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Leda — explore below Gallo Tower
Start Gallo Tower and travel south. The edges darken as you approach the hidden area. Look for Leda in the center of a room and defeat her. Do not race past her once she is visible. A fast character or Hyper can help cover the distance; Hurry shortens the available real-time exploration window. Return to character selection to purchase the unlocked character.
Minnah — the Dairy Plant cheese
After Yellow Sign, enter Dairy Plant and collect the special Cheese pickup. Its map marker uses a Floor Chicken icon. Mad Groove can bring it to you if that Arcana is available. Collecting it spawns seven large werewolves. Defeat all seven, then check character selection.
Peppino — heal the plants in Il Molise
Use Celestial Dusting on the plants in Il Molise. It heals them instead of damaging them. Restore a total of 100,000 health to unlock Peppino. O’Sole begins with Celestial Dusting, so that character provides a direct setup once unlocked. Killing plants with an unrelated weapon does not satisfy the healing task.
Mask of the Red Death — defeat the Reaper
Prepare the two evolution sets in our Red Death guide, defeat the Reaper, then purchase the character. The White Hand ending is separate from the unlock condition.
When the unlock does not appear
Check the named stage, prerequisite relic, character or weapon, and final trigger. A hint being visible is not proof the condition was completed. An unlocked character can still require a purchase. For other secrets, open the linked character’s full unlocking details in the Wiki. The four routes here leave other base-game secrets and DLC secret rosters uncovered.
Castlevania post-Black Disk checkpoints · General unlock planning
Sources & verification
- Wiki · Scrolls ↗ (external website, opens in a new tab) — Menu prerequisite and Sketamari, indexed text.
- Wiki · Leda ↗ (external website, opens in a new tab) — Southward exploration and encounter, indexed text.
- Wiki · Minnah ↗ (external website, opens in a new tab) — Cheese and seven werewolves, indexed text.
- Wiki · Peppino ↗ (external website, opens in a new tab) — Plant healing condition, indexed text.
- Player question · gameplay secrets ↗ (external website, opens in a new tab) — Demand for gameplay methods instead of spell lists. Page-relative dates conflicted with search metadata, so no exact publication date is inferred.