the Oldrey family as he is venturing to get to Dracula’s castle. Upon arriving at the villa, Cornell sees J.A. Oldrey trying to get back into the house where his wife, Mary, has seemingly locked herself in, by violently banging at the door and shouting at her. J.A. Oldrey notices Cornell and tries to explain the situation as a tiff between a married couple, but Cornell senses that J.A. Oldrey is a vampire: they fight and J.A. Oldrey transforms into a bat and leaves the villa.
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Mary then opens the door after the skirmish and lets Cornell in. She explains that while her husband has been turned into a vampire, she still knows he loves her and always tries to get back to their home. She also mentions that their son, Henry, is lost in the hedge maze: she asks Cornell to track him down and lead him away from the villa. In return for Henry’s safety, Mary gives Cornell the Copper Key.
4 Marie Belmont – Castlevania: Lords of Shadow
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow
- Released
- October 5, 2010
- Developer(s)
- MercurySteam , Kojima Productions
- Publisher(s)
- Konami
- Genre(s)
- Action , Adventure
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow is a reboot of the franchise, according to its developers, and centers around the events in 1047 where the forces of Men and Heaven and the Lords of Darkness are fighting each other.
Prior to the battle between good and evil, Gabriel Belmont and his wife, Marie Belmont, were thinking about the future, unaware of the horror that will befall their lives once the Lords of Darkness make their presence felt. As the forces of the Lords of Darkness began ransacking and slaughtering towns and villages, Marie was one of the unfortunate souls who was cut down by the nefarious night creatures. Adding to the couple’s woes is that part of the Lords of Darkness’ plan is to have a stranglehold on the souls they have killed, rendering them unable to pass on through the afterlife and wander the Earth for all eternity.
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This fueled Gabriel Belmont to look for a powerful artifact called the God Mask to break the spell that the devious enemies had cast. Even in her unfortunate state, Marie still assists Gabriel in his quest to rid the world of evil by guiding him to get the pieces of the aforementioned God Mask.
3 Elisabetha Cronqvist – Castlevania: Lament of Innocence
In the Castlevania games, before Dracula became the Lord of Darkness, he was once known as Mathias Cronqvist back when he was still a human. He was the best friend of Leon Belmont, the first of the Belmont Clan name, and was hailed as a master tactician and adept at alchemy and arcane knowledge.
In Castlevania: Lament of Innocence, Elisabetha, Mathias’ wife, suddenly died of unknown causes while Mathias was on an expedition. Upon hearing the news, Mathias went into a deep depression and deeply mourned the loss of his loved one. As the events of Castlevania: Lament of Innocence unfold, Mathias reveals to Leon that he manipulated his best friend and has turned himself into a vampire as a form of defiance to God and what happened to his beloved wife.
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Mathias as a vampire now having eternal life, offers Leon to join him and usher in a new world. But ever the valiant hero, Leon refuses his best friend’s offer and vows to rid his evil from this world, in this lifetime or the next. This effectively starts the Belmont Clan’s responsibility of vampire hunting which has been passed on from generation to generation.
2 Lisa – Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
Dracula, while malevolent, has sired a child in the form of Alucard. What makes Alucard special is that he is born from the union between a vampire and a human: Dracula and Lisa. In Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, Lisa is mentioned multiple times as players progress through the game, though she doesn’t appear physically.
It is said that Dracula came to love Lisa due to her having a close resemblance to his previous love, Elisabetha Cronqvist. Lisa was skilled in concocting medicines to help people who were affected by the epidemic. But her altruistism was seen by the Church as witchcraft: this led to them arresting Lisa, and eventually burning her at the stake.
Both Alucard and Dracula were too late to save Lisa, with the latter vowing revenge against humanity at all costs. However, Lisa welcomed her sacrifice, as she saw that this was a way to save humanity from damnation.
1 Sara Trantoul – Castlevania: Lament of Innocence
The creation of the Vampire Killer whip is one that revolves around heartbreak. This was expanded in Castlevania: Lament of Innocence where Sara Trantoul, Leon Belmont’s fiance, shares the unfortunate news that she is slowly turning into a vampire thanks to Walter Bernhard and that Leon must end her suffering.
Leon, unsurprisingly, tries to console Sara, stating that he will find a cure for her and turn her back into a human. But Sara responds by saying that she can already feel herself transforming into a vampire and that she doesn’t want her death to be in vain. Even in her final hours, Sara still wants to aid Leon in his quest: she makes a soul and blood pact with her beloved which leads to her life and soul infusing with the Whip of Alchemy.
This led to the forging of the Belmont Clan’s most powerful and iconic weapon, the Vampire Killer whip.