Carmilla (Lords of Shadow)

''This article is about the Lord of Shadow Carmilla. For information about the Dracula's servant Carmilla please see Carmilla.''

Carmilla appears as an antagonist in the game, Castlevania: Lords of Shadow.

Here she is depicted as Queen of the Vampires, and the second Lord of Shadow, the Vampire Dark Lord. When Gabriel arrived to confront her she attempted to seduce him at first, trying to tempt him to her cause and convince him to join her (as well as possibly to save herself from defeat and death at his hands). However, the recently widowed Gabriel's will was not shaken, and he rejected her. Angered by this, Carmilla revealed her prior knowledge of him and his quest to resurrect his wife, denounced it as a fool's errand and engaged him in battle, summoning Vampire Warriors to aid her.

Once they were all defeated, she used her vampiric powers to partially destroy the throne room, then metamorphosed into her true vampire form to fight Gabriel directly. However, after a long struggle that ended with half the castle destroyed and Carmilla seriously injured, Gabriel finally killed her by stabbing her in the heart with the Combat Cross, breaking off the stake attachment in the process.

After this, Gabriel was rewarded with Carmilla's Seraph Shoulders, granting him spectral wings and allowing him to double jump.

Background
It is suggested that Carmilla had originally lived in or near the Bernhard family's castle when it was owned by Friedrich von Frankenstein. She vowed to bring him to justice for the evil experiments that he committed. When she became a vampire, most of the Berrnhards were driven out, and she kept Friedrich von Frankenstein alive to torture him and use him to develop creations for her. She killed many of her retainers turning them into Skeleton Warriors who guarded her castle.The castle became known as the Vampire Castle. She took the child Laura from her parents, turned her, and made her her 'daughter'.

She had summoned demons from hell, the brothers; Brauner and Olrox, and gave them vampiric powers, These became the lieutenant and commander of her Vampire armies. She had cast a spell of cold and ice and endless winter over her country, in order to make sure that the Vampires would be little bothered by the daylight sun. Throughout the centuries the land became known as the Land of the Vampires. Most people had been driven out or changed, those who chose to stay lived in Wygol Village. The village became the vampire's source of food and a place to conscript more troops.