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Eye of the Midnight Sun

"Remember this Magic Knights. We are the Eye of the Midnight Sun. The ones who will destroy the Clover Kingdom!!"

A group of rogue mages led by Licht with the goal of destroying the Clover Kingdom. They seek out the magic stones to resurrect the elves, who were massacred by humans.

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In General

Adaptational Expansion:
- The anime focuses a bit more on the underlings and the characters' fights with them during the Underwater Temple Arc, and some of their names are revealed in the credits.
- Many more members' magics are seen in the anime when the Royal Knights invade their hideout in the Gravito Stones.
Asshole Victim: The group's human members are used as sacrifices for Licht's Reincarnate Magic to bring back the elves, but it's hard to feel bad for them when they're selfish, hypocritical people willing to attack innocent civilians.
Black Cloak: Actually a White Cloak, but each of the lower members wear ominous white cloaks, with some using them to conceal their faces.
Cult: The group has shades of this, with its human members given "true names" with the promise of being reborn into their "true forms". This is all a ruse to mark them as sacrifices for a forbidden spell to reincarnate the elves.
Dark and Troubled Past: Several of the members claim to have been abandoned by the Clover Kingdom until Licht took them under his wing, which is part of why they're so loyal to him. Licht himself accuses the kingdom of forsaking the strong because the weak envy and hate them — which is later revealed as a form of double-speak for the Elf genocide at the hands of humans.
Equal-Opportunity Evil: Despite the elf members' hatred of humans, they accept human mages into their group. This is later subverted when it's revealed that Licht always hated them for being selfish humans who betrayed their own kind, with their final purpose serving as human sacrifices to reincarnate the elves.
Eye Motifs: Their symbol is three yellow eyes. The core members of the group are the Third Eye, who each have a hidden Third Eye because they were reincarnated via Forbidden Magic.
Fantastic Terrorists: The Eye of the Midnight Sun is a group of rogue mages led by elves whose goal is to kill all the humans of the Clover Kingdom in revenge and reincarnate the murdered elf tribe by collecting the needed magic stones to do so.
Gold and White Are Divine: They wear a white cloak with the golden symbol of the Eye of the Midnight Sun. They certainly see themselves as this, wanting to be reincarnated into their "true" forms as elves loved by mana.
Gotta Catch Them All: Their goal is to obtain all the magic stones to place on their Tree of Life Monument, which are needed to reincarnate the elves. They manage to do so, and Patry intends to put the final stone in the Shadow Palace to complete the reincarnation by fully erasing the presence of the elves' hosts.
Human Sacrifice: One of the true purposes for the human members is to act as sacrifices in order to draw out the elf souls. They serve their purpose when Licht casts the reincarnation spell.
In the Hood: Many of their members hide their faces under their hooded white cloaks when they attack the Royal Capital.
Jerkass: Rather unpleasant people, to say the least. They all harbor hatred against the Clover Kingdom, and are willing to torture its citizens.
Kill All Humans: Their goal is the deaths of every human in the Clover Kingdom.
Light Is Not Good: With the exceptions of Rades, Catherine, and Vetto, their standard uniform is that of a white cloak with a black streak that contains the symbol of the group in the center. Suffice to say, the members of the organization are less than pleasant.
Meaningful Name:
- The "Eye" refers to the Third Eye, the group's strongest members and most loyal servants of Licht.
- A "Midnight Sun" leads to a "Golden Dawn", which foreshadows the connection between the two groups — the squad's captain is the host of Licht's soul and almost everyone in the squad is the host of a reincarnated elf.
Ominous Floating Castle: Their main hideout is a floating rock dungeon with many chambers and tunnels.
Standard Evil Organization Squad: They're a group of rogue mages with mysterious goals intent on destroying the Clover Kingdom, coming into conflict with the Magic Knights as a result.
Undying Loyalty: All the lower members are fanatically loyal to Licht and speak highly of him.
Unwitting Pawn:
- Patry tricked the human members of the organization by promising them a new future, when, in truth, he used them as sacrifices in order to revive his elves friends from the afterlife.
- As a whole they are this to Zagred, who orchestrated the elves' massacre so that they would gather the magic stones and summon the Shadow Palace needed for his revival.

Leader

Licht

Licht/Patry

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Voiced by: Takahiro Sakurai (Japanese), Shouko Yuzuki (Japanese, young), Jerry Jewell (English), Jad Saxton (English, young)^note

Debut: Chapter 9 (Manga), Episode 10 (Anime)

Magic Attribute: Light

"The victims were the strong. The targets of jealousy. Fear. Discrimination. Persecution. And theft!"

The Eye of the Midnight Sun's leader and an incredibly powerful mage. Licht is an elf whose race was wiped out because humans feared the elves' magic power. His goal is to enact vengeance on the Clover Kingdom by killing all humans. Licht's subordinates hold extreme loyalty to and see him as an absolute being, with him in turn valuing them for helping him attain his goal.

In reality, he is another elf named Patry who went under the name of the deceased Elf Tribe leader Licht because he was given Licht's appearance. The real Licht can be distinguished through having a different magic attribute.

He owns his own four-leaf clover grimoire and wields the incredibly rare Light Magic, moving incredibly fast and forming beams and weapons out of light.

Affably Evil: Zigzagged. He's seemingly polite and respectful in his mannerisms and seems to be genuinely kind to his subordinates, cradling Sally after she was injured by Asta before taking his revenge, but it turns out he isn't when it's revealed that he doesn't value his minions at all, abhorring humans and telling them that they're valuable as sacrifices for his true companions. For said true companions in the likes of his fellow elf tribe comrades though, he does genuinely care for them.
All for Nothing: In reality, his plan to reincarnate his own kind to commit mass genocide against humans is a farce set up by Zagred to ensure the latter fully manifests to unleash catastrophic destruction upon the world. He doesn't have a clue about what's actually going on until Zagred appears personally and gleefully rubs it in his face, at which point he breaks down outright. Furthermore, it's later revealed that his tribe wasn't even wholly wiped out and still somewhat exists in the form of descendants of Licht and Tetia within the Heart Kingdom.
An Arm and a Leg: An encounter with Julius left his right arm shriveled thanks to his Time Magic. It takes months for it to be healed by Fana.
Assimilation Plot: He reincarnates his fellow elf tribe into human bodies, who would commit mass genocide against Clover Kingdom. This possesses and overwrites most of Clover Kingdom's magic knights and replaces them with murderous elves ready to kill anyone they see. Even Yuno is possessed by an elf, but since that's the real Licht and Tetia's son (an unborn elf/human hybrid who bears no grudge against mankind), it only changes his appearance.
The Atoner:
- After learning the truth about the elves' massacre, he falls into despair and becomes a dark elf. Asta convinces him to stop running and fight Zagred, leading him to contributing to the fight against the devil. He's also been involved against the Dark Triad since then.
- Rades refuses to let Licht be exorcised and brings his spirit back into Licht's abandoned body, telling him that he'd be getting off easy that way. He's thankful for the opportunity to atone.
Badass Longrobe: Under his white cloak, he wears a long blue robe, and is a powerful mage with a four-leaf grimoire who goes toe-to-toe with Yami and Julius.
Bad Boss: Although he seems like a good one at first, angered that Valtos is harmed, he turns out to be this when he sacrifices all his human followers to reincarnate the elves. When they ask him if they were his precious comrades, he states that they were precious for bringing back his true comrades, the Elves — and he actually subverts this trope towards them.
Barred from the Afterlife: Rades stops Patry from going to the afterlife with Licht and the rest of the elves to make him atone.
Beauty Is Bad: The Volume 12 Questions Brigade states Licht is the second most beautiful man among the characters, being an effeminate elf with long white hair, and he's the leader of a terrorist group.
Became Their Own Antithesis: The real Licht was an elf who loved both humans and elves and seeks for them to coexist. Patry as Licht however, is a vengeful, hate-filled terrorist leader desiring to commit genocide against humans and went against everything Licht stood for. Zagred even lampshades this in his Breaking Speech against him.
Benevolent Boss: Zigzagged. Patry, when impersonating Licht, is seemingly merciful, forgiving and kind to his subordinates, whom he loves like family. At least one is a childhood friend of his, and when two of them are captured in their attack on Clover, Licht immediately makes plans to rescue them. Until he reveals his true feelings toward his human followers, which are that he utterly hates them because they are egotistical and foolish. Turns out he was also using them as sacrifices, anyway. In the other hand, if you're an elf within his ranks like Rhya, Fana or Vetto, Patry does care for you instead of treating you like some disposable pawn.
BFS: He can form giant swords out of his Light Magic to wield or fire at enemies. He uses it to stab Julius.
Big Bad: He was the definitive main antagonist of the first saga, as he is responsible for causing much of the series' conflicts. However, he loses his position when Zagred emerges and Patry has a Heel–Face Turn.
Big Bad Wannabe: He is the main villain of the story’s first saga, leading the Eye of the Midnight Sun. He gathers the magic stones needed to reincarnate the elves into the bodies of humans and defeats Julius. However, it's later revealed that the devil Zagred was the one behind the elf genocide and the Reincarnation Magic, with Patry following his plans to a tee. Zagred easily defeats Patry upon manifesting in the Shadow Palace and takes the place as the true villain of the Elf Reincarnation Arc.
Black Eyes of Crazy: After being overcome by despair, he becomes a dark elf consumed by destruction and hate with his scleras turning black. After recovering mentally his left eye stays this way.
Black Eyes of Evil: Upon falling into despair and becoming a dark elf, his eyes turn black. His left eye remains so even after he mentally recovers.
Braids of Action: A Rare Male Example. He has his long white hair in several braids and is an incredibly powerful mage with a rare magic.
Break the Haughty: He's very arrogant about his magic power and believes his plans can't be stopped after the elves are reincarnated and the Shadow Palace is manifested. Then Zagred appears and reveals that he was behind the elf massacre and Patry followed his plan, mentally breaking him and causing Patry to transform into a dark elf.
Broken Ace: Patry is an effeminately beautiful, charismatic leader able to amass a band of loyal followers and chosen by a four-leaf grimoire to blessed with the rare Light Magic, which mark him as an incredibly powerful mage leagues above most others. Despite this, he's obsessed with reincarnating his fallen race after himself and them were supposedly massacred by human royals five centuries ago. It doesn't help that Patry himself is emotionally much younger than he looks, having been killed at the age of 15, and when Asta mentally speaks with him he's shown at his age when he died, showing that he never emotionally matured after the massacre.
Broken Pedestal: He was highly respected by his human underlings until he reveals that he hates all humans, including them who betrayed their own kind, and promptly used them as sacrifices.
Brought Down to Badass: He loses his grimoire to Zagred after it becomes a five-leaf grimoire. He's still able to use his newly acquired Demon Light Magic to fight.
The Bus Came Back: Last seen after the battle with Zagred and exorcism of the other elves, Patry and the Third Eye return in Chapter 264 to an awakening Noelle after her defeat by Vanica and the bombing of the Heart Kingdom.
The Cavalry: He and the rest of the forces who were training in Elysia join up with the Magic Knights and Resistance in the Spade Kingdom to help them fight against the devils released from the underworld and the Dark Triad.
Character Development: Patry starts off with a deep vengefulness against all humans due to the massacre of the elves. However, sharing a body with Vangeance made him somewhat contemplate on humanity but didn't stop his desire to kill them. When Zagred reveals himself to be the true perpetrator behind the massacre, he falls into deep despair, continuing to blame humans to cope with his actions until Asta persuades him to atone and fight their shared enemy. His new resolve makes him kinder and more remorseful, to the point where he chooses to sacrifice himself to save the Clover Kingdom's humans from the rampaging elves. When he's next seen, Patry is much more at peace with himself, having settled in the new elf village of Elysia where he has found meaning in staying reincarnated, and chooses to help humans he once detested. The old Patry would certainly never have taught the humans elves' magic.
Chekhov's Gun: The Third Eye use Trinity Sealing Magic to store incredibly large amounts of mana, which is first seen in Chapter 53. He releases this seal in Chapter 144, using the entirety of the mana to cast his Arrows of Judgement, raining down light blades on the entire Clover Kingdom and forcing Julius to sacrifice himself.
The Chessmaster: Patry successfully convinced outcast mages that he was their savior who would reincarnate them into their true forms while marking them as future sacrifices. When it comes time to start his plan, using Vangeance, he calls Yami to the Golden Dawn's headquarters to discuss Langris' actions against Finral while the Royal Knights attack the Eye of the Midnight Sun's hideout, having his minions attack the Black Bulls' hideout to obtain the magic stones while there are few members around. Again, using Vangeance, he has Yami wait long enough at the Golden Dawn HQ, without Finral to teleport him to travel long distances, as he battles Julius since Yami is one of the only ones who can stop him. After mortally wounding Julius, he collects the remaining magic stones from Julius and his subordinates after their attack on the Black Bulls' hideout. And when he finally has all the magic stones, he sacrifices his human followers as part of the reincarnation ritual. Ironically, it turns out Patry had been manipulated all along by a bigger Chessmaster Zagred.
The Chosen One: Subverted. He believed himself to be this for the elves, being the only one among them to reincarnate into a human body after the massacre. As a result, he formed the Eye of the Midnight Sun and reincarnated the Third Eye to resurrect his people. It's later revealed that Zagred was behind the massacre and Reincarnation Magic, with Patry as his Unwitting Pawn the entire time.
Clipped-Wing Angel: While his magic becomes stronger after turning into a dark elf, as a being consumed by despair and anger he is unable to fight tactfully. Thus, Nozel soon restrains him using his Mercury Magic, solidifying his mercury so that it can reflect light.
Combat Medic: He can use his Light Magic to fire beams and blades of light as well as heal himself and allies.
Combat Pragmatist: When it becomes clear that he cannot defeat Julius in a fight, he uses his magic to rain down swords of light on the entire Clover Kingdom to get Julius to erase them with his magic to save the civilians, using this moment of sacrifice to stab and defeat him.
Combination Attack:
- He combines copied Spatial Magic with Patry's Light Magic to fire beams of light from countless portals formed to surround enemies.
- Combines his magic with Droit's Mirror Magic to ricochet his light blades with mirrors to attack the Black Bulls multiple times.
- He can use his magic with four other elves to launch his giant light sword combined with their elemental attributes.
Dark and Troubled Past: Patry was just an innocent elf boy who idolized Licht and because of him, began to wonder whether humans and elves could understand each other. But during Licht and Tetia's wedding, the village was attacked by Zagred in a way that can be attributed to Lumiere, the first Wizard King and Tetia's brother, so he believed that Lumiere betrayed them and was secretly conspiring with his fellow royals to steal the elves' mana. Patry, in the end, died at the wedding, but centuries later, found himself living in William Vangeance's body while looking like Licht.
Dark Is Evil: When he becomes a dark elf, his scleras turn black, his skin darkens, and he gains Demon Light Magic, allowing him to use black light. He also loses his self-control and becomes consumed by destructive hate. When he calms down, he becomes a normal elf again.
Dark Is Not Evil: He retains the ability to use Black Light Magic after he recovers from being a dark elf and has a full Heel–Face Turn.
Dark Messiah: Licht is the charismatic leader of the Eye of the Midnight Sun, a group of rogue mages loyal to him, making them believe that he will reincarnate them into their true forms and establish a new kingdom. He thinks of himself as the one chosen to resurrect his fallen race, and genuinely believes that he'll cleanse the corrupt Clover Kingdom of its sins by killing all humans.
Dead Person Impersonation: For some reason, he was given Licht's appearance when put into Vangeance's body. Thenceforth, he presented himself as Licht, and even Rhya seemed to think that Licht had been reincarnated after Patry had first put his ghost into a human body.
Death Glare: He shoots one at Asta when he injures Valtos, livid at him for harming a comrade.
Despair Event Horizon: Patry crosses this after Zagred reveals the truth to him. It also turns out that this is how a four-leaf clover grimoire becomes a five-leaf like Asta's, which happen to Patry's and turns him into a dark elf after he gives into hatred and despair.
Discard and Draw: Being consumed by despair causes him to lose his grimoire to Zagred as well as turn into a dark elf, gaining Demon Light Magic that's faster and stronger than his previous Light Magic.
Disc-One Final Boss: Licht serves as the the primary antagonist for the first saga of Black Clover. However, when he realizes that he was an Unwitting Pawn in Zagred's plans, he undergoes a Heel–Face Turn and the focus shifts to Zagred as the true Big Bad.
Did You Actually Believe...?: As he sacrifices Rades, Valtos, and Sally, he mocks them for thinking that he actually considered them, who are humans that he hates, his companions.
Driven to Villainy: Witnessing his tribe get massacred at Licht's wedding as a child by what he believes are human royals instilled in Patry a deep hatred for humanity and desire to obtain revenge. When he finds himself reincarnated in the body of Vangeance centuries after his death, he makes it his goal to reincarnate his people and kill all humans, believing them to be irredeemable. When Asta mentally speaks to him after Patry becomes a dark elf, he takes the form of his appearance as a child prior to the massacre, showing that Patry never truly matured after this traumatic event in his childhood.
Dual Wielding: He can form a light blade to wield in each hand simultaneously.
Elemental Eye Colors: Patry has gold eyes, fitting with his magic attribute of light.
Elemental Hair Colors: He has long white hair and uses Light Magic.
Elemental Speed:
- Light Magic is said to be the fastest form of magic, making it formidable in both firepower and attack speed. When Licht fights Yami and Asta, they struggle to deal with it at first because of how fast it flies. They get by against Licht through Combat Clairvoyance by reading ki.
- This comes up again when he fights Julius. Licht feels that there's destiny in that he has to fight Julius because the only thing that can oppose time is light, the fastest of the magic attributes.
Elfeminate: He looks much more feminine than the two elves of the Third Eye, to say the least. Patry looked pretty feminine when he was a kid.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He wants to kill all humans and destroy the Clover Kingdom. This is out of revenge for the genocide of his fellow elves, and wish to reincarnate his fallen people. He deeply cares for his brethren who comprise the Third Eye, but he actually detests the human members of the Eye of the Midnight Sun, callously sacrificing them to complete the elves' reincarnation.
Evil Is Petty: When Rades, Sally, and Valtos ask him if they were his precious companions as they're sacrificed, he mocks them, stating that they were precious for bringing back his true companions.
Evil Plan: To reincarnate the elves, he tries to gather the eleven magic stones needed to do so and place them in the Tree of Life monument. He steals one from Fuegoleon, has Valtos steal the one from Saussy Village from the Black Bulls' hideout after a previous unsuccessful attempt, and two from Julius when he defeats him after having the Eye of the Midnight Sun try to take them from the Underwater Temple and Forest of Witches. He uses ten of them to reincarnate the elves into human bodies, and summons the Shadow Palace and takes Yuno's magic stone when they briefly fight. However, Zagred takes it instead to manifest a body for himself and takes over as the main villain.
Ex-Big Bad: As the leader of the Eye of the Midnight Sun, Licht is the main villain of the first saga, leading the Third Eye and his other underlings to obtain all the magic stones and reincarnating the elves into humans' bodies to resurrect his tribe and get revenge on the Clover Kingdom. However, Zagred reveals himself to be the mastermind behind the elf massacre Reincarnation Magic, leading him to work with the Magic Knights to stop the devil. Afterwards, he plans to atone for his misdeeds.
Expository Hairstyle Change: After fully taking over Vangeance's body, he no longer wears his long white hair in braids and keeps it as a ponytail.
Expy: Tabata has cited Berserk has one of his main inspirations, and has given Licht much of Griffith's coldness and effeminate, long white-haired appearance. They both even callously sacrifice their loyal subordinates in a ritual to achieve their goals. Coincidence or not, his voice actor in the Japanese version also happens to be the same who voices Griffith in the Golden Age movies and the 2016 anime.
Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon: He's an effeminate elf with long white hair whose goal is to kill all humans.
Facial Markings: Has a few of these around his eyes. While he didn't have any when he was a child, he gained them once he had been reincarnated into Vangeance's body.
Family Theme Naming: His name is "Patry" while his cousin's name is "Latry".
Fantastic Racism: He hates humans, especially those of the Clover Kingdom, because he's an elf whose village was destroyed by humans long ago, although he seems not to hate the humans in his organization. And it turns out that he also considers Vangeance, with whom he shares a body, a dear friend. It's later revealed that he secretly hates the humans in his organization as well, and was just pretending otherwise. This becomes ironic when Zagred calls Patry out for betraying the ideals of the real Licht.
A Father to His Men: Even looks cross after Asta hits Valtos. It turns out that he doesn't truly care about the human members of his organization and calls them unclean for hurting their fellow men.
First-Name Basis: He addresses Vangeance by William, his first name. He considers him his only human friend, having hosted Patry's soul for years and understood his pain regarding the elf genocide.
Foil: To Yami. Both care about their subordinates and are incredibly powerful sorcerers who wield rare magics, but the similarities end there. Licht is unfailingly polite and civil, hates the Clover Kingdom, and wields powerful Light Magic. Yami is crude and foul-mouthed, is one of the Clover Kingdom's most powerful knights, and wields Dark Magic. Licht is also a well-dressed Bishōnen who wears flowing robes like the traditional image of a mage and fights at long-range while Yami is a Hunk with Perma-Stubble wears just as tank top and pants and enters close combat with his katana. As it turns out, even their similarity of caring about their henchmen doesn't exist.
Freudian Excuse: His entire clan was supposedly wiped out by royals who feared Licht's clan for their incredible affinity with magic, prompting him to take his revenge on the Clover Kingdom for this wrongdoing. Not to mention that the first Wizard King was a friend of Licht and one of the few humans who knew of the elves' location, and the Wizard King was the only one who Patry knew could cast Light Magic, which led Patry to think that he had killed them.
Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: Despite the events that led to his hatred of humans are of no fault on his or the royal's ends and arguably his hatred is a result of the Reincarnation Magic cast by Zagred, he's still in the receiving end of this twice to drive to the series' point that no amount of shit one goes through justifies repaying with atrocities.
- When he starts bemoaning his tragedies and the people he has lost, Yami quickly parodies his own Dark and Troubled Past, by mentioning that he's suffered a lot to get to where he is, but he never made a big deal out of it, held someone else accountable or became evil because of it.
- Asta understands what Patry went through after seeing his memories as just a young elf who turns out to be tricked by Zagred into hating humans that were the opposite of what the real Licht believes. Asta still won't forgive him because he killed Julius while holding the Clover Kingdom hostage, and endangered the people with the reincarnation spell which is why he'll let Patry be around to stop Zagred from completing his plans.
From Nobody to Nightmare: He was a young boy from the Elf Tribe who idolized Licht. Then his tribe was killed by Zagred in a way that can be used to frame Lumiere and he was reincarnated into the body of Vangeance, becoming a powerful Light Mage and the leader of a group of mages that aims to kill all the humans in the Clover Kingdom.
Genocide Backfire: He along with the other elves were massacred by royals at Licht's wedding. He was the only one reincarnated into a human body, and to avenge his murdered tribe he formed the Eye of the Midnight Sun and resurrected the Third Eye to kill all the humans in the Clover Kingdom five centuries later. He goes on to defeat Julius and reincarnate the other elves using the magic stones to try to kill all the humans. However, it's later revealed Zagred chose him to be his Unwitting Pawn as the only elf reincarnated, and intended him to try to avenge the elves when it was Zagred who had lied to the royals and persuaded them to drain mana from the elves, and he's the one who committed the elf massacre.
Genocide Survivor: Zig-Zagged. He died along with the other elves when they were allegedly killed by human royals at Licht's wedding, but he was the only one to have been reincarnated in a human body almost five centuries later. Patry interpreted it as him being The Chosen One of the elves, and set out to reincarnate the rest of his people by forming the Eye of the Midnight Sun and reincarnating the Third Eye to gather the magic stones and get revenge on humans. However, it's later revealed that Zagred was the one who killed them and cast the Reincarnation Magic instead of Licht, and chose Patry to be the only one to have been reincarnated, all in his plan to gain a body in the living world.
Gold and White Are Divine: His Light Magic is coloured gold and white, and he is seen as his followers as a Messianic Archetype. Which is not the case for the rest of the kingdom.
Good Powers, Bad People: He uses Light Magic, which can heal himself and others and was used by the first Wizard King who saved the Clover Kingdom from a demon. However, he leads a band of rogue mages intent on killing all humans and destroying the kingdom.
Hard Light: Attacks his opponents with lance-like projectiles formed out of light.
Healing Hands: He can use his spell Healing Light Particles to heal others, doing so for Rhya when Zagred blows a hole in his torso.
Heal Thyself: He can use Light Recovery Magic to heal his wounds.
Heel–Face Turn: After learning that Zagred planned the elves' massacre, he teams up with the Magic Knights to defeat him. Afterwards, now stuck in Licht's old body, he plans to atone for his sins. When Noelle and the others lose to the Heart Kingdom, he offers to teach them the elves' esoteric art Ultimate Magic.
Hero Killer: He kills Julius by forcing him to sacrifice himself to save the Clover Kingdom.
Hero-Worshipper: He idolizes Licht, who was the leader of their clan. He is furious when he encounters Asta because Licht was the original owner of the five-leaf grimoire and its swords, and he thinks Asta "stole" them from him.
Humans Are Bastards: He holds this view due to his tribe being massacred by humans from the Clover Kingdom.
I Am Not Left-Handed: When he realizes that Julius can't be beaten in a fight, he releases the Trinity Sealing Magic, using all the mana stored by the Third Eye to rain down his Arrows of Judgement on the entire Clover Kingdom.
I Control My Minions Through...: With the mages of the Eye of the Midnight Sun, he controls them through Loyalty. The Third Eye follows him as his fellow elves who share his desire to kill all humans. The human mages of the group follow him through a combination of Agenda, Acceptance, and Respect out of a desire to ascend to their true forms, his acceptance of them regardless of their background, and respect of him as a god-like figure. However, it's revealed to be a farce for them as he never considered them to be his comrades and only used them to be marked as sacrifices for the elves' reincarnation.
Identical Stranger: Has the same body frame, voice, and ki as Vangeance. But apparently, they're not the same person, as is shown after Vangeance takes off his mask. It's later revealed that they share the same body. They're still different people, but it explains why they share so many physical similarities.
Ignored Epiphany: Subverted. After having the Awful Truth explained to him, Patry still wants to blame humans for his people's fate but Asta keeps at it, and causes Patry to realize it's just an impulse to defer responsibility, which he refuses to do.
Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Gets bound by getting pierced by many iron spears from Zagred's Word Soul Magic which forces him to listen to his words, making Patry fall into despair and turn into a dark elf.
Inconsistent Spelling: The official translation uses "Patry" for his true name, but his character profile in Volume 18 uses "Patolli".
Interspecies Friendship: He even thanks Vangeance as his one and only human friend after he takes over his body.
Irony:
- Licht himself notes the irony that he has Light Magic, the very magic attribute used to kill him and the rest of the elves. Furthered by that he's just another elf going under Licht's name, and the real Licht doesn't even use Light Magic.
- After manipulating his human followers to revive the members of the elf tribe, it turns out that he in turn was being used as a pawn by Zagred, who was the one who orchestrated the massacre of the elves in the first place. Zagred did this in order to manifest his body in the world of the living.
It's Personal: He wants to exact revenge on the Clover Kingdom for what they did to his people.
Kick the Morality Pet: He shows care for his subordinates when he's furious at Asta for harming Valtos. He later reveals that it was a ruse, revealing that he always hated his human underlings before he sacrifices them all to complete the elves' reincarnation.
Knight Templar: Licht deeply believes in his cause to destroy the Clover Kingdom. He discusses the country's distortions in its discrimination by reasons of birth, magic, and social class, and states that people like him were born in order to correct them. Yami calls out his logic in that he's trying to do the same thing as what the country's corrupt aristocrats are doing.
Laser Blade:
- Licht conjures a single large blade of light in his fight against Yami. He can also create many light shards as projectiles.
- He can create so many of these through the mana stored by the Third Eye's Trinity Sealing Magic that they cover the entire Clover Kingdom to try to kill its citizens.
Laser-Guided Karma: He used his human subordinates, lying to them that they would be reincarnated into their true forms and then sacrificing them to bring back the elves. It's later revealed that all this time he was used by the devil Zagred, the one behind the elf massacre and the true caster of the Reincarnation Magic.
The Leader: He is the leader and founder of the Eye of the Midnight Sun. His followers are very reverent of him, seeing Licht as their god.
Light/Darkness Juxtaposition: Licht is the Light to Yami's Darkness, which is highlighted when they fight. Licht uses Light Magic to form light blades and move at incredible speed. Yami uses Dark Magic, which is slow to cast spells, to envelop his katana and unleash beams of darkness. Licht is a polite bishōnen who leads the Eye of the Midnight Sun, a group of terrorists who want to destroy the Clover Kingdom. Yami is a crude hunk who's the captain of the Black Bulls, a squad of social misfits who're much more moral than they seem.
Light 'em Up: His magic is that of the light. He can use it for many uses, from shooting light projectiles, to create a whip that can destroy an entire cave, to heal himself if he needs so.
Light Is Not Good:
- His motif, being a glittery and bright Bishōnen who ruthlessly impales Asta and Sister Theresa with magic projectiles. It's a bit ironic to see him get Light Magic, when it's the same kind of magic that was used to kill his race.
- After becoming a dark elf, he mixes this with Dark Is Evil with the use of Demon Light Magic.
- Notably, a visual signifier of his Heel–Face Turn is him retaining one of the Black Eyes of Crazy he had as a dark elf, marring his apparent perfection, while he learns to be more patient and forgiving.
Lightning Bruiser: Light is the fastest of the magic attributes, letting Licht move and attack at blinding speeds with powerful light beams and blades.
Like a God to Me: Licht is regarded as a god by his human followers in the Eye of the Midnight Sun, with Catherine referring to him as "our god" and their worship-like loyalty for him.
Logical Weakness: His Light Magic is incredibly fast and powerful. However, as Gauche puts it, no matter how big or strong it is mirrors reflect light. Gauche's giant mirror sends Licht's huge light blast back at him, leaving him greatly injured.
Long-Haired Pretty Boy: His long hair is so characteristic of him that it even sprouts from Vangeance's head as Patry takes over.
Love Makes You Evil: His love and understandable anger for his murdered people causes him to lead his followers to obtain the needed magic stones and get revenge on the humans, in the process threatening the lives of innocent humans.
Magic Knight: He's a capable swordsman, wielding the blades formed by his Light Magic to fight against Yami, a self-proclaimed "magic swordsman", and destroy the building fragments thrown at him by Julius.
Manipulative Bastard: He managed to persuade many social outcasts to join the Eye of the Midnight Sun by providing them a refuge and convincing them that he was a god to them who would help them ascend to their true forms, in the process marking them as eventual sacrifices without their knowledge for the reincarnation. Ironically, all along it turns out he was the pawn of an even bigger Manipulative Bastard in Zagred.
Marked Change: He has facial markings thanks to being reincarnated into the body of Vangeance. After the Reincarnation Magic is dispelled, they disappear.
Meaningful Name:
- Subverted. Despite using Light Magic, his true name is Patry, Licht is just a nickname he's using to pay respect to the leader of the elf tribe, whom he greatly admired.
- Patry is similar to the word "paltry", meaning petty. As he sacrifices his underlings, he mocks them for actually believing that he saw them as his True Companions.
Might Makes Right: He seems to think that the strong are the true discriminated party and that the weak are meant to be culled. Ironically this makes him a step worse than the human nobility he hates so much, who just want those who they see as weak to serve them.
Misplaced Retribution: Him and the other elves were killed by (what he thinks are) human royals five centuries ago, while in actuality they're just manipulated to siphon the elves' magic and Zagred orchestrated the whole thing and killed the elves personally. To avenge their deaths, he tries to kill all the humans in the Clover Kingdom five centuries later. He sees it as justified due to Fantastic Racism against humans, seeing them as irredeemable.
Moral Myopia:
- Yami calls out how his mission to correct the Clover Kingdom's discrimination has him doing the same thing as the corrupt nobility responsible for said discrimination by harming others he sees as unworthy. When Yami asks if he's sane, Licht replies that he's perfectly sane and will answer sins with sin.
- Orders or allows his followers to engage in wholesale destruction, but if their victims fight back, or worse, win, he goes into an apocalyptic fit about how his people are being "bullied" and how he won't tolerate it anymore. Zagred even calls him out on it because despite wearing Licht's face, he betrayed his ideals.
My God, What Have I Done?: He has this reaction, as seen when Asta goes into his mind, after learning that Zagred orchestrated (and personally committed) the elves' massacre to gain a body in the living world. He notes that resurrecting the elves was a mistake and made many sacrifices all for the wrong choice. However, he still blames it all on humans until Asta convinces him to atone.
Mystical White Hair: He has white hair and is a powerful mage who uses the rare Light Magic.
Near-Villain Victory: At the end, he managed to replace every single member of the Golden Dawn bar Mimosa and Yuno and a few other captains/vice captains with murderous elves and had gathered all the magic stones required to fully overwrite them.^note By all rights he won and the Clover Kingdom lost, but Zagred's sudden appearance made him realize something was very amiss and his plan was a misguided farce, so he drops it and becomes The Atoner instead after he's beaten by Nozel and convinced by Asta.
Never My Fault: In his mind, after learning the truth about the elf genocide, he at first notes that he was wrong for resurrecting the elves and making many sacrifices, but then blames it on humans to cope. Asta tells him to shut up and successfully persuades him to make up for his mistakes, leading Patry to join up with the Magic Knights to defeat Zagred.
Nightmare Face: Sports an unsettling one when he uses the sealed magic power from the Third Eye to rain light blades to kill the entire kingdom when he realizes that Julius is unbeatable by normal means.
No Brows: He has no eyebrows, having red dot markings instead, which contributes to his ethereal look.
One-Winged Angel: After crossing the Despair Event Horizon and getting the five-leaf grimoire, he becomes a dark elf and now uses Demon Light Magic.
Paint It Black: Turning into a mindless Dark Elf consumed by anger and despair darkens his skin and eyes. Even his Light Magic becomes Demon Light Magic, turning the light black.
Pay Evil unto Evil: One of the reasons he wants to destroy the Clover Kingdom is because its corrupt rulers have perpetuated discrimination in the country by background and magic. He wants to accomplish this by killing every human in the kingdom:
"Let me answer your sins with sin."
Pointy Ears: Hinting that he's an elf.
Power Limiter: He has Sealing Magic places on himself to save magic power for the right time, which Asta's anti-magic accidentally releases. He releases the seal to kill the entire Clover Kingdom with his light blades, forcing Julius to sacrifice himself.
Power-Up Full Color Change: After becoming a dark elf his skin darkens to go along with his new, more powerful Demon Light Magic.
Pragmatic Villainy: He hates humans. In spite of this, he accepted humans into the Eye of the Midnight Sun and feigned caring for them. This is all a ruse to mark them as sacrifices, sacrificing them to reincarnate his fellow elves.
Pretty Boy: Delicate, pretty features and long white hair. According to the Volume 12 Questions Brigade, he's the second most beautiful man among the characters.
Psychopathic Manchild: At his core he never grew out from his past self, a kid murdered by Zagred alongside the rest of his tribe. He takes a childlike glee in revealing to his human subordinates that he never did care about them and taking out his anger over the elves' massacre on humans who were not even responsible for an event that happened five centuries ago. This is seen when Asta mentally speaks with him after he becomes a dark elf, during which he takes his form as a child before the massacre, showing that he never truly matured after this event.
Psychotic Smirk: Has this when unsealing the Third Eye's stored mana to rain light blades on the Clover Kingdom and using the Eye of the Midnight Sun as sacrifices for the elves' reincarnation.
Racial Remnant:
- Due to being reincarnated following the elves' massacre, Licht, Vetto, Fana, and Rhya are the last living elves.
- After defeating Zagred, the reincarnated elves pass on after being exorcised. Because the Third Eye were reincarnated into artificial bodies made by Sally and Patry's soul is put in Licht's former body, they're the last of their tribe. It's later subverted in Chapter 265, which reveals that there are elves in Elysia descended from Licht and Tetia, who was healed by Nero and was pregnant with a surviving twin child.
Rank Scales with Asskicking: The leader of the Eye of the Midnight Sun and by far its strongest member.
"The Reason You Suck" Speech: He rips into Rades, Sally, and Valtos shortly before he uses them as sacrifices for the elves' reincarnation:
"You people are greedy and selfish. You have no qualms about hurting other people, although you're terribly sensitive to your own pain. You envy, hate and discriminate against others for trivial reasons. Even though they're human, just like you! By thoroughly idolizing something, you justify your own weakness and sin! Everything, every last thing, is for the sake of your own filthy selves!! You humans really are selfish, hopeless, foolish, ugly creatures!!"
Red Right Hand: Even after he mentally recovers from being a dark elf, his left eye's sclera remains black while his right eye returns to normal.
Reincarnation: An odd variant. Patry died at the wedding, but centuries later, he found himself in a human body while in Licht's form. In other words, his spirit left his original body and somehow went into Vangeance's. Patry guessed that Licht had cast the forbidden Reincarnation Magic on him and the other elves, but it had only worked on Patry. Then it turns out that the Reincarnation Magic was done by Zagred as according to plan, and the forbidden spell Patry saw Licht cast was heavily implied to be the one that turned him into a Demon. Patry does not take this well at all.
Restored My Faith in Humanity: Originally thought that the elves could live peacefully alongside the humans after meeting Lumiere and Tetia and hearing about their goal of coexistence until the elves were supposedly massacred by human royals at Licht's wedding. After the event, he came to view humans as inherently evil, selfish creatures with the exception of Vangeance, whose body he shared. When Zagred is revealed to have been the one behind the elf massacre by taking advantage of the royals' greed and fear, he continues to blame humans to cope until Asta convinces him to atone and fight instead of wallowing in despair. After this, his doubts about humans is cleared, now seeing that Licht and Lumiere's friendship was genuine after having believed that the prince was behind the massacre, works with the Magic Knights against the devil.
The Reveal: Two big ones:
- When Vangeance confronts Julius in Chapter 142, it's revealed that the elf's body is that of Vangeance.
- In a flashback in Chapter 148, "Licht" has actually been Patry all along, and Patry became Licht because of what he thought was Reincarnation Magic.
Revenge Myopia: The Eyes of the Midnight Sun are usually the ones who instigate the various battles and acts of terrorism they are involved in. When the opposing party attack in retaliation or even in self-defense, he treats it as though they were attacking him and his allies first and uses it to justify his Fantastic Racism against humans.
Roaring Rampage of Revenge: This is his main motivation. He idolized Licht and started to believe more in Licht's dream of elves and humans being able to live alongside each other peacefully, and was at the wedding between Licht and the Wizard King's sister, Tetia. But during the wedding, humans apparently of the Clover Kingdom attacked them, killing many elves, and Patry, recognizing that the magic used was Light Magic, thought that it was none other than Tetia's brother. Now Patry seeks to destroy the Clover Kingdom in response. Then it turns out this was all orchestrated by Zagred along with his reincarnation.
Rule of Symbolism: Patry's position on the sephirot corresponds to the Malkuth, kingdom. His goal is to reincarnate the murdered elves and massacre all humans to build a new kingdom as a safe haven for his fallen brethren.
Sadistic Choice: Patry, once Julius is beating him, tries to kill all the citizens in the Clover Kingdom with his Arrows of Judgment. Though Julius stops him, this causes him to run out of time and magic power, and so Patry easily kills Julius. And not long after, he does the elf revival ceremony and declares it the beginning of the elves' vengeance against the humans.
Sharing a Body: Vangeance agreed to let him have joint ownership of his body.
Significant Birth Date: Patry shares the same birthday, Christmas Eve, as Vangeance, who shares his body with and considers him his dear friend.
Slasher Smile: He smiles eerily when he sacrifices his human followers to reincarnate the elves.
Smug Super: He is very confident in his magical power, boasting that light is the fastest of all magic attributes. He backs this up, with his magic being incredibly fast and destructive, pressuring Yami, whose Dark Magic is a natural counter to light, and Julius, whose magic attribute is time itself.
The Social Darwinist: He despises the weak, stating that "the victims are always the powerful ones. They're envied, feared, isolated, persecuted, and preyed upon." This is because he believes that his own powerful kind is slaughtered by "weak humans", although later it's revealed that the humans didn't even commit the massacre.
Start of Darkness: His race's annihilation made the elf wroth against humans and into the villain he is now, with his goal to reincarnate his fallen people and get revenge against the Clover Kingdom.
Storm of Blades:
- He can create countless blades of light to fire at enemies.
- His "Arrows of Judgment" spell forms enough through the mana stored by the Third Eye to rain down on all of the Clover Kingdom.
Supernatural Gold Eyes: He has gold eyes and is a powerful elf mage who wields rare Light Magic.
Superpower Lottery: Is an elf gifted with incredibly large amounts of magical power that make him a monster compared to most human mages. He's beloved by mana and was chosen by a four-leaf grimoire, with the power of different magics to not only attack but also heal himself through Recovery Magic if needed. His Light Magic is also the fastest magic attribute and lets him move incredibly fast and unleash powerful attacks to overwhelm enemies. It's thanks to this that he can eventually overpower Yami and hold his own against Julius, who has the even more broken Time Magic.
Tautological Templar: He sees himself as a good man, so therefore everything he or his followers do is good, regardless of how depraved it is. Everyone who opposes him is "born guilty" and deserves to die for "attacking him first."
Took a Level in Cynic: He was once a gentle child who thought that his race and humans could understand one another. Then (what he believes are) humans destroyed his home during Licht's wedding, whom he idolized a lot.
Tragic Bigot: He hates humans and desires to kill every one in the Clover Kingdom because he believed human royals slaughtered the elf tribe at Licht's wedding. It's even more tragic considering he's actually been tricked and/or influenced into it by a combination of Zagred and his memories pre-mortem.
The Unfettered: Patry is willing to do anything to resurrect his murdered race. He amasses a group of loyal followers, whom he actually hates because they're humans but puts up a mask of care for them out of pragmatism, that he later sacrifices, reincarnates the souls of the elves in the bodies of humans throughout the kingdom, fights the Wizard King and tries to kill the entire kingdom, and taking the opportunity of Julius using the entirety of his magic to stop his spell to mortally stab him to obtain the needed magic stone. When he learns that Zagred was actually the one behind the elf massacre, Patry has a mental breakdown which requires Asta to snap him out of it and convince him to atone for his crimes.
Unskilled, but Strong: Subverted usually, since unlike most Elves he can use his magic in a tactful manner. However, when Zagred converts him into a Dark Elf, despite his Demon Light Magic is way stronger than his usual magic, he's unable to fight tactfully at all, so it only takes Nozel's Mecury magic to restrain him and nullify his magic.
Unwanted Revival: Zigzagged. He is resurrected by Rades in Licht's artificial body as he is about to join him and the other elves in the afterlife. Although he is disappointed at first, he soon becomes grateful for the opportunity to atone for his sins.
Unwitting Pawn: He was this to Zagred who even mocked and called him out on it for betraying what Licht stood for and made it so much easier for him to go according to plan. He ends up crossing the Despair Event Horizon for it... as planned.
Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Patry was an elf boy who idolized Licht and would often go see him. But at Licht and Tetia's wedding, the elves were suddenly attacked by Zagred using his Word Soul Magic made to resemble Light Magic, which is unique to Tetia's brother and the First Wizard King. Because of that, Patry thought that it must be from him, but he and the others were soon killed and reincarnated by Zagred, while Licht used a forbidden spell to turn himself into a Demon. Centuries later, Patry found himself in a room, shocked that he had seemingly not died. He found himself to be in Licht's form, but the body he was in was a human's. He thought that Licht must have used the forbidden Reincarnation Magic on the elves, but it had worked only on him. Thus, Patry found himself to be the only one who could save Licht and the others by reviving them, and swore to destroy all the humans.
Villain Has a Point:
- Although his way of solving it is hypocritical, he is correct in that the Clover Kingdom has many distortions in which people are discriminated against at birth by their magic and social class.
- He also calls out his human members for their Moral Myopia in thinking they get the moral high ground over the Clover Kingdom just because they serve under him. He's being hypocritical and just as myopic as they are but he's not wrong considering they commit all manner of horrid acts just because of their own pettiness or sadism and still think they're in the right.
Villain in a White Suit: He wears a long, flowing ceremonial white robe.
Villainous Breakdown: When Zagred reveals that it was him who orchestrated the massacre of the elves by lying to the humans and cast the Reincarnation Magic, with Patry exactly following his plans, he mentally breaks. Patry's despair overcomes him, turning his grimoire into a five-leaf grimoire and becoming a dark elf.
Villainous Friendship: Despite desiring to destroy the Clover Kingdom and subverted with his human underlings, whom he hates for their hypocrisy and sacrifices them to reincarnate his fellow elves, he does genuinely care for his fellow tribesmen, especially the Third Eye.
Visionary Villain: His goal is a Clover Kingdom without discrimination, which he plans to achieve by killing all humans in revenge for the massacre of elf tribe, as well as the reincarnation of the tribe by collecting the magic stones.
Walking Spoiler: It's incredibly hard to talk about Licht without revealing that the Licht of the present and the Licht of the past are two different elves.
Wave-Motion Gun: His spell Ray of Divine Punishment forms a sphere around himself before releasing a giant blast of light.
White Hair, Black Heart: He has the classic long, white-haired look and leads an organization whose goal is to destroy with Clover Kingdom, with him callously sacrificing his human followers in the process.
With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: As a dark elf, he gains more powerful Demon Light Magic at the cost of being overrun with negative emotions like despair and hate. After he mentally recovers, he keeps the magic.
Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Was a kid when his entire tribe was killed by the Word Devil on what would've been a happy day at Licht and Tetia's wedding. And after the Devil reincarnates him, which to him was conducted by Licht immediately after the massacre, he was imbued with hatred against humans and begins his plan and forming the Eye of the Midnight Sun to reincarnate all the elves and slaughter every human.
The Worf Effect: He is a powerful mage who nearly kills Yami and defeats Julius, albeit by threatening the entire kingdom. Then, when he appears, Zagred easily defeats and restrains him, proving the devil to be much more powerful than even Patry.
Yandere: Since a young age, Patry adored and looked up to Licht, almost always being at his side. It's because of this that he's enraged at seeing that Asta now has his five-leaf grimoire and swords when they meet for the first time.

Third Eye

In General

L - R: Fana, Vetto, and Rhya

A trio of mages of the Eye of the Midnight Sun that, according to Licht, are the three strongest members of the organization. They are given epithets in opposition to the three virtues of the Clover Kingdom.

Barred from the Afterlife: Thanks to being reincarnated into artificial bodies, they, along with Patry thanks to Rades's intervention, are unable to go to the afterlife with the rest of the elves when they're exorcised.
Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: Vetto is the Blond, Rhya is the Brunette, and Fana is the Redhead.
The Bus Came Back: Last seen after the battle with Zagred and exorcism of the other elves, Patry and the Third Eye return in Chapter 264 to an awakening Noelle after her defeat by Vanica and the bombing of the Heart Kingdom.
Came Back Wrong: Vetto and Fana suffer from radically different personalities to the one they had while they were alive, with Vetto becoming a mad brute obsessed with sinking his enemies into the most absolute despair and Fana being consumed by a deep hatred against those who oppose Licht. Rhya as well to a lesser extent because of the side-effects of the Forbidden Magic. They get better once Rhya restores them in their artificial bodies, though they still harbor some of the hate against humans they had while being reincarnated. After being exorcised, their souls are fully purified.
Chromatic Arrangement: Each one seems to wear one of the primary colors over their clothing (or lack of it in the case of Vetto). Rhya, the smartest of the three, sports a light blue scarf, has dark blue clothes under his coat, and the sleeves and ends of his coat are also blue colored; Vetto, the group's battle-hungry powerhouse, is not only blonde, but the fur that covers his entire body is also yellow; and Fana, the quietest initially, but who harbors a terrible rage and hatred, has pink hair and wears a maroon dress under her robe. Not in vain, in the anime, when Licht explains Yami and Asta what the Third Eye are, the leaves of the clover that appears in his speech are colored blue, yellow and red.
Co-Dragons: They function as Licht's three top lieutenants. Among them, Rhya is the most functional one, as Vetto and Fana are insane due to the Reincarnation Magic not being complete at the time they were revived.
Death Is Cheap: Vetto and Fana are reincarnated a second time with the other elves after Licht puts all the magic stones in the Tree of Life Monument. Rhya nearly dies from Mereoleona's attack but is reincarnated soon after. Due to being reborn in soulless artificial bodies, they cannot be exorcised and remain alive with Licht and Rhya.
Embodiment of Vice: They each represent an opposite of the Clover Kingdom's three virtues:
- Rhya is Disloyal. He's lazy, shirking his duties as a member of the Third Eye, and a liar, having correctly known all along that humans were not the ones truly responsible for the elves' massacre, but deciding not to say anything because of his hatred for humanity.
- Fana is Hate. Due to being reincarnated with her anger over the elf massacre intensified, she has a destructive hatred for humans under her demeanor, destroying a forest in her wrath and trying to slaughter anyone she detests.
- Vetto is Despair. He's obsessed with inflicting pain and misery on humans, sadistically torturing enemies and mutilating them in hopes of making them despair.
Evil Counterpart: The Third Eye members are named after qualities that go against the virtues of the Clover Kingdom. Rhya is the Disloyal to the Clover's Faith; Vetto is the Despair to the Clover's Hope; and lastly, Fana is the Hate to the Clover's Love.
Eyes Do Not Belong There: They each have a Third Eye thanks to the Forbidden Magic used to resurrect them. It disappears after their second reincarnations:
- Rhya's hair hides a third eye on his forehead.
- Underneath the purple gem on Fana's forehead is a third eye. It disappears once she lost control of her human host.
- Vetto gains a slitted third eye on his forehead upon activating his Mythical Beast Magic.
Facial Markings: Each of them possesses red ones, hinting at their nature as elves.
Fantastic Racism: They all despise humans, especially those of the Clover Kingdom. It all stems from the time they were massacred by the humans who would become the residents of the Clover Kingdom when they were elves.
Fighter, Mage, Thief: Each member of the trio adopts a similar fighting style to the trope. In each case they are:
- Vetto is the Fighter. He's the resident powerhouse, with a great amount of physical power and a great durability. He also specializes in close combat fighting with his bare hands and even his magic is suited to increase his impressive strength, rather than affect his enemies.
- Fana is the Mage. Her modus operandi during a battle is to let Salamander do to heavy work while she comfortably casts spells in the secure spot that is its back, not participating directly in a fight. She's also well versed in healing spells, unlike the other two. Though she becomes more oriented to physical battles in her new artificial body, she stills fits the bill, due to still relying on both offensive and healing spells to fight.
- Rhya is the Thief. He's sneakier than Fana and Vetto and relies on his combined spells to fight, rather than on physical strength or pure magic power, making him a skillful Jack of All Trades. Likewise, in spite of his versatility, he's not as physically strong as Vetto, as shown in his fight with Mereoleona.
The Force Is Strong with This One: They're all noted to have monstrous amounts of magical power. Even moreso when they're reincarnated a second time.
Heel–Face Turn: They undergo this after learning that Zagred planned the elves' massacre. When Noelle and the others lose to the Heart Kingdom, they offer to teach them the elves' esoteric art Ultimate Magic.
Humans Are Bastards: They each hold this view due to being massacred by humans from the Clover Kingdom, with their hatred intensified by the Forbidden Magic.
Instant Runes: They use Trinity Sealing Magic to create rings of runes to store large amounts of mana. Licht releases the seal, using the mana to form enough light blades to kill the entire Clover Kingdom.
Marked Change: They have facial markings thanks to being reincarnated into human bodies. After the Reincarnation Magic is dispelled, they disappear.
Misplaced Retribution: Them and Licht were killed by human royals five centuries ago. To avenge their deaths, they try to kill all the humans in the Clover Kingdom five centuries later. They see it as justified due to Fantastic Racism against humans, seeing them as irredeemable.
Racial Remnant:
- Due to being reincarnated following the elves' massacre, Licht, Vetto, Fana, and Rhya are the last living elves.
- After defeating Zagred, the reincarnated elves pass on after being exorcised. Because the Third Eye were reincarnated into artificial bodies made by Sally and Patry's soul is put in Licht's former body, they're the last of their tribe. It's later subverted in Chapter 265, which reveals that there are elves in Elysia descended from Licht and Tetia, who was healed by Nero and was pregnant with a surviving twin child.
Sins of Our Fathers: The elves especially hate the Clover Kingdom's royals, due to their ancestors killing the elves and stealing their magic. Vetto is enraged when he finds out that Noelle is a member of the Silva family, and Rhya dislikes Mereoleona moreso for being a Vermillion.
Shout-Out: Tabata stated that he based the Third Eye's Evil Eye off of Hiei from YuYu Hakusho.
Third Eye: As their name suggests, they each have a hidden third eye on their forehead as a result of being resurrected by Forbidden Magic. Activating said eye dramatically increases their power.
Tragic Bigot: They hate humans and desire to kill every one in the Clover Kingdom because human royals slaughtered the elf tribe at Licht's wedding.
Undying Loyalty: They all profess absolute obedience and loyalty towards Licht, their boss since they were part of the same tribe in the past.

Rhya

The Disloyal

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Voiced by: Hirofumi Arai (Japanese, episodes 35-39), Masakazu Morita (Japanese, episode 87 onward), Brandon Potter (English)^note

Debut: Chapter 51 (Manga), Episode 35 (Anime)

Magic Attribute: Copy

"It doesn't look like there's anyone who can see through my Copy Transformation Magic. Well, whom could I have been imitating?"

One of the three Members of "Third Eye", the elite squad of the Eye of the Midnight Sun. He seems frivolous but is Licht's trusted right-hand man.

He uses Copy Magic to copy people's appearance and magic. Once he has copied a spell, it is forever stored in his Grimoire, granting him an abnormally large repertoire.

Adaptational Badass: Downplayed. The anime goes into more detail with his fight against Mereoleona, showing Rhya using more spells of different attributes he is not seen using in the manga such as lightning, ice, gel, and earth, but still easily gets defeated by Mereoleona.
Affably Evil: Rhya himself is very laidback and easygoing, complimenting Charlotte and Mereoleona on their beauty shortly before fighting them, and dislikes having to put in effort into follows this duties. That said, he still is a member of the Third Eye with the power and hatred of humans that entails.
All There in the Manual:
- The Volume 21 Assorted Questions Brigade states that he had impersonated Vangeance, whose arm had been injured by Julius when he attacked Patry, at the captains' meeting.
- The Volume 25 Assorted Questions Brigade reveals that the human host of his body was a suicidal, fallen noble.
All Your Powers Combined: Can skillfully switch elements on the blink of an eye. Considering he can use the spells from a variety of powerful mages with different elements, this allows him to rapidly go from one spell to a completely different one in an instant, effectively making it this. It gets even worse once the elf revival is done, as Rhya becomes able to cast many elemental magics at the same time.
Awful Truth: Rhya knew that Lumiere didn't betray the elves, but didn't tell the others because of his desire for revenge against the humans and to see Licht again. When he gets a hole in his gut courtesy of Zagred, the true perpetrator, he wonders if it's the price for lying.
Baddie Flattery: Calls Mereoleona beautiful and says that he would fulfill all her wishes if she weren't royalty.
Breaking the Fourth Wall: After The Reveal that he has replaced one of the Magic Knight Captains, he asks the audience whether they can guess whom he's just replaced.
Brilliant, but Lazy:
- Hates to do anything, but is supposed to be even stronger than a Magic Knight Captain.
- Despite his laziness, he's very perceptive of lies, which is revealed to be the reason for his epithet "The Disloyal". He managed to notice the inconsistencies in the story of the elves' massacre before the truth is even revealed.
Came Back Strong: The elf reincarnation spell is cast as he's on the verge of dying after fighting Mereoleona. He's fully resurrected with his mana increased, allowing him to use two elements simultaneously with his Copy Magic.
Combination Attack: He combines copied Spatial Magic with Patry's Light Magic to fire beams of light from countless portals formed to surround enemies.
Comic-Book Fantasy Casting: His appearance is based on that of Japanese actor Hirofumi Arai. In fact, the katakana for his name ("Raia") can be arranged as "Arai".
Conditional Powers:
- For him to copy another mage's spells he has to touch their grimoire. He does this with Asta's grimoire just before he fights Mereoleona.
- He cannot copy anti-magic, so touching Asta's grimoire doesn't do him any real favors.
- He can only use one magical attribute at a time with his magic. This is no longer the case after he's reincarnated a second time in a more complete, powerful form.
Didn't See That Coming: He copies Asta's anti-magic sword, not knowing if it has its anti-magic, when fighting Mereoleona. He's completely surprised when she punches and wrecks it, as her fist would have been shattered if it was covered in anti-magic and he didn't think that she would take that chance.
Ditto Fighter: Uses Copy Magic, allowing him to copy other mages' spells if he touches their grimoire. Right before he fights Mereoleona, he copies Asta's anti-magic sword by touching his grimoire.
The Dragon: Of all of the Third Eye, he's the strongest and seems the closest to Licht with the most authority.
Elemental Powers: Thanks to his Copy Magic, he has many different elemental magics for his use. He can use light, dark, water, and flame. The anime further shows earth, ice, gel, and poison. After the elf reincarnation is done, he can use two elements simultaneously.
Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Not Evil so much as he is Cynical, but he asks Mimosa, a human royal, why she's healing him, to which she replies that she doesn't need a reason to save someone dying whether they're an enemy or different race.
Evil Genius: The most intelligent member of the Third Eye in spite of his laziness. He successfully reincarnates Fana and Vetto again into their new bodies using Sally's plans and is the first one to realize the discrepancies in the story of the elf genocide.
Foil: To Mereoleona, which is highlighted when they fight. Rhya is laidback while Mereoleona has a fiery personality. His Copy Magic gives him a large number of many different elemental spells; Her Flame Magic mostly has her simply envelop her fists in fire. Rhya's sheer laziness has him rely on his copied spells from others and large magic power as an elf. Mereoleona, despite being born a royal with great magic power, seeks to become stronger and steeps herself in natural mana for most of the year — a source of her inhuman power.
Heal Thyself: Has this as part of his Copy Magic. He can use Light Recovery Magic to heal himself. It's not fast enough to keep up with Mereoleona's barrage, however.
Ink-Suit Actor: Rhya's appearance is based off the Japanese actor Hirofumi Arai, who became his first voice actor.
Instant Expert: Repeatedly flawlessly demonstrates high-execution spells without any practice. That said, Mereoleona notes that his Dark Magic doesn't compare in strength to its original user Yami.
Invisibility: Has this because he touched Gueldre Poizot's grimoire.
Irony: Rhya disparages Mereoleona for her confidence, telling her that she shouldn't be cocky over her magic power, which comes from her ancestors who stole the magic power of the elves. She soon wipes the floor with Rhya, who notes that her sheer power isn't just from being royal but an unknown human strength.
Laser-Guided Karma: Rhya had known all along that the humans were not truly responsible for the elves' massacre, having discerned the truth due to inconsistencies in the information but chose not to let Patry know because he wanted vengeance against the humans for killing them regardless. When Zagred, the true mastermind, makes his presence known by blowing a hole in Rhya's gut, he even wonders if it was the price paid for lying.
Living Lie Detector: He's very good at telling when someone is lying, the source of his epithet "The Disloyal". He realizes that Ronne is deceiving them, which leads to the reveal that Ronne is actually being possessed by the devil Zagred.
Lying to Protect Your Feelings: He knew that Lumiere didn't betray the elves, but kept it to himself so that the others' thirst for revenge against humans wouldn't be diminished and because of his personal hatred of humans as well.
Meaningful Name: His name sounds similar to "liar" and he can use his magic to shapeshift as well as tell when someone is lying.
Messy Hair: Has messy black hair, fitting with Rhya's laziness in spite of his incredible power and intelligence.
Mystical White Hair: When reincarnated a second time, Rhya's hair becomes white with black patches and he gains a surge in magical power.
Nice Guy: Licht saw him as such and as someone who loved people for who they are, which is why he thought Copy Magic fit Rhya and was a "kind-hearted" magic. Then again, in Patry's flashback, Rhya seemed more like a cool-headed, but rough guy, so he's not fully nice.
Nightmare Face: He unleashes a very unsettling one when he activates his Third Eye. It doesn't last long as he gets burnt alive by Mereoleona soon after.
Personality Powers:
- His ability to copy other people's magic reflects his sheer laziness. Everyone else has to work for their spells to appear in their grimoires, one by one, whereas he can just copy them as he finds them.
- Stated in a flashback. Licht thought that his Copy Magic suited him because it was a "kind" magic which fit his nature. Rhya disagrees, calling himself a liar, slacker, and not loyal.
Possession Implies Mastery: Rhya's Copy Magic allows him to use spells just as strong as the original user if not moreso, with his phenomenal magic power making the spell stronger if copied from an average Mage. He even copies Yami's stance when using his magic. That said, Mereoleona states that Yami packs more of a punch with the copied spell, so his magic may have some limitations.
Power Copying: Can copy others' magic after he touches their grimoires. The only thing that he seems unable to copy is Asta's anti-magic.
Power Dyes Your Hair: Being reincarnated a second time, closer to his true form as an elf, dyes his hair white.
Rule of Symbolism: Rhya's position on the sephirot corresponds to the Binah, understanding. When stopped from self-destructing by Asta, he gets called out by him, who states that he wants the humans and elves to understand each other as they are both fighting because their comrades' lives had been taken from them. Rhya himself is touched and reminded of Licht, but states that it's too late to stop them.
Scarf of Asskicking: He wears a blue scarf and is a powerful elf mage, even moreso after being reincarnated a second time.
Shapeshifting: Can take the appearance of other people and use their magic as well.
Slasher Smile: Rhya makes one when he notes to himself how he wants to kill all the humans as he fights Mereoleona.
Supernatural Gold Eyes: His eyes turn gold upon his second reincarnation, when his magic returns to its full power.
Superpower Lottery: Zora outright calls his Copy Magic overpowered, which lets him use any magic attributes for any situation on top of his monstrous magic power. However, he has the misfortune of fighting Mereoleona, whose sheer incredible power has her burn through everything that he throws at her.
Taking You with Me: Subverted. After being left near dead by Mereoleona, he tries to use a self-destructive spell but is stopped by Asta.
Torso with a View: Zagred, while in the body of Ronne, blasts a hole through his stomach when Rhya learns that he's been lying to them. He's healed by Mimosa.
Unskilled, but Strong: Has immense mana and his Copy Magic lets him use dozens of different magical attributes, but despite his intelligence shows little in the way of creativity with them. This, plus his poor physical abilities leaves him utterly outmatched by Mereleona, who overwhelms everything he throws at her.
Villainous Crush: He flirts with Mereoleona, calling her beautiful and noting that it's a shame that she's a royal.
The Worf Effect: His first real demonstration of his magic is simply to show just how far above him Mereoleona really is—he pulls out powerful spell after powerful spell, but nothing works. That is, until Patry does the revival ceremony. After that, Rhya gets boosted, being able to cast different elemental magics at the same time.
Wrecked Weapon: He copies Asta's Demon-Slayer Sword to use against Mereoleona. Because it doesn't actually copy its anti-magic properties, her fist breaks it in half shortly before she burns him alive with a barrage of flaming punches.
Younger Than They Look: He was around 15 when he was massacred along with the other elves, but looks older because he was reincarnated into an adult body only a few years before the beginning of the story.

Fana

The Hateful

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Voiced by: Mao Ichimichi (Japanese), Jeannie Tirado (English)

Debut: Chapter 51 (Manga), Episode 35 (Anime)

Magic Attribute: Flame

"Let the flames of my hatred burn you to ashes!!"

One of the three Members of "Third Eye", the elite squad of the Eye of the Midnight Sun. Underneath her tranquillity is someone mentally unstable.

Wields Flame Magic of cataclysmic proportions, and is always accompanied by the Flame Spirit, Salamander. She is also a skilled user of Recovery Magic.

Animal Battle Aura:
- Her spell Salamander's Talon summons Salamander, covering its claw in fire to unleash burning slashes.
- She can manifest her Flame Magic as draconic beings similar to Salamander.
Avenging the Villain: In the Forest of Witches Arc, while part of her motivation to travel to the aforementioned forest is to take the magic stone in possession of the Witch Queen, her main goal is to avenge Vetto's death in the Underwater Temple at the hands of the Black Bulls.
Back from the Dead: She and Vetto are resurrected in fifteen-year-old artificial bodies by Rhya thanks to Sally's research to help with the elf invasion.
Beware the Quiet Ones: While she's the most quiet member of the Third Eye, she has the most sheer destructive power of them all, able to cast powerful flame spells.
Cheery Pink: She has pink hair, and was originally a cheerful, sweet girl. This is no longer the case after her reincarnation, but she becomes this again after her second reincarnation which has her retain most of her original personality.
Clothing Damage: She suffers this after regenerating from having her upper body destroyed by Noelle, leaving her naked from the waist up.
Combat Medic: Downplayed example. While she's not a medic per se, among the trio, she's the only one with a spell able to heal others (Rhya copied one of Patry's spells to heal himself, but not other people), while being a powerful mage too.
Combo Platter Powers: Thanks to using the body of Fana, who was experimented on by the Diamond Kingdom, she can use her host's Mineral Magic as well.
Dark Action Girl: She's one of the strongest members of the Eye of the Midnight Sun and is implacable and merciless towards the ones she loathes. Gaining her hatred is an easy action.
Dark and Troubled Past: This wasn't limited to human Fana, but elf Fana, who was killed on the wedding of Licht by presumably humans of the Clover Kingdom.
Death Glare: This is her expression when she's enraged, angrily glaring while maintaining her quiet demeanor when she invades the Forest of Witches and tries to avenge Vetto.
Deliberate Injury Gambit: When fighting Noelle, she lets herself get stabbed by her lance to burn her up close. She's stopped from doing so by the arrival of Jack.
Dissonant Serenity: Contrasting her personality when she was part of the Third Eye, she smiles and acts cheerfully as she tries to burn Noelle to ashes with her flames during their battle in the Shadow Palace.
Dull Eyes of Unhappiness: Her eyes lack shines unlike most characters. They become much more vivid when angered though.
Evil Is Burning Hot: She's a violent and unstable mage with great hatred for the Clover Kingdom, and a powerful user of Flame Magic who has the spirit Salamander.
Evil Redhead: Her hair is pink and she's a ruthless mage that is helping a terrorist organization to destroy the Clover Kingdom. She also sports pink hair in both her past and current elf body, but hers are lighter in color.
Fiery Redhead: Zigzagged. Her hair is more on the pink side, and she initially appears to be quiet and stoic, but as soon as her hate increases, she becomes fierce and aggressive. Properly, she primarily uses Flame Magic. She subverts this once she returns to her old personality in the artificial body that Rhya made for her, being more cheerful and lively.
Fiery Stoic: Zigzagged. She uses strong Flame Magic and is usually very quiet. That said, it hides a great rage due to the humans' massacre of the elves.
Fire/Water Juxtaposition: The Fire to the Noelle's Water, with the two fighting twice. When they first fight, Noelle had learned to control her Water Magic enough to not let it rampage. Fana, on the other hand, unleashes massive, destructive flames out of her great anger. Noelle has a kind, sweeter side underneath her coldness, but Fana's quietness hides a deep-seated rage. When they fight again when Fana is reincarnated a second time, Noelle has become more of an attack mage, forming her Valkyrie Armor, while Fana has lost the power of the Fire Spirit Salamander but become a greater recovery mage, easily regenerating the upper half of her body.
Foil: To Noelle. Both are powerful female mages whose magics manifest as dragons. Noelle uses Water Magic while Fana uses Flame Magic. Noelle's cold demeanor hides a hidden sweeter side, but underneath Fana's emotionlessness is a psychotic rage. When they fight again after Fana is reincarnated a second time, Noelle has developed her magic to become more of an attack mage, forming her water armor, while Fana has lost the power of Salamander and become an even greater recovery mage, regenerating the entire upper half of her body.
Gemstone Assault: Thanks to using the body of the human Fana, she can use the Mineral Magic that her human vessel obtained from Mars.
Half the Woman She Used to Be: During her battle against Noelle in the Shadow Palace, the latter manages to blown up her upper half with her Sea Dragon's Roar. Fana is able to resurrect herself thanks to her Forbidden Magic enhancing her healing spell, however.
Healing Hands: Her Phoenix Robe is not only able to heal herself but also others, using it to heal Patry's arm after Julius injures it.
Heal It With Fire: Possesses the flame-based healing spell Phoenix Robe (that she got from the body of the human Fana), that creates flames able to heal herself and others. She also has it in her artificial body.
Heal Thyself: Her Phoenix Robe produces flames that are able to heal her as they "burn" her body. After she is revived in her artificial body, thanks to the Forbidden Magic, she's able to even resurrect herself after suffering gruesome injuries (like having the upper half of her body blown up by Noelle).
Icy Blue Eyes: Combines the natural blue eyes of the human Fana with Dull Eyes of Unhappiness, creating an unnerving effect. They upgrade to Red Eyes, Take Warning once she unleashes her full power.
Identical Stranger: According to Patry, she looks exactly like the human Fana. They share the same name as well. This also hints to Licht's true intentions of forming the Eye of the Midnight Sun.
Meaningful Name:
- Fana is Amharic for "light".
- In Tigrinya, her name's meaning is closer to "flame", which fits her being a flame mage.
Mythical Motifs:
- Western Dragons. She is the user of the fire spirit Salamander, which appears as a large dragon, and can manifest her Flame Magic as draconic shapes. She uses fire, is quiet, and violent when angered.
- Once she's resurrected in her artificial body, she seems to develop a Phoenix motif too. She uses Flame Magic, can give herself a pair of flaming wings and is even able to resurrect herself in case she's killed. Even her most used spell, Phoenix Robe, is named after the mythical bird.
Naked on Revival: Her and Vetto are reincarnated into the naked artificial bodies made by Sally. Rhya tells them to put some clothes on right after, and she's embarrassed when he points out that her boobs got bigger.
Perpetual Frowner: She very rarely smiles. This is no longer the case after she is reincarnated a second time, regaining her original, cheerful personality.
Person of Mass Destruction: Her Flame Magic when using Salamander is extremely destructive, burning large portions of the forest with large fire blasts. She loses a lot of destructive power once Salamander leaves her after Fuegoleon becomes its new master, but she still remains a threatening enemy, trading her previous capacity of destruction with an insane healing ability, while still being able to shoot strong fire attacks.
Playing with Fire: Like Yuno, she uses one of the four elemental avatars, with hers being the fire spirit. She also uses Flame Magic in her artificial body like the human Fana, implying Flame was her attribute since the beginning.
Pointy Ears: Has them, just like Licht and Vetto. This is due to being an elf. They disappear once she lost control of her host.
Power Gives You Wings: In her new artificial body, she's able to create a pair of angel-like wings made of fire that allow her to fly and realize long range attacks to make up after losing the ability to summon Salamander.
Psycho Pink: Although originally a Rose-Haired Sweetie, her incomplete reincarnation turned her into a deranged, violent fire mage with a merciless temperament. She fortunately stops being this when she gains her new artificial body, returning to her original affable disposition, albeit she's still quite menacing until her Heel–Face Turn.
The Quiet One:
- She's the quietest of the Third Eye until she declares her hatred for you, that's it.
- Subverted after her second reincarnation. Now that she's been brought back to life with more of her original personality, she's much more cheerful.
Red Eyes, Take Warning: Her eyes are normally blue, but when she activates her third eye, they turn red. This is also when she's at her most furious and destructive.
Red Is Violent: Her mana has a red colour that corresponds to her Flame Magic, on top of being the most wrathful of her companions, especially during her Villainous Breakdown.
Rose-Haired Sweetie: Before the elves were slaughtered, she was a cheerful girl with pink hair. This is no longer the case after being reincarnated. She returns back to being this upon her second reincarnation.
Rule of Symbolism: Fana's position on the sephirot corresponds to the Gevurah, strength. And as the host of the Fire Spirit Salamander, she has by far the most destructive power out of all the members of the Eye of the Midnight Sun.
The Smurfette Principle: Although there are other women in the Eye of the Midnight Sun, she's the only woman at the very top of the organization.
Sphere of Power: She can unleash the spell Salamander's Breath as a spherical fireball destructive enough to destroy a large part of a forest.
Summon Magic: She can summon Salamander, the elemental spirit of fire.
Taking You with Me: Like Vetto before her, as she is cornered by the Black Bulls after Noelle weakens Salamander with her Sea Dragon's Roar, she tries to immolate herself to take them with her. Fortunately for the human Fana, Asta and Mars manage to exorcise the elf Fana and are able to save her without any damage.
Unskilled, but Strong: Possesses Flame Magic strong enough to earn Salamanders loyalty, granting her immense destructive potential, such that the Black Bulls needed to form an Enemy Mine with Mars to defeat her. However her one dimensional 'strategy' meant outmaneuvering her was relatively simple.
Unstoppable Rage: Constantly in one of these, with her epithet being "The Hateful". This is due to the trauma of her first death causing her to swear eternal vengeance against humans.
Walking Spoiler: It's difficult to talk about Fana without bringing up that she's possessing a human of the same name.

Vetto

The Despair

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Voiced by: Masaya Takatsuka (Japanese), David Wald (English), Orion Pitts (English, young)

Debut: Chapter 51 (Manga), Episode 35 (Anime)

Magic Attribute: Beast

"We're the ones who truly have dreams and bonds. The ones you broke. Our golden dreams, and our bond of blood!!"

One of the three Members of "Third Eye", the elite squad of the Eye of the Midnight Sun. A relentless fighter crushing and crippling every opponent he meets.

A user of Beast Magic, Vetto can copy the attributes of various animals, and manifest these beasts as a translucent aura around himself. When pushed to his limits, Vetto can access Mythical Beast Magic, which breaks common rules of magic and copies unknown animals.

Animal Battle Aura: His Beast Magic projects mana in the shape of a chosen animal around him, giving him the attributes of said creature.
Animal Motifs: While he uses many different animals with his Beast Magic, his most prominent seems to be Bear Claw, befitting a physical powerhouse with sharp teeth that aims to drive his opponents to despair.
Arc Villain: Of the Underwater Temple Arc, with him leading members of the Eye of the Midnight Sun to find a magic stone which causes him to face off against the Black Bulls.
An Arm and a Leg: Loses his right arm during battle, which causes him to remember one moment of his past with Licht and open his third eye, and allows him to use Mythical Beast Magic to regenerate his arm.
Armor-Piercing Question: He is unable to respond when asked by Asta:
Asta: Has anyone you fought here surrendered to you!?
Ax-Crazy: He is a violent and bloodthirsty maniac who seeks to cause destruction towards his enemies.
Back from the Dead: He and Fana are resurrected by Rhya in fifteen-year-old artificial bodies thanks to Sally's research to help with the elf invasion.
Barbarian Longhair: Has long, flowing blonde hair which fits with his beastly image and brutish fighting style.
Beard of Evil: He has a beard, which fits not only with his beastly look but also his status as a foe of the Black Bulls.
The Berserker: Has the fighting style of a raging beast, attacking and giving his opponent little time to defend. It's also quite fitting due to his animalistic beast magic.
Black Magic: His Mythical Beast Magic. It uses a sinister mana, is spoken with Black Speech, and breaks common laws of magic, completely regenerating his arm which regular Recovery Magic cannot do.
Black Speech: All of his Mythical Beast Magic spells are shown to be spoken like this in the manga.
Blood Knight: Absolutely loves fighting, especially when it's with someone strong.
The Brute: He's the group's physical powerhouse who loves fighting and killing. The Guidebook gives him a 5/5 in Brute Force. He's also not too bright having spent so much time buffed up with his Beast Magic, he had forgotten just how much of his supposed strength was due to it. His "strategy" of letting Asta stab him with the Demon-Dweller sword backfired immensely as a result.
Carpet of Virility: Contributing to his beast-like appearance, he has a tuft of hair on his chest.
Close-Range Combatant: His Beast Magic gives him physical enhancements that allow him to get up close and fight enemies with brutish power.
Curse: His Mythical Beast Magic let’s him place curses on contact. He crushes and cursed Asta's arms, making them incurable by even the best healer in the Clover Kingdom until he is healed by the Witch Queen.
Dark and Troubled Past: He once believed that humans and elves could get along, thanks to Licht, but after their village was destroyed, he lost hope and became full of despair.
Determinator: This guy will just not stay down. After having his arm ripped off by Noelle, he manifests his Evil Eye to keep on fighting. He continues to do so even when Asta's sword stops his magical enhancements, and even after being defeated he tries to self-destruct before being killed by Yami.
Due to the Dead: After he dies, Yami makes him a small memorial, and Asta even lays down some flowers for him. He gets better later.
Dumb Muscle: He's a physical powerhouse with magic enhancements whose fighting style has him fight up close. Despite this, he lets Asta stab him with his anti-magic sword in a non vital spot to deprive him of his magic. By the time he learns that said sword saps his magic power and deprived him of his magic enhancements, it's too late and he's defeated.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Licht isn't just his boss, but his treasured friend from his childhood.
Evil Is Bigger: Vetto is a gigantic brute of a man, which is made especially apparent when he fights the short Asta.
Fangs Are Evil: In addition to being a violent sadist towards anyone outside his team, he has a mouth filled with sharklike fangs. They become more prominent when using Mythical Beast Magic.
Fantastic Racism: He especially hates humans for having taken away his hope and having destroyed his village, taking out his anger against the Black Bulls.
Foil: With Asta. Asta is a short teenager while Vetto is a large brute. Asta is seemingly the only human who doesn't have any magic power, relying on great physical strength from muscle training. Vetto has incredibly physical power thanks to magical enhancements derived from his great magic power as an elf. Although Vetto strives to crush the hope of foes and make them despair, Asta's unyielding determination inspires his squadmates to not give up — causing Vetto to deem him as "a demon who devours even despair".
Friend to All Living Things: As an elf before he died, Vetto was beloved by animals for his kind heart.
Half the Man He Used to Be: Yami splits him vertically in half as Vetto attempted his Last Breath Bullet.
Healing Factor: He regenerates his entire arm that was blown off by Noelle when he activates his Mythical Beast Magic, which is stated to break magic standards and something even Recovery Magic is incapable of.
Hope Crusher: This is what he aims and proclaims to be, with his epithet being "The Despair". This is ultimately subverted in his final fight against the Black Bulls and Underwater Temple dwellers, since he was unable to make anyone give up hope thanks to Asta acting as a Hope Bringer.
Instant Armor: His spell Rhinoceros Armor forms an aura of an armored rhinoceros, helping him stop enemy attacks.
Instant Runes: Using Mythical Beast Magic has him manifest two magical circles of runes.
Irony: After trying and failing to drive the Black Bulls to despair, he himself falls into despair when he realizes too late that Asta's Demon-Dweller Sword has consumed most of the magic enhancing his body, leaving him defenseless.
The Juggernaut: Due to the enhancements from his magic, Vetto is near unstoppable, shrugging off most spells and thrashing enemies with his strength and speed. Even after Noelle uses her immensely powerful Sea Dragon's Roar, he regenerates his arm when he starts using his stronger Mythical Beast Magic. It takes a combination of Finral and Vanessa teleporting Asta and moving him with threads to be able to deal damage to him using Anti-Magic. However, it's those same magic enhancements that are the only reason why he fits this trope relative to his opponents, and he's easily defeated once he lets Asta's Demon Dweller Sword stab and drain him of his self-bestowed strength.
Kung-Fu Wizard: His main strategy is to stack a bunch of physical enhancement and regeneration buffs on himself before throwing down with his foes. He's also naturally pretty strong and durable though he overestimates just how strong he really is without his magic.
Laser-Guided Karma: He proclaims himself to be "The Despair" and tries to crush the hopes of his foes. When Asta's sword saps his magical strength, he himself begins to lose hope, falling into despair against Asta's unwavering determination and is ultimately defeated.
Lightning Bruiser: He uses his magic to enhance his body, allowing him to keep up with Luck while he uses his lightning, shrug off most attacks like they're nothing, and a physical powerhouse with his Beast Magic and hand-to-hand prowess. He becomes even stronger when using Mythical Beast Magic.
Logical Weakness: Vetto's monstrous strength comes from a number of enhancement spells casted on himself. Find a way to remove all that from him at once and he's completely helpless, which is what happens when Asta manages to land a solid hit on him with the Demon-Dweller Sword.
Magic Enhancement: What Vetto's Beast Magic and Mythical Beast Magic is in a nutshell, being a number of animal-related spells that allow him to beef up his physical abilities to potentially monstrous levels. It's also deconstructed, as Vetto is so heavily reliant on his brand of magic without realizing that he arrogantly allows Asta to injure him with his Anti-Magic sword in a Too Dumb to Live moment, fully aware of what it does but otherwise convinced that landing a hit won't mean anything since he's so ungodly strong. He ultimately ends up forcefully stripped of all his heavily enhanced strength as a result and, because his natural strength is much lower than his artificial peak, he goes down much easier and ends up going out in a desperate suicide attack.
Muscles Are Meaningful: Vetto has a very muscular build and is a physical powerhouse that can easily throw giant boulders.
Mystical White Hair: His hair is already a pale blonde, but using his Evil Eye, which boosts his magic power, turns it white.
Naked on Revival: Him and Fana are reincarnated into the naked artificial bodies made by Sally. Rhya tells them to put some clothes on right after.
Older Than They Look: He was an adult when he was massacred along with the elves and spends a few years prior to the story resurrected, but is reincarnated a second time into a specially made artificial body that only matured to the age of 15.
Panthera Awesome: His spell Cheetah Charge forms the aura of cheetah legs around his legs, greatly increasing his speed.
Partial Transformation: Uses Beast Magic, which allows him to take on traits from particular animals. He's shown to use Bear Claw, Rhinoceros Armor, Cheetah Charge, and a spell using a whale to go underwater. Mythical Beast Magic itself is much more powerful and mimics unknown animals.
Personality Powers:
- His Beast Magic allows him to gain the attribute of animals, and he himself is a beastly, brutish man.
- Flashbacks show that he was beloved by animals when he was alive, which fit with his use of Beast Magic.
Pointy Ears: Hinting that he's really an elf.
Power Dyes Your Hair: Using his Evil Eye gives him a surge in magic power and lets him use Mythical Beast Magic, and turns his hair white.
Purple Is Powerful: He has purple eyes and the little clothing he wears is mostly purple, and he's a powerful elf mage able to use Forbidden Magic.
Red Is Violent: His aura is usually orange, but when breaking out Forbidden Magic it turns red, and corresponds with him become even more deranged and violent.
Sadist: He takes joy in inflicting pain to his enemies and breaking their spirits.
Slasher Smile: His favorite expression is a vicious grin that flashes every single one of those razor-sharp fangs.
Smug Super: Vetto's Beast Magic makes him The Juggernaut, and he's definitely let that power go to his head. He expresses scorn at the Black Bulls for even trying to put up a fight against him since he considers them to be insects in comparison. His confidence in his own strength proves to be his downfall. He spent so long buffed by his Beast Magic that he had forgotten what his actual natural physical limits really were. When he let Asta stab him with the Demon Dweller Sword, thinking it would give him the upper hand, he didn't realize until it was too late that he had just depowered himself. And without his magic, he was helpless.
Sympathy for the Devil: After Vetto's death, Asta says that although he was still a terrible man, something so bad happened to Vetto that it drove him to be the one deepest in despair and to hate the world.
Taking You with Me: Once defeated, he tries to self-destruct and blow up the whole temple. Fortunately, Yami stops him by killing him.
Too Dumb to Live: His "strategy" to deprive Asta of his Demon Dweller Sword was to let Asta stab him with it in a nonvital spot. A mage who relies entirely on magic for his strength let himself be stabbed by a sword that consumes magic. Vetto realizes he made a fatal mistake when he can no longer keep track of Asta's movements since the magic enhancing his sight is vanishing.
Unskilled, but Strong: His magic gives him enough physical power to overshadow even Asta, and he is a fairly skilled hand to hand fighter. Despite this, he shows little in the way of tactics, preferring to simply overwhelm opponents with brute force and flounders when that's not enough.
Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Vetto was once a gentle little boy who cried after seeing people hurt a little bird. Then his home was destroyed by humans, starting him down the path into the brutal killer he'd become.
Wake-Up Call Boss: Previous villains that Asta fought couldn't be considered "weak" by any means but many past battles were decided by Asta or other members of the Black Bulls seeing through their techniques and Asta defeating them with one or two hits of his anti-magic sword. Vetto, on the other hand, is so powerful that he can take far more than one hit of Asta's sword and leaves Asta and his teammates so injured and magically depleted that previous foes come across as a walk in the park compared to him. It also doesn't help that just when Asta and his team think they've won, Vetto just seems to get back up and reveal he still has a lot of reserves in his tank.
Walking Shirtless Scene: Vetto never wears anything above the waist.
Worthy Opponent: Him and Mereoleona acknowledge each other as this, with the two nearly matched in power, reflexes, and speed.

Underlings

Heath Grice

Voiced by: Ryōtarō Okiayu (Japanese), Marcus D. Stimac (English)^note

Debut: Chapter 6 (Manga), Episode 8 (Anime)

Magic Attribute: Ice

"How dare you throw off the schedule. In 3 seconds, everyone dies."

A mage sent to Saussy Village in order to find a certain magic stone. Heath keeps a very tight schedule and does not forgive a single second of difference. He detests people with low mana and is extremely loyal to Licht.

He uses powerful Ice Magic, complimented by him leading a team of Mist Magic and Water Magic users.

Arc Villain: Of the Magic Knights Entrance Exam Arc, trying to steal a magic stone from the village for the Eye of the Midnight Sun and attempting to kill all the villagers.
Back from the Dead: 334 chapters later, he mysteriously came back to life as one of Lucius's Paladins who made their way to the Land of the Sun alongside Revichi and Sister Lily.
Barrier Warrior: His spell Crystal Shield forms snowflake barriers strong enough to withstand Magna's Flame Magic.
Blue Means Cold: He has grey hair with a blue tint and wears a light blue shirt. He uses Ice Magic.
Combination Attack: With his subordinates who use Mist Magic they can cast the spell Endless Ice Cage, forming a large mist that can condense into countless icicles to fire at foes.
Cyanide Pill: Kills himself and his subordinates in order to avoid questioning and give out details about his employer.
Elemental Barrier: He can use his Ice Magic to form snowflake barriers.
Elemental Hair Colors: He has blue-gray hair and uses Ice Magic.
Evil Is Deathly Cold: An Ice Mage and a member of the Eye of the Midnight Sun willing to kill villagers simply for being from the Forsaken Realm.
Fantastic Racism: Looks down on Saussy's villagers as little more than "filthy beasts", due to them being from the Forsaken Realm of Clover Kingdom.
For the Evulz: It's more or less what his actions in Saussy Village amount to.
Good Scars, Evil Scars: Has a long scar running down the middle of his face.
An Ice Person: Ultimately uses it to kill himself and his subordinates in order to keep their employer's identity a secret.
Kill the Poor: He considers anyone who lives in the Forsaken Realm to be nothing more than "filthy beasts" inferior to those of higher classes that deserve extermination.
Lean and Mean: He has a thin build and face, and wants to kill an entire village of peasants for having low magic power.
Meaningful Name: His surname is Grice and he uses Ice Magic.
Personality Powers: He uses Ice Magic and is cold and calculating, inspecting enemies' abilities.
Schedule Fanatic: He times every one of his and other people's actions. He gets serious against Asta once he realizes that fighting him has taken up exactly 25 seconds of his time. His character profile states his favorite things are punctuality and being on schedule.
The Social Darwinist: He thinks of people in the Forsaken Realm as beasts to be eliminated.
Starter Villain: Heath is the first real enemy Asta faces after becoming a Magic Knight.
Undying Loyalty: He's so loyal to his employer, that he commits suicide just to avoid being questioned, and giving out any information about them.
White Hair, Black Heart: He has grey hair and wants to kill peasants for having low magic power.

Rades Spirito

Voiced by: Masayuki Akasaka (Japanese), Bryan Massey (English)^note

Debut: Chapter 24 (Manga), Episode 21 (Anime)

Magic Attribute: Wraith

"I always do just what my heart tells me to!!"

A former member of the Purple Orcas, he holds a grudge for being fired from the Magic Knights due to wielding a taboo magic. He is overconfident in his strength.

Rades's Wraith Magic lets him reanimate dead individuals, putting them under his complete control. If they were mages, the zombies can use their own magic.

Ability Mixing: He eventually learns how to create zombies stitched together from multiple dead bodies. Due to how his Wraith Magic works, this type of zombie has affinities for every magic type of its constituent bodies, and thus they're able to cast multiple-element spells that would normally be very difficult or impossible for a normal person to perform.
Arc Villain: Of the Royal Capital Assault Arc, using his many corpses to attack the capital and luring Fuegoleon into a trap for the Eye of the Midnight Sun to steal his magic stone.
The Atoner:
- Averted. Asta tries to force him to be this when he tries to team up with the Black Bulls to go to the Royal Capital and defeat Licht, telling him to do so to atone and not for revenge. He still refuses to change his motivation.
- Sort of. Valtos decides to atone for his sins after the battle with the elves and Rades follows him. While handcuffed, he complains about cleaning up the kingdom and then gets threatened by Jack.
Back from the Dead: At the moment of his death, his fear, rage and hatred at being fooled and betrayed cause his Wraith Magic to become more powerful. His new magic allowed him to put both his own soul and the souls of Valtos and Sally back into their bodies.
Bad Powers, Bad People: He makes monsters out of human corpses. Is it any wonder that a guy like that would try and destroy a kingdom full of innocent people?
Barrier Warrior: One of his special corpses, No.1 - Carl, has the ability to produce powerful magical barriers able to stand Fuegoleon's flames. According to Rades, in life, he was a powerful defensive mage.
Boxed Crook: After being imprisoned for his crimes against the Clover Kingdom, he becomes part of the assault force that attacks the Spade Kingdom.
Came Back Strong: His anger at Licht for sacrificing him causes his magic to evolve into True Wraith Magic and resurrecting himself along with Sally and Valtos.
Conditional Powers: His True Wraith Magic can only bring back to the life the recently dead and those that Rades has a strong connection to. That's why it's able to work on Valtos, Sally, and "Licht"/Patry.
Crippling Overspecialization:
- Knows only one spell, of which fact he is ashamed.
- Technically averted after his magic evolved and he resurrected himself with his new spell Soul Abductor, which can put back recently departed souls (of those he is familiar with) in a body, including his own. Though even that's not so much a "new spell" as an upgraded version of his original Wraith spell.
Dark Is Evil: Is dressed in dark clothing, looks like a stereotypical evil mage, and his magic makes him a Necromancer. His Establishing Character Moment has him trying to destroy the Clover Kingdom for rather petty reasons, and even his switching sides can be considered a Hazy-Feel Turn at best.
Desecrating the Dead: As a Necromancer, he does this, even stitching together different bodies, which is why his magic is seen as so detestable.
Determinator: One of Rades's most defining traits is that he refuses, absolutely refuses, to roll over and quit, no matter what life throws at him — even if it means bringing himself and his comrades Back from the Dead.
Don't You Dare Pity Me!: Screams at Fuegoleon not to pity him for only knowing one spell, only for Asta to coldly remark nobody pities him because he's a nasty piece of work who squandered his potential by becoming a psychopathic murderer.
Emerald Power: His True Soul Magic (which allows for resurrection manifests with a green colour in the anime.
Evil Is Petty: He wants to destroy the Clover Kingdom and kill everyone inside of it because he was exiled for his dangerous magic. He even gloats that "reasons are best when they're simple!"
Eyepatch of Power: Since both of his eyes were intact when he was still in the Purple Orcas, it's implied that the eyepatch most likely isn't just for looks. Later on, his left eye is revealed to be permanently bloodshot, a very unsightly thing that he kept covered.
Flechette Storm: While the main ability of No.1 - Carl is the power to create magic barriers, it also has the power to shoot projectile weapons against its targets. However, this also proves to be risky, as during the moment where Carl attacks, a gap appears in its barriers for a split second and can be attacked. Fuegoleon quickly defeats it after realizing of this weak spot.
Fluffy the Terrible: With the exception of Mikael Caesar, all of his special corpses (that are intimidating super-zombies) have rather mundane names, such as Jimmy or Carl.
Frankenstein's Monster: His corpses all have this appearance, but of special note is No.0 - Mikael Caesar who is made out of two different corpses.
Freudian Excuse: He was banished from the Clover Kingdom for having dangerous magic, and no one defended him because he was a commoner.
Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: As Fuegoleon notes, the injustice Rades suffered is woefully insufficient to justify his murderous rampage in Clover and is just a waste of his talent.
Hand Blast: He can fire magic bullets from his hand.
Hate Sink: The single most detestable member of his group, who doesn't even seem to care about any of his comrades.
Hazy-Feel Turn: He follows Valtos, who plans to atone and turns himself in to the Clover Kingdom. However, he complains about doing clean-up work and says he only did it because he followed him.
Human Sacrifice: Gets sacrificed as part of the elf resurrection.
I'll Kill You!: Tells Patry that he'll kill him sometime after he stops him from going to the afterlife and resurrects him in Licht's body.
Making a Splash: One of his special corpses, No.3 - David, has the ability to summon and manipulate muddy water and using it in the form of two Combat Tentacles.
Meaningful Name: "Spirito" as in spirit, and his given name is one letter off from "Hades". Two guesses what his magic is.
Mook Maker: His magic allows him to create zombies by introducing his mana into corpses. He also created five powerful corpses numbered from 0 to 4 that acts as his own Elite Mooks.
Moral Myopia:
- Asta points this out, stating he has no right to complain about getting wounded after hurting so many innocent people.
- Shortly before Licht sacrifices him the former states this, telling Rades that he has no qualms harming others despite being terribly sensitive to his own pain.
Mundane Utility: In the anime, he's shown using his corpses to help clean up the Clover Kingdom after the battle with the elves.
Mythical Motifs: The undead such as zombies and wraiths, not only matching the minions his magic creates but his own wraith like appearance.
Necromancer: His magic lets him make a zombie army by putting some of his mana in a corpse.
The Power of Hate: His hatred and rage over Patry using him as a Human Sacrifice causes his Wraith Magic to become True Wraith Magic. This more powerful magic allows him to bring himself, Valtos, and Sally back from the dead.
Powers Do the Fighting: Giving his necromancy powers, his corpses fight on behalf while he just controls them from the sidelines.
Power Trio: Makes one with Valtos and Sally.
Pride: One of his most defining characteristics. Rades is a very arrogant individual and if someone hurts his pride, he will quickly develop a grudge towards the person responsible for that, as seen when he swore revenge against Asta for defeating and scarring him.
Psychopathic Manchild: Type B. Rades is a genuinely powerful mage but he's also vindictive, violent, hotheaded, and overall emotionally immature.
Purple Is Powerful: Played with. He has purple hair and his magic gives him access to some powerful minions... but he's also relatively weak when on his own.
Revenge: He joined the Eye of the Midnight Sun to attack the Clover Kingdom because he was forced out of the Purple Orcas squad and the Clover Kingdom due to being a commoner and having dangerous magic. After his revival, he's set on taking revenge on Patry for betraying and sacrificing him.
Roaring Rampage of Revenge: He attacks the Royal Capital out of vengeance for being kicked out of the Purple Orcas and banished for his abhorrent magic.
Rummage Sale Reject: He wears tattered clothes, a mismatched belt, and red bandages around his arm and head.
Scars Are Forever: He gets a scar on his cheek where Asta cut him.
Shock and Awe: One of his special corpses, No.2 - Alfred, has the ability to shoot lightning from its body, as well as direct them over its enemies.
Slasher Smile: His default expression is a maniacal grin that is quick to vanish anytime things doesn't go as he planned.
Social Darwinist: He proclaims that people with weak magic should get kicked around by the strong. This is why he's livid at getting injured, a proof of weakness, by Asta, someone with no magic whatsoever.
Squishy Wizard: Despite having sufficient magical power to rival royals, his physical abilities are nothing to write home about. Both his fights with Asta more or less end when he manages to get close and put his sword skills to use.
Summon Magic: His magic lets him call upon corpses to fight on his behalf.
Then Let Me Be Evil: After he was ostracized by the Magic Knights and the Clover Kingdom because they deemed his magic dangerous and forbidden, and seeing that no one took his defense due to his birth status as a commoner, he decided to use his powers to seek revenge on those who wronged him.
When All You Have Is a Hammer…:
- He makes a coordinated attack on the Royal Capital, overwhelming the entire city with hundreds, if not thousands of zombies, which take the entirety of the Magic Knights to fight. When found and cornered, the heroes find out that the spell to resurrect the dead is the only spell he can cast, a fact that made him feel inadequate and drove him to evil.
- He returns later on, having found even more creative use for that one spell, in which he splices zombies from the dead bodies of multiple wizards, who can cast very dangerous spells through combined use of their signature magic types.
Would Hurt a Child: Tries to murder a little girl, just because she's from the Clover Kingdom, before being stopped by Asta.
Wound That Will Not Heal: One of his special corpses, No.4 - Jimmy, has the ability to shoot magical bullet that contains a curse able to inflict wounds that unable to heal. It manages to hit Asta with this, but Asta manages to destroy the curse by cutting himself with his Anti-Magic sword.
You Are Number 6: Zigzagged. His Elite Mooks zombies are numbered, but they also possesses their own names. If they were the names they had while alive or of Rades just decided to name them that way is unknown.

Catherine

Voiced by: Kimiko Jitsukawa (Japanese), Caitlin Glass (English)

Debut: Chapter 28 (Manga), Episode 23 (Anime)

Magic Attribute: Ash

"Who're you calling a hag?!"

A vain witch, obsessed with her own beauty and youth. She has a short temper and won't tolerate any negative comments about her appearance.

Casts Ash Curse Magic spells that steals others' youth and inflicts random ailments.

Ashes to Ashes: She uses cursed ash to drain mana from enemies to maintain her youth or deteriorate their five senses.
Bad Powers, Bad People: The fact that she uses cursed ash to drain others' life energy and steal their senses go with her being a villainous witch.
Berserk Button: She hates negative remarks about her appearance, quickly going from fawning over Yuno to trying to murder him when he makes one.
Curb-Stomp Battle: Granted, she had just taken Yuno's attack, but she gets pummeled into the ground by Charmy's giant ram when she thinks that she's trying to steal her food.
Curse: A user of Curse Magic, combining it with her Ash Magic to deteriorate senses and drain mana.
Dark Is Evil: Wears dark clothing, wields curses, and is a Vain Sorceress who drains others mana to maintain her appearance on top of being part of a terrorist group.
Evil Sorceress: She wears a classic witch look, and is a member of the Eye of the Midnight Sun who drains innocents' mana to maintain her youth.
Evil Wears Black: She wears a black dress and witch hat and is a loyal servant of the Big Bad.
Fairest of Them All: Detests other women for being cute.
Flying Broomstick: Naturally has one of these.
Hot Witch: She's from the Forest of Witches and tries to pass as the "Hot" part, but it's pretty obvious that she's not as young as she looks once she loses mana.
Human Sacrifice: In Chapter 170, she and George are shown to have been sacrificed.
Life Drinker: She can use her Ash Magic to drain people's mana to make herself younger.
Like a God to Me: When interrogated, she refers to Licht as "our god".
Older Than They Look: Only looks young because of her magic. Once she gets low on her mana, her true face is exposed.
Purple Is Powerful: Is a powerful witch with purple mana.
Sense Loss Sadness: Weaponized. She uses her Ash Curse Magic to take away enemies' sight, smell, and touch. Yuno circumvents this by sensing her mana and defeats her soon after.
Undying Loyalty: Despite being pretty vain, she still is fiercely loyal to Licht, calling him a god.
Vain Sorceress: She really doesn't like being called "old" or "hag" and others being prettier than her.
Villainous Crush: Seems to have one on Yuno once she sees him and even answers his questions because she finds him handsome. She soon changes her attitude when he calls her an old hag.
Wicked Witch: Although everyone in the cast is a mage, she qualifies as a true one from the Forest of Witches with the fitting outfit to match. She's a member of the Eye of the Midnight Sun and uses a magic that deteriorates one's senses.

Valtos

Voiced by: Daiki Hamano (Japanese), Chris Guerrero (English)

Debut: Chapter 24 (Manga), Episode 21 (Anime)

Magic Attribute: Spatial

"All as Master Licht willed..."

A calm, tactical mage who is extremely devoted to his master Licht.

He uses Spatial Magic for teleportation. Can open up portals from a distance and fire mana bullets to harass his victims, or teleport them against their will.

The Atoner: He decides to atone for his sins after the battle with the elves. He's seen cleaning up the kingdom while handcuffed.
Back from the Dead: Rades's Wraith Magic revives him after he was sacrificed.
The Bad Guy Wins: Even though the Black Bulls beat Rades' creation at their hideout, No. 0 Michael Caesar, Valtos still gets the magic stone left there anyway.
Boxed Crook: After being imprisoned for his crimes against the Clover Kingdom, he becomes part of the assault force that attacks the Spade Kingdom.
Dark Is Evil: Wields Spatial Magic that is dark in colour and works for a terroritst organisation. Subverted after becoming The Atoner.
Et Tu, Brute?: As he is sacrificed for the reincarnation spell, he asks Licht if they were his precious companions, to which he replied that they were sacrifices to revive his true companions.
Evil Laugh: Briefly laughs like this when he, Rades, and Sally flee the Black Bulls' hideout with the magic stone.
Facial Markings: Has lines on his face, and Yami even asks why he has them.
Hand Blast: He fights by firing magic bullets from his hand into his portals to attack from all directions.
Heel–Face Turn: After the elves' reincarnation, he plans to atone for his sins and turns himself in to the Clover Kingdom.
Hiding in Plain Sight: Disguises himself as one of the many corpses in a pile during Rades' attack.
Human Sacrifice: To his horror, he realizes that his master has never considered him to be a true friend. By then, it's too late.
Power Trio: Makes one with Rades and Sally.
Purple Is Powerful: Has purple mana, a purple grimoire, and his Spatial Magic is powerful enough to get the drop on Captains and earn him the position of a high ranking member of his organisation.
Space Master: Can teleport people and send projectiles through the portals that he creates.
The Stoic: Usually pretty calm, even when attacked by the Wizard King. He noticeably gets angry when Yami insults Licht and attacks him, however.
Thinking Up Portals: Can make portals using his Spatial Magic.
Undying Loyalty: Utterly loyal to Licht, often calling him godly. He is the most shocked of the Midnight Sun trio when Licht reveals that he has never cared about him and the other human members of the organization. Yet even when he is revived, he still wishes to see Licht for answers.
Villainous Rescue: Right after Licht beats Julius in a fight, Yami comes, ready to fight Licht, but Valtos appears just in time to teleport Licht to safety.

Sally

Voiced by: Minami Tsuda (Japanese), Trina Nishimura (English)^note

Debut: Chapter 33 (Manga), Episode 25 (Anime)

Magic Attribute: Gel

"While I'm at it... maybe I will dissect everybody!"

A magical scientist who loves research and experimentation, keeping a ton of magical items and desperate to dissect and experiment on interesting individuals. She takes an interest in Asta due to his unique physiology.

Her Gel Magic creates titanic blob-like salamander, which Sally often modifies by injecting them with magical products.

Animal Motifs:
- Salamanders. She can form giant ones with her Gel Magic, and salamanders are symbolic of rebirth and passion. Sally is a scientist passionate about learning unique magics, and comes back to life thanks to Rades' magic.
- Scorpions, using a scorpion magic tool to boost her power.
The Atoner: After being revived by Rades, Sally gives the Black Bulls ideas in defeating Reve. She's later seen cleaning up the kingdom for "volunteer work" while handcuffed after the battle with the elves.
Awesomeness by Analysis: She quickly pieces together how Dorothy's dream world works just from a few observations.
Ax-Crazy: Oh...understatement of the decade.
Back from the Dead: Rades's Wraith Magic revives her after she was sacrificed.
Bare Midriffs Are Feminine: Her outfit leaves her navel exposed, and she is the most recurring female member.
Blob Monster: Summons one after Henry attacks her and Rades with the Black Bulls' Hideout.
Boxed Crook: After being imprisoned for her crimes against the Clover Kingdom, she becomes part of the assault force that attacks the Spade Kingdom. She even made the magic camouflaging robes the force is wearing.
Brainy Brunette: She's the magical equivalent of a Mad Scientist and she has black hair.
Creating Life: She manages to create specially made bodies for Vetto and Fana to use after being reincarnated a second time.
Cute and Psycho: She's rather adorable looking with a hyper-excitable personality and voice that lend themselves to her appeal. She's also rather unhinged and her unkempt appearance and childish voice only add to that as well.
Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: She has messy black hair and is the resident Mad Scientist with a desire to experiment on Asta.
Evil Genius: She's a genius inventor and researcher working with the Eye of the Midnight Sun, creating dark magic tools used to strengthen someone's magical power and the artificial bodies used to reincarnate Vetto, Fana, and Licht.
Evil Sorcerer: She's a sorceress who likes to dissect and experiment on people who catches her interest. She also looks like a scientist as well, what with her Labcoat of Science and Medicine and her syringe.
Four Eyes, Zero Soul: She's an unhinged scientist who wears glasses with a desire to dissect any mages she finds interesting.
Goo It Up: Can use Gel Magic to create a titanic blob-like salamander that she often modifies by injecting them with magical products.
Hand Blast: She can fire magic bullets from her hand by concentrating her mana.
Heel–Face Turn: She easily accepts Asta's reasoning, which is surprising for him, that limiting her ethical liberties would get her more funding for experiments, with a bonus of letting her get some less harmful tests than she originally had in mind from him. He also promises that she can dissect him after he dies, so long as she doesn't kill him. Combined with dying once giving her a strange new perspective, Sally immediately starts helping the Black Bulls.
Human Sacrifice: She shares this fate with the other human members of the Eye of the Midnight Sun. Thanks to Rades gaining a new spell as he died, it doesn't last.
Lecherous Licking: Licks on Asta upon being on top of him on their second meeting and also saying that she wants to check every part of his body.
Mad Scientist: She really wants to dissect and experiment on Asta, expressing her desire with an almost child-like glee. She joined the Eye of the Midnight Sun because they'd let her perform experiments that the Magic Knights wouldn't.
Meaningful Name: Her name "Sally" originated as a pet name for "Sarah", which means "joy" in Arabic. Sally herself is a perpetually cheerful Mad Scientist.
The Medic: Seems to act as such, as she heals Rades's injuries.
Messy Hair: It's scruffy and unkempt.
Ms. Fanservice: Her skimpy outfit leaves little to the imagination.
No Sense of Personal Space: Towards Asta because of her fascination for his magic-less body, tasting him by biting him and feeling him up.
Perpetual Smiler: She's almost always seen smiling in a similar manner to Luck, complete with the unsettling nature behind many of those smiles (if one replaces "Blood Knight" with "Mad Scientist").
Playing with Syringes: Carries a big syringe. She uses it on Baro to heal him, restoring his mud magic and mana, which turns him into a mindless monstrosity as a result.
Power Trio: Makes one with Rades and Valtos.
Purple Is Powerful: Her mana and magic manifest with purple colours, and she is a relatively powerful mage.
Smart People Wear Glasses: As the resident Mad Scientist and by far the smartest member of her Power Trio, naturally she wears glasses.
Stripperiffic: Her clothes under her mantel. If they can even be called clothes.
Teen Genius: She's actually only 17, despite being the Eye of the Midnight Sun's resident Mad Scientist.

George

Voiced by: Wataru Tsuyuzaki (Japanese), Adam Gibbs (English)

Debut: Chapter 33 (Manga), Episode 25 (Anime)

Magic Attribute: Wind

"When all others abandoned us, the master did not. We could never repay that with betrayal."

An underling whom Julius manages to retain while Licht arrives to get his men back.

Blow You Away: Uses Wind Magic.
Human Sacrifice: In Chapter 170, he and Catherine are shown to have been sacrificed.
Rugged Scar: On the left side of his face.
Undying Loyalty: Even if there were no protection magic cast on him, he would still not say anything to betray his master, claiming that the master had never abandoned him and the other members.

Characters / Black Clover: Eye of the Midnight Sun

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Eye of the Midnight Sun

Leader

Licht/Patry

Voiced by: Takahiro Sakurai (Japanese), Shouko Yuzuki (Japanese, young), Jerry Jewell (English), Jad Saxton (English, young)note Other Languages: Roberto Mendiola (Latin American Spanish)

Debut: Chapter 9 (Manga), Episode 10 (Anime)

Magic Attribute: Light

Third Eye

Rhya

Voiced by: Hirofumi Arai (Japanese, episodes 35-39), Masakazu Morita (Japanese, episode 87 onward), Brandon Potter (English)note Other Languages: Javier Olguín (Latin American Spanish)

Debut: Chapter 51 (Manga), Episode 35 (Anime)

Magic Attribute: Copy

Fana

Voiced by: Mao Ichimichi (Japanese), Jeannie Tirado (English)

Debut: Chapter 51 (Manga), Episode 35 (Anime)

Magic Attribute: Flame

Vetto

Voiced by: Masaya Takatsuka (Japanese), David Wald (English), Orion Pitts (English, young)

Debut: Chapter 51 (Manga), Episode 35 (Anime)

Magic Attribute: Beast

Underlings

Heath Grice

Voiced by: Ryōtarō Okiayu (Japanese), Marcus D. Stimac (English)note Other Languages: Gerardo Vásquez (Latin American Spanish)

Debut: Chapter 6 (Manga), Episode 8 (Anime)

Magic Attribute: Ice

Rades Spirito

Voiced by: Masayuki Akasaka (Japanese), Bryan Massey (English)note Other Languages: Manuel Campuzano (Latin American Spanish)

Debut: Chapter 24 (Manga), Episode 21 (Anime)

Magic Attribute: Wraith

Catherine

Voiced by: Kimiko Jitsukawa (Japanese), Caitlin Glass (English)

Debut: Chapter 28 (Manga), Episode 23 (Anime)

Magic Attribute: Ash

Valtos

Voiced by: Daiki Hamano (Japanese), Chris Guerrero (English)

Debut: Chapter 24 (Manga), Episode 21 (Anime)

Magic Attribute: Spatial

Sally

Voiced by: Minami Tsuda (Japanese), Trina Nishimura (English)note Other Languages: Annie Rojas (Latin American Spanish)

Debut: Chapter 33 (Manga), Episode 25 (Anime)

Magic Attribute: Gel

George

Voiced by: Wataru Tsuyuzaki (Japanese), Adam Gibbs (English)

Debut: Chapter 33 (Manga), Episode 25 (Anime)

Magic Attribute: Wind

Alternative Title(s): Black Clover Patry

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