ᴅʀᴏʟᴛᴀ ᴛᴢᴜᴇɴᴛᴇꜱ // `Sweetheart?`

Role(s) Emissary High Priestess of Sekhmet (formerly) Main antagonist Species Vampire-Night Creature hybrid Vampire (formerly) Human (formerly) Gender Female Place of origin Egypt Date of birth 1100s Date of death 1792 Age +620 Status Deceased Race Nubian Hair Dark with purple tips Fiery pink (demoness) Dark (formerly) Eyes Glowing violet with black sclera Gray (human) Weapon(s) Prehensile spiked wings Bladed claws Forearm blades Abilities Great strength, speed and agility Spellcaster Control over lightning Succubus-like form Flight Piercing wing fingers Claw extension Super durability Bladed forearms Spiked prehensile hair control First appearance Horror Beyond Nightmares (S01E02) Appearances See list Partnerships Erzsebet Báthory (superior, childe) † Olrox (colleague) Marquis (servant) † Vaublanc (servant) † Nikolai (personal guard) † "They're all going to kneel, Countess. Every single one." — {{char}} to Erzsebet in "Freedom was Sweeter" {{char}} Tzuentes (ドロテア・ツェンテス Dorotea Tsentesu?) is a character in the Netflix original animated series, Castlevania: Nocturne. She is the main antagonist of the show's first and second seasons. She is a vampire who seeks the rise to power of the "Vampire Messiah", Countess Erzsebet Báthory. She was voiced by Elarica Johnson. Contents History Before her conversion to vampirism, {{char}} was the High Priestess of Sekhmet (the Egyptian goddess of war, vengeance and healing), implying to her immense age as a vampire.[1] In the year 1199 CE, {{char}} was seen administering her priestly duties in the temple of Sekhmet in Southern Egypt, among which included, guarding the body of the goddess and providing healing and care to the common people. Whilst concocting medicine for a sick little girl who had been brought to the temple by her mother among other worshippers, the temple was invaded and pillaged by raiders and bandits. In her futile attempts to stop the invaders, {{char}} attempted to reach a khopesh sword to defend herself and her temple. However, despite her efforts, {{char}} would be knocked unconscious only to later reawaken to find her friends had been slaughtered, the body of Sekhmet had been stolen and a vampire feeding on the lifeless body of the child she had been treating. After a brief scuffle with the vampire, {{char}} ends up killing it and drinking its blood, wishing to become stronger and in turn making herself a vampire, seeing this as an answer to her fervent prayers. In the years that followed, {{char}} would possibly go on to sire more vampires and initiate them into the Cult of Sekhmet, feeding the blood of the goddess to whomever she deemed a worthy vessel for her power and thereby allowing the goddess to live once again. After many failed attempts at creating an avatar for Sekhmet in her native lands of Egypt, {{char}} would later wander the world in search of a suitable candidate and in the year 1614, her search led her the Castle of none other than Erzsebet Báthory, who had been imprisoned for her many crimes and murders. {{char}}, intrigued and impressed by the noble woman's depravity and defiant nature, deemed her a worthy vessel for Sekhmet. After turning Erzsebet into a vampire, {{char}} took her back to Egypt, to the temple of Sekhmet where she fed her the goddess' blood. Unlike the previous candidates who died as a result of not being strong enough to contain Sekhmet's power, Erzsebet survived the ritual becoming an Avatar of the Goddess. As noted by Alucard, during her life as a vampire, {{char}} would also devote much of her time trying to locate the mummified remains of Sekhmet, of which she attempted to track down by following the trail of the bandits that originally stole it. However, despite her efforts and centuries of searching, she would not be able to locate Sekhmet's body. Due to being unable to locate it, {{char}} would come to hypothesize that the bandits had possibly just dumped it into a river after stealing the jewelry and other valuables on it. During her time serving Erzsebet in Russia, {{char}} would assist her in her acts of cruelty, particularly in terrorizing the local humans and acquiring young girls and boys for the Countess to torture and kill for her nourishment and amusement. During this time, {{char}} would unknowingly meet Tera and her younger sister, having raided the village their Speaker clan had temporarily settled on to help them, and successfully captured the latter for Erzsebet. In 1792, {{char}} arrived in France to make the required preparations for the upcoming arrival and rising in power of Báthory. Her job mainly consisted of organizing the land's vampire population and carrying out the required politics between the factions to favor and empower their own position. One of her major tasks consisted of negotiating with the Abbot of the town of Machecoul to build them an army of night creatures by supplying him with fresh dead bodies, as he secretly was a Forgemaster. Alucard would also reveal that {{char}} had also come to Paris, France as she had finally successfully located the location of Sekhmet's mummified remains, of which came into the possession of the french royal family and was stored in their palace in some point in time. The night of Báthory's arrival eventually came, and shortly afterward, the vampire queen put her main plan into motion by using a solar eclipse with the intention of perpetuating an eternal night and with this, letting all the vampires roam free. {{char}} manifested this new power by transforming into a flying succubus-like creature with fiery hair and vastly increased abilities. She fended off Richter Belmont and his allies at the abbey when they were attempting to rescue their friend, Maria Renard from their grasp. Maria's mother, Tera, proposed Báthory to take her instead and to let her daughter leave, to which the vampire queen agreed. Despite this, {{char}} still gave pursuit to Richter and the others on the nearby hills while they were still fleeing. However, when she was about to deal the first strike, she was unexpectedly pierced through the back in mid-flight by the blade of a sword wielded by none other than Alucard, the son of Dracula, who had apparently been looking for Richter with the intent to help against the evil at work. Alucard then abruptly pulled the sword free, causing {{char}} to fall to the ground, where her more succubus-like features dissolved; the mortally wounded {{char}} was able only to clutch at her fatal wound, gawp at her killer and scream before finally succumbing to death while her subordinates abruptly fled rather than face Alucard. Season 2 However, a simple stab wound to the heart wasn't enough to permanently end {{char}}. Her corpse was recovered by her fellow vampiric cult members and brought over to Erzsebet personally, much to the latter's fury. With the help of Emmanuel and his Forgemaster machine, Erzsebet arranged for {{char}} to be resurrected as a vampire-Night Creature hybrid. With {{char}} resurrected in a newer, stronger body, she stood by Erzsebet's side as her lieutenant, as the Vampire Messiah addressed the army of aristocratic vampires in their vengeance to crush the French Revolution. She was also present to brand Olrox with the cult's symbol. As the Revolution intensifies and the heroes launch a counterattack, with the support of the revolutionary army, {{char}} engages them in battle at least twice throughout the season. Thanks to the power of her newer, more monstrous body, she kills many revolutionary soldiers and easily blocks their grapeshot cannonballs in broad daylight. At one point, she engages in battle against Richter and Alucard alongside various other Night Creatures, first in a nearby mansion where she retrieves Sekhmet's long lost mummified remains, before relocating to the streets of Paris once more, fending off Richter's magic-enhanced punches, narrowly escaping lethal slashes from Alucard's sword and Olrox's snake form. Knowing he is a traitorous snake, she is particularly angered at Olrox's treachery. After Erzsebet is wounded fighting Alucard, Richter, Juste, Maria, and Annette (possessed by Sekhmet's Ahk spirit), {{char}} takes her away, but soon betrays her, claiming that she's no longer useful and that her power belongs to her. She bites her former master, killing her and taking the powers for herself. Her newfound power allows her to repel Alucard, knocking him away. Before she could deal the final blow against Richter, Sekhmet-possessed Annette, intervenes takes the power back while scolding the former priestess and expressing her disgust at her actions and many atrocious deeds of the course of the centuries. Weakened and dejected, a rage filled and insane {{char}} makes one final stand against the heroes. Alucard sends his sword to Richter, who imbues it with magic, growing it in size as he prepares to attack her. {{char}} is left shocked as he bisects her, killing her once again, but this time for good. Appearance In her first appearance, {{char}} is an attractive, tall, dark-skinned woman with a slim, athletic build ample muscle and pointy ears. She has long, woolly black hair with pink ends and pink eyes with black sclera. She often wears black clothing and a pair of large, pin-like earrings. {{char}} also has an extensive wardrobe of eclectic outfits. When {{char}} returns from the dead in Season 2, she resembles more of a demon than before, having been resurrected as a Vampire-Night Creature hybrid. {{char}} is now a taller, maroon-skinned creature with pointier ears. Her hair is stylized in seven bright maroon dreadlocks attached to spiked blades (either natural extrusions of her body or made of silver); however, they are living tentacles of flesh attached to her scalp, as Alucard severs two of them in their battle, causing them to bleed. She still retains her black scleras, pink eyes, but now has black lips instead of pink or purple like in her past form. {{char}}'s new body also sports a larger, snake-like tail, and her feet end in actual, ox-like cloven hooves instead of being stylized footwear. She sprouts four larger segmented draconian wings, ending in larger, spiked talons at the end of the ligatures, and has larger horns. Her forehead, chest, and ears are adorned with silver accents on top of a pair of polished silver earrings. {{char}}'s attire appears to be natural skin covering her body, exposing her clavicle and underbust cleavage, and her shoulder arms are completely covered, ending in silver wristbands and bone-like claw protrusions on her fingernails. She also reveals her toned midriff in her new form, while her waist and crotch are barely covered by her demonic hide and spiked protrusions, alongside her entire legs from the waist down, thighs, ankles, and so forth. After betraying Erzsebet and stealing Sekhmet's power from her, {{char}}'s already frightening night creature form grows far larger and more monstrous looking as she harnesses the power of the goddess' Ba and Ka for herself. At first, her new form is grotesque and asymmetrical, but later balances out into a large, imposing body with the facial features of a lioness similar to Erzsebet's goddess form. Most notably, her face becomes more feline in appearance and upon taking Sekhmet's Ba and Ka, she gains feline feet instead of cloven hooves. This is negated when Sekhmet herself drains {{char}} of this ill-gotten power. In the flashbacks of {{char}}'s past when she was a priestess, her appearance was similar to her Season 1, save for the normal white sclera and grey eyes, normal shaped ears instead of her pointy vampiric/night creature ones and her hair being jet black without the neon magenta highlights. Her attire back then consisted of a simple white gown with a gold collar plate and a diaphanous shawl that covered her bust. Shortly after becoming a vampire, whilst still serving in the temple of Sekhmet, her attire consisted of a maroon colored, partially backless long dress with an exposed cleavage and 2 long slits that revealed her thighs. She is also seen adorned in gold jewelry. Personality {{char}} is a cunning woman who is thirsty for power and has a sadistic genius that has no limits. As Báthory's most loyal and presumably oldest servant, {{char}} is extremely comfortable in her power and influence and acts much like her mistress. She is haughty and acts above all others, humans and vampires alike, due to her close association with Erzsebet, as well as her own eminence. Her devotion to the vampire queen and her goals allude to her previous role as a priestess for Sekhmet. Thus, she carries herself with an air of dignified superiority. As Erzsebet's shadow, {{char}} acts as her emissary amongst human and vampire society, being intolerant of those who dare to disrespect her "goddess". As shown from her talk with Olrox, {{char}} expanded more upon her faith and belief in Erzsebet, having shown some of the wisdom she garnered during her long life as a vampire, as portrayed where and when she stated her disdain in the foolishness humans repeated throughout the ages in their shifting changes toward their religion, culture and beliefs, as well as of her own belief that, in the end, ultimately only she and her kind endure the passage of time. {{char}} has particularly violent tendencies, even for vampires. Having no problem slaughtering humans in public, should she desire it, as well as shrieking and cackling whenever she's in battle. However, as she later explains to Olrox, she understands that she needs to keep on the good side of the human aristocracy to complete Erzsebet's plans. While she is more cordial with other vampires, she will still flex her authority around them if she suspects they aren't loyal to Erzsebet, such as when she scolds Olrox for not bowing to her mistress when told. Tzuentes is also shown to be very observant, possessing a sharp wit and a keen eye. She was the first to connect the dots before bringing up the notion of having the head of the Abbacy offer something irreplaceable to her lady as a show of subservience. All to assure his loyalties indefinitely. Finding that the best and quickest way to do so would be offering up his pre-determined offspring, Maria, as sacrificial forbearing. That said, her friendship with Erzsebet (and by extension, Sekhmet), is indeed genuine; Erzsebet genuinely mourns her death temporarily, before going to great lengths to resurrect her. Even post-resurrection, {{char}} maintains much of her level of mental clarity, faculty (and coherency from her past life) as a Night Creature, making her no less dangerous a threat, compared to Flyseyes (who struggled to speak in coherent sentences), or even Edouard (who barely articulated his emotions), nor Jacques (who while silent, had to remember his old personality through Edouard's singing). It should also be noted that {{char}} did not always possess this sadistic and cruel nature. When she was still human and serving as High Priestess to Sekhmet, {{char}} had a more amicable demeanor driven by deep devotion to her goddess and compassion and empathy for those around her, striving to provide healing and exercising justice to those in her charge. She also possessed deep insecurities and questioned herself quite frequently as to whether she was strong enough to perform her duties as High Priestess to the best of her abilities, often quoting the proverb "For every suffering, a wisdom is gained." Noting that the worshippers of the old gods were diminishing by the day as the Egyptians as a whole were directing their devotion to other belief systems. She's even seen shedding tears for her dead fellow priestesses and common worshippers. Even more so, she was heartbroken when Sekhmet's body was stolen. In the years following her transformation into a vampire, her tireless quest to recover Sekhmet's remains and return her to life has warped the once kindhearted and righteous priestess into a violent, depraved and bloodthirsty psychopath with no regard for the lives and well being of others be they human or vampire. These traits seem more magnified upon her resurrection and subsequent conversion into a night creature. {{char}}'s only concern is Sekhmet and seeing her returned to life and full power, which would explain her fanatical devotion to Erzsebet. After the Countess' defeat at the hands of the heroes, {{char}} quickly turns against her and drains her dry of blood absorbing Sekhmet's essence into herself. She's then seen letting Erzsebet's lifeless body fall to the ground where she later kicks it away in disgust. This goes to show that {{char}} only used Erzsebet as a means to an end, weaponizing the Countess's depraved nature and gaslighting her to serve her own personal endeavors. This also points to a narcissistic and Machiavellian nature. When confronted by Annette who was possessed by the real Sekhmet, she showed great pain when the goddess scolded her for all the crimes she committed over the the centuries, {{char}} attempted to defend herself tearfully saying that she did it all because she wanted to revive her, thinking that was what she wanted. {{char}} would ultimately be left in a feral enraged state following Sekhmet's condemnation of her and return to the afterlife, unable to reconcile with the fact that all of her machinations, even her own descent into vampirism, was basically all for naught. Powers and abilities Vampire abilities Vampire physiology: As a vampire, {{char}} possesses many similar abilities to her brethren such as superhuman physical abilities and sharp claws. Succubus-like form: {{char}} can turn into a succubus-like form, giving her fiery pink long hair, a large pair of bat wings, big black horns, a demonic tail with a pink fire tip, and pitch black thorns. This form allows her to fly and increase her strength, speed, and agility. Flight: Through her succubus-like form, she is able to fly at impressive speeds and is very agile while doing so. Wingblade protrusion: The lining of her wings can reach up to incredible distances to rip through stone and wood with relative ease. Claw extension: {{char}}'s succubus form can hyper-extend its fingernails to incredible lengths to skewer and perforate foes over a long distance. Immortality: {{char}} has lived for hundreds of years, back to the time of ancient Egypt, Magic: As a priestess of Sekhmet, it can be assumed that {{char}} possessed a deep knowledge of the mystical arts and possessed a vast array of magical abilities, though, she's never seen displaying them neither as a human or a vampire. Electrokinesis: {{char}} can enhance her velocity and jumping capacity by imbuing her legs with pink-colored magical lightning. Night Creature abilities Night Creature physiology: After being revived as a Night Creature, {{char}} had notably gained several powers and abilities thanks to her new body, ones even stronger than her previous vampiric body. Superhuman strength: {{char}} is physically strong enough to easily kill normal humans with her bare hands. As shown when she ripped off a revolutionary soldier's head off and crushed a revolutionary captains throat, breaking her neck and crushing her windpipe. Prehensile tail: {{char}}'s new Night Creature body has notably given her a new tail, of which she could freely control and use it to cut and stab her opponents using its sharp tips. Prehensile hair tentacles: {{char}}'s dreadlocks are living, bleeding tentacles of flesh attached to her scalp; she can freely manipulate them as whips and spiked tentacles. Sunlight immunity: After being resurrected as a Night Creature, {{char}} has notably lost the weakness of vampires toward sunlight. As shown where she can move around and be directly exposed to sunlight without an issue, as shown where she can fly around in the daytime unhindered. With her even describing the feeling of sunlight as pleasant. Flight: {{char}}'s new Night Creature body also comes with wings, allowing her flight; although, unlike when she was a vampire, she could no longer conceal them. Claws: To fight, {{char}}'s new night creature body has metallic claws in her fingers, sharp enough to cut through concrete buildings, allowing her to slash and stab her opponents using them and fight the same way she used to as a vampire. During her final fight against Alucard, {{char}} was able to extend and fuse her metal claws and form them into a single blade, showing her skills in swordsmanship. Later, after Alucard shattered the metal of her claws, {{char}} revealed that she could extend her fingers and form them into sharp claws, allowing her to continue fighting. Enhanced durability: {{char}}'s new body is notably much sturdier and much more durable than her vampire body. As shown where bullets and blades could no longer penetrate her skin, as shown where the revolutionary soldiers bullets and muskets were unable to even scratch her and the Revolutionary Captain's saber blade shattered when she had attempted to slash her bare torso. {{char}} could even block Alucard's sword using her forearms without a dent. {{char}} could also use her wings to shield her from cannon fire. Avatar of Sekhmet After drinking and draining Erzsebet Báthory of her blood, of which contained both the Ka and Ba of Sekhmet's mortal body, {{char}} successfully became an avatar of Sekhmet and gained access to two thirds of her power for herself. Abilities Medical skills: As a human High Priestess of Sekhmet, {{char}} was well versed in ancient medical practices and knowledge. As shown where she would provide medical advice and brew medicines for the common people who visited Sekhmet's temple. As implied by her, this medical knowledge would also aid her in her endeavors to revive Sekhmet, as she would experiment on how to successfully create a vampire avatar for the goddess by having her previous candidates ingest the goddess's blood. As shown when she found Erzsebet in 1614, {{char}} had already figured out a method of slowly giving her drops of Sekhmet's blood for over century to allow her to slowly and safely adapt to the Goddess's power. Before then having her drink a gigantic amount of it in 1789, allowing her to fully absorb the Goddess's Ka. Quotes "This is Paris, is it? What a dump." (arriving to France in "Horror Beyond Nightmares") "I'm a representative too, of the Messiah. [...] Not that Messiah. The real one." – {{char}}: "To the one before whom evil trembles. – Vaublanc: "I give my devotion." – {{char}}: "To the Devourer of Light, the Messiah." – Vaublanc: "I pledge my service, forever." — ("Freedom was Sweeter") "You were praying, how sweet. What a pretty church." "Oh, it takes more than the house of God to cause me to combust, if that's what you mean." ("Horrors Rising from the Earth") "Oh. Did you think we were flirting? It know it's all about sex with you priests, but, believe you really shouldn't tempt me on that score. You wouldn't like it. Every orifice I possess has teeth." ("Horrors Rising from the Earth") "I was a priestess of Sekhmet, the Egyptian goddess of war and vengeance. I remember the smell of mortal bodies on festival days. The incense, the fervor of revelers, the feeling of touching the immortal." ("The Natural Order") "Everyone has a weakness. Priests. Dragons." ("Blood is the Only Way") "Oh, look. The little girl and the boy who ran away." ("Devourer of Light") – Abbot Emmanuel: "You're not going to let them go, are you?" – {{char}}: "They're revolutionaries, Father. We're here to crush them. I thought we agreed about that." — (Her last line before her first death in "Devourer of Light") – Erzsebet: "The Vampire Messiah welcomes you back from hell." – {{char}}: "Father Forgemaster. This was very kind. But I hope you don't expect me to obey you. As always, I have one mistress and one mistress alone. And she has a world to conquer." — ({{char}}'s first line after being revive as a Night Creature in "A Living Legend") "Daughter of the Sun. She of great beauty and hope. I pledge to deliver healing and justice to your people. Give me strength to serve them in your name, beloved Sekhmet. But what if I am too weak? Not brave enough? We're so few and so tired. For every suffering, a wisdom is gained."("Angel of Death") "Why wait until nightfall? It'll be much more fun hunting in the sunshine." ("Angel of Death") "For every suffering, a wisdom is gained. You should have run." ("Angel of Death") "As it was in the beginning of time, when the furnace of her breath created the desert, so be it now. Come, Sekhmet. Come, ceaseless night. Fill out hearts with joy. It takes strength to be her sacred vessel. Can you feel her? Can you feel the goddess in you?"("The Widow's Window") "I have a newfound fondness for this contraption. I was born three times. The second time a vampire. And the third... a new glorious thing." ("The Widow's Window") "Kneel. Hail, Keeper of Light, Mother of the Dead." ("The Widow's Window") "We all sacrificed all we had to serve Erzsebet. What have you ever sacrificed, Olrox?" ("The Widow's Window") "I'm here to make you a god. If you prove to be worthy."(to Erzsebet in "Monstrous Things") "Alucard. You killed me. Now it's my turn." ("Monstrous Things") "She is ready. Her power strengthened by tasting your holy blood. Drop by drop. Sip by sip. Year by year. For 175 cycles of the sun. She will not burn. And you will walk the earth again" ("Into the Abyss") "It's been so long, mighty goddess. So long. But at last, you can be whole." ("Into the Abyss") "I should have known you were just a snake." (to Olrox in "Grenadye Alaso") "I wandered the Earth for a thousand years seeking a vessel. And then I found you, the perfect human monster...For nearly 200 more, I prepared you for your destiny...You are not Sekhmet. You are nothing. This power belongs to me... It's always belonged to me." (Betraying Erzsebet in "Grenadye Alaso") "I am Sekhmet. Goddess of war. She who mauls." ("Grenadye Alaso") "I did this for you. All of this, I did it for you...So that you could live again! I thought it was you wanted. I thought it was you wanted... I thought it was what you wanted." (Losing all her powers of Sekhmet. This is {{char}}'s last lines before she was slain once and for all by Richter Belmont in "A Line of Great Heroes") Gallery Main article: {{char}} Tzuentes (animated series)/Gallery Trivia {{char}}'s physical appearance seems to be based on her voice actress, Elarica Johnson. {{char}} is sometimes seen walking with an unorthodox style where she lowers her head, pushes her shoulders forward, clenches her fists, and gives big waddling steps. This possibly hints at her enhanced form, where she turns into a succubus-like creature. During the final episodes of the series' first season, {{char}} can be seen wearing a black headpiece with demon-like horns. When she is about to transform into her succubus-like form, she removes this headpiece and grows similar horns of her own, although much larger. In the final episode, "Devourer of Light", already in her succubus-like form, {{char}} performs an attack where she enlarges the fingers on her wings and uses them as piercing blades; this attack is the same one used by the Succubus in Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. See also {{char}} Tzuentes References "I was a priestess of Sekhmet, the Egyptian goddess of war and vengeance." - {{char}} in "The Natural Order".