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The Succubus is a supporting antagonist in the Castlevania series, most often appearing as a boss but sometimes seen as a regular enemy. It must be noted that each game features a different succubus, and that most boss battles against one cause an emotional challenge for the hero.

General Description[]

In folklore, succubi are female demons who magically seduce men in their dreams, to drain their life-force. The games follow the legends but insist on their deadly seduction, and somehow links them to vampires as life-stealers. The mightiest of them can not only enter dreams but also create mirage pocket dimensions. While different, the Lesser Vampire (or Lady Bat) enemy is rather similar to succubi, looking like a female bat-like monster.

Succubi are very powerful, sadistic, cunning, seductive and deceptive. They use shape-shifting or illusions to bait the heroes, either to corrupt them or to catch them off-guard. They act in a falsely polite, flirtatious way, enjoying playing with their preys' emotions and delighting in their torment, stating their goal to enslave the hero and own them. Also, each significant succubus seems high-ranked among her liege's vassals.

Role in the Games[]

As regular enemies[]

Succube

Picture of a Succubus.

Succubi appear as regular enemies in games, often related to the nearly identical monster called Lilith (also based on a deadly temptress from legends). In Circle of the Moon, they are part of the Lady Bats family, with Lilith being the mightiest.

In Aria of Sorrow, Dawn of Sorrow and the medley game Harmony of Despair, they appear shape-shifted as a female character, even feigning being injured to catch them off-guard in Aria, and the hero must strike them to reveal their true nature. They fly at close-range to absorb the heroes' life-force. In Portrait of Ruin, the succubi fight in the same way but do not transform, instead taunting the heroes as they come close.

In Aria of Sorrow, the hero Soma Cruz (who is the good reincarnation of Dracula) must equip the souls of the Succubus, the Flame Demon and the Giant Bat when fighting Graham Jones to unlock the real ending. The Succubus Soul always enable Soma to drain his foes' life to heal himself.

She represents Dracula's power to drain life-force, the Giant Bat represents his demonic transformation, and the Flame Demon represents his power over Hellfire.

Symphony of the Night[]

Succube (SotN)

The redhead Succubus.

The most memorable succubus featured in a Castlevania game, and a big fan favourite, appears in Symphony of the Night. She is one of the four mightiest bosses in the regular Castle, along with Olrox, the optional Granfaloon, and Richter Belmont: puppet-king of the Castlevania under Shaft's control.

She awaits the hero Alucard, in what seems to be a saving point but is in fact an entrance towards the nightmare she created. There, she traps Alucard in his memories of his mother's execution, distorting them to turn him evil, by making his mother tell him to hate humanity.

However, Alucard sees through her deceit and battles the Succubus to the death. When defeated, the Succubus understands that her foe is the son of Count Dracula and begs for mercy. Yet, she learns the hard way that Alucard treasures his memories of his mother more than anything. Outraged, he kills her and traps her soul forever within her own dream world.

The Succubus is at level 25. She is very powerful and can put up a serious challenge, so it is best to face her at matching level or higher. She divides herself in twelve, shooting flying energy balls. Alucard must target the real one: the only one who does not attack. She can also expand the claws on her wings like spears, shower Alucard with cursed flower petals (needing an anti-curse) and fly at close range to drain his life at contact.

It must be noted that the Succubus in among the fallen bosses that Dracula summons during the final battle, before crushing them and draining their blood to heal himself.

Lament of Innocence[]

Another blonde Succubus appears before Dracula's rise as the King of the Night, being a vassal of his predecessor Walter Bernhard. She rules the Ghostly Theatre and is one of the five guardians the hero Leon Belmont must defeat to reach Walter and save his abducted fiancée Sara Trantoul.

She appears to Leon under Sara's aspect, trying to stab him from behind when he least suspects, but he dodges at the last second. The Succubus taunts him, saying that she wanted to end it quickly, but finds him attractive in misery and wants to see him harbour that look forever.

Enraged, Leon slays the Succubus who reveals that Rinaldo Gandolfi, the alchemist aiding him, was another victim of Walter's sick game. She used against him the aspect of his daughter Justine, whom he was forced to kill after Walter turned her into a vampire, forcing him to give up.

The Succubus is powerful but not that hard to defeat. She flies fast, can drain Leon's life with a kiss, wrap herself in her wings to charge like a drill, surround herself with a tornado to charge, conjure plants from the ground that poison Leon, fire three green energy spikes or a pointed pink beam, and conjure five yellow lightning bolts from above.

Leon must keep moving and strike her repeatedly, but she can dodge and spawn two doubles he must destroy. Striking the doubles can paralyse Leon, and the real Succubus sheds rose petals. When wounded enough, she starts conjuring spiked vines from the ground to track down Leon.

A similar looking Succubus appears in the Castlevania Pachislot games set during Curse of Darkness, consisting in several mini-games of symbols sequences. She holds Trevor Belmont with doubles, drains his life-force with a kiss and attacks with lightning, but ends up beaten. When defeated, she merely grudgingly submits instead of dying.

Castlevania The Adventure: ReBirth[]

The remake of Castlevania the Adventure features a boss of undetermined species who could be either a succubus or a lesser vampire: as she uses magic like the succubi and conjures bats like lesser vampires.

She summons a swarm of bats infused with purple energy, five swarms of bats counter-clockwise around her; living shadows moving along the ground; and shoots four blue fireballs on each side which make flames to erupt where they land, leaving little place to dodge.

Moonlight Rhapsody[]

Succubus (Moonlight Rhapsody)

The Succubus in Moonlight Rhapsody.

The Succubus is a boss in this Japanese exclusive IOS demo game, in which a rift in Time and Space gathers heroes from the past and future. She attacks the heroes after a few taunts, but is easy to defeat.

She walks slowly but can hurl enthralling hearts turning male party members against the others. She lands dashing stabs with her claws and surrounds herself with a powerful, lasting pink energy tornado. After a while, she starts to fly and conjure images of herself, firing pink energy balls to the ground or homing ones in succession.

Lords of Shadow: Mirror of Fate[]

Succube (Seigneurs des Ombres)

The Succubus from Lords of Shadows.

A succubus is fought as a boss in the second game of the reboot series Lords of Shadows. She is a follower of Dracula who seduces and captures men to bring them to her liege. She drags the main hero Simon Belmont within her illusionary world made from men's fantasies and tries to seduce him to drain his soul, but he resists and destroys her.

The Succubus flies over the room and attacks with spinning charges, blue fireballs in quick succession, or powerful blue shockwaves all around her; forcing Simon to jump and strike her. After a while, she surrounds herself with a force-field and fires blue energy waves along the ground.

Simon must strike the force-field until it breaks before attacking. Simon must also use his whip to pry away the Succubus' female slave from her when she drains her life-force. When she divides herself into three succubi surrounded with force-fields, Simon must break them like he did until he finds the real one.

Magnus[]

An incubus serving as the main villain of the dubiously canon radio drama Nocturne of Recollection set one year after Symphony of the Night. Contrasting his female counterparts, he appears as a corrupter instead of a seducer, being more malevolent and ambitious. Also, his power is linked to his claws and breaking them renders him powerless.

Magnus l'inccube

Magnus

Like the Succubus of Symphony of the Night, to whom he might be related, Magnus tempts Alucard to the side of Evil and uses elements of his past to torment him. However, he fully knows who Alucard is and he is much better prepared. He seeks to corrupt Alucard into the successor of Dracula and new ruler of the Castlevania.

At the start of Dracula's war against humans, Alucard's sworn servant and close friend Lyudmil, whose family was healed by Alucard's mother Lisa, was grievously wounded by Magnus, who had just burnt his village. The incubus tempted Alucard with Lyudmil's blood, but he was defeated and left for dead.

Magnus returns after three centuries, having enslaved Lyudmil, now a powerful vampire, by playing on his hatred for Lisa's execution, and sending him in a killing spree. As Alucard is investigating with his love interest Maria Renard and Richter Belmont, Magnus tries in vain to make Maria doubt Alucard. He also abducts the young vampire hunter Alexis, prompting his friend Cyril to search for him.

In the end, Magnus and Lyudmil confront Alucard, Maria, Richter, Cyril and Alexis. Magnus tries to use Alucard's friendship with Lyudmil to play on his feelings. In the end, Maria manages to free Lyudmil from Magnus' control, and Alexis reveals the incubus' weakness, leading to his final defeat and well-deserved demise.

Castlevania Nocturne[]

The Succubus appears in this second Netflix cartoon adaptation, covering Rondo of Blood and Symphony of the Night, set in 1972 during the French Revolution and the insurrection in Vendée.

Instead of being a withered old crone who taught Elizabeth Bartley dark magic and resurrected her before World War I, Drolta Tzuentes (the incorrect romanization of Dorottya Semtész), once a priestess of the Egyptian Goddess of War Sekhmet, now a highly powerful vampire and right-hand to Erzsebet Báthory, who has drank her goddess' blood. She can take a succubus-like form, being a composite of the two characters, and like the Succubus can expand her wing-claws to stab foes, in addition to being a tremendously skilled hand-to-hand fighter.

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