Condemned Tower

The Condemned Tower is a location in Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow.
==Overview==
A tall, 15 story tower enveloped by clouds and moonlight, possessing of many ramps and platforms on its exterior. Its entrances have been sealed, and its multiple floors are destroyed during the fight with its prisoner, Gergoth. The ground floor connects to a partially-ruined section of the Dark Chapel, accessible only after the Puppet Master Soul has been acquired, and the top of the tower connects to the Cursed Clock Tower via a door whose key has also been sealed in the spire. Additionally, A magically-locked barrier leads to the semi-secret Mine of Judgment.
==Gallery==
===Screenshots===
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===Map===
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==Notes==
*One useful strategy after the Gergoth fight is to use the Flying Armor's and Puppet Master's soul in conjunction. The player may throw a puppet at a normally unreachable ledge while floating slowly in midair and be teleported to it.
*Additionally, for quick traversal on revisiting, one can utilize the Bat Company, or Hippogryph souls to fly up the now-hollow center, stopping at whichever floor is desired to be visited.
==Trivia==
*Both the English, and Japanese descriptions of the boss found within, Gergoth, hint the tower was used to imprison it.
**This makes it similar to the Prison of Eternal Torture, in that both are entire areas dedicated to the containment of a single, powerful monster.
***For this reason, it could be argued that Gergoth itself is similar to the Forgotten One, especially given how thoroughly-mutilated both are at the time of encounter.
*"Condemned" is a word with dual meanings that can be defined as either "sentenced to a particular punishment, especially death", or "officially declared unfit for use".
**This area arguably fits both of those definitions, as in addition to the above trivia about the condemnation of Gergoth within it, the tower's isolated, barricaded nature signals it was undesirable as part of With Light's base of operations
***Whether this was due to the presence of the prisoner, or the entrance to the Abyss below is unable to be determined.
*This is the only area in-game whose terrain is significantly altered as a result of the player.
**It is also the only area to have enemies removed from the map after the boss battles, as the destruction of its floors removes every monster that previously occupied the throughways.
***These monsters are removed the moment the boss room is entered, as none of them are present during Gergoth's descent through the floors beneath.
==Other appearances==
===Castlevania: Harmony of Despair===
The first chapter of Castlevania: Harmony of Despair, Caught in the Cradle of Decay, has a section modeled after the Condemned Tower. It makes up the right-most tower of the map. Gergoth can fire beams from there across the entire map. When confronted, the floor will collapse as in Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow.
===Castlevania: Grimoire of Souls===
==External links==
*IGN Guide - Source of the castle map.
*Castlevania Realm - Source of the images.
*VGMaps Forums - References a in progress for The Condemned Tower on imgur.com.
es:Torre Condenada
Category:Towers
Category:Dawn of Sorrow Locations