The Dragon Helm (called Egil's Helmet in Japan) is a helmet in the Castlevania series. It frightens enemies and lowers their DEF.
Game specific information[]
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night[]
First appearance of this helmet in the series. It gives STR +4 and DEF +3, and halves the DEF of all enemies. It is one of the items Alucard wears when he first enters Dracula's Castle, but which is then stolen by Death. It can be retrieved shortly after entering the Reverse Castle, in a room located at the bottom-leftmost part of the Reverse Clock Tower guarded by a Yorick.
In the Sega Saturn version of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, Maria Renard is equipped with it from the start, though it cannot be unequipped as the menu also cannot be accessed. Though it retains its effect of halving enemies' DEF, it does not increase her STR nor her DEF.
Castlevania: Harmony of Despair[]
The helmet has the same lowering enemies' DEF effect in this game, although it makes its wearer more susceptible to Holy-based attacks. The damage inflicted by a user wearing the helm is instead modified upon damage calculation rather than debuffing a victim's DEF (meaning that multiple wearers cannot stack the DEF reduction, as it only applies to an independent wearer's own damage). It works better on the enemies in the later DLC chapters that have far more DEF stats than the ones in the default first 6 chapters. It can only be worn by Alucard, Soma Cruz and Getsu Fuma.
Item Data[]
| Item Data: Dragon Helm | ||||||||
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| Image | Name - Game Type - Users Description |
Attributes / Consume | Statistics / Sell | Found | Notes | |||
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| Frightens enemy, lowers DEF | STR +4, DEF +3 (Alucard); no stats (Maria) |
Find: Starts with and loses (Alucard); starts with (Maria); Reverse Clock Tower (Alucard) |
Effect: Reduces enemies' DEF by half | |||||
| Frightens enemies | DEF +8 Sell: 1S 20C |
Find: Dragon Helm |
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| Frightens enemies, lowers DEF. | Attrib: Holy -6 |
HP +6, DEF +6 |
Rarity: **** Find: Chapter 5, 6 (Both Hard) Drop: Death, Dracula |
Effect: Reduces an enemy's DEF. | ||||
Notes[]
- The in-game description for this item in Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and Harmony of Despair reads "Frightens enemies, lowers DEF", which may be misinterpreted as lowering the player's own DEF instead of that of the enemies'.
Trivia[]
- "Egil" can refer to several Norse and Germanic heroes, including a Viking berzerker.
- The Dragon Helm is an elvish item from Tolkien's The Silmarillion.
- The English localized name of this item, "Dragon Helm", might be a reference to the historic Vlad "Dracula" Țepeș. Dracula is the Slavonic genitive form of Dracul, meaning "[the son] of Dracul (or the Dragon)", in reference to his father, Vlad Dracul, or "Vlad the Dragon", who was given this moniker when he became member of the "Order of the Dragon".[1] Vlad Țepeș would become the inspiration for Bram Stoker's antagonistic vampire title character, Count Dracula, from his 1897 eponymous Gothic horror novel.
References[]
- ↑ Vlad the Impaler: Name at Wikipedia.