History Characters / ReignOfTheSevenSpellblades

* [[Characters/ReignOfTheSevenSpellbladesSpoilerCharacters Spoiler Characters]][[note]]Chloe Halford, Edgar Groves, Fau[[/note]]

* [[Characters/ReignOfTheSevenSpellbladesKimberlyFaculty Kimberly Faculty]][[note]]Esmeralda, Luther Garland, Vanessa Aldiss, Frances Gilchrist, Darius Grenville, Theodore [=McFarlane=], Dustin Hedges, Enrico Forghieri, Baldia Muwezicamili, Ted Williams, Demitrio Aristides, Rod Farquois[[/note]]

* [[Characters/ReignOfTheSevenSpellbladesKimberlyStudents Kimberly Students]] -- Classmates[[note]]Annie Mackley, Richard Andrews, Tullio Rossi, Stacy Cornwallis, Fay Willock, Evelynn Odets, Joseph Albright, Yuri Leik, Ursule Valois[[/note]] and Underclassmen[[note]]Teresa Carste, Dean Travers, Peter Cornish, Rita Appleton, Felicia Echevalria[[/note]]

* [[Characters/ReignOfTheSevenSpellbladesKimberlyFaculty Kimberly Faculty]][[note]]Esmeralda, Luther Garland, Vanessa Aldiss, Frances Gilchrist, Darius Grenville, Theodore [=McFarlane=], Enrico Forghieri, Baldia Muwezicamili, Ted Williams, Demitrio Aristides[[/note]]

** [[Characters/ReignOfTheSevenSpellbladesUpperclassmen Upperclassmen]] -- The Campus Watch[[note]]Alvin Godfrey, Carlos Whitrow, Vera Miligan, Kevin Walker, Tim Linton, Lesedi Ingwe[[/note]], the Old Council[[note]]Leoncio Echevalria, Percival Whalley, Khiirgi Albschuch[[/note]], and Other Upperclassmen[[note]]Ophelia Salvadori, Cyrus Rivermoore, Gwyn and Shannon Sherwood, Lynette Cornwallis, Diana Ashbury, Clifton Morgan, Karlie Buckle, Robert Dufourcq[[/note]]

* [[Characters/ReignOfTheSevenSpellbladesKimberlyStudents Kimberly Students]] -- Classmates[[note]]Annie Mackley, Richard Andrews, Tullio Rossi, Stacy Cornwallis, Fay Willock, Evelynn Odets, Joseph Albright, Yuri Leik, Ursule Valois[[/note]] and Underclassmen[[note]]Teresa Carste, Dean Travers[[/note]]

Characters in ''Literature/ReignOfTheSevenSpellblades'' by Creator/BokutoUno, in approximate order of appearance within their sections. Due to length, this page has been broken up into subpages.

* [[Characters/ReignOfTheSevenSpellbladesKimberlyFaculty Kimberly Faculty]][note]]Esmeralda, Luther Garland, Vanessa Aldiss, Frances Gilchrist, Darius Grenville, Theodore [=McFarlane=], Enrico Forghieri, Baldia Muwezicamili, Ted Williams, Demitrio Aristides[[/note]]
* [[Characters/ReignOfTheSevenSpellbladesSpoilerCharacters Spoiler Characters[[note]]Chloe Halford, Edgar Groves, Fau[[/note]]

Characters in ''Literature/ReignOfTheSevenSpellblades'' by Creator/BokutoUno, in approximate order of appearance within their sections.

!!Chronology Key
This key is based on the main protagonists' grade year progression through Kimberly Magic Academy. Grade years cited in characters' descriptions are based on their grade year at time of introduction.
* Year 1 (1532 of the Great Calendar): LightNovel Volumes 1-3 | Manga Chapters 1-46 | Anime Season 1
* Year 2 (1533 GC): LN Volumes 4-6
* Year 3 (1534 GC): LN Volumes 7-11
* Year 4 (1535 GC): LN Volumes 12-13
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! The Sword Roses
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[[caption-width-right:350:Clockwise from upper right: [[TheHero Oliver Horn]], [[TheLancer Nanao Hibiya]], [[TheHeart Katie Aalto]], [[TheBigGuy Guy Greenwood]], [[TheSmartGuy Pete Reston]], and [[TeamMom Chela McFarlane]].]]
->'''First Appearance:''' LN Volume 1 | Manga Chapter 1 | Anime 1x1 "[[Recap/ReignOfTheSevenSpellbladesS1E01Ceremony Ceremony]]"

The protagonists of the series, named in book two for a Yamatsukuni custom introduced to them by Nanao: standing in a circle and laying their swords across each other in the center.
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* DecompositeCharacter: The six human members of the team each roughly split one member of the main PowerTrio of the ''Literature/HarryPotter'' novels: Oliver and Nanao split Harry,[[note]]Oliver got his looks, [[JackOfAllTrades all-round competence]], and MissingMom; Nanao got Harry's FishOutOfWater tendencies, FlyingBroomstick proficiency, and readiness to fight[[/note]] Guy and Chela split Ron,[[note]]Guy got Ron's looks and ImpoverishedPatrician rural upbringing, Chela got his {{Blue Blood}}edness and status as MrExposition on mage social relations[[/note]] and Katie and Pete split Hermione.[[note]]Katie got Hermione's looks and social activism, Pete got her {{Badass Bookworm}}ness and MageBornOfMuggles background[[/note]]
* FamedInStory: After being at the forefront of several noteworthy campus incidents in the first two years, the Sword Roses and Oliver and Nanao especially start to become minor celebrities in the student body. Which isn't always a good thing: in volume 6, they begin to get targeted for harassment by Alvin Godfrey's political opponents [[ProxyWar in attempts to embarrass him by proxy]].
* MadScientistLaboratory: In volume 2 they're given one of their own as a HomeBase by an actual MadScientist, [[spoiler:Vera Miligan]], as a partial apology for the events of the previous volume. Located on the first level of the labyrinth, it features laboratory equipment, training space, and living and dining quarters, and is big enough to comfortably accommodate Marco the troll.
* MeaningfulName: {{Justified|Trope}}. Nanao specifically picked the name "Sword Roses" for this purpose after Chela asked to come up with a name for the group, based on a {{samurai}} custom from Yamatsu: standing in a circle and laying their swords across each other causes the tips to create a pattern resembling a flower, representing the bonds of friendship between them causing something wonderful to bloom in that moment, no matter what trials might come their way in the future--which [[CrapsackWorld given Kimberly]], [[{{Foreshadowing}} is all but guaranteed]]. It's also a PunnyName: in Japanese it's written as 剣花 ''kenka'' (inspiring the title of the anime's opening theme), which is a homonym of 喧嘩 ''kenka'', meaning "fight" or "quarrel".
* TheTeam: Not truly a FiveManBand since there's six of them from the beginning, although it mostly maps onto that setup.
** Oliver is TheHero, being the main protagonist and a JackOfAllTrades.
** Nanao is TheLancer, the best fighter among the group with [[CultureClash a sometimes-alien perspective]], and who sticks to Oliver like glue.
** Guy is TheBigGuy: he's less talented than the others at magical pursuits but makes up for it with brawn and the HotBlooded instinctive loyalty of a farm boy.
** Pete evolves into TheSmartGuy: he starts out having to catch up to the others given his MageBornOfMuggles background, but quickly surpasses them, particularly in AwesomenessByAnalysis.
** Katie, TheHeart, is less naturally prone to violence than the others and is a FriendToAllLivingThings.
** Chela acts as co-leader of the group with Oliver but [[TeamMom in a more motherly way]]: she grew up in the mage aristocracy, and though an accomplished mage, her biggest role in the team is guiding the others through the intricacies of its social constructs.
* TrueCompanions: They become FireForgedFriends when Oliver, Nanao, Guy, Pete, and Chela work together to rescue Katie when a troll goes berserk during the entrance ceremonies. Their subsequent travails at Kimberly serve only to deepen the group's friendship.
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[[folder:Oliver Horn]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AtsushiTamaru (Japanese), Creator/DrewBreedlove (English)
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[[caption-width-right:350:“I don’t know many fancy spells, but I like to think I’m pretty good at casting and adapting spells.”]]
The protagonist and leader of the group. A calm and rational boy who rarely shows strong emotions. He comes to Kimberly on a secret mission.
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* AntiHero: [[spoiler:Well, it's hard to be straightforwardly heroic when your primary motive for enrolling in a school is to murder seven people as an act of revenge. But despite his rather grim quest, Oliver is still unfailingly kind and empathetic, which motivates his revenge plot all the more upon seeing how utterly dastardly and amoral his mother's killers are.]]
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: Oliver's general fighting style is to defend and protect himself while observing his opponent's attacks and looking for openings to disrupt them and CounterAttack. This is a trademark of the Lanoff sword school, but Oliver is ''so'' good at it, and at strategizing on the fly more generally, that it leads other analytically minded characters to wonder just ''how'' he got that good: Tullio Rossi and Vera Miligan are both perturbed by how someone seemingly so average can keep up with the likes of Nanao and Chela, while Demitrio Aristides realizes in volume 9 that he fights like a Gnostic Hunter, [[spoiler:as indeed both his parents were]].
* BewareTheNiceOnes: He's a NiceGuy and normally very cool-headed under pressure, but bullying his friends to their faces is a serious BerserkButton for him, as a group of students aligned to the conservative faction learn the hard way when they start picking on Katie over her efforts to save the troll from the entrance ceremony incident. [[spoiler:And he goes full PayEvilUntoEvil when it comes to the seven mages who murdered his mother.]] {{Lampshaded}} by Tim Linton in volume 9:
-->"The way you act all prim and proper makes you extra nasty. I oughtta pin a note to your back saying, ''I will lose my shit at the worst possible second''."
* BigBrotherInstinct: He looks at Teresa Carste like a big brother on a younger sibling, once picking her up and carrying her in his arms on a trip through the labyrinth when he senses she's in need of comforting.
* CannotTellAJoke: By nature he's an imitator and adapter of other people's skills, and is technically proficient at most things he attempts but lacks flair. This extends to comedy: he often attempts to amuse people with parlor tricks and sketch comedy, but lacks the sense of comedic timing needed to make the jokes land. [[spoiler:{{Justified|Trope}}: Before his mother was murdered he was actually a comedy genius, but the TrainingFromHell he went through to be capable of housing a fragment of her soul caused him to permanently lose that part of his own soul.]]
* CastFromLifespan: [[spoiler:Oliver performs an extremely dangerous soul merger with his mother's soul during the AssassinationAttempt against Enrico Forghieri. It takes him almost five days to heal from both that and the injuries he sustained, by which time he's grown a full centimeter because of his own soul advancing his body's growth timetable. He has no idea how much of his natural lifespan he lost in that battle but he knows it was probably a lot.]]
* ChickMagnet: Just by the end of the first book, Oliver has become the apex of a LoveTriangle between Nanao (mutual) and Katie (unrequited). On top of this, Chela sometimes amuses herself by flirting with him, his cousin Shannon is overtly affectionate with him, and even Vera Miligan briefly makes a pass at him in volume 3 (out of [[AllAmazonsWantHercules sheer interest in his incongruously strong abilities as a fighter]]). This is much to the amusement of Pete and especially Guy, who frequently rib him about his ability to attract girls seemingly by complete accident, and his indecisiveness in dealing with it.
* ClothingCombat: "Hidden Tail", an advanced Lanoff Style move Oliver first uses while dueling Joseph Albright in volume 2. He moves with an incoming blow, using his outer robe to conceal his windup for a RoundhouseKick.
* CowardlyLion: By his own admission, he's scared out of his mind every time he's in a life-or-death situation because only an idiot--or Nanao--wouldn't be. But there's nothing to be gained by being scared, and if he gives in to fear, the people around him will suffer.
* DeadlyUpgrade: [[spoiler:Merging his soul with his mother's, which lets him use the fighting techniques she developed and mastered. He can only do so for short periods and it puts him into extreme pain and tears his body apart when he does: when he used it against Enrico Forghieri, it would have killed him on the spot had he not had an ally constantly casting healing spells on him.]]
* DecompositeCharacter: Has a lot of similarities to Franchise/HarryPotter himself, including his looks (like Harry, he takes after his father but has his mother's eyes), being a JackOfAllTrades who is at least competent at most things he tries, and having a MissingMom. Nanao got Harry's FishOutOfWater aspects, however.
* EvenTheGuysWantHim: The later volumes start to lightly imply that Pete may have a crush on him in addition to Nanao and Katie: he has bouts of acting a little like a {{tsundere}} while Oliver helps him with the side effects of his reversi transformations, and in volume 8 Pete says something about "getting him to notice me" after standing on the sidelines after Lesedi Ingwe irritably tells Oliver to leave his love life on the surface.
* EyeColorChange: Oliver is shown in the novel art to have had brown eyes like his father when he was a child, but in the present day they're golden like his mother's. [[spoiler:It's implied this was a side effect of taking a fragment of his mother's soul into himself.]]
* FirstKiss: [[spoiler:Nanao kisses him for the first time when she wants him to [[ManlyTears stop crying (from happiness)]] after their {{Calvinball}} game in volume 6 helps him regain his coordination.]]
* GhostMemory: [[spoiler:He has his mother Chloe Halford's soul inside him and can access many of her memories.]]
* IAmNotLeftHanded: [[spoiler:Because of Chloe's GhostMemory, he can draw on her unique fighting techniques, including the Two-Blade Style she invented, and the Fourth Spellblade, Angustavia, which allows him to select an outcome from [[MultipleChoiceFuture possible short-term futures]]. This allows him to defeat instructor Darius Grenville despite being only a first-year student, though [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique the toll on his body is extreme]].]]
* InSeriesNickname: "Noll" (an archaic diminutive of Oliver), although only his close relatives usually call him that.
* JackOfAllTrades: He's good and knowledgeable in a wide variety of things but not particularly outstanding. This is intentional on his part, being WeakButSkilled. He makes up the difference with rigorous training and has enough bases covered that he can still be a top student at Kimberly.
* LazyAlias: [[spoiler:"Oliver Horn" is an assumed identity. Oliver is his original given name, but his birth surname is either Groves or Halford; he uses the name "Horn" to hide his connection to the Sherwood clan.]]
* LikeBrotherAndSister: He and Chela are the de facto co-leaders of the Sword Roses and are societal peers who get along very well, but there's no romantic attraction between them. [[spoiler:Amusingly, her father once dated his mother.]]
* LikeParentLikeSpouse: As the series goes on and Oliver and Nanao's relationship deepens, Nanao starts to draw various comparisons to Chloe Halford. [[spoiler:Only Oliver and his close relatives know that he's Chloe's son.]]
* LoveConfession: After Oliver and Chela give the other Sword Roses TheTalk, Nanao rather abruptly asks him if he wants to have children with her (and then allows how she put her foot in her mouth due to her inexperience with anything but battle). Oliver admits that he is attracted to her, though he isn't remotely ready to even ''think'' about children: their ages aside, he doesn't want their relationship "to be reduced to reproduction and inheritance" the way it often is among mages.
* LoveTriangle: Before the end of the first week of classes he's become the apex of one, with Katie crushing on him (due to him being a NiceGuy) and Nanao convinced he's her destined partner (due to the connection they forged when they sparred in class). He doesn't mind too much, although he doesn't return Katie's feelings.
* MadeOfIron: Oliver may not have much in the way of special talents, but he is incredibly persistent and resistant to hardship and pain [[spoiler:because of the TrainingFromHell his relatives put him through to make him able to withstand the agony of merging with his mother's soul]].
* ManlyTears: Oliver is given to a good cry on occasion, usually resulting from happiness: he tears up at the end of the first volume after realizing Katie wasn't hurt physically or mentally by [[spoiler:her ordeal with Miligan and the troll]], and again in volume 6 after the {{Calvinball}} game helps him get his coordination back.
* MasterSwordsman: [[DownplayedTrope By first-year standards]] he's an above-average duelist from the beginning, having trained in the Lanoff Style from a very young age [[spoiler:and also capable of the unique Two-Blade Style via Chloe's GhostMemory]]. He's able to match Nanao, a veteran of multiple real battles, blow for blow.
* MissingMom: [[spoiler:His mother was Chloe Halford, a famous battlemage of the Gnostic Hunters who had him with her partner Edgar Groves. She's the woman who is murdered by Esmeralda in the prologue of volume 1.]]
* OvershadowedByAwesome: ZigZagged. Oliver is a JackOfAllTrades who lacks any significant special skills, but he's a good planner and a quick thinker, and he works his butt off practicing. Alongside Nanao (who is a better swordswoman but worse at spellcasting and strategy), he's consistently one of the top-ranked fighters in his year, but not by enough to be decisive, and especially early on his abilities are often derided for being uninteresting and/or [[TalentVsTraining derived from book learning rather than natural talent]]. Also, the upperclassmen and professors are all far stronger than him man-to-man. [[spoiler:And he can only use his mother's abilities at severe physical cost.]]
* PayEvilUntoEvil: [[spoiler:Seven Kimberly teachers murdered Oliver's mother. Oliver and his clan plot to avenge her by killing all of them. Darius Grenville is a particular standout: he inflicted 128 kinds of torture on her, so Oliver uses an AgonyBeam to inflict the pain of the same tortures on him, telling him he won't stop until he says the magic words. Before he's even a quarter of the way through the list, a near-catatonic Grenville begs him to just make it stop, and Oliver cuts his head off.]]
* PreMortemOneLiner: The ArmorPiercingQuestion, [[spoiler:"The night of April 8th, 1525, of the Great Calendar. Where were you, and what were you doing?" Directed at each of his mother's killers before his {{Assassination Attempt}}s.]]
* RapeAsBackstory: [[spoiler:It turns out that the Sherwood clan is just as rotten as the rest of them: several years before the series begins, the clan elders drugged him and Shannon and forced him to impregnate her in the interests of producing a pure-blooded heir.]]
* RefusalOfTheCall: Alvin Godfrey tries to recruit him and Nanao to the Campus Watch in volume 4. Oliver declines, fearing that Watch duties could interfere with [[spoiler:his mission of revenge]], and Nanao follows suit because she by now considers her place to be at his side.
* SeriesGoal: [[spoiler:Kill the seven mages who tortuously murdered his mother in a methodical and careful {{Revenge}} plot, which is slowly carried out over his years at Kimberly.]]
* StockLightNovelHero: He checks most of the typical boxes: an ordinary-looking teenage boy attending a WizardingSchool who is adept with magic and the sword compared to his peers, though rather than gaining new abilities he tends to refine the ones he already has like the StockShonenHero. He's also a bit of a ChickMagnet, although [[SingleTargetSexuality he only really has eyes for Nanao]].
* StrongFamilyResemblance: As seen in the novel art, Oliver is the spitting image of his father Edgar, which conveniently helps conceal the identity of his mother from [[spoiler:her killers]].
* TeamDad: He's experienced with magical society and the other Sword Roses look to him as their de facto leader. {{Lampshaded}} by Pete in volume 2, who complains to him that he's ''not'' their dad when he's hesitant to put them at risk for a long-shot plan.
* TechnicianVersusPerformer: He's the Technician to Nanao's Performer. As the caption on his portrait implies, he's a competent technical mage and swordsman; however, he tends to be an imitator and adapter of techniques created by others and chooses to concentrate on ones he's particularly good at like his ''grave soil'' spatial magic. This may have been trained into him since his childhood, [[spoiler:given the fact he uses his mother's GhostMemory in life-and-death battles]]. This also means he CannotTellAJoke: he can imitate sketch comedy and humorous parlor tricks extremely well at a technical level (e.g. causing bouquets of flowers to sprout from his collar), but he doesn't have the sense of comedic timing needed to make the jokes land.
* UniqueProtagonistAsset: ZigZagged. In public, Oliver ostensibly doesn't have one, and it baffles many onlookers that he can keep up with the natural talents of his peers despite seemingly being so ordinary, simply from rigorous training and study. [[spoiler:He secretly has a SoulFragment of his mother, Chloe Halford, inside him. This allows him to use the Fourth Spellblade, as well as perform a temporary MergerOfSouls to draw on her fighting style and combat experience. [[NecessaryDrawback However]], both abilities are essentially CastFromHitpoints, not to mention the fact that using them against anybody but the teachers he's targeting to avenge his mother would give the game away. Likewise, he can't mobilize the cadre of mages following him in the cause of his revenge to deal with unrelated problems like Ophelia Salvadori kidnapping Pete, because every time he calls them up, it risks exposure.]]
* WeakButSkilled: {{Downplayed}}. While Oliver has no significant ''deficiencies'' as a mage, he also has no particular special talents of his own to set him apart from his peers [[spoiler:other his ability to exploit his mother's GhostMemory to use her techniques, including the Fourth Spellblade, which is very much a DangerousForbiddenTechnique that is CastFromLifespan and could easily kill him if he uses it too often]]. He makes up for it with rigorous study and training, which lets him keep pace with more naturally gifted mages.
* WithholdingTheirName: [[spoiler:"Horn" isn't his real surname: his parents are Edgar Groves and Chloe Halford. He conceals this fact from everyone except his coconspirators to obfuscate his purpose for attending Kimberly.]]
* YouKilledMyFather: A FirstEpisodeSpoiler: [[spoiler:he's secretly the leader of a cabal of mages (mostly composed of his extended family) infiltrating Kimberly to do battle with corrupt faculty. For his part, he seeks to kill the seven {{Sadist Teacher}}s who murdered his mother, and makes his start by torturing and killing Darius Grenville at the end of volume 1.]]
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[[folder:Nanao Hibiya]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YukaNukui (Japanese), Creator/VeronicaLaux (English)
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[ArcWords “Enjoy not the sword of vengeance, but the sword of mutual love.”]]\\
[[labelnote:Click to see her Innocent Color form]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nanao_innocent_color.jpg\\
"There... There... you are."[[/labelnote]]]]
An Azian samurai girl who transfers to Kimberly in the same year as Oliver and the rest.
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* AbsurdlySharpBlade: Well, normally not: her katana is only sharp to ordinary sword levels. [[spoiler:On the other hand, she's the inventor of the Seventh Spellblade, which cuts space and time themselves on its way to cutting the target--though [[AutopilotArtistry she has yet to figure out how to use it on purpose.]]]]
* AchievementsInIgnorance: [[spoiler:During her and Oliver's battle with Miligan, Nanao manages to invent the eponymous Seventh Spellblade (there were previously six) completely by accident when she "cuts everything between herself and her target"--[[AbsurdlySharpBlade including the space between her and Miligan]]--by applying sheer force of will to her katana. Even Nanao herself has no clear idea what she did and is unable to duplicate the feat.]]
* AdaptationDyeJob: Nanao naturally has blue-black hair in the novel text, except when [[PowerDyesYourHair her Innocent Color bleaches it white]]; her eye color is not stated. Creator/MiyukiRuria normally draws her with dark purple hair and eyes, turning them blue when her Innocent Color activates. Creator/SakaeEsuno draws ''everything'' on color pages of the manga with a red-and-purple ColorWash, so all the dark-haired characters look purple-haired in that version. The anime follows Ruria's example on her hair color, but leaves out her eye color changing.
* AntiquatedLinguistics: She speaks in a far more formal manner than the other cast members, which is probably at least partially due to Yelglish not being her first language, though it also gives her a WarriorPoet aspect. In the Japanese version she commonly addresses people with the "-''dono''" honorific and the verb "''de gozaru''", both of which are terms of respect and humility strongly associated with the samurai caste and not much used in modern Japan.
* AutopilotArtistry: Nanao's biggest obstacle in learning magic is that a lot of the strange tricks she pulls off, especially while in [[SuperMode Innocent Color mode]], she does so on pure instinct. She's so used to controlling her body's own energy from her sword training[[note]]Probably the sword style she was taught invoked some sort of KiManipulation metaphor, and she just happened to ''[[RightForTheWrongReasons actually]]'' be manipulating something like ki.[[/note]] that she does it without conscious thought, and is thus able to do things like [[ParryingBullets parrying spells with her katana]] by instinctively synchronizing to the incoming element and disrupting it, [[spoiler:and inventing the Seventh Spellblade when she has to close the distance to Miligan before Miligan's DeadlyGaze can hit her, and so ''wills'' herself to strike faster than the speed of light]]. But because it's all instinct, she's often unable to deliberately repeat such feats, and struggles to cast basic spells because they require her to project her magic ''outside'' her body.
* {{BFS}}: {{Downplayed}}. Nanao's sword is a standard katana, but by mage standards it's huge: most prefer short one-handed blades for their athames.
* BigEater: During the entrance dinner, she claims she could eat a dish meant to be split between six people. The amount Nanao can put down and her absentminded disregard for portion size are one of the series' minor {{Running Gag}}s: Oliver often finds himself having to make plates for her so that she doesn't hog entire meal courses.
* BloodKnight: She ''loves'' swordplay and is always up for any fight that comes her way. Part of her indignance at Andrews's proposed kobold hunt was that she was eager to cross swords with Andrews himself.
* BrutalHonesty: Nanao does generally try to be nice to people, but she doesn't spare their feelings when she thinks they need to hear something unpleasant. After [[spoiler:Pete is kidnapped by Ophelia]] and Guy is desperate to mount a rescue, she tells him the odds aren't good with a disturbing amount of calm: in her experience as a samurai, only one in five people who were missing after a battle ever turned up alive.
* ChildSoldier: She's been swinging a sword probably since she was big enough to pick one up, and is a war veteran CoveredWithScars at the tender age of fifteen.
* CoveredWithScars: Her body is covered in old war wounds below the neck.
* CripplingOverspecialization: Nanao is a fine swordsman but has no experience at spellcasting whatsoever and takes quite a while to catch up to her friends in that regard.
* CustomUniform: Starting on the first day of classes, she takes to wearing the top half of her Kimberly school uniform over her red hakama trousers.
* DecapitationStrike: She ''routinely'' searches for an opening to try to take an enemy leader's head, often literally.
** During her LastStand in Yamatsukuni, she led her remaining troops in a suicide charge at the enemy general's camp and very nearly got through to him, killing his son-in-law in passing in the process.
** When the Sword Roses intervene in the "Battle of Hell's Armies" (the test to enter the third layer of the labyrinth), the others foil the enemy cavalry charge, giving her an opportunity to go for the enemy leader. She takes his head off.
** When her and Oliver's broomsport team, the Wild Geese, face off against Diana Ashbury's Blue Swallows, three of her teammates keep Ashbury busy and the others counterattack the Swallows. In the confusion, Nanao slips away and then makes a diving attack on the opposing captain, [[spoiler:only foiled at the last second when a student in the stands shines a light in her eyes and throws her aim off]].
* DecompositeCharacter: She splits being a Franchise/HarryPotter {{expy}} with Oliver: she's a de facto MageBornOfMuggles and therefore a FishOutOfWater in the magical world, and also got Harry's proficiency at riding {{Flying Broomstick}}s.
* DrivingQuestion: One of the many low-level subplots that becomes apparent: what is Nanao's connection to the late Chloe Halford? She's able to ride Chloe's broom when no one else could tame it, and after Chloe's death Theodore [=McFarlane=] found Nanao while traveling the world trying to fulfill an oath he swore to Chloe. [[spoiler:And like Chloe, she's a spellblade wielder.]]
* DudeMagnet: She's considered quite beautiful in-universe, and as she gains fame at the school she starts to get frequently propositioned by male mages--some of whom have the ulterior motive of wanting to [[SuperBreedingProgram breed her magical talents into their bloodlines]]. The propositions prompt Oliver and Chela to host a [[TheTalk sex ed seminar]] for their friends.
* FirstKiss: [[spoiler:She kisses Oliver for the first time when she wants him to [[ManlyTears stop crying (from happiness)]] after their {{Calvinball}} game in volume 6 helps him regain his coordination.]]
* FriendlyRivalry: Develops one with Diana Ashbury, the star of one of the senior-level broomsport teams, after making her work for her win during Nanao's debut match. Ashbury initially dismissed her, but was so impressed by her performance that she starts mentoring Nanao during broomsport practice despite being on a different team, seeing her as a WorthyOpponent she wishes to become even more worthy.
* HairColorDissonance: Her natural hair color according to the text of the novel is blue-black, but she's always been drawn in color illustrations with purple hair--a little odd considering the series doesn't normally subscribe to AmazingTechnicolorPopulation.
* InnocentFanserviceGirl: Occasionally. The morning of their first day of classes, Oliver catches her bathing topless in a fountain, in full view of the boys' dormitory. Yamatsukini apparently draws no distinction between the sexes, at least in the {{samurai}} caste, so [[OurNudityIsDifferent she simply wasn't aware that her "cleansing ritual" could draw that kind of attention in the West]]. There's also the bit in volume 2 where she wonders aloud if she could unlock more mana from her womb the way Chela just explained to Pete,[[note]]According to Oliver, her natural mana circulation from having Innocent Color obviates this.[[/note]] and Oliver hurriedly stops her from pulling her skirt up to look.
* LaceratingLoveLanguage: PlayedForDrama. Nanao Hibiya was raised in a [[FantasticFightingStyle sword style]] whose core tenet is "Enjoy not the sword of vengeance, but the sword of mutual love"--meaning to seek happiness in a DuelToTheDeath with one you admire and respect. She's internalized this ideal so much that when she falls in LoveAtFirstPunch with Oliver Horn after they spar in Sword Arts class, she admits she can't tell the difference between the man and his sword, and can't kick the desire to fight him without holding back again. [[spoiler:This comes to a head at the end of volume 9, where, provoked to irrational jealousy by the end of their championship match in the [[TournamentArc combat leagues]], she throws him against a tree for a ForcefulKiss. Oliver's InternalMonologue describes her looking at him as if "Yearning to carve her way into her beloved, or, barring that, at least pull him down and have her way with him."]]
* LadyOfWar: She's poised, fearless, and a MasterSwordsman who fought in multiple battles as a {{samurai}} for the lord of Tourikueisen. She's also considered quite beautiful InUniverse.
* TheLancer: Early on she attaches herself to Oliver due to their attraction, and by volume 4 she's fully committed to remaining by his side. She acts as a thematic foil to him: a foreigner (where he's a Yelgland native), [[TalentVsTraining a mage of phenomenal natural talent but little formal schooling]] (where he's an imitator and adapter of techniques developed by others), and [[BloodKnight brash and eager to fight]] (where he's normally cool-headed and measured).
* LastStand: When Lord [=McFarlane=] discovered her, she was leading the rearguard of a defeated army in blocking a mountain pass.
* LegallyDead: Nanao is considered dead in her homeland, officially having [[LastStand fought to the last against General Souma Yoshihisa]]. Her mother at least was still alive when Theodore [=McFarlane=] took her to Yelgland, and Nanao gets occasional updates and sends money back from her stipend.
* LikeParentLikeSpouse: As the series goes on and Oliver and Nanao's relationship deepens, Nanao starts to draw various comparisons to Chloe Halford. [[spoiler:Only Oliver and his close relatives know that he's Chloe's son.]]
* LoveAtFirstPunch: One of the ideals of the sword school she was taught was to "enjoy not the sword of vengeance, but the sword of mutual love"--meaning to seek joy in a duel with an opponent one accepts and respects. She finds that when she spars with Oliver. While talking her out of her death wish, Chela suggests she try relating to Oliver in ways besides swordplay to find that joy again. Unfortunately, this doesn't work: as their relationship deepens, so does her desire to fight him.
* LoveHurts: She's deeply torn by her feelings for Oliver: she wants to remain by his side and feels an irresistible urge to be close to him and hold him, but at the same time she cannot get rid of the simultaneous wish for a DuelToTheDeath with him, and fears that someday these warring desires might drive her AxCrazy (she asks Katie to [[ICannotSelfTerminate kill her]] if that ever happens).
-->"If you truly love someone, can that emotion coexist with an urge to see them dead?"
* MageBornOfMuggles: Magic in general is mostly a subject of folktales and urban legends in her homeland, and she makes no mention of either of her parents having any supernatural abilities.
* MasterSwordsman: As a former samurai, she's been swinging a sword since she was big enough to hold one and is one of the best swordsmen in her grade year. And unlike most new students, Oliver realizes to his horror the first time they spar in class that she has killed men with the blade before--dozens, if not hundreds.
* MercyKillArrangement: After she reveals to Katie that she still wants a DuelToTheDeath with Oliver, Nanao says she fears her warring desires could drive her AxCrazy and asks her to kill her should that happen, rather than let her harm any of her friends. Katie doesn't reply, but has a mental image of Nanao covered in blood and surrounded by corpses, realizing it's a vision of her having been consumed by the spell.
* MoodyMount: Her FlyingBroomstick has a reputation for being both a superior example of its species, and for refusing to allow anyone to ride it since its deceased last master. She is able to befriend it, having experience with horses, and names it Amatsukaze. [[spoiler:The aforementioned previous master turns out to have been Chloe Halford, Oliver's mother.]]
* NameOrderConfusion: {{Discussed}}. Her birth name is actually Hibiya Nanao, but she goes by Nanao Hibiya at Kimberly to avoid confusion.
* ParryingBullets: When in Innocent Color, she's instinctively able to block incoming spells by flowing magic through her athame and synchronizing to the spell's element, letting her cut the spell itself to render it harmless. This becomes known in the school as her SignatureMove, the "Two-Handed Flow Cut".
* PowerDyesYourHair: Nanao has a magical trait called "innocent color" that causes her normally blue-black hair to [[MysticalWhiteHair turn white]] when she draws significant amounts of magic. It only occurs in people with both exceptional magical circulation and a crystalline hair structure that allows magic particles to flow through it.
* RefusalOfTheCall: Alvin Godfrey tries to recruit her and Oliver to the Campus Watch in volume 4. Oliver declines, fearing that Watch duties could interfere with [[spoiler:his mission of revenge]], and Nanao follows suit because she by now considers her place to be at his side.
* {{Samurai}}: Back home she was a classical samurai in a FantasyCounterpartCulture to UsefulNotes/SengokuPeriod Japan: a minor noblewoman formally trained in swordplay and expected to serve her lord in battle, which she did without hesitation even when it meant her certain death.
* SamuraiPonytail: As a former samurai, she wears her hair tied back in ponytail down to the small of her back.
* SignatureMove: The "Two-Handed Flow Cut", or more precisely her ability to deflect incoming spells by synchronizing her body to their elemental signature and thereby negating them. It's something she invents by pure instinct in volume 1 and others give a name to by the time of the combat leagues in volume 7.
* SingleTargetSexuality: Oliver is the only person she's ever felt any kind of romantic or sexual attraction towards. Before being brought to Yelgland, her samurai training didn't leave any room for romance, and after she forms her connection with him, nobody else comes anywhere close to measuring up.
* SuperMode: She's able to use her extraordinarily good magical circulation to charge her whole body with mana in combat, which is signified by [[PowerDyesYOurHair her Innocent Color bleaching her hair white]].
* TalkingDownTheSuicidal: Nanao arrives at Kimberly in a state of low-level shock, having been plucked by Lord [=McFarlane=] from a battlefield where she was about to die in a LastStand. After Oliver rejects her partially CultureClash-induced request for a DuelToTheDeath following their sparring match in sword arts class, she becomes depressed and starts to wonder if she's having a DyingDream, and starts looking for a fight where she can die (which she finds when Oliver, Pete, and Guy are accosted in the labyrinth by Ophelia and Cyrus). Oliver stages an impromptu intervention and gets her to agree that from now on she'll only draw her sword with the intent of surviving.
* TechnicianVersusPerformer: She's the Performer to Oliver's Technician. Her magic runs pretty much entirely on AutopilotArtistry, constantly defying the expectations of everyone around her, and she finds joy in challenging herself with magic and the sword. This is also what fits her into the Wild Geese broomsports team: where her FriendlyRival Diana Ashbury's Blue Swallows strive for perfection, following their ace, the Wild Geese aim to have fun in their matches.
* TooDumbToFool: Nanao is very much [[BrainsAndBrawn the "brawn" to Oliver's "brains"]], tending to be instinctual, straightforward, and bloody-minded, and doing her best work when she doesn't have to think about it, in contrast to Oliver's hard-learned skill as a strategist. This applies to her people skills as well: she has a habit of seeing right through other people's obfuscations and calling out their hidden and denied feelings and desires, and generally telling people they should strive to be their own person rather than (usually) bowing to family pressures. This is lampshaded by Diana Ashbury in volume 6 when Nanao penetrates Diana's excuses about her feelings for Clifton Morgan: "That girl was the kind of dumb that saw right through you."
* WolverinePublicity: The manga pulls this with her big-time, putting her front-and-center on most of the cover art and relegating Oliver, the primary viewpoint character, to the background (volumes 3 and 5 leave him off entirely).
* {{Yandere}}: {{Reconstructed}}. She has a possessive streak towards Oliver, made all the more dangerous by the way [[InterplayOfSexAndViolence the urges towards love and violence intersect for her]]. She's self-aware about it and normally keeps it fairly well under wraps, and she doesn't react violently towards his other suitors. However, in volume 9, [[spoiler:Oliver and Richard are able to connect finally in single combat while she's sidelined by injuries. This makes her irrationally jealous, and she finally boils over the next night and throws him against a tree for a ForcefulKiss, followed by a LoveConfession.]]
-->[[spoiler:"Oliver... Your fate lies with ''me''. ... If this fate comes not to fruition, so be it. If you go out and duel another, I will not mind. But I cannot abide the notion of being forgotten. The soul most drawn to your blade lies ''here''. That fact alone you must keep ever in the recess of your mind. There for all of time, no matter whose blade you face. ... My heart lies with you, Oliver. For every moment, sleeping or awake, from now until evermore."]]
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[[folder:Katie Aalto]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/HitomiOhwada (Japanese), Creator/JillHarris (English)
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[[caption-width-right:350:“I told you before that I’ve made up my mind. I’m going to fight here at Kimberly. Maybe if I was at Featherston, I’d meet a lot of people who think like me… but that would just make me even weaker.”]]
A girl with a strong sense of justice in regards to the civil rights of all living things. Rooms with Nanao.
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* BreakTheCutie: {{Subverted}} in volume 1. She matriculates as a WideEyedIdealist ZombieAdvocate and endures a ton of abuse from students and teachers alike, capped off with [[spoiler:nearly being vivisected by Miligan]]... and ends the volume just as idealistic and kind as she was before and even more determined to expand civil rights for demihumans, just more cognizant of how much work it will take. Oliver is so relieved at this that [[ManlyTears he breaks down crying]].
* CategoryTraitor: Kimberly's rival school, Featherston Sorcery School, is vocal in its support for demihuman rights. Some Featherston students the Sword Roses encounter in volume 4 accuse Katie of betraying the movement by attending Kimberly, which sets off a BarBrawl despite Oliver and Chela's efforts to defuse the situation. For her part, Katie justifies herself with the argument that she wouldn't experience any personal growth if she was surrounded only by people who already agreed with her: she ''wants'' her viewpoints to challenge others and be challenged.
* CustomUniform: Most Kimberly students wear neckties with their uniform. Katie prefers to wear a ribbon tied at her neck in a bow.
* DecompositeCharacter: Combined with Pete, she's comparable to Hermione from ''Franchise/HarryPotter''. She got Hermione's looks and activism on behalf of sapient nonhumans.
* FeminineWomenCanCook: Played with a little. She's a pretty good cook, but when she and Guy have an impromptu competition the first time the Sword Roses visit their lab, the others agree Guy is the victor because his grilled mutton and veggies kept the spirit of camping out better than her stew.
* FluffyTamer: Her childhood love for living creatures evolves into an academic interest in magical ecology and interspecies communication, which turns into her gathering a small menagerie of magical creature allies. She starts by befriending Marco the troll, and then successfully tames a griffin fledgling named Lyla to the point where the prideful creature will let her ride it, something few mages have ever achieved.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: Katie's family is highly active in the InhumanableAlienRights movement, and she grew up surrounded by magical creatures of all kinds. At Kimberly she finds it impossible to think of them as solely experimental resources--to the point of being injured in class by a magical silkworm when she tries to save it after over-feeding it and causing it to metamorphose--and stands up to a SadistTeacher to save a troll that nearly killed her during the entrance ceremony from being euthanized.
* TheHeart: Katie is sweet, friendly, and more classically feminine than Nanao or Chela, and less naturally inclined to violence than Nanao, Oliver, or Guy.
* JealousRomanticWitness:
** Katie develops a crush on Oliver early on, and tends to get a little irritable when Nanao acts too clingy (despite their otherwise close friendship). It's nonetheless clear pretty early that she's firmly the ThirdWheel.
** She's also a little jealous of Oliver's (affectionate but completely platonic) relationship with his cousin Shannon, getting worked up when Shannon greets him with a kiss on the cheek when they run into each other the day after the fight with the garuda.
* LoveConfessor: Shortly after Oliver and Chela give the other Sword Roses TheTalk in volume 4, Katie asks Nanao if Nanao is in love with Oliver. She admits she's deeply attracted to him, but isn't sure if she can call it love when [[LoveHurts she simultaneously wishes for]] a DuelToTheDeath with him.
* ThePowerOfFriendship: She manages to accidentally complete [[spoiler:Miligan's]] research into "intellectualization" of trolls by supplying the last missing ingredient: kindness. Turns out, even a troll that ''can'' speak Yelglish still might not ''want'' to talk to [[spoiler:someone who hurts him]].
* SilkHidingSteel: Katie may be a NiceGirl and [[TheHeart not much of a fighter]], but she has a will of iron and is far more resilient under pressure than you'd expect. Every challenge she faces to her ideals at Kimberly only serves to affirm their necessity in her mind.
* SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids: She's frequently on the receiving end of this from Kimberly students and faculty, but refuses to budge on improving the lot of demihumans.
* VirtuousCharacterCopy: Her similarities to Hermione Granger are significant, but there are some differences. Hermione was (controversially) roundly mocked for her activism on behalf of the House-Elves, whereas ''Spellblades'' portrays Katie's views as completely correct; she's just a little naive and inexperienced. Katie is also a NiceGirl through and through, lacking the nasty streak that Hermione displays in the later books.
* ZombieAdvocate: She's a vocal advocate for reform in the treatment of demihumans and other magical creatures, having even enrolled at Kimberly instead of another WizardingSchool that might have been friendlier to her views in hopes of changing some minds. This proves a repeated flashpoint in the series, particularly in volume 1.
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[[folder:Michela "Chela" [=McFarlane=]]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MisuzuYamada (Japanese), Creator/SaraRagsdale (English)
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[[caption-width-right:350:“Once we passed through those gates, we became Kimberly students in both name and reality! And as students of such a historic institution, we should endeavor to be model examples, starting now!”\\
[[labelnote:Click to see her alternate form]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/michela_mcfarlane_elf.jpg[[/labelnote]]]]
A girl from a renowned magical family.
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* BlueBlood: She's part of the mage aristocracy. Her father is a Kimberly guest lecturer (he acts as substitute teacher in the Sword Roses' alchemy class in volume 2 after [[spoiler:Oliver murders the original professor Darius Grenville]]), as well as the mage who rescued Nanao from her LastStand back in Yamatsukuni.
* DecompositeCharacter: She splits Ron Weasley from ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' with Guy Greenwood: as the group's token aristocrat, she serves as the series' main source of exposition and guidance on mage history and social interactions.
* HalfHumanHybrid: [[spoiler:She's a half-elf, and can dramatically increase her magical abilities by transforming into her elven form.]]
* HalfSiblingAngst: She's estranged from her half-sister Stacy Cornwallis because they grew up having to treat each other as cousins and weren't allowed to acknowledge their real relationship. She keeps a flower garland that Stacy made for her when they were on better terms inside her robe as a lucky charm.
* HereditaryHairstyle: Her father has similarly curly hair styled in ringlets, which is part of how they all realize that he was the mage who rescued Nanao. It apparently runs in the family: he and her half-sister Stacy both have versions of it.
* InSeriesNickname: She's usually referred to as just "Chela".
* LikeBrotherAndSister: She and Oliver are roughly social peers (both are {{Blue Blood}}s, though her family is much more prominent than his) and get along very well, but there's no romantic attraction between them. She sometimes teases him by flirting with him, but the IntimateHealing scene is motivated by her worrying about her friend, and she feels deeply guilty about manipulating him into it afterwards. [[spoiler:Amusingly, her father once dated his mother.]]
* MarkOfTheSupernatural: She's a little oddly colored: she's a blue-eyed blonde but has bronze skin. [[spoiler:It's a clue to the fact [[HalfHumanHybrid she's a half-elf]]: she got her skin color from her mother.]]
* OjouRinglets: {{Justified|Trope}}. She has three drill-tails on either side of her head, as a visual cue to her aristocratic background. [[HereditaryHairstyle It runs in the McFarlane family]]: both of her known blood relatives have similar hair, and she jokes when the Sword Roses introduce themselves to each other that it's considered polite to faint at the beauty of it.
* RoyalRapier: She's an aristocrat by birth, and her athame is in the form of a smallsword (a later, smaller variant of the rapier).
* SexMagic: She's fairly knowledgeable about this topic: she explains to Pete after he comes out as a reversi that female mages are able to use their uteri as additional magical storage and teaches him how to do it on a "girl day", and assists Oliver with some IntimateHealing in volume 4.
* ShipperOnDeck: She pretty openly thinks Oliver and Nanao are a good couple starting from volume 1, suggesting that if Nanao can't tell the difference between [[LoveAtFirstPunch falling in love with Oliver's sword or with Oliver himself]], that she choose the man. In volume 4 she even suggests he approach Nanao for sex to resolve the aftereffects of [[spoiler:Ophelia's Perfume]].
* StereotypeFlip: Blonde girls with OjouRinglets in WizardingSchool anime series are usually written as aristocratic {{Alpha Bitch}}es. Chela ''is'' a BlueBlood, but is instead a precociously mature TeamMom figure.
* SuperMode: Transforming into [[spoiler:elf form]] dramatically increases her mana reserves and spell power and allows her to double-cast, an ability unheard-of in first-year students. [[spoiler:As a third-year, she can triple-cast in elf form--though she's still no match for her father.]]
* TeamMom: She takes on essentially this role in the Sword Roses, especially in comparison to MageBornOfMuggles Nanao and Pete. Having grown up in the mage aristocracy, she's a frequent source of {{exposition}} on how things work in magical society and is more experienced with navigating it than the others.
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[[folder:Guy Greenwood]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ShinsukeSugawara (Japanese), Creator/MatthewElkins (English)
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[[caption-width-right:350:“Leave the fighting to me. I ain’t a farmer’s son for nothin’.”]]
A cheerful and friendly boy who comes from a farming family.
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* TheBigGuy: What he lacks in magical talent compared to the others, he makes up for with the muscles and loyalty of a farm boy. He's also physically the tallest member of the group.
* DecompositeCharacter: He splits Ron Weasley with Chela: he got Ron's [[FieryRedhead looks, temper, and attitude]], and his less-than-affluent rural upbringing.
* FieryRedhead: A HotBlooded young man with [[ShonenHair an unruly mop of red hair]].
* TheGenericGuy: He's by far the most normal of the Sword Roses: he doesn't have any social baggage, deep secrets, or world-shaking special abilities, he's just a farm boy who made good and has an underclassman crushing on him (Rita Appleton). [[spoiler:This ends after he becomes CursedWithAwesome in a fourth-year misadventure.]]
* GreenThumb: He grew up in a farming family and has an affinity to plants. When the team travels into the labyrinth to rescue Pete, he supplies them with seeds of "toolplants" that can be rapidly grown with an application of mana and come in handy a number of times.
* HiddenDepths: Though a hothead, he can be surprisingly quick-thinking under pressure: when threatened by a swarm of venomous snakes from one of Enrico Forghieri's traps during class, he douses himself with a potion to conduct electricity and then casts a lightning spell on himself, stunning the entire swarm in one go and impressing Forghieri.
* HotBlooded: When Katie is being bullied by the conservatives, Guy is the first to suggest some judicious kicking of ass, and is only too glad to join in when Oliver gets angry enough to throw down.
* HypocriticalHeartwarming: Guy clashes with Katie early on over the relative merits of trolls (they were farm pests to him, whereas she was sung to sleep by the family troll as a kid), but when the conservatives take to bullying Katie over her protecting a troll, he's the first to leap to her defense. {{Lampshaded}} by Pete:
-->'''Guy:''' ...The hell's their problem? They tryin' to piss me off?\\
'''Pete:''' I thought ''you'' hated trolls, too.\\
'''Guy:''' That's different! No one insults my friends!
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: He grew up on a farm and ''looooooves'' his vegetables, frequently offering to supply people with them.
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[[folder:Pete Reston]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RihoSugiyama (Japanese), Creator/LexiNieto (English)
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[[caption-width-right:350:“I have plenty to learn about this place, too. If you consider what lies ahead, there’s nothing wrong with having more familiar faces around.”]]
A quiet and diligent boy. He comes from a non-magical family. Rooms with Oliver.
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* AmbiguousGenderIdentity: Even after coming out as reversi, Pete still uses he/him pronouns and prefers to present as masculine even while in female form. However, Oliver notes that gender dysphoria is sometimes an early sign of being a reversi, and Pete recalls "not fitting in" among nonmagicals.
* AttractiveBentGender: Poor Pete starts to get it from both sides in volume 4 as a consequence of being a reversi, and for much the same reason as Nanao: while it's rare for reversism to be inherited, it is nonetheless possible, and has advantages to mages. The propositions prompt Oliver and Chela to host a [[TheTalk sex ed seminar]] for their friends.
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: He excels at magical engineering and is quite good at ferreting out the intricacies of golems and magical traps.
* BadassBookworm: [[TookALevelInBadass Turns into one]] after two years of CharacterDevelopment. He starts out a complete newbie to magic and far behind fellow MageBornOfMuggles Nanao as a swordsman, but he's a voracious reader and becomes very good at magical engineering, and Oliver and Chela are able to help him make up for his initial deficiency in sword arts. In volume 2 he comes close to landing a hit on Stacy Cornwallis in class with a Rizett Style Hero's Charge, and by volume 7 he's able to lay down the law against uppity first-years without trouble.
* CustomUniform: He adds a vest under his school uniform jacket, essentially turning his uniform into a three-piece suit.
* DecompositeCharacter: He and Katie together are comparable to Hermione from ''Franchise/HarryPotter''. He got her BadassBookworm traits and being a MageBornOfMuggles.
* GenderBenderAngst: He had no idea shifting sex was even possible until it happened to him, and spends a good chunk of volume 2 freaking out about it and lashing out at his friends due to a combination of general confusion and the painful side effects of his body not being used to it. Fortunately, Oliver is immediately on his side, as is their senior Carlos Whitrow, who invites Pete to join the campus club for SexMagic-related traits.
* TheKnightsWhoSaySquee: He's a huge fan of Theodore [=McFarlane=]'s travelogues, to the point of having read every printing of every volume, and goes complete fanboy when [=McFarlane=] acts as substitute alchemy prof in volume 2.
* TheLoad: The other Sword Roses, especially Oliver, spend a lot of time having to protect or rescue him in the first three volumes, often at great risk to themselves. {{Justified|Trope}} on account of him getting a double-whammy of being a MageBornOfMuggles: he didn't even know he could use magic until shortly before the series began, and unlike Nanao he has no real-world combat experience to fall back on, which is then compounded by the early symptoms of his reversi transformations. He grows out of it by volume 4.
* MageBornOfMuggles: Like Nanao, he's playing catch-up with the customs of the mage side of the world, having been born into a non-magical family.
* ManIFeelLikeAWoman: Subverted: his initial reaction to his first time gender-bending in his sleep is horror that he's suddenly grown breasts and had his junk go missing overnight.
* PainfulTransformation: Pete begins suffering painful mana disruptions upon becoming a SexShifter. According to main character Oliver, this is a fairly common side effect of changes in the body among mages: in addition to normal puberty and illness sometimes causing it, he recalls helping a woman through mana disruptions caused by a pregnancy. [[spoiler:It was his cousin Shannon.]]
* SexShifter: Due to being a reversi who hasn't fully gotten the hang of controlling the ability, he has a tendency to switch sexes in his sleep. [[spoiler:It saves his life in volume 3 when he switches to female while unconscious after being kidnapped by Ophelia, causing him to become immune to her Perfume.]]
* TheSmartGuy: He knows next to nothing about magic to begin with and studies ''hard'' to make up for it. He develops a particular talent for magical engineering.
* SupernaturallyValidatedTransPerson: Pete is a reversi, a mage born with the ability to [[SexShifter switch his body's biological sex]]. He still favors male pronouns, but indicates in his internal monologue that he had previously experienced mild dysphoric episodes, [[AmbiguousGenderIdentity suggesting his true gender identity is closer to demiboy]].
* TookALevelInBadass: His fighting skills normally aren't called attention to, and as a MageBornOfMuggles, he has a lot of ground to cover. In volume 7 he shows the progress he's made in two years when he intervenes in a fight between four newly enrolled first-years [[KickTheDog after the winner decides to practice pain spells on the losers]], and inflicts a CurbStompBattle when the winner challenges ''him''.
-->'''Pete:''' You want a rematch, come at me whenever. Duel rules suit me fine. But don't diminish what time here does to someone--to you or to anyone else. I was born nonmagical, and this is what two years here have done to ''me''. That's what you've signed up for at Kimberly.
* {{Tsundere}}: He starts to develop spats of BelligerentSexualTension with Oliver once his reversi power manifests itself: his confusion about his own sexuality leads to him becoming embarrassed about physical contact with his roommate, and he lashes out at him physically.
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[[folder:Marco]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RyoSugisaki (Japanese), Creator/ConnerAllison (English)
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[SuddenlySpeaking Marco learns to talk.]]]]
A purebred Gasney troll that inexplicably attacks Katie during the entrance ceremony. After she refuses to let him be euthanized and works to befriend him, Katie and the team adopt him in volume 2.
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* FluffyTheTerrible: He's [[AllTrollsAreDifferent a literal troll]] who's about three times the height of the main cast and terrifies first years. Katie named him Marco.
* GentleGiant: He's a huge troll who can be quite terrifying if people don't know him well. But he wouldn't hurt a fly, at least not unless Katie told him to (she once has him pick Guy up and hang him somewhere high by his jacket after he annoys her).
* MercyRewarded: In volume 1, Katie stops Professor Grenville from euthanizing him after the entrance ceremony fiasco, promising to take responsibility for retraining him (and enduring a lot of abuse from the school's conservative faction in the process). [[spoiler:He ends up saving her life when he figures out how to speak Yelglish after interacting with her for several weeks.]]
* PlayingWithSyringes: [[spoiler:He's a product of Miligan's experiments on demihumans to increase their intelligence, which bear fruit when Katie's efforts to befriend him begin to enable him to use human speech.]]
* SpannerInTheWorks: [[spoiler:His "attack" on Katie was actually a complete fluke: he was just making a break for the exit to get away from Miligan's experiments on him when another student cast a spell that made Katie run into his path as an unrelated prank. Then Katie manages to teach him to speak Yelglish through ThePowerOfFriendship and he proves the key to unraveling Miligan's entire plot.]]
* TapOnTheHead: Nanao knocks him out with a blow to the back of the head during the entrance ceremony incident. His skull is so hard that it numbs her hands.
* TeamPet: Essentially. He's sentient and can talk, but he spends most of his time living in the Sword Roses' hideout in the labyrinth, normally only leaving to join them for dungeon delves.
* VirtuousCharacterCopy: He resembles the troll from the first Harry Potter book, both physically and in narrative role (both trolls attack (one of) the girl(s), and defeating him solidifies the main cast's years-long friendship), but Marco eventually forms a bond with Katie, while the troll who attacked Hermoine disappears from the narrative after he's defeated.
* YouNoTakeCandle: Even with Miligan and Katie's work, his grasp of Yelglish is marginal and he struggles to phrase even simple sentences, although he understands directions pretty well: in the opening of volume 7, Katie has him guard a nest of pot weasels while she works to move them (because they're a safety hazard), and has to defuse a potential confrontation between him and an overconfident first-year who demands to be let through.
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!Classmates of the Sword Roses
Or: characters of the same grade year as the main protagonists.
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[[folder:Annie Mackley]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KanaIchinose (Japanese), Creator/KaylaParker (English)
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[[caption-width-right:350:“I—I never intended for that to happen. I just wanted to scare you a bit…!”]]
-> '''First Appearance:''' LN Volume 1 | Anime 1x1 "[[Recap/ReignOfTheSevenSpellbladesS1E01Ceremony Ceremony]]"

A female student who takes an instant dislike to Katie Aalto and bespells her at the entrance ceremony.
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* AdaptedOut: She's never depicted in the manga: her spell is cast in a words-only panel, and the Sword Roses confront her offscreen.
* TheBusCameBack: She completely disappears from the story after the Sword Roses interrogate her in chapter 2 and doesn't reappear until volume 12.
* LastNameBasis: Her given name isn't stated in volume 1 and she's only credited in the anime as "Mackley". Her given name isn't established until her reappearance in volume 12.
* TaughtToHate: Her reasoning for pranking Katie over her pro-demihuman rights views boils down to "My parents said you're a CategoryTraitor."
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: She turns out to be the one who bespelled Katie at the entrance ceremony, [[spoiler:but it was just a spur-of-the-moment prank meant to embarrass her over her {{Zombie Advoca|te}}cy: Marco choosing that moment to make a break for the exit and nearly trampling Katie was a ContrivedCoincidence she had nothing to do with]].
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[[folder:Richard Andrews]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ShoyaChiba (Japanese), Creator/GerardCaster (English)
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[[caption-width-right:350:“Call it whatever you want, Mr. Horn. Stand before me. I’ll return the humiliation you gave me ten times over!”]]
-> '''First Appearance:''' LN Volume 1 | Manga Chapter 3 | Anime 1x1 "[[Recap/ReignOfTheSevenSpellbladesS1E01Ceremony Ceremony]]"

The heir to the Andrews house. He and Chela grew up together due to the closeness of their families.
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* AdaptationDyeJob: In the light novel and the anime, he has very prominent and pointed sideburns that stick out from his head almost like horns. These are removed in his manga design (shown).
* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: He briefly appears in the pilot episode of the anime, but has no lines and isn't introduced or named until episode 2.
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: His bravado hides an inferiority complex stemming from having grown up with Chela, who is more naturally talented in most areas than him. His early enmity with Oliver comes from Richard getting the impression Oliver considers him beneath him, when Oliver actually hadn't meant to antagonize him but [[OpenMouthInsertFoot stuck his foot in his mouth]].
* AristocratsAreEvil: {{Downplayed}}. Aside from his unenlightened opinion of demihumans, he's not really ''evil'' so much as a {{jerkass}} with a chip on his shoulder, and he grows out of that to some extent.
* BlowYouAway: He has an affinity for wind magic, which he first displays in [[spoiler:the battle with the garuda]]. To show off [[TookALevelInBadass the levels in badass he's taken]] since his last appearance, in volume 7 he first knocks an opposing student unconscious with a wind blast [[OffhandBackhand without even turning around]], then uses the wind to surf on the arena's lake while fighting Katie, Guy and Pete and Teresa's team.
* BlueBlood: He's another mage aristocrat, and grew up with Chela.
* DefeatMeansFriendship: [[spoiler:The final round of the combat leagues offers Oliver and Richard a chance to face each other on equal terms for the first time in almost three years. Oliver wins, and they agree to become real friends finally.]]
* FireForgedFriends: {{Downplayed}}. [[spoiler:He initially doesn't really become friends with the Sword Roses, but fighting the garuda with Oliver and Nanao settled their feud and won his respect.]]
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: His team initially supports the old council during the MeleeATrois with Rivermoore in volume 8, but after Team Godfrey wins their first round of the combat leagues despite Alvin Godfrey's injury, and Lesedi Ingwe defeats Khiirgi Albschuch in a battle in Rivermoore's necropolis, he withdraws from the field while telling off the old council's seniors for trying to interfere and tip the scales instead of facing Godfrey's faction fairly.
* StockShonenRival: In the first volume, Richard develops a dislike for Oliver after the latter correctly guesses he ran for cover when the troll went berserk at the entrance ceremony (in context, he volunteered to spar with Nanao only for Oliver to step in), which gets tangled up with the feud between [[InhumanableAlienRights the pro- and anti-demihuman civil rights factions]]. [[spoiler:He challenges Oliver and Nanao to a kobold-killing contest to settle the dispute, only for a garuda to attack and force the three of them to team up.]] Afterwards, while he and Oliver still can't exactly be called friends, their direct rivalry subsides: Andrews subsequently appears to view Oliver as a motivation to improve himself.
* TookALevelInBadass: After declining to join the first-years' dueling tournament in volume 2, he disappears from the story for several books. In volume 7, he reappears for the combat leagues, teaming up with Joseph Albright and Tullio Rossi, and demonstrates his new skills by spotting an opposing team hiding in cover and knocking a member out with an OffhandBackhand wind spell. Ultimately their team defeats the others, including a team of Guy, Pete, and Katie and one containing the secretly hypercompetent Teresa Carste, in their preliminary match with no casualties or even simulated wounds, something even Oliver, Nanao, and Yuri didn't manage.
* TookALevelInKindness: Following [[spoiler: the confrontation with the garuda]], while still acting somewhat abrasive, he stops treating the main characters like they're inferior to him, even giving Oliver a genuinely well-meaning warning about [[spoiler: Professor Grenville]] at one point (though [[spoiler: it turns out Oliver didn't exactly need the warning in question, given what he [[EnemiesList already knows about]], and has [[GottaKillEmAll planned to do with]], Grenville]]). [[CharacterDevelopment And it doesn't stop there, either.]]
* VirtuousCharacterCopy: Where Oliver reminds of Franchise/HarryPotter, Richard fills much the role of Draco Malfoy: a haughty aristocratic racist who becomes TheRival to the protagonist. Unlike with Draco and Harry, however, their dispute is based on a misunderstanding and is mostly settled after [[spoiler:they fight the garuda together]]; Richard subsequently views Oliver as a competitor but not an enemy, and stops acting like a {{jerkass}} to the Sword Roses.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: He challenges Oliver and Nanao to a contest to settle their feud. They go in expecting to duel him, only for him to reveal they'll be competing to kill kobolds in the arena: highest kill count wins. Nanao balks, indignant at being asked to take part in a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canned_hunt canned hunt]], and makes to leave... [[spoiler:which is when the garuda that Miligan smuggled in with the kobolds breaks free and starts rampaging through the arena]].
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[[folder:Tullio Rossi]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/DaichiKanbara (Japanese), Creator/NickMarchetti (English)
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[[caption-width-right:225:“We ’ave been at Kimberly for six months, no? I think we should follow our seniors’ example and decide among ourselves who is the strongest first-year.”]]
-> '''First Appearance:''' LN Volume 2 | Manga Chapter 16 | Anime 1x7 "[[Recap/ReignOfTheSevenSpellbladesS1E07Reversi Reversi]]"

A lone wolf who taught himself the sword by ignoring the fundamentals, who organizes a dueling tournament in volume 2. Lost to Oliver in a duel.
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* AccentAdaptation: He speaks in Kansai dialect in the original Japanese. Creator/YenPress's translator renders this in English as an Italian FunetikAksent to match his FantasyCounterpartCulture. The anime subtitles go with New Yawk, commonly used for Kansai-ben speakers; however, the dub follows Yen Press's example and gives him an Italian accent.
* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: In the novels and manga he's introduced in the conversation where he proposes the dueling tournament. In the anime [[EarlyBirdCameo he briefly appears slightly before this]] in TheStinger of episode 7, monologuing to himself about how much the Sword Roses annoy him without being formally introduced. Then in episode 8 he's used to replace an extra named Hughes as Pete's opponent in a sparring match (which took place later in volume 2).
* AttractivenessDiscrimination: Played for laughs when he says that he's targeting Oliver and not Nanao, equally FamedInStory, because Nanao is cute.
-->'''Oliver Horn:''' I'd sensed you were after me ever since you suggested [an all-first-years' battle royale] in the cafeteria. Did I do something to earn your ire?\\
'''Tullio Rossi:''' Nah, nah. I have nothing against you or your family.\\
'''Oliver:''' Then why are you after me?\\
'''Rossi:''' I do not like that you get all the attention and I get none. Is that not enough of a reason?\\
'''Oliver:''' You're entitled to your opinions, but I doubt I get more attention than Nanao.\\
'''Rossi:''' Nanao is cute, so she is exempt. I cannot [[FunetikAksent 'ate]] her.
* ExcellentJudgeOfCharacter:
** He realizes [[FightingFingerprint from crossing swords with Oliver]] in volume 2 that his chosen rival is much more than he appears. Rossi's self-taught fighting style is designed to counter orthodox sword arts, but Oliver trounces him with pure, ''perfect'' Lanoff Style--perfect enough that Rossi reasons Oliver must have spent an ungodly amount of time practicing under a very good teacher. [[spoiler:He'd ''better'' have done, given he came to Kimberly to kill six teachers and the headmistress...]]
** He notices the first time he meets Yuri Leik that there's something ''off'' about him. [[spoiler:Leik is in fact an ArtificialHuman ManchurianAgent created by Professor Demetrio Aristides to spy on the student body after Enrico Forghieri's murder.]]
--->"'is eyes, they are unsettling. Like a child peering into an ant'ill. ... I 'ave a feeling I could punch 'im in the mouth and 'is smile would not waver. And I find that honestly unnerving."
* FashionableAsymmetry: He tends to wear his school uniform coat with only the left arm through the sleeve and the rest of the jacket hanging off him.
* FunetikAksent: He has a noticeable accent rendered in the text--mainly an inability to pronunce the letter 'h' ([[ShownTheirWork which is silent in Italian]]).
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: He organizes the unofficial dueling tourney in volume 2, aspiring to be declared the strongest first-year, only to be knocked out of it by two losses to Oliver and Joseph Albright in quick succession.
* LatinLover: He's Ytallian ([[FantasyCounterpartCulture i.e. fantasy Italian]]), and makes more than one pass at Nanao (though without success since [[SingleTargetSexuality she only has eyes for Oliver]]).
* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: Union mages customarily wear a metal plate on the back of the glove on their off-hand. Rossi's self-taught fighting style uses it like an improvised buckler.
* TechnicianVersusPerformer: Even after adopting the Koutz Style to improve his swordsmanship, Rossi continues to be a showy, acrobatic swashbuckler, where Oliver's swordplay is still mostly by-the-book Lanoff and lacks any personal flair. Though after his duel with Andrews, Oliver admits that a bit of Rossi has probably rubbed off on him from sparring with him so often.
* TookALevelInBadass: After losing to Oliver and Joseph Albright in back-to-back duels, he follows Oliver's advice to learn the Koutz Style from the fundamentals. By volume 7, his efforts have borne fruit: together with Albright and Richard Andrews, they emerge the winner of their opening bout in the combat leagues with no losses.
* UnknownRival: Rossi fancies himself a competitor to Oliver both in swordwork and for Nanao's affections. In reality, Oliver is so far out of his league on both counts that Rossi doesn't register as much more than [[GoldfishPoopGang a minor annoyance]]. Oliver later even starts tutoring him in the sword.
* UnskilledButStrong: {{Deconstructed}}. Rossi eschews the three formal sword styles taught at Kimberly, preferring his own self-taught no-holds-barred fighting style: it includes punches, kicks, and using the metal plates all mages wear on the back of their their off-hand as an improvised buckler. Oliver soundly beats him because, as it turns out, learning the fundamentals of swordplay actually ''is'' rather important: he has no idea, for example, that there really is a good reason the major sword schools have few unarmed techniques, [[spoiler:namely that trying to attack with both sword and fists makes you vulnerable to grappling]]. He has, to date, only beaten Oliver once when WorfHadTheFlu.
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[[folder:Stacy Cornwallis]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KaoriMaeda (Japanese), Creator/MorganLea (English)
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[[caption-width-right:350:“Do you see now that you are outclassed? ‘I’ve read them all.’ Ha! Don’t get so full of yourself over one measly compliment!”]]
-> '''First Appearance:''' LN Volume 2 | Manga Chapter 17 | Anime 1x7 "[[Recap/ReignOfTheSevenSpellbladesS1E07Reversi Reversi]]"

A girl born into a [=McFarlane=] branch family. Chela's younger half-sister.
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* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: In the novels and manga she and Fay aren't introduced until Tullio Rossi proposes the first-years' dueling tournament. The anime introduces them an episode earlier when they walk past the Sword Roses before class, with Chela trying to greet them only to be mostly ignored.
* BattleCouple: Stacy and Fay start out as "master and knight" (which lends its name to episode 10 of the anime) but by the year 3 books they've had a RelationshipUpgrade to a sort of CourtlyLove, [[spoiler:and ultimately get to be the BetaCouple courtesy of Theodore [=McFarlane=] giving his blessing to their relationship]].
* BlueBlood: She's Chela's half-sister, which makes her part of the mage aristocracy as well.
* DefeatMeansFriendship: [[spoiler:She and Chela are able to bury the hatchet after Stacy loses to her in the dueling tournament and then has to team up with her to beat Joseph Albright when he decides to be a SoreLoser. They become allies to the Sword Roses in later volumes, and Chela joins their team in the year 3 combat leagues.]]
* DisownedSibling: {{Downplayed}}: Chela was forced by her powerful father not to acknowledge that Stacy Cornwallis is her illegitimate half-sister: they're officially cousins. According to a tradition common in the mage aristocracy, Stacy was raised in her mother's family to be a de facto HiddenBackupPrincess should something happen to Chela, and shunned by her stepfather as a consequence without even being told the reason until she was ten years old. However, Chela still loves her even though they aren't allowed to acknowledge their real relationship, and deeply regrets the rift between them.
* HalfSiblingAngst: Stacy Cornwallis was conceived by Theodore [=McFarlane=] with a woman from a [=McFarlane=] branch family to be the backup in case his legal daughter, main cast member Michela, didn't work out or died. She grew up ostracized by her stepfather and half-siblings because she was a more naturally talented mage than his children by blood, and got it into her head to overtake Chela and force her biological father to recognize her.
* HeroicBastard: She's set up to look like a BastardBastard, but her enmity with Chela is completely Theodore's fault and they're able to bury the hatchet after fighting in volume 2. She becomes an ally of the Sword Roses afterwards, [[spoiler:and risks her own life to rescue Fay from Ophelia]].
* OjouRinglets: Like her half-sister and her biological father, she has the [=McFarlanes'=] HereditaryHairstyle of curly blond pigtails, though hers are much poofier.
* ParentalAbandonment: She wasn't even told who her real father was until she was ten, and her stepfather neglects her because he resents that she's more talented than his children by blood. When she ends up in [=McFarlane's=] class along with the Sword Roses when he's acting as substitute alchemy teacher, he showers Chela with praise but barely acknowledges Stacy beyond approving of her results (''Nanao'' gets more attention, despite not even being related to him).
* ParentalNeglect: She was conceived purely so Theodore [=McFarlane=] could have a [[SpareToTheThrone "spare"]] in case something untoward happened to Chela and left her with her mother's family. Her stepfather is said to view all her achievements as a reminder of the fact she isn't his (her maternal half-siblings are significantly less talented as mages), though it's unclear if he's actively abusive towards her or just neglectful.
* RelationshipUpgrade: By volume 9, his and Stacy's relationship has evolved into a sort of CourtlyLove: they've made {{Love Confession}}s to one another, but Stacy is likely to be pushed into an ArrangedMarriage to advance the family bloodline, and Fay, being an orphaned commoner, is unlikely to be allowed to remain her consort unless he can master his VoluntaryShapeshifting and make a good showing in the combat leagues.
* RememberTheNewGuy: She and Fay were apparently present for [[spoiler:the garuda incident]] but--as he reminds her--spent the whole time hiding in terror, hence why we didn't see them at all in volume 1.
* SiblingRivalry: She was raised by her mother as the [[SpareToTheThrone "spare"]] to Chela, and despised by her stepfather. As a consequence of which, her relationship with Chela is quite poor, much to the latter's regret: Stacy's ambition for most of her childhood was to replace Chela as House [=McFarlane=]'s heir, but Chela just wanted a sister.
* WellDoneDaughterGirl: She keeps hoping for her biological father to acknowledge her (and hopefully displace Chela as heir of the house), but he basically ignores her.
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[[folder:Fay Willock]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TatsumaruTachibana (Japanese), Creator/DavonOliver (English)
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[[caption-width-right:350:“I won’t make any claims about my strength, but I can’t just sit back and watch this kid throw herself to the dogs.”]]
-> '''First Appearance:''' LN Volume 2 | Manga Chapter 17 | Anime 1x7 "[[Recap/ReignOfTheSevenSpellbladesS1E07Reversi Reversi]]"
Stacy's attendant and a half-werewolf.
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* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: In the novels and manga he and Stacy aren't introduced until Tullio Rossi proposes the first-years' dueling tournament. The anime introduces them an episode earlier when they walk past the Sword Roses before class, with Chela trying to greet them only to be mostly ignored.
* BattleCouple: Stacy and Fay start out as "master and knight" (which lends its name to episode 10 of the anime) but by the year 3 books they've had a RelationshipUpgrade to a sort of CourtlyLove, [[spoiler:and ultimately get to be the BetaCouple courtesy of Theodore [=McFarlane=] giving his blessing to their relationship]].
* HalfHumanHybrid: He's half-human, half-werewolf, and as a consequence is ALittleBitBeastly and can transform into more bestial form which Stacy can ride.
* IOweYouMyLife: He was adopted as a servant by Stacy when they were both small children. He was homeless and sleeping on the edge of the Cornwallis estate, and her stepfather thought to put him out of his misery, but Stace insisted on keeping him. He's considered himself her loyal guard dog ever since.
* PainfulTransformation: Fay is a half-werewolf, so taking his wolf form puts him in constant severe pain. He's eventually able to fight through it and master VoluntaryShapeshifting out of sheer determination to stay with his now-lover Stacy.
* ThePowerOfLove: He's the first half-werewolf ever to master VoluntaryShapeshifting, which was only possible because of the unwavering trust he puts in Stacy and the fact they probably would have faced a ParentalMarriageVeto if they hadn't succeeded. Anyone less determined to be with their beloved forever wouldn't have been able to fight through the pain the way he did.
* RelationshipUpgrade: By volume 9, his and Stacy's relationship has evolved into a sort of CourtlyLove: they've made {{Love Confession}}s to one another, but Stacy is likely to be pushed into an ArrangedMarriage to advance the family bloodline, and Fay, being an orphaned commoner, is unlikely to be allowed to remain her consort unless he can master his VoluntaryShapeshifting and make a good showing in the combat leagues.
* RememberTheNewGuy: He and Stacy were apparently present for [[spoiler:the garuda incident]] but--as he reminds her--spent the whole time hiding in terror, hence why we didn't see them at all in volume 1.
-->'''Fay:''' Seriously? You want in? You were quaking in your boots like the rest of us when [[spoiler:that garuda attacked]].\\
'''Stacy:''' F-Fay! You're mistaken! [[BlatantLies I was just watching really intently!]]
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: In volume 2, he doesn't have direct control over his werewolf transformations, but Stacy can make his body do it with a spell that simulates the light of the full moon. She only does this with his permission (though he never says no) since he's in constant severe pain while transformed. By volume 9, however, he's figured out how to trick himself into transforming by visualizing the image of the moon, and can flexibly transform only portions of his body.
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[[folder:Evelynn Odets]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RinaHonnizumi (Japanese), Creator/CorinneSudberg (English)
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[[caption-width-right:350:“If you're going to give me a nickname, I'd prefer 'Galewind Evelynn' or 'Cold-Blooded Evelynn'.”]]
->'''First Appearance:''' LN Volume 2 | Anime 1x8 "[[Recap/ReignOfTheSevenSpellbladesS1E08Rivals Rivals]]"

A haughty female student who [[UnderestimatingBadassery overconfidently]] challenges Nanao to a duel at the start of the TournamentArc in volume 2.
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* AdaptedOut: Nanao's duel at the start of the TournamentArc is AdaptedOut of the manga, and consequently so is the no-name student she duels with.
* InformedAbility: She's supposed to be faster than average at speaking incantations, but this is unproven given that Nanao beats her in under ten seconds: she only gets off a single ''Impetus'' before Nanao disarms her.
* NamedByTheAdaptation: She was unnamed and undescribed in the original novel. The anime gives her a name, NomDeGuerre, and description.
* RedBaron: {{Parodied}}. She ''wants'' to be called "Galewind Evelynn" or "Cold-Blooded Evelynn", but is stuck with the considerably less-threatening moniker "Speed-Talker", apparently for being unusually fast at speaking incantations.
* SmallNameBigEgo: She's convinced she's a much better mage than she really is: a background student mentions her having terrible aim and lousy visualization, and excelling only at her speed at casting. Nanao demonstrates that she's also not much good at picking her battles.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: She repeats Oliver's mistake from volume 1 of thinking that Nanao's inexperience with magic makes her a weak opponent, this time trying to defeat her with a spell from beyond the one step, one spell distance. Nanao blocks it with a Two-Handed Flow Cut (her first use of the ability in public) and disarms her in seconds.
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[[folder:Joseph Albright]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MakotoFurukawa (Japanese, present day), Creator/MarikoHigashuichi (Japanese, young), Creator/WilliamOfoegbu (English, present day), Creator/TristanBonner (English, young)
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[[caption-width-right:350:“I don’t make a habit of remembering every nobody’s name.”]]
-> '''First Appearance:''' LN Volume 2 | Manga Chapter 21 | Anime 1x8 "[[Recap/ReignOfTheSevenSpellbladesS1E08Rivals Rivals]]"

An arrogant boy born to the militaristic Albright family. He lost to Oliver in a duel.
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* AbusiveParents: His father tortured him with pain spells for most of a day just for losing a chess game to a serving girl.
* ArrogantKungFuGuy: He's a gifted fighter from a prominent family, and an arrogant {{jerkass}}. Losing to Oliver [[spoiler:and then getting abducted by Ophelia Salvadori and having to be saved by Pete]] takes him down a peg.
* BreakTheHaughty: When introduced, he arrogantly believes himself to be the strongest of the first-years and therefore they're all "nobodies" beneath his notice. [[spoiler:He first gets beaten in a fair duel by Oliver, then knocked down for the count by Nanao when he tries to play SoreLoser by unleashing stinger bees on them. Then he gets kidnapped and raped by Ophelia Salvadori in her madness and has to be rescued by Pete, a MuggleBornOfMages and therefore the weakest of the Sword Roses at the time.]] You almost feel sorry for him by the end of volume 3, and he's noticeably less of a {{Jerkass}} in subsequent appearances.
* TheBusCameBack: He disappears from the story after volume 3, but returns for the TournamentArc in volume 7 to team up with Richard Andrews and Tullio Rossi.
* CatchphraseInsult: Routinely calls people he thinks he's better than "nobody".
* FreudianExcuse: He is ''not allowed'' to lose to anyone. When he lost a chess match to his family's servants' daughter, his AbusiveParents [[AgonyBeam cast pain curses on him]], and executed her entire family.
* NothingPersonal: He backs the conservative faction in the StudentCouncilPresident election, opposing the Sword Roses, but it's just out of familial obligation: that is, he'd never hear the end of it from his own family if he didn't at least make a token show of support. He himself doesn't particularly care who wins: his sole ambition is to be the strongest fighter in his year.
* RapeAsDrama: [[spoiler:On the receiving end from Ophelia Salvadori: he's kidnapped by her, along with Pete and several other male students, after she's consumed by the spell, and is partially drained by her to birth new chimeras.]]
* SoreLoser: {{Justified|Trope}}: as previously mentioned, his family doesn't allow him to lose to anyone, no matter the circumstances. [[spoiler:After losing to Oliver in a duel, he summons a swarm of [[BeeAfraid stinger bees]] to [[AppealToForce threaten them]] into letting him wipe the memories so he can say he won. The Sword Roses are having none of that and defeat enough of the bees for Nanao to finish him off in single combat.]]
* TreasureChestCavity: [[spoiler:He keeps blast, smoke, and beacon orbs hidden in his abdomen in case of capture.]]
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[[folder:Yuri Leik]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:“I dunno about anyone else, but if there’s places I haven’t been yet, I gotta check ’em out!”]]
-> '''First Appearance:''' Volume 6

A mysterious NewTransferStudent who joins the Sword Roses' second year class in volume 6.
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* ArtificialHuman: [[spoiler:He was created by Professor Demetrio Aristides using a fragment of his own soul to be TheMole in the student body.]]
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: In volume 8, he realizes ahead of even the upperclassmen of the Watch that Cyrus Rivermoore has managed to acquire enough bones by bushwhacking various students to construct a complete human skeleton. Lesedi Ingwe is so impressed she invites him to join the Watch once all's said and done.
* BackToBackBadasses: Fights back to back with Oliver when they're attacked by a group of monkeys on the second layer of the labyrinth.
* GrewBeyondTheirProgramming: [[spoiler:A thrashing and ReasonYouSuckSpeech from Rossi during the combat league finals cracks something in him: he realizes he has more fun with the process of investigating mysteries than with being handed the answers by his inner voice. This causes him to overcome the compulsion to merely observe that Aristides implanted in him--which unfortunately leads Aristides to begin planning to dispose of him.]]
* InconsistentSpelling: [[https://www.zerochan.net/3752754 The Japanese version's color inserts spell the Romanized version of his name as "Yurie Lake".]]
* ManchurianAgent: [[spoiler:Unbeknownst even to himself, he's an ArtificialHuman created with a fragment of Professor Demetrio Aristides's own soul to spy on the student body after Professor Forghieri's assassination. His compulsion to explore the labyrinth provides a cover justification for Aristides to periodically download his memories.]]
* MySignificanceSenseIsTingling: He has an instinctive sense of the world around him, which he interprets as his surroundings telling him things he should know, like the presence of concealed enemies. [[spoiler:This is strongly implied to be a byproduct of him being a SoulFragment of Professor Aristides.]]
* NaiveNewcomer: He [[spoiler:purportedly]] transferred from a non-magic school and has an adventurous, happy-go-lucky attitude to pretty much everything about Kimberly. Even his athame is innocently crude: Oliver describes it as "a rod with an edge".
* NewTransferStudent: He arrives at Kimberly late in the Sword Roses' second year, having [[spoiler:purportedly]] transferred in from a non-magic school.
* SixthRanger: He becomes a sort of auxiliary member of the Sword Roses not long after his introduction, even joining Nanao and Oliver's team for the second- and third-years' tier of the combat leagues after Chela declines to participate. [[spoiler:Actually he's the SixthRangerTraitor on account of being a ManchurianAgent for the faculty.]]
* UnskilledButStrong: He turns out to be a hell of an instinctive fighter in volume 7 when he teams up with Oliver and Nanao for the TournamentArc. Oliver classifies him as a "feral mage". However, his naivete causes him to become so fascinated with Ms. Ames's SignatureMove once he figures out the trick that ''he forgets to dodge it''.
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[[folder:Ursule Valois]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:“Sooo close! A little deeper, and it would have been all over.”]]
->'''First Appearance:''' LN Volume 9

The leader of one of the finalist teams in the school combat leagues, and a Koutz purist.
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* AbusiveParents: Hers told her she was underdeveloped in the family's arts and sent her to live with her grandmother, who denied her food for days on end unless she could cross a frictionless floor to get it, and intentionally inducing [[LoveMartyr Stockholm syndrome]] about the treatment. She also gave her a kitten to raise only to then force her to kill it with her bare hands, to get her to accept the idea of using ''any'' creature as a {{familiar}} including humans.
* BrokenBird: She endured horrific abuse from her own family and has a bad case of Stockholm syndrome about it, convinced that her only purpose is to succeed at the family's arts. [[spoiler:While fighting her, Oliver manages to break through her Stockholm syndrome and get her to realize how horrible her family's arts actually are, since they're overriding the free will of both herself and her teammates. After he and his team defeat her and she realizes all the abuse wasn't even worth the effort, she has a VillainousBSOD and withdraws from the tournament.]]
* TheBusCameBack: She's initially only present for the first chapter of volume 9, and [[spoiler:withdraws from the combat leagues after losing to Team Horn and having a mental health crisis]]. She returns in volume 13.
* CombatParkour: She's a master of a very rare branch of the Koutz Style that lets her glide effortlessly across any surface, no matter its texture or orientation. She at one point escapes a trap set by Oliver by jumping up on the barrier at the edge of the ring, [[LoopholeAbuse which doesn't count]] as a RingOut.
* FrictionlessIce: As a child she was trained by being forced to cross a fictionless floor to receive food. She's now capable of eliminating the friction under her feet and maneuvering herself around a battlefield purely with her own spatial magic.
* InconsistentSpelling: The Japanese color inserts Romanize her given name as "Yurushur".
* MeatPuppet: Her two teammates turn out to have been broken down by her family to serve as human {{familiar}}s. When she activates her MindControl spells, they act as extensions of her body. [[spoiler:Unfortunately this also means they move exactly the same as her, so getting used to and beating one of them means that you get used to all three.]]
* SuaveSabre: Her athame is modeled after a saber, befitting her airs of a confident, graceful upper-class fighter.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler:Oliver's defeat of her despite her rare fighting style and human-familiar trick deepens Professor Aristides's suspicions that he might be connected to the teacher murders, leading to a confrontation in volume 10.]]
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! Upperclassmen
!! The Campus Watch and Supporters
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[[caption-width-right:350:The Campus Watch. From left, [[TheLancer Carlos Whitrow]], the EmptyChairMemorial, [[TheHero Alvin Godfrey]], [[TheBigGuy Lesedi Ingwe]], and [[TheSmartGuy Tim Linton]].\\
[[labelnote:Click to see them in ''Side of Fire''.]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/campus_watch_ln.png\\
The Watch in happier times. Counterclockwise from right, [[TheHero Alvin Godfrey]], [[TheLancer Carlos Whitrow]], [[TheHeart Ophelia Salvadori]], [[TheBigGuy Lesedi Ingwe]], and [[TheSmartGuy Tim Linton]].[[/labelnote]]]]
The Kimberly Campus Watch is an all-volunteer group organized by Alvin Godfrey to help police the student body, as well as patrolling the upper levels of the labyrinth to rescue lost students. They're also the most visible part of the liberal faction in campus politics, which is the incumbent side on the AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil at the start of the series.
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* {{Foil}}: To the Sword Roses. They're a group of upperclassmen that similarly got together as friends with a collective dream of making the world better, but have already lost members because their bonds ultimately couldn't overcome the stressors of attending Kimberly, {{foreshadowing}} the travails that the Sword Roses are likely to face in the future. {{Lampshaded}} by Tim in volume 9 after [[spoiler:Katie communes with a tír god]]: he tells Oliver that "Your whole crew's a bunch of walking red flags".
* HeroOfAnotherStory: They have a set of subplots all their own that intersect with the Sword Roses fairly regularly: chiefly their past with Ophelia Salvadori and their {{rival}}ry with the old council. The ''Side of Fire'' SpinOff volume takes place in Godfrey's second year and explains it all in much greater detail than the main series.
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: As seen in the {{flashback}}s in volume 3 and in ''Side of Fire'', the Watch used to be much more a club of well-intentioned screwups than an effective campus safety patrol. Alvin Godfrey is a bull-headed StockShonenHero who tended to blow himself up with his own fire magic, Tim Linton is a drag queen notorious for being careless with his poisons and useless at making anything else, Carlos Whitrow is a nonbinary asexual, and Lesedi Ingwe was the OnlySaneWoman stuck cleaning up after them and prefers kickboxing to Sword Arts. [[spoiler:Surprisingly it was the addition of Ophelia Salvadori, the {{succubus}}-blooded girl who SmellsSexy and uses her womb as a petri dish, that actually allowed them to overcome their initial troubles and get to where they were elected to the student council, and she didn't last much more than a year on the team before her descent into villainy.]]

[[folder:Alvin Godfrey]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/SatoshiHino (Japanese), Creator/BradleyGareth (English)
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-> '''First Appearance:''' LN Volume 1 | Manga Chapter 6 | Anime 1x3 "[[Recap/ReignOfTheSevenSpellbladesS1E03Soldier Soldier]]"

A fifth-year student, and Kimberley's StudentCouncilPresident. Godfrey organized several student clubs to protect underclassmen, starting with the Campus Watch, which patrols the upper levels of the labyrinth to rescue lost students. Old friends with Carlos Whitrow and Ophelia Salvadori.
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* BehavioralConditioning: He cast pain spells on himself repeatedly to condition his body to not be automatically aroused by Ophelia's Perfume, in order to be near her without being affected by her inability to turn off her powers.
* BigGood: [[DownplayedTrope To the extent that the first half of the series has one.]] He's a capable and good-natured young man who cares deeply about human life and takes every student death at Kimberly personally, and has spent his whole academic career working as a community organizer in the student body to make Kimberly safer and more welcoming to attend. However, enough people in the student body and faculty like things just the way they are that he and his friends have been fighting an uphill battle since day one, though they ''have'' been making measurable progress. He even invites Oliver and Nanao to join the Campus Watch themselves in volume 4, but Oliver declines [[spoiler:out of concern it could interfere with his mission of revenge]] and Nanao follows suit.
* BurnScarsBurningPowers: {{Downplayed}}: he doesn't have any actual burn scars, but that's only because [[HealingHands healing magic]] exists: he used to burn himself with his own overpowered fire spells until Clifton Morgan taught him how to control it properly.
* CastingGag: In the anime, Creator/SatoshiHino provides the voice of Alvin "Purgatory" Godfrey, who is famed for his abilities with fire powers. Godfrey's NomDeGuerre is "Rengoku" in Japanese. Only a couple years earlier, Hino voiced Kyōjurō Rengoku in the anime of ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'', who likewise has [[KillItWithFire fire-related elemental powers]].
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: He's introduced by casually blowing away the magical creations of two rogue upperclassmen with a single spell, before swearing to get the lost Sword Roses back to the surface unharmed and banishing the upperclassmen back to their laboratories, punishments to follow. This cleanly establishes both his fighting abilities and his protective instincts in a single scene.
* FictionalDisability: He was born with an incredible amount of mana but lacked the natural talent to control it properly, and tended to blow himself up with his own fire magic. He had to learn how to do it the hard way by practicing with Clifton Morgan.
* TheGrappler: Having been BroughtDownToNormal by [[spoiler:Rivermoore stealing his sternum]], Godfrey switches tactics for his team's opening bout in the combat leagues in volume 8: being unable to rely on his normal [[{{Pun}} firepower]], he switches to a spatial magic-enhanced grappling art called [[FantasticFightingStyle magicombat]], and incapacitates his opponent Efler with a {{choke hold|s}}.
-->'''Efler:''' …Y-you bastard…! This isn’t how a mage fights…!\\
'''Godfrey:''' No. This is how you ''fight a mage''. The Watch has learned how to fight ''you''.
* InternalReformist: His organizing efforts in the student body and efforts to police the labyrinth are part of a larger goal to humanize Kimberly's student culture and restore some sense of basic morality and decency into the [[BlueAndOrangeMorality very amoral]] broader mage culture.
* KillItWithFire: Godfrey has an impressive facility with fire spell: his EstablishingCharacterMoment sees him incinerate one Ophelia's chimeras ''and'' one of Cyrus Rivermoore's [[WalkingOssuary bone golems]] with a single casting of ''Ignis''. His fire spells are ''so'' powerful that he couldn't control them and constantly injured himself through at least his second year at Kimberly, before Clifton Morgan taught him how to control it properly.
* RedBaron: His penchant for fire spells earned him the nickname "Purgatory" among the Dwellers of the Deep he spends most of his time policing.
* StockShonenHero: Surprisingly he has more claim to this trope than Oliver himself does. He's a spiky-haired young man who is strong, charismatic, compassionate, and enraged by injustice, but also fairly bull-headed and a social misfit. He also has a fire affinity.
* StudentCouncilPresident: He does hold this role, but ''Reign'' deemphasizes the student government compared to most school-based Japanese media: most of his authority comes from the soft power he wields as founder and leader of the Campus Watch. A significant part of the plot of the Year 3 books revolves around the fact that he's about to GraduateFromTheStory and has yet to nominate a successor to either role.
* UnskilledButStrong: He has no particular special talents as a mage but makes up for it with sheer firepower.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: He, Carlos, and Ophelia co-founded the Watch, with him repeatedly casting pain spells on himself for Pavlovian conditioning so he could be near her without being affected by her Perfume. It's strongly implied her feelings for him [[StarCrossedLovers weren't entirely platonic]], either. They had a severe falling-out later after she had a ThenLetMeBeEvil moment and took a FaceHeelTurn.
* WorldsBestWarrior: By the time he hits sixth-year, he's such a good fighter that Esmeralda even briefly considers him a potential suspect in [[spoiler:the murder of Professor Forghieri]]. He's quite displeased by the prospect.
* ZombieAdvocate: {{Downplayed}}. While he isn't an activist, he does come down on the pro-demihuman civil rights side simply on the general principle of wanting people to treat each other better.
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[[folder:Carlos Whitrow]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KazutomiYamamoto (Japanese), Creator/DallasReid (English)[[note]][[TheOtherDarrin stood in for]] by Creator/KibaWalker in episode 7[[/note]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:“Everyone here, including me, possesses sex-based magical traits. We all have our fair share of problems. But it’s okay. Here, you can find help and support.”]]
-> '''First Appearance:''' LN Volume 1 | Manga Chapter 6 | Anime 1x3 "[[Recap/ReignOfTheSevenSpellbladesS1E03Soldier Soldier]]"

Ophelia's childhood friend, and a fifth-year prefect who co-founded the Watch with her and Alvin. Prompted by Ophelia's FaceHeelTurn, they later also founded a club for students with gender- or sex-linked magic.
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* BeautifulSingingVoice: {{Justified|Trope}}. Carlos is a fantastic singer whose voice performances are considered a highlight of attending meetings of the SexMagic club. Their singing voice is [[MagicMusic literally magical]] and acts as a {{counterspell}} to SexMagic, by means of their having been castrated and enchanted as a child to serve as Ophelia's minder.
* BishieSparkle: Carlos is attractive, androgynous, and depicted surrounded by sparkles in the novel artwork.
* CustomUniform: Their preferred garb is quite unique in the series while still being recognizably a Kimberly school uniform: they wear a lace choker and a rose boutonniere with a Kimberly student necktie tucked into the pocket below it.
* GayGuyDiesFirst: [[spoiler: When Ophelia is consumed by the spell, Carlos penetrates her {{Reality Warp|er}} and uses their MagicMusic to calm her and save the Sword Roses and Miligan, [[HeroicSacrifice becoming consumed by the spell themself due to the effort needed]]. Both disintegrate into pure white sand, becoming the first students to die on-page in the series (though not the first death of a named character overall).]]
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: The final chapter of volume 3 confirms they fell in LoveAtFirstSight with Ophelia, and their dearest wish was to see her surrounded by friends and smiling--even if that meant her getting together with Carlos's best friend Godfrey rather than Carlos themself.
* IncompatibleOrientation: They're immune to Ophelia's Perfume due to being agender.
* MultiGenderedOutfit: Carlos Whitrow is AMAB non-binary, and is depicted as wearing a mix of gender-codings: they wear a men's school uniform modified with a lace choker, high-heeled ankle boots, and a rose boutonniere.
* ShesAManInJapan: Carlos was explicitly assigned male at birth, but uses the feminine first-person pronoun ''atashi'' in the original Japanese, which tends to denote queerness when used by males. The various translations and adaptations have been inconsistent on Carlos's gender identity and pronoun preference: we're using "they/them" on this wiki based on the official LightNovel translation from Creator/YenPress. The English subtitles of the anime treat them as an UsefulNotes/{{asexual}} male ("he/him"), while in the dub Oliver briefly referred to Carlos as a "him" in episode 8 (which in context could have just been Oliver's mistake), then had Godfrey (Carlos's best friend) use "they/them" in episode 15.
* SupernaturallyValidatedTransPerson: Carlos was assigned male at birth but was magically neutered ("Castrato") as a child in order to serve as Ophelia's minder. They identify as agender and founded a club for students with gender- or sex-related magics, and invite Pete to join once his reversi trait manifests in volume 2.
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[[folder:Vera Miligan]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AiKakuma (Japanese), Creator/KateOxley (English)
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[[caption-width-right:350:“You can’t call yourself a magical biologist if you haven’t personally reached into a rib cage and touched a beating heart.”]]
-> '''First Appearance:''' LN Volume 1 | Manga Chapter 8 | Anime 1x3 "[[Recap/ReignOfTheSevenSpellbladesS1E03Soldier Soldier]]"

A witch who supports demi-human rights. After she fought with Oliver's group, she became a sort of mentor to them, especially Katie. Introduced as a fourth-year student majoring in demihuman biology.
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* AbusiveParents: {{Exaggerated}}. [[spoiler:Hers grafted basilisk eyes onto her: one in her left eye socket, one on the palm of her left hand. She was the only one of six children to survive the process and [[LoveMartyr convinced herself it was an act of love]].]]
* AdorableAbomination: Her familiar, Milihand, since it's literally her own hand that [[spoiler:Nanao]] cut off that Miligan then reanimated. Completely creepy, but its benign and helpful behavior actually endears it to the Sword Roses.
* AllAmazonsWantHercules: Played for laughs in volume 3: she briefly propositions Oliver out of sheer interest in the incongruity of how this [[MasterOfNone seemingly completely average mage]] can somehow keep up with the naturally talented Nanao and Chela. He's just annoyed and she laughs it off as a joke.
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: By her own admission she's strictly middle-of-the pack in overall fighting strength for her age, but she makes up for it by approaching combat like a scientist: she observes her opponents and then exploits them. She demonstrates this especially in volume 3 by taking note of the attack patterns of one of Ophelia's chimeras and deducing it has poor eyesight, then using that perception against it to get close enough to kill it.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: She's introduced in volume 1 as an ally for Katie in her conflict around Marco the troll. [[spoiler:She turns out to be the MadScientist whose experimentation caused him to go berserk to begin with, and has been experimenting on demihumans for years.]] This gets subverted [[spoiler:once she loses to Oliver and Nanao, becoming one of their most trusted and reliable allies to date.]]
* CharacterDevelopment: She stops her [[spoiler:unethical demihuman experiments]] after they were proven wrong, and instead she focuses on being an actual ''senpai'' to the Sword Roses. While there is some tension given her actions in Volume 1 and their wariness whenever she's around, Vera's interest in the Sword Roses becomes genuine affection, as the Sword Roses as a whole essentially serve as a group-wide MoralityPet, allowing her to be who she prefers to be: a kindhearted CoolBigSis, something her family never allowed her to be. By the time they reach the third layer (episode 14 of the anime), she's their friend in all but name.
* CoolBigSis: After her HeelFaceTurn, she becomes a guide, a mentor, and a genuine ally to the Sword Roses; her acting like a reliable older sister figure isn't an act at all, that's who she really is, especially to Katie.
* DeadlyGaze: [[spoiler:Her basilisk eyes have a paralytic effect.]]
* DefeatMeansFriendship: Downplayed. After her defeat, she takes a liking to the Sword Roses and teaches them about navigating the labyrinth, even giving them her old hideout. However, everyone in the group (except Katie to some extent) are naturally still wary of her.
* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: [[spoiler:After seeing Marco speaking to Katie after he refused to talk to her, she kidnaps Katie with the intention of [[PlayingWithSyringes examining her brain]] to find whatever quality awakened his ability to speak. She completely fails to grasp the fact that Marco never spoke to her because she was conducting painful experiments on him and Katie simply earned his trust by having his life spared and showing him kindness]].
* EvilMentor: Her track record as a MadScientist through volume 1 means that, while the Sword Roses do appreciate her help and mentorship, they don't ''trust'' her any further than they can throw her.
* HandBlast: Her [[HidingBehindYourBangs eye-concealing bangs]] are an obvious clue that one of her eyes is special. [[spoiler:They're also a distraction from the fact that she has a ''second'' basilisk eye in the palm of her left hand.]]
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:She's the StarterVillain in the first volume, but becomes an ally from volume 2 on.]]
* HiddenDepths: She's actually elated to know that her experiments were proven wrong by Katie, showing that Miligan isn't the type to hold a grudge when her assumptions about the world aren't true.
* HideYourOtherness: Her [[HidingBehindYourBangs eye-concealing hairstyle]] is an obvious (to Oliver) clue that something is special about her left eye. [[spoiler:Played with: it's actually intended to distract from the otherness of her left hand.]]
* HidingBehindYourBangs: Her hair is styled such that her bangs expose her right eye but conceal her left. Figuratively, it's foreshadowing that she's more than she appears: after approaching the Sword Roses as an ally to Katie, [[spoiler:she turns out to be the StarterVillain, ultimately responsible for most of their troubles in volume 1]]. In a more literal sense, [[spoiler:they conceal her basilisk eye]]--though Oliver realizes that they're ''too'' obviously hiding something special about her left eye, [[spoiler:and in fact serve as a distraction from her ''real'' trump card, a second basilisk eye in the palm of her left hand]].
* TheHunterBecomesTheHunted: {{Invoked}} in volume 1. [[spoiler:She learns through the grapevine of Richard Andrews challenging Oliver and Nanao to a canned hunt of kobolds, and smuggles a much more dangerous garuda into the arena. To drive the point home, she covertly casts the message "See how it feels to be prey" onto the ceiling of the arena.]]
* LiteralDisarming: [[spoiler:Nanao cuts off her left hand at the climax of her and Oliver's duel with her, removing her second basilisk eye. She later makes lemonade out of lemons and animates the severed hand to serve as a familiar.]]
* LoveMartyr: [[spoiler:She thinks that her parents' grafting of a basilisk eye into her hand was an act of ''love'', rather than a callous use of their own child as an experimental subject. For reference, her five siblings did not survive the same procedure.]]
* MagicalEye: [[spoiler:Her left eye was replaced with the eye of a basilisk, giving her a paralytic gaze attack.]]
* RedBaron: "[[spoiler:Snake-Eye]] Miligan", to people aware of her [[spoiler:basilisk eye]].
* StarterVillain: [[spoiler:She's the primary antagonist of volume 1 of the novels, having created the troll that attacked Katie at the entrance ceremony in her experiments, as well as sneaking the garuda into the arena where Richard was to challenge Oliver and Nanao to a canned hunt.]]
* StudentCouncilPresident: Well, not ''yet'', but with Alvin Godfrey set to GraduateFromTheStory starting in volume 6, she throws her hat in the ring to succeed him as the pro-reform candidate in the upcoming election.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: She genuinely does want to improve the station of demihumans, [[spoiler:but her chosen method, "intellectualization"--raising their intelligence levels so humans will be more willing to respect them--has led her to dissect and experiment on them for years.]]
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: She's nominally part of the demihuman civil rights movement. [[spoiler:Unfortunately her method of getting those rights involves PlayingWithSyringes to make demis more intelligent so wizards will respect them.]]
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[[folder:Kevin Walker]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KaitoTakeda (Japanese)
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[[caption-width-right:350:“We're the Labyrinth Gourmet Club, and this is our new-member welcoming party! Wanna join?!”]]
->'''First Appearance:''' LN Volume 2 | Manga Chapter 24 | Anime 1x9 "[[Recap/ReignOfTheSevenSpellbladesS1E09Explore Explore]]"

An sixth-year who, in an oft-referenced NoodleIncident, once became lost in the labyrinth for over six months. He now runs a student club that feasts on its flora and fauna. A friend of Godfrey and Whitrow.
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* ActionSurvivor: He became quite adept at navigating and surviving the labyrinth, and supplies Godfrey and Whitrow with a map to Ophelia's lair when she's consumed by the spell.
* ExtremeOmnivore: He's the head of the Labyrinth Gourmet Club, which hunts and gathers throughout the labyrinth to figure out which species can be made edible and how.
* NoodleIncident: In addition to the oft-referenced but never-elaborated time he got lost in the labyrinth, Karlie Buckle relates how he once tried to cook a meal in the GreatBigLibraryOfEverything on the fourth layer and nearly got himself killed by the reapers guarding it.
* RedBaron: "The Survivor", referencing his unscheduled trip through the labyrinth.
* ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated: Per normal school policy, the faculty doesn't get involved in missing persons cases in the labyrinth until eight days have passed, at which point it's assumed they'll be trying to recover a body. Walker was down there for six months and declared LegallyDead and his funeral held, only for him to eventually turn up no worse for wear.
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[[folder:Tim Linton]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/NinaTamaki (Japanese), Creator/KibaWalker (English)
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[[caption-width-right:350:“Go back to polishing your tumblers, Barman. Your cocktails are too sweet for my taste.”]]
-> '''First Appearance:''' LN Volume 3 | Manga Chapter 33 | Anime 1x12 "[[Recap/ReignOfTheSevenSpellbladesS1E01Possibility Possibility]]"

A member of the Watch in the year below Godfrey, and an alchemist specializing in poisons.
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* BadPowersGoodPeople: Despite being a MasterPoisoner, he's a genuinely good guy with an easygoing personality who strongly supports Godfrey's benevolent vision for the student body.
* BisexualLoveTriangle: He's gay and had a crush on Godfrey when he was younger, which caused tension between himself and Ophelia. Ophelia eventually left the Watch, while Tim appears to have grown out of his crush in the intervening years.
* CampGay: He's openly gay and has a high-pitched voice and has pink highlights in his hair, and sometimes dresses in drag when he's not in his school uniform.
* CripplingOverspecialization: Darius Grenville once reportedly complained that as far as beneficial alchemy goes, Linton couldn't make a balm for bee stings, but he's the best poisonmaker at the Academy.
* DeadlyGas: One of his specialties is gas bombs. During the upperclassmens' preliminary round of the TournamentArc, he clears the way through the second layer with airbursts of poison gas that kill most of a flock of wyverns (moved from much deeper in the labyrinth to pose the seniors a better challenge) and send the others fleeing for their lives.
* EarlyBirdCameo: He first appears in volume 3 in Ophelia Salvadori's {{Troubled Backstory Flashback}}s, then is reintroduced in volume 6 during the election arc.
* InSeriesNickname: "Toxic gasser". It's used as an insult rather than a NomDeGuerre ''a la'' Godfrey's "Purgatory".
* MasterPoisoner: He's an alchemist who is hypercompetent at making poisons and devising ways to deliver them, but completely incompetent at everything else. He chose to make it his signature.
* NoodleIncident: He offers to enter the race to succeed Godfrey as StudentCouncilPresident, but everybody else in the Watch shouts him down: the whole school remembers that time he gassed the Fellowship (i.e. the main dining hall and student hangout).
* TheRival: To Gino "Barman" Beltrami, the premier alchemist of the old council, who considers Tim's poisons a failure of alchemy.
* SirSwearsALot: There's relatively little profanity in this series, and 90% of what there is comes from Tim, mostly in the form of {{Precision F Strike}}s directed at people he's arguing with. For example, in the confrontation between the Watch and the old council in volume 6, he tells Leoncio Echevalria, to "Go fuck a dog, [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch asshole]]."
* WholesomeCrossdresser: He often dresses in drag for little more reason than it amuses him to.
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[[folder:Lesedi Ingwe]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YunaYoshino (Japanese), Creator/CassieEwulu (English)
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-> '''First Appearance:''' LN Volume 3 | Manga Chapter 33 | Anime 1x12 "[[Recap/ReignOfTheSevenSpellbladesS1E01Possibility Possibility]]"

A classmate of Godfrey, she has become his new NumberTwo on the Campus Watch by the time of her reintroduction in volume 6.
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* TheBigGuy: Out of the Watch's original FiveManBand lineup, she's their best physical fighter, even more than Godfrey: she's a tall, muscular young woman who can kickbox in midair.
* CustomUniform: Instead of the normal girls' undershirt, she wears a crop-top under her outer jacket and ties the necktie to her belt.
* EarlyBirdCameo: She first appears in volume 3 in Ophelia Salvadori's {{Troubled Backstory Flashback}}s, then is reintroduced in volume 6 during the election arc.
* InconsistentSpelling: Miyuki Ruria apparently didn't have any idea how her given name was supposed to be spelled in English and wrote it "Recedy" in the color insert in ''Side of Fire''.
* KickChick: She's a very powerful kickboxer and seems to prefer martial arts to swordplay, which leads to Tullio Rossi seeking her out as a mentor to further improve his own mix-and-match fighting style.
* LoveFreak: {{Inverted}}. Her previous experiences with romantic relationships have pretty much all been negative--she watched Ophelia's feelings for Godfrey go to hell in a handbasket, then had her own love interests get repeatedly seduced by Khirrgi Albschuch--and it's left her with a poor opinion of romance in general. She gets distinctly grumpy in volume 8 after realizing that Oliver is the apex of a LoveTriangle between Nanao and Katie (and Pete, but she didn't realize), telling him to "leave his love life on the surface".
* NumberTwo: She steps up to become the new second-in-command of the Watch after [[spoiler:Carlos's death]], and takes over while Godfrey is indisposed in volume 8.
* RedBaron: Her preference for kickboxing over sword arts earned her the nickname "Hard Knocker".
* TheRival: She has an intense and deeply personal one with Khiirgi Albschuch, who brags about [[SeductionAsOneUpmanship repeatedly seducing Lesedi's love interests]].
* TokenMinority: By name and physical design, she's clearly intended to be African (or rather whatever the setting's FantasyCounterpartCulture for Africans is: her InUniverse ethnicity hasn't been defined any more specifically than "from another continent"), making her the only character besides Nanao to not be of Union descent. Her given name, incidentally, means "light" in Tswana, while her surname is a common given name in Zambia and the Congo.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: She basically demanded Ophelia join the Watch early on, in large part because she was good at healing magic--an extremely relevant skill given Tim Linton sucked at everything but poisonmaking, and Godfrey had a tendency to [[BurnScarsBurningPowers accidentally set himself on fire]]. However, she was later one of the first to realize that Ophelia's behavior was starting to negatively affect the Watch, and tried and failed to head off the ultimate split.
* YouAreInCommandNow: In volume 8 she assumes temporary command of the Campus Watch following Godfrey's injury in volume 7, and organizes a posse of Watch members and sympathetic underclassmen to pursue [[spoiler:Cyrus Rivermoore]].
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!!The Old Council
The campus conservative faction, who controlled the student council before the start of the series. Generally opposes civil rights for demihumans and has a SocialDarwinist outlook on mages.

[[folder:Leoncio Echevalria]]
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-> '''First Appearance:''' LN Volume 6

An upperclassman who once ran for StudentCouncilPresident. He's an enemy of Alvin Godfrey's reform faction after losing to them in the last election.
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* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: His surname was likely supposed to be "Echevarría", a name of Basque origin. His given name appears in both Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries.
* CustomUniform: Befitting his upper-class background, he ties the necktie of his school uniform with a Bonney Cross knot instead of the usual Windsor, and accessorizes it with a jeweled tie clip.
* DepravedHomosexual: He's a SocialDarwinist villain prone to threatening to sexually dominate male characters who defy him, including both Alvin Godfrey and Tullio Rossi.
* EnemyMine: His rivalry with Godfrey doesn't stop them from promptly joining forces during the preliminary round of the senior-year combat leagues [[spoiler:when Esmeralda installs Vanessa Aldiss as the boss battle]], and again in volume 9 [[spoiler:when Vanessa throws chunks of Uranischegar's AlienGeometries inside the barrier protecting the underclassmen]].
* EveryoneHasStandards: Despite his SocialDarwinist attitude, in volume 9 he's just as appalled as Godfrey [[spoiler:when Vanessa Aldiss throws chunks of Uranischegar's AlienGeometries inside the barrier protecting the underclassmen just to make things more interesting]].
* InconsistentSpelling: In the Japanese version's color inserts it's Romanized as "Etchevalria".
* TheManBehindTheMan: Students are only allowed to stand for StudentCouncilPresident once, and Echevalria lost to Godfrey in the last round. Everybody knows that the current conservative candidate, Percival Whalley, would be essentially Leoncio's PuppetKing on the student council should he win.
* ManlyGay: A WickedCultured variant rather than the standard big and tough portrayal. Unlike the campier Tim Linton and {{tsundere}}-like Pete, he's sexually aggressive in a very toxic way, driven to be on top and often threatening to "tame" other male characters who defy him, and publicly and rather luridly calling attention to the fact a confrontation with Godfrey gave him a hard-on.
* ScarsAreForever: {{Lampshaded}} by Miligan, who derisively notes that he ''still'' hasn't healed the burn scar on his face that Godfrey put there several years ago.
* TheSocialDarwinist: He argues that Godfrey's policies of inter-student cooperation and policing the misbehavior of upperclassmen have weakened the student body and promises to repeal them. Miligan counters that the previous council's MightMakesRight policies were stifling the student body and they've been able to blossom since they were lifted.
* VillainousCrush: He simultaneously hates Godfrey, and wants to dominate him sexually. He also publicly and rather luridly calls attention to the fact that his confrontation with Alvin in volume 6 gave him a hard-on.
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[[folder:Percival Whalley]]
-> '''First Appearance:''' LN Volume 6

A fourth-year running as the conservative faction's candidate for StudentCouncilPresident, backed by Leoncio Echevalria and opposing Vera Miligan.
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* ButtMonkey: He's completely uncharismatic as a candidate and pretty much only exists to be Echevalria's PuppetKing and current boytoy, and to be repeatedly humiliated by other characters.
* MeaninglessVillainVictory: [[ExaggeratedTrope So meaningless we only even heard about it months after the fact.]] He placed higher than Nanao on points during the solo duels round of the broomsports tournament, but nobody cares because Nanao still downed him in their match.
* PuppetKing: He's firmly under Echevalria's thumb and everyone knows his candidacy for StudentCouncilPresident is really a ProxyWar between Echevalria and Alvin Godfrey.
* StraightGay: He's Echevalria's current boyfriend, but other than that is pretty much a normal conservative upperclassman.
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[[folder:Khiirgi Albschuch]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:“Immorality and the profane are my calling! I am an Alp! Khiirgi ‘Avarice’ Albschuch!”]]
-> '''First Appearance:''' LN Volume 6

A sixth-year student allied to Echevalria, Albschuch is [[TokenNonhuman a full-blooded elf]] with a rivalry with Lesedi Ingwe.
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* BoomerangBigot: {{Implied}}: elves are apparently an exception to the racial component of the FantasticCasteSystem, so she's accepted into the conservative faction that discriminates against demihumans of other species.
* MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch: To hear Khiirgi tell it, [[OurElvesAreDifferent the majority of elves in the setting are pretty standard wood elves]], which were apparently favored by the dead god of this world over humans for their comparative respect for how things are (whereas humans have a tendency to iconoclasm). Khiirgi was kicked out of elven society for her utter disrespect for propriety, such as [[NonHumanUndead raising undead plants]]--which in her opinion is [[ScrewYouElves the kind of thing elves should look into, lest they continue to stagnate]].
-->“I am an outcast elf. Drawn to the immoral, beguiled by my desires, I was driven from my home and washed up at Kimberly. My parents lay together, two virtuous elves—yet the product was the devil you see before you. If there is any meaning to that, I’d call it a ''sign''. A reminder that our species is trapped in a dead end, in need of guidance to the next evolution.”
* RedBaron: "Avarice", according to Lesedi. Though she has another, more insulting one [[AppropriatedAppelation that she also answers to]]: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alp_(folklore) "Alp"]].
* SeductionAsOneUpmanship: She needles Lesedi about repeatedly cucking her during a confrontation between the Godfrey and Echevalria factions in volume 6.
* TokenNonhuman: She's the only full-blooded demihuman character introduced so far other than Marco, and is aligned to the ''conservative'' faction.
* TheUnfettered: {{Deconstructed}}. Her habitual disrespect for rules of courtesy and propriety causes her to be widely ostracized even at Kimberly: at best she's merely tolerated, even by the conservatives, [[EnemyMine and for their own convenience]]. Or as Lesedi Ingwe more concisely puts it, [[PrecisionFStrike "Nobody fucking likes you."]]
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!! Other Upperclassmen
[[folder:Ophelia Salvadori]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AiKayano (Japanese), Creator/RobinClayton (English)
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-> '''First Appearance:''' LN Volume 1 | Manga Chapter 5 | Anime Episode 1x2 "[[Recap/ReignOfTheSevenSpellbladesS1E02SwordArts Sword Arts]]"

A fourth-year student specializing in SexMagic who breeds chimeras within her own womb.
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* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:Nanao cannot bring herself to kill Ophelia when faced with her soul form of a crying child. Ophelia subsequently disintegrates together with Carlos, and is memorialized at the funeral for students who died the previous year at the start of volume 4.]]
* BerserkButton: Whatever you do, don't call her "harlot" or anything similar unless, like Cyrus, you're looking for a fight. She's a lot more sensitive about her DarkAndTroubledPast than her reputation as TheVamp would suggest.
* BrokenBird: [[spoiler:She was basically brainwashed into being a sexual predator by her mother, once even being ForcedToWatch while her mother raped a man, and was repeatedly used as a de facto BreedingSlave for their eugenics experiments. Her SexMagic and family reputation then made her the target for a ton of bullying when she matriculated to Kimberly. All this came to a head, and she started seducing other members of the Watch, nearly breaking it apart before her crush Godfrey, along with Lesedi Ingwe and Tim Linton, drove her out. Now she haunts the Labyrinth.]]
* CustomUniformOfSexy: As befitting an outcast from the Academy, she favors a floor-length purple ball gown with several cut-outs and a slit to her hip on the right side, and has refashioned her school uniform jacket into a sort of bolero style.
* EmptyChairMemorial: The depiction of the Campus Watch in the anime's opening credits shows Carlos standing behind an empty chair until the last two episodes, when a young Ophelia is added to it to show the Watch before she fell into villainy.
* EvilFormerFriend: She was a childhood friend of Carlos Whitrow and then a member of the Campus Watch, but was driven to villainy by SlutShaming from other students.
* FirstNameBasis: She prefers to be addressed by her given name because of her abusive family.
* IncompatibleOrientation: A variant: her Perfume doesn't work on people who are not biologically male, though it does work on men who aren't normally attracted to women. [[spoiler:Conveniently, Pete is a SexShifter and becomes immune when he switches to his female form while passed-out, and Carlos was magically neutered as a child and identifies as non-binary.]]
* MadScientist: Bordering on BrainsAndBondage given her SexMagic theme. She's established to be quite brilliant at magical biology and anatomy: Oliver tries to defuse the Sword Roses' first confrontation with her by complimenting a paper she wrote. Cyrus Rivermoore also refers to her in hindsight as a "mad genius". [[spoiler:The conflict of volume 3 is caused by the culmination of her research [[GoneHorriblyWrong Going Horribly Wrong]] and causing her to be [[MagicMisfire consumed by the spell]].]]
* MeaningfulName: Ophelia is Greek for "aid" or "help", signifying her abilities with healing spells. More importantly, it was the name of Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'s tragic LoveInterest, who was driven mad by his apparent rejection of her and eventually killed herself, mirroring much of Salvadori's story in volume 3.
* MotherOfAThousandYoung: She breeds chimeras to fight for her within her own womb. A small army of them begin to rampage through the labyrinth after [[spoiler:she's consumed by the spell in volume 3]].
* PetTheDog: For all her troubles, she's still ultimately human and gets lonely living a solitary life in the labyrinth. In volume 2 (anime episode 8), Oliver runs into her when she's in a good mood and they're able to have a civil conversation: it comes out that among other things she has a sweet tooth and sometimes still comes up to the cafeteria for the pumpkin pie. She's acquainted with Shannon Sherwood for much the same reason, [[spoiler:probably helped by their CommonalityConnection of both having been forced to bear a child for familial obligations]]. She also subtly tries to warn Oliver away from the labyrinth for the next while, [[spoiler:{{foreshadowing}} her planned Grand Aria that causes her to be consumed by the spell]].
* PowerIncontinence: Not only can she not turn off her Perfume, [[spoiler:she's "consumed by the spell" in volume 3 and her chimeras start rampaging through the labyrinth, and she kidnaps several male students to breed more chimeras with, including Pete and Joseph Albright]].
* RapeAsBackstory: Ophelia's history of being sexually abused as a child is very important to volume 3's story: she was turned into a de facto BreedingSlave for her mother's [[SuperBreedingProgram eugenics experiments]] by putting her in proximity to desired sperm donors and [[SmellsSexy letting her succubus Perfume do the rest]]. She was thus forced to [[TeenPregnancy bear multiple pregnancies to term before she even turned 15]]. SlutShaming at Kimberly led to her hitting the DespairEventHorizon and embracing the image of the succubus.
* TheRival: To Cyrus Rivermoore. They've fought several brutal battles in the Labyrinth, one of which Oliver, Pete, Chela, and Nanao get caught in the middle of in novel volume 1/manga volume 2.
* SerialRapist: Most if not all of the men she's had sex with were not in any state to give proper consent due to her Perfume.
* SexMagic: She SmellsSexy and breeds chimeras within her own womb using male "essence".
* SmellsSexy: Her Perfume makes her virtually irresistible to any male she comes across--and much to her chagrin, she's [[PowerIncontinence completely incapable of ever turning it off]].
* StarCrossedLovers: It's strongly implied she was in love with Alvin Godfrey, who went to great effort to immunize himself to her Perfume; Vera Miligan even mocks her for it in volume 3. Her FaceHeelTurn led to her ensnaring several members of the Watch, which drove them apart: they fought a duel and she fled into the labyrinth, and rarely returns to the surface nowadays.
* {{Succubus}}: The Salvadoris are a clan of mages descended from succubi, an extinct race of demihumans whose females could use their wombs to mix and match the essences of other races they mated with. Historically they tried to use this for a SuperBreedingProgram to create a "perfect being", but their attempts failed.
* TheVamp: She's a sexual predator who seduces male students in order to use their mana in her chimera experiments. It's apparently a family tradition among the Salvadoris.
* TeenPregnancy: [[ChildByRape By rape, repeatedly.]] She was basically turned into a BreedingSlave for her family's eugenics experiments the minute she hit puberty and only escaped for a time by attending Kimberly. Then in her second year she conceived a human child with a male student during her estrangement from the Watch ([[WhatHappenedToTheMouse the fate of this child has not been addressed]]).
* TragicVillain: She gets several POV sections in volume 3 laying it all out in {{flashback}}s. She grew up as the latest in a succession of abusive childhoods in her family, raised to be a sexual predator with related SexMagic powers she couldn't control. Despite the efforts of Alvin and Carlos to keep her sane and help her channel her talents in a useful and moral direction, bullying at school over her abilities eventually led her to a ThenLetMeBeEvil moment. She took a FaceHeelTurn and became one of the "Dwellers of the Deep"--upperclassmen who prey on their unwary juniors in the Labyrinth.
* UnevenHybrid: Her bloodline includes succubus ancestry ([[OurDemonsAreDifferent a now-extinct species of demihuman]]), which is where the majority of her special powers come from.
* UsedToBeASweetKid: She was already badly {{broken|Bird}} when she arrived at Kimberly, but Carlos and the Watch tried to give her a chance to avoid becoming her mother that she initially took. In the art, she's drawn a lot more cutely in the flashbacks to that time compared to the [[TheVamp predatory seductress]] she's depicted as in the present.
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[[folder:Cyrus Rivermoore]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AtsushiImaruoka (Japanese), Creator/SeanLetourneau (English)
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[[caption-width-right:350:“Ha! Have you already forgotten how I ripped out half your bowels in our last skirmish?”]]
-> '''First Appearance:''' LN Volume 1 | Manga Chapter 6 | Anime Episode 1x2 "[[Recap/ReignOfTheSevenSpellbladesS1E02SwordArts Sword Arts]]"

A fifth-year student and Ophelia Salvadori's rival, who specializes in creating golems of animated bone.
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* AntiVillain: [[spoiler:In volume 8 his attacks on other students turn out to all be for the purpose of constructing a new body for Fau, the ghost of an ancient necromancer his family has been keeping preserved for centuries, so that she can pass on her otherwise lost knowledge in a way that he can recreate it. Once the posse hunting him figures this out, they make a deal with him to let him finish in exchange for him returning Godfrey's sternum afterwards (TheGrimReaper will inevitably come to claim her because resurrection was forbidden by the dead god).]]
* ArcVillain: [[spoiler:He backstabs Godfrey at the end of volume 7 and steals his sternum and a chunk of his etheric body with it, driving the plot of volume 8 where the Watch sends a posse after him to get the bone back so Godfrey can heal, and the old council tries to delay them.]]
* CustomUniform: He eschews the traditional student uniform entirely, in favor of a costume resembling a priest's vestments, befitting his chosen occupation of necromancy.
* DemBones: He's a {{necromancer}} who specializes in constructing fighting beasts out of bones recovered from the labyrinth's creatures.
* EnemyMine: Teams up with Godfrey and Echevalria to defeat Vanessa Aldiss in the combat league qualifying round, [[spoiler:but it was a ruse to get close enough to Godfrey to steal his sternum for his latest project]].
* FriendlyRival: {{Downplayed}}. He has an odd kind of respect for Salvadori even though they've tried to kill each other numerous times, even critiquing each other's creations mid-battle. In volume 3 Miligan even asks whether he intends to be her [[spoiler:Final Visitor--a mage who goes to care for one consumed by the spell in their final hours]]. He doesn't, [[spoiler:but he does mention an intent to express condolences to her family]]. In volume 8 he even describes her in hindsight as "a mad genius". It still doesn't make their fights in the labyrinth any less dangerous to be around: when they cross wands, it's for real.
* MagicMusic: Cyrus is a concert pianist, which is a job requirement for necromancers: large-scale use of UndeadLaborers requires periodic "consolation" or else they go out of control.
* QuirkyHousehold: One of the greatest {{Dramatic Iron|y}}ies of the series is that a man from a family of {{necromancer}}s had one of the series' most normal family lives. He idolized his 200-year-old grandfather, who loved him right back, and had the ghost of an ancient necromancer named Fau as a constant companion and friend.
* {{Recurrer}}: He makes a couple of appearances in volumes 1 and 3 but has no significant role in the story, [[spoiler:until he comes back with a vengeance in volume 7 and starts harvesting bones from other students' living bodies]].
* SeeksAnothersResurrection: [[spoiler:He's ultimately revealed to have been working towards perfecting RitualMagic to create an ArtificialHuman body he can resurrect his ghostly companion Fau into so that she can pass on her lost necromantic knowledge.]]
* SlutShaming: He does this to Ophelia Salvadori, since her main special skills are [[SexMagic sex-based]], but it's strongly implied that he does it specifically to provoke her to fight him since it's her BerserkButton.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: He looks like he could be in his forties but he's 22 in volume 8. It's a side effect of his academic research into [[spoiler:crafting a new body for Fau the ghost]]. It actually threw his voice actor off.
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[[folder:Gwyn Sherwood]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ShoyaIshige (Japanese), Creator/AlexHom (English)
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[[caption-width-right:350:“Don’t let awkward selfishness cloud your mind at this stage. Just be yourself and be sincere with your friends. That’s the key to gaining allies—for both sides of you, Noll.”]]
-> '''First Appearance:''' LN Volume 1 | Manga Chapter 15 | Anime Episode 1x6 "[[Recap/ReignOfTheSevenSpellbladesS1E06Arise Arise]]"

Oliver's older cousin and surrogate big brother, and the older brother of Shannon Sherwood.
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* AffectionateNickname: "Noll", for Oliver.
* BigBrotherInstinct: He and his sister both feel this towards Oliver. Their families were always close and Oliver was half-raised by them after his mother died, so they consider him their baby brother. In particular, they're both happy for him that he's developed such a good circle of friends in the Sword Roses and approve of his romance with Nanao. [[spoiler:They also stay up for four days straight caring for him after he nearly self-destructs during the attack on Enrico Forghieri.]]
* BrotherSisterTeam: He and Shannon are rarely out of each other's company and form an extremely effective duo.
* EnlightenedSelfInterest: He and the other coconspirators consider putting their support behind Vera Miligan's bid to succeed Godfrey as StudentCouncilPresident, because the presence of the Watch (somewhat counterintuitively) makes it easier for their activities to go unnoticed.
* MagicMusic: Gwyn's specialty is stringed instruments. He's a violinist and contrabassist who sometimes performs with Carlos Whitrow and is able to use music to cast and enhance spells, which earned him the NomDeGuerre "Spellstrings".
* SexMagic: {{Implied}}: he's a member of Carlos Whitrow's club for students with sex-linked magical traits, but precisely what he has going on is not stated.
* ShootTheDog: [[spoiler:He and Shannon kill all the griffon fledglings the second-year students are raising (except for the one he helped Katie with, because [[SerendipitousSurvival she had it with her]]) to throw Professor Aldiss off-balance in preparation to attack her.]]
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[[folder:Shannon Sherwood]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/SayumiWatabe (Japanese), Creator/MonetTatiannaLerner (English)
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[[caption-width-right:350:“You have so…many friends. That’s wonderful…”]]
-> '''First Appearance:''' LN Volume 1 | Manga Chapter 11 | Anime Episode 1x5 "[[Recap/ReignOfTheSevenSpellbladesS1E05Glare Glare]]"

Oliver's older cousin and surrogate big sister, and younger sister of Gwyn Sherwood.
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* AbledInTheAdaptation: She has a SpeechImpediment in the novels that causes her to stammer frequently. This is dropped in the anime adaptation.
* AffectionateNickname: "Noll", for Oliver. He calls her "Sis" (the translator's version of "Nee-san").
* BigBrotherInstinct: She and her brother both feel this towards Oliver. Their families were always close and Oliver was half-raised by them after his mother died, so they consider him their baby brother. In particular, they're both happy for him that he's developed such a good circle of friends in the Sword Roses and approve of his romance with Nanao. [[spoiler:They also stay up for four days straight caring for him after he nearly self-destructs during the attack on Enrico Forghieri, and she sleeps in his hospital bed with him for the fifth.]]
* BrotherSisterTeam: She and Gwyn are rarely out of each other's company and form an extremely effective duo.
* ChildByRape: [[spoiler:The Sherwood elders wanted a pure-blooded heir, so they drugged Shannon and Oliver and made him impregnate her, hence why he feels so guilty in his volume 2 recollection of helping her with pregnancy-induced mana shifts. And it was AllForNothing: the pregnancy ended in a stillbirth.]]
* HealingHands: She's highly adept with healing magic. [[spoiler:She pretty much singlehandedly keeps Oliver from disintegrating on the spot when he performs a MergerOfSouls with Chloe Halford's soul during the attack on Enrico Forghieri, and spends days keeping him alive afterward.]]
* RelativeError: During her introduction, Katie, [[JealousRomanticWitness already keyed-up by Chela and Nanao offering Oliver kisses on the cheek as a reward]] after [[spoiler:the garuda incident]], is rather put off by Shannon's [[CuddleBug affectionate touchy-feeliness]] towards Oliver, and is only slightly mollified when Oliver explains that Shannon's just his cousin and surrogate big sister.
* {{Psychometry}}: In volume 8 she is able to play back some of Cyrus Rivermoore's memories off of the bone fragments he embeds in his undead creations, which the posse attempting to recover [[spoiler:Godfrey's sternum]] uses to gather intelligence.
* ShootTheDog: [[spoiler:She and Gwyn kill all the griffon fledglings the second-year students are raising (except for the one he helped Katie with, because [[SerendipitousSurvival she had it with her]]) to throw Professor Aldiss off-balance in preparation to attack her.]]
* SpeechImpediment: She has a bit of a stammer, tending to pause frequently while talking. [[AbledInTheAdaptation This is dropped from her anime appearances.]]
* TeenPregnancy: {{Implied}}. In volume 2, Oliver recalls treating a woman for pregnancy-induced mana disruptions (in the context of helping Pete with his sex shifts). The woman calls him "Noll". It's not absolutely clear that the woman was Shannon but she's one of the only characters introduced so far whom it could plausibly be. [[spoiler:It turns out that she was pregnant with Oliver's child (he was drugged as per a plan by the Sherwood clan elders), which ended up stillborn. In retrospect it explains her more-than-affectionate behavior towards Oliver, even slightly more than Gwyn's older sibling behavior does.]]
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[[folder:Lynette Cornwallis]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MariHino (Japanese), Creator/BriannaRoberts (English)
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[[caption-width-right:902:“Could you quit ignoring me for, like, one second?”]]
-> '''First Appearance:''' Volume 3 | Anime Episode 1x13 "[[Recap/ReignOfTheSevenSpellbladesS1E13NoisyForest Noisy Forest]]"

Stacy Cornwallis's older half-sister, a fourth-year student at time of introduction.
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* BarrierWarrior: Entrapped within [[spoiler:Ophelia's Grand Aria]], she erects a magical barrier to try to protect the weaker victims members of the rescue party.
* HalfSiblingAngst: Her defining character trait is being grumpy with Stacy over her obsession with beating Chela and trying to get her to pay more attention to the siblings she actually grew up with.
* MauveShirt: She's pretty much just around in the background of volume 3, reluctantly escorting her younger sister through the labyrinth in hopes of rescuing Fay. She survives but doesn't contribute to the story overmuch.
* ShippingTorpedo: {{Downplayed}}: she's willing to help Stacy get Fay back [[spoiler:from Ophelia]], but doesn't understand in the slightest why he's so important to her, pointing out that, as a Cornwallis, Stacy could theoretically have any boy she wanted. (It bears mentioning that at this point in the story, [[MistakenForRomance Stacy and Fay aren't actually together romantically yet]].)
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[[folder:Diana Ashbury]]
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[[caption-width-right:299:“You’re an eyesore, kid. And I’m gonna knock you outta the sky.”]]
-> '''First Appearance:''' Volume 4

The star of the Blue Swallows, one of Kimberly's senior-level broomsports teams, who develops a professional rivalry with Nanao when the latter is promoted to the big leagues in volume 4.
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* AbusiveParents: In a continuation of our running theme of mage parents using their children as tools, Diana's removed everything unnecessary for faster broom flight, including her fertility.
* FriendlyRivalry: Initially she dislikes Nanao, both for being an upstart rookie star and for her comments that she partners with her broom Amatsukaze rather than dominating it ([[MoodyMount Amatsukaze itself is rather opinionated on the matter]]). After their first match, with the amount of work Nanao forces her to go to to beat her, she changes her tune and even starts mentoring her, apparently hoping to have an interesting competitor.
* InconsistentSpelling: [[https://www.zerochan.net/3003996#full The Japanese version spells the Romanized version of her surname "Ashberry".]]
* TheLostLenore: Clifton Morgan's disappearance caused her to hit a wall in her personal development: she didn't realize until after he was gone how deeply in love she'd fallen with him.
* PassionateSportsGirl: Pretty much everything about her characterization has to do with broomsports in some way.
* SignatureMove: The "Ashbury Turn". Get your opponent to chase you straight up to the altitude limits of your brooms, ''fall off your own broom and let gravity turn it around and catch you'', and whack your opponent with the increased closing velocity. The other teams consider losing to it to be a rite of passage in the senior league, and Ashbury is impressed when she has to break it out in Nanao's debut match. (The match commentators hate it though, because nobody can actually see what happened from the ground.)
* SingleTargetSexuality: She drove away every catcher who tried to partner up with her for years until she met Clifton Morgan, whom she found good-naturedly charming and who was the first man able to keep up with her. After he took a leave of absence to work on an experiment and the promised date of his return came and went, she never took another.
* SuperBreedingProgram: She's revealed in volume 6 to be the product of several generations of selective breeding to create faster and more talented broom riders. Her life's goal is to break the world record in timed obstacle course racing--which killed the last record-setter by PhlebotinumOverdose. [[spoiler:Morgan returning from the labyrinth to see her gives her the motivation to succeed.]]
* TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler:Right after her record-setting run, the tír fire in Morgan [[SpontaneousHumanCombustion explodes out of him and sets him ablaze]]. She intentionally dives her broomstick into the fireball and they burn to ash in each other's arms.]]
* WorthyOpponent: Views Nanao as this after their first match, even taking to helping train her so she gets even better.
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[[folder:Clifton Morgan]]
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-> '''First Appearance:''' Volume 5

A big, friendly upperclassman who has been secretly living in the labyrinth for years. Used to be Diana Ashbury's catcher.
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* GentleGiant: Big and burly, but he's a NiceGuy and a big laugher.
* GoneHorriblyWrong: [[spoiler:As part of his own academic research, he set up a ritual to summon tír fire from another planet's god, telling Diana he'd either return from the labyrinth at a set date or she should presume him dead. As it turned out, [[TakeAThirdOption neither happened]]: the fire ''infected'' him and he's been slowly burning alive ever since.]]
* KillItWithFire: The tír fire in him has the side effect of making him tremendously effective at casting fire magic. He even helped teach Alvin Godfrey how to control ''Flamma'' properly: he tended to burn his own arms casting it before.
* NiceGuy: He's a big laugher and pitches in to help the Sword Roses when they're attacked by wyverns in the labyrinth in volume 5 then asks after Diana, whom he charmed into keeping him as her catcher when no one else could measure up. He also pitches in to assist Oliver, Nanao, and Chela when they're attacked by several upperclassmen in political violence related to the upcoming StudentCouncilPresident election.
* ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated: He's believed to be dead. [[DownplayedTrope He's not, but he is dying.]] When first encountered in volume 5, he's been missing in the labyrinth and presumed dead for several years. [[spoiler:He attempted to summon tír fire from another planet's god but couldn't control it, and as a result has been slowly burning to death ever since.]]
* TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler:Right after Diana's record-setting broom run, the tír fire in Morgan [[SpontaneousHumanCombustion explodes out of him and sets him ablaze]]. She intentionally dives her broomstick into the fireball and they burn to ash in each other's arms.]]
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[[folder:Karlie Buckle]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:“Looks like you got your wits about ya. But all kidding aside—do not step out in front of us.”]]
-> '''First Appearance:''' LN Volume 5

A Kimberly seventh-year who secretly supports Oliver's cause. Married to Robert Dufourcq.
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* ActionMom: Karlie and Robert have three children, though they're never shown in the series. Between the two of them, she's the front-line fighter.
* BattleCouple: She and Robert are a husband-and-wife team of Kimberly upperclassmen who fight other people together almost as often as they fight each other.
* FieryRedhead: Karlie has a shock of bright red BoyishShortHair and is a loudmouthed BloodKnight prone to [[HenpeckedHusband henpecking her husband]].
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:After Robert's SuicideAttack to immobilize Deus Ex Machina with a curse, she and two more comrades cast a SuicideAttack of their own: a four-bar incantation, ''"Magnus Fragor Ultimata Omnisvitae"'', that explosively cracks through the armor around Enrico Forghieri's cockpit--and also instantly causes all three of them to explode on the spot.]]
* MinidressOfPower: She's a natural BloodKnight, and is depicted in the novel art wearing a school uniform skirt barely longer than her underwear (they're normally knee-length). This is combined with button-front knee boots to provide ZettaiRyouiki.
* RedBaron: She's nicknamed "Bloody Karlie" for her tendency to get spattered in LudicrousGibs during her fights.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler:She's around for the last two chapters of volume 5 and is killed fighting Enrico Forghieri.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Robert Dufourcq]]
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[[caption-width-right:328:“I d-don’t know how. Just…he has something I d-don’t. Something you don’t; n-none of our other comrades do. Deep down inside his…his c-character.”]]
-> '''First Appearance:''' LN Volume 5

A sixth-year student who secretly supports Oliver's cause. Married to Karlie Buckle.
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* BattleCouple: He and Karlie are a husband-and-wife team of Kimberly upperclassmen who fight other people almost as often as they fight each other.
* TheCorruption: He's a specialist in curses, a category of spell likened to a magical contagion. [[spoiler:He and five other comrades turn it into a DeathActivatedSuperpower during the assassination of Enrico Forghieri, intentionally getting themselves killed by his golem Deus Ex Machina to transmit a curse that causes its arms to go out of control.]]
* FamilyMan: He's a kindhearted man who hopes that Oliver can make a world where his weak youngest child can be happy.
* HenpeckedHusband: Karlie may wear a miniskirt, but it's pretty clear which of them wears the ''metaphorical'' pants in their relationship. Their introduction starts with them recalling how he got his arm melted off the first time they were in the third layer. He starts to remind her how she nearly got her face burned off in the same incident, at which point she grabs him by the back of the head and squeezes his skull until it creaks.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:He and five other comrades deliberately sacrifice themselves to inflict a curse that causes Deus Ex Machina's limbs to go out of control and try to kill its own pilot, immobilizing the HumongousMecha.]]
* SpeechImpediment: Robert stutters a lot while speaking. The only time he manages without it [[spoiler:is when he declares his UndyingLoyalty to Oliver's cause, hoping the world Oliver creates will be good for their weak youngest child, before sacrificing himself to bring down Deus Ex Machina]].
* WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler:He's around for the last two chapters of volume 5 and is killed fighting Enrico Forghieri.]]
[[/folder]]
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! Underclassmen
[[folder:Teresa Carste]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AyumiMano (Japanese), Creator/NiaCeleste (English)
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[[caption-width-right:350:“……”]]
-> '''First Appearance:''' LN Volume 1 | Manga Chapter 15 | Anime 1x1 "[[Recap/ReignOfTheSevenSpellbladesS1E01Ceremony Ceremony]]"

A quiet girl who is in the year below Oliver's and a member of his group.
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* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: She's briefly introduced in the pilot episode of the anime, covertly introducing herself to Oliver outside the boys' dorm before his encounter with Nanao at the fountain, then having a couple more covert meetings with Oliver in episodes 2 and 5. In the original novel she didn't show up until the epilogue of that volume (corresponding to episode 6, where we get to see her face finally).
* BewareTheQuietOnes: She's a trained spy and killer, and almost never speaks.
* BigBrotherWorship: She idolizes Oliver from the beginning, though it starts as devotion of a retainer to her lord and mutates into the devotion of a baby sister to a big brother.
* MysteriousPast: It is said that she was born in the labyrinth under Kimberly, but there has been no elaboration on that so far, or how she became an official Kimberly student.
* NoSocialSkills: She was born in the labyrinth and seems to have been raised in deep isolation. She's emotionally withdrawn, rarely speaks and has trouble relating to other people, though she starts to grow more confident as the series goes on and she's formally admitted to the academy.
* RelativeButton: In volume 6 she's challenged to a WizardDuel by a classmate named Dean Travers, and struggles not because she can't beat him, but because she has no idea how to hold back enough to beat him without killing him. Then he mocks her relationship with Oliver and she snaps and punches him in the face. The duel degenerates into a no-holds-barred playground brawl from there: she ends up with a swollen face and him with a broken jaw.
* StealthExpert: She often shadows Oliver during his trips into the labyrinth. He's the only person who is ever able to detect her, and that only because she uses {{telepathy}} to communicate with him.
* UndyingLoyalty: She is completely devoted to Oliver and his cause.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Dean Travers]]
-> '''First Appearance:''' LN Volume 4

A classmate of Teresa's.
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* DarkAndTroubledPast: When he and Peter Cornish were one of only two out of nineteen children taken as prey by a wild griffin to survive, in what became known as the Warren Peak tragedy.
* DefeatMeansFriendship: {{Implied}}. He spends much of volumes 4 and 5 getting into various arguments with the socially awkward Teresa, which comes to a head in volume 6 when he challenges her to a WizardDuel after getting fed up with her ignoring him, Peter, and Rita. After [[RelativeButton he mocks her relationship with Oliver]], it degenerates into a playground brawl that ends with her breaking his jaw. Next time he shows up, a few months later in volume 7, they've teamed up for the combat leagues.
* SelfHarm: Played for laughs: before fighting, he often punches himself in the face hard enough to bloody his own nose. Apparently the pain helps him focus.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Understandably given his backstory, he gets paralyzed with fear when faced with a griffin in the combat league prelims.
[[/folder]]
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! Kimberly Faculty
[[folder:Headmistress Esmeralda]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AtsukoTanaka (Japanese), Creator/KrystalLaPorte (English)
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[[caption-width-right:350:“The two tenets of our academy spirit are ‘freedom’ and ‘results.’ Obviously, these are both predicated on self-responsibility. Thus, a simpler way of expressing this would be ‘Your life and death are in your own hands.’”]]
-> '''First Appearance:''' LN Volume 1 | Manga Chapter 1 | Anime 1x1 "[[Recap/ReignOfTheSevenSpellbladesS1E01Ceremony Ceremony]]"

The school's headmistress, nicknamed the Witch of Kimberly, and a renowned battlemage who served in the Gnostic Hunters with Chloe Halford.
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* ArchEnemy: [[spoiler:Considering Oliver is saving her for last on his kill list of the people responsible for murdering his mother, he seems to consider her both his biggest obstacle and the one most at fault for her death.]]
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Acts like a chief administrator to Kimberly Academy along with the significant skills to back it up. [[spoiler:But in truth, she's the leader of a corrupt group who shares equally-nasty traits/habits as well, not to mention [[ItsPersonal killing Oliver's mother remorselessly years ago in the past.]]]]
* CleavageWindow: Her customary outfit is an ankle-length dress with a low-cut neckline under halter-style straps, with another opening showing some {{underboob|s}}.
* CorruptedCharacterCopy: She is something of a CompositeCharacter between Albus Dumbledore and Severus Snape, being the respected head of a prestigious magic academy and being in love with [[spoiler:the mother of the main protagonist]] ([[DecompositeCharacter Darius Grenville ends up taking most of Severus' nastier traits and asocial personality]]). But while Albus and Severus did everything in their power to protect Lily and her family, Esmeralda is the one [[YouKilledMyMother who killed Chloe]] and [[spoiler:left Oliver without a mom growing up]]. Additionally, Severus' love for Lily is portrayed as true and selfless, and he's repentant over accidentally causing her death, while Esmeralda intentionally kills the woman she loves and proves herself just as rotten as her co-conspirators.
* DareToBeBadass:
** Every year at the entrance ceremony, she gives a dramatic speech about how dangerous it is to be a Kimberly student and how many entrants will not survive to graduate. Which is usually immediately undercut by the second-years telling the first-years not to worry ''too'' much because the upperclassmen are there to help them. Or in the Sword Roses' case, by Nanao suggesting a headache remedy to her out of the blue.
** More generally, when she interacts with students it's usually to demand better of them, such as when she tells Diana Ashbury "You've gotten ''slow''" while sitting in on broomsport practice in volume 6.
* FirstNameBasis: Everybody calls her Esmeralda, or "Emmy" for short if they know her well. Her surname isn't stated until volume 10.
* GravityMaster: One of the few times she's actually cast a spell on-page is during the entrance ceremony, wherein she inverts the gravity in the Fellowship so the matriculating students can dine at place settings on the ceiling.
* HeadacheOfDoom: She is plagued by near-constant headaches for reasons unknown, which are completely unresponsive to standard remedies.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: She runs Chloe through from behind with her athame in the prologue.
* InSeriesNickname: Her close friends call her "Emmy"--including Chloe in the prologue to volume 1.
* MoreSeniorSubordinate: She's one of the youngest members of Kimberly's faculty: she was an underclassman to Theodore [=McFarlane=], Chloe Halford, and Edgar Groves. But AsskickingLeadsToLeadership in the mage world, and she's one of the most powerful mages in recorded history.
* PsychoLesbian: She was in love with Chloe, and affirmed it even as she killed her.
* TheSocialDarwinist: "Your life and death are in your own hands," as she says in her customary orientation speech to matriculating students. She is completely unapologetic about the fact that one in five don't survive to graduation and [[DareToBeBadass asks only that the casualties leave something worthwhile behind]].
* WeUsedToBeFriends: [[spoiler:She was one of Chloe Halford's comrades in the Gnostic Hunters, until Chloe and the other seven had a falling-out over what Chloe wished to do to end the threat of the Gnostics permanently, and betrayed, tortured, and murdered her.]]
* YouKilledMyFather: [[spoiler:She's the last on Oliver's list of Kimberly instructors to kill to avenge his mother.]]
* YourSoulIsMine: She captures Chloe's soul after fatally stabbing her InTheBack. It's unclear how [[spoiler:Oliver]] ended up with it afterwards: Enrico theorizes Esmeralda just didn't catch all of it and [[spoiler:Oliver has a stray fragment]]. However, [[spoiler:dialogue in the scene suggests that Emmy may have hidden the soul from her co-conspirators and then given it to the Sherwood-Horn clan]]. It wasn't an isolated incident: in volume 10, Demitrio Aristides reveals she's eaten the souls of over 100 mages.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Luther Garland]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KazuyukiOkitsu (Japanese), Creator/JohnBurgmeier (English)
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[[caption-width-right:350:“Sword arts is mostly the art of self-defense. Unless you are planning to become a total social recluse, you have nothing to lose from learning ways to deal with the rare chance of a surprise attack. You absolutely cannot say the world is safe enough for this to be unnecessary—even while you are here at Kimberly.”]]
-> '''First Appearance:''' LN Volume 1 | Manga Chapter 2 | Anime 1x1 "[[Recap/ReignOfTheSevenSpellbladesS1E01Ceremony Ceremony]]"

The sword arts instructor at the school and one of the more conventionally personable teachers.
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* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: In the anime he has an EarlyBirdCameo where he introduces Headmistress Esmeralda during the opening ceremony, before being properly introduced in episode 2.
* BlackSheep: Being the resident CoolTeacher (along with his school chum Ted Williams) makes him very much an outsider in the Kimberly faculty, who tend towards {{Sink or Swim Mentor}}ship: he's seemingly excluded from Esmeralda's insider group (where even resident UpperClassTwit Theodore [=McFarlane=] isn't), Vanessa Aldiss dismissively refers to him as a "that kid", and Darius Grenville disparages his swordsmanship and covets his job.
* CoolTeacher: He's younger than the other teachers and one of the nicest ones at the school by a long way, teaching through positive reinforcement and keeping a close watch on student safety. He also backs up Katie when she clashes with Darius Grenville over euthanizing the troll that attacked her, [[spoiler:and reins in Vanessa Aldiss when she goes too far fighting the upperclassmen in the tournament prelims in volume 7]].
* HiddenDepths:
** He's impressively perceptive: he's detected both Oliver and Teresa Carste spying on him from stealth before, where they're normally undetectable.
** Despite not being part of [[spoiler:the conspiracy to murder Chloe Halford]], he joins the investigation into [[spoiler:Enrico Forghieri]]'s death and is one of the first to [[SpottingTheThread realize]] that somebody tried to MakeItLookLikeAnAccident.
* MasterSwordsman: As you'd expect from the sword instructor at a school that trains Gnostic Hunters. Nanao has killed with the blade in battle before, many times, but in a series of simulated bouts they fight in order to get a feel for how to teach her (Union mages don't generally use two-handed swords, so he has to modify his curriculum for her), he deals her a string of {{Curb Stomp Battle}}s. He's also one of the only people outside Esmeralda's insider group whom they suspect could have killed [[spoiler:Darius Grenville]].
-->'''Nanao:''' ...Impressive. You decapitated me one hundred and two times.\\
'''Garland:''' Ah, but you surpassed my expectations. And at such a young age, too. Yamatsu swordsmanship is truly amazing.
* RetCanon: His character design originated with Creator/SakaeEsuno's manga adaptation and was happily canonized by novel artist Creator/MiyukiRuria.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: {{Discussed}}. In volume 4, Teresa Carste tells Oliver she saw Garland in third layer of the labyrinth killing chimeras during the events of the previous book. Based on his impressions of Garland's character, Oliver surmises the swordmaster may have decided to screw the rule he himself cited to Katie that teachers don't get involved in labyrinth incidents until eight days have gone by, and tried to covertly aid the students' rescue missions, though it's entirely possible Garland had other motives.
* TeacherStudentRomance: {{Defied}}. Oliver questions whether, after sparring with Garland, Nanao feels any differently towards him since Garland is clearly a far superior swordsman to Oliver. Nanao immediately shoots that down.
-->'''Oliver:''' Aren't you drawn to him, as a swordsman?\\
'''Nanao:''' Let's say there was a girl who was perfect in your eyes, whom no one could rival. Then one day, the greatest beauty in the world appears before you. Would your feelings change?\\
'''Oliver:''' ...They wouldn't. I'd feel exactly the same as before the second girl appeared.\\
'''Nanao:''' I am the same. ''(smiles)''
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Vanessa Aldiss]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MegumiToyoguchi (Japanese), Creator/CoreyPettit (English)
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[[caption-width-right:350:“In this class, we’ll be handling magical creatures, and they are considered ‘natural resources.’ This is no place for your starry-eyed ideals of cohabitation or friendship.”]]
-> '''First Appearance:''' LN Volume 1 | Manga Chapter 4 | Anime Episode 1x2 "[[Recap/ReignOfTheSevenSpellbladesS1E02SwordArts Sword Arts]]"

The magical biology instructor. Has it out for Katie.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Despite viewing magical creatures as mainly fodder for experiments and even food, even she is shocked when somebody kills all but one of the griffin fledglings the second-years are raising in volumes 4 through 6 ([[SerendipitousSurvival Katie and Miligan had the survivor with them]]). [[spoiler:{{Exploited}}: the Sherwood siblings killed the griffins specifically to agitate her so she'd be off her game for the conspirators' coming AssassinationAttempt.]]
* FemmeFatalons: As the image indicates, she's able to transform her forearms into clawed limbs for fighting.
* FieryRedhead: She's a bloody-minded brute with a short fuse and a shock of red hair. Her behavior becomes even more erratic after the slaughter of the second-years' griffin fledglings, and the other teachers have to repeatedly rein her in for excessively endangering students.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: She's so erratic and violent that even most of the other teachers don't like her: the only one who seems to is her former classmate Baldia, who calls her by the AffectionateNickname "Vana".
* LoopholeAbuse: On the receiving end of this from Gwen Sherwood in her second appearance in volume 5. She expects the class to break griffins like a horse, and is ready to flunk Katie and mock her mercilessly when she tries to befriend the griffin instead. Katie unexpectedly succeeds after Sherwood covertly uses her MagicMusic to give her efforts a slight boost, and Gwen points to one of the unwritten rules of Kimberly: if you succeed at an assignment despite disobeying the professor and they can't figure out what you did, it's a passing grade.
* OneWomanArmy: In volume 7 she first singlehandedly obliterates both sides of the Battle of Hell's Armies off-page, then holds off almost the entire seventh-year class with only her arms transformed: Godfrey, Echevalria, and Rivermoore together barely manage to draw blood, and that was without her actually ''meaning'' to kill anyone.
* SadistTeacher: She's openly dismissive of the demihuman civil rights movement and calls the ideals trash, and expects all her students to clean up their own failures. She doesn't even step in when Katie is badly bitten on the hand by a magical silkworm she accidentally caused to metamorphose, and flunks Oliver and Chela on the spot for moving in to protect her ([[AdaptationDeviation changed to docking them two points each in the anime]]).
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Her specialty is weaponized transformation of her body: most commonly of [[FemmeFatalons her arms]], but her whole body can be modified on the fly to be weapon, defense, or both at the same time.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: She views magical creatures solely as resources to be exploited, and brags about hunting and eating centaurs before the civil rights movement succeeded in getting them reclassified as sapient.
* YouKilledMyFather: [[spoiler:She was one of the seven mages who betrayed and murdered Oliver's mother, and is the second on his list to kill--though she's been pushed back twice because of FinaglesLaw.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Frances Gilchrist]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MisaKato (Japanese), Creator/LindaLeonard (English)
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[[caption-width-right:350:“Those unsightly metal ''things'' on your waists… How can you call yourselves mages while wearing them? I simply cannot understand it. Perhaps they are necessary for the poor nonmagicals, but we live alongside the mysteries of this world. Only a wand is fitting.”]]
->'''First appearance:''' LN Volume 1 | Manga Chapter 4 | Anime Episode 1x2 "[[Recap/ReignOfTheSevenSpellbladesS1E02SwordArts Sword Arts]]"

The spellology instructor. Also a former Gnostic Hunter.
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* TheArchmage: She teaches spellology, essentially the underlying theory and practice of magic itself.
* CorruptedCharacterCopy: She's one of Minerva [=McGonagall=], as a stern no-nonsense elder teacher who teaches advanced magic. However, while [=McGonagall=] stern attitude belies a warmer side that cares for her students and she's definitely a fighter for Good, [[spoiler:Gilchrist is part of the conspiracy that murdered Oliver's mother]].
* DoesntLikeGuns: She despises sword arts as a concept, arguing that a mage should rely on pure magic first and foremost. This is partly because even though it made mages harder for {{Muggles}} to kill, widespread carrying of swords also led to an increase in mage-on-mage violence.
* MarionetteMaster: Rather than practice sword arts, she argues that mages should seek magical solutions for close-in defense, and demonstrates this by summoning up a small squad of automatons in the first class. {{Discussed}} later by the Sword Roses: Pete notes that this particular solution is probably AwesomeButImpractical for most mages, but the underlying idea of alternatives to sword arts isn't an inherently bad one.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: She's over 1,000 years old, which is normally impossible even for mages since [[TheGrimReaper beings called Reapers]] usually come to kill any mage who lives past 200: mathematically, she has to defeat at least sixteen of them every night at her age.
* SternTeacher: She's a curmudgeonly, no-nonsense educator who expects excellence from her students.
* YouKilledMyFather: [[spoiler:She's one of the seven mages who betrayed and murdered Oliver's mother, and is on his kill list.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Darius Grenville]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/HirokiTochi (Japanese), Creator/IanSinclair (English)
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[[caption-width-right:204:“To eradicate stupidity from the human race. That is my greatest wish.”]]
-> '''First Appearance:''' LN Volume 1 | Manga Chapter 8 | Anime 1x3 "[[Recap/ReignOfTheSevenSpellbladesS1E03Soldier Soldier]]"

The alchemy instructor, and another opponent of the civil rights movement. Also a former Gnostic Hunter.
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* AgonyBeam: He has a penchant for pain spells: his EstablishingCharacterMoment is using one on Katie when she refuses to stand aside from his move to euthanize the troll that attacked her at the opening ceremony. [[spoiler:Oliver later tortures Darius with the same spell to avenge Darius using it on his mother, while mocking him for begging Oliver to stop.]]
* CorruptedCharacterCopy: Grenville [[{{expy}} draws clear inspiration]] from ''Franchise/HarryPotter''[='s=] Severus Snape: tall, slim, shoulder-length black hair, SadistTeacher of alchemy at a WizardingSchool who covets another position (swordmaster rather than Defense Against the Dark Arts), and has a backstory connection to the main character's mother. Except rather than trying to save her from the BigBad and failing, [[spoiler:[[YouKilledMyFather he helped murder her]]]]. He also has a habit of helping promising students along in their academic research so he can [[PlagiarismInFiction plagiarize it]], [[spoiler:and is [[RasputinianDeath torturously killed]] at the end of the first volume, having succeeded only in solidifying Oliver Horn's resolve to kill his mother's other six murderers]].
* DramaticIrony: [[spoiler:The other instructors discuss his disappearance several times. The possibility that a student killed him is brought up, then immediately dismissed as ridiculous, even though that's exactly what happened.]]
* EvilutionaryBiologist: His life's goal is to "eradicate stupidity from the human race". To that end, he steals research from talented students.
* LiteralDisarming: [[spoiler:Oliver uses the Fourth Spellblade, Angustavia, to find and reach the one-in-ten-thousand possible future where their DuelToTheDeath ends in Oliver lopping off Darius's sword hand.]]
* MasterSwordsman: [[InformedAttribute So he says]]: he claims to be as good or better with the sword as Luther Garland, and covets the other man's job as a consequence, considering him too soft. His past as a Gnostic Hunter would seem to bear this out, [[spoiler:but we never get to see much of his swordwork because Oliver disables him in one cut with a Spellblade]].
* NeverFoundTheBody: {{Invoked}}. [[spoiler:Oliver kills him in the abandoned workshop of a deceased student deep in the labyrinth, and he and his co-conspirators dispose of the body. As a result, he seems to the other instructors to have simply disappeared.]]
* OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler:Oliver tortures him until he begs for death, then summarily beheads him when he does.]]
* PlagiarismInFiction: He has a reputation for allying with promising students so he can steal the fruits of their research for use towards his own goal to "eradicate stupidity from the human race."
* RasputinianDeath: [[spoiler:He and his coconspirators put Chloe Halford through 128 different tortures before Esmeralda finally killed her, all of which Oliver possesses because of her GhostMemory. Oliver gets through fifty-seven of them before Darius begs him to let him die.]]
* SadistTeacher: Calls Katie an ape for refusing his command to stand aside when she gets between him and the troll from the entrance ceremony, then hits her with a pain spell when she refuses to back down. Vera Miligan intervenes to end the confrontation, with the offscreen backing of Luther Garland ([[AdaptationDeviation onscreen in the anime]]).
* SinkOrSwimMentor: Oliver spends a good chunk of the first practical exam running around the classroom rescuing other students from {{Dangerous Phlebotinum Interaction}}s that both Darius and the lab assignment seemingly deliberately don't warn the students about. Darius only steps in to compliment Oliver after he's lightly injured rescuing Pete.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Was covertly engaged in this with [[spoiler:Miligan]]. While he opposed her goal of improving the lot of demihumans, [[spoiler:he thought he could eventually steal her research into improving their intelligence if it bore fruit and use it on humans]].
* VillainsWantMercy: [[spoiler:Once Oliver has him at his mercy after using Angustavia to disarm him, he tortures him with pain spells. In rapid succession Darius goes from raging at Oliver about how he won't get away with this, to begging him to stop, to miserably asking for a CoupDeGrace, all while Oliver ''mocks'' him about how much ''more'' torture his mother withstood at Darius's own hand.]]
* WeCanRuleTogether: After clashing with the Sword Roses throughout volume 1, he offers to make Oliver his apprentice, noting that Oliver would be a good researcher and theoretician, even though he has no particular talents of his own and will likely hit a wall as a spellcaster at some point. [[spoiler:That's when Oliver reveals he's there to kill him.]]
* YouKilledMyFather: [[spoiler:He's one of the seven mages Oliver targets for assassination for their part in his mother's murder.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Theodore [=McFarlane=]]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ToshihikoSeki (Japanese), Creator/ChrisGardner (English)
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[[caption-width-right:350:“Forgive me, Headmistress. It’s just my nature to stir the pot when it’s too settled.”]]
-> '''First Appearance:''' LN Volume 1 | Manga Chapter 7 | Anime 1x3 "[[Recap/ReignOfTheSevenSpellbladesS1E03Soldier Soldier]]"

Chela's father, a guest lecturer at the academy. Rescued Nanao from death in battle in Yamatsukini and brought her to Kimberly.
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* BisexualLoveTriangle: As a Kimberly student, he was one of at least three suitors pursuing Chloe Halford, and fought a duel with her eventual partner Edgar Groves. Esmeralda herself was the third.
* BlueBlood: The [=McFarlanes=] are an old and renowned mage bloodline.
* ComeWithMeIfYouWantToLive: In Nanao's TroubledBackstoryFlashback, she was about to be run through by a squad of ashigaru, when [=McFarlane=], who had been visiting Souma Domain, froze them in mid-strike and offered to take Nanao back to Yelgland with him to become a mage.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: He's repeatedly introduced walking upside-down on the ceiling or alternatively floating upside-down through the air for no apparent reason, and spends his period as a substitute alchemy instructor tasting the students' attempts at antidote potions, with predictable results. He's also a mage powerful enough to immobilize an entire army with a single spell in Nanao's TroubledBackstoryFlashback, which is just the tip of the iceberg. [[spoiler:In volume 4, he hands a CurbStompBattle to a knife-wielding maniac that accosts him, Oliver, and Nanao in Galatea, disintegrating the man's torso in an eyeblink with the Second Spellblade. In volume 9, an elfed-out Chela loses her temper at him and attacks him, only for him to knock her out cold with a single spell.]]
* EarlyBirdCameo: He first, briefly, appears in Nanao's TroubledBackstoryFlashback to her LastStand in Yamatsukuni before being properly introduced in volume 2.
* EmbarrassingRelativeTeacher: He is the cause of many a {{facepalm}} from Chela over his silly behavior.
* TheGadfly: By his own admission, he just enjoys stirring the pot.
* IGaveMyWord: He was a classmate of Chloe Halford at Kimberly, and found Nanao to fulfill an oath he swore to Chloe that has yet to be elaborated on.
* OjouRinglets:GenderInverted and {{justified|Trope}}. Much like his daughter Chela, he has blond hair styled in ringlets (though he cuts his much shorter than hers), which [[HereditaryHairstyle runs in the McFarlane clan]] and leads to Nanao realizing her new school friend is related to the mage who rescued her.
* ParentalAbandonment: He sired Stacy Cornwallis as a {{spare|ToTheThrone}} for Chela and then left her with her mother's family, and has largely ignored her existence ever since and refuses to acknowledge her as his daughter. That said, he does give her a PetTheDog moment in volume 9 [[spoiler:when her and Fay's performance in the combat leagues convinces him to order the Cornwallis family to allow their relationship]].
* ParentalSubstitute: In the {{backstory}}, he rescued Nanao from the brink of death in her last battle as a {{samurai}} by freezing the entire enemy army with a single spell, and took her under his wing as a substitute father-figure. That said, by volume 5, Oliver and Chela have begun to question his motives for doing so: it seems that after Chloe Halford's death, he started searching specifically for someone similar to her out of an obligation that Nanao apparently fulfilled, and in volume 4 he's shown monologuing about how he wants Nanao to "reach where I am".
* VirtuousCharacterCopy: He has a lot of similarities to Gilderoy Lockhart, as a [[UpperClassTwit foppish and rather silly]] world-traveler and book author who fills in after another teacher is indisposed. However, unlike Lockhart, he actually ''did'' have all the adventures he claims to have done and is ''quite'' competent when he puts his mind to being so: [[spoiler:he's even a Spellblade wielder]].
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[[folder:Enrico Forghieri]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/HochuOtsuka (Japanese), Creator/MarkAllenJr (English)
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[LaughingMad “Kya-ha-ha-ha-ha!”]]]]
-> '''First Appearance:''' LN Volume 2 | Manga Chapter 17 | Anime 1x7 "[[Recap/ReignOfTheSevenSpellbladesS1E07Reversi Reversi]]"

The magical engineering instructor, a mage specializing in the construction of {{golem}}s. Utterly barking mad. Also a former Gnostic Hunter.
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* AxCrazy: His madness makes him supremely unpredictable and no less lethally dangerous for it.
* CastingGag: His anime voice actor Creator/HochuOtsuka surprisingly looks a lot like him, albeit he has a lot more hair in the front.
* DeadManWriting: {{Exaggerated}}: he turns out to have a golem prepared to activate if he doesn't check in with it every few days that not only formally announces his death, but ''is capable of taking over running his classes!''
* ForTheEvulz: [[spoiler:His stated motivation for killing Chloe Halford in such a torturous way and ripping her soul from her body? It amused him to see such a renowned battlemage laid low.]]
* {{Golem}}: His specialty, which he builds as war machines to battle Gnostics and their creatures.
* ItsPersonal: It already ''was'' personal since [[spoiler:he helped murder Oliver's mother]], but [[spoiler:Oliver]] moves up his timetable when Enrico takes an interest in Pete and tries to make him his apprentice in volume 5.
* LaughingMad: Utterly unhinged and howls with laughter near-constantly. [[spoiler:He was a crybaby as a child until his non-magic childhood friend told him to laugh instead of cry as she lay dying.]]
* MadScientist: His experiments make Miligan from volume 1 look sane.
* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: [[spoiler: The battle with him was too violent to entirely cover up, so Oliver's coconspirators clean up the scene to make it look like he'd died accidentally while testing Deus Ex Machina. Unfortunately, while they succeed in obfuscating who did it, the teachers investigating notice the telltales of their tampering and now know somebody is actively targeting Kimberly faculty.]]
* PetTheDog: Offers lollypops as gifts to students who do well in his classes. [[spoiler:Also seems to revert to his innocent childhood self in his final moments.]]
* PoweredArmor: One of his golems is something he conjures around himself as a magical variation on this trope.
* PoweredByAForsakenChild: His experimental HumongousMecha golem Dea Ex Machina is powered by the disembodied souls of imprisoned demihumans and even a few condemned criminals, to get around the problem of the natural magic particle density being too low to efficiently power a golem that size. [[spoiler:So is the other prototype, Deus Ex Machina, which he unveils during Oliver's assassination attempt.]]
* RasputinianDeath: [[spoiler:{{Defied}}. It takes a lot of punishment to bring Forghieri down, but Gwyn stops Oliver from torturing him to death the way he did Darius because keeping Oliver alive with the soul merge active is killing Shannon.]]
* SinkOrSwimMentor: He isn't actively sadistic like Grenville or Aldiss, he just likes to throw students into the deep end with minimal instruction. He does provide healing to students injured in his class, though: after the trap the students fail to disarm in volume 2 releases a swarm of venomous snakes, he passes out lollipops containing an antivenin.
* StartOfDarkness: He had a non-magic childhood friend, Noemi, who he loved dearly. [[spoiler:Her town was secretly controlled by a Gnostic cult, which had an internal religious war break out, causing all hell to break loose. He was forced to MercyKill her by burning her alive when she began to be transformed into a plant by Gnostic magic run amok.]]
* StrikeMeDownWithAllOfYourHatred: [[spoiler:Sums up his TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to Oliver in his final moments. Not only is Oliver [[CastFromLifespan burning out his own life]] by merging with his mother's soul to use her powers in battle, but the more he hates the men he fights to kill, the more he betrays the very ideals of creating a better world for all living things that his mother died for, and the more he betrays her natural free-spiritedness.]]
* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler:He doesn't go down easy when Oliver and his comrades go to assassinate him. Thirty-two mages go to kill him in a prepared ambush in the labyrinth, and eleven of them don't come back.]]
* VillainousValor: [[spoiler:He doesn't budge an inch despite being outnumbered thirty-four to one, and keeps fighting even after the last of his golems is destroyed. Only Oliver breaking out his Spellblade and running him through is enough to finally put him down.]]
* WeUsedToBeFriends: He was a comrade of Oliver's mother Chloe Halford, [[spoiler:until they had a falling-out over Chloe's plans to end the Gnostic Wars by fundamentally changing the nature of the mage world, and collaborated with the other six to murder her]].
* YouKilledMyFather: [[spoiler:He's one of the seven mages who betrayed and murdered Oliver's mother in the prologue.]]
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[[folder:Baldia Muwezicamili]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:“First day of classes is always core theory, but first, a vital warning. [[PoisonousPerson Don’t ever touch me; and don’t ever touch anything I’ve touched until I give express permission. Do not step where I have walked. And probably best if you don’t spend more than two hours in the same space as me. Fail to the follow these rules, and it may prove catching.]]”]]
->'''First Appearance:''' LN Volume 4 | Manga Chapter 15 | Anime Episode 1x6 "[[Recap/ReignOfTheSevenSpellbladesS1E06Arise Arise]]"

The professor of Curses at Kimberly Magic Academy, and a member of Esmeralda's insider group.
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* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: The manga and anime both give her {{Early Bird Cameo}}s in Chloe Halford's death scene flashback, as well as in the meeting Esmeralda calls regarding Darius's disappearance, but she has no lines. She wasn't identified in the novel versions of either scene and isn't formally introduced until volume 4.
* AffectionateNickname: She's the only person who actually seems to ''like'' Vanessa Aldiss: they were classmates at Kimberly and she still calls her "Vana".
* ChekhovsClassroom: She's formally introduced in volume 4 teaching the second-years' first class on curses. One volume later, curse energy derived from {{Human Sacrifice}}s turns out to be the power source for Enrico Forghieri's experiments into HumongousMecha, [[spoiler:and the HeroicSacrifice of several curse practitioners in Oliver's group is key to defeating him]].
* TheCorruption: She specializes in curses, [[MysticalPlague a contagious form of magic]], and is afflicted by so many it's a wonder she's still alive: just being ''near'' her is enough to sicken bystanders and kill plants.
* EvilMentor: In year 4, she takes [[spoiler:Guy Greenwood]] of all people under her wing after he's cursed in a mishap.
* OlderThanTheyLook: She looks like a little girl, but that's just because of the curse inflicted on her. She was a classmate of Vanessa Aldiss and senior to Luther Garland (who is in his thirties).
* PoisonousPerson: Her body is so loaded with curses that people get sick just by being near her. She's self-aware about this and provides flavored water during classes so her students can wash their mouths out after throwing up.
* YouKilledMyFather: [[spoiler:She is one of the seven that murdered Chloe Halford.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Ted Williams]]
->'''First Appearance:''' LN Volume 4

The permanent replacement for Darius Grenville as alchemy professor beginning in year 2, and a former classmate of Luther Garland.
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* EnthusiasticNewbieTeacher: After the first class with him, the Sword Roses and their second-year classmates are collectively amazed that he actually taught a normal class--so much so that it makes Oliver suspicious that he's a WolfInSheepsClothing given how Kimberly teachers usually act. Meanwhile he confesses to Garland that he was scared to death he'd disappoint the kids.
* StealthExpert: He and Garland were in the same class at Kimberly and thick as thieves. They used to practice their stealth techniques by playing pranks on the teachers.
* UnexpectedSuccessor: {{Discussed}}: he got the job on the basis of a recommendation Darius Grenville apparently left before his disappearance, and was as astonished as anyone else. Ted remembers Grenville ridiculing him, but Garland recalls Grenville complimenting him behind his back.
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[[folder:Demitrio Aristides]]
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[[caption-width-right:335:“Why is observing the stars such a pressing matter? I doubt you need that explained, but as it is fundamental to the conceit, I shall do so: Because every little light in the night sky is a world distinct from our own—a tír.”]]
->'''First Appearance:''' LN Volume 5

The professor of astronomy at Kimberly Magic Academy. He is an active-duty Gnostic Hunter and a member of Esmeralda's insider group.
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* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: The manga and anime both depict him in the {{flashback}} to [[spoiler:Chloe Halford's murder]].
* EarlyBirdCameo: He's present for the volume 2 scene where Esmeralda's insider group discusses Darius Grenville's disappearance, but has no lines.
* PsychicAssistedSuicide: [[spoiler:He wields the Fifth Spellblade, "Papiliosomnia, the dream of a butterfly that never wakes up again", which causes the victim to become unable to tell the difference between themselves and their opponent and either not resist the wielder's attack or outright kill themselves.]]
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Unlike Grenville and Aldiss, in his introductory scene he takes the time to properly address Katie questioning the prevailing theories behind magical history with equanimity and facts. Katie isn't convinced by his reply, but is pleased that he treated it as a reasonable question. He also is shown in a flashback living among [[{{Muggles}} nonmagicals]] and teaching their children about astronomy, and is just as enraged as the Campus Watch members present when, during a tír migration, Vanessa throws chunks of Uranischegar's AlienGeometries inside the barrier protecting the underclassmen just to make things more exciting.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: In volume 10 he's revealed to be 567 years old, making him the second-oldest character after Frances Gilchrist. It's a rare mage who is powerful enough to fight off the reapers for that long: mathematically he's presently stuck fighting seven of them every night.
* SoulFragment: [[spoiler:He broke off a piece of his own soul to create Yuri Leik to spy on the student body.]]
* SpottingTheThread: [[spoiler:He realizes from watching Oliver in the TournamentArc that this unassuming underclassman fights like a Gnostic Hunter and is far better at it than he has any right to be, making him a prime suspect for the murders of Grenville and Forghieri.]]
* WellIntentionedExtremist: He genuinely believes, with some reason, that incursions from other tírs and the Gnostics who worship their gods must be destroyed with extreme prejudice for the safety of this world.
* YouKilledMyFather: [[spoiler:Aristides was part of the conspiracy that murdered Chloe Halford and is targeted by Oliver in volume 10 when he and his comrades realize that he's close to unmasking him.]]
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[[folder:Chloe Halford]] %% This spoiler-handling method approved by Ask the Tropers. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/query.php?parent_id=113501&type=att
!!Chloe "Two-Blade" Halford
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YukaTerasaki (Japanese), Creator/AlexisTipton (English)
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[[caption-width-right:349:“Even the Gnostics have people they love. Just like I love you and Ed, Noll. They have family and friends they can’t bear to lose. All they want—when you get down to it—is a world where no one gets in their way.”]]
-> '''First Appearance:''' LN Volume 1 | Manga Chapter 15 | Anime 1x1 "[[Recap/ReignOfTheSevenSpellbladesS1E01Ceremony Ceremony]]"

Oliver's mother, who is murdered in the prologue to volume 1. One of the greatest Gnostic Hunters of all time, she hoped to change the world to end the Gnostic Wars permanently, and was betrayed and murdered by her own comrades for it.
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* AdaptationalLateAppearance: In the novels, her death scene is the prologue to volume 1. The manga instead starts with the Sword Roses' first day of school, reducing her death scene to a two-page spread in the epilogue of chapter 15. The anime keeps her in the first episode, but changes her first appearance to a {{flashback}} from Oliver's perspective where Nanao's appearance during the fountain scene reminds him of Chloe (without explaining who she is), and moves the flashback depicting her death to the second half of episode 6.
* BlitheSpirit: She has a reputation in life as having been a free-spirited, energetic, and upbeat woman who lived as she pleased and loved life, not to mention a serial heartbreaker in her time at Kimberly.
-->'''Enrico Forghieri:''' Up against Gnostics, up against tír gods, even up against me on her last night--she was always herself. Laughing, crying, raging, or sympathizing as her emotions drove her, swinging her blades as an expression of that. Ruled by no logic, consumed by no spell, she lived on her terms, as Chloe Halford and no one else. Her sword was always ''free''.
* ButNotTooBi: She eventually settled down with the male Edgar Groves, but mentions in one of her {{flashback}}s that she didn't want Esmeralda, an underclassman of hers, to think she didn't have a chance of getting together with her just because they were both women.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: She's depicted as a golden blonde in the novel art and the anime (the manga has only shown her in black and white), and died for her belief that it might be possible to end the Gnostic Wars permanently if mages stopped oppressing {{Muggles}} and demihumans. Also, in direct contrast to the tendency of mage parents to be abusive to their children, she dearly and sincerely loved her family.
* HeelRealization: The genesis of her desire to change the mage world was the realization that [[FantasticRacism mage supremacism]] towards demihumans and {{Muggles}} and the overall inequality of the world was a significant part of the reason Gnostic cults were able to gain toeholds: they offered an alternative to the inhumanity of the world's FantasticCasteSystem. Or as she explained it to an infant Oliver, if people were a little nicer to each other, then the world itself would be better.
* TheLostLenore: It's strongly suggested that Theodore [=McFarlane=] never really got over her, and went and found Nanao due to owing her some kind of debt.
* MoodyMount: She was the previous rider of Amatsukaze, the opinionated FlyingBroomstick that Nanao befriends.
* MySecretPregnancy: Nobody outside of the Sherwood clan and her partner Edgar Groves seems to have been aware of Oliver's birth. Chela even met her once as a young child but hasn't connected the dots to Oliver, nor has her father Theodore, who dated Chloe at Kimberly.
* NomDeGuerre: She was nicknamed "Two-Blade" for her unusual habit of DualWielding athames in battle, something few mages could do effectively.
* PlotTriggeringDeath: Her last moments alive are shown in the prologue of volume 1 and drive the series' entire MythArc.
* PosthumousCharacter: Having died in the first chapter of the story, she's only present in it afterwards through flashbacks and other characters' recollections, but her memory casts a long shadow.
* RasputinianDeath: She was subjected to 128 kinds of torture, including disembowelment, being burned alive from the inside, washed in acid, and her feet being ground off, fought to escape and was given just enough rope to give her hope, then was ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice by Esmeralda, who [[YourSoulIsMine ripped her soul out as she died]].
* ReallyGetsAround: She was reportedly quite promiscuous as a teenage Kimberly student and was the apex of a BisexualLoveTriangle between Edgar Groves, Theodore [=McFarlane=], and Esmeralda, though she did eventually settle down as half of a BattleCouple with Ed.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: In life she was a comrade in battle of Esmeralda, Darius Grenville, Enrico Forghieri, Vanessa Aldiss, Frances Gilchrist, Demetrio Aristides, and Baldia Muwezicamili, all of whom conspired to torture and murder her.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Edgar Groves]]
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-> '''First Appearance:''' LN Volume 5 ({{flashback}})

The domestic partner of Chloe Halford, with whom he fell in love while attending Kimberly Magic Academy, and the father of Oliver Horn.
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* BattleCouple: He and Chloe served together on a Gnostic Hunter squad before Oliver was born.
* CrusadingWidower: He was a determined but good-natured man when Chloe was alive. Her murder broke him and led to him helping formulate the TrainingFromHell that Oliver went through as a tween [[spoiler:in order to be able to perform the [[DeadlyUpgrade soul merge]] with his mother's GhostMemory and gain access to the Fourth Spellblade]].
* LoveTriangle: He was one of at least three suitors to Chloe when they were teenagers, and once fought a duel with Theodore [=McFarlane=] in order to feel that he had the right to be with her.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Fau]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:“Ooh, a consolation concert? Can I make a request?”]]
-> '''First Appearance:''' LN Volume 8

The ghost of an ancient Parsu {{necromancer}} whose coffin has been kept by the Rivermoore family for generations. She was given to Cyrus to care for by his great-grandfather Douglas.
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* ADeathInTheLimelight: She's introduced as a new character in volume 8, and resurrecting her so she can pass on her lost secrets of necromancy has been the entire Rivermoore family's goal for generations. She's killed DeaderThanDead at the end of the same book.
* DiedInYourArmsTonight: [[spoiler:As a LastRequest, Cyrus carries her in his arms to an artificial beach he created inside his Grand Aria, a thing she had never seen while she was alive and he hoped to show her. She breathes her last looking out at the sea in Cyrus's arms.]]
* FlingALightIntoTheFuture: Her ghost was preserved in a sealed coffin to ensure that the secrets of Parsu necromancy could be recovered by future generations even after the collapse of the civilization in a ZombieApocalypse.
* HauntedFetter: Her ghost was sealed to her coffin in ancient times hide her existence from TheGrimReaper.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:Once she's passed on her knowledge, Cyrus {{Mercy Kill}}s her with an athame through the back to get the reapers to leave.]]
* LanguageBarrier: She only speaks the Parsu language. Cyrus is fluent, which [[TranslatorMicrobes allows the posse to understand her while viewing his memories]] via Shannon's {{psychometry}}; however, when they actually meet the resurrected Fau, Cyrus has to translate for her.
* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Despite being literally dead for most of the story, with TheGrimReaper waiting in the wings to kill her DeaderThanDead if she ever leaves her coffin, she's a sweet and cheerful girl who loves to tease Cyrus, whom she wishes would lighten up and who comes off as ComicallySerious in her presence.
* OlderThanTheyLook: {{Implied}}. Her resurrected body looks about twelve, but, time spent dead notwithstanding, she's strongly indicated to be much older than that given how skilled of a mage she is.
* PlatonicLifePartners: Cyrus was given her coffin as a young boy and they've been constant companions ever since.
* ResurrectedForAJob: Cyrus crafts her an ArtificialHuman body out of bones and etheric matter harvested from other students over several years (Godfrey's sternum being the last piece needed), and casts a Grand Aria to resurrect her ghost in it. This is necessary because her lost necromantic secrets are too complex to simply be explained: they have to be passed on by etheric means, which she can only do with a body of her own.
* SomeoneToRememberHimBy: GenderInverted. [[spoiler:The best way Fau has to pass on her lost knowledge to him before TheGrimReaper takes her is to [[MergerOfSouls craft an astral lifeform out of the ghosts of stillborn children and implant her knowledge into it]]. Cyrus promises to raise it as his own child before {{Mercy Kill}}ing her.]]
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[[folder:Joseph Albright]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MakotoFurukawa (Japanese, present day), Creator/MarikoHigashuichi (Japanese, young), Creator/WilliamOfoegbu (English, present day), Creator/TristanBonner (English, young)
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[[caption-width-right:350:“I don’t make a habit of remembering every nobody’s name.”]]
-> '''First Appearance:''' LN Volume 2 | Manga Chapter 21 | Anime 1x8 "[[Recap/ReignOfTheSevenSpellbladesS1E08Rivals Rivals]]"

An arrogant boy born to the militaristic Albright family. He lost to Oliver in a duel.

* BreakTheHaughty: When introduced, he arrogantly believes himself to be the strongest of the first-years and therefore they're all "nobodies" beneath his notice. [[spoiler:He first gets beaten in a fair duel by Oliver, then knocked down for the count by Nanao when he tries to play SoreLoser by unleashing stinger bees on them. Then he gets kidnapped and raped by Ophelia Salvadori in her madness and has to be rescued by Pete, a MuggleBornOfMages and therefore the weakest of the Sword Roses at the time.]] You almost feel sorry for him by the end of volume 3.

[[folder:Evelynn Odets]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RinaHonnizumi (Japanese), Creator/CorinneSudberg (English)
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/evelynn_odets.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:“If you're going to give me a nickname, I'd prefer 'Galewind Evelynn' or 'Cold-Blooded Evelynn'.”]]
->'''First Appearance:''' LN Volume 2 | Anime 1x8 "[[Recap/ReignOfTheSevenSpellbladesS1E08Rivals Rivals]]"

A haughty female student who [[UnderestimatingBadassery overconfidently]] challenges Nanao to a duel at the start of the TournamentArc in volume 2.

* AdaptedOut: Nanao's duel at the start of the TournamentArc is AdaptedOut of the manga, and consequently so is the no-name student she duels with.
* InformedAbility: She's supposed to be faster than average at speaking incantations, but this is unproven given that Nanao beats her in under ten seconds: she only gets off a single ''Impetus'' before Nanao disarms her.
* NamedByTheAdaptation: She was unnamed and undescribed in the original novel. The anime gives her a name, NomDeGuerre, and description.
* RedBaron: {{Parodied}}. She ''wants'' to be called "Galewind Evelynn" or "Cold-Blooded Evelynn", but is stuck with the considerably less-threatening moniker "Speed-Talker", apparently for being unusually fast at speaking incantations.
* SmallNameBigEgo: She's convinced she's a much better mage than she really is: a background student mentions her having terrible aim and lousy visualization, and excelling only at her speed at casting. Nanao demonstrates that she's also not much good at picking her battles.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: She repeats Oliver's mistake from volume 1 of thinking that Nanao's inexperience with magic makes her a weak opponent, this time trying to defeat her with a spell from beyond the one step, one spell distance. Nanao blocks it with a Two-Handed Flow Cut (her first use of the ability in public) and disarms her in seconds.
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[[folder:Yuri Leik]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:“I dunno about anyone else, but if there’s places I haven’t been yet, I gotta check ’em out!”]]
-> '''First Appearance:''' Volume 6

A mysterious NewTransferStudent who joins the Sword Roses' second year class in volume 6.
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* DefeatMeansFriendship: {{Implied}}. He spends much of volumes 4 and 5 getting into various arguments with the socially awkward Teresa, which comes to a head in volume 6 when he challenges her to a WizardDuel. After [[RelativeButton he mocks her relationship with Oliver]], it degenerates into a playground brawl that ends with her breaking his jaw. Next time he shows up, a few months later in volume 7, they've teamed up for the combat leagues.

[[folder:Stacy Cornwallis]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KaoriMaeda (Japanese), Creator/MorganLea (English)
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[[caption-width-right:350:“Do you see now that you are outclassed? ‘I’ve read them all.’ Ha! Don’t get so full of yourself over one measly compliment!”]]
-> '''First Appearance:''' LN Volume 2 | Manga Chapter 17 | Anime 1x7 "[[Recap/ReignOfTheSevenSpellbladesS1E07Reversi Reversi]]"

A girl born into a [=McFarlane=] branch family. Chela's younger half-sister.

[[folder:Tullio Rossi]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/DaichiKanbara (Japanese), Creator/NickMarchetti (English)
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[[caption-width-right:225:“We ’ave been at Kimberly for six months, no? I think we should follow our seniors’ example and decide among ourselves who is the strongest first-year.”]]
-> '''First Appearance:''' LN Volume 2 | Manga Chapter 16 | Anime 1x7 "[[Recap/ReignOfTheSevenSpellbladesS1E07Reversi Reversi]]"

A lone wolf who taught himself the sword by ignoring the fundamentals, who organizes a dueling tournament in volume 2. Lost to Oliver in a duel.

* AccentAdaptation: He speaks in Kansai dialect in the original Japanese. Creator/YenPress's translator renders this in English as an Italian FunetikAksent to match his FantasyCounterpartCulture. The anime subtitles go with New Yawk, commonly used for Kansai-ben speakers; however, the dub follows Yen Press's example and gives him an Italian accent.
* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: In the novels and manga he's introduced in the conversation where he proposes the dueling tournament. In the anime [[EarlyBirdCameo he briefly appears slightly before this]] in TheStinger of episode 7, monologuing to himself about how much the Sword Roses annoy him without being formally introduced. Then in episode 8 he's used to replace an extra named Hughes as Pete's opponent in a sparring match (which took place later in volume 2).
* AttractivenessDiscrimination: Played for laughs when he says that he's targeting Oliver and not Nanao, equally FamedInStory, because Nanao is cute.
-->'''Oliver Horn:''' I'd sensed you were after me ever since you suggested [an all-first-years' battle royale] in the cafeteria. Did I do something to earn your ire?\\
'''Tullio Rossi:''' Nah, nah. I have nothing against you or your family.\\
'''Oliver:''' Then why are you after me?\\
'''Rossi:''' I do not like that you get all the attention and I get none. Is that not enough of a reason?\\
'''Oliver:''' You're entitled to your opinions, but I doubt I get more attention than Nanao.\\
'''Rossi:''' Nanao is cute, so she is exempt. I cannot [[FunetikAksent 'ate]] her.
* ExcellentJudgeOfCharacter:
** He realizes [[FightingFingerprint from crossing swords with Oliver]] in volume 2 that his chosen rival is much more than he appears. Rossi's self-taught fighting style is designed to counter orthodox sword arts, but Oliver trounces him with pure, ''perfect'' Lanoff Style--perfect enough that Rossi reasons Oliver must have spent an ungodly amount of time practicing under a very good teacher. [[spoiler:He'd ''better'' have done, given he came to Kimberly to kill six teachers and the headmistress...]]
** He notices the first time he meets Yuri Leik that there's something ''off'' about him. [[spoiler:Leik is in fact an ArtificialHuman ManchurianAgent created by Professor Demetrio Aristides to spy on the student body after Enrico Forghieri's murder.]]
--->"'is eyes, they are unsettling. Like a child peering into an ant'ill. ... I 'ave a feeling I could punch 'im in the mouth and 'is smile would not waver. And I find that honestly unnerving."
* FashionableAsymmetry: He tends to wear his school uniform coat with only the left arm through the sleeve and the rest of the jacket hanging off him.
* FunetikAksent: He has a noticeable accent rendered in the text--mainly an inability to pronunce the letter 'h' ([[ShownTheirWork which is silent in Italian]]).
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: He organizes the unofficial dueling tourney in volume 2, aspiring to be declared the strongest first-year, only to be knocked out of it by two losses to Oliver and Joseph Albright in quick succession.
* LatinLover: He's Ytallian ([[FantasyCounterpartCulture i.e. fantasy Italian]]), and makes more than one pass at Nanao (though without success since [[SingleTargetSexuality she only has eyes for Oliver]]).
* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: Union mages customarily wear a metal plate on the back of the glove on their off-hand. Rossi's self-taught fighting style uses it like an improvised buckler.
* TechnicianVersusPerformer: Even after adopting the Koutz Style to improve his swordsmanship, Rossi continues to be a showy, acrobatic swashbuckler, where Oliver's swordplay is still mostly by-the-book Lanoff and lacks any personal flair. Though after his duel with Andrews, Oliver admits that a bit of Rossi has probably rubbed off on him from sparring with him so often.
* TookALevelInBadass: After losing to Oliver and Joseph Albright in back-to-back duels, he follows Oliver's advice to learn the Koutz Style from the fundamentals. By volume 7, his efforts have borne fruit: together with Albright and Richard Andrews, they emerge the winner of their opening bout in the combat leagues with no losses.
* UnknownRival: Rossi fancies himself a competitor to Oliver both in swordwork and for Nanao's affections. In reality, Oliver is so far out of his league on both counts that Rossi doesn't register as much more than [[GoldfishPoopGang a minor annoyance]]. Oliver later even starts tutoring him in the sword.
* UnskilledButStrong: {{Deconstructed}}. Rossi eschews the three formal sword styles taught at Kimberly, preferring his own self-taught no-holds-barred fighting style: it includes punches, kicks, and using the metal plates all mages wear on the back of their their off-hand as an improvised buckler. Oliver soundly beats him because, as it turns out, learning the fundamentals of swordplay actually ''is'' rather important: he has no idea, for example, that there really is a good reason the major sword schools have few unarmed techniques, [[spoiler:namely that trying to attack with both sword and fists makes you vulnerable to grappling]]. He has, to date, only beaten Oliver once when WorfHadTheFlu.

[[folder:Evelynn Odets]]
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RinaHonnizumi (Japanese), Creator/CorinneSudberg (English)
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[[caption-width-right:350:“If you're going to give me a nickname, I'd prefer 'Galewind Evelynn' or 'Cold-Blooded Evelynn'.”]]
->'''First Appearance:''' LN Volume 2 | Anime 1x8 "[[Recap/ReignOfTheSevenSpellbladesS1E08Rivals Rivals]]"

A haughty female student who [[UnderestimatingBadassery overconfidently]] challenges Nanao to a duel at the start of the TournamentArc in volume 2.

* AdaptedOut: Nanao's duel at the start of the TournamentArc is AdaptedOut of the manga, and consequently so is the no-name student she duels with.
* InformedAbility: She's supposed to be faster than average at speaking incantations, but this is unproven given that Nanao beats her in under ten seconds: she only gets off a single ''Impetus'' before Nanao disarms her.
* NamedByTheAdaptation: She was unnamed and undescribed in the original novel. The anime gives her a name, NomDeGuerre, and description.
* RedBaron: {{Parodied}}. She ''wants'' to be called "Galewind Evelynn" or "Cold-Blooded Evelynn", but is stuck with the considerably less-threatening moniker "Speed-Talker", apparently for being unusually fast at speaking incantations.
* SmallNameBigEgo: She's convinced she's a much better mage than she really is: a background student mentions her having terrible aim and lousy visualization, and excelling only at her speed at casting. Nanao demonstrates that she's also not much good at picking her battles.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: She repeats Oliver's mistake from volume 1 of thinking that Nanao's inexperience with magic makes her a weak opponent, this time trying to defeat her with a spell from beyond the one step, one spell distance. Nanao blocks it with a Two-Handed Flow Cut (her first use of the ability in public) and disarms her in seconds.
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[[folder:Ursule Valois]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:“Sooo close! A little deeper, and it would have been all over.”]]
->'''First Appearance:''' LN Volume 9

The leader of one of the finalist teams in the school combat leagues, and a Koutz purist.
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* PoisonousPerson: Her body is so loaded with curses that people get sick just by being near her.

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* TheCorruption: She specializes in curses, [[MysticalPlague a contagious form of magic]], and is afflicted by so many it's a wonder she's still alive: just being ''near'' her is enough to sicken bystanders.

* OlderThanTheyLook: She looks like a little girl, but that's just because of the curse inflicted on her.

* TheGenericGuy: He's by far the most normal of the Sword Roses: he doesn't have any social baggage, deep secrets, or world-shaking special abilities, he's just a farm boy who made good and has an underclassman crushing on him (Rita Appleton).

[[folder:Ted Williams]]
->'''First Appearance:''' LN Volume 4

The permanent replacement for Darius Grenville as alchemy professor beginning in year 2, and a former classmate of Luther Garland.

* EnthusiasticNewbieTeacher: After the first class with him, the Sword Roses and their second-year classmates are collectively amazed that he actually taught a normal class--so much so that it makes Oliver suspicious that he's a WolfInSheepsClothing given how Kimberly teachers usually act. Meanwhile he confesses to Garland that he was scared to death he'd disappoint the kids.
* StealthExpert: He and Garland were in the same class at Kimberly and thick as thieves. They used to practice their stealth techniques by playing pranks on the teachers.
* UnexpectedSuccessor: {{Discussed}}: he got the job on the basis of a recommendation Darius Grenville apparently left before his disappearance, and was as astonished as anyone else. Ted remembers Grenville ridiculing him, but Garland recalls Grenville complimenting him behind his back.

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->'''First Appearance:''' LN Volume 1 | Anime 1x6

The professor of Curses at Kimberly Magic Academy.

* OlderThanTheyLook: She looks like a little girl, but that's just because of the curse inflicted on her. Luther was her underclassman in school.
* PoisonousPerson: Her body is so loaded with curses that people get sick just by being near her.
* YouKilledMyFather: [[spoiler:She is one of the seven that murdered Chloe Halford.]]
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* ChickMagnet: Just by the end of the first book, Oliver has become the apex of a LoveTriangle between Nanao (mutual) and Katie (unrequited). On top of this, Chela sometimes amuses herself by flirting with him, his cousin Shannon is overtly affectionate with him, and even Vera Miligan briefly makes a pass at him in volume 3 (out of [[AllAmazonsWantHercules sheer interest in his incongruously strong abilities as a fighter]]).

[[caption-width-right:350:“Enjoy not the sword of vengeance, but the sword of mutual love.”\\

* LoveAtFirstPunch: One of the ideals of the sword school she was taught was to "enjoy not the sword of vengeance, but the sword of mutual love"--meaning to seek joy in a duel with an opponent one accepts and respects. She finds that when she spars with Oliver. While talking her out of her death wish, Chela suggests she try relating to Oliver in ways besides swordplay to find that joy again.

* WhamLine: [[spoiler: "On the eighth night of the fourth month of the year 1525, ''[[YouKilledMyFather where were you, and what were you doing?]]''"]]

* WorfHadTheFlu: So far the only time his class rival Tullio Rossi has beaten him at the sword is in volume 6 when Oliver is feeling uncoordinated [[spoiler:due to the aftereffects of the battle with Enrico Forghieri.]]

* StereotypeFlip: Blonde girls with long spiral pigtails in WizardingSchool anime series are usually written as aristocratic {{Alpha Bitch}}es. Chela ''is'' a BlueBlood, but is instead a precociously mature TeamMom figure.