All Items in the Main Hall in Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse (Checklist With Map)

In Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse, Dracula’s castle has its largest collection of pickups in the Main Hall—too many to keep track of from memory. This list follows the districts in the order you reach them and notes each collectible’s location and requirements. Values are for version 1.0.

Quick answer: The Main Hall holds 21 XP statues, 9 Mirrors of Life, 7 relics, 6 clues, 4 weapons, 3 Brave Heart Fragments, 3 Wise Heart Fragments, 3 whole meat, 2 ATK UP books, 2 DEF UP books, 2 bosses, 1 Ferryman’s Wharf, 1 Arcana card and 1 spell.

Item checklists by area, with a map link for every item: Paris Streets, Holy Innocents’ Cemetery, Catacombs of Paris, Main Hall, Library, Clock Tower and Master’s Quarters, Notre-Dame, Hall of Mirrors.

Main Hall route, bosses and Mirrors of Life

Cross Notre-Dame Bridge and the Castle Drawbridge to enter the Inner Courtyard and continue to the Main Hall. The Isaac encounter on the bridge is an illusion; the right approach lets you beat Isaac in both fights. On the Inner Courtyard’s upper level, open the chest containing the Morning Star.

You encounter Brauner (The Artist) in Brauner’s Atelier; defeating him rewards you with The Artist Arcana and the Masterpiece spell. Equip Masterpiece, then use the painting in the Gallery of Eternal Night to send Rose to Notre-Dame. No other area has as many Mirrors of Life as the Main Hall, which holds nine: one each in the Entrance Corridor, Boudoirs, Waterworks, Torture Chambers, Ballrooms, Elevator Tower, Archives, Servants’ Quarters and Storerooms.

Rose standing in front of an ornate mirror with an interaction prompt on screen — Approaching an ornate mirror brings up its interaction prompt.

Balcony

The Balcony holds two heart fragments, one Brave and one Wise. The nearest Mirror of Life is in the Ballrooms.

Item	Type	Where	Needs	Map
Brave Heart Fragment	Heart (HP)	Nearest Mirror of Life: Ballrooms	—	Map
Wise Heart Fragment	Heart (mana)	Nearest Mirror of Life: Ballrooms	—	Map

Notre-Dame Bridge

The Notre-Dame Bridge has a single pickup, a whole meat.

Item	Type	Where	Needs	Map
Meat	Whole meat	Secret area behind a hidden passage. Nearest Mirror of Life: Gate to the Stone Bridge	—	Map

Rose in a rain-soaked ruin facing two enemies beneath a giant dead tree — A rain-soaked stretch of ruins with two enemies waiting beneath a giant tree.

Inner Courtyard

The Morning Star sits in a chest by the Castle Garden. The nearest Mirror of Life is in the Entrance Corridor.

Item	Type	Where	Needs	Map
Morning Star	Weapon	By the Castle Garden, chest. Nearest Mirror of Life: Entrance Corridor	—	Map

Entrance Corridor

The Entrance Corridor has its own Mirror of Life, plus a Wise Heart Fragment tucked into a secret area behind a hidden passage. You also pick up a whole meat and two XP statues here.

Item	Type	Where	Needs	Map
Wise Heart Fragment	Heart (mana)	Secret area behind a hidden passage. Nearest Mirror of Life: Entrance Corridor	—	Map
Meat	Whole meat	Secret area behind a breakable wall, near a breakable wall. Nearest Mirror of Life: Entrance Corridor	—	Map
XP statue	XP statue	Nearest Mirror of Life: Entrance Corridor	—	Map
XP statue	XP statue	Nearest Mirror of Life: Entrance Corridor	—	Map
Mirror of Life	Mirror of Life		—	Map

Rose walking right along a lower corridor beneath a huge wall gear in a green-lit cathedral — The lower corridor runs beneath a large gear under green stained glass.

Grand Hall

The Grand Hall is all consumables and experience: one whole meat and five XP statues.

Item	Type	Where	Needs	Map
Meat	Whole meat	Secret area behind a hidden passage. Nearest Mirror of Life: Elevator Tower	—	Map
XP statue	XP statue	Secret area behind a hidden passage. Nearest Mirror of Life: Elevator Tower	—	Map
XP statue	XP statue	Nearest Mirror of Life: Elevator Tower	—	Map
XP statue	XP statue	Nearest Mirror of Life: Elevator Tower	—	Map
XP statue	XP statue	Nearest Mirror of Life: Elevator Tower	—	Map
XP statue	XP statue	Secret area behind a hidden passage. Nearest Mirror of Life: Elevator Tower	—	Map

Rose in the Grand Hall approaching a floor mechanism with a glowing interaction point under a raised platform — The Grand Hall floor mechanism, with its glowing interaction point beneath the raised platform.

Abandoned Workshop

The Ghostly Pendant relic is in a chest inside a secret area behind a hidden passage, and the room also carries a clue. The nearest Mirror of Life is in the Elevator Tower.

Item	Type	Where	Needs	Map
Ghostly Pendant	Relic	Secret area behind a hidden passage, chest. Nearest Mirror of Life: Elevator Tower	—	Map
Builder flees to the Clock Tower	Clue	Nearest Mirror of Life: Elevator Tower	—	Map

Rose at the Ghostly Pendant chest in the hidden upper room of the Abandoned Workshop — The Ghostly Pendant chest in the hidden upper room of the Abandoned Workshop, behind the right-hand wall of the ledge you arrive on.

Boudoirs

The Boudoirs give you a Mirror of Life and one XP statue.

Item	Type	Where	Needs	Map
XP statue	XP statue	Secret area behind a hidden passage. Nearest Mirror of Life: Boudoirs	—	Map
Mirror of Life	Mirror of Life		—	Map

Mirror Rooms

Both Mirror Rooms pickups sit by the One-way Mirror. A Brave Heart Fragment is out in the open, and a DEF UP book is in a secret area behind a hidden passage.

Item	Type	Where	Needs	Map
Brave Heart Fragment	Heart (HP)	By the One-way Mirror. Nearest Mirror of Life: Elevator Tower	—	Map
DEF UP book	DEF UP book	Secret area behind a hidden passage, by the One-way Mirror. Nearest Mirror of Life: Elevator Tower	—	Map

Rose inside a glowing ornate mirror above a grand red staircase as fiery projectiles cross the screen — Rose inside a glowing ornate mirror above a red staircase.

Waterworks

The Waterworks has one pickup, a Mirror of Life.

Item	Type	Where	Needs	Map
Mirror of Life	Mirror of Life		—	Map

Torture Chambers

The Torture Chambers hold a Mirror of Life and three XP statues.

Item	Type	Where	Needs	Map
XP statue	XP statue	Secret area behind a hidden passage. Nearest Mirror of Life: Torture Chambers	—	Map
XP statue	XP statue	Nearest Mirror of Life: Torture Chambers	—	Map
XP statue	XP statue	Nearest Mirror of Life: Torture Chambers	—	Map
Mirror of Life	Mirror of Life		—	Map

Ballrooms

The Ballrooms add a Mirror of Life and two XP statues. This is also the closest Mirror of Life to the Balcony.

Item	Type	Where	Needs	Map
XP statue	XP statue	Nearest Mirror of Life: Ballrooms	—	Map
XP statue	XP statue	Nearest Mirror of Life: Ballrooms	—	Map
Mirror of Life	Mirror of Life		—	Map

Brauner’s Atelier

Everything here is by Brauner’s Workshop. You fight Brauner (The Artist) in the boss arena, and you must beat him to get The Artist Arcana and the Masterpiece spell. Two clues sit in a secret area behind a hidden passage.

Item	Type	Where	Needs	Map
Brauner (The Artist)	Boss	Boss arena, by the Brauner’s Workshop. Nearest Mirror of Life: Elevator Tower	—	Map
The Artist	Arcana card	By the Brauner’s Workshop. Nearest Mirror of Life: Elevator Tower	Beat Brauner (The Artist)	Map
Masterpiece	Spell	By the Brauner’s Workshop. Nearest Mirror of Life: Elevator Tower	Beat Brauner (The Artist)	Map
Brauner’s “Masterpiece”	Clue	Secret area behind a hidden passage, by the Brauner’s Workshop. Nearest Mirror of Life: Elevator Tower	—	Map
Carmilla in the Library	Clue	Secret area behind a hidden passage, by the Brauner’s Workshop. Nearest Mirror of Life: Elevator Tower	—	Map

Elevator Tower

The Elevator Tower has a Mirror of Life and a clue. Its mirror is the nearest one for many districts in the middle and back half of the Main Hall.

Item	Type	Where	Needs	Map
Artist hides in the Main Hall	Clue	Nearest Mirror of Life: Elevator Tower	—	Map
Mirror of Life	Mirror of Life		—	Map

Rose at an ornate red central gate between two stairways with an interaction prompt showing — An interaction prompt appears at the ornate central gate.

West Hall

The Witch’s Knot relic is in a chest, and there is one XP statue.

Item	Type	Where	Needs	Map
Witch’s Knot	Relic	Chest. Nearest Mirror of Life: Elevator Tower	—	Map
XP statue	XP statue	Nearest Mirror of Life: Elevator Tower	—	Map

Rose at the Witch's Knot chest on a red-carpeted ledge in the West Hall — The Witch’s Knot chest on the red-carpeted ledge under a heraldic shield in the West Hall, with the cog wall lever at the left end.

Watch Tower

The Rapiers are in a chest here.

Item	Type	Where	Needs	Map
Rapiers	Weapon	Chest. Nearest Mirror of Life: Elevator Tower	—	Map

The Rapiers chest in a red-carpeted alcove of the Watch Tower — The Rapiers chest in the small red-carpeted alcove behind a locked gate at the bottom right of the Watch Tower.

Gallery of Eternal Night

The clue here sits by the Notre-Dame Painting and requires you to equip Masterpiece, so come back after the Brauner fight.

Item	Type	Where	Needs	Map
A Strange Painting of Notre-Dame	Clue	By the Notre-Dame Painting. Nearest Mirror of Life: Elevator Tower	Equip Masterpiece	Map

Old Gallery

All three Old Gallery pickups are in a secret area behind a hidden passage, including the Jewel Knuckles in a chest.

Item	Type	Where	Needs	Map
Jewel Knuckles	Weapon	Secret area behind a hidden passage, chest. Nearest Mirror of Life: Elevator Tower	—	Map
ATK UP book	ATK UP book	Secret area behind a hidden passage. Nearest Mirror of Life: Elevator Tower	—	Map
Alucard Guides	Clue	Secret area behind a hidden passage. Nearest Mirror of Life: Elevator Tower	—	Map

Rose mid-jump swinging a weapon beside a hanging red banner in a turquoise-lit cathedral — Platforming past a hanging red banner in a turquoise-lit cathedral room.

Castle Drawbridge

The Isaac fight takes place in the boss arena by the Drawbridge.

Item	Type	Where	Needs	Map
Isaac (illusion)	Boss	Boss arena, by the Drawbridge. Nearest Mirror of Life: Entrance Corridor	—	Map

Dungeon

The Dungeon holds five XP statues and nothing else.

Item	Type	Where	Needs	Map
XP statue	XP statue	Nearest Mirror of Life: Archives	—	Map
XP statue	XP statue	Nearest Mirror of Life: Archives	—	Map
XP statue	XP statue	Nearest Mirror of Life: Archives	—	Map
XP statue	XP statue	Secret area behind a hidden passage. Nearest Mirror of Life: Archives	—	Map
XP statue	XP statue	Nearest Mirror of Life: Archives	—	Map

Rose moving along a lower corridor toward a small purple enemy, a glowing doorway at the far right — A lower corridor with a small purple enemy and a glowing exit doorway ahead.

Item	Type	Where	Needs	Map
Blood Vial	Relic	Chest. Nearest Mirror of Life: Archives	—	Map
Mirror of Life	Mirror of Life		—	Map

Crematorium

The Grim Token relic is in a chest. The nearest Mirror of Life is in the Archives.

Item	Type	Where	Needs	Map
Grim Token	Relic	Chest. Nearest Mirror of Life: Archives	—	Map

Wine Cellar

The Cursed Coin relic is in a chest, with the Archives Mirror of Life closest to it. A Wise Heart Fragment and an ATK UP book sit in a secret area behind a hidden passage, nearest the Storerooms Mirror of Life. There is also one XP statue.

Item	Type	Where	Needs	Map
Cursed Coin	Relic	Chest. Nearest Mirror of Life: Archives	—	Map
Wise Heart Fragment	Heart (mana)	Secret area behind a hidden passage. Nearest Mirror of Life: Storerooms	—	Map
ATK UP book	ATK UP book	Secret area behind a hidden passage. Nearest Mirror of Life: Storerooms	—	Map
XP statue	XP statue	Secret area behind a breakable wall. Nearest Mirror of Life: Archives	—	Map

The red background door to the Wine Cellar in the Entrance Corridor — The red background door at the left end of the Entrance Corridor’s lower floor leads into the Wine Cellar.

Servants’ Quarters

The Banshee’s Wail relic is in a chest inside a secret area behind a hidden passage. A DEF UP book and a Mirror of Life round out the district.

Item	Type	Where	Needs	Map
Banshee’s Wail	Relic	Secret area behind a hidden passage, chest. Nearest Mirror of Life: Servants’ Quarters	—	Map
DEF UP book	DEF UP book	Nearest Mirror of Life: Servants’ Quarters	—	Map
Mirror of Life	Mirror of Life		—	Map

Abandoned Staircase

The Blackened Heart relic is in a chest.

Item	Type	Where	Needs	Map
Blackened Heart	Relic	Chest. Nearest Mirror of Life: Elevator Tower	—	Map

Alucard’s Tower

Alucard’s Sword and Shield are in a chest here.

Item	Type	Where	Needs	Map
Alucard’s Sword and Shield	Weapon	Chest. Nearest Mirror of Life: Elevator Tower	—	Map

Armoury

A Brave Heart Fragment hides in a secret area behind a hidden passage, nearest the Archives Mirror of Life. The Ferryman’s Wharf is also here, nearest the Elevator Tower Mirror of Life, along with one XP statue.

Item	Type	Where	Needs	Map
Brave Heart Fragment	Heart (HP)	Secret area behind a hidden passage. Nearest Mirror of Life: Archives	—	Map
XP statue	XP statue	Nearest Mirror of Life: Archives	—	Map
Ferryman’s Wharf	Ferryman’s Wharf	Nearest Mirror of Life: Elevator Tower	—	Map

Rose on a lower platform beneath an ornate circular wall mechanism in a green-lit castle hall — A lower platform beneath an ornate circular wall mechanism.

Storerooms

The Storerooms hold the last Mirror of Life on the list, and it is the closest checkpoint to the Wine Cellar’s secret area.

Item	Type	Where	Needs	Map
Mirror of Life	Mirror of Life		—	Map

To see every pickup in place, open the interactive Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse map, follow the route in walkthrough part 4, or check the Main Hall secret areas for the hidden passages.