History Characters / CastlevaniaLordsOfShadowAllies

* UndyingLoyalty: Astonishingly, to Dracula, despite [[KickTheDog the vampire imprisoning him and booting him in the face.]] [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation Well]], considering his role [[KickTheSonOfABitch in the first game...]]

* ImAHumanitarian: Comments that she has eaten many knights in the past.

* OffstageVillainy: She's responsible for turning Malphas – previously a virtuous sorceress – into a murderous crow-like fiend. You'd have to read into the lore to realize that, though.

* ThirdPersonPerson: Refers to herself as "Baba."
** Weirdly, it sounds like she uses it as her name, despite it just being a word for an old woman, (her actual name is just "Yaga")

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Although in her case it may be BarefootPoverty.

* WhiteHairBlackHeart: Subverted. He's white-haired, and one of the more morally-upright heroes.
* WhipItGood: Uses a corrupt version of the Combat Cross, called the Dark Pain, in ''Mirror of Fate''. Later, he abandons the whip in favor of [[CoolSword the Crissaegrim.]]

[[folder:Zobek]]

* AncestralWeapon: Apparently, he inherited his old-fashioned equipment from one of his ancestors. [[spoiler:Which turns out to be a lie, as he is that ancestor.]]

* BigBadFriend: [[spoiler: He's the final Lord of Shadow, masquerading as a Brotherhood knight and Gabriel's mentor-like figure.]]

* BulletproofFashionPlate: His attire in ''2'' cannot be ruined no matter what. Even when the [[spoiler:Daughter of Satan]] demolishes a whole floor of his emporium, with Zobek standing in ''arm's reach'' of [[spoiler:her]], his suit doesn't even fray.

* CoolOldGuy: He narrates the entire adventure in the first, and has a [[spoiler:badass fight with his former friend in the second]].

** And this acidic comment aimed at the disguised [[spoiler:Daughter of Satan]].

* DieLaughing: [[spoiler:After the fight with him in ''Lords of Shadow 2'', he gets impaled on Dracula's sword and starts laughing as he freezes solid, then shatters into a hundred pieces.]]
* DivideAndConquer: His plan in ''2'' is to pit both of his worst enemies, Dracula and Satan, against each other and make erasing them both from existence significantly easier. [[spoiler:Too bad he was OutGambitted from the very beginning.]]

* EvilMentor: [[spoiler:Is this to Gabriel in ''1''. He intentionally corrupted the knight to make the mind-controlling effect of the Devil Mask more accurate, as well as make Gabriel retrieve the Black Knight's gauntlet in order to [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness dispose of the necromancer's now useless pawn]] in the finale.]]
* EvilOldFolks: [[spoiler:What he really is.]]
* {{Expy}}: [[spoiler:Of Shaft from the main series, according to [[WordOfGod Dave Cox]].]] However, fans have compared him to Juan Ramírez, from Franchise/{{Highlander}}.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Before the boss fight with Carmilla in ''1'', he muses that he can smell Carmilla's stench and that she can't smell the dead. [[spoiler:This is one of the hints towards his true nature. While it sounds like he's waxing poetic, he's actually saying that Carmilla can't sense him nearby.]]

* HateSink: [[spoiler: In contrast to his [[TheGrimReaper mainstream counterpart]] who remains a devoted servant to Dracula, [[EvilOldFolks Zobek]] is a sickeningly evil necromancer who manipulates Gabriel into a variety of evil deeds, gloating over his despair and pain. Centuries hence, Zobek showcases he remains as much a monster as ever by feeding an innocent family to Dracula and attempting to string him along for his own purposes.]]

* LargeHam: Should the player [[spoiler:fail to stab him at the finale of his boss fight]], Zobek delivers this short, but marvellous gem, [[spoiler:[[GameOver all while watching Dracula slowly burn into a crisp]]]].

* LiterallyShatteredLives: [[spoiler:How he is killed by Dracula, [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice on the Void Sword]], which is then yanked across his body, shattering his frozen remains.]]

* TheNicknamer: Calls Gabriel "The Prince of Darkness" at a few points in his narrations late-game, in admiration of his unparalleled grace and ferocity in battle. [[spoiler:Later, Gabriel [[AppropriatedAppelation appropriates]] it for use in his ThatManIsDead BadassBoast.]]

* Really700YearsOld: A memorial in ''2'' states that the wealthy people of Castlevania City were amazed at how Zobek was 112 years old despite looking much younger. And that's because they probably don't know that [[spoiler: As the Lord of the Dead, he's actually centuries and centuries old.]]

* UnwittingPawn: Is this in both games. [[spoiler:In the first game, he was possessed by {{Satan}}, who manipulated the necromancer to further his own goals to recover the God Mask. In the second, he was masterfully played by [[TheMole Alucard]], who had foreseen the sorcerer's actions to use the [[SwordOfPlotAdvancement Vampire Killer]] as his leverage in order to gain the support of his old nemesis. And because Dracula's [[MemoryGambit memory was temporarily blanked out]], Zobek could not pry into his thoughts and understand Alucard's plan before it was too late.]]

** In ''Lords of Shadow 1'', he had assumed the guise of a seasoned and kindhearted warrior, and is in good standing with the Brotherhood of Light. [[spoiler:It doesn't stop him, however, from eliminating his fellow Founders, and trying to claim their power as his own.]]
** In the sequel, he poses as a well-off and influential businessman, and had financed the creation of quite a lot of the modern city's structures and buildings. [[spoiler:But, in reality, he's a vain and petty sorcerer with a blinding desire to rule over the world of mortal men.]]

-->'''Voiced by''': Aleksander Mikic ''[=[ENG]=]'', Creator/AkioOhtsuka ''[=[JP]=]''

* BloodFromTheMouth: Disturbingly taken UpToEleven when the blood curse is lifted.

-->'''Voiced by''': Emma Ferguson ''[=[ENG]=]'', Yū Kobayashi ''[=[JP]=]''