In Lords Of Shadow, if Zobek was under Satan's control, why did he kill Baba Yaga?
Hard to say. Since she's another of Stan's minions, maybe he didn't want any competition. Maybe he was planning to overthrow Satan from the beginning, and since she works for him he killed her for that. Or maybe he just plain didn't like her—his narration never painted her in a very flattering light.
In Lords Of Shadow, why does Zobek need Gabriel to kill Marie?
Whatever happened to Walter Bernhard, did he ever even become a vampire or what?
I can't imagine Carmilla would keep the former owner of her castle around, even as a vampire. He might get uppity one day and want it back. She probably killed him.
The Priest sacrificed Wygol Village just for the Holy Water subweapon? Sure, it's effective, but can the old man even use it? Or if this version repels vampires all on its own, how come it doesn't work that way on your belt?
Perhaps it's because the Vampires view Gabriel as an active threat that needs to be taken out, who will come and kill them, which forces them to go through the Holy Water's effects regardless?
Claudia is mute and talks to people through telepathy, she also converses with her Golem like that, which might be justified as he's an organic, albeit magical creature (At least he looks organic once you've taken off his suit of armor). But how the heck can she distract a Titan by yelling at him telepathically? They are just rocks and magical runes... or do they have a brain, do they feel pain? If that's the case, I think we're stepping into Fridge Horror territory if we start thinking about how the second Titan must have felt, lying around, shattered in pieces for decades...
Given that, according to the bestiary, the Golem is the magitek equivalent of a cyborg, that is the reanimated corpse of a mute killer seeking redemption by helping around an innocent ward, and that the Titans are magical creations of Claudia's people, it could be easily the Fridge Horror case with the shattered Titans being all suffering, broken animated beings simply too damaged to carry on their mission. Rather than a brain, Claudia's Gift may require just a living soul to work, afterall. Even if they were simply soulless beings, it would have had no sense making them unable to be controlled by the Gift, given that from what we could glean all Agarthians had telepathic and magic abilities, and Claudia just uses is as a stand-in for her useless voice box, but nothing prevented her from using the Gift for its intended purpose.
Another example of Fridge Logic could set in, as, if Claudia's telepathy could control Golems, she could have been much more effective than acting as a mere element of distraction. However, for every intent an purpose, despite she's older than she looks, Claudia is a juvenile member of an extinct race, and if her father left her a magical zombie/robot/cyborg/guardian thing, it's because he felt her unable to fend for herself.
