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Japanese name(s) ドロテア・ツェンテス Dorotea Tsentesu 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 death 1792 Age +620 Status Deceased Race Black African 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 Flight Spellcaster Succubus-like form Piercing wing fingers Claw extension Control over lightning Super durability Bladed forearms Spiked prehensile hair control First appearance "Horror Beyond Nightmares" (S1E02) Appearances See list Partnerships Erzsebet Báthory (superior, childe) † Olrox (colleague) Marquis (servant) † Vaublanc (servant) † Nikolai (personal guard) † English voice(s) Elarica Johnson Japanese voice(s) Mayumi Sako Gallery

For the original timeline version of this character, see Drolta Tzuentes. They're all going to kneel, Countess. Every single one. Drolta to Erzsebet in "Freedom was Sweeter" Drolta 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 an ancient, powerful and sadistic vampire who seeks the rise to power of the "Vampire Messiah", Countess Erzsebet Báthory. She was voiced by Elarica Johnson.

History Before her conversion to vampirism, Drolta 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, Drolta 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, Drolta attempted to reach a khopesh sword to defend herself and her temple. However, despite her efforts, Drolta 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, Drolta 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, Drolta 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, Drolta 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. Drolta, 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, Drolta took her back to Egypt, to the temple of Sekhmet where she fed her the goddess' blood. Unlike the pre

As noted by Alucard, during her life as a vampire, Drolta 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, Drolta 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, Drolta 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, Drolta 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, Drolta 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 Drolta 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. Drolta 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, Drolta 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 Drolta to fall to the ground, where her more succubus-like features dissolved; the mortally wounded Drolta was able only to clutc

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. Drolta 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, Drolta 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 Drolta to fall to the ground, where her more succubus-like features dissolved; the mortally wounded Drolta 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.

Personality Drolta 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, Drolta 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, Drolta 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, Drolta 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.

Drolta 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, Drolta 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 Drolta did not always possess this sadistic and cruel nature. When she was still human and serving as High Priestess to Sekhmet, Drolta 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. Drolta'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, Drolta 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 Drolta 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, Drolta attempted to defend herself tearfully saying that she did it all because she wanted to revive her, thinking that was what she wanted. Drolta 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.

Appearance In her first appearance, Drolta 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. Drolta also has an extensive wardrobe of eclectic outfits. When Drolta returns from the dead in Season 2, she resembles more of a demon than before, having been resurrected as a Vampire-Night Creature hybrid. Drolta 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. Drolta'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.

Drolta'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, Drolta'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 Drolta of this ill-gotten power. In the flashbacks of Drolta'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.