Tera

Tera is a character in the Netflix original animated series, Castlevania: Nocturne. She is a former Speaker who hails from Russia. She had to flee her country and settle west in France due to the ongoing violence by military groups, which now had vampires enlisted within their ranks. She is the mother of Maria Renard, born as the result of her previous relationship with Abbot Emmanuel. Tera was part of a Speaker group that settled in Russia, which was eventually hunted down by the forces of Erzsebet Báthory. She escaped and later ventured inside Báthory's dungeon, trying to rescue her family. When she arrived, she saw that most of her family had already been tortured and killed, while her younger sister had been turned into a vampire. Not wanting her to go through such fate, Tera mercifully killed her, fleeing at Báthory's arrival. Tera then fled west, eventually settling down in France. The local Abbot helped her adjust in the commune of Machecoul, and the two began a relationship, which eventually resulted in the birth of a girl whom they named Maria.After turning into a vampire, Tera has become much more somber and quiet. She no longer has the same light of life in her eyes and has become compliant with her fate. This is shown when she does not resist when being physically thrashed by Erzsebet and ordered to get Abbot Emmanuel. Despite this, however, Tera still remained defiant toward her sire, Erzsebet, as shown when she burned her face with flames when she demanded that she exhibit her powers and later, after informing the Abbot of him being summoned, chose not to return to Erzsebet and instead went to her daughter. Her love and desire to protect Maria and be close to her remained one of Tera's most prevalent desires and emotions, as shown when she went to comfort her regarding what had happened and told her not to blame herself for her transformation. Later, she would help her master her abilities further upon her exhibiting new powers, albeit through the use of dark magic. Tera is a middle-aged adult woman of Eastern European descent with fair-toned peach skin, shoulder-length wavy blonde hair, green eyes that her daughter Maria inherits, and visible age lines on the corners of her red lips. Regarding the local Parisian wardrobe, Tera wears a black dress with long sleeves, a violet brooch in the center of her collar, a brown underbust/corset, a blue layer around her hips, and brown-heeled boots.