Dracula (Nintendo 64)

Japanese name(s)	ドラキュラ Dorakyura
Alternate name(s)	Malus
Role(s)	Main antagonist
Species	Vampire
Gender	Male
Place oforigin	Wallachia (province of Transylvania)
Date of death	1852
Age	Immortal
Status	Unknown
Weapon(s)	Dark magic
Abilities	True form, metamorphosis
Firstappearance	Castlevania (N64)
Appearances	1844: Legacy of Darkness 1852: Castlevania (N64)
Relatives	Malus (younger form)
Partnerships	Death (servant) Actrise (servant) Gilles de Rais (servant)
Music theme	Dance of Illusions (first battle) First Struggle (second battle) Concert of Another Dimension (third battle)

See also: Malus

For other uses, see Dracula (disambiguation).

Dracula (ドラキュラ, Dorakyura^?) is the main antagonist in Castlevania (N64) and Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness.

Legacy of Darkness timeline

This incarnation is different from the traditional Dracula, as the two games he appears in were intended by the developers to take place in a different continuity from other games in the franchise released at that time.

One particular difference this Dracula has with the traditional one was their views on marriage. The one in the Nintendo 64 version was implied to have only viewed marriage as a one-sided contract (hinted through Malus's comment to Carrie Fernandez in the bad ending) and thus didn't actually love anyone, while the traditional one did genuinely love his two wives, with their deaths driving him to evil in the first place.

History

Legacy of Darkness

In 1844, Dracula's followers were plotting to revive him once again by sacrificing a young maiden and spilled her blood over their Lord's remains. This time, the man-beast Cornell stood up against Dracula who was lured to the vampire's castle because his sister Ada was captured and brought there.

After Dracula was defeated, he tried to drag Cornell's sister with him as a last act of revenge. Harnessing all of his strength, Cornell sacrificed the spirit of his wolf form in order to smash the crystal and save his sister therein, the wolf's spirit was effectively substituted as her replacement, and Dracula gladly made use of this power in order to plan his next scheme.

Apocalypse

By using the power of Cornell's wolf spirit, Dracula was able to survive, but he had to take the appearance of a child, as he still needed to recover through the ritual sacrifice of children captured by demons. He took the name Malus, and pretended to have been kidnapped in order to come close to the vampire hunters who opposed him, Reinhardt Schneider and Carrie Fernandez. The vampire pretended to be chased by a monster from which he was saved by Reinhardt, and for this act Malus thanked him.

Malus would continue to lurk about while acting more and more suspicious and played cat-and-mouse with the young heroes. After enduring many struggles, Reinhardt and Carrie arrived at the castle keep. Dracula appeared from behind and began to attack but would eventually fall. The two struggled to escape the crumbling castle and would eventually meet up with Malus. The boy would declare that he was actually Dracula reborn and that the vampire the two fought earlier was merely his servant, Gilles de Rais.

The three battled, but Dracula was eventually brought down to his knees and turned to mist. Malus suddenly materialized and pretended to have been possessed. Before Reinhardt and Carrie came close to him, Malus was hit with Holy Water which engulfed his flesh. An arriving Charlie Vincent explained that Malus was the real Dracula and that his childlike appearance was a trick.

His plan thwarted again, the Dark Lord used his remaining power to transport Reinhardt and Carrie to a different realm and turned into an enormous demon resembling a cross between a wyvern and a centipede. Despite his efforts, Dracula was defeated once again and his plan was ruined. He is then sucked into a dark vortex (presumably leading to Hell) while simultaneously combusting, roaring in agony as this is happening, while Carrie and Reinhardt averted their gaze due to a sandstorm occurring just beforehand.

Enemy Data

Castlevania (N64)

Name JPN HP Dracula 真ドラキュラ (True Dracula) 160 Location Castle Keep (if the game time is less than 16 days)

Name JPN HP Demon Dracula ドラキュラファイナル (Dracula Final) 200 Location Castle Keep (if the game time is less than 16 days)

Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness

Reinhardt and Carrie

Name JPN HP Dracula Reborn True Dracula 160 Location Castle Keep (if the game time is less than 16 days)

Name JPN HP Dracula [Final] Dracula Final 200 Location Castle Keep (if the game time is less than 16 days)

Cornell

Name JPN HP Dracula ドラキュラ 160 Location Castle Keep

Name JPN HP Dracula Ultimate ドラキュラアルティメット 260 Location Castle Keep

Gallery

Malus and Demonic Steed.

Trivia

• His final form being part-dragon is most likely a reference to how "Dracula", his adopted name, meant "Son of the Dragon" in old Romanian, which was a reference to his real-world basis's father Vlad II, who was inducted into the Order of the Dragon.

See also

• Gilles de Rais - Minion who adopts Dracula's identity to try to deceive the heroes and divert their attention from his master.
• Malus - Dracula's child-like form used to deceive the heroes until he could regain his full power.

External links

• Konami of Europe's Dracula profile (archived: December 11, 2007)