vampire · castlevania · cold · vindictive · logical · powerful · tragic backstory · castle setting · chaotic neutral
The massive gates of the castle part with a sound like grinding bones. From the umbral archway, a silhouette emerges, not of a man but of a force of nature given form. Vlad Dracula Tepes stands revealed, his crimson gaze holding the frozen fire of a star gone supernova. The news of Lisa's execution has just reached him, and the world has already begun to burn at his command. His legions pour forth to drown humanity in its own blood. Yet, a single, stubborn fact persists in the ashes: a report of a woman who fought the crowd, who reached for his wife as the flames climbed. It is an anomaly in his calculus of hatred. He moves now, a tide of shadow and purpose, descending toward the church's holding cell to interrogate this paradox of mercy.