Beware of unmarked spoilers further down the page.
This page deals with the characters from Castlevania: Circle of the Moon.
For the other characters, see below:
- Castlevania (Main Index): Camilla
- Castlevania – Dracula: Dracula
Another non-Belmont, he is trained alongside Hugh Baldwin by Morris Baldwin, a member of a group of vampire hunters who defeated Dracula. He is chosen over Hugh to inherit the Hunter's Whip (not the Vampire Killer), which leads to resentment on Hugh's part. When Dracula is revived by Carmilla, Nathan and co. go to the castle to put him down. Dracula separates Hugh and Nathan from Morris, whom he kidnaps in order to use in a ritual to release his true power. Nathan and Hugh split up, and eventually come to blows when Hugh is put under More than Mind Control by Dracula. Nathan beats him, frees Morris after a fight with Dracula, and everybody escapes the castle.
CotM was also retconned by Igarashi, but this didn't stop him from borrowing the card system and adapting it into HoD's spellbook system. Igarashi un-retconned Circle of the Moon a few years later, but called this an Alternate Continuity.
- Linear Warriors, Quadratic Wizards: Nathan's strength scales decently to his level. Using the DSS cards to augment his attacks allow him to keep up much better with the increasingly tough enemies.
- Magic Knight: He has plenty of card-based magic skills to augment his whipping.
- Parental Abandonment: Both his parents died in the sealing of Dracula ten years prior.
- Show Girl Skirt: Male example; he wears a long brown cloth that's tied around his waist with belts, which gives the impression of a faux Badass Long Coat
Morris' son and Nathan's rival. He is jealous of Nathan because Nathan was chosen as the successor to Morris. He also believes that Nathan is too weak to fight alongside him.
- Climax Boss: The whole game builds up to the reveal that he's brainwashed with his jealousy for Nathan exploited, and a pivotal boss fight against him — in the chamber at the top of the series-signature clock tower, no less.
- Jerkass: Even before he gets brainwashed, he tells Nathan to leave and that he'd only get in his way. He gets better after he's beaten, though.
- More than Mind Control: It's implied that his grudge against Nathan being chosen as the successor by his own father was amplified by Dracula or Carmilla, eventually leading to his Face–Heel Turn.
- The Resenter: Envied Nathan for being his father's successor instead of him, which Dracula took advantage of to make him his minion.
- The Rival: Towards Nathan. He later lets his jealousy get the better of him and falls under Dracula's thrall for a time.
- Rival Turned Evil: By the time you face him, he's gone so mad with his hatred of Nathan and being controlled by Dracula that it takes a Beat the Curse Out of Him to make him snap out of it.
- "Well Done, Son" Guy: Hugh's father chose Nathan to be his successor instead of him. His jealousy over this is what allowed Dracula to corrupt him.
- Distressed Dude: He's captured at the start of the game.
- Hero of Another Story: We have yet to see Morris' mission with Mr. and Mrs. Graves, but we know that he and Dracula have had a bout in the past.
