Elizabeth Bathory

> ***Suffer! Whose turn is it next? Indulge me...***
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## Appearances

**Countess Elizabeth Bathory, the Vampire** is a character in the *Atmosfear* series. Usually a playable character, she has also hosted *Nightmare IV*.

## Background

### *The Harbingers*

She's the black widow of The Other Side, imprisoned for all eternity in her torture chambers in the towering Castle Cathtice for her murderous crimes - an iron maiden - condemned to love and perish forever.

But legends, like Vampires, never die.

Casting a black shadow over her Province, Bathory is the most powerful of 'The Harbingers' with all the allure of a Venus fly trap.

### *The Gatekeeper*

At the beginning of the 17th century, in the towering Slovakian Castle of Cathtice, lived a countess of unequalled vanity. Driven by her desire to remain the most beautiful woman in the land, Elizabeth Bathory would feed upon the innocent young townsfolk she lured into her chambers. Parlor games such as "The Iron Maiden" were a castle specialty, as this black widow liked to poke more than just fun at her guests - she turned out to be a body piercing master!

In a small town, however, news of strange behavior travels faster than the plague and it wasn't long before Elizabeth was captured, tried and banished to The Other Side - which would be enough to make anybody see **red**. Here the only thing she kills is time while praying for her time on earth to come again.

Eat your heart out, Elizabeth.

### *Khufu the Mummy*

'Beauty may be only skin deep but ugly cuts right to the bone' said the Countess of vanity, Elizabeth Bathory. Obsessed with preserving her beauty, Elizabeth just loved to put the bite on the local young folk - aka her own personal fountain of eternal youth.

Naturally it wasn't long before she was captured, tried and banished to The Other Side.

But now The Gatekeeper has advised her of her free pass to Khufu's House of Crass, and the Countess is going to seize this opportunity to suck dry the Bandaged Ego once and for all.

You'll usually find her playing Blackjack because she's great at counting cards. After all, she's been around Counts all her life. Count Dracula, Count Yorga, The Count from Sesame Street...

She knows all the big names.

## Origin

Bathory is based on a real life serial killer who had killed many young girls. Her portrayal as a vampire in the games is most likely based around the stories of her apparent vampiric tendencies which otherwise are debatable.

## Appearance

### *Nightmare IV*

In *Nightmare IV*, Elizabeth Bathory starts out as a beautiful noblewoman with pale skin, long black hair, and full red lips. As the timer counts down, her beauty fades and her features contort, her final form becoming something resembling a hybrid between Nosferatu and a humanoid bat with a metallic looking bear trap jaw over her mouth. Her eyes turn completely white by the final minute. Her playing piece is represented by the gray headstone

### *The Harbingers*

In *The Harbingers*, her playing piece is represented by a bat. Her character card shows her final form from the *Nightmare IV* tape and she also appears this way in the Rules Presentation.

### *The Gatekeeper*

In the DVD reboot, her playing piece is represented by a red bat. Her character card features a slight redesign, now sporting long flowing hair and her entire mouth replaced by a mechanical looking mouth full of sharp teeth, presumably a more simplified version of the extra metal jaws she wore previously.

### *30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition*

The visual design of Bathory's playing piece as seen in the Deluxe edition of the anniversary rerelease depicts an altered variation of her original appearance, with her arms and wings now separate, most likely to match her new appearance in *The Lore of the Other Side*.

## Personality

Bathory is a sadist and a seductress, using her ill-gotten beauty and her soft, breathy voice to entice her "flesh", the players, into a false sense of security. She frequently makes suggestive comments towards her players, usually demanding the players refer to her as “My Lady” and promising to bring both pleasure and pain. She also keeps her seductive attitude up even after her beauty progressively fades and her voice goes from soft and dulcet to deep and snarly. Even at the early stages of her transformation, she can frequently become enraptured by her own sense of powerful lust, breathing in sharply, hissing, moaning, lolling her eyes back or even licking her own hand. It is clear that she values her own "pleasure" above the other players' "pain" and even derives pleasure directly from their suffering, referring to them by names such as "scab", "filth", "runt" and even "scum-pig".

## Key/Keystone Powers

### *The Harbingers*

 Green
 Purple
 Yellow
 Orange
 Blue

#### *The Third Dimension*

 Green
 Purple
 Yellow
 Orange
 Blue