Topic: What is Death?

[darkwzrd4]

or maybe he is an angel of death who became corrupted and now is pure evil.

[The Last Belmont]

or maybe he is an angel of death who became corrupted and now is pure evil.

I don't really buy that though, an angel has no concept of good and evil. Those are manmade concepts. If you look at the natural order of nature for one we would classify it insanely evil if we went by the textbook definition of the word because it comes down to who is the most selfish. I think if we look at the extreme narrow concepts of pure "good" and "evil" he would have a mixture of both just from what we've seen in the games by telling alucard he doesn't want to kill him and even showing some sort of respect or fondness for him in SOTN, telling him to escape because he didn't want to kill his allies son and stripping him of his weapons in an attempt to convince alucard that his only choice was to escape and stop the coup against his father and ally. He also shows more "good" by helping juste figure out the castle in HOD and giving him the option to escape and keep his own life. And death being a supreme being with supernatural powers could possibly look at the war against humans as say we'd look at exterminating a house full of ants.

[Mobius]

As always, LB, you offer both the most straight-forward explanation and most reasonable link to the mythology of Castlevania.

I always felt that Death was a very subtly structured being in the series once it came to defining his character. The massacre of innocent lives, the dominion of vampires upon the earth; all seemed little more to him than the elements of a much larger picture only he/it can perceive on a level of consciousness that no earthly being (vampires included) could ever really appreciate.

On the other hand, if we are to consider that the dark lord is the being directly opposite to God than it wouldn't be a stretch to imagine the harbinger of the end to all existence as holding such a powerful source of destruction in, to some degree, a measure of respect or even esteem. Perhaps in some way Death recognizes that the active force of darkness that offsets the light in our world is necessary and thus works to help aid in its progression purely out of instinct. And maybe... Just maybe mind you, Death as a divine but dark being knows that the dark lord is fated to lose. Best to maintain the balance as much as possible in the one-hundred year stretch darkness is allotted while it's possible.

[The Last Belmont]

Just maybe mind you, Death as a divine but dark being knows that the dark lord is fated to lose. Best to maintain the balance as much as possible in the one-hundred year stretch darkness is allotted while it's possible.

sup mobius hadn't seen you around in awhile. This is a very good explanation. It would then make sense why he takes a temporary vulnerable form to fight the belmonts.