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Alura Une, also known as Alraune or Venus Weed, is an enemy in the Castlevania series. It is a Une with a maiden-like creature blooming out of a central rose bud and who is surrounded by many thorns and vines. In some games, Alura Unes grow stronger as they absorb the player's blood.

Origins[]

Alraune - 02

First edition cover of Alraune.

Alraune is a novel by German novelist Hanns Heinz Ewers published in 1911, and is also the name of its female lead character.

The basis of the story of Alraune dates to the Middles Ages in Germany. The humanoid-shaped mandrake root (or mandragora) was widely believed to be produced by the semen of hanged men under the gallows. Alchemists claimed that hanged men ejaculated after their necks were broken and that the earth absorbed their final "strengths" (in some versions, blood is mentioned instead of semen). The root itself was used in love philtres and potions, while its fruit was supposed to facilitate pregnancy. Witches who "made love" to the mandrake root were said to produce offspring which had no feelings of real love and had no souls.

In the novel, a scientist interested in the laws of heredity, impregnates a prostitute in a laboratory with the semen of a hanged murderer. The prostitute conceives a female child who has no concept of love, whom the professor adopts. The girl, Alraune, suffers from obsessive sexuality and perverse relationships throughout the course of her life. She learns of her unnatural origins and she avenges herself against the professor.

Appearances[]

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night[]

In Symphony of Night, these enemies are known as Venus Weeds. They lure their victims into their vicinity and then impale them with their vines and absorb their blood. The game also features a more powerful variant called Blue Venus Weed, which has fed on demons' blood.

In her weed form, a Venus Weed only has 100 HP. As the player gets close, she reveals her true form and has a stat boost (500 HP), although she loses her resistance against Hit. In her true form, she can raise her roots upward (36 ATT, Cut) and shoot rose darts (40 ATT, Cut). For every Cut damage from Alucard, her petals get redder.

Venusweed-1-
No. Name JPN Level HP
95 Venus Weed Alura Une 25 100/500 (after blooming)
Strong Immune Weak Absorb EXP
Hit - Fire - 150
Location Drop Guard
Abandoned Pit to the Catacomb Coral Circlet, Heart Refresh
Description "Watered with human blood."

Like the Venus Weed, the Blue Venus Weed only has 100 HP in her weed form, and her HP becomes 550 when revealing her true form. She also loses her resistance against Hit upon transforming. She has the same attacks as the Venus Weed, although dealing a lot more damage.

Bvenusweed-1-
No. Name JPN Level HP
128 Blue Venus Weed Blue Alura Une 40 100/550 (after blooming)
Strong Immune Weak Absorb EXP
Hit - Fire - 1,000
Location Drop Guard
Reverse Caverns, Reverse Entrance, Hell Garden (Saturn only) Zwei Hander, Heart Refresh
Description "Advanced Venus Weed. Fed with demon blood."

Despite being invulnerable, their roots are supposed to drop Strawberries if they are destroyed. Additionally, their darts have a small chance to drop Oranges.

Castlevania: Circle of the Moon[]

A creature that appears to be a nude maiden sitting atop a flower. She attacks by causing vines to erupt from the ground. Attacking the maiden herself deals significantly more damage than attacking the flower. It's one of the rarest enemies in the game.

Alraune
Name JPN HP EXP
Alraune アルラウネ 774/1,003 2,500/5,000
ATK DEF Location
490/640 303/450 Observation Tower, Battle Arena
Common Drop Rare Drop
Mage Robe (1%) Potion Ex (0.5%)
Resistance Plant
Note: Second stat listed is when encountered in the Battle Arena.

Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow[]

This creature appears to be just a large flower until she is approached, at which point the bud blooms and reveals the true nature of this monster. She attacks by thrusting her vines into the ground and attempting to impale the player with them. Alura Une has relatively high defense, but it's recommended to use the Killer Mantle (which kills her in one hit) as opposed to Flame-based attacks. This weakness makes obtaining her very valuable soul much easier. Alura Une's soul summons the Guardian Alura Une, who heals the player's HP by 10 for as long as the R button is held. This ability uses 60 MP per second, almost making the Chaos Ring a necessity when using it.

Aos aluraune
No. Name JPN HP MP EXP
78 Alura Une 800 1 400
Attack Defense Tolerance Weakness Time Stop
53 50 - Flame
Location Common Drop Rare Drop Soul
Underground Cemetery (after defeating Legion), Forbidden Area - Melon Guardian Alura Une
Description "An Une raised on warm blood."

Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow[]

Alura Une returns in the Subterranean Hell of With Light's castle. Like always, she will appear as an ordinary Une, but will grow into a flower when approached, at which point she will emerge. Alura will summon her vines to attack Soma and will throw rose darts when he stands still. Hitting her vines or getting hit makes her rose petals redder, until they become crimson blood. They turn white again when she's hit. Alura's rose darts also turn red if they hit Soma, from absorbing his blood.

Gaining dominance over Alura Une's soul will grant Soma the Sweet Jail ability, which will allow him to summon her. Alura grows out of a flower, cuddles into Soma's arms and calls him informally while her three flower vines lock on to the nearest enemies to stab them, causing Slashing or Piercing damage. Alura's vines can also be controlled with the stylus. It costs 10 MP per second to summon her. Soma cannot move while she is summoned and she cannot be summoned while in midair. Alura Une also stabs her enemies out of annoyance and sometimes can be heard saying "jamaa" ("annoying").

Alura Une levels up one level per soul until Level 9 is reached. She causes great damage potential even at Level 1. The Skeleton Farmer's soul boosts her piercing power even more as it's a plant-type soul. She can be boosted with a Level 9 Lilith's soul to cause even more damage than with the Skeleton Farmer's soul. She can also be combined with the Une's soul, which allows her vines to spew Unes from their flowers without costing MP. Alura Une is useful for damaging some still enemies such as Death, Balore, or some parts of Aguni's attacks. If the player works very hard, Alura can cause up to 260+ damage per hit from her vines, and about 600 damage per second. Alura Une is recommended during Boss Rush Mode due to her great damage potential. An interesting technique is to equip the Dead Crusader's soul with Alura Une, which if Soma's damage is 1 or less, the damage is nullified and allows him to summon Alura without much interruptions, unless by enemies giving damage more than 1.

Aluraune
No. Name JPN HP MP ATK
79 Alura Une 600 1 53
Tolerance Weakness
Electric Slashing, Fire
Location Common Drop Rare Drop Soul EXP
Subterranean Hell Grapes (8%) - Sweet Jail (20%) 480
Description "An Une fattened with copious pools of blood."

Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin[]

This monster appears to be a Une at first glance, but when approached, a large flower grows from the spot and a maiden blooms out of it. Alura Une attacks by shooting flower darts and by unleashing vines from the ground. In this game, however, their uprooting vines seem to have less range (the vines growing just within or a little outside the range of a whip).

An easy way to defeat her is to approach her just until she blooms and then unleash 1,000 Blades. This must be done quick, though, lest she rises her vines to shield herself, rendering the attack useless.

Aluraune
No. Name JPN HP
101 Alura Une 573
Tolerance Weakness
Electric Piercing, Fire, Stone
Location Common Drop Rare Drop EXP SP
Dark Academy Rose Corsage Muse's Tiara 440 11
Description "An Une fattened with copious pools of blood."

Castlevania: Grimoire of Souls[]

Enemy Data: Grimoire of Souls
Image Name - Game
Description
Statistics Items Location Notes
GoS Alura Une Alura Une  - Grimoire of Souls [ edit ]
An Une raised on the blood of hanged men. Uses thorns on its leaves to drain blood from its living victims. Soul: Enchant Weapon to level 7
Ash Banquet: 1-1, 1-2, 1-3, 1-5

Ash Banquet (Hard): 1-1
That Which Writhes: 2-2, 2-5

GoS Blue Alura Une Blue Alura Une  - Grimoire of Souls [ edit ]
An Alura Une grown in the arctic permafrost. Catches its prey with a frozen lure. Abil: Frozen
Yellow Alura Une  - Grimoire of Souls [ edit ]
An Alura Une rapidly mutated by a black lightning strike. Its electrified lure stuns its prey into submission. Abil: Shock
Holy Plant  - Grimoire of Souls [ edit ]
Alraune in the visage of someone divine. Coming to it looking for salvation would only lead to being entangled by its thorny vines.
Demon Flower  - Grimoire of Souls [ edit ]
A sinister Alraune nourished on the flesh and blood of the night clan. The sharp thorns protruding from its vines can pierce even steel. Abil: Curse
GoS Fire Flower Fire Flower  - Grimoire of Souls [ edit ]
An Alura Une with fiery red petals. Her wriggling tendrils and flowers are hot enough to burn a body to ash. Abil: Burn

Item Data[]

Item Data: Alura Une
Image Name - Game
  Type - Users
Description
Attributes / Consume Statistics / Sell Found Notes
Coral Circlet Icon Coral Circlet (jpn) - Symphony of the Night
  Head (Crown/Circlet) - Alucard
[edit]
Immune to curses Attrib: Curse
INT +7
Drop: Venus Weed
Effect: Immunity to Curse status and damage
Heart Refresh Icon Heart Refresh (Heart Repair) - Symphony of the Night
  Medicine (Heart Potion) - Alucard
[edit]
Restores 500 hearts [use] Hearts +500
Find: Final Stage: Bloodlines, Black Marble Gallery, Death Wing's Lair
Drop: Archer, Blue Venus Weed, Venus Weed
First Obtained: (May start with)
Zwei Hander Icon Zwei Hander (jpn) - Symphony of the Night
  2 Handed Weapon (Great Sword) - Alucard
[edit]
German two-handed sword Attrib: Cut
ATT +38
Drop: Blue Venus Weed
Effect: Slow swing
Special: ←→ + [Attack] for Dash Thrust (ATT +60 for 5 MP) (can be used in midair)
Magic Robe Icon Magic Robe (jpn) - Circle of the Moon
  Body (Robe, Magician Equipment) - Nathan
[edit]
A robe that has magic within DEF +200, INT +300
Drop: Alraune, Witch
Potion Ex Icon Potion Ex (X-Potion) - Circle of the Moon
  Recovery Item (Health Potion) - Nathan
[edit]
Recover all HP. HP +100%
Drop: Alraune
Melon AoS Icon Melon (jpn) - Aria of Sorrow
  Food - Soma
[edit]
A melon of the finest quality. HP +600
Sell: $750
Find: Study (hidden)
Rare Drop: Alura Une
Common Drop: Witch
Blue Soul Alura Une - Guardian Alura Une (jpn) - Aria of Sorrow
  Guardian Soul - Soma
[edit]
Restores health. (Alura Une will restore your health.) Consume: 60 MP/sec
Drop: Alura Une
Grapes DoS Icon Grapes (jpn) - Dawn of Sorrow
  Food - Soma
[edit]
Bursting with flavourful juice. HP +60
Sell: $190
Common Drop: Alura Une
Guardian Soul Alura Une - Sweet Jail - Dawn of Sorrow
  Guardian Soul - Soma
[edit]
Summon Alura Une as a guardian. Attrib: Slashing
Consume: 10 MP/sec
Rarity: **
Drop: Alura Une
Rose Corsage Icon Rose Corsage (jpn) - Portrait of Ruin
  Accessory (Corsage) - Charlotte
[edit]
A corsage fashioned from high-quality, delicate materials. DEF +3
Sell: $950
Drop: Alura Une
Muse's Tiara PoR Icon Muse's Tiara (jpn) - Portrait of Ruin
  Head Gear (Crown / Tiara) - Charlotte
[edit]
A tiara blessed by a goddess. DEF +6, INT +8
Sell: $8,000
Drop: Alura Une

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Trivia[]

  • In Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin, Alura Une has 573 HP, which is actually an in-joke Konami uses in many of its games: "five" in Japanese is go, changed to the voiceless form ko; "7" in Japanese is nana shortened to na; "3" in Japanese is mittsu, shortened to mi; this allows the number to be read as "Konami".
  • Her name probably comes from alraune, the German word for mandrake.
  • Alura Une's rose-throwing attack may be a reference to Pisces Aphrodite's Bloody Rose attack from the Saint Seiya manga/anime franchise, where a rose is thrown at the opponent like a dart and it sucks-in their blood, turning red in the process.
  • Two Yu-Gi-Oh! card monsters appear to be based on Alura Une:
    • The monster known as Arlownay, which roughly shares an identical name as the Castlevania enemy. In non-Japanese regions, this card only existed in video games and the creature's frontal chest received clothing.
    • The Rose Spectre of Dunn is based strongly on the Blue Venus Weed.

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