- For the enemy, see Wizard.
The Magician (魔術師 Majutsu-shi?) is a minor character in the Castlevania animated series. He controls people with magic and enslaves them to build a city for himself. He is defeated and killed by Isaac.
History[]
As told to Isaac by Miranda, the Magician arrived in her village and magically enslaved all of the townsfolk to do his bidding. Only Miranda was able to resist and escape capture, as she possesses magical powers. The other inhabitants, along with those of other villages, were brought to the Magician's tower to build a city-state and defenses.
When Isaac arrived, the Magician ordered his slaves to attack and stop him. Despite his best efforts, including coalescing his enslaved populace into Legion, the Magician was unable to stop Isaac from reaching him. He attempted to control Isaac with his spell, but Isaac, like Miranda, was also able to resist. He is quickly stabbed by Isaac and dies, ending his control.
Powers and abilities[]
The Magician appears immensely potent in his use of mass-scale mind-enslaving magic, which manifests as pale-green energy crowns of thorns (alongside vertical forehead eyes) encircling the heads of his victims (and which he may cast from mid-distance by simply pointing his hand at a desired victim).
He is shown able to concurrently control hundreds, if not thousands, of people at a time, having purportedly gone around enslaving entire towns for his own gain. Furthermore, he can make his slaves levitate, having chiefly done so to make his minions float up and combine into a giant sphere of bodies that appeared to be a summon of the demonic Legion. Nonetheless, the Magician failed to control Isaac with his spell strongly enough to prevent him from breaking free under his own power, which the latter managed mere seconds after being caught. Immediately upon his death, his magic was dispelled.
Whether or not the enslaved people of the city were beyond saving is not explicitly stated. However, Miranda told Isaac that the Magician "cooked their souls down to ash... turned them into ants". Assuming she has no ulterior motive, her words, along with a scene showing the enslaved villagers falling off the tower, their eyelids going limp and their bodies ceasing all movement, does imply that the unfortunate souls that were unable to break free immediately were beyond saving, making Isaac's killing them all off a mercy.
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Trivia[]
- The Magician's design bears some similarity to the Master Librarian from Castlevania: Symphony of the Night.
- The green magical energy surrounding the Magician victims' heads resembles the crown of thorns that sat on Jesus's head.
- This could be a reference to Christian lore, as Legion originates from a biblical account known as the "exorcism of the Gerasene demoniac", where Jesus healed a man possessed by demons.
- Miranda could have had her own hidden agenda to fuel Isaac's revenge by encouraging him to build up his army of night creatures when telling him "kill them all, forgemaster", so her claim that villagers couldn't be saved could be misleading and villagers could have been saved still.