Lenny Curtis

"So I'm the last of the Steel Claws huh?"

-Lenny engaging Yuri in their final battle in Shadow Hearts Covenant.

Lenny is a member of the terroist cult of Sapientes Gladio. He is of considerable rank but still the lowest lieutenant within the group. Lenny is by all accounts dim and easy to trick and often gets carried away with his role as a villian to the point where he often forgets common-sense; never-the-less he is considerably strong a father to his men the Steel Claws, the footsoliders of the group.

Lenny originally joined Sapientes Gladio because it was the best way he knew how to make a living. His strength saw him rise in the ranks and before long he was pledging loyalty to Rasputin personally. When the game, Shadow Hearts Covenant, starts one of the first things the player will see after the opening screenplay is Lenny Kidnapping a bound and uncoinscious Roger Bacon, a monk, alchemist and major character in all the games. Lenny first encounters Yuri, the hero, in a church in Domremy France. He is seen coming in from an assault on the German soldiers of Karin, the heroine,'s unit. When he gets inside he is holding a knife to the throat of Jeanne, a yound girl in the villiage and a friend of Yuri's. Lenny arrive to use Jeanne as leverage to keep Yuri from finishing off Nicolai, Lenny's superior, who had been heading up the expidtion to trap Yuri. After the ambush though Karin realizes her supposed guide Nicolai was evil and turns a gun on Lenny if he doesn't let Jeanne go. However Lenny had still bought Nicolai enough time and provided enough distraction and Nicolai successfully use an exorcism item on Yuri, cursing him and limiting his powers as a Harmonixer, being that merges with demons.

Two of Yuri's other friends, Blanca, the wolf and Geppetto, the puppeteer, help Yuri and Karin get away. After the conforntation in Domremy Lenny pursues the heroes into Paris where they had gone to lay low and do some research on the curse in Geppetto's old loft. While mostly only Lenny's steel claws engage in battle in paris with the heroes Lenny briefly encounters them in the subway tunnles under Paris as the crew is trying to escape. Lenny is about engage them in combat but realizes a little too late that he and Yuri's carts are on different tracks and gets divereted into another tunnle allowing the heroes to get away.

Lenny then ambushes Yuri and friends at Roger Bacon's house in Wales. Lenny explains that Roger is long gone. When Yuri then tricks Lenny into telling him where he took Roger immediately after accdently reavealing Roger was taken to Florance Italy Lenny realizes what he has done and begins to groan in disgust with himself, his steel claws taking a moment to try to cheer him up. Yuri laughs a little and proceeds to just walk way but Lenny sees him before he leaves and aims to redeem himself by stoping Yuri right there. Yuri and his friends will defeat Lenny and his steel claws and Lenny will return to Nicolai to report his defeats and blunder. Nicolai says he is just glad Sapientes Gladio had already moved Roger again. However Nicolai seemed more concrened with something else, one of his personaly scemes seperate from Sapientes Gladio's main goals. Lenny follows Nicolai to their airship and catchs Yuris and friends off guard at the old hideout in Florance. The demanded that Yuri bring back the book known as the Emigre' manuscript which Roger had hidden away and Sapientes Gladio's best efforts could not get him to reveal.

Lenny encounters the heroes again when they go to Sapientes Gladio's hideout to exchange the book for Roger. However they are ambushed by Veronica Vera, another officer within the group lower in rank then Nicolai but still higher than Lenny. Veronica sets up a poison trap that paralizes the heroes, except for Blanca who had smiled the vapors early and stay out of range. While Nicolai begins reading the Emigre' and Veronic moes the heroes to the dungeon Lenny goes off in search of Blanca. By the time Lenny finds him, Blanca has already set the others free and they have made their way to Roger's cell. This time Lenny sends all his remaining men at the heroes and tells Veronica to leave with Nicolai to see their master while he finishes them off. After the waves of steel claws it is just Lenny and the heroes left. Lenny decides to use the power Rasputin had entrusted him with and transforms into the demon God-hand. God-hand first demonstraights his power by pounding a hold in the side of the wall to the outside and then attacks with al lhe has. After the battle God-hand returns to Lenny and he has just enough time to admit defeat before falling out the whole and several stories in to the cold sea below.