Rinaldo Gandolfi (リナルド・ガンドルフィー Rinarudo Gandorufi?) is a support character introduced in Castlevania: Lament of Innocence. He is an alchemist whose daughter was taken and vampirized by Walter Bernhard. He now lives in a small hut in the Forest of Eternal Night. Rinaldo creates the Whip of Alchemy for Leon Belmont, but this whip is later fused with his fiancée, Sara Trantoul, to create the Vampire Killer, the famous whip of the Belmont Clan.