History Characters / TheEminenceInShadowCultOfDiablos

* OhCrap: Not only Mordred was shocked that Shadow has escaped a dimension, something he thought was not possible but also learned that he ''plans'' to reveal the truth about the Cult of Diablos and more to the world.

!!!'''Debut:''' Volume 5 (Light Novel)

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!!Other Members
[[folder:Viscount Grease]]
!!Grease
!!!'''Debut:''' Volume 1 (Light Novel), Chapter 2 (Manga), Episode 2 (Anime)
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RikiyaKoyama (Japanese), Creator/JayHickman (English)
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* AccidentalTruth: He is the one confirming it. He had just learned about the highly secretive Diablos Cult and was surprised that outsiders knew about it.
* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: The Seven Shadow plans to extract info out of the viscount, possibly as painfully as possible.
* DubNameChange: He's named Olba in Japanese, but Grease in the official translation.
* OnceDoneNeverForgotten: His defeat at Iris's hands is considered this that it becomes his BerserkButton.
* PapaWolf: He's desperate to save his daughter, Millia so he joins with the cult to gain their help in curing her.
* TragicVillain: Grease's only wish is to reverse the "Curse" from his daughter which finally came for her years after his death.

[[folder:Zenon Griffey]]
!!Zenon Griffey
!!!'''Debut:''' Volume 1 (Light Novel), Chapter 3 (Manga), Episode 3 (Anime)
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MasayaMatsukaze (Japanese), Creator/ScottGibbs (English)
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A spellsword instructor at Midgar Academy and one of Alexia's persistent suitors who is strong enough to be a potential candidate for the Twelfth Seat.

* CosmopolitanCouncil: The leaders of the cult, the Knights of Rounds, are comprised of twelve individuals. This is relevant as their concoction for immortality can only be produced in twelve. So far, only four of them have been introduced, Nelson (9th), Modred (11th), Fenrir (5th) and Petos (10th), [[spoiler:in which the first three were slain by Shadow [[NoodleIncident while also killing the former tenth seat that it got Petos promoted]]. The others who shared the same fate are either powerful enough to become one (Zenon Griffey), a former member of the twelve (Lutheran Barnett), and one who's been promised a promotion by a member of the Rounds (Perv Asshat). The twelfth seat remains unoccupied at the moment and hasn't been for quite some time according to Fenrir.]]

* DirtyOldMan: When Natsume-sensei (Beta in disguise) asks questions about Aurora, Nelson takes an opportunity to ogle at her chest.

* SelfDuplication: He can make multiple copies of himself to overwhelm his enemies. This is rendered mute since the clones can't do anything since he's only one man and can't control all of them at once.

* TomTheDarkLord: Jack Nelson is a pretty mundane name for a leader of a centuries old ReligionOfEvil.

!!!'''Debut:''' Volume 6

!!!'''Debut:''' Volume 5

!!!'''Debut:''' Volume 6

* OneWingedAngel: [[AvertedTrope Averted]]. Once he realizes one Diablos pill is not enough to stand up to John Smith, he attempts to down the whole bottle... but John kicks him in the face to prevent this from happening. Under other circumstances, Cid would probably have been glad to tango with a more powerful opponent, [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness but Gettan's perceived "theft" left him in a very, very sour mood]].

* {{Irony}}: He is a fan of detective novels written by Natsume Kafka, who is actually Beta from Shadow Garden, the enemy of the cult.

* LeaveNoWitnesses: Dark Spider was sent by the Cult to assist the revival of the Diablos Arm underneath and was actually noticed by a student. He tries to kill said student to no avail since said student is [[WorldsStrongestMan Cid/Shadow]].

* OrganizationWithUnlimitedFunding: {{Averted}}; In Volume 5, it is revealed that due to the actions of [[spoiler: John Smith and Yukime, they are scraping the barrel for funding and can only afford to send 2nd & 3rd children to support the Fenrir faction to activate the Diablos arm under the school sanctuary.]]

* TakeOverTheWorld: Their other primary goal aside from [[ImmortalitySeeker immortality and power]], and by the start of the story, they already are running it they'll commit any atrocity to maintain their control.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: When Shadow Garden was first founded, they dismissed the organization as yet another futile effort to oppose them. Five years later, the organization expands tremendously and rivals if not surpasses the cult in might with them having several setbacks including: [[spoiler:the deaths of several Knights of Rounds members, a reduced number in the production of Tears of Diablos, the complete loss of influence in Oriana, and also losing their grip on other countries especially Midgar due to the loss of the Fenrir Faction ant the Thirteen Night Swords]].
* VillainForgotToLevelGrind: The Diablos Cult has ruled the world unopposed for so long, that they've grown complacent and failed to innovate. In many cases, the failure to innovate is purposefully done to maintain MedievalStasis. Then Shadow Garden appears to challenge them. In their hubris they ignore and dismiss the threat, allowing Shadow Garden to rapidly amass greater wealth and power until Shadow Garden surpasses the Cult in overall might.

* CosmopolitanCouncil: The leaders of the cult, the Knights of Rounds, are comprised of twelve individuals. This is relevant as their concoction for immortality can only be produced in twelve. So far, only four of them have been introduced, Nelson (9th), Modred (11th), Fenrir (5th) and Petos (10th), [[spoiler: in which the first three were slain by Shadow [[NoodleIncident while also killing the former tenth seat that it got Petos promoted]]. The others who shared the same fate are either powerful enough to become one (Zenon Griffey), a former member of the twelve (Lutheran Barnett), and one who's been promised a promotion by a member of the Rounds (Perv Asshat). The twelfth seat remains unoccupied at the moment and hasn't been for quite some time according to Fenrir.]]

* TheDreaded: He's regarded by Aurora as the [[RedBaron Midgar Devil]] who murdered countless people to achieve the peak of martial arts. And, true to that name, he manages to fight Aurora, [[HeroicHost using Claire's body]], to a standstill.

* EarlyBirdCameo: Loki was mentioned once during Fenrir and Petos' conversation on the subject of the latter's rivalry in volume 5 before he made his actual appearance in the next volume.

* TheMole: His true mission is to extract the Eye of Avarice.
* MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning: Lutheran gloats to Shadow that even if the latter kills him, he still frames Shadow Garden for his crimes and the world will be hunting them down. To his shock, however, Shadow literally laughs in his face as he reveals that he and Shadow Garden are not bothered having the world against them. Perhaps more importantly, his death ends up turning his daughter Sherry against Shadow, as she never learned the truth of what happened that day.

* LastRequest: Finally admitting he still deeply loves her despite everything, Gettan tells John to take care of Yukime in his dying breath. Alas, this would never be fulfilled as not only John Smith's relationship with Yukime is strictly professional on his side but he also completely misinterpreted his request as Gettan burying the stolen gold coins in the snow[[note]]Yukime means "snow" in Japanese and John thought he was pointing to a patch of it next to her[[/note]] or next to some Yew trees[[note]]The light novel's English translation has Gettan only managing to say "Yu..." before John cuts him off[[/note]] and had spent a long time digging up imaginary treasure before giving up.

* InformedAbility: Raging Gale is named after his supposedly [[SuperSpeed superhuman speed]] but the only ones he's compared with are Victoria, who was already running on fumes and near death from three straight days of massacring cult members, and Shadow, who rips out his heart at marc-speed before he even had the chance to blink.

* LeaveNoWitnesses: Dark Spider was sent by the Cult to assist the revival of the Diablos Arm underneath and was actually noticed by a student. He tries to kill said student to no avail since said student is [[WorldsStrongestMan Cid/Shadow]].

The ninth seat of the Knights of Rounds known as "The Transcendent Spellsword" for wielding the magic [[InvisibleMeansUndodgeable Invisible Blade]].

* AdaptationalWimp: In the web novel, Mordred was able to take on Epsilon and several Shadow Garden members with ease. In the light novel, he was nearly overwhelmed by both Epsilon and Beta and it's implied that one of them could have easily defeated him. In the anime, Epsilon and Beta also defeats him offscreen without any visible injury, and only spare him to gather information.

* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler:While still alive (so far) in the WN, he gets beheaded by Shadow shortly after his FusionDance with the various pieces of Ragnarok, the Ruler of the Fourth Hell Dimension. [[ChekhovsGun His head]] becomes a gateway to (and from) another dimension, specifically, the Japan of Cid's previous life as Kageno Minoru.]]
* DirtyCoward: Both Beta and Epsilon accuses Mordred to be this since all his power came from all the artifacts he had been using. Mordred was seriously pissed upon hearing that.

[- [[Characters/TheEminenceInShadowShadowGarden Shadow Garden]] ([[Characters/TheEminenceInShadowCidKagenou Cid Kagenou/Shadow]] ([[Characters/TheEminenceInShadowCidKagenousOtherIdentities Cid Kagenou's Other Identities]]) | [[Characters/TheEminenceInShadowSevenShadows Seven Shadows]]) | '''Cult of Diablos''' | [[Characters/TheEminenceInShadowMidgarKingdom Midgar Kingdom]] -]]] ]] -]

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/{{Mugihito}} (Japanese)

* BaldOfEvil: Alexia loves to take potshots at the man's lack of hair. When she learns about his secret to immortality, she thinks Nelson's baldness is the result of it only to learn that it's just natural.

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TakehitoKoyasu (Japanese)
!!!'''Debut:''' Volume 4 (Light Novel), Chapter 45 (Manga), Episode 20 (Anime, Cameo)

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The tenth seat of the Knights of Rounds

Two named Knights of Rounds with unknown seats

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/DaisukeNamikawa (Japanese)

* CastingGag: Modred is voiced by Creator/TakehitoKoyasu known for voicing [[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureDIO DIO]] in ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure''. Fittingly, Modred and Shadow's showdown involves the latter (An egomaniac villain) powering up to have a sky battle with the former (An exasperated AntiHero) even saying "Yare yare daze"[[note]]"Good grief"[[/note]].

* AdaptationalWimp: In the web novel, Mordred was able to take on Epsilon and several Shadow Garden members with ease. In the light novel, he was nearly overwhelmed by both Epsilon and Beta and it's implied that one of them could have easily defeated him.

* CurbstompBattle: In the Web Novel, he has beaten 664, 665 and even Epsilon, one of the Seven Shadows.

* CosmopolitanCouncil: The leaders of the cult, the Knights of Rounds, are comprised of twelve individuals. This is relevant as their concoction for immortality can only be produced in twelve. So far, only four of them have been introduced, Nelson (9th), Modred (11th), Fenrir (5th) and Petos (10th), [[spoiler: in which the first three were slain by Shadow [[NoodleIncident while also killing the former tenth seat that it got Petos promoted]]. The others who shared the same fate are either powerful enough to become one (Zenon Griffey), a former member of the twelve (Lutheran Barnett), and one who's been promised a promotion by a member of the Rounds (Perv Asshat).]]
* DwindlingParty: [[spoiler:They already lost three members before Cid enrolled into the academy with their numbers slowly windling as the stories goes on with Nelson, Mordered and Fenrir dying by volume 5.]]

The fifth seat of the Knights of the Rounds

[- [[Characters/TheEminenceInShadowShadowGarden Shadow Garden]] ([[Characters/TheEminenceInShadowCidKagenou Cid Kagenou/Shadow]] |[[Characters/TheEminenceInShadowCidKagenousOtherIdentities Cid Kagenou's Other Identities]]) | [[Characters/TheEminenceInShadowSevenShadows Seven Shadows]]) | '''Cult of Diablos''' | [[Characters/TheEminenceInShadowMidgarKingdom Midgar Kingdom]] -]]] ]] -]

[- [[Characters/TheEminenceInShadowShadowGarden Shadow Garden]] ([[Characters/TheEminenceInShadowCidKagenou Cid Kagenou/Shadow]] | [[Characters/TheEminenceInShadowCidKagenousOtherIdentities Cid Kagenou's Other Identities]] | [[Characters/TheEminenceInShadowSevenShadows Seven Shadows]]) | '''Cult of Diablos''' | [[Characters/TheEminenceInShadowMidgarKingdom Midgar Kingdom]] -]]] ]] -]

* LeaveNoWitnesses: The Cult will eliminate any person who has even the slightest idea about their activities as a rule.

* VillainousBreakdown: Rose puts a stop to Perv by killing King Oriana. He went mad because without his puppet king, he lost the ability to claim the throne.

[- [[Characters/TheEminenceInShadowShadowGarden Shadow Garden]] ([[Characters/TheEminenceInShadowCidKagenou Cid Kagenou/Shadow]] | [[Characters/TheEminenceInShadowSevenShadows Seven Shadows]]) | '''Cult of Diablos''' | [[Characters/TheEminenceInShadowMidgarKingdom Midgar Kingdom]] -]]] ]] -]