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Council of Sisters

In General

Left to right: Morana, Lenore, Carmilla, and Striga

"Vampires and sisters."

Carmilla and her three closest allies Lenore, Striga, and Morana, who conspired with her behind the scenes to launch a coup against Dracula. Although Carmilla is the official ruler of Styria, the actual power is shared amongst the four.

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• "Darkness von Gothick" Name: All four are named rather darkly, fitting for a council of vampire rulers.
  • Carrying over from the games, Carmilla is the Lesbian Vampire; the book originated many hallmarks of vampire fiction.
  • Morana is named for a Slavic goddess of wintry death and harvest.
  • Lenore is named for Edgar Allan Poe's Lenore, giving her a very gothic and elegant air.
  • Striga is a Latin phrase for witch or evil spirit.
• Demoted to Extra: Despite being set up as the Dragon Ascendant in Season 3, Carmilla's plan of conquest falls apart almost immediately, and they end up being neutralized by Isaac with Hector's help partway through Season 4, playing no part in the actual plot to resurrect Dracula. All of the sisters bar Lenore also only show up briefly, with Episode 6 serving to wrap up their plotline before the climax of the season even starts.
• Dragon Ascendant: The council's goal in the third season is to carry on Dracula's original plan of walling and herding off a large enough number of humans to serve as their eternal food supply, before his Villainous Breakdown led to his "kill all humans" vendetta.
• Even Evil Has Standards: All of the other three sisters become horrified at what Carmilla is planning, albeit for different reasons. In addition to realizing that Carmilla lied about the scope of her plans for conquest. Lenore becomes horrified by the scope of the violence that Carmilla wants, realizing that it will result in nothing but suffering and destruction for humans and vampires alike. Morana has an existential crisis over the fact that victory would mean a Forever War, where the quartet would be seperated from each other by being forced into horrible, endless battle for all time. Striga realizes that Morana is right, and although she is used to war, she witnesses common farmers rise up to die fighting her army in vain (fearing not having done anything to save their world and families more than dying to vampires), understanding it would never stop, and she and Morana would be forever separated trying to hold the empire together. This is even without realizing that Carmilla has decided that she wants to rule the entire world, not just all the lands around.
• Family of Choice: They consider each other sisters, and two of them are in a relationship.
• Fantastic Racism: Like Carmilla, the rest of the council only views humans as little more than livestock. Lenore is the one outlier, as she is willing to negotiate with humans who prove to be valuable to their ambitions.
• Females Are More Innocent: Discussed, invoked, and downplayed. While the Styrian Council all attempt to make themselves into smarter, wiser, more forward-thinking vampire lords than the self-centered and destructive men they shun, they also fall into some of the same trappings due to their own desires for conquest. However, each of them demonstrate a marked improvement to other vampires.
  • Like Dracula, Carmilla holds ambitions for worldwide conquest, but stops short of Dracula's desire for total genocide by opting to keep humans as a food supply instead.
  • Like Varney, Morana is a keen strategist and planner, but has the practicality and wisdom to make Carmilla's plans work, and also recognize when they're doomed to fail. She also has moral objections to the sheer amount of death Carmilla's plans would've created, something nearly no other vampire in the series has made.
  • Lenore alone stands out among all other vampires by being a negotiator first of foremost, and her empathy and kindness prove to be genuine (to a lesser degree).
  • Like Ratko and Dragan, Striga is a skilled and steadfast soldier, but has a sense of honor and restraint that the vast majority of vampires lack. And like Morana, she also objects to the sheer amount of deaths that Carmilla's constant pursuit of power would cause.
• Four-Temperament Ensemble: Each of the four sisters neatly fall into shades of this:
  • Carmilla, the ruler, is the Sanguine. She comes up with the ideas that the others rallies behind.
  • Striga, the fighter, is Choleric. She serves as the Voice of Reason and tries to rein in Carmilla's more ambitious ideas.
  • Lenore, the diplomat, is Phlegmatic. She is the most willing to negotiate with enemies, but also the most manipulative of the four.
  • Morana, the planner, is Melancholic. She is the most willing to think of the long term consequences of their actions, and strategizes how to enact Carmilla's schemes.
• Heel Realization: Morana and Striga go through a minor one. While they don't fully repent their ways, they are genuinely unnerved by humanity's willingness to sacrifice themselves, even in hopeless battles to defend their lands. Morana also expresses some displeasure at how many lives the invasion will cost. This causes them to doubt Carmilla's plan can actually work. When Carmilla is killed, they realize that vampires' endless scheming is doomed to ruin their lives, when all they want to do is spend time together, opting to leave Styria to burn rather than end up getting themselves and their remaining forces killed trying to avenge her.
• Hyper-Competent Sidekick: Carmilla is the one who comes up with all the great schemes, but she almost always needs her three sisters to make them a reality.
  Striga: I think that whatever we achieve, we achieve it together. You and me. Carmilla throws a crazy plan at us, and it's us who make it work.
  Morana: Or put another way... we make it work despite Carmilla.
• "It" Is Dehumanizing: Carmilla's sisters shares her knack for referring to Hector as "It." The only exception is Lenore, who is seemingly the most empathetic of the four. Though just the same, she peppers all her compliments to him by saying "Good Boy" and by the season's end views him as a pet and servant, though her feelings turn out to be genuine. Admittedly, Hector also has a thing about seeing all power relationships in terms of pets that several characters commented on, so she might have just been playing into it.
• A Lighter Shade of Black:
  • They wish to dominate mankind, much like Dracula. Unlike Dracula, they have no intention of wiping them out and want to keep them as food.
  • The Council as a whole is this in regards to Dracula's. Carmilla's Council is drawn together on the basis of mutual respect and camaraderie. While Carmilla is the one who takes the lead with their goals, the other members balance out her ambitions. By comparison, Dracula's Council was a thinly held together alliance dictated by their fear of Dracula. Dracula ruled with an iron fist, and forced others into going along with his whims. And more than anything else, the majority despise one another.
• Pragmatic Villainy: Rather than wiping out humanity like Dracula, their goal is to control a section of their country, keeping humans like cattle to serve as food. Their logic behind this is that this will give them a steady supply of food, if they can breed and control the humans selectively. Morana even discusses things like guards, supply lines, etc. when discussing how to go about this.
• True Companions: Occasional bickering aside, the four sisters are loyal to one another and work as a unit to see their goals achieved. Subverted in Season 4, where the other sisters come to realize Carmilla's greed is going to doom them all, and Striga and Morana opt to leave Styria to fall rather than potentially die avenging her. This can be attributed to Carmilla's actions having completely destabilized their working dynamic, which once enhanced each other strengths while negating each others flaws.
• Underestimating Badassery: All of them think of Hector as no threat after seeing how easy he is to toy with and manipulate. Unfortunately for them, they're forgetting that he's a powerful Forgemaster, and that he was on Dracula's Council for a damn good reason, as Hector, after growing a spine, proves to be The Chessmaster who undermines their entire operation and plays a massive role in not only almost getting Dracula resurrected, only stopping of his own volition, but also singlehandedly supplying the path to let Isaac kill Carmilla, toppling their empire. Upon seeing what he and Isaac have wrought, Striga and Morana decide it's not worth it to come for him.
• Women Are Wiser: Zig-Zagging Trope. The Styrian Council are made up of groups of women who've all been victimized or marginalized in some way by men — both human and vampire. This gave each a perspective that something was wrong with the world at large, and each chose to make their own haven to get away from it all. This has also put them under constant attack and contempt from men (again, both human and vampire) who want to see them fail or get destroyed simply because they're women. Due to their wisdom and relationship dynamic where each's strengths are enhanced together and their personality flaws erased, they manage to build one of the most prosperous and stable vampire kingdoms around for ages. It gets deconstructed hard when Carmilla starts going off the deep end, destabilizing what they have to chase after control and power over everything, the entire world, as fast as possible. The rest of the sisters realize that her ambitions are going to cause the destruction of their paradise, with two of them escaping to live their lives somewhere else and the last killing herself rather than live caged ever again.

Carmilla

Voiced by: Jaime Murray (English), Mie Sonozaki (Japanese), Erica Edwards (Latin American Spanish)

"I'm nothing but ambition. I'm a queen."

One of Dracula's vampiric generals. She hails from Austria and is the last arriving member of his War Council.

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• Adaptational Curves: Inverted. Carmilla is gaunter and less busty in the animated series than in the video game, though still slender.
• Adaptational Jerkass: Carmilla has always been portrayed as a villain in the original games, but if there is one common trait in previous continuities, it was her slavish devotion to Dracula, sometimes serving as an Yandere for him like in Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2. In the animation, however, she has nothing but disdain and contempt for him and is actively plotting to undermine and usurp him.
• Adaptational Modesty: Carmilla wears less revealing clothing than her game counterpart (who was naked in most of her boss fights).
• Adaptation Dye-Job: Sort of. Carmilla is most often portrayed as a brunette in the games (both the original and Lords of Shadow continuity), although only on in Gaiden Games, and alternate continuity games — in her canon to the main continuity appearance in Rondo of Blood◊, she is portrayed with silver-hair, as she is portrayed in the animation.
• Ambition Is Evil: At the start of the series, Carmilla and her sisterhood are living what is by all appearences an extremely comfortable and secure life as ageless vampire aristocrats in a lavish mountaintop fortress, enough so as to make them extremely well-off and powerful by modern standards, let alone medieval ones. Carmilla's driving motivation is her discontent with even this and her desire to own and expand more and more, which is what drives both her villainy and eventual downfall. While she doesn't turn against her original master or Dracula until she was convinced that they were insane and without regard for their vampire underlings, which was a completely correct observation, by Season 3 she has become motivated chiefly by imperial ambitions and her desire to place as much of Europe and its people as possible under her rule and control. Come Season 4, she's making plans of expanding Styria's borders to encompass other vampire territories where the rulers had fallen, and, in a conversation with Lenore, Carmilla states that she wouldn't be satisfied with less than the world in the palm of her hand.
  Carmilla: I'm nothing but ambition.
• Ax-Crazy: Subtle but present. She defaults to violently assaulting Godbrand to focus his attention and... well, see the Mask of Sanity entry.
• Badass Boast: Towards Isaac as she's about to die. She tells him she'll be waiting for him down in hell to see if he can actually be killed twice.
• The Baroness: Fits this trope like a glove due to her cruel and domineering personality, beautiful looks and being condescending to men in general. If chaining Hector like a dog and calling him her pet isn't enough to qualify, then nothing else will.
• Bed Full of Women: Inverted and implied. When she wakes up in the middle of the day to Striga and Morana’s talk of her plans, she offhandedly remarks she could hear them from her bed and over three men’s snoring, indicating they were with her.
• The Berserker: During her final battle with Isaac and his night creatures, Carmilla has been reduced to this fighting style, with no strategy or display of abilities besides speed and power. She's still capable enough to kill so many that they leave a pool of blood that fills and flows out of the room.
• Better to Die than Be Killed: After Isaac and his troops storm Carmilla's castle and Isaac directly confronts and defeats her, she opts to stab herself with her scimitar in a suicide attack.
• Big Bad: She and her sisters form a Five-Man Band with Hector in season three. Carmilla is their driving force and the one who comes up with their "schemes", ultimately becoming the main villain for Hector and Isaac's storyline.
• Big Bad Ensemble: With Dracula in Season 2, since she secretly plans to oust him because she finds him weak and indecisive. With him out of the way by the end of the season, she is this with Isaac for Season 3.
• Big Bad Wannabe: Although she comes off as more resourceful and cunning than the Bishop from Season 1 and genuinely wants to take Dracula's position as Big Bad, her plans are ruined by the heroes' unexpected intervention as Sypha's spell leaves Dracula's castle out of her reach and even worse, her army was completely destroyed, leaving her unable to take control herself. With that said, Dracula's destruction plays to her advantage and she aims to fix her army shortage with Hector as her slave. During Season 3, she is trying to figure out of way to get Hector to create an army for her... only for her companion Lenore to solve the problem completely by herself to Carmila's befuddlement. Season 4 all but spells out that Carmilla is pretty much useless as a schemer when she doesn't have her sisters with her. Without Morana and Striga, Carmilla is defeated by Isaac (with Hector's sabatoge and assistance) when he invades Styria. She never even meets Trevor's group, let alone fights them.
• Broken Pedestal: Prior to the start of the story, Carmilla specifically sought Dracula out, expecting him to be a strong and charismatic leader. To her displeasure, she found that he was just as much of a slave to his vices as her previous abusive master.
  • Becomes one to her sisters in Season 4, with Striga and Morana's realizing they would be in a neverending war due to humans never ceasing to resist them and Lenore's finding Carmilla's new ambitions of world conquest to be insane.
• Cleavage Window: One of her red dresses has this, giving us a pretty good view of her white chest and the sides of her breasts.
• Combat Pragmatist: While Carmilla is often arrogant and smug, she rarely engages in direct combat or gets physical unless she knows she has a huge advantage. She manipulates and schemes, but is cautious and never tries to confront people out in the open. This is further emphasized when she finds out a Belmont still exists and she immediately loses her cool and borderline demands that they find the Belmont and any weapons or relics the Belmonts have collected so they cannot be used against the vampire army. Compared to some of the other vampires, it demonstrates that her arrogance (usually) doesn't blind her to the very real threat of death.
• Control Freak: This turns out to be her ultimate reason for trying to take over the world. As someone who was deprived of agency and choice for the vast majority of her life, with the existing structures of power (both human and vampire) working against her AND her sisters simply due to her gender, her ambition has become to take over the entire world to finally attain that same dominance for herself.
• Cornered Rattlesnake: Surrounded by Isaac's night creatures and trapped in her conference room courtesy of Hector, Carmilla stands her ground, lashing out at anyone that moves to attack her.
• Death by a Thousand Cuts: She's gradually whittled down by Isaac's army bit by bit until even a human like him can face her on relatively even footing.
• Defiant to the End: At no point does Carmilla ever bow, keeping her ambition and willful nature to the end rather than surrender or cower. Ultimately, even when she faces off against Isaac, she gets the last word — namely, a last sentence as she destroys herself in a last attempt at killing Isaac too.
• Dehumanizing Insult: About halfway through the second season, she starts referring to Hector as "puppy."
• Demoted to Extra: Despite being one of the major antagonists of the series she ends up this in Season 4, only showing up briefly to showcase how much greedy her plans have become before Isaac attacks and defeats her with four episodes left to go.
• Did Not Think This Through: It's pointed out in Season 3 that her plan to force Hector create an an army for her was a terrible idea. Carmilla's treatment of him meant he had no reason to obey her, and since his creatures are loyal to him, creating the army would just give him the means to get his revenge. It's made clear she didn't actually think about where Hector was actually supposed to get the bodies to create an army either, not without depleting the vampires' food supply.
  • Morana and Striga realize firsthand that Carmilla hadn't considered that humans will never stop opposing them even after if subjugated, and they would be condemned to fight an unending war if her plans came to fruition.
• Disc Two Final Boss: Despite being a major antagonist for the series, Carmilla gets killed off in the sixth episode of Season 4, leaving Varney/Death as the sole Big Bad for the remainder of the series.
• Does Not Like Men: Carmilla has a very low opinion of men in general, regarding every single male character she interacts with as children, beasts, or old fools. She despises the other women in Dracula's Inner Court, Chō and Raman, because they're "too indecisive" (i.e. don't despise men as she does and won't betray Dracula).
• Does This Remind You of Anything?: An older woman in high heels who enjoys stomping on the men who piss her off and takes a significantly younger (albeit adult) man as a pet. You do the math.
• Dragon Ascendant: Appears to be set up as the next Big Bad after Dracula's death. Ultimately subverted as it is Death who takes the helm of continuing Dracula's legacy to Kill All Humans and her storyline is treated more as a side.
• Establishing Character Moment: Marches into Dracula's arguing court long after being summoned by the prince of darkness, which silences them and puts all eyes on her. She then asks Dracula point-blank why he never bothered to turn his late wife Lisa into a vampire like the rest of them. Then, after earning Dracula's ire and being summoned to speak with him privately, she manages to convince him that she was just asking what everyone else was already thinking and she is truly on his side, which spares her his wrath. A powerful presence, self-important, Manipulative Bastard all in one.
• Even Evil Can Be Loved: All of Carmilla's sisters are saddened at her death, even while acknowledging she had it coming.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: The sole humanizing trait of her personality preventing her from being completely monstrous, she truly cares for her sisters, Lenore, Striga and Morana.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Carmilla cannot believe that Dracula actually loved Lisa when he refused to turn her into a vampiress, seeing him as a mad old man throwing a tantrum over the death of his pet. She repeatedly refuses to acknowledge or accept that Dracula had genuine feelings for Lisa, even though it is clear that Lisa's humanity is exactly the reason why Dracula fell in love with her in the first place.
• Evil Counterpart:
  • Even though the two never interact, she is this to Sypha personality-wise. They share similar interactions with their male colleagues, especially when they refer to them as grown-up children. The difference is that Sypha is an example of Women Are Wiser who ultimately respects her friends and works together with them, while Carmilla is The Baroness who has nothing but contempt for the men around her and only uses them as pawns to fulfill her own ends. It's also fitting that they dress in opposite colors.
  • Even more subtle, but Carmilla is actually this to Lisa, as well. Both are blue-eyed, red garbed, ambitious, determined, strong willed and persuasive women. Both Lisa and Carmilla also willingly traveled to a vampire’s castle to seek betterment and knowledge, but while Lisa impressed Dracula making him fall in love and marry her, Carmilla however... got turned into a vampire and trapped in a horrific situation as her sire's sex slave. Unlike Lisa, Carmilla is embittered, conniving and cruel, along with a lust for power due being enslaved for so long. It's telling that Carmilla writes off Dracula loving Lisa off as him "keeping a pet" and Carmilla can't understand why Dracula didn't just turn her into vampire (like her) if he wanted to keep Lisa safe.
• Evil Is Petty: The No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Carmilla delivers to Hector at the end of the second season was ultimately and completely unnecessary since she had already taken him prisoner with her troops. She gets called out for doing so by Morana.
• Fantastic Racism: While not as vocal about it as Godbrand, who constantly refers to humans as livestock, this attitude is still present in her character. She believes that the only positive role humans can play towards vampires are pets.
• Female Misogynist: Although claiming to hate men and only want the best for her "sisters", she patronisingly mocks the gentle feminine traits of Lenore, apparently has a harem of men that she sleeps with and views Dracula’s loving marriage with his human wife Lisa as him “keeping a pet”, saying to Hector if Dracula really loved her, he would’ve turned her into a vampire. She eventually shows that she has no patience for anyone who isn't a female vampire who is actively aiding her Forever War against humans and/or men. Ultimately even her own vampire sisters become horrified by Carmilla’s schemes and antics, and, when Styria falls, choose their respective lovers over saving her.
• Femme Fatale: Practically a given from the moment she first appears, and is even willing to test Dracula's anger proudly in the open in the process of starting her subtle manipulations.
• Final Speech: "Look at you all. You're not big enough to kill me! You're nothing. You don't deserve my blood. And when you die and go to Hell, I'll be there waiting for you. With a sharp, bloody stick, and the determination to see if you can die twice. I am Carmilla of Styria, and fuck you! I win."
• The Friend Nobody Likes: Among the Styrian council, feelings about her are... mixed. Her sisters are loyal to her and appreciate what she built, but they criticize her actions and decisions behind her back, and sometimes to her face — especially in regards to how she has grand plans that she doesn't think through and leave her sisters to fix.
• Freudian Excuse: Carmilla's hatred of men stems from being kept as a sex slave by an older male vampire. Even when she finally killed him and established Styria with her sisters, the wider vampire community cut them off and left them to fend for themselves against various armies simply because they were a kingdom ruled by women. She would have been content with Styria, but the abuse and dismissal she's suffered drove her to become a Myopic Conqueror obsessed with dethroning everyone who wronged her, which in her eyes is every male vampire in existence.
• Foil: To Dracula himself; they are different genders, opposite hair colors, they have opposing elemental themes (Dracula being associated with hellfire while Carmilla has both a frosty personality and lives on a snow capped mountain), Carmilla is generally in control of her emotions despite a few cases of snapping whereas Dracula is painfully in thrall to his sorrow and anger at mankind. At the end of Season 2, Dracula is slain as a part of his Villainous BSoD due to said emotional instability and having a My God, What Have I Done? moment, his plans stopped by his own hand and the main heroes, whereas Carmilla lasts until Season 4 but her downfall is the result of her own schemes leaving her vulnerable and Isaac seeking revenge, she fights to the end but is The Unfought for the heroes. They both end up killing themselves, but for different reasons; Dracula to atone for almost killing his son in his madness, Carmilla to deny Isaac the honor of killing her and to try and take him with her.
• Green-Eyed Monster: After living her entire life being mistreated by men or left to die by them, Carmilla has an obsession with claiming everything "Stupid, evil, old men" own as her own and killing them just for the sake of having what they have.
• Hoist by Her Own Petard: Her plan of using the resurrected Bishop to bless the river water around a stronghold that Dracula's forces attempt to seize, and drops them into it, killing them. When the heroes attempt to forcibly teleport Dracula's Castle, the water is sent cascading onto her own soldiers, killing most of them as well.
• Horrifying the Horror: A heroic example with the Belmont clan towards her. Carmilla is smug and arrogant throughout her entire time at castle Dracula and doesn't even mind getting under Dracula's skin. The instant she hears that a Belmont still exists, she immediately loses the smug attitude, becomes tense, and suggests that they send people out to find any weapons or knowledge the Belmonts had used to hunt down vampires. Given that she becomes The Starscream and has her own agenda to take over, this fear is justified. Given that the clan has been doing this for centuries and that it's almost certain that the night creatures have tried and been unsuccessful in their destruction, this fear is justified.
• Hypocrite: For all her arguments about most men being childish and throwing temper tantrums, she is blind to her own womanchild tendencies, like lashing out at others for not getting what she wants. Notably, every flaw that she's accused men of having (short-sightedness, over-reaching plans, greed, uncontrollable lust for power, poor management, self-destructive tendencies, flawed tactics, inflated egos, etc.) are all flaws that she herself displays at one point or another.
• Icy Blue Eyes: Cold, blue eyes that match her cruel heart.
• Ignored Epiphany: When asked by Lenore if she would be happy once she has the world, after ranting about why she's doing what she's doing, she somberly restates the question, before answering...
  Carmilla: "Will I be happy when I've done that? ...I don't know. I don't know if I even care. But I will have everything they've had, and they will all. Be. Dead. I will have the world I want, Lenore. And that will be enough."
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Self-inflicted, as she'd rather kill herself than be killed by Isaac and his Night Creatures.
• Irony:
  • Despite all her bragging about the sisterhood of her council compared to the rest of vampire society; said council realizes that her plans of world domination and suppression of humanity is impossible to maintain, with their attempts to do so rendering one redundant (and alienated from her) and the others unavailable for assistance when Carmilla is in dire need of them, resulting in her death.
  • Her plan to defeat Dracula and claim his territory was to subvert some of his generals due to his mistreatment of them, use unconventional tactics and Hector's forgemaster powers to reduce his army, and then swarm him with numbers to whittle him down until the power difference didn't matter. Come Season 4 and the attack on her lands, Lenore rushes to protect Hector instead of her due to her actions, Hector has laid a magic trap that reduces her army while isolating her, and Isaac whittles her down with his knife and his entire army of monsters, negating the power difference between them.
• Jerkass: Out of all Dracula's generals, Carmilla is the cruelest of them all, being a sexist, condescending, and surprisingly violent woman who manipulates everyone around her for her own gains.
• Kick the Dog: Carmilla's brutal treatment of Hector in the second season definitely qualifies. Deconstructed however, because her side story in the third season revolves around her and the council now trying to decide how to handle Hector being their forgemaster since Carmilla's actions have turned him into too much of a Wild Card who resents her.
• Lady in Red: Wears a dark crimson dress and certainly qualifies as an evil example.
• Lady of War: She is an aristocratic Femme Fatale who would rather not fight, but she proves an absolutely formidable One-Woman Army when she needs to.
• Manipulative Bastard: Towards Hector. At first, she tries to reason that Dracula is far too depressed to actually win the war to get him on her side while continually praising his skill and intelligence. But the moment that she got what she wanted, she dropped the act and openly stated she saw him as a puppy and now he's forced to help as he's done too much already.
• Ms. Fanservice: Downplayed; Carmilla isn't as busty as her original incarnation and her looks aren't focused on very much, but she's still one of the most noticeably slender and beautiful women in the series. She does a bit of a Supermodel Strut in her debut, wears form-fitting dresses, including one with a Cleavage Window, and at least one shot in the episode "Shadow Battles" focuses on her shapely rear-end as she makes a rather sexy pose. This is played up in Season 4 where Carmilla has a more sexualized red dress that has a Navel-Deep Neckline and shows off her legs, although it's still tamer than a lot of Carmilla's outfits (or lack of outfits) from the games.
• Mask of Sanity: Carmilla puts on a good show of being calm and collected, but when she begins beating Hector into submission, this slips noticeably, revealing a wild, sadistic monster under that ice. By the fourth season, the mask is off entirely with even Lenore terrified of her, and Striga and Morana losing faith in her untenable schemes.
• Misanthrope Supreme: Carmilla does not hold a high opinion of her fellow vampires, let alone humans. Much of her disdain seems to come from the fact that the court is either too foolishly loyal or too cowardly to actually confront Dracula on his insane desire to destroy all humans, but later it's revealed that she suffered under a vampire master in the past, and now projects his flaws onto every male she speaks to, even ones she's never met in person.
• More Deadly Than the Male: She held this opinion and is also the last known of the vampire aristocracy standing after Season 2. Ultimately subverted as while she is a capable villain, she is nowhere near as dangerous as Dracula or Death and she is cornered and defeated by Hector and Isaac, who are both male.
• Myopic Conqueror: Lenore, Morana and Striga all discover alongside the audience that ultimately Carmilla is more enticed with the idea that she can rule all she can see and grasp than with the actual work behind it.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain:
  • Ultimately, all her machinations help the main trio more than they help her. In particular, her river of holy water all but wipes out the vampire mooks (including her own) letting the trio storm the castle relatively unopposed, not to mention her scheming keeps two of Dracula's generals out of the final fight, as her scheming led to Godbrand's death and Hector being sidelined. Also, after Dracula's death, her betrayal prompts Isaac to go after her instead of the heroes. The journey Isaac takes in the process results in his decision to abandon Dracula's cause of Kill All Humans and persuading Hector to do the same so the main trio never ends up having to deal with two powerful forgemasters.
  • Her unchecked ambition and impulsive tendencies ultimately engineer her downfall and the destruction of the very kingdom she boasted about ruling: enslaving Hector and constantly abusing him led to his subverting her from within. Her armies were all stretched thin with two of her sisters away because of her insane plan, meaning that when Isaac attacked, with Hector's removing her control of his Night Creatures, she was doomed without any of the main trio's ever having to glance her way.
• No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Does this to Hector after making him her slave.
• Not So Above It All: Despite holding herself in higher regard than all of Dracula's war council, she gets pretty easily sucked into a conversation about whether running water can kill a vampire or not.
• Oh, Crap!: While the Belmonts are The Dreaded among all the intelligent night creatures, Carmilla seems the most disturbed by the fact that a Belmont still exists. She immediately proposes that they go to the Belmont ancestral home and surveillance of it in the chance that the Belmont goes back there or that they can find any magic, relics, or knowledge that the Belmonts used to hunt monsters for centuries and secure them to protect Dracula (and herself) from danger. She is absolutely right in her assumptions and concern in both a Belmont returning there and that there is a massive cache of items, relics, knowledge, and weapons hidden there. Then there's her reaction when Sypha forcibly teleports Dracula's castle away.
  Carmilla: "What the fuck just happened...?
• One-Woman Army: Carmilla is a powerful vampiress who can hold her own in a fight. In Season 4, she takes on a massive amount of Night Creatures and slew dozens, however her strength has its limits and she becomes more drained from the ordeal of cutting down even more that attack her. While holding her own against Isaac, Carmilla realizes she can't win, so she takes her own life out of spite and in a final gambit to kill him.
• Out of Focus: Partly in Season 3 while she still appears and is still important, she fades somewhat to the background while her council gets focus in her story line.
• Plot-Irrelevant Villain: Despite being a recurring villain since Season 2, Carmilla's actions hardly have any impact to the main storyline, especially since she never directly comes into conflict with Trevor and his allies. She even gets killed before she had a chance to face them.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: Aside from her low views on humans, Carmilla is also very dismissive of men, constantly calling them "stupid old men" or "useless".
• Pragmatic Villainy: When the consecrated water crashes down on her army after the castle is teleported away, she makes an effort to keep Hector with her when she jumps out of danger, as she needs the Devil Forgemaster to rebuild her army.
• Profane Last Words: "I am Carmilla of Styria, and FUCK YOU!"
• Rape as Backstory: Implicit, given that she was kept as a Sex Slave and was very much not happy about that. This seems to have her made her very disdainful towards men.
• Resignations Not Accepted: After Dracula is killed, Hector attempts to break off ties with Carmilla and go his own way. Carmilla responds by beating him into submission because she was really serious about him being her pet dog now.
• Schemer: She's called as much, even by her own sisters. When Lenore talks with Hector, she talks about how when Carmilla is left to herself for a while especially when planning, she starts "scheming again".
• She Who Fights Monsters: All her life (and un-life), Carmilla has been surrounded by men who do nothing but mistreat her and her sisters, fuck things up, and face no consequences. She formed the Council of Styria specifically to create a place where they would be free of that, but even then, they are either ignored or under constant attack because they are women. Thus, Carmilla reveals that she will never be satisfied with any amount of security — instead, she demands to kill all these idiot men and take everything that they have. Gradually, her Mask of Sanity slips and reveals that she has internalized every single negative trait that she has suffered, feeling entitled to have "her turn" at being abusive and Drunk with Power, rather than finding peace.
• Shock and Awe: Carmilla can infuse herself with powerful surge of lightning, to boost her speed and empower her blows.
• Sinister Scimitar: Carmilla uses a wicked-looking curved sword when she has to defend herself against Isaac's night creatures, befitting her cruel, vicious personality.
• Small Name, Big Ego: Considers herself a brilliant schemer. Even though it's made clear most of her ideas only work because Striga, Morana, and Lenore make them work, to her credit, her attempted coup in Dracula's castle went off nearly without a hitch, only being foiled by unexpected interference from a third party.
• Smug Snake: Arrogant, manipulative, scheming, condescending, and self-assured... And completely incredulous and caught off-guard when things don't go her way. The one time she gets physical is when she strikes and punches Hector into submission after he has been restrained and collared.
  • Furthermore, she's not as clever as she thinks she is, as Isaac and Dracula had her figured out from the outset, and the only reason Dracula didn't stop her was because he could not care less in his depression.
  • As said above, her idea of creating a vampire fiefdom with humans as livestock is feasible due to the power vacuum left behind by Dracula, but that's all it is: an idea. It takes the combined efforts of Striga, Morana, and Lenore to work through the monumental logistics to make an actual plan to get there and find a way to make Hector loyal. Altogether, Carmilla is ambitious but incompetent when it comes to the real workings behind it with almost all of the work being done by someone other than her. Even then her plans would have been feasible if she were willing to take her time and be content with just a limited expansion along her borders, but she wants EVERYTHING even beyond the governless regions as fast as possible.
• The Starscream:
  • In her backstory, she was made a master vampire's bride until, in her words, he went mad as he became old and cruel, so she killed him.
  • In Season 2, she plots to do the same to Dracula because he reminds her of her maker.
• Surrounded by Idiots:
  • Carmilla doesn't think that highly of the war council that Dracula put together or Dracula himself. Thinking the men are either manchildren, old fools, or beasts while the women are too scared or too enraged to do anything.
  • In Season 3 it's revealed to be the other way around with Carmilla's being the impatient idiot that her sisters have to deal with.
• Super-Speed: Seems to be her forté. Once she finally starts fighting, she's a blur compared even to other vampires.
• Stupid Evil: While Carmilla's sisters praise her ideas and will try to make them work, they're all quick to call her out for serious oversights. For example, they realize that forcing Hector into being their forgemaster (especially when he was already cooperating with her) AND beating him to a pulp isn't going to make him work for them. And they consider humans to be nothing more than cattle just like she does.
• Taking You with Me: Attempts to do this with Isaac with the explosion generated from her death. It nearly works but one of his demons shields him from the blast.
• Take Over the World: States that this is her intent by Season 4. Deconstructed, as Striga and Morana find well before conquering the territory Carmilla initially set out to claim that they are forced into constant battles, and are going to have endure endless battles in the future along with constantly working to maintain the logistics of holding territory. And in the long term, Styria wouldn't benefit from it.
• Terms of Endangerment: After the wheels of coup against Dracula get set into motion, Carmilla drops any pretense of pleasantries she was showing towards Hector and starts referring to him as puppy. After Dracula's death, Carmilla proves that she really does view Hector as her pet now.
• Underestimating Badassery: Downplayed Trope compared to Lenore. While Carmilla is generally a complete Smug Snake, she catches on to the fact that Hector is stalling and planning something. That said, she doesn't do anything about it, figuring it will be harmless compared to her grand scheme; it's an error that has serious ramifications, because Hector is a key component in annihilating her dreams of an empire.
• The Un-Favourite: To Dracula. Carmilla was not invited to Dracula's War Council to genocide humanity. She only knew of the meeting because Godbrand revealed the secret information in an attempt to bed her.
• The Unfought: Nobody gets to confront her at the end of Season 2, neither the heroes (who didn't even know about her) nor Dracula (who found out about her betrayal, but didn't have time to do anything about it).
• Unknown Rival:
  • Carmilla is this to the protagonists; while she expresses appropriate dread at the presence of a Belmont and Alucard to ruin their plans and has an monster band sent to deal with them, the heroes themselves don't even know about her. During the climax, they accidentally sabotage her plans by teleporting Castlevania (Dracula's seat of power that she intends to usurp) out of her reach and during the ensuing chaos, her armies get swallowed by the rivers' blessed waters effectively crippling her forces.
• Unreliable Narrator: Carmilla is very insistent how she and her sisters are unique as women ruling over vampires. Yet of the seven vampires who comprise Dracula's inner court, almost half are women. Including Carmilla herself, there was Chō and Raman. Season 3 confirmed Chō was one of the dominant vampires in Japan.
• Vengeance Feels Empty: Her big plan is to take the whole world for herself and her sisters. She claims it's a way to take away from the men who had taken everything away from her. When Lenore feebly asks if conquering everything would truly make her happy, Carmilla has a quiet moment of insight. She admits that while she doesn't know if it would make her happy, just being able to do it and continuing to take would be enough for her.
• Villain Ball: At the end of Season 2, she takes the time to beat Hector within an inch of his life when he rightfully protests his forced servitude towards her, taking obscene pleasure as she does so. In Season 3, when she explains her plan to have him create a night-creature army for them, her fellow matriarchs are right to point out that all this does is make him less cooperative, leaving Lenore to fix it for her.
• Villain Has a Point:
  • For all her arrogance, she does make entirely legitimate points: if Dracula had turned Lisa or even provided her with some basic protection, then the church would have been unable to kill her; Dracula doesn't actually have a plan for his war council; no one can stand up to him because he can invoke Because I Said So; and he is an "old man" ravaged by grief who is engaged in pointless destruction.
  • Her betrayal and murder of the vampire who sired her is a straight example, as she alludes to him being abusive. The series also takes place before the industrial revolution, when physical abuse in many regards was not out of the ordinary. So, we had an authority figure who basically answered to no one, is specifically described as being cruel in an era when abuse was practically the norm, and on top of that he's an immortal vampire living in a secluded place where none of his subjects could seek outside help, on top of making her a sex slave. In short, he had it coming.
  • In Season 4, she repeatedly threatens Hector, whom she believes is stalling to undermine their efforts at building an army. However, she is opposed every time by Lenore, who is trying to protect him and believes that Hector is too powerless to be a real threat. She turns out to be completely correct; Hector was stalling and was putting his own plans into action the whole time.
• Villainous Friendship: She's so close to her three friends Lenore, Striga and Morana that she considers them her sisters as well as her equals.
• Villainous Valor: Carmilla, befitting her arrogant nature, carries bravery in spades when challenged at her own castle. She kills countless night creatures, fights Isaac despite being tired and wounded, and finally willingly destroys herself in one last attempt to try and take him out with her.
• Visionary Villain: What she brings to the table among the four vampiresses. The other, three for all their competency, lack the ambition and vision to start something new. Carmilla keeps initiating new ideas and plans for the group. That said, Carmilla is flighty and weak on the details so the others have to come up with ways to make her plans a reality.
• Was Once a Man: Camilla herself stated, she was turned centuries ago. Meaning that she, was a human before.

Lenore

Voiced by: Jessica Brown Findlay (English), Ayaka Kuroki (Japanese), Andrea Arruti (Latin American Spanish, Season 3 Episodes 1-3), María José Moreno (Latin American Spanish, rest of Season 3)

"I make peace. And because of that, people think I'm soft. People think I'm weak. You won't make that mistake again, will you?"

One of Carmilla's Sisters who acts as the diplomat of the group.

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• Affably Evil: As the self-proclaimed Diplomat of the council, Lenore is courteous in her interactions with Hector rather than trying to kill or torture him like the rest of the council. This doesn't stop her from giving him a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown or making him a slave at the end of the third season. Season 4 shows that she is genuine, but she is still quite the schemer.
• Alas, Poor Villain: Befitting a character who's not as vile as Carmilla yet not as sympathetic as Morana and Striga, Lenore ends up Driven to Suicide by the end of Season 4; out of not only severe guilt at what she'd put Hector through after genuinely coming to like him, but the loss of her sisters, power and freedoms under Isaac's rule. After saying her goodbyes to Hector, he somberly tells her to "be free" after she reassures him that it's what she wants. Then when Lenore steps into the light of a sunrise, Hector comes outside to join her so she won't be alone, which makes her truly happy in her final moments.
• Ambadassador: She claims this is her role in the group. She acts diplomatic, using logic and reason to show their goal is the same as what Hector desired under Dracula, but still a powerful vampiress who isn't meek and weak when Hector tries to attack her at the end of their first conversation. It ends poorly for the forgemaster.
• Ambiguous Situation: It's left ambiguous altogether if Lenore ever actually treated Hector as her Sex Slave, or if she changed her mind or was always bluffing about it in the first place. There is a Time Skip in between Seasons 3 and 4, but it's clearly not that long, and she and Hector have a genuine relationship when we revisit them, with no sexual abuse of him so much as implied and Hector even being comfortable trading innuendos with her in Snark-to-Snark Combat.
• And Then What?: She hits Carmilla with this question in Season 4, and Carmilla's response serves as an Oh, Crap! moment that the Styrian sisters are in way over their heads.
• Animal Lover: According to Carmilla, she once found a spider with one of its legs broken, and "tore the castle apart finding something small enough to make a splint out of".
• Animorphism: She can turn into a swarm of bats when threatened.
• Anti-Villain: She is the "Diplomat" of the Styrian quartet, preferring to use diplomacy to end conflict rather than force. However, that doesn't stop her from using outright lies and trickery, as well as magical enslavement. Season 4 reveals that she truly is on the more benevolent side of this trope — she becomes horrified by what Carmilla is planning and genuinely grows to have feelings for Hector.
• Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Unlike other vampires, who look decidedly less human and more bestial and dissolve rather horrifically when exposed to sunlight, the beautiful and feminine Lenore's Suicide by Sunlight causes her to simply dissolve into ash without pain.
• Becoming the Mask: At first, Lenore's treatment of Hector seems kind by the standards of the Styrian Council, only for it to to turn out to be a means to an end. In season 4, however, Lenore turns out to genuinely have affection for Hector, having developed it in seducing him, and treats him kindly.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: She ingratiates herself and befriends Hector only to reveal that it was all a scheme to turn him into her personal Sex Slave while also fulfilling the goals of her sisters. Then it's Subverted in Season 4, where she reveals that she really was A Lighter Shade of Black all along.
• Blue-and-Orange Morality: Lenore is an animal lover by vampiric standards. Unfortunately, she sees humans as another species of dumb animals, so she equates turning Hector into her slave with domestication. She genuinely does not understand how Hector could be unsatisfied with an existence where he's safe and comfortable, but not free, but eventually realizes at the end when she is put in her own gilded cage, refusing to tolerate it. She comes to acknowledge this, as she eventually talks to Hector about how vampires don't really understand human thinking after the immortality they have.
• Can't Kill You, Still Need You: Part of her dilemma in Season 4 is the fact that they needs Hector's skills as a forgemaster for their plan to work, and thus need his loyalty. Too bad for her that by the time she's figured this out, Lenore has already put a slave ring on Hector's hand, and forced him into it. This ensures his cooperation, but not his loyalty. She eventually a level of kindness toward Hector, apologizing to him for what he's gone through, seemingly with genuine regret. Hector ultimately tries to spare Lenore's life, but she commits Suicide by Sunlight rather than face what's coming next.
• Character Development: Lenore changes by Season 4, having come to question her actions after Carmilla's over reaching plans of conquest render her role redundant, leaving her with too much time to think as well as bond with Hector. She eventually gains some level of kindness toward Hector, ultimately apologizing to him for what he's gone through and exercising complete politeness.
• The Chessmaster: Much of the third season involves the council trying to decide how to ensure Hector's loyalty so that he can reliably create their army. The sisters conclude that true loyalty is impossible at this point, so Carmilla and Morana are perfectly satisfied torturing him while Striga simply wants to kill him. Lenore opts to try and reason with him. Through gaslighting, she manages to trick Hector into becoming her slave, and forms a pact in which he is unable to either disobey or turn his forged monsters against his masters. The rest of the council are both impressed and horrified with her efficiency.
• Condescending Compassion: Lenore doesn't treat Hector like a person, let alone someone truly worthy of respect. When she presents him to her sisters with the ring, she shushes him when he tries to speak up and brushes aside his concerns of being forced into slavery by stating that he's now her pet and that's what he needed all along. She does eventually change out of this, however.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Delivers a brutal beatdown to Hector after he tries to strangle her without so much as breathing hard. She might look like a slight young woman, but like all vampires Lenore is a more than capable combatant who simply abhores violence unless pushed.
• Dark and Troubled Past: In Season 4, she opens up a bit about her past to Hector, revealing that her genuine desire for diplomatic solutions to problems stems from her being a child of war herself, and essentially having her upbringing ruined by the endless cycle of bloodshed and desire for power — something she muses on and is concerned about it becoming a problem again in regards to Carmilla's bid to rule the world.
• Dating Catwoman: Despite her treatment of him in Season 3, in Season 4, Hector and Lenore are shown to still be on extraordinarily good terms. Although he still schemes against her to gain his freedom, he does so with the intention of protecting her life, even above his own. Her actions demonstrate that the feeling is rather mutual.
• Dead Hat Shot: When Lenore walks into and burns up in the morning sunlight by her own volition, all that's left of her afterward is her sash.
• Deadpan Snarker: Lenore frequently makes sarcastic, albiet polite comments towards Hector and Carmilla.
• Did They or Didn't They?: Despite Lenore's stated intention to use Hector as a Sex Slave, we are left with no real indication that she went through with it, other than the two trading sexual innuendos. Other than that, the two seem more like Platonic Life-Partners.
• Dissonant Serenity: The way she casually discusses horrible topics like eating people and torture comes off as both creepy and oddly endearing. It tricks Hector into letting his guard down and trusting Lenore long enough to enslave him. Then later, she discusses the manner in which she enslaved Hector with her sisters almost like a giddy child explaining their science project. This same dissonance as she shushes him and implies that he's not one of the "real people" causes the reality to finally sink in for Hector.
• Dragon-in-Chief: The end of Season 3 makes it clear that Lenore is, despite her dainty appearance and mannerisms, the most dangerous of the vampiric sisters.
• Even Evil Has Standards: In several ways.
  • Lenore is a vampiress and ultimately thinks her kind is above humans, but her view of humans (according to vampires) is similar to how an animal lover loves animals.
  • She prides herself on being the "Diplomat" of the group, using social charm and manipulation to win people over. And yet while she does engage in screwing people over, she also insists that the people she uses gets something out of the deal as well to benefit them. Best shown that when she gets Hector to work for the sisters, she also gets him better living quarters, freedom of the castle, better treatment and safety.
  • In Season 4, she's seen to be distraught about Carmilla's plans. Not only does Carmilla's sheer greed and envy make her distressed, but the scope of her plan and the amount of suffering involved towards humans disturbs her, especially visible when she talks about it to Hector later.
• Evil Counterpart:
  • She serves as one to Sypha in Season 3. They are both redheads whose romantic relationships are in focus for the season. They have both used the line "good boy" when talking to their respective love interest; but while Sypha was joking, Lenore really means it. Sypha might wear the pants in her relationship, but she actually respects Trevor while Lenore (at least up until Season 4) only sees Hector as a pet. Sypha in Season 3 is something of a Blood Knight who enjoys adventures while Lenore is a self-declared diplomat, but while Sypha is benevolent and can work with anyone for the greater good — as seen by her friendship with dhampyr Alucard — Lenore instead looks down on humanity and is working on turning Eastern Europe into a blood farm.
• Expy: It's not apparent right away, but as the season goes on it's easy to see that Lenore is the series' version of The Succubus boss from the games, purposefully using her sexuality to manipulate and control Hector into doing what she wants him to do.
  • Lenore's design draws more than a little comparison to Wanda, the love interest in the classic erotic novella Venus in Furs. The story is about Gregor, a man who becomes a sexual slave to a red-haired, pale-skinned mistress who wears white furs, much like Lenore. The novella's content actually inspired the term masochism, named after its author Sacher-Masoch. It is important to note, however, that Gregor wanted to be Wanda's slave for his own gratification, where Hector was forced and tricked.
• The Face: She describes herself as the "diplomat" of the four sisters, and prefers to use conversation and commerce to get what they want. As well as lies and treachery, when possible.
• Face Death with Dignity: She decides to meet her end by exposing herself to the sunlight. Before she crumbles to ashes, she's completely calm and smiles at Hector one last time.
• Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon: Played With Lenore has a delicately feminine outward appearance, making her seem almost princess-like. She even acts the part of a sweet and caring young lady, at least on the surface. In reality, she's a cruel and sadistic person who revels in sexual abuse among other nasty proclivities. That being said, her niceness to Hector is actually 100% genuine and in Season 4 she still treats him with respect and care.
• Fair-Play Villain: She presents herself as this; when trying to reason with Hector, she repeatedly asks him what he wants and rebukes any notion of coercing him into doing what she wants because she believes in commerce—both parties get a little of what they want. Ultimately zig-zagged, though. The season ends with her getting ALL of what she wanted: a loyal forgemaster who can create monsters that can't betray them as well as a brand new pet/Sex Slave that she can enjoy for herself. That said, she goes out of her way to tell her sisters that Hector will be pampered in his new role, explicitly stating "He gets something out of this" without any real reason to make such a promise. Season 4 reveals that she was completely sincere about her desire for diplomacy and to protect Hector.
• Fetishized Abuser: At the end of Season 3, she claims Hector as her Sex Slave while exhibiting little concern for his feelings or dignity. While she does demand that her sisters allow him to live in luxury while within their castle, this is simply Pragmatic Villainy on her part: she wants her new pet to be comfortable, healthy, and ready to service her sexually. Downplayed in Season 4, however, where it's revealed that her affection toward Hector was actually genuine. She still keeps him as her slave, of course; but she does her best to make sure he's kept safe and treated well. When Hector puts her into a cage, she has the opportunity to torture him with the ring incantation but she never does it.
• Fiery Redhead: Subverted. She's fairly calm most of the time and tells Hector she makes peace, but when pushed, she can become very violent.
• Freudian Excuse: While being a vampiress comes with inherent aggressive instincts and she has a condescending view of humans, she took on the role of "diplomat" because she doesn't have the stomach for war, the entirety of her human life plagued with wars and assassinations that killed her original family.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: Downplayed. The rest of the council do genuinely love Lenore but she is respected the least. Even when she achieves something impossible for them, the very next set of circumstances schemed up render those same skills irrelevant and the scheme itself is so far reaching that it is ruinous to their kingdom. It's quite telling that when both Striga and Morana feel Carmilla die, they assume any circumstances which would have lead to it would have involved Lenore dying first.
• Gaslighting: Her interactions with Hector can certainly cross into this territory. Making him question himself of why he ever allied with Dracula in the first place, telling him that Carmilla's previous No-Holds-Barred Beatdown of him was actually an act of mercy, convincing him that she is his one true life-line. This all culminates in Lenore tricking Hector into becoming her slave.
• Go Out with a Smile: She decides to commit suicide as she refuses to live in a Gilded Cage for the rest of her life and walks outside to see the sunrise for the first time. As she turns to Hector playfully telling him it wasn't that special, while she has a soft, sincere smile on her face appreciating the view as she immediately turns to ash.
• Hypocrite:
  • When explaining her role as the Council's Diplomat to Hector, she goes on about the idea that both parties have to be willing to give something up in order for satisfactory compromise to be made. And yet, by season's end, Lenore never actually makes any sacrifices herself. She tricks Hector into becoming her slave, but because she took a special interest in him, she decides to improve his living conditions against her sister's wishes. So in the end, everyone else had to accommodate while Lenore got basically everything that she wanted.
  • Lenore is quick to accurately point out to Hector that Dracula manipulated and deceived him, treating it as a reason Hector should trust her instead. Lenore is ultimately not only manipulating Hector in a much more personal way, Dracula, while deceptive, treated Hector well, gave him a place on his council, was polite to him, and treated him like a colleague for the most part. Right at the end of Season 3, Lenore is much worse to Hector once he's under her control, and indicates that she doesn't even view him as a person. That said, Lenore does ultimately change out of this by Season 4 despite still keeping him under her control, and it's hinted she didn't go through with making him her sex slave.
  • Despite thinking Hector's life is better under her care and questioning why he would be opposed to it, she kills herself rather than live under Isaac's rule in a Gilded Cage, though this can be ironically attributed to Hector's influence rubbing off on her.
• I Die Free: Commits Suicide by Sunlight, rather than live locked up under Isaac's authority.
• In Love with the Mark: It's unclear how genuine her affections to Hector were in Season 3, but Season 4 shows she seems to be truly loving towards Hector from sharing her worries to him and as Isaac invades the castle, the only person she rushes to is Hector as she tells him they have to leave. While in the end she chooses to die of her own free will than live in a Gilded Cage with Hector, she does send him off with one last smile as she turns to ashes.
• Irony:
  • Lenore is unable to understand why Hector would protest over being in a gilded cage with her granting him every possible comfort despite his lack of freedom. By the time the tables are turned with her being trapped in a gilded cage, he has granted her the character growth to understand why and as such, she takes her own life. With an additional layer of irony that this ruined his intentions to protect her life.
  • After Isaac takes over, she has a discussion with Hector on the nature of change given their new circumstances and how an immortal vampire's virture is to inherently desire stability instead. That Carmila's plans brought that stability and even though, those same plans at a larger scale created chaos, they were founded in that same virture. Hector counters by stating a distinction, that while Carmilla's former plans granted them strength, the latter was just her seeking power. Lenore accepts this irony, stating that seeking power created chaos and ruined their lives. She goes on to say that "Big, international, non-diplomatic, projected power" is a parasite which only gives might and lacks the utilities of strength (as seen in how it disrupted the core foundation of their nations four part council which depended on each others strength and eliminated each others personal flaws), constantly seeking to be fed for its own sake with more power. When Hector compares thiss to being just like a vampire, Lenore has a shocked look on her face and resentfully accepts it is true, which seems to only further convince her of what she is about to do next with her life proven to be a lie and her true nature shown to her.
• Laser-Guided Karma: Lenore spends pretty much all of Season 3 gaining Hectors affections and manipulating him into a Gilded Cage. In Season 4, Hector does exactly the same thing — literally going beat for beat, albeit without any of Lenore's crueler acts, and Hector, when confronted with her in the same situation he was once in, lets her die free rather than trying to force her to obey him.
• Last Words: As Lenore gazes upon the sunrise, she sees Hector nearby and smiles, fondly telling him: "Is that all there is to it? Hector... you are a silly man!".
• A Lighter Shade of Black: She’s even more manipulative than Carmilla, and completely on board with her plan to forge a vampiric empire with humans for chattel. Her only redeeming qualities being she’s not unnecessarily violent, or needlessly cruel in getting what she wants, and while she makes wild claims of cruelty when she magically enslaves Hector into being her pet and sexslave, she instead insists on his well-being and comfort like most responsible pet owners. Season 4 exacerbates this side of her, where she decides not to commit to some of the more exploitative claims and aspects of her control over Hector, instead using her position to protect him from Carmilla while also becoming more and more unsure about whether what they're doing is really right. In the end she doesn't even stand in the way as Carmilla's plans fall apart and even running to save Hector first. In the end, rather than going out vengefully, she opts to leave Hector & Isaac alone and lets herself die.
• Lima Syndrome: Really grows to love Hector in season 4 and when Isaac attacks Styria, Lenore immediately rushes to safeguard Hector.
• The Lost Lenore: True to her name, Lenore commits suicide in front of Hector, despite the implications they have mutual feelings for each other.
• Manipulative Bastard: Lenore's "negotiations" with Hector very quickly crosses over into this. She convinces Hector early on that she is his only lifeline and only ever offers him small concessions to butter him up. More than anything else, she constantly belittles any leverage that Hector brings to the table despite the explicit dilemma of the season for the sisters is that they need Hector's loyalty as their forged master.
• Martial Pacifist: By her own admission, Lenore absolutely hates physical violence. Even more passive "violence", like coercion or deceit, inevitably make her feel guilty and remorseful (particularly with someone she cares about). That said, she is still a vampiress and will defend herself if necessary, although she is by no means a warrior. Even her actions in season 3 against Hector end up burdening her to the point she treats him with genuine fondness and expresses how she deeply regrets her actions.
• A Match Made in Stockholm: With Hector in season 4. They're genuinely fond of each other and Lenore never treats him badly. When Isaac comes in to take over Styria, Hector is fine with being killed, but he asks that Lenore be spared.
• Ms. Fanservice: She gets naked during Season 3 climax while having sex with Hector and unlike Sypha, we actually do see everything. The circumstances quickly turn it into horror, however, as she uses the opportunity to stick a magic ring on Hector and enslaving him to her will. Season 4 gives her more elegant gowns and nightwear, most of which is very flattering to her body, and is often seen barefoot.
• My God, What Have I Done?: With the progression of Season 4, Lenore discovers that her supposed control over Hector was just loose enough that he could plot against them in plain sight, leading to Isaac backing Carmilla into a corner and having her kill herself. She also comes to genuinely regret her treatment of Hector, and makes peace with him before her death.
• Not-So-Harmless Villain: By the end of Season 3, Lenore proves to everyone, including her sisters, that she is probably the most dangerous of them all. While lacking the ambition, power or inventiveness of the other sisters, Lenore used her wits, charm and cunning to solve what the other three had written off as an "impossible" problem. When they learn just how thoroughly Lenore has secured Hector's obedience, they are incredibly impressed and proclaim that Lenore is the true genius among them. This doesn't last however, and she, as a diplomat, ultimately becomes redundant by the next step in their plans for conquest, which over reaches far beyond what was promised and is just another sign that Carmilla's plans are destabilizing their nation into ruin.
• Obliviously Evil: The true cap to Lenore's behavior towards Hector is that she is oblivious to his pain and is even convinced that she is doing what's in his best interests. When she realizes that she's wrong, she abandons her sociopathy, acknowledges what she's done, and treats Hector well.
  • [[spoiler:Another issue is her inability to accept change, explaining it as an immortal vampires
• Oh, Crap!:
  • When Carmilla shows Lenore a map of the known world and states that her intention is to rule all of it by force, Lenore begins to freak out. Lenore (as well as Morana and Striga) were under the impression that Carmilla's scheme would simply expand their immediate influence in neighboring regions and provide enough "livestock" for them to live comfortably for centuries. But with Carmilla revealing the true scope of her ambitions, Lenore realizes that not only did Carmilla openly lie previously about the scope of her plans, but that the resulting death and suffering would be on a scale unheard of. Also, as she notes later, she was also terrified because Carmilla seemed angry at her.
  • When Hector reveals how he Out-Gambitted all of the Sisters and has Lenore trapped in a magic cage, she quietly begins to freak out.
• One to Million to One: Can transform into a swarm of bats. She uses this ability to escape from Hector's clutches when he furiously grabs her after she reveals she's slipped the Slave Ring onto him.
• Out of Focus: Barely does anything in Season 4 and doesn't appear all that much. This actually plays into her Character Development, as she points out that with Carmilla scheming to take over the world, and Striga and Morana away to survey the land they will be invading, there is currently little need of a diplomat like herself and as such is left both to reflect on her actions and that of Carmilla's over reaching plans destabilizing what they already have.
• Pet the Dog: She is the only one of the Styrian sister to treat Hector with any kindness. Which turned out to simply be a means to an end. Her one and only true (seeming) gesture of kindness is to demand to her sisters that Hector will be get something back for being their slave. Although, that is implied to only be for selfish reasons as well. Then, in Season 4, she ultimately plays it straight; she apologizes to Hector for what she's done, has an epiphany, is shown to treat him well, and ends up parting with him on sombre yet kind terms.
• Pragmatic Villainy: She demands that her sisters give Hector a nice home, comfortable living quarters, and freedom within the castle because she wants him to be compensated for what he does. Her reasons are partly because he will be her personal sex slave, and she does not want him harmed, unclean or unkempt. That said, she also just wants him treated nicely since she's developed a fondness for him in the fourth season.
• Redemption Equals Death: In her last moments, Lenore apologizes to Hector and fondly refers to him as a "silly man", instead of a "good boy" like previously. It goes to show that, despite everything she'd put him through — and acknowledging herself that vampires in general have a very hard time caring for others outside of themselves, especially humans — Lenore did legitimately come to love him.
• Shadow Archetype: Lenore is a Shadow Archetype to Hector. They share beliefs in the culling of mankind and the view of them as animals, both being animal lovers, but while Hector does it out of a genuine belief that mankind needs guidance, Lenore is more than willing to exploit those beliefs to get what she personally wants out of humans. This is driven home in the fourth season: While Hector uses her as his own Unwitting Pawn just as she used him, he does it all without the slightest element of the crueler flourishes she had in her plan; Hector never gaslights Lenore, makes a point of her remaining unharmed, and proves to be unlike her in perhaps the biggest way possible, as when Lenore would rather die than live in a Gilded Cage, Hector, rather than making any attempt to stop or enslave her as she did him, lets her go and accompanies her out, showing an entirely different mentality between the two of them and demonstrating how Hector's Character Development has dulled his misanthropic edge. In the end, the two had the same ideas, but Hector hasn't been corrupted by Lenore's centuries of vampirism and descent into sociopathy.
• Sheep in Sheep's Clothing: Lenore appears very approachable, sweet and caring. She admits that she prefers diplomacy to violence, and tries to make sure that all parties in negotiations get a little of what they want. However, she is still a vampiric lord, and is more than willing to use deceit and coercion to get what she wants. But even then, she gets pained by her conscience if she resorts to such measures, and even comes to regret what she did to Hector in the end; taking the time to apologize to him and legitimately appreciating his company when she dies. She's by far the nicest full-blooded vampire we've ever met in the series.
• Shout-Out: To a certain lost Lenore.
• Silk Hiding Steel: She speaks calmly and softly, with her small height and delicate features making her seem weaker than her sisters. Hector learns the hard way that just because she's not outwardly threatening doesn't mean she's not just as dangerous as her sisters could be.
• Suicide by Sunlight: Lenore ultimately kills herself by going outside during the morning sunrise. This is because she doesn't want to be turned into a slave for Isaac, has nothing to her life any more after losing her sisters and power, out of severe guilt at everything she put Hector through, and coming to terms with the fact that being a vampire will only cause him more harm in the long run.
• Super Smoke: Shapeshifts into a mist cloud to leave Hector's cell after beating him up.
• Sympathetic Slave Owner: In Season 4, she is ultimately very kind and defensive of Hector, stating that she's prevented Carmilla from harming him several times, and even making him her first priority for escaping the castle when it's under attack. For his part, Hector seems to reciprocate her kindness, although he still schemes and makes massive sacrifices to regain his freedom.
• This Looks Like a Job for Aquaman: Carmilla's abuse and enslavement of Hector, despite needing the night creatures he creates to enact her future schemes, is taken as an "impossible" problem by the Council. However, it provides the perfect chance for Lenore (long thought to be the weakest and most useless of the group) to prove herself. She manages to succeed to a degree far exceeding even what the other Sisters expected. However, she succeeds so well that she unexpectedly returns to being useless again. Even Morana and Striga basically write her off as being any possible help to running the vast empire that Carmilla intends to create. Given that their 4 way dynamic ussually plays off each others strengths while negating each others weaknesses, this is the first sign that Carmilla's plans are not going to work out.
• Token Good Teammate: Lenore likes to present herself as this as the council's diplomat and peacemaker. Carmilla implies that she has a track-record of mothering animals (having supposedly torn the castle apart trying to find a splint for a spider) and lacks some of the more overtly malicious tendencies of her fellow matriarchs. Of course one must not forget that she is still a vampiric dignitary, having manipulated him into putting on a ring that inflicts pain when he disobeys her and has turned him into her Sex Slave and pet. Granted, he still will be living well compared to how the others would have treated him, but slavery is still slavery no matter how gilded his cage is. She ultimately plays this straight however, showing that she deeply regrets how she treated Hector and apologizes to him for it, and still treats him with kindness to the point where he cares deeply for her despite plotting to escape.
• Underestimating Badassery: Of the Council, Lenore gets it easily the worst. Thanks to having absolutely toyed with Hector in Season 3, she dismisses him as a threat entirely, defending him to Carmilla and seeing him as someone to be pitied rather than to be feared. The look on her face when Hector traps her in an energy cage is one of pure shock and realization at the knowledge that he had used her as an Unwitting Pawn and exploited this to bring down the Sisters.
• Unwitting Pawn: Of Hector, of all people. Hector uses her generosity toward him and the free reign she gave him to stall, prepare a plan to resurrect Dracula, and betray Carmilla. When Isaac arrives and Hector prepares for Isaac to kill him, he traps her in a magical cage, leaving her utterly helpless and only spared because Hector wills it. How the tables turn.
• The Vamp: Both figuratively and literally. She seduces Hector, tricking him into falling in love/lust with her so that she can enslave him.
• Victory Is Boring: In Season 3, Lenore manages to get absolutely everything she wanted. Which leads her to be completely bored in Season 4, since all of her problems are solved and the Sisters have no more need of her skills. The only thing she can do is talk to Hector and watch him work, which lets him pick up on her ennui.
• Villain Has a Point:
  • Lenore might be trying to win over Hector's loyalty, but she is correct that Dracula lied to and manipulated him, and Hector only assumed he would be an exception to Dracula's plans for humanity without actually making an agreement that he would be spared.
  • She is also right about the overall plan she had for Hector being to his benefit in some way. Yes, Hector is now her slave, but he will now live in good conditions, unlike before where he was naked, cold, and fed mouldy bread and rotten meat in a dirty, insect-infested cell. And most importantly, he will not be tortured or killed, which is what the other sisters of the council were planning to do to him, because they believed he would never agree to help them as their Forgemaster because of Carmilla's mistreatment.
• Villainous Friendship: She really does have her sisters in high regard. Even though she didn't need to, after enslaving Hector, she gives the others rings similar to her own to control Hector — making him a shared resource for the team. She's also the most apologetic of Carmilla's increasingly megalomaniacal ambitions.
• Wants a Prize for Basic Decency: Lenore makes her treatment of Hector seem kindly and generous, which it is in comparison to the other Council members. However, this ignores not only the power imbalance of their relationship, but the fact she's a member of a group who is keeping him prisoner. This is especially prominent in the Season 3 finale, where she puts Hector under the spell of a slave ring and makes him into a pet; while Lenore is right in that it's much better than the horrible treatment he was going through before, that doesn't change the fact she's bent him to her will at risk of horrible pain and he's clearly horrified and miserable. Notably, she herself points this out eventually. In Season 4, she has a monologue where she talks to Hector and admits that, as a vampiress, she loves to take but hates to give.
• What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: While Lenore doesn't actually have any "empathy" powers, she is the physically weakest of the Styrian sisters and crafted her unique skillset toward conversationalism and diplomacy. The rest of the Sisters all mock her for this, as well as her compassionate nature. This makes her jump at the chance to prove herself by solving the "Hector problem" that the rest of them see as impossible. The inherit lack of need for her skills in Carmilla's plans to rule the world by pure force as quickly as possible, is a major red flag that it will go terribly awry.
• When She Smiles: Right as she's about to commit suicide by going out into the light of the rising sun to avoid becoming Isaac's slave, Lenore sees that Hector has come to join her despite them saying their mutual goodbyes. At that moment, she gives him a genuinely beautiful smile and one last compliment before she dissolves into dust and blows away on the breeze.
  Lenore: Is that all there is to it? [sees Hector nearby, and smiles fondly] Hector... you are a silly man!
• You Are Not Alone: When she is in the process of committing suicide by walking out into the rising sun, Hector comes outside to be with Lenore so she won't die alone; which makes her genuinely smile.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: She fears that this is what has happened to her in Season 4, after solving the "Hector problem". She is correct; all of her sisters feel she's basically become useless after gaining Hector's loyalty and powers. While they don't plan to harm her for it, it basically makes her powerless in their quartet; which she herself soon becomes aware of.

Striga

Voiced by: Ivana Miličević (English), Hiroko Kiso (Japanese), Rebeca Patiño (Latin American Spanish)

"Vampires always have plans, don't we? Maybe it's just in our nature to overreach, grasp at too much at once, try to drink everything. Maybe that's why in the end, we win all the battles but always lose the war."

One of Carmilla's Sisters who acts as the general of the group.

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• Amazonian Beauty: She's very tall and incredibly well-muscled, huge even by human male standards, but still has an attractive feminiity to her. It's only the fact that Carmilla, Lenora, and Morana are so much more classically beautiful that makes her merely handsome by comparison.
• Animal Motifs: Ravens. Her standard outfit has a steel ravenhead pauldron which carries over to her corvid-styled armor, with the "beak" of its helmet providing additional sunshade for her face behind an amber faceplate.
• The Berserker: In spite of her calm, pragmatic and intelligent nature, on the battlefield, Striga is an utter maniac.
• BFS: Carries a giant sword in battle, which she can wield with one hand, freeing up her other hand for punches.
• Bifauxnen: You'd be forgiven for thinking she's an androgynous man at first glance with her tall height, muscles, clothing and rather deep voice.
• Black Knight: She fulfills this role in Carmilla's army, being not only a shrewd strategist, but a frighteningly capable fighter. Her "day armor" is colored black, as well.
• The Brute: She is explicitly referred to as the "fighter" of the quartet and certainly packs the physique that goes along with it. Unlike most examples she is no less intelligent than the rest of the villains, and is actually a good deal smarter than Carmilla.
• Butch Lesbian: Is in a relationship with Morana, and is both androgynously masculine-looking and a gruff fighter.
• Creepy Crows: Her day armor has a raven motif which, combined with her immense strength and ferocity, makes her all the more intimidating in battle.
• Code of Honour: She's implied to hold a strong martial code. While she can make elaborate military plans well into advance, it didn't occur to her until Morana mentioned it that mercenaries could be bribed into switching sides since there'd be no honor for such turncoat actions.
• A Dog Named "Dog": Striga and related terms are used as names for certain kinds of vampires, witches, and vampiric witches, particularly in Southern and Eastern Europe.
• Everyone Has Standards: She thinks nothing of slaughtering human solders, but she's genuinely disturbed fighting humans who were not ever in battle before taking a stand against them, and uses that as evidence that humans would never stop fighting for their right to live.
• Four-Star Badass: She's the military leader of Styria and in Season 4 we truly see what a monster she is on the battlefield, tearing through men and horses like they're tissue paper.
• Genius Bruiser: Even though she is supposed to be The Brute of Carmilla's tetrarchy, Striga is absolutely no Godbrand, being prudent when it comes to reviewing their strategy, tactics and their forces' capabilities. She is also smart enough to tell the difference between trained soldiers and desperate farmers and determines that if the latter manages to give her forces significant trouble, she will seriously have her work cut out for her claiming the territory Carmilla wants and defending it after it's claimed.
• Horrifying the Horror: While out out scouting territory, she and Morana come under attack by the locals. While Striga soundly wins, she's also astounded and shocked at how much damage a bunch of farmers without proper training did to her forces and that they even chose to fight her in the first place.
• Kryptonite-Proof Suit: Striga keeps a special suit of plate armour that completely covers her skin, just in case she needs to fight during the day.
• The Lancer: Striga is the sister that will point out the flaws in Carmilla's plans regardless of its potential. And while Carmilla is happy to let her sisters work out the details of her plans while she messes around, Striga is the type of person to meticulously plan out every step even at the cost of sleep.
• Large and in Charge: One of the rulers of Styria and she's the size of Dracula but with far more muscle.
• Lesbian Vampire: She is a Butch Lesbian vampiress in a relationship with a Lipstick Lesbian one.
• Lightning Bruiser: Striga is not only very muscular and tall, but lightning quick.
• Masculine–Feminine Gay Couple: In her relationship with Morana, Striga is the more masculine counterpart to Morana's more feminine character.
• Meaningful Name: Strigoi are vampiric goblins in Romanian folklore.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Striga is Latin for witch or evil spirit.
• Only Sane Woman: She's the most willing of her sisters to question Carmilla's plans, constantly finding holes in her logic that Carmilla is either unwilling to focus on, or just doesn't seem to realize. It's actually somewhat downplayed initially in Season 4, due to the rest of Carmilla's inner circle coming around to realizing just how insane Carmilla is becoming, while Striga is initially defensive when Morana questions if Striga can continue to fight the opposition for the foreseeable future. After ripping through a group of farmers that ambushed her forces in broad daylight, Striga comes around to Morana's line of thinking, as the simple fact that they were farmers meant that humans weren't just going to quietly accept their being conquered.
• One-Woman Army: She's practically a goddess of death once we get to see her on the battlefield.
• Pragmatic Villainy: Striga is the most cautious of the four and views Hector as too much a Wild Card for his forged army to potentially be useful. She states that she'd rather kill him before he becomes a potential threat than chance it.
• Real Men Hate Affection: Gender inverted, Butch Lesbian Striga jokes that Morana's statement of them falling in love in a fairy tale castle makes her sick.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: After Morana points out how insane Carmilla's plan is, seeing her theory come true firsthand in how desperate people are to live freely, and finally losing Carmilla to Isaac's assault on their castle, Striga and Morana head out west and leave Styria behind to live out their days together.
• Shout-Out: In her day armor, with her almost comically out of place BFS, she looks quite similar to Guts with his Dragonslayer in his Berserk armor, and even more like Artorias, another Expy of Guts.
• Unholy Matrimony: Striga and Morana are evil vampiresses who're in love with one another.

Morana

Voiced by: Yasmine Al Massri (English), Yukari Oribe (Japanese), Kerygma Flores (Latin American Spanish)

One of Carmilla's Sisters who acts as the planner and torturer.

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• Ambiguously Brown: Although she is named after a Slavic pagan goddess, her skin tone is noticeably much darker than that of her pale European sisters. It's not clear what exactly her ethnicity is.
• Deadpan Snarker: Morana is frequently sarcastic and often engages in Snark-to-Snark Combat with Carmilla.
• Even Evil Has Standards: While she gives a speech to Striga about cruelty in Season 4. Although she makes it clear she has no love for humans and laces her critiques with pragmatisim, the cruelty of Carmilla's plan has rattled her. The level of death and abuse they intend for the humans has really gotten under her skin even if she does see them as livestock.
• The Evil Genius: In the Styrian quartet, she handles logistics, economics, and grand strategy. Striga may be the military general who knows how to plan and prosecute a war then hold the territorial gains, but Morana is the one who can make the war irrelevant with the proper application of coin.
• Hypercompetent Sidekick: Her job in essence is to take Carmilla's insane schemes and rework them into something manageable.
• Informed Attribute: Morana is repeatedly mentioned to have a penchant for torture (for both business and pleasure) by the other members of the council. As of Season 3, her debut, that aspect of her character has yet to be shown implicitly or explicitly, mostly due to Lenore taking the spotlight.
• Lesbian Vampire: She is a Lipstick Lesbian vampiress in a relationship with a Butch Lesbian one.
• Lipstick Lesbian: She is very feminine in appearance and character, and is in a relationship with Striga.
• Masculine–Feminine Gay Couple: In her relationship with Striga, Morana is the more feminine counterpart to Striga's more masculine character.
• Meaningful Name: There is a Slavic goddess of death and rebirth called Morana.
• Non-Action Guy: Carmilla and Striga are warriors while Lenore's beating of Hector shows some degree of fighting ability. Morana, however, works purely in the technical details and organizes things. When actually doing field work, she loudly complains of the physicality of the whole thing and when they come under attack, Striga makes sure she's protected while she does the fighting herself.
• Number Two: To Carmilla, Morana's job is said to be the organizer, making Carmilla's insane schemes possible. Morana is also willing to consider the potential of Carmilla's plans before she considers how likely it is.
• Pragmatic Villainy: Morana calls out Carmilla on her pointless No-Holds-Barred Beatdown of Hector from the end of the second season. Though it's not a case of the moral issue of it as much as it is calling Carmilla causing their forge master to resent them and become a potential Wild Card.
• Private Military Contractors: Her solution to the food supply and manpower issue of Carmilla's plan. Styria is rich and with their wealth, they'll hire out all the mercenaries in the neighboring areas and use them as fodder. Anyone dying in battle will then become material for Hector's forge.
• Sarcastic Devotee: Despite how much Morana swipes back and forth with Carmilla, she's very loyal to her and her sisters as well.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: After becoming aware of how insane and infeasible Carmilla's plan is, seeing the evidence firsthand, and then finally losing Carmilla to Isaac's attack, she opts to leave Styria behind and go west with Striga to live out their days together.
• The Strategist: Morana is the brains of the council, creating the strategies to enact the ideas Carmilla comes out with.
• Torture Technician: Lenore states that Morana is fond of torture in Season 3 but this aspect is never really shown in the series.
• Wine Is Classy: Her first appearance shows her holding a glass of wine.
• Unholy Matrimony: Morana and Striga are evil vampiresses who're in love with one another.

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