Olrox

Olrox (the incorrect romanization of Orlok) is a highly powerful Vampire Lord who serves as a boss in Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. He is based on Count Orlok from Murnau's 1922 movie Nosferatu , who was heavily based on Bram Stoker's Dracula. Much like the movie and book characters they are based on, Olrox shares some similarities with Count Dracula. Another unrelated character with the same name appears in the reboot game Castlevania:Lord of Shadows.

Symphony of the Night
Olrox's character is not clearly defined in the game and much of his character has to be guessed. What is sure is that he is a Vampire Lord wielding vast magical powers, who rules the upper part of the Castlevania. He is also one of the only bosses of the series able to transform into a stronger monster, (aside from Dracula and Death, the franchise's most prominent villains) and resides in a large and luxurious wing of the Castle named after him: the Olrox's Quarters, which include corridors, dungeons, a villa and a courtyard with a bloody fountain.

Olrox's description, in the enemy data states that he rules the upper part of the Castlevania, though whether it means the Olrox Quarters or a bigger part is not explained. It could be assumed that he shares control over the Castle with Richter Belmont, whom Shaft brainwashed. Given his second form, his nature as a magic-wielding Vampire Lord and his ownership of a part of the Castle likely built for him, he seems to be a very close and high-rankes follower of the Count, and even related to him in some ways. However, he never reappears in any other game and his role is never fully explained, leading to much fan-speculation.

Olrox awaits Alucard seating nearby a large table in his dinning room, and politely greets him before engaging a fight. Olrox is a very powerful boss who can proves pretty hard to defeat, in both forms. He is at level 25 and has 666 life-points. (A possible nod to his Evil nature.) Using Dark related attacks do little damage, but casting the spell "Hellfire" (Dracula's signature fireballs) proves very useful against both forms, to strike him and destroy his summons.

He is able to leap backwards, to hover over the ground and to teleport in order to avoid Alucard's blows and he attacks him with magic. (Striking him after he attacks or while he is hovering are the best ways to deal with him. He calls forth a swarm of bats which he infuses with purplish dark energy, which proves pretty tricky to avoid. He opens a dark gate to release a swarm of ghostly skulls that track Alucard down without end and must be destroyed. (The Bible subweapon is quite useful.) His most dangerous attack summons tormented souls, who erupts from the ground under the shape of large pillars of energy. (Alucard must stand between two souls.) After a while, he stops using his bats and instead shoots a powerful beam which can be avoided by crouching.

When wounded enough, Olrox transforms into a huge reptilian monster, who can elongate his forearms to punch Alucard or jump to stomp him. He primarily attacks by firing a beam that cause a fiery wave to erupt from the ground on its wake, and a stream of fireballs. Alucard must step away from the beam's wake and can guard against the fireballs, then attack afterwards; and he must avoid getting trapped into the corners. The more Alucard wounds him, the more dangerous his attacks become. He will start firing several beams in succession, (up to four) and bigger, continuous streams of fireballs. (Which culminates into an extremely fast-paced onslaught of fireballs that cannot be blocked and is very hard to dodge.)