History Characters / ReignOfTheSevenSpellbladesUpperclassmen

* 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.

* FromNobodyToNightmare: Due to a FictionalDisability, Godfrey could barely cast basic magic when he first attended Kimberly. By the time he graduated, he was the StudentCouncilPresident and, in terms of sheer magic output had become one of the mightiest alumni in Kimberly history.

* SuperpowerfulGenetics: Shannon is a genetic throwback to the long-extinct [[{{Precursors}} progenitor demihumans]], [[spoiler:whose blood the Sherwood clan has been practicing [[RoyalInbreeding forced cousin-marriage]] to keep alive in the family for centuries]]. This is the source of her proficiency with HealingHands and {{Psychometry}}, [[spoiler:as well as her ability to cast the spell that allows Oliver to [[MergerOfSouls merge his soul with his mother's]]]].

* AbusiveParents: He's the result of the Linton clan using the [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gu_(poison) Chinese bug jar treatment]] on adopted kids: He was literally forced to kill and eat his own foster siblings. This did ''not'' leave him in a good headspace: [[spoiler:the only reason he's still alive is because Godfrey {{interrupted|Suicide}} his attempted MurderSuicide in the Fellowship]].

* 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.

* MentorOccupationalHazard: His alchemy mentor was consumed by the spell after tasting one of his creations, apparently thinking it so perfect that it spoiled him on booze forever. Gino arrived at their laboratory the next morning to discover that she had herself become a room-filling pool of liquor.

* MentorOccupationalHazard: His alchemy mentor committed suicide after tasting one of his creations, apparently thinking it so perfect that it spoiled him on booze forever.

* GraduateFromTheStory: Godfrey and Lesedi both graduate from Kimberly after volume 10 and are PutOnABus. We know from volume 13 that Godfrey went on to try out for the Gnostic Hunters but is shown struggling with the training regimen.

* 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. However, he does manage to lead his middle-year team to a 3:1 win record in the combat leagues.

* BrotherSisterTeam: She and Gwyn are rarely out of each other's company and form an extremely effective duo.

* BrotherSisterTeam: He and Shannon are rarely out of each other's company and form an extremely effective duo.

* 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.]]

* 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.]]

* 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.

* CustomUniform: He eschews the traditional student uniform entirely, in favor of a costume resembling a priest's vestments, befitting his chosen occupation of necromancy.

* 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.

[[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.

* 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.
* GraduateFromTheStory: {{Defied}}: He and Shannon graduate after volume 10, but because it would be difficult for them to continue helping Oliver with his SeriesGoal if they left the series, the siblings get research jobs at Kimberly.
* LiteralDisarming: [[spoiler:Demitrio Aristides cuts one of his arms off during the comrades' AssassinationAttempt. After he breaks free of the TimeStandsStill effect, he fuses his violin bow to the stump as a stopgap until he can have it regrown.]]
* 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 or to disrupt opposing 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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[[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.

* 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. She comes back in volume 10 as a teammate of Vera Miligan in the combat leagues.
* 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]].)
* SquishyWizard: She's a good spellcaster but a poor swordswoman, having neglected sword arts practice in favor of putting more time into her academic research.