Alcina Dimitrescu was the last Countless of the Dimitrescu house. In the Village, there are four houses of nobility and Dimitrescu stands as one of them. She lived in an ornate Castle which stood close to a simple village - it can be seen from most parts of the surrounding area and it's architecture is unmistakable and vast. At birth, she was afflicted with a blood disorder similar to vampirism where she required fresh blood to sustain herself. Eventually the rest of her family either moved on or passed on and she was left to her own devices.
As Castle Dimitrescu was located merely steps away from the village, Alcina was seen as a sort of leader figure by the locals. As such, she used their fearfulness and desperate nature to take advantage of them and maintain her aristocratic lifestyle.
Alcina was born sometime around World War I. In her youth she lived a relatively normal life, far away from Castle Dimitrescu. She had a short career as Jazz singer for a band named "Miss D & The Pallboys" - in fact, Ethan and
Mia Winters actually owned a copy of one of her albums on CD.
After some successes and failures, Alcina decided to return 'home' to Castle Dimitrescu to which she found that the people worshipped a large underground fungus given the name the Black God. Unbeknownst to them, this was an enormous colony of Mold which increased in intensity whenever a body was 'fed' to it - the easiest way for this to happen was to bury corpses in the ground which it then consumed. At some stage, Miranda found the Mold and became infected by it. Her infection gave her incredible strength, intelligence and abilities. She then gave herself the moniker
Mother Miranda and created the cult following around the village. In reality, the cult was set up so that Miranda could experiment on the village with the Mold.
When Alcina met with Miranda to discuss the future of the village, she was infected with a
Cadou which was a kind of bio-engineered Mold parasite. This was meant to be an experiment to see if Alcina's body was a suitable host for Mirandas daughter who had died some years previously; if successful she would be able to revive her daughter.
However, the experiment was not a success. The
Cadou mutated Alcina's body composition - she stopped ageing, but she continued to grow proportionally. At the time of her death she was a towering 9'6" tall, with no issues with mobility. Her height however did cause some inconvenience to her, having to have to stoop or bend down to get through doorways. She also gained super-fast healing capabilities leaving her almost invincible. She also gained some offensive abilities such as extending her fingernails into incredibly sharp claws - so sharp in fact that they could slice through bone like butter. Most interestingly however, she had the ability to transform into a enormous flying Mold monster which had the appearance of a Nordic dragon with the visage of her human self sat atop it. Her main disadvantage was that she still had her blood disease that she was born with, meaning she still required a steady source of fresh blood in order to live.
As a failure for
Mother Miranda, she was tasked with helping her with her continued research in the
Cadou. In order to maintain a consistent trade, she also resumed production of Sanguinis Virginis wine.
Alcina's research in the
Cadou had her implant the parasites into three dead women which then consumed their bodies and eventually devolved into a clutch of small flying insects. Eventually, the insects formed human shapes and became known as the daughters of Alcina - named Bella, Cassandra and Daniela (A - Alcina, B - Bella, C - Cassandra, D - Daniela). The three daughters lived in the castle with Alcina and the four of them all conducted 'business' (i.e. capturing locals and draining them of their blood) together and the dumped them in the underground catacombs of the castle where they would eventually mutate into Mold creatures such as Moroaicǎ.
The Dimitrescu house continued this way for the number of years before
Ethan Winters arrived on their property. He was searching for his daughter Rose who had been stolen by
Mother Miranda and taken to the village. In order for Miranda to use Rose as a suitable host for her daughter she asked Alcina and her kin to kill all of her servants, all of the villagers (and anyone else besides
The Duke) and bury them as she needed the Black God to consume massive amounts of biological material. Ethan was soon captured by the daughters and brought him before Alcina herself. After a brief conversation, Ethan soon broke free and began roaming the castle.
In various rooms Ethan encountered Alcina's three daughters. Eventually finding their weaknesses - exposure to cold air - allowed him to kill them one by one. News of their deaths enraged Alcina which, when she finally got her hands on him herself caused her to smash him through floorboards and into a basement area below. Ethan continued his search for a way to defeat Alcina and escape and he eventually found a crypt located on an exterior rooftop area. This crypt contained a single coffin which was the resting place of an assassin who once tried to kill Alcina along with a ceremonial dagger.
This dagger was named the Dagger of Death's Flowers - it contained over a thousand different kinds of poisons and toxins within the blade which meant that it could in theory kill anything it touched due to a saturation of many different afflictions all at once. Ethan managed to take the weapon and stabbed Alcina with it. While this didn't kill her, it prevented her from maintaining her human form and caused her to turn into her huge dragon-like monster state permanently.
An ensuing battle raged on the rooftops of the castle. While Alcina was still lucid, her rage and pain clouded her judgement and she simply remained on the offensive, but her large size and asymmetrical body shape caused her to be imprecise and lumbering which gave Ethan many advantages. As Ethan began to weaken her, her flying ability began to fail. In one last-ditch attempt to kill him, Alcina grabbed him as she fell down the interior of a tower with the view of him falling to his death. Unbeknownst to her (and Ethan) however, Ethan had some supernatural Mold abilities of his own, so he survived.
Alcina however, did not. She began to curse Ethan in her death throes and soon her dragon body crystallised, and then her human body followed along with it. What was left was a crystallised husk which appeared to be of some value to
The Duke.
