Nocturne Season 2 makes the show's biggest mystery even more confusing

“Castlevania: Nocturne” season 2 creates many interesting threads for a potential Season 3 and covers most of Season 1's big arc. At the same time, the show hasn't fully answered one of its biggest mysteries, which involves a new type of nocturnal creature created by Abbot Emanuel. (Richard Dormer).

In the original Castlevania series, creatures of the night are created by fiendmakers, human sorcerers who use a special form of dark magic to divert souls from Hell into dead bodies, turning them into monstrous creatures. These creators each wield their spells using a special, unique tool, and the monsters they create are loyal to them. In most cases, the souls channeled into creatures of the night are not the same ones that inhabit the bodies, but there are some obvious exceptions to this rule. In general, though, creatures of the night are pretty mindless.

But that's all changing the sequel to the first season of the series “Castlevania: Nocturne”. Emanuel uses a different method to create them using a huge mysterious power that works much faster than the methods seen in the original show. The results also vary, as many of the subsequent creatures of the night seem to retain some degree of both their humanity and free will. It starts with Edouard (Sidney James Harcourt), and in Season 2, many other creatures of the night show the same strange humanity. While season two doesn't explain this, it does provide a few more clues that add to the mystery. Let's dive into it.

The simplest explanation for Emanuel's strange nocturnal creature phenomenon is that his alternate forgemaster method creates different types of creatures. In Season 2, most of the French Revolutionary Army soldiers he turns into monsters retain some element of autonomy and connection to their past lives, which allows Edouard to turn them against Erzsebet Báthory (Franka Potente) at the end of the season. . The machine even transforms Drolt Tzuentes (Elarica Johnson) into a vampire/creature of the night hybrid after Alucard kills her, which allows her to escape into the light of day and greatly enhances her power without seemingly losing any part of her previous identity.

In Season 1, we see Emanuel use some kind of Enochian spellbook to work his dark machine, and after his death in Season 2, Allrock (Zahn McClarnon) looks into it. While studying the book, he encounters some kind of dark spirit that he calls “Old Man Coyote” or “Mephistopheles”. The true identity and purpose of this being remains a mystery, but it is clear that he manipulated Emanuel and may have even told him how to build the machine. This could mean that Emanuel did not use traditional forgemaster magic at all, which could explain the anomalies in his nocturnal creatures. And since the creatures were really created by the machine and its spells, not Emmanuel himself, it stands to reason that they wouldn't be so loyal.

Of course, without knowing Old Man Coyote's true motives, it's hard to say for sure. With any luck, we'll get another season of Castlevania: Nocturne to explore the mystery further.

While it would be nice to get a little more clarity on how the forgemaster's magic works in “Castlevania,” the mystery is far from a plot hole. The franchise has always adopted a fairly open interpretation of its supernatural lore, far removed from the “hard magic” systems of many fantasy stories. Annette (Thuso Mbedu) uses very different magic than Richter (Edward Blumel) and Juste's (Ian Glenn) speaking abilities, all different from what the masters do. The original series revealed that the Castlevania universe has many worlds, meaning a truly limitless variety of magic and sorcery.

Nocturne has done a lot to expand the world of Castlevania into new arenas and mythologies, which it mixes with the more traditional vampiric history of video games in fascinating ways. With any luck, Netflix will see fit to renew the show for another season, which could provide more insight into how all these various supernatural pieces fit together.