"I wasn't going to be dictated to by mad old men anymore. And then I come here, to meet with the leader of our nation, and what do I find? A mad, cruel old man. Never again, Godbrand. Never again."

Carmilla is the vampiress Queen of Styria, as well as the leader of the Council of Sisters. She is a scheming and manipulative noblewoman, and former ally and general of Lord Dracula, who sought to usurp control over the vampires from him and raise them as the world's new dominant species.

Species: Vampire

Gender: Female

Place of origin: Styria, Austria

Age: Centuries old (undisclosed)

Race: Caucasian

Hair: Light blond

Eyes: Light blue

Weapon(s): Curved blade

Abilities

• Cunning and manipulative

• High intellect and knowledge

• Immortality

• Moderate knowledge and use of magic

• Skilled swordswoman

• Superhuman strength, speed and agility

History

Background

Carmilla was a former general of Dracula's army. She was the last vampire general to arrive at Dracula's Castle, although this being due to having had her own hidden agenda. It was soon revealed that she was not pleased with Dracula's plans of mankind's extinction, mainly because this would leave the entire vampire population without a stable sustenance of blood.

She was turned into a vampire centuries ago by an unknown Vampire Lord, whom she later killed, claiming that he was "old and cruel" to those around him.

Appearance

Carmilla bears the appearance of an elegant and majestic pale woman with crimson red lips, icy blue eyes, and long straight white hair. Although her face is mostly round, she has a notoriously pointy chin. She is also seen wearing a black and crimson red ombre dress, sporting golden shoulder plates and matching heels. While in Styria, Carmilla always dons several long, elegant blood-red dresses with golden accessories and heels. Her nightgown had an open cleavage with a single button below the chest and golden, rounded shoulder pads.

Personality

Carmilla is portrayed as a femme fatale, both seductive and manipulative. She is also selfish and will do anything to accomplish her goals. She proved very politically skilled as she was able to twist the affairs of Dracula's council on itself to even questioning him while maintaining the appearance that she was loyal. While cunning and cautious, Carmilla tends to be arrogant and overconfident. Despite Dracula's great personal power and his army of demons, she believed she could overthrow him by simply killing his vampire generals and attacking him directly. Carmilla is both persistent and opportunistic, and even though her attempted usurpation against Dracula failed and most of her forces were destroyed, she did not admit defeat, only viewing it as a setback.

Carmilla possesses a twisted and dark sense of humor with a penchant for violence, as is custom in Vampire culture. This is revealed when she confesses to Godbrand that she killed the vampire that turned her. According to Carmilla, after her old master went mad, he became 'old and cruel'. She then later went on to capture and enslave Hector, her 'pet', taking delight in beating and verbally berating the Forgemaster, and sadistically enjoying dominating him because he was a stupid man child.

Carmilla is a natural leader, charismatic and visionary. She is acknowledged as first among the four queens of Styria because she sees a future for the kingdom and provides purpose. The execution of her vision falls to her sisters or those she manipulates. She rarely engages in any dirty work herself. Being more into scheming, conniving, and underhanded tactics than leading from the front. Carmilla has a pathological need to control and dominate her environment. She justifies her leadership by likening everyone else as "children, animals, and dying old men" unworthy of agency.

Among her motivations for seeking power and control is her desire to be rid of the command of madmen, or in essence, anyone like her old master, who promised her the world before he grew old, insane, and unkind. Thus, it was one of the reasons why she turned against Dracula, another "old mad man" in her viewpoint. She has an insane hatred toward men and their cruel suppression of female vampires and women in general. Ironically enough, she showcased the same character dynamic, such as in her abusive relationship with Hector. Showing just how mean-spirited and deranged she really is. Moreover, her being viciously temperamental when not getting her way, someone doing or acting in a way she doesn't like, yet portrays those same personal faults like her maniacally childish way of forcing Hector under her heel in the dead of night, surrounded by what's left of her army.

Carmilla has long abandoned any empathy for humans, if she had any, to begin with. Perhaps more so than any other vampire, Carmilla sees humans as being beneath her. She couldn't begin to understand how Dracula could love a human or respect Lisa's humanity enough to not turn her into a vampire. When she is being honest, Carmilla treats the intelligent and valuable Hector like an insect. If her plans came to fruition, humanity would be divided into cattle and corpses.

Later, a more kindhearted/tender side of Carmilla's personality is shown during her interaction with her "sisters", as seen where she would warmly interact with them in a joking, lighthearted, familial manner, in stark contrast to her usual cold, condescending attitude she usually portrays to all others; having been shown to be genuinely loyal, loving and caring toward all three of them and truly seeing them as her sisters in everything but birth; placing a great deal of trust in them in comparison to her usual manipulative disposition during her time in Dracula's court.

This positive relationship with her sisters is fully evidenced when Carmilla listens to each of their inputs regarding her plans of conquest in their entirety, without her usual disposition of scorn and short temper, and patiently listens to them as they point out its flaws without snapping at them, showing how much she values their council and advice. It was later revealed that Carmilla trusts them enough to willingly allow them to know several personal issues regarding her, such as both Morana and Striga being aware of her recurring nightmares and her traumatic memories of the time she lived under her former vampire master, who subsequently became abusive and possibly attracted toward her in his old age, leaving her with deep psychological scars. All of these psychological traumas and fears from her previous life as a slave were unleashed in her final fight against Isaac. Eventually, Carmilla went completely insane and reduced to her base, primal instincts, revealing the true monster that lies beneath her otherwise calm and brilliant demeanor.

Powers and abilities

• Immortality: As a vampire, Carmilla is immortal and cannot die of old age, keeping her youthful and supple body despite having lived for hundreds of years.

• Superhuman strength: Carmilla possesses far more strength than normal humans and other vampires. In fact, she kicked Godbrand with enough speed and force to knock him down a staircase and then pin him to ground with her foot. She was capable of carrying Hector and beating him to a pulp with barely making any effort. Carmilla further showed her terrifying strength when she flipped a long table across a room with one hand, ripped a night creature's head with a flick and easily dismembered dozens of night creatures with her curved blade, even hewing their weapons. Carmilla was also capable of kicking back some of the mightiest night creatures, such as Abel, several meters and to cause a wave of blood to sweep Isaac's creatures away.

• Superhuman speed: Carmilla can move at extraordinary speed in short bursts, not unlike Alucard, leaving red flashes of her movement that are hard to read with the human eye. This speed is so high that it is nearly indistinguishable from teleportation, and at its peak, it sparks electric flashes around her frame. Carmilla can use this ability to instantly move through an enemy while slicing them to shreds. Isaac, a highly lethal combatant in his own right, was unable to react to Carmilla's movements under his own reflexes, needing to rely on his night creatures to absorb her blows.

• Superhuman agility and endurance: Carmilla possesses great agility, capable of jumping dozens of meters and performing incredible and nimble acrobatics, even while wearing heels. She also possesses great endurance, resisting the onslaught of night creatures, killing dozens of them until the floor was flooded with blood before she started tiring. Even when she faced Isaac, she could still move at blinding speed and resist several grievous injuries while fighting.

• Swordsmanship: Carmilla was shown to be a truly terrifying creature that possess great skill with her curved blade, similar to a shashka. In her final moments, the Queen of Styria cut through unending hoards of Isaac's night creature forces, covering the entire room floor in blood. This not only proved her incredible fighting prowess and savage nature, but also a resilient stamina.

• Magic: Although she does not demonstrate any significant magical acumen beyond personal teleportation through shadows, she was knowledgeable enough of the workings of Dracula's Castle, such that she was correctly able to identify that someone had remotely taken control of it and teleported it elsewhere, and that the structure had resisted the attempt.

• Self-destruction: Carmilla is capable of self-destructing by stabbing herself with her curved blade, causing an inferno of violet flames to explode, capable of blasting stone and completely destroying a tower of her castle.

• Cartography: Carmilla is shown to be rather skilled at cartography, charting maps to design her future empire and the progress of her troops, as well as making notations on the different regions lacking a strong vampire leader.

• Charisma and intellect: Carmilla's deadliest weapon is likely her charisma and intellect, as she was capable of staging a coup against Dracula and nearly succeeding in overrunning the castle itself. This was accomplished by using dialogue and skillful manipulation, sowing doubt among everyone and turning several key members of Dracula's allies against him, all while lulling him into the false belief that she would be satiated by following her plan. She took advantage of Godbrand's lust and effectively manipulated the court by taking advantage of their divided nature, knowing that the combined will of the generals was undeniable by Dracula. She was influential and powerful enough to possess an army of well-equipped vampires from Styria, the seat of her power. As noted by Morana, Carmilla's charisma is so powerful that she compares it as something to a "Magical Reality Distortion Spell" since she was capable of talking and convincing Morana, Lenore, and Striga into helping her with her massive expansion plan despite the obvious limits and difficulty of essentially making a gigantic landmass of nothing more than open fields and forests into a gigantic blood pen after the latter realized the immense and never-ending maintenance and effort it would take to constantly police thousands of humans for hundreds of years was practically impossible, and even if it was, the difficulty of such an endeavor would effectively imprison both her and Striga in their roles of trying to keep the entire fragile thing together for the rest of their immortal lives.