Lucy Seward

Lucy Seward (referred to as Gwendolyn in the American instruction booklet) is a character mentioned in the backstory of Castlevania: Bloodlines. She was the late fiancée of Eric Lecarde.
==History==
As a result of deliberations between the Lecarde and Seward families, Lucy was betrothed to Eric when they were both still children. Even after Eric left his family home at the age of 18 to become a sculptor, she kept waiting for him to return. However, ten days before Eric's arrival, she had her blood sucked by Elizabeth Bartley.
Having become bedridden, she told Eric that her soul was trapped inside Dracula's castle, located at Bistritz, Romania. After asking Eric to save her soul, she calmly passed away. Lucy's body was later buried with her head cut off and a wooden stake piercing her heart.
==Gallery==
:Note: No official art of Lucy Seward exists.
Gwendolyn.jpg|The woman that appears in the commercial of the game may possibly be representing Lucy Seward/Gwendolyn.
==Trivia==
*The name Gwendolyn is only mentioned in the American instruction booklet of Castlevania: Bloodlines. Likewise, Lucy Seward is only mentioned in a fax to Electronic Gaming Monthly around the time Bloodlines was released.
*Lucy Seward's name likely is a combination of both Lucy Westenra and John Seward from the 1897 Gothic horror novel, Dracula, by Bram Stoker.
**Her backstory also shares many similarities with Lucy Westenra's, such as being assaulted by a vampire, resulting in her becoming bedridden and ultimately bringing her death, and also having her head cut off and with a stake piercing her heart to ensure the salvation of her soul (implied to have been Eric himself who made these arrangements to comply with her last request).
**Later, in Castlevania: Grimoire of Souls, both Lucy Westenra and Seward became characters acting in the organization of Elgos, with reference to the characters from the Dracula novel.
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Category:Deceased Characters
Category:Female Characters
Category:Mentioned Characters
Category:Vampires
Category:Bloodlines Characters