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Witch Cult
Shared Tropes
Tropes which commonly apply to the Archbishops of Sin and associated members.
- Ambiguous Situation: Why Petelgeuse Romani-Conti founded them and who his partner was have yet to be reveal.
- Apocalypse Cult: Seek to release the Witch of Envy, who swallowed the other Witches and half the world before she was sealed. What exactly releasing her would mean is not clear, but it is guaranteed to cause more than enough of death and destruction - not that most cultists care for that.
- Bad Powers, Bad People: Played with - at first sight, it sure seems like there's no way the Archbishops' powers could be used for benevolent purposes. But it is later revealed that the Authorities of Sin take the shape of their powers depending on what their wielders desire, without their control. In other words, they're bad powers because they're held by bad people.
- Subverted with Petelgeuse, who was, at first, a kind and caring man, despite being part of the Cult. But then he absorbed the Sloth Factor in order to have a chance against Pandora and Regulus, even though he knew that he was incompatible. This fact, plus that he murdered his lover Fortuna by accident, eventually drove him insane.
- Big Bad Ensemble: Regulus, Capella, Sirius and the Gluttonies collectively fulfill the role of Arc Villain for the fifth arc. The heroes initially assume they are dealing with a Big Bad Duumvirate, but it turns out each Archbishop has their own goals and they barely tolerate each other. They have some sort of non-aggression pact to ensure nobody gets in the way of the others, but that's the extent they are willing to work with each other.
- Co-Dragons: The Archbishops seem to play this role for Pandora, the enigmatic eighth Witch of Sin and the Cult's Mysterious Benefactor.
- Faceless Goons: The vast majority of the lower-ranked followers are this. They wear uniform dark robes with pointed hoods, covering their faces completely, with most possessing enhanced speed and some kind of shadow-blending spell, wielding daggers and fireballs as their primary weapons. To add emphasis, the vast majority of the lower-ranked mooks appear to be highly expendable.
- Hate Sink: Per
Word of God, the Witch's Cult and its Archbishops were specifically designed to be the biggest, most irredeemable and loathsome scumbags in the setting, with most having flimsy justifications at best for their actions and next to no redeeming qualities. - Hit-and-Run Tactics: The Cult's preferred modus operandi. When preparing to assault a target, the Cultists will split into smaller, mobile units and encircle their operating area, cutting off any possibility of warning, escape or reinforcement. Their Gospels providing them with significant amount of foresight and additional information, the Cultists will usually bide their time and strike only when their targets have dropped their guard and are at their weakest. And, should they be repelled by their foe, their commanders seem to have no qualms about sacrificing a few dozen pawns for a chance to slink back into the shadows.
- Jerkass: Being Hate Sinks, all of the members are loathsome and unpleasant people who work solely for their personal benefit and show no mercy for anyone, being entirely devoted to the Witch of Envy, Satella. This understandably earns them Subaru's ire.
- Kill on Sight: Most of the population of the world loathes and hates the Witch Cult and would not hesitate to kill any of their members preemptively. Ironically, this has largely aided the Cult in maintaining a degree of secrecy and ambiguity around itself, as very few members could be succesfully captured. Even then, most members would rather commit to a Suicide Attack than risk being captured, so it might not make much of a difference. This mentality towards them is bad news for Subaru, as his Return by Death ability gives him the witch's scent that a select few characters can catch, which makes them suspect that he's a member of the cult. And they usually respond to the slightest suspicious behavior as adequate grounds to murder him.
- Malevolent Masked Men: Most lower ranked members wear uniform dark robes topped with a pointed, triangular hood, with reddish cutouts for the eyes and an eerie symbol of a large, crimson eye on their forehead. As for the malevolent part, well, being composed of lunatics, sociopaths and all the worst kinds of social outcasts ought to make that part a no-brainer.
- Non-Indicative Name: As Arc 5 makes evident, despite their name, hardly any of them actually hold any love for the Witch of Envy. They can be more correctly called a loose association of monsters that just happen to gather under the name out of convenience.
- Opportunistic Bastard: Most members, Archbishops included, join out of personal interest rather than any kind of genuine "faith" in the Witch of Envy. Namely, most become followers after receiving a Gospel, a magic tome capable of "guiding its owner towards their desired future" through vague instructions. Thus, most members only cooperate if and when their Gospels tell them to. It is quite possible, however, that the Gospels are actually being affected to manipulate their owners towards a completely different goal...
- Religion of Evil: Played with - their initial description and the behaviour of Petelgeuse's faction of the Cult largely play the trope straight, worshipping Satella and seeking to free her from her prison, consequences be damned. What exactly they are hoping to gain from this is unclear, but at least Petelgeuse personally seems to believe he will be "rewarded" for freeing his beloved Witch. However, as more factions of the Cult are showcased, it becomes clear that Petelgeuse's zealots are more of an exception than the rule. In general, the other Archbishops and their subordinates seem to mostly enjoy the benefits that possesing Authorities and Gospels brings them, and only carry out the orders appearing in the Gospels because they believe them to be guides towards personal success. None of the others care for Satella, some even actively despise her, and only see their membership as a convenient means to their own ends. And there are hints that the Cult may not have been evil in the beginning...
- Seers: All of the members possess Gospels which, to some limited extent, can predict the future. The extent to which they follow their writings varies, but in any case this makes them more dangerous, as it can make them prone towards launching suicidally confident attacks or give them an edge over their unsuspecting targets, not to mention serving as the primary means of recognition, organisation and cooperation. However, Roswaal calls the Gospels "defective", at least compared to his own version, which might mean that the Gospels do not, in fact, predict the future very accurately or not at all, but might instead be serving as something else entirely.
- Standard Evil Organization Squad: The Archbishops, for the most part. Rather than act as commanders or, more fittingly, priests, the Archbishops mainly take the role of elite enforcers, with only a few choosing to directly command over their subordinates. Then again, even the weakest Archbishop is a powerhouse to not be treated lightly, and the strongest have taken on military fortresses single-handed and come out of the fight unscathed. That said, while the Archbishops can loosely cooperate if their Gospels compel them to, to say they don't like each other would be quite the understatement, and all of them prefer to work alone.
- Suicide Attack: Are prone to launching these, though how much they actually realise what they are doing is suicidal is up for debate, seeing as their Gospels are supposed to lead them to their desired future...
- Token Good Teammate: Interestingly, Petelgeuse and his faction seem to have been this before he went mad. They seem to have actively opposed Regulus and his extremist faction when he attacked the Elves of Elior Forrest.
- Villains Never Lie: Horrible and twisted as they are, the Archbishops of Sin always keep any promises they make.Tappei: Oh, they'll keep promises. When they meet someone, they'll greet them and give their names. That's always been the way of filth. They'll keep a promise, and if they don't feel like keeping it, they wouldn't make it in the first place. They just do what they've done. If what they want to do is a sneaky action, they'll be sneaky, and if what they want to do can only be done by being open, they'll be open. They're scum.
- We Have Reserves: The general mindset of most Archbishops and other higher-ranked members. The precise numbers of active Witch Cultists are uncertain, but given they allegedly maintain a presence all over the world, and how liberally their commanders spend the lives of lower-ranked followers, there's bound to be quite a few.
- With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: The Authorities of the Archbishops are developed after they take in Witch Factors. If the person is incompatible with the Witch Factor in question, their personality is likely to be altered and changed. However, most of the Archbishops are already fairly horrible people before inheriting their power and, by conventional standards, are already insane and unhinged.
- Would Hurt a Child: None of them would hesitate in killing children, and many indeed do, in several of Subaru's loops.
Archbishop of Sloth
Petelgeuse Romanee-Conti
Petelgeuse Romanee-Conti
Voiced by: Yoshitsugu Matsuoka (Japanese), Todd Haberkorn (English), Mark Whitten (English, as Geuse) Foreign VAs
Fingers voiced by: Yōko Hikasa (Japanese, woman), Allegra Clark (English, woman), Xóchitl Ugarte (Latin American Spanish, woman), Hiroshi Yanaka (Japanese, Ketty), Roberto Mendiola (Latin American Spanish, Ketty), Hisako Kanemoto (Japanese, girl), Julie Ann Taylor (English, girl), Gabriela Guzmán (Latin American Spanish, girl), Nobuo Tobita (Japanese, middle-aged man), Kyle Hebert (English, middle-aged man), Jorge Ornelas (Latin American Spanish, middle-aged man), Yūsuke Kobayashi (Japanese, Subaru), Sean Chiplock (English, Subaru), Ricardo Bautista (Latin American Spanish, Subaru)
Petelgeuse in the past
The Archbishop of Sloth. He's a deeply unstable man who will happily slaughter countless innocents if he believes it's in service to Satella.
- Added Alliterative Appeal: He loves to play with words in his rants, though it varies depending on the situation. Sometimes he uses common alliteration and other times he repeats a particular subject and uses various adjectives of similar meaning to describe it.
- Affably Evil: He is always overly polite and respectful to Subaru until finding out the boy's real intent and trying to use Unseen Hand to rip him apart. Made all the more horrifying in that Tappei Nagatsuki stated that he's the nicest of all the archbishops. Let that sink in for a moment...
- Arch-Enemy: To Subaru. To say the boy hates him is an understatement. After all the hell Petelgeuse puts Subaru through, including killing Rem, Emilia, and everyone else over and over, there is nothing Subaru wants to do but end Petelgeuse's existence. The mere mention of the man is enough to drive Subaru into a burning rage.
- Arc Villain: Of the third arc of the series.
- Ax-Crazy: He is so insane that he makes Elsa look like a kitty. His way of talking doesn't help this at all.
- Bad Boss: Upon hearing that his minions have failed to kill Rem, he grabs one of them and wildly beats them to a pulp. When Rem does show up, he is completely unfazed by his men being slaughtered and even giggles with joy at the sight.
- Bad Powers, Good People: He had been given the Authority of Sloth, but refused to take it, knowing full well that he was incompatible. But he was forced to take it in order to protect Fortuna and Emilia from Pandora and Regulus. For a while, he managed to use his new powers to protect his loved ones, but, when he accidentally killed Fortuna due to Pandora's illusions, it triggered his downfall to insanity.
- Beauty Equals Goodness: When he was still handsome, he was nothing short of a pleasant and kind man back then.
- Big Bad Ensemble: During the third arc along with the White Whale.
- Character Catchphrase:"You are truly... slothful."
"My brain trembles!" - Character Tics: Violently biting his own fingers when frustrated.
- Chewing the Scenery: Very unusual for Yoshitsugu Matsuoka, who plays Petelgeuse by hamming it up sky high and belting all of his lines to maximum dramatic effect.
- Clipped-Wing Angel: After being bested by Subaru and suffering a slippage of whatever sanity was left, his lifeless husk of a body turns into a big, spider-like thing as fast as a cart. However, Subaru manages for the first time to single-handedly kill him in this form, causing his final death.
- Dark Is Evil: Dresses in the dark cultist robes, has sickly green hair and pale skin with crazed eyes.
- Defiant to the End: Even while being killed by Puck, he keeps talking back to the spirit.
- Determinator: In his final moments with his battered and broken body, with no Fingers left to switch to, Petelgeuse still pursues Subaru using his Unseen Hand to propel him like a spider. Subaru gets irritated with how persistent the Sin Archbishop is.
- Disc-One Final Boss: He is the final antagonist of the first anime season and the late volumes of the light novels, but it is clear that even when he was defeated, the stuff with the Witch Cult has just started.
- Evil Former Friend: Long ago, he was a close father figure to Emilia until he went insane as a result of absorbing the Authority of Sloth and killed her aunt Fortuna.
- Evil Is Hammy: To put it simply, Petelgeuse's over-the-top hamminess makes both Roswaal and Subaru look tame in comparison.
- Evil Laugh: He gives off a mad cackle at times.
- Evil Makes You Ugly: In contrast to his creepy face in the present, he was a very attractive man before he went insane.
- Evil Sounds Deep: Yoshitsugu Matsuoka will often put on a deeper voice for Petelgeuse compared to his usual characters. Though he reverts back to the usual pitch whenever he's yelling and screaming.
- Expy: His similarities to Fate/Zero's Caster have been noticed, from his insane ax crazy behavior, to his usage of Dark magic that take the form of shadowy hands, to having an intense obsession with a female character from the past (Caster with Jeanne D'Arc and Petelgeuse with Satella).
- Fallen Hero: Until around 100 years ago, Geuse was a kindhearted man who was ready to sacrifice himself to protect Emilia and Fortuna. During his fight against Regulus and Pandora, he needed to take the Authority of Sloth which started to make him insane and lost himself completely when he killed Fortuna by mistake.
- Femme Fatalons: Male example; he has long, sharp red nails.
- Frontline General: He is always at the forefront of battle, because it doesn't matter if his host body is killed, so long as one of his followers or someone with the witch's scent is in the same area, he will survive through body possession.
- Glass Cannon: He is capable of killing anyone no matter how tough their body is, so long as his Unseen Hands can grab them. However, his body and the bodies of the followers he can possess are otherwise normal and can be easily killed, provided his opponent can avoid being killed long enough to get into range.
- Godzilla Threshold: Knowing full well that he stood no chance against both Regulus and Pandora, but still determined to keep them away from Fortuna and Emilia, Petelgeuse absorbed the Authority of Sloth. He knew that he was incompatible and that the effects of him doing so would be anything but good, but he still did so anyway. It is played tragically as, despite his sacrifice, he ended up killing Fortuna and the trauma from this, alongside the Authority's dark nature, eventually turned him into a raging lunatic that would spend the next one hundred years slaughtering countless towns.
- In-Series Nickname: Geuse.
- Invisible to Normals: His Unseen Hand ability, which allows him to spawn deadly appendages that are invisible to most people.
- Irony: Because of the nature of his powers, Petelguese has the potential to become a nearly-unstoppable assassin. However, his hammy mannerisms make it obvious where he is and who he is possessing which will make his opponents wary of his presence.
- I Was Quite a Looker: His face is so disturbing in the present that it's hard to believe he was a Bishōnen in the past as Geuse
◊. - Knight of Cerebus: His presence in the story takes the story from a somewhat dark series to a truly dark and depressing tale on par with Berserk.
- Laughably Evil: If it wasn't for the sheer eeriness of the setting and Petelgeuse's monstrous actions, he could fit right into a comedy act.
- Lean and Mean: Is skinny as a rake and a psychotic leader of a cult that slaughters villages.
- Lecherous Licking: Licks Subaru's eye at one point, showing just how disturbing and unhinged he can be.
- Living Emotional Crutch: Geuse was so important to Fortuna that she refused to escape with Emilia and returned to help him in his fight against Regulus and Pandora, fully knowing it would result in her death, all because she couldn't bear the thought of never seeing him again.
- Love Freak: He can't go more than a few words without mentioning love. And when he gets Subaru's body, he goes on a non-stop rant about the different types of love. May be a case of Love Makes You Crazy.
- Madness Mantra: Has a habit of repeating the same words in the same sentence, be it about slothfulness, love... anything, really.
- Motor Mouth: He frequently launches into lengthy, hysterical raves, often commenting on nonsensical observations and musings.
- Murder by Mistake: While he was fighting Pandora, she used illusions so Petelgeuse would see Emilia's aunt Fortuna as his enemy. Petelgeuse then killed Fortuna with his Unseen Hands thinking she was Pandora. Realizing who he had really killed sealed his descent into madness.
- My God, What Have I Done?: He had this reaction after he killed his lover Fortuna after Pandora tricked him with illusions.
- My Nayme Is: He's the only Archbishop with a slight variation in the name of his star (Petelgeuse instead of Betelgeuse).
- Nightmare Face: His default expression, with a Slasher Smile included.
- Nightmare Hands: Betelgeuse has this as a superpower; his "Unseen Hands" can also turn invisible, but are generally represented as black and demonic.
- No Indoor Voice: As expected of an Ax-Crazy hammy psychopath, he screams many of his dialogue at the top of his voice.
- Not Quite Flight: He can use Unseen Hand to move across the sky. Those who can't see his hands will only see a weird man flying, all balled up.
- Parasitic Immortality: He has an ability that lets him possess the bodies of compatible people in the vicinity every time his current body is killed. Unfortunately, this includes Subaru.
- Parental Substitute: Turns out he was a kind father figure to Emilia before he went insane.
- Power Stereotype Flip: His Authority of Sloth manifests as invisible hands that allow him to tear people apart without moving his body and his body possession power causes people with the same taint to lose control of their bodies, allowing him to take over. Completely opposite to the sin he represents, Petelgeuse is the definition of Evil Is Hammy. This is actually relevant as Petelgeuse was driven insane because of his incompatibility with the Authority of Sloth.
- Power Limiter: Petelgeuse's Fingers. With each death, he gains access to more hands and power.
- Practically Joker: He's an Ax-Crazy Laughably Evil villain with a hammy, nihilistic personality and managed to drive the main character insane. Add in the pale skin and green hair and Petelgeuse is practically The Joker of Isekai anime.
- Pre-Insanity Reveal: Echidna's trials reveal in the past Petelgeuse was a well-adjusted father figure to Emilia that was in love with her aunt Fortuna. However, absorbing the Authority of Sloth negatively affected his sanity as well the death of Fortuna by his hands finally drove him insane.
- Puzzle Boss: He isn't as powerful or intelligent as the other Archbishops of Sin, but his powers are subtle and confusing to the uninitiated. He will more likely kill his opponents before they figure them out.
- Really 700 Years Old: Beatrice knew him over 400 years ago and Geuse claimed that he lived for so long that his age made an adult elf like Fortuna seem like a child.
- Sanity Slippage: In his final moments he becomes even more unhinged, reduced to blubbering his Madness Mantra.
- Say My Name: Says this to Subaru right before he gets killed by him.
- Secondary Color Nemesis: His skin and hair are green, while he is fond of dressing in purple.
- Self-Harm: To demonstrate how off-hinged he is, he has a habit of violently biting his own fingers when agitated or excited.
- Self-Harm–Induced Superpower: He always injures his fingers in some manner, such as by biting them, breaking them, or ripping off the nails, right before he activates his Unseen Hand, suggesting that he needs to harm his fingers, or just himself in general, for the power to activate.
- Shaped Like Itself: His idea of repaying love is to repay it with love."Love! We must repay love with love!"
- Signature Move: His Unseen Hand ability, which is normally invisible to the naked eye. True to his sloth title, Petelgeuse barely needs to move to use this on a target.
- Slasher Smile: He is always seen smiling creepily, with a crazed look in his eyes.
- Spell My Name With An S: The official name for Betelgeuse is spelled with a P, while the pronunciation and namesake are Betelgeuse. As a result, most, if not all dubs refers to him as Betelgeuse. It might be intentionally done.
- Spock Speak: His hamminess doesn't make him any less well-spoken.
- Stellar Name: Petelgeuse refers to the Betelgeuse star, aka Alpha Orionis, the second-brightest in the constellation of Orion.
- Steven Ulysses Perhero: Betelgeuse means "Orion's hand" in Arabic, possibly referring to Petelgeuse's authority.
- Token Good Teammate: Downplayed. Petelgeuse is explicitly stated by Word of God to be the nicest of all the Archbishops. However, considering he did go mad a hundred years ago, its likely he was a straight example before then.
- Verbal Tic: Expect him to bombastically drop "DESU!" from time to time.
- Villainous Breakdown: He falls into even greater insanity and panic when Subaru and his allies gain the upper hand, leading up to his ultimate defeat.
- With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: Before Petelgeuse received the Authority of Sloth, he used to be a kindly father figure to Emilia as well as the one who protected her and her aunt.
- We Used to Be Friends: A hundred years ago, Emilia once saw him as a clear father figure, but in the present time, Petelguese's level of insanity was such that he no longer remembered of her, and took joy in seeing her dead in Subaru's arms. He and Beatrice were also close friends once, and Beatrice mourned him after finding out both at what he had become and that he had died.
- Your Answer to Everything: Love, especially when he is possessing Subaru.
- Your Approval Fills Me with Shame: He's on the giving end towards Subaru. While everyone else is disgusted by Subaru being covered in the Witch's scent, he takes this as a sign that Subaru is faithful to the Witch and a believer in her love.
- You Shall Not Pass!: What he attempted to do against both Pandora and Regulus, in order to protect Fortuna and Emilia.
- Zerg Rush: He exploits the nature of his powers by throwing large masses of his followers at his enemies. The fighters are too distracted by the cultists to worry about his Unseen Hands killing key fighters on the field and he can't be killed as long as his followers or someone with the witch's scent is in the area.
Archbishop of Greed
Regulus Corneas
Regulus Corneas
Voiced by: Akira Ishida (Japanese), Kyle McCarley (English) Foreign VAs
The Archbishop of Greed. He believes that he has certain rights that can never be violated, such as the ability to speak without ever being interrupted. He also believes that he is entitled to marry beautiful women whose appearances and personalities he deems pleasing, and will force any woman he finds to fit these criteria to marry him. He also forbids his wives from showing emotion, such as smiling, feeling it makes him like their faces less, and overall treats them more like art objects then people.
- And Now You Must Marry Me: He frequently forces women to marry him, having had almost 300 wives already. Currently, he plans to make Emilia his 79th wife.
- Arc Villain: Serves as the main villain of the fifth arc, along with Sirius and, to a lesser extent, Capella and the Gluttonies.
- Badass Longcoat: He wears a white longcoat and his Authority makes him so indestructible that he can kill people just by letting them crash into him.
- Berserk Button: If you value your life, don't disrespect this man's rights. Even something minor like interrupting him while he's talking will result in critical injuries.
- Bloodbath Villain Origin: After Regulus obtained the Witch Factor of Greed, he killed his own parents and older brothers, then his hometown, and then everyone in the surrounding cities. He also slaughtered his childhood crush's family before he forced her to marry him.
- The Bluebeard: A variation. Regulus does not want to directly kill his wives, but he will kill them for even slightly upsetting him and has no issue threatening to kill them if he thinks it will give him an advantage.
- Bond Villain Stupidity: His lack of emotional maturity leaves him with no strategical thinking whatsoever. Among other things, Subaru realizes during their battle that Regulus refuses to let another person have the final word, so he will always reply to an insult before attacking again. This means Subaru can buy several "extra seconds" by insulting him nonstop. He also makes a point to not finish up Subaru while the boy is far from him because he wants to watch him despair and die from up close.
- The Brute: Regulus is not particularly clever or intelligent, and has no interest in subtle tactics, preferring to use his authority to brute force his way through any situation.
- Dirty Coward: The second he loses his overwhelming advantage of being able to freely use his invincibility, he is quick to beg for mercy and give up.
- Disc-One Final Boss: His defeat at approximately the end of the first-third of the story marks a major victory for the heroes, as Regulus was the undeniably strongest active Authority user they have had to deal with and his defeat marked the climax of the crucial battle for Priestella.
- Disproportionate Retribution: Crusch dares to be rude enough to interrupt him when he's talking? Gotta cut her arm off!
- Dissonant Serenity: In his introduction, he acts very nonchalant just after he disintegrated an entire carriage and most of the people inside by simply standing on their way. This goes hand-in-hand with his prioritisation of his "rights" and possessions above everything else in the world, being content to let others do whatever they wish so long as they don't impose on either of those. If they choose to run into where he's choosing to stand and get smashed as a consequence of their own choices, then it's no concern of his. However, if he perceives another as imposing on his rights, then this goes away, with him becoming visibly more irritated and talkative, usually followed by those who've offended him getting horribly maimed or killed in retaliation.
- Does This Remind You of Anything?: His entitled behavior and his obsession with having wives is a Take That! to men in real life who feel entitled to unearned respect and affection from women.
- Entitled Bastard: His most basic characteristic and the reason he is Archbishop of Greed. Regulus feels that because he does not ask for much he is entitled to anything he does want, and will ruthlessly take these things no matter what other people feel.
- Entitled to Have You: His attitude towards his wives. Upon seeing a woman he thinks is pretty enough for him, he will abduct them, and force them into marriage if he deems them pure enough after an interview, killing them if at any step they don't meet his standards.
- Faux Affably Evil: Regulus constantly claims to be a reasonable and kind person, and his demeanor is superficially polite and serene. However, soon after his introduction, it quickly becomes clear that he's a psychotic brat who imposes unreasonable standards on other people and flips his lid the moment anyone even so much as slightly inconveniences or displeases him.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: Even the most minor offense or sign of disrespect is enough to send this guy into a murderous rage.
- Hypocrite: Regulus expects people to go along with whatever he says, and has a habit of calling people selfish and greedy for not following his demands, without a ounce of shame for his own selfishness.
- Insane Troll Logic: The mental gymnastics he does to justify his actions can make an olympic athlete blush. A shining example is when he takes his own wives as hostages in his fight against Subaru and Reinhard, then accuses the two of them of trying to murder his wives by making him follow through with the threat.
- Karmic Death: He had an antagonistic relationship with Petelgeuse even before his transformation into a raving madman, considering him a man of little value, and his presence at the Elinor forest was ultimately the reason Petelgeuse was forced to absorb the authority of Sloth despite being aware of his incompatibility with it, in order to gain the strength to hold Regulus off, something he mocks as a stupid decision that will negatively affect Petelgeuse more than himself. His invincible authority is ultimately undone during the climax of the battle of Priestella by the same authority that Subaru absorbed from Petelgeuse, his 'invisible providence' move allowing him to harmlessly crush Regulus's final link to Emilia's heart without harming her and forcing the archbishop to feel the negative effects of stopping his own time for too long, leaving him wide open for Reinhard to finish off. Subaru, disgusted by his disrespect towards somebody from the same organisation, even a person he utterly despised himself, even makes a point to refer to his use of the move as "Invisible Hands" once again, just to make sure Regulus is aware his defeat stems from the same authority of the man he so personally derided.
- Killed Off for Real: He dies in Arc 5 from the combined efforts of Reinhard, Subaru and Emilia.
- Light Is Not Good: Unlike the other Archbishops who wear dark clothes, Regulus wears a white outfit that perfectly matches his white hair. He's still evil just like everyone else in the Witch Cult.
- Lightning Bruiser: Exaggerated His Authority of Greed makes him completely invincible and grants him unfathomable destructive capabilities. On top of that, because he can pick and choose what forces act on his body, he can move around in whatever way he wants essentially at will, including at incredibly high speeds. If he weren't so unconcerned with everything outside his own puerile greed and had even the slightest regard for strategy, he'd be unstoppable.
- Motor Mouth: He never shuts up, likes to go on rants about his "rights" and how he hates to have things taken away from him.
- Nigh-Invulnerability: Regulus can freeze the time of his body to make it completely indestructible. The only problem with this power is that it stops his heartbeat as well. However, he has another ability named "Lion’s Heart" that allows him to impose his heart on someone else, effectively "hiding" it, while borrowing that target's functional heart to keep him alive even when he freezes his own time.
- Oh, Crap!: When Subaru manages to destroy his Lion's Heart connection to Emilia and forces him under a time limitation for keeping his authority active, which now leaves him in incredible pain to do so, he has only a few seconds to process the reality that he's vulnerable before Emilia starts subjecting him to a much-deserved No-Holds-Barred Beatdown. Regulus cravenly begs for an honourable duel with the knight who stepped forward to defend his liege's honour instead of her, figuring Subaru is an easier target to handle, and he accepts... only to pass the offer to the other knight present at the scene, Reinhard. Regulus knows he's a dead man at that point.
- Older Than They Look: He looks like a young man, but he's really over 100 years old.
- Psychopathic Manchild: Regulus has the emotional maturity of a toddler, and throws a violent temper tantrum whenever he's not given exactly what he wants or is displeased in any way, all while ranting about how horrible the offending party is. It's likely that this is at least partially due to a century of complete invincibility, with nothing that can stop him from taking or doing whatever he wants, has completely warped his view of the world.
- Self-Made Orphan: He murdered his own parents after becoming the Archbishop of Greed.
- Shadow Archetype: Regulus enters the picture after Subaru gets his Character Development in Arc 3, and does a good job showing what the boy could have become if he didn't learn his lesson. His Entitled to Have You attitude is Subaru's own attitude towards Emilia early in that arc taken to its logical extreme. His constant monologues about how he isn't asking for much and people should let him do what he wants resembles Subaru hating everyone who didn't agree with his plan to save Emilia and be a hero, except that while Subaru was letting his inferiority complex and anger cloud his mind, Regulus has deluded himself into honestly believing he is the only good person around and everyone else is a jerk. Their Motor Mouth tendencies are directly compared by Emilia: Subaru talks a lot and can be annoying, but he still does his best to show he cares and is trying to help, while Regulus talks non-stop because he doesn't care what anyone else has to say.
- Stellar Name: His name refers to the Regulus star, the brightest star in the Leo constellation.
- Supernatural Gold Eyes: He has amber eyes and is an Archbishop with a very powerful ability to stop his own body's time, making him indestructible.
- Time Master: His "Time Stop" ability allows him to freeze the time of his body and any object he touches, making it impossible to be destroyed, and allowing it to pass through almost anything and destroy it without resistance.
- Unskilled, but Strong: He's less skilled than even Subaru, but wins his fights because he's functionally invincible. Subaru even outlasts him for a long time despite him boasting incredible destructive abilities that enable him to level the landscape around him, simply because he's that bad at using his immense might with any accuracy against a nimble opponent.
- Villain in a White Suit: He puts on a white suit for his forced wedding with Emilia.
- Villainous Valor: As he arrives at death's door, the sheer hatred he feels towards Subaru and Emilia manages to transform him into a bonafide Determinator who keeps crawling back towards his foes even though nearly every bone in his body has been crushed by this point. Sadly for him, it's too late to save himself.
- White Hair, Black Heart: He has white hair and he's an Archbishop of the Witch Cult, making him one of the most dangerous villains in the series.
- Wicked Pretentious: Regulus is fond of going on long-winded, convoluted monologues about his views and values that give the impression of some kind of philosophy. However, none of it has any real substance, and it's obvious he's just talking to give a thin, deluded justification for the things he does.
Archbishops of Gluttony
Tropes applying to the three
- Ambiguously Human: Though the three are officially stated to be human, their distinctly sharp teeth, unusually similar appearance and Louis's status as a disembodied soul reliant upon possessing the bodies of others puts this claim to question.
- Arc Villain: Introduced in the third arc and playing a secondary role in the fifth arc, the Gluttony triplets eventually serve as the main villains for the sixth arc.
- Barefoot Loon: The three are dangerous lunatics and none of them wear shoes.
- The Beastmaster: Owing to their Authority, Lye and Roy (and Louis as well, presumably) can command Mabeasts around the world to varying degrees. Of the three Great Mabeasts, Lye was only in command of the White Whale, but in Arc 6, Lye and Roy use their Authority to launch a full scale assault on the Pleiades Watchtower using local Mabeast fauna.
- Enhanced Punch: One of the powers which the three have stolen from their victims using Lunar Eclipse, the "Palm of the Fist King", grants the ability to perform a supernaturally strong and precise punch, capable of breaking through any defensive techniques and shattering physical objects, weapons and organs included.
- Family Theme Naming: More obvious in the Japanese romaji of the siblings' given names (Rai, Roi, and Rui).
- Flash Step: One of the powers which the three have stolen from their victims using Lunar Eclipse, the "Leaper Technique", grants the ability to move from one place to another in an instant, creating an effect akin to teleportation.
- Hulking Out: One of the powers which the three have stolen from their victims using Lunar Eclipse, the "Carnivorous Beast", allows the user to toughen his body and make it both many times more resilient against physical damage, and significantly boost the power of their own attacks.
- Humanshifting: With Solar Eclipse, they can take on the appearance of the people whose name they have eaten. Only Louis uses this power because she isn't afraid of losing herself in the transformation unlike her brothers.
- I Know Your True Name: They can't eat fake names; they need to know their target's real name for the Authority of Gluttony to take effect.
- Inconsistent Spelling: It's up to you if you choose to call them Lye/Ley, Roy, and Louis or Rai, Roi, and Rui.
- Memory-Wiping Crew: The main power of the Authority of Gluttony is "eating" people's memories, both the memories of their target and those who remember them. If the target's memories are eaten, they get amnesia, if the target's name is eaten, they're forgotten by everyone they know, but if both the memories and name are eaten, they fall into a coma.
- The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body: This is the reason why Lye and Roy don't use Solar Eclipse; whenever they turn into someone whose name they have eaten, they feel like they're at risk of losing their true selves in the transformation. Louis is the only one who isn't afraid of this side effect, as she arguably has no "self" to lose, being a disembodied spirit trying to create her "perfect life" from the experiences of others.
- Power Copying: With Lunar Eclipse, they can use the abilities and techniques of anyone they have eaten, except for Spirit User powers or Divine Protections. They are also incapable of stealing Authorities from other Sin Archbishops through such means.
- Scary Teeth: The three have creepy shark-like teeth.
- Siblings in Crime: The three are siblings and collectively form the Archbishop of Gluttony.
- Slasher Smile: The default expression of the three is a maniacal grin, made extra creepy by their Scary Teeth.
- Stellar Name:
- Lye's last name Batenkaitos is the traditional name for the star Zeta Ceti, which is part of the constellation Cetus.
- Roy's last name is a reference to the star Alphard, which is the brightest star in the Hydra Constellation.
- Louis's last name is also another name for the star Alpha Leporis, which is the brightest star in the Lepus constellation.
- Two Siblings In One: Louis is actually a mere consciousness without a body that has been trapped inside the Corridor of Memories since her birth. On occasion, she can possess the bodies of her two brothers to experience the outside world.
- Villain Takes an Interest: Initially it's only Lye, but eventually, all 3 siblings take an interest in Subaru thanks to his inability to be affected by their Authority, which fascinates and excites Lye because it means Subaru retains personal animosity towards the Gluttony siblings, rather than just hating them for being part of the Witch Cult, as so many of the surviving family and friends of the victims do, once their loved ones are erased from their minds. It's also implied that his growing obsession with Subaru is due to Rem's memories and strong feelings inside of him. Roy thinks he'd be an interesting meal, and Louis becomes obsessed with possessing Subaru once she eats his name and finds out about Return By Death, believing it to be the key to her desire to live a perfect life.
Lye Batenkaitos
Lye Batenkaitos
Voiced by: Kengo Kawanishi (Japanese), Erik Kimerer (English) Foreign VAs
Lye governs the gourmet aspect of gluttony.
- Barbarian Long Hair: He has very long hair that extends past his thighs, giving him a wild look.
- Blade Below the Shoulder: He has a pair of blades attached to the back of his hands.
- Blood Knight: Unlike Roy, whose only interest is to devour his prey as soon as possible, Lye enjoyed sparring with his enemies and usually gave them a headstart, giving them a chance to prove themselves to be "worthy food" before he could be bothered to fight seriously.
- Evil Is Hammy: Much like Petelgeuse, Lye has the time of his life when expressing his joy over finding names and memories which he can feast on.
- Hero Killer: He is the one who ate Rem's memories and name, leaving her in a coma with no one but Subaru remembering her.
- Ingesting Knowledge: Lye was concerned predominantly with savouring the finest memories of the finest people he could encounter, and specifically sought those with unique talents or skills. Given his Power Copying, it's not difficult to imagine how he might have arrived at the conclusion that knowledge is, very literally, power.
- Karmic Death: He leaves Rem in a coma and erases her from everyone's memories, including her twin sister's, who can only rely on Subaru's assertions that they are family and her subconscious synesthesia to Rem to verify the truth. During their confrontation in the Pleiades Watchtower, Ram takes inspiration from Subaru's recently unlocked Cor Leonis ability and her realisation that Roswall must have had a reason to save Rem alongside herself even when his plans only involved Ram, to utilise their synesthesia to allow Ram to use Rem's horn to activate her own Oni Mode and utterly dominate Lye in the subsequent clash with minimal effort. This is especially poignant as Lye has been getting Lost in Character in Rem's memories during the fighting, eventually coming to refer to Ram as if she were his own sister, only for Ram to defeat him with a true bond between siblings, eventually avenging Rem by cutting off Lye's head.
- Lightning Bruiser: Lye was definitely the most proficient fighter of the three siblings, as a result of having devoured dozens if not hundreds of skilled warriors and master fighters over his life, utilising their names and memories to copy their powers and effortlessly spar with multiple protagonists simultaneously in Arc 6.
- Off with His Head!: He meets his end via decapitation in Arc 6, courtesy of Ram.
- Picky Eater: Lye often referred to himself as the "intellectual" Sin Archbishop, and proclaimed that, unlike his brother Roy, he would only devour those with interesting and exciting memories, considering them the only "worthy" food out there.
- Relative Button: Mashes one hard for Ram, fully aware of the consequences. Fact is, Lye is so overjoyed at finally finding someone who wants to avenge one of his forgotten victims, he deliberately goads her so she can give him a proper, vengeful fight at long last. It goes a little too well, however...
- Thrill Seeker: As the Gourmet aspect of Gluttony, Lye wants not only to sate his appetite for other people's memories, but also wishes to savour the finest, most exhilirating experiences and sensations of his victims.
Roy Alphard
Roy Alphard
Roy governs the bizarre eating aspect of gluttony.
- An Arm and a Leg: His fight with Ricardo in Arc 5 costs his opponent an arm, not that Roy was anywhere near satisfied with that.
- Arch-Nemesis: Becomes one to Julius after devouring his name, causing everyone but Subaru to forget about him.
- Assimilation Backfire: After breaking into the Pleiades Watchtower, Roy tries to devour the soul of Reid Astrea, the legendary original Sword Saint. However, it quickly becomes apparent that Roy literally bit off more than he could chew, as Reid's soul overpowers Roy's, effectively ressurecting the legendary swordsman.
- Combat Pragmatist: In contrast with Lye's Blood Knight tendencies, Roy is quite willing to fight dirty if it means getting to eat his meal sooner, and holds no particular love for fighting.
- Sealed Evil in a Can: As of the end of Arc 6, Roy has been imprisoned by the heroes using the Evil Sealing Stones, removing him as a threat for the time being.
- Spanner in the Works:
- During the aftermath of the Witch Cult's attack on Pricilla, Subaru is initially relieved that nobody died or was lost from the fighting, though not everybody survived entirely unscathed, only to panic when he's told about Roy's existence, realising that there was another person running around with the ability to Eat names and erase the victims from everybody's minds but his, meaning his allies wouldn't even know they'd lost some members. Sure enough, though he's not as badly off as Rem, Julius' name was also eaten, erasing him from Anastasia's mind.
- During the attack on the Pleiades Watchtower by all three of the Gluttony siblings, Roy winds up always confronting Reid Astrea's resurrected spirit inside the second floor test and attempting to eat his name, even in multiple scenarios that Subaru suffers through using Return By Death to try and find a solution to their problem. This is aided by the fact Reid lets Roy eat him, as his soul is too powerful for Roy to fully contain and results in his flesh and blood body getting possessed and transmogrified into a copy of Reid's own, essentially bringing the legendary swordsman Back from the Dead and allowing him to roam the tower free of the restrictions of the second floor trial, with Reid interfering with Subaru's group in multiple loops for his own interests. This not only brings an additional danger to Subaru's group that results in them getting wiped out multiple times, it also violated one of the watchtower's five rules in the process, which triggers Shaula's command to enforce the rules, involuntarily transforming her into a rampaging giant scorpion that priorities attacks to Subaru's group, depriving them of a valuable ally and forcing a further obstacle for them to overcome.
- Villainous Glutton: Unlike his siblings, Roy didn't give much care as for whom he ate, so long as he could sate his hunger.
- Wolverine Claws: He fights using two claws.
Louis Arneb (Unmarked Spoilers)
Louis Arneb
Louis governs the satiation aspect of gluttony.
- Ambiguous Situation: As of the end of Arc 6, Louis has somehow acquired a physical body, gained amnesia and reverted to a child-like, underdeveloped behaviour. She became stranded in Vollachia along with Subaru and Rem, completely at the former's mercy. Subaru is not happy in the least about this.
- Amnesiacs are Innocent: As a result of eating her own copy's memories, Louis' mind is reduced to that of a toddler and she gets very attached to Subaru. Despite her actions prior to her memory loss, Subaru tolerates her as he understands she isn't a threat in her amnesiac state.
- Amnesiac Villain Joins the Heroes: Louis eats her own memories and becomes reduced to a child mentally as a result. Afterwards, she becomes one of Subaru's allies throughout the Vollachia Empire arc and forms a friendship with the also amnesiac Rem.
- Assimilation Backfire: Discovering and copying Subaru's Return by Death causes significant trauma for her clone.
- Be Careful What You Wish For: Once she eats Subaru's memories and finds out about Return by Death, Louis thinks that's the ideal power to have the most perfect and happiest life since the user can undo any of their mistakes and failures. Wishing to steal Return by Death, Louis creates a copy of herself and uses it to possess Subaru's body. Louis then discovers that she vastly underestimated the critical mental damage and trauma caused by experiencing your own death over and over again. After she's out of Subaru's body, Louis doesn't care about having the perfect life anymore; all she can think now is how much she doesn't want to die again.
- Death of Personality: After she eats her own memories, Louis' original personality is essentially gone and she's reduced to a Blank Slate with the mentality of an infant.
- Duplicate Divergence: She creates a copy of herself to possess Subaru's body and steal his Return by Death. After a few deaths, the copy of Louis is left broken and traumatized, leading to a conflict when the original Louis still wants Return by Death and hasn't experienced the pain of death.
- Energy Beings: Louis is the only one of the Gluttony trio not to possess a physical body of her own. Instead, she is nothing but a soul stranded in the Corridor of Memories, capable of occasionally possessing her brothers' bodies to experience the physical world. As of Arc 7, she has somehow acquired a physical body, but has also lost all her memories and sense of self, practically reducing her to the level of an infant.
- Ethereal White Dress: She exists as a disembodied soul inside the Corridor of Memories, but appears as a young girl in a white mini dress.
- Grand Theft Me: The big plot twist of Arc 6 is "amnesiac" Subaru was really Louis who stole Subaru's body and left his real consciousness trapped in the Corridor of Memories, all in order to obtain Return by Death to lead the perfect life.
- Hoist by Her Own Petard: Louis's cloning ability ends up being the reason for her ultimate defeat, since the Clone experiences Return by Death as Subaru and ends up turning against the original Louis, out of a frenzied desire not to die.
- Horrifying the Horror: The copy of herself she creates to possess Subaru becomes utterly cowed by him after she experienced Return By Death for multiple loops whilst lost in character as him, experiencing the trauma of dying again and again and being forced to rapidly experience various means of dying by their perilous situation. Upon Subaru managing to regain his body and self through a Split-Personality Merge that expelled her, realising that Subaru had experienced even more deaths than that first-hand and was prepared to suffer further ones until he found a solution to their impossible problem has her calling him a monster that devours death.
- Light Is Not Good: She appears as a beautiful young girl with long golden hair and wearing a white dress. Despite her looks, she's still one of the bad guys.
- Madness Mantra:
- "I want to be happy. I want to be happy. I want to be happy. I want to be happy. I want to be happy."
- After being traumatized by experiencing Return by Death while possessing Subaru's body, the mantra switches to "I don't want to die. I don't want to die. I don't want to die. I don't want to die. I don't want to die."
- Meaningful Name: 'Arneb' is the Brightest Star in the Constellation of Lepus. Lepus is Latin for 'Hare' and like the Great Rabbit, Louis can create exact clones of herself and her abilities.
- Meaningful Rename: Subaru renames her amnesiac self as Spica, symbolizing him giving her the chance to start over under a new identity.
- Self-Disposing Villain: In Arc 6, Louis steals Subaru's body by having a duplicate of herself possess him, resulting in the "amnesiac Subaru" who tries to recover his old memories for most of the arc. Once the real Subaru gets his body back, the duplicate Louis has been deeply traumatized and mentally broken by the horrifying effects of Return by Death. The original Louis thinks her duplicate is just faking her trauma to keep Return by Death to herself, resulting in Louis eating her own name and memories. Afterwards, she's reduced to the mindset of an infant.
- Self-Duplication: Similar to the White Whale and the Great Rabbit, Louis can create a copy of herself and have it possess someone else while her original self is still at the Corridor of Memories. However, the Mabeasts' existences are dominated by a single, all-consuming desire to the point it erodes rational thought, thus there is no difference between individual members of the Mabeast copies. In contrast, Louis's clone has her own thoughts and feelings.
- Sexy Backless Outfit: Her dress has a gap at the back that leaves her skin bare.
- Stellar Name: Spica, the name Subaru chooses for her amnesiac self, is the brightest star in the constellation of Virgo.
- Tomato in the Mirror: Arc 6's big twist is that the "amnesiac Subaru" the story has been following ever since he ran off somewhere and lost his memories in the tower is actually a clone of Louis, who duplicated her consciousness and had it possess Subaru's body, becoming lost in the memories of his Pre-Lugunica life in order to create a "new" Natsuki Subaru whose name she could eat all over again in order to find her perfect life. The real Subaru has been trapped inside the Corridor of Memories the whole time, and towards the end of the arc, undergoes a Split-Personality Merge of sorts with the Subaru who experienced multiple death loops inside the tower to regain control of his body and identity, expelling Louis' clone with all the trauma that comes with experiencing Return by Death.
- The Unintelligible: Her amnesiac self is incapable of forming intelligible speech.
- Villain Protagonist: She's technically the protagonist for the majority of Arc 6 where she creates a copy of herself to possess Subaru's body, resulting in the "amnesiac Subaru" who tries to recollect his former self.
- Villainous Breakdown: Having known the horrors of Return by Death through the possession of Subaru's body, Louis is reduced to a traumatized, hysterical, and sobbing mess.
Archbishop of Wrath
Sirius "Romanee-Conti"
Sirius "Romanee-Conti"
The Archbishop of Wrath. She sees herself as Petelgues's wife despite never seeing the two of them together on screen and Petelgues's fixation on Satella. She has the ability to manipulate people's emotions and fights with two large hooks on chains.
- Arc Villain: Alongside Regulus, is the main threat facing the heroes in the fifth arc.
- Bandage Mummy: Sirius' entire body is covered in disorderly wrapped bandages except for her eyes.
- Chained by Fashion: She has long, distorted chains around both of her arms with ends that drag along the floor.
- Emotion Bomb: Sirius can share or transmit her emotions and senses to others. After polarizing emotions such as anger or sorrow, she can transmit it to any people in their vicinity, either taking control of them or resonating a certain emotion between a certain amount of people to raise it to the point of madness.
- Gender-Blender Name: Sirius is a male name, but here it's given to a woman.
- Love Freak: Like her "husband".
- Playing with Fire: She can convert her chains into pure fire and is a master of fire magic in general.
- Self-Proclaimed Love Interest: She's Petelgeuse self-proclaimed wife. Emphasis on "self-proclaimed".
- Stellar Name: Her name refers to the Sirius star, which is part of the Canis Major constellation and also the brightest star in the Earth's night sky.
- Synchronization: Since she can share senses such as distress or pain, if anyone dies within the effected area she can force others within the same area to die the same way. Also if she's hurt the damage will transfer to anyone she connected with while reducing hers unless it exceeds a certain threshold.
- Villainesses Want Heroes: A dark variant towards Subaru. After he absorbed Petelguese's Authority and they encounter each other, she believes that he is Petelguese and attempts to claim him as hers. While not as terrifying, this is treated in a similar way to Satella's obsession with Subaru: It's not sexy fanservice, it's terrifying
Squick, made even more upsetting by how Sirius is an adult and Subaru is a high schooler. - White Hair, Black Heart: She has silver hair sticking out of the bandages of her head and she's evil and crazy as anyone would expect a Witch Cult's Archbishop to be.
- Yandere: She's obssesed with Petelgeuse to the point of being delusional. She considers every woman standing close to Petelgeuse a love rival.
Archbishop of Lust
Capella Emerada Lugunica
Capella Emerada Lugunica
The Archbishop of Lust.
- Bloody Murder: She 'tests' Subaru and Crusch by transforming parts of her body into lethal black dragon blood. She refers to it as if it were actual Dragon blood, and exposes them to it to verify how 'worthy' they are of her gift. Though Crusch is rendered bedridden, in horrific pain and gradually getting weaker from the Toxic substance, Subaru apparently adapts to it without issue, save that his shredded right leg from meeting Regulus apparently regrows the damaged Flesh, now dyed jet-black and apparently slightly stronger from the transformation. Subaru later discovers that he can somehow absorb the cursed blood in Crusch through touch, though the rate of transfer is heavily unequal against the amount he takes from her, and the process is greatly painful for him.
- The Dreaded: The fact that Meili went as far as asking the very people she tried to kill to protect her shows just how terrifying "Mother" truly is. Even Elsa felt nothing but fear towards her boss.
- Hate Sink: She is worse than any member of the witch cult. She torments her victims by transforming into pieces of flesh, five feet sized flies, and also turned her victim into a black dragon to trick Subaru and Crush into thinking he was Capella and had him murdered without remorse. The worst part about her is that she is a pure sadist who is in complete control of her actions without being a pyschopath like most of the members of the Witch Cult who are insane by either falling brainwashed or losing their sense of humanity.
- Healing Factor: She can near-instantly recover from any wound no matter how big due to her ability to transform them into being whole again. She can even survive a fall from a terminal height.
- Kill It with Fire: In her dragon transformation she can expel out black flames with her breath which consumes anything it touches and isn't affected by water.
- Losing Your Head: Al manages to decapitate her during their fight. To his horror, it does nothing but amuse her.
- Lovecraftian Superpower: She's shown to be able to transform her arms into snakes.
- Narcissist: She believes all the love and respect in the world exist to be hers and will change her appearance to make others love her.
- Nigh-Invulnerability: She takes tons of severe fatal damages throughout her fights which range anywhere from getting her head caved in and her heart being stabbed to completely being smashed to pieces. Despite that she not fazed by any of it and even seems to Feel No Pain thanks to the extreme regenerative power of her Authority.
- Sadist: Unlike any of the other Archbishops, Capella is not insane and just enjoys inflicting pain onto others.
- Shapeshifter Default Form: Because her Authority allows her to transform into anything, Capella's actual form is unknown. Her most common form is that of a young blonde woman in revealing clothes.
- Stellar Name: Her name refers to the Capella star, which is the brightest star in the Auriga constellation.
- The Transmogrifier: By simply touching people with her hand, she can transform them into anything she desires, such as flies, frogs, birds, beasts or straight up turn them into unrecognizable lumps of flesh.
- Voluntary Shapeshifting: She can transform herself into any form she desires.
- Walking Swimsuit Scene: Her regular human form goes around in a bikini.
- Weredragon: She transforms into a Jet Black Dragon.
- You Have Failed Me: She's known to haver zero tolerance for failure, and she might even use her Authority to turn those that fail her into piles of meat for the rest of eternity. This is precisely why Meili, after both failing her mission and losing Elsa, begged the Emilia Camp to keep her as a prisoner, rather than let her return to the organization.
Archbishop of Pride
Stride Vollachia
Stride Vollachia
The former Archbishop of Pride and an heir to the Vollachian Empire. He's a prominent villain in Wilhelm's prequel trilogy, but he's deceased by the time of the main storyline. Ever since his death, the position of Archbishop of Pride has been vacant.
- Arch-Enemy: He's the mortal enemy of young Wilhelm.
- Badass Longcoat: He wears a black long coat and as an Archbishop, he's very powerful.
- Classy Cravat: His black cravat makes him look classy, which is fitting for a member of the Vollachia royal family.
- Doomed by Canon: Since in the main storyline there's no Archbishop of Pride, Stride's demise in the EX prequel is a Foregone Conclusion.
- Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: He has dark purple hair and unhealthy-looking pale skin, which gives him an unsettling look.
- Evil Wears Black: He's an evil villain whose outfit is primarily black, consisting of black trousers, black shoes, a black cravat, and a black long coat.
- Flaming Sword: As a member of the Vollachia royal family, Stride can create a flaming crimson sword from light.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: He and his wife Melinda were Eaten Alive by the Black Dragon that Stride had previously summoned.
- Life-or-Limb Decision: Shortly after materialising the Yang Sword Vollachia, Stride's left arm gets burned, prompting him to cut it off in order to save his life.
- Make Them Rot: The ring on his little finger is capable of casting a curse that rots the target's limbs, eventually leading to death.
- Odd Name Out: Stride is the only known Archbishop who isn't named after a celestial body.
- Power at a Price: In order for Stride to use his Ten Curse Rings, he has to offer a part of his body to the rings. In his years of owning the Ten Curse Rings and casting curses with them, Stride's body is rendered to a near corpse-like state.
- Ring of Power: He wears Ten Curse Rings, five on each hand, which he uses to cast curses on people and control their actions, rendering them his People Puppets who would carry out his biddings.
- Summon Magic: Stride summons the Black Dragon in the regional capital of Picoutatte.
