City of Haze

City of Haze
Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin
The secret bakery keeps a batch of delicious cakes.
Enemies	Enemy Data
Boss(es)	Dullahan
Dialogue	Dialogue page
Environment(s)	City Dining hall Storage Church
Music	Victorian Fear
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The City of Haze is a location in Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin. It is the first portrait the heroes are required to enter in the game and is comprised by a marketplace, some shops, and common city streets and environments.

Overview

The portrait resembles a misty, peaceful Victorian city, true to its name. Found within minutes of entering the castle, this stage thrusts the player directly into the game with a Victorian-era town complete with shops and demonic shopkeepers. The background also follows the premise of the portrait's name, showing morning fog-like mist in the distance. There are also underground streets (some signs show the name "MARKT STREET"), and an underground chapel (the sign on the entrance clearly says "CHURCH"). This stage contains mainly Skeletons, Bats and Mini Devils. In Richter, Sisters, and Old Axe Armor Modes, there are several more Andrases and an Invisible Man in the train tracks where the minecart is. The stage's boss is Dullahan, who appears as a giant suit of armor with a free-floating head. 13th Street is its alternate painting.

Bakery

There is a hidden bakery in the City of Haze. You can find it in an area underneath a breakable floor in the second building and then in a breakable wall in that area. It contains different kinds of cakes that you will need during Wind's "Build Your Strength 3" quest, which requires five different cakes in exchange for increasing your maximum HP. This is not an ordinary shop where you exchange your gold for the items you want, though. Hitting the cash register will open its drawer. To put cash into the register, strike the chandelier above the drawer. A random type of coin will fall from the chandelier into the register. The type of cake you get will correspond to what denomination of coin falls into the register, but you will only get that item if you don't already have it in your inventory. The types of cakes that can be obtained in this way are:

Cake	Sachertorte	NY Cheesecake	Mille-feuille	Wheat Roll	Tarte au Poire	Gateau Fraise
Gold	$1	$10	$50	$100	$500	$1,000

One Gold Ring is necessary for the $500 to appear, while two are needed for the $1,000, thus, they are required in order to buy the Tarte au Poire and Gateau Fraise, respectively.

Not all kinds of cakes can be found in the bakery, such as the Birthday Cake, Pancake, Financier, Green Tea Cake, Gateau Marron or Langues de Chat.

Enemy Data

Main article: City of Haze/Enemy Data

Gallery

Screenshots

The City of Haze's portrait.

The hidden bar in the City of Haze.

The secret bakery in the City of Haze.

The hidden bar cameo in the Castlevania animated series.

Maps

Trivia

• The City of Haze, most particularly the secret bar and its Skull Bartender, makes a rapid appearance in the fourth season of the Castlevania animated series as one of the destinations the Infinite Corridor can take someone to.

Other appearances

Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin

Main article: 13th Street

A second portrait apparently depicting the City of Haze can be found in the Master's Keep in Portrait of Ruin called 13th Street.

Castlevania: Harmony of Despair

The City of Haze appears on the lower portion of the Esquisse of Violence chapter of Castlevania: Harmony of Despair. The train station runs along the lowest part of the stage, with some of the bakeries and other buildings above it on the middle-left side.

Castlevania: Grimoire of Souls

Main article: City of Fog

The City of Haze is represented in the second book of Grimoire of Souls. The Steaming Ahead chapter covers the outdoor streets, the shops are in the Silent Spaces chapter, the Hellhorn chapter covers the train station, and Dullahan is fought in a museum in the Headless Champion chapter.

External links

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