Leon Belmont
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Character's History

Leon Belmont was a church knight in the eleventh century during the Gregorian Reforms and the concurrent Christian Crusades. He was a courageous young man who lived without fear, and his combat abilities were unmatched. He joined together with Mathias Cronqvist, a genius tactician and his trusted friend, to form an unbeatable company that would fight in the name of God. When informed, mysteriously, by a bedridden Mathias, whose wife had recently died, that Leon's betrothed, Sara Trantoul, had been kidnapped by the vampire Walter Bernhard and taken to a castle within the Forest of Eternal Darkness, Leon renounced his title as baron of the knights, thereby throwing away his fame and security in order to avoid disobeying the church's orders to not against fight monsters. In his journey, he met Rinaldo Gandolfi and received a Whip of Alchemy. After Walter vampirized Sara, Leon used this new weapon, at her hopeless request, to transform it into the Vampire Killer.

Leon eventually destroyed the now-vulernable Walter only to find that Mathias was behind the whole ordeal, having used all parties involved in a genius plot; that is, Walter would die through Leon's vengeful actions, his vampire soul would be extracted, and Death would channel it into the dying Mathias using the Crimson Stone, thus granting him new life and crowning him Lord of the Vampires. Leon resisted the disappointed Mathias' plea to join together in this unholy afterlife, where they would curse God and bear their vengeance, and would thereafter never again see his friend. However, in removing Death as a threat, he told the dark angel to deliver to his new master a message: "From this point forward," he said, "the Belmont Clan would hunt the night!"

As the earliest noted Belmont, Leon gave us a dose of just how powerful this family would become. Leon, in part, created the Vampire Killer whip using the Whip of Alchemy received from Rinaldo--it was truly a divine killing machine born of Leon's hatred combined with the generous soul and will of Sara. It was also during his quest where he located five weapon types that had been dropped by previous hunters who had failed in Walter's game; he mastered in their use by collecting seven orbs that allowed him to temper them with mystic power, thus creating four of the basic family weapons and the exclusive crystal. It was these weapons that were passed on into the family for centuries, eventually to be used in the family's never-ending war against Mathias, who renamed himself Vlad Tepes Dracula.

 

Appearances

Leon in Lament of Innocence is cast as the first Belmont to encounter the evil of the night, the third 3D Castlevania offering and its first appearance on the PS2. Leon begins with the Whip of Alchemy, which will eventually become the more powerful Vampire Killer after a story sequence initiated by the defeat of the first five guardians; he can also find three elemental whips--ice, fire and lightning--to exploit enemy weaknesses in different ways. With any whip, he can pull off strings of deadly combo attacks. Leon has other special abilities: He can double jump, absorb enemy attacks as magic power, and learn all types of new skills, like jump kicks and guard dodges. He'll, of course, find the sub-weapons that will be passed on into the family.

          

Sub-Weapons
Striking Weapons
Knife: A quick but weak throwing-dagger that can be rapidly thrown at enemies one after another   Whip of Alchemy: An unholy whip created by Rinaldo for Leon's personal use
Holy Water: When Leon tosses a holy vial toward the ground, large flames erupt from its impact point Whip of Fire: A flame power is added to the whip upon defeat of the Fire Elemental
Axe: Ordinarily slow but powerul, this axe-type is instead tossed directly at enemies, two at a time Whip of Ice: The power of ice is added to the whip upon defeat of the Ice Elemental
Cross: Leon for a fixed period becomes encircled by large crosses, which act as a shield against attacks Whip of Lightning: Electrical power is added to the whip upon defeat of the Lightning Elemental
Crystal: Once tossed onto the ground, crystals explode in a fiery blaze when enemies come near Vampire Killer: Sara's soul plus the power of hate transforms the whip into a vampire-slaying machine

 
 
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