Tera

is a support character in Castlevania: Rondo of Blood, and its remake, Castlevania: The Dracula X Chronicles. She is a nun villager who was kidnapped by Dracula's forces.
==History==
Tera leads the town with her prayers. When Richter Belmont or Maria Renard find her, she has a temporary delusion of them being manifestations of God (an effect most likely due to her prolonged capture). She owns a necklace which brings Red Skeletons to total destruction, rendering them unable to reassemble. In The Dracula X Chronicles, it also destroys Red Skeleton walls.
==Tera's Necklace==
In Castlevania: The Dracula X Chronicles, Tera will present the player with her necklace (misspelled "Terra's Necklace" in the game) if she's rescued in Stage 3'. This necklace will grant the ability to permanently destroy Red Skeletons.
Along the way, the player will also come across certain walls constructed with Red Skeletons' bones. If they are damaged, they'll crumble to the ground but immediately reform themselves, making further progress impossible. However, with the aid of Tera's Necklace they can be destroyed for good, thus giving access to the rewards they were protecting.
==Appearance and personality==
In Rondo of Blood, due to the more anime-style artwork of the game, Tera is depicted as having teal hair wrapped in a ponytail with a yellow ribbon, as well as expressive brown eyes, and wearing a nun cassock, owing to her occupation. The game's instruction booklet describes her as warm-hearted, lively, and with a passionate soul. She is highly devout, found praying while in captivity, and after being rescued by Richter or Maria, she will wish them to go with God's protection. She initially describes Richter or Maria as a guardian angel sent to rescue her, but she seems to mean that figuratively.
Her design in The Dracula X Chronicles is relatively the same, although the nun cassock is more stylized and her hair is changed to having dark brown/light black hair in a medium-length princess cut, with gray eyes. Here, she is still very devout but also depicted as noticeably more eccentric, speaking directly to God while in conversation with others and seeming to genuinely believe that Richter is the manifestation of God himself and that Maria is Mary the mother of God, much to Richter and Maria's confusion, and continues to refer to them as such even after they repeatedly tell her otherwise.
==Gallery==
===Artworks===
Rondo of Blood Official Guide Tera.JPG|Tera from the Rondo of Blood strategy guide.
RoB Strategy Tera.JPG|An alternate art style version of Tera found in Monthly PC Engine.
Artbook-09.jpg|Tera's profile from Dracula X Chronicles.
Dracula 08 1024.jpg|Tera's artwork from Dracula X Chronicles artbook.
===Screenshots===
DxC 04 Saving Tera 00.JPG|Tera waiting in her room.
==Other appearances==
===Castlevania: Nocturne===
An alternate incarnation of Tera appears in the Netflix original animated series, Castlevania: Nocturne. In this portrayal, Tera is actually the mother of Maria Renard. She is a former Speaker who escaped Russia due to the constant attacks by soldiers and vampires, setting to the west in a small cottage on the hills in France. By the time of the events of Nocturne, Tera is in her middle ages and usually prefers to stay at home tending the labors of the house. However, she still retains her powerful magical abilities and in more than one occasion she joins the youths to fight against vampires and creatures of the night. It appears like she is a mixture of both the originals Tera and Iris; the former being as she is portrayed as sort of a nun (which is more evidently seen during flashbacks of her youth, where she wears a nun-like attire), and the latter being that she is learned in nursing.
==Trivia==
*Tera was probably named after the somewhat tragic antagonist of Bram Stoker's novel The Jewel of Seven Stars, the Egyptian Queen Tera.
==See also==
*Annette
*Iris
*Maria Renard
==References==
==External links==
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