Chupacabras

The Chupacabras is an enemy in Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, and has a larger role as a merchant in Lords of Shadow 2. He is not to be confused with the Cave Troll in the Castlevania series, which is originally called the Chupacabras. He has his own mythology unique to the Lords of Shadow universe.

Background
''Often portrayed as evil, blood-sucking monsters, the Chupacabras' only real obsession are magical relics. When in the presence of such artifacts, they will do anything to get them. However, the Chupacabras are not inherently evil creatures, and most of the time, after a short game of hide and seek, they will return anything they have stolen.''

Castlevania: Lords of Shadow
Gabriel encounters the Chupacabras during his journey to defeat the Lords of Shadow. He will play a short and harmless game of hide and go seek with Gabriel with his magical equipment on the line. Due to his habit of being in various places, many brotherhood knights thought the chubacabras to be a race, when it is revealed in Lords of Shadow 2 that he is in fact, just one wily immortal dwarf.

Castlevania: Lords of Shadow - Mirror of Fate
A Brotherhood Knight Scroll mentioned that a cell listing it's previous occupants on a wall had the Chupacabras' name.

Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2
At some unknown point after he became Dracula, Gabriel became so tired of the Chupacabras' antics that he imprisoned him in the Castle's dungeons. In exchange for his freedom, the Chupacabras opens the way to Medusa's lair for the vampire lord, and on the condition that he behaves himself is allowed to open a shop in the castle, selling magical goods.

The Chupacabras is the only creature able to read and speak an ancient language to open the Kleidos. According to the Master Librarian's quote in Chupacabras' bestiary entry, at one point the imp stole some of his rare books. The Master Librarian was so angry at him, that he wrote a brief rant about it at the bottom of entry.

Lords of Shadow 1

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Trivia

 * "Chupacabra" means "goat sucker" in spanish.
 * They share some similarities to the Hunchback dwarfs in size.
 * Chupacabras is mentioned as the unlikely name or nickname of one of the Brotherhood of Light members in one of the Brotherhood scrolls in Mirror of Fate. Perhaps he was playing a trick on the brotherhood member who wrote the scroll.
 * Originally thought to be in numbers, the Chupacabras is revealed to be only one being capable of moving in and out of time.