

Nightmare restarts his journey with three goals in mind, encountering Siegfried, repairing Soul Edge, and finding a new host body, since his current form is simply an empty shell.Įventually Nightmare encounters Siegfried and they do battle. Using ancient magic he binds the spirit of Soul Edge with the armor, allowing Nightmare to once again roam the land. In Soul Calibur III the abandoned armor and spirit of Soul Edge are found by Zasalamel. However before the seal was complete Inferno, the spirit of Soul Edge, was able to escape into the abandoned azure armor. Siegfried drove the holy sword into Soul Edge sealing both swords power in what is called an embrace of souls. This not only caused Siegfried to regain control of his body, but also released Soul Calibur from within Soul Edge. Raphael uses this opportunity to unleash an attack into Soul Edge's eye. As a result Nightmare is left standing motionless. However just as he goes in to finish him off, Siegfried begins to struggle for control of Nightmare. Nightmare then encounters Raphael in the chapel of Osthreinsburg, and defeats him. However while occupying his stronghold, his castle came under attack by Kilik, Xianghua, and Maxi. To do this he recruited Astaroth, Ivy and Lizardman to speed up the process while he prepared the ritual to restore the sword. In Soul Calibur II Nightmare continued his wave of destruction in order to restore Soul Edge to its complete form. As Nightmare he continued to spread destruction and death across the land. Eventually he was fully corrupted by the sword and took on the name Nightmare. Unaware that this was a deception of the sword's power, Siegfried carried out a killing spree. Soul Edge promised Siegfried the resurrection of his murdered father if he gathered enough souls. After Siegfried claims the sword as his own, a voice speaks to him.

Nightmare, the " Azure Knight" is the name Siegfried took on after taking Soul Edge from a defeated Cervantes and battling Inferno. The more powerful Soul Edge becomes, the fleshier the sword becomes, and the less human Nightmare looks. It wields "itself", the shapeshifting spirit sword Soul Edge, in the form used by Siegfried, an enormous zweihander, specifically to mock him.

Once a name taken by Siegfried Schtauffen when he was possessed by the Soul Edge sword, Nightmare is now the blade's evil consciousness taken physical form through the same Azure armor that its host once wore.
