Death

	Death
Game	Castlevania
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Experience	7000
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Tolerance
Weakness
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Steal Items
Location	level 5
Soul Details
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	Death
Game	Vampire Killer
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Location	Stage 5: The Dungeon
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	Death
Japanese Name	死神 Shinigami
Role	Grim Reaper, Dracula's Confident and Close Friend
Age	(Unknown) Immortal
Appearances	Every Castlevania game except Castlevania: The Adventure and Belmont's Revenge
Weapon(s) of Choice	Death's Scythe, Sickles
Special Abilities	Dark Sorcery. Can control the dead as well as their souls, and is able to use them at his command. Hell's Gate (Hyper attack in Judgment)
Relatives	Dracula (Master/Long-Time Friend) Slogra and Gaibon (Subordinates) Time Reaper (Unknown Relation)
Official Background	Death is Dracula's eternal and loyal servent and confident. He protects his master every time Castlevania is attacked by the Belmont family or other heroes. Refer to the games' own section to learn more about Death's role in each game.

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"Then for the Master, I'll feast on your soul this night!"

—Death, in Castlevania: Symphony of The Night

Death (死神 Death God), also known as the Grim Reaper, is a major villain from Konami's Castlevania series. He has appeared in every game except Castlevania: The Adventure and Castlevania II: Belmont's Revenge. Death is Dracula's right hand man, thus he usually appears near the end of the hero's quest, often in the Clock Tower, to challenge them before they confront Dracula. He is also sometimes the first of Dracula's major servants to greet the hero, such as in Rondo of Blood, Symphony of the Night, and The Arcade. Death sometimes plays an equal or lesser role in Dracula's organization when someone other than he is the driving force behind Dracula's resurrection, such as Shaft, Elizabeth Bartley, or Carmilla. Two of Death's closest associates include Slogra and Gaibon, who directly report to him. He is also closely associated with the beast Cerberus. He has also been known to show respect to characters for their courage and skill.

[edit] Overview

[edit] Character history

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[edit] Castlevania: Lament of Innocence

This mysterious being forged an alliance with Mathias Cronqvist - who later became known as Dracula - in 1094. Initially, Death pretended to be a servant to Walter Bernhard, owner of the Ebony Stone. However, Death later betrays him after Leon Belmont defeats him with the Vampire Killer whip.

It is revealed that Mathias Cronqvist had the Crimson Stone, a stone much more powerful than the Ebony Stone. With Walter defeated, Mathias gained access to Bernhard's Ebony Stone, giving him both of the Vampire Treasures. To add insult to injury, Mathias used the Crimson Stone to suck out Walter's soul and place it inside the stone. The soul became a power source to fuel Mathia's dark desires.

Crushed by Mathias' turn to the dark forces of evil, Leon Belmont was ready to slay his former friend when Death arrived and challenged Leon in the final showdown of the game. Even though Death was defeated, Mathias made his escape after some parting words with Leon. With Mathias Cronqvist gone, Leon Belmont swore that no matter where he should go, The Belmont Clan would hunt him and his kind down forever.

Since then, Death has proven to be the Count's most loyal and devoted servant.

[edit] Castlevania: Curse of Darkness

After Trevor Belmont had successfully defeated Dracula, the Count placed a curse on all of Europe, with the intent that the corruption and misery bred from it would bring about his ressurrection. To speed up the process, a mysterious priest by the name of Zead came across Hector, and appeared friendly enough with his wanting to help Hector defeat his nemesis, Isaac. What Hector didn't know was that the priest, Zead was actually Death in disguise. However, his disguise did not fool the timetravelling Saint Germain who knew that if either Devil Forger, Hector or Isaac should fall, then the dark lord Dracula could be revived. Both fought, and in spite of Saint Germain getting the upper hand during their first tussle (and mentioning he would return until Zead surrendered), Zead managed to trick him into the Eneomaos Machine Tower and freeze his powers until he was defeated in combat by Hector. After this, Saint Germain left the timeline, after asking Hector to give Zead his sarcastic regards.

In the reborn castle of Dracula, Hector fought Isaac and beat him to the brink of death. But before he knew it, the body of Isaac was whisked away into a coffin by Zead who had big plans for him to be the new host body for Dracula's ressurrection. When Zead removed a scythe from his sleeve, it was then that Hector realized who Zead was. Shedding his disguise, Death appeared and battled Hector.

[edit] Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance

This time around, Death wanders through Dracula's Castle searching for his Lord while trying to understand where his master has dissappeared to. Death soon realizes that due to Maxim Kischine's eagerness to find and destroy Dracula's body parts the same as Simon Belmont did about half a century ago, he inadvertantly had awoken the spirit of Dracula.

This led to Maxim slowly being taken over by the spirit of Dracula, and the split of Dracula's castle into two different castles. Death soon realized that Maxim Kischine's body would make a suitable host for the resurrection of Dracula, and soon sought to prevent Juste Belmont from finding his former friend and freeing him from Dracula's control.

[edit] Castlevania: Symphony of the Night

After the dark priest Shaft's successful resurrection of Dracula, the Count is swiftly defeated by Richter Belmont in 1792. However, due to a sinister curse placed on him by Shaft, Richter is slowly possessed by an evil spirit. 5 years later, in 1797, Richter Belmont mysteriously disappears and Dracula's Castle appears once again.

This time, Dracula's son, Alucard awakens from his self-inflicted permanent slumber when he senses that something is terribly amiss. When he enters Dracula's Castle, Alucard is confronted by Death. Since Alucard is Dracula's son, Death gives him a chance to cease his attack and turn back. Upon refusing, Death steals all of his equipment and scatters it throughout the entire castle.

Later, when Alucard encounters Death again. Death notes that he has given Alucard ample warning, and with Alucard not backing down, he engages Alucard in combat.

[edit] Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin

In Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin, Death once again wanders through the castle seeking his Lord and Master: Dracula. However, when he runs into Jonathan Morris and Charlotte Aulin, he learns of the interloper, Brauner, taking the role of Lord of the Castle for himself. Death initially rebuffs the idea of anyone except Dracula controlling the castle, saying the notion is "positively absurd". At first, he does not even try to fight the heroes, even hinting at a posssible alliance to kill Brauner, albeit with different aims in mind. However, he is rebuffed and is confronted in the castle's Clock Tower. He leaves the battle when his energy is exhausted, saying he has other affairs to handle.

Later, after Jonathan Morris and Charlotte Aulin defeated Brauner, Death materializes and slices through Brauner with a swing of his Scythe to finish him off. When Jonathan and Charlotte pursue him, they find the newly risen Dracula. Ready to take him out, Jonathan is blocked by Death who has come to Dracula's aid. In a surprising turn of events, Death and Dracula decide to team up for their battle against the two young heroes. When either Death's or Dracula's life is depleted, Death screams: "My power! Use my power!" At this point, Dracula uses his Power of Dominance and absorbs Death's soul, allowing him to evolve into the True Dracula.

[edit] Akumajo Dracula: Kabuchi no Tsuisoukyoku

After the ultimate defeat of Dracula in 1999, Death remained with the Castle in the eclipse and fought Soma Cruz there in 2035. He would fight him again the following year in Celia's castle. Dracula's former servant Olrox began attempting to conquer the forces of chaos. Death opposed this and set out to destroy him.

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[edit] Tradition

Death is a Grim Reaper, as such he is never seen without his Scythe. His attacks and appearances may have been changing from game to game, but in basic, he always summons floating sickles out of thin air to hunt down his oppositions.

[edit] Abilities

Magic Mastery: Like Dracula, Death is capable of using magic, most of which is dark-based, such as summoning skulls, sickles, or beams.
Teleportation: Death is also able to teleport to confuse his opponents and distract them.
Immortality: Death is immortal; while he can be killed, he will always find a way to return, and is usually ressurected when the castle is.
Shapeshifting: Death can transform, like Dracula, into a number of things, and prefers to do so when he is near defeat. Some examples of Death's tranformations are a giant skeleton snake, a giant scythe (this was not an actual second form), a skeleton-mantis-turtle creature, a creature with scythes for hands, a giant skull, a human (Zead; this was, once more, not an actual second form), and so on.

[edit] Appearance Gallery

For more Death artwork, please see Death Artwork category

Death in Castlevania

Death in Vampire Killer

Death in Akumajo Dracula Gamebook

Death in Simon's Quest

Death in Nintendo Power Simon's Quest guide

Simon's Quest collectors card for Death	Death in Game Boy Kid Dracula	Death in the Kid Dracula manga insert	Death in Dracula's Curse	Death in the Tokuma-syoten Akumajo Densetsu Guide Book
Death in Akumajo Densetsu: Genuinness Vampire Hunter gamebook	Death in Super Castlevania IV	Death in the All About Akumajo Dracula guide book	Death in Rondo of Blood	Death in Castlevania for X68000
Death in Bloodlines	Death in Dracula X	Death in Symphony of the Night	Death in Legends	Death in Castlevania 64
Death in Legacy of Darkness	Death in KeyboardMania Mix 2	Death in Circle of the Moon	Death in Resurrection	Death in Harmony of Dissonance
Death in Aria of Sorrow	Death in Lament of Innocence	Death in Dawn of Sorrow	Death in Curse of Darkness	Death in Portrait of Ruin
Death in the Portrait of Ruin OST Poster	Death in Dracula X Chronicles	Death in Order of Shadows	Death in Order of Ecclesia	Death in Judgment
Concept art in Ultimate Judge guidebook	Death in Pachislot game	Death as Zead in Curse of Darkness Manga cameo	Death in Castlevania: The Arcade

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[edit] Game-Specific Information

[edit] Vampire Killer

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[edit] Castlevania

Death appears here, as usually, in a large cloak. He fights Simon only by flying around the screen and by making appear little scythes, an attack he uses in every fight. An astuce is known to beat him very quickly : Simon must have the Holy Water equipped and when Death appears, you must jump and throw he Holy Water in his face to make him not to move during a few seconds, allowing you the time to whip him.

[edit] Castlevania II: Simon's Quest

Death

Game	Castlevania II: Simon's Quest
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Death appears in Brahm's Mansion, but for some unknown reason, he isn't a boss in this game! He appears as usual dressed in his cloak, also armed with his trusty scythe. He will continue to come toward you firing his sickles and trying to hit you with his Scythe. Just attack him with regular whip attacks and when he gets on the ground level use the Sacred Flame. After a few hits he will drop the Golden Dagger.

[edit] Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse

Death

Game	Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse
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Death waits at the end of the elaborate halls near the end of the castle. He begins the battle by attacking the player much like he did in the original Castlevania. His familiar hooded form will appear near the top of the screen and quickly descend as wickedly sharp sickles almost continuously materialize and hone in on the player. Using Trevor in this battle is the only real option, as Grant, Sypha, and Alucard lack the ability to use the holy water or the boomerang.

Without the holy water or the boomerang, this battle is just about hopeless. Double and triple shots will make things much easier, but things can still quickly go sour as it will only take Death, at most, 4 hits, to completely deplete the player's life meter.

When his life bar is depleted, Death will lift his scythe and transform himself into a his second form; a huge, floating skull. He will fly about the room, occasionally stopping to laugh and shoot a single sickle from his mouth at the player's character. The giant skull will move swiftly, and if the battle lasts too long chances are that the player will be crowded into the corner and take obscene damage. This form, while much scarier, is actually easier to conquer. Once again, bombarding the grim one with holy water is the easiest path to victory. If you have depleted your hearts then your best bet is to kneel and whip repeatedly when the skull is near the floor.

[edit] Castlevania Legends

Death

Game	Castlevania Legends
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Death once again appears in his usual cloak, and also armed with his big and nasty scythe! Once you enter his domain, the ropes will pull themselves up, and the floor closes. If you've ever met Grim Reaper/Death before, you know what to do: do not be hit by the big sickle or the small sickles that home in on you afterwards. Use the ice soul as you need it, and whip away. You get the Fire soul as your reward, which blasts every enemy on screen with a bit of damage for 5 hearts.

[edit] Super Castlevania IV

Death

Game	Super Castlevania IV
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Location	Lair of the Three Fiends and Dracula's Keep
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Death appears as the last boss before Dracula himself. He attacks Simon by summoning sickles and flying around the room. It is also the first time Death appears along (or more precisely just after) Slogra and Gaibon, his two servents.

[edit] Castlevania: Bloodlines

Death

Game	Castlevania: Bloodlines
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Depending on the difficulty selected, the boss battle with Death in Bloodlines can be subtly different.

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[edit] Dracula X: Rondo of Blood

Death

Game	Dracula X: Rondo of Blood
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In this game, Death has 2 forms just like he did in Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse and the sequel to this game, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. Death also appears in his usual tattered and torn cloak in his first form in this boss fight! Keep jumping around avoiding Death's many sickles. Do this while constantly barraging him with Crosses/Dragons, hopefully they will also take out some of the sickles. If things get hairy, as Richter use the Cross Item Crush for temporary invincibility, the destruction of all sickles on-screen and to take some damage out of Death. Once you get him roughly down to 2/3 of his life bar, he will head to the background and will launch many skulls at you. Just keep moving to avoid them, if you get hit he'll launch some more at you. Death will then remove his cloak, revealing his more classic form. In this form he will slice at you with his scythe, and use a devastating spinning scythe attack. He's very agile, almost ninja-like. As Richter, don't use Crosses on him in this form, he'll just brush them off and counter-attack with magic. Some small sickles will still fly around, but there are a lot less than his first form. Anyway, to kill him without being harmed, rush in and hit him a couple of times and then retreat, then wait for him to attack and then after he has finished rush in and hit him a couple of times and then retreat, rinse and repeat. Collect the Magical Sphere and you will proceed to Stage 6 - Inside the Castle.

[edit] Castlevania: Dracula X

Death

Game	Castlevania: Dracula X
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[edit] Akumajo Dracula X68000

Death

Game	Akumajo Dracula X680000
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[edit] Castlevania Chronicles

Death

Game	Castlevania Chronicles
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[edit] Castlevania: Symphony of the Night

Death
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Game	[Castlevania: Symphony of the Night]
Enemy Number	[144]
Description	[Dracula's close friend]
Level	[60]
Experience	[4444]
Hit Points	[888]
Abilities	{{{abil}}}
Attack Power	{{{atk}}}
Tolerance	[Dark (absorbs)]
Weakness	[Holy]
Timestop affect	{{{stop}}}
Drop Items	[Eye of Vlad (Dracula's eye)]
Steal Items	{{{steal}}}
Location	Reverse Mine
Soul Details	{{{soul}}}
Skill Points	{{{sp}}}

Death first appears in the beginning of the game, asking to Alucard stop the attack to the castle. As Alucard refuses, he removes Alucard's equipment, and leaves. Alucard meets him again in the Reverse Mine, where he asks again for him to stop. Refusing again, Death says he has no choice them but to kill him, and they fight.

Death has two forms: His normal form that conjours heat seeking small scythes, then heat seeking death balls with the latter,then a two large skulls rotating,then two large scythes,finally a monstruous form that uses two scythes. After his defeat, he leaves the Eye of Vlad.

[edit] Castlevania 64

Death

Game	Castlevania 64
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This incarnation of Death was the first to have "wings".

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[edit] Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness

Death

Game	Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness
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This version of Death is almost identical to the Castlevania 64 Grim Reaper.

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[edit] Castlevania: Circle of the Moon

Death

Game	Castlevania: Circle of the Moon
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When Nathan encounters it,it'll send small sickles that move towards Nathan's direction. Death also can release three expandable spear-looking weapons and release two green energy balls on both sides.When the player defeats it,it'll be on its second form.

On its second form,it'll transform into a horrible beast while still sending small sickles.It'll walk slowly towards Nathan,then attack him on close range.It also can protect itself by forming a shield in front of it or slowing down Nathan's move speed and jump.When the player defeats it,he/she will gain the Cleansing ability.which is needed in the Underground Waterway.

Strangely enough, although he uses scythe attacks, this incarnation of Death is not shown to be holding the Scythe, as he does in all his other incarnations.

[edit] Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance

Death

Game	Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance
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Death awaits and attacks Juste Belmont in the underground of the Castle. He has two forms : the first is the traditional purple-cloacked Grim Reaper, trying to slice Juste with his Scythe and summoning sickles, and a second form who looks like a gigantic skeleton worm with two armored arms.

[edit] Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow

Death

Game	Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow
Enemy Number	108
Description	Dracula's confidant.
Level
Experience	4444
Hit Points	4444
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Tolerance	Dark
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Death appears in the Clock Tower as the game's 6th boss. This battle, much like many other battles against Death, come in two phases.

Phase one is where his body is invisible, but the floating scythe can be destroyed. He has 3 main attacks in this form. The first is that small floating scythes fly around the room, making the battle annoying if you're hit by one of them. This is also the same power you get when you obtain his soul. The second attack is that the scythe starts spinning towards you, meaning you have to get away from it in order to be able to attack it again. The third is where he summons beams of light to rain down on you. This attack is only used when the health on the scythe drops to half. When the scythe is destroyed, phase two begins.

Phase two is a little different. His body becomes visible now, and able to hit. But the twist is that he summons a double headed scythe made out of bones, making him become more melee oriented. Avoid the attacks at all costs, because you WILL take a lot of damage if you take one hit. His first attack is where he goes down to where you're standing and rushes at you. This attack can be easily jumped over, but watch out when he starts going backwards to try and hit you from behind. The second attack is where he starts spinning the scythe and throws it like a boomerang. This attack can be easily ducked under, but don't duck underneath Death, because this attack will hit you if that happens. The third attack is where the scythe rolls around the Clock Tower arena like a rapidly spinning wheel. This can be easily jumped over as well, but if you're hit, you'll take more damage than any other attack he throws at you.

Upon defeat, Death will be sucked into a wormhole and give up his soul. However, he will drop the scythe, and you will take a lot of damage if you are hit by it. You win two souls upon his defeat. The first is the Skula Enhancement Soul, which allows you to walk underwater. The second is the Death Guardian Soul, which mirrors the sickle summoning attack from the 1st phase of the battle as long as it's active.