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aka: Dies Irae Longinus Dreizehn Orden

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Main characters

The main protagonists of Dies Irae, made of Ren Fujii and his relatively small circle of friends. They also include LDO member Kei Sakurai, being one of the main heroines.

Ren Fujii

Ren Fujii

Volced by: Kosuke Toriumi (Japanese), Brandon McInnis (English)

"If you could just get back whatever you've lost right away, wouldn't that make it worthless to begin with?"

Title: Zarathustra
Rune: ᛞ (Dagaz)
Major Arcana: The Magician
Zodiac Sign: None. Represented by ☿ (Mercury)
Ewigkeit Degree: Yetzirah (Kasumi route), Beri'ah (Kei route), Atziluth (Marie and Rea route)
Ahnenerbe: Bois de Justice: Pillar of Justice, Thrud Walküre (Kei route)

A lone wolf lacking in sociality. He may appear rather mature for his age, but is fast to lose his cool when complimented over his effeminate features - a trait that became somewhat of a complex for him. While normally agreeable with others, he draws a clear line between himself and the rest of his schoolmates, with the exception of a few close friends.

Unfortunately, about two months prior, a brutal fight inexplicably broke out between him and Shirou Yusa - his best friend - that left both of them hospitalized, placing Ren's already fickle reputation at school in complete jeopardy.

Following some events he comes into possession of Bois De Justice, the guillotine from the French revolution. Containing the soul of Marguerite Breuilh, this Ahnenerbe allows Ren to harness her curse to decapitate anyone whose neck makes contact with its blade, regardless of regeneration or immortality.

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• Abusive Parents: It is heavily implied throughout the novel that his adoptive father was less than a pleasant person. The anime is much more straightforward about it, portraying him as a straight up Mad Scientist who has had connections to the LDO for quite some time. And then there is of course the issue with Ren's "real" father.
• Achey Scars: The scar on his neck sometimes aches as the guillotine craves sacrifices.
• Adaptational Dumbass: Mild example but in the anime adaptation, Ren is shown to act much more on emotion and impulse. While a reckless risk-taker in both versions when it comes to combat, he is far less analytical when considering the risks he takes and in general just brute forces his way forward.
• The Ageless: Following the events in Marie's route, Ren ceases to age due to still retaining his powers. This in stark contrast to Kasumi who keeps on aging as normal and everyone else who reincarnated.
• All Deaths Final: In his views, the dead should stay dead and anyone who is trying to change that are just devaluing those who have passed. In Kei's route this belief forms the core of Eine Faust Scherzo, his Beri'ah.
• An Ice Person: In the anime, Ren's ability to stop time is portrayed as straight up freezing everything around him in solid ice.
• Artificial Human:Was created as Mercurius' Ahnenerbe, a merger of parts of Mercurius and Lotus' souls.
• Battle Couple: Between him and Kei in her route.
• Being Watched:
  • After mastering 'Formation' are all his senses enhanced allowing him to pick that someone is watching him during his, Marie's and Kasumi's outing. It turns out to be Ellie that is watching him.
  • Happens again during his battle against Kei on the bridge. This time it is Reinhard's gaze that he feels which overwhelming presence sends him running in an ardent panic.
• Blue Is Heroic: His main color scheme is blue, and he's an overall good guy.
• Claimed by the Supernatural: After he finally accepts the guillotine he is branded with the same decapitation scar as Marie.
• Cosmic Plaything: Lampshaded by Mercurius in Marie's route when he tells him that everything he is is a carefully arranged puzzle piece in Mercurius' plan that barely has anything resembling free will.
• Creature of Habit: He wants to live a normal life, because he find the 'unknown' frightening. This forms the basis of his desires and ultimately, his universal law.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Once he reaches his Atziluth degree, anyone short of Reinhard and Mercurius might as well just give up. Best shown at the end of Rea's route where he pretty much trounces on the Three Commanders.
• Deader than Dead: In Kei's route he gains a different version of his Beri'ah with the aid of Beatrice's Thrud Walküre called Eine Faust Scherzo which allows him to permanently kill the living dead.
• Deadpan Snarker: Quite a bit. His indifference to Kasumi's and Rea's antics are a good proof of that.
• Deal with the Devil: In Rea's route, after he resurfaces following Marie's bout of Grand Theft Me, he accepts power from Mercurius, forming Eine Faust Finale, something described as a hell equal to that of Gladsheim. This is described to have permanently altered him physically even after he calms down.
• Disappears into Light: Following Mercurius' death in the end of Rea's route he slowly fades away into light, content with what he had accomplished.
• Discard and Draw: After losing access to Marie's guillotine in Kei's route, he then takes Beatrice's Thrud Walklure.
• Double Take: After he is done talking to Rea and Lisa one evening, it takes him a moment to realize that Father Trifa suddenly appeared and that he is suddenly talking to him.
• Enemy Within: Upon unwittingly acquiring his Ahenerbe at the museum, Ren begins having nightmares that coincide with a series of decapitation murders in the city. This terrifies him to the point of actively avoiding sleep for a while, since he fears he's the killer and that he'll lose control over himself if he sleeps. However, while it's true that the murders are happening because his Ahenerbe is gathering souls, the true killer isn't him, but his childhood friend Kasumi.
• Fatal Flaw: His desire to keep his normal everyday life is both his greatest strength and his greatest weakness. Despite knowing of everything that goes on around him he still wants to deny the reality of things just to maintain whatever illusion of normalcy he can. This makes him overlook sometimes obvious things just cause he doesn't want it to be the truth.
• First-Person Smartass: Ren can be quite the smart alek in his narration of the story.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: Invoked by the LDO to make Ren a good enough adversary to them. Ren goes from a normal high school student to an Immortal God capable of going head to head with Omniversal Beings
• Gravity Screw: When Eine Faust Finale is activated it starts to distort gravity around him, causing it to greatly increase in strength on top of the time manipulation it already does.
• Hades Shaded: After he awakens to Eine Faust Finale, a power born from his rage and hatred, his skin noticeably darkens. According to the text, this change in skin-tone remains even after he has calmed down. This trope gets subverted at the end of the same route were he ascends as a god and still retains the same darkened skin color.
• Heroic BSoD: :In any route when Rea's true nature is revealed to him, but he has a particularly bad one when Mercurius tells him of his true nature.
• Hidden Depths: Going by some of his narration, Ren is quite knowledgeable in French history.
• How Do I Shot Web?: He has to spend quite a bit of time to learn to use his relic at even a basic level, struggling to even hit a can on a bench.
• I Die Free: In the aftermath of the Final Battle of Rea's route ^note The one where he participates in the battle, Ren Disappears into Light with no regrets, looks forward to being reincarnated in Marie's world, free from Mercurius's manipulations, all with a smile on his face.
• Impossibly Cool Clothes: Wears this when he faces against both Reinhard and Mercurius, in the Final Battle of Rea's Route. In contrast to the German military uniforms of his opponents, Ren is clad in a cross between Bodhisattva vestments and Samurai armor.
• It's All My Fault: Develops a guilt-complex in Rea's route, feeling that all the bad things that happened in the city where the fault of his own existence.
• I Just Want to Be Normal: All Ren wants is a normal life with his friends but the story forces him to abandon in it in order to play his part in Mercurius's grand opera.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: For all his rudeness, Ren cares deeply about his friends and desires to live a normal life with them.
• Madness Mantra: When he really looses it in Eine Faust Finale, he only seems to be able the shout "death" over and over again.
• Magic Pants: Upon entering Eine Faust Finale, all his clothes get destroyed except for his pants.
• Medium Awareness: Played for Laughs When Kasumi notices Marie being naked in his bed, Ren takes note of that the BGM switched to a much more sinister one.
• Mercy Kill: Decides to kill Cain in Kasumi's route out of mercy believing that whoever he used to be, he would not want to be this kind of rampaging monstrosity.
• Merger of Souls: He was created by Mercurius from Lotus Reichhart's soul and part of his own soul. In the true ending of Rea's route, Ren completely purges Mercurius from his being and becomes a straight-up reincarnation of Lotus.
• Nigh-Invulnerability: Once he achieves Atziluth degree, he himself exists as an ephemeral moment at all times. In effect, it makes it impossible to hurt him by most means since his current state is locked. Even Machina's all erasing fists are left useless against it.
• One-Hit Kill: His Ahnenerbe, Bois de Justice allows him to instantly kill almost anyone, including immortals, provided he hits the neck.
• Ordinary High-School Student: And he would love to remain that way, too bad Mercurius has other plans...
• Parental Abandonment: Ren assumes this for what happened to his parents for most of his life, up until he meets Mercurius.
• Physical God: By the end of Marie and Rea's routes.
• Power Dyes Your Hair: In Eine Faust Finale, his hair becomes red.
• Quality over Quantity: He has only one soul, but his own soul is so powerful so he is at least comparable to the LDO members who have thousands of souls.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Delivers one to Spinne after having finally heard him out on his motivations:
  "In short, you are the small fry in their group. The hell makes you think your ugly face can spout that kinda shit, huh? You third-rate grunt. You're an idiot. A dumbass and a pussy."
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The literal blue to Shirou's red due to their Color Motif. Ren is reserved, keeps his head low and just wants to be left alone, Shirou is outgoing, reckless and wants a life full of unpredictability.
• Red Sky, Take Warning: In Eine Faust Finale.
• Reluctant Warrior: He decides to give up his normal life and fight the LDO for the sake of keeping his friends safe.
• Scarf of Asskicking: His signature white scarf, and while he initially only wears to hide the scar on his neck, he eventually grows skilled enough that it counts as one.
• Super-Speed: His first Beri'ah, Eine Faust Overture increases his speed by accelerating his own time. The version of it he get's after being empowered by Mercurius, Eine Faust Finale, slows down time around him on top of speeding up his own. In this state only Schrieber is able to out-speed him.
• Time Stands Still: His Atziluth, Res Novae - Also Sprach Zarathustra, born from his desire to maintain a normal, consistent life.
• This Cannot Be!: He is initially in denial that Father Trifa is a member of the LDO due to the implication it has with Rea. He only accepts it once there is no longer any shred of doubt.
• Took a Level in Badass: His encounters with the LDO turn him from an everyday high-school student, to an Omniversal God.
• Too Much Alike: With Sakurai.
• Tsundere: Male example and another trait he shares with Kei. While he can be quite prickly on the surface, he can also be a surprisingly sweet guy underneath.
• Unstoppable Rage: Eine Faust Finale, again.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Early on he has somewhat of a phobia for blades. This later revealed to be because of his relation of blades to the memory of when he and Shirou killed Kasumi's father with a knife.

Shirou Yusa

Shirou Yusa

Voiced by: Takeshi Maeda (Japanese), Austin Tindle (English)

"Men that keep yapping on about shit at the sidelines while women do all the fighting can go to hell."

Title: Georgius
Rune: ᚾ (Naudiz)
Major Arcana: Death
Zodiac Sign: ♏(Scorpio)
Ewigkeit Degree: Yetzirah
Ahnenerbe: Die Blutgräfin: Elizabeth Bathory's Diary (Kei route, Marie route), Qliphoth Bacikal (Rea route)

Ren's best friend since childhood. He is a genius skilled in all sorts of fields, but as a result, he finds life boring. As a constant thrill-seeker, he acts recklessly and even incited a brutal fight with Ren, ultimately breaking off their friendship. As a result, he vanished from school and has not been heard from since.

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• The Ace: Charismatic, skilled with firearms, is incredibly intelligent (when he wants to be), is a quick learner and has the gift of Foreknowledge letting him know what's going to happen.
• Arch-Enemy: To Wilhelm.
• Allergic to Routine: Polar opposite to Ren, who wants to live a normal life. For the longest time, Shirou was willing to put up with it, but the story begins with him announcing his desire to break away from it, thus causing his and Ren's fight at the school rooftop.
• Anti-Magic: His Yetzirah.
• Back-to-Back Badasses: One of the CGs with him and Ellie have both of them pull out their guns in style
• Badass Longcoat: Rocks a pretty sweet, one-armed varient of one.
• Badass Normal: The only normal human who's ever defeated an Ewigkeit user.
• Battle Couple: He and Ellie often fight together and often in perfect sync.
• Big Damn Heroes: In Kasumi's and Kei's routes he appears just in the nick of time as Ren is confronted with Reinhard's shadow to bail him out of there.
• Birds of a Feather: With Ellie.
• Bizarre and Improbable Ballistics: It is mentioned by the narrative that the bullets he fires from his gun seem to defy basic laws of ballistics and physics.
• Blood Knight: Shirou lives for the thrills of the unknown, and mostly finds them in fights where he is hopeless outmatched. Subverted once his feeling of deja vu kicks in, he loses any of said joy.
• Combat Clairvoyance: His Foreknowledge allows him to predict his enemy's moves.
• Combat Pragmatist: He really doesn't give a shit about fighting fair and will resort to any dirty tricks when fighting the LDO.
• Cool Bike: Owns a Honda Valkyrie Rune, a limited run bike with a 1800cc flat-6 monster of an engine.
• Déjà Vu: One of the most extreme examples. He suffers constant Foreknowledge. It later turns out that they are echoes of previous timelines.
• Empowered Badass Normal: When he gets Rusalka's Ahnenerbe.
• Feel No Pain: Rarely inconvenienced by pain.
• Finger Gun: Does a finger gun motion after running over a frozen solid Wilhelm.
• Foil: To Ren in nearly every single way.
  • Ren wants to live an ordinary life, while Shirou craves for something new and unknown.
  • Ren has four Love Interests that he chooses based on dialogue and decisions, Shirou always hooks up with Eri.
  • Ren acquires his Ahnenerbe on his own, Shirou steals one.
• Gangsta Style: Ellie points out in ''Wehrwolf'', that this style dislocated his wrist.
• Go Out with a Smile: Dies with a smile on his face as he expires from his injuries following his battle with Wilhelm, seemingly content with the thrill it offered.
• Guile Hero: Compensates for the immense disparity in power of his opponents by using his wits and plain guts to beat them.
• Guns Akimbo: He used it before, but, since Ren broke one of his guns, he doesn't do it onscreen.
• Hand Cannon: Wields a Desert Eagle as his firearm of choice. The narrative itself literally calls it a hand cannon.
• Heroic Suicide: In Rea's route he kills himself after his fistfight with Ren which releases the souls he had stolen from Wilhelm and opens the last swastika, fully bringing Reinhard into our realm and thus giving Ren the chance to put him down for good.
• Human Pincushion: Ends up skewered from all directions by Wilhelm's stakes in their final battle of Kasumi's route.
• Inciting Incident: His decision to cut all ties with Ren and pick a fight with him is what sets Ren onto the path of discovering Marie and falling into Mercurius's schemes.
• Instant Expert: For Ren, it took more than a week to learn to use Assiah and about the same time to learn Yetzirah, but Yusa learnt them instantly when he acquired Rusalka's Ahnenerbe.
• Japanese Delinquents: Lead the lowlifes at "The Bottomless Pit" at some point before the story.
• Jumped at the Call: Contrasting Ren's reluctance with engaging with the LDO, Shirou is all too eager to fight these supernatural beings.
• Kill It Through Its Stomach: He has a very strong soul. In Marie's route, when Rusalka tried to absorb it, he tore up her from inside. In Rea's route, he's able to successfully escape Wilhelm's body after he dies fighting Schreiber.
• Kill It with Fire: As one of the vampires weaknesses is fire, Shirou then attempted to get at Wilhelm with a grenade. It didn't work. Except, the grenade was not his real goal. Rather he was after was to open up the roof to the now burning church to let air in, causing a massive backdraft. And it proved quite effective indeed.
• Kill It with Ice: Attempts to kill Wilhelm with a thermos filled with liquid nitrogen. It unfortunately doesn't work.
• The Lancer: Fits all of the classical criteria of the typical Lancer role while still playing with it in some interesting ways.
• Left-Handed Mirror: Wields his gun with his left hand, in contrast to Ren, who wields his blade right handed.
• Leitmotif: dumme Marionette
• Making the Choice for You: Ren was caught in a Sadistic Choice over wanting to kill Kasumi's father who was implied to not be a particularly good person, and risk ruining his ordinary life and inflicting him with the guilt over killing someone who had taken him in as a child. Shirou decides to make that decision for him by killing Kasumi's father instead of Ren and having help him cover up the murder.
• Mirror Character: Surprisingly, the person he has the most in common with, is Reinhard. Both are exceptionally talented yet bored with what their lives have become, not helping is that they both share foreknowledge of the world around them. However a violent encounter with a blue haired individual (Ren and Mercurius) leads them into desiring what they want the most. (For Reinhard, a Worthy Opponent for his worth and for Shirou, an opportunity for excitement and unpredictability.)
• Mutual Kill: Manages to kill Wilhelm in Kasumi's route but ends up dying from his injuries. Something similar again happens to him and Ellie in Marie's route in their fight against Schreiber.
• Nerves of Steel: Those who witness and survive an encounter with the LDO are usually too awed by their overwhelming power to even speak, the first thing Shirou says after meeting them was complain that they ruined his car.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Rare are the times he loses his unflappable attitude, but the times he does one can be sure of that things are serious.
• Official Couple: Unique for a visual novel with multiple routes, he hooks up with Ellie. Rusalka even compares them to Bonnie and Clyde
• Plot Armor: One of the strangest cases where the character who has the plot armor is fully aware of it, desires to test it out in every possible way and forms the basis of Shirou's "devil may care" attitude.
• Rage Breaking Point: Usually pretty calm, except at one point during Kei's Route where he learns who Mercurius is.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Delivers a vicious verbal smack-down to Ren at the end of Rea's route, picking apart his ideals and methods while both beat each-other senseless.
• Screw Destiny: Suffice to say, he doesn't like being told what to do, be it by man, god or destiny.
• Sharing a Body: After tearing out of Rusalka's body in Marie's route. He manages to take Ellies soul out with him. With her soul inhabiting his body. The same happens, when he leaves Wilhelm's dying body in Rea's route, where Kasumi is also saved in addition to Ellie.
• Smoking Is Cool: Even having a sprite with him smoking.
• Super-Reflexes: Thanks to a mixture of powerful drugs and his constant Déjà Vu he is able to react and keep up with the far stronger and faster members of the LDO.
• Surprisingly Realistic Outcome:
  • His love for firing his Hand Cannon's one handed is cool and all, but still doesn't change the fact that doing this dislocates his wrist at best, shatters it at worst.
  • Sure, being a Badass Normal and a Genius Bruiser makes Shirou an incredibly crafty and gifted person but it doesn't really mean a whole lot when he's up against enemies who literally defy reality itself. In Kasumi's route, he only really gets a win over Wilhelm because of his various Vampire Weakness's caused by activating his Beri'ah and even then, he dies shortly afterwards. This however, does not apply when he gains (or rather, steals) his own Ahnenerbe which turns him into a truly dangerous force. Compare his fights with Wilhelm when he doesn't have an Ahnenerbe where he's constantly on the defensive to his fight with him in Marie's route where the two were nearly even, (keep in mind that Wilhelm has over 60 years of combat experience, has his Beri'ah activated that makes him even more powerful while also doubling said power when used at night to Shirou who had literally gotten his Ahnenerbe minutes before they fought again).
• Trick Bullet: Uses things such as bullets made of silver as various ways to deal with Wilhelm. After attaining Die Blutgräfin his bullet then get a magic effect added to them.
• Thrill Seeker: He jumps into Ren's war with LDO mainly for the excitement and thrills.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: With Ren. This is intentional on Mercurius's part, who framed a relationship that was similar to his and Reinhard's.

Eri Honjou

Eri "Ellie" Honjou

Voiced by: Makino Yoshina (Japanese), Elizabeth Maxwell (English)

"Praying to a cross is about as messed up as praying to a guillotine or an electric chair."

Daughter of a prestigious hospital's director and Shirou's partner in crime, the two met while Shirou was being treated at a hospital and planned to bust Shirou out before Ren woke up. She goes by the name Ellie to distance herself from her daylife. She is quick on her feet, possess a broad range of knowledge, and is brilliant both in brains and brawn. She resembles Shirou in that her self-destructive tendencies end up endangering those who keep her company.

Her sole joy lies in sharing in that transient excitement with Shirou. Although she realizes that kind of life might send her to an early grave she does not appear to care in the slightest

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• Battle Couple: She often fights alongside Shirou, even losing her physical body doesn't stop her from fighting at his side.
• Birds of a Feather: Smart, wise-cracking, and likes messing with everyone around her. It's no wonder why she and Shirou are able to hit it off so easily.
• The Cracker: She can hack government computers.
• The Gadfly: Constantly enjoys getting a rise out of others. Ren, at one point, notes this to be one of the reasons why she's a perfect match for Shirou.
• Girl Friday: Provides a lot of essential help to Shirou's reckless endeavors.
• Gratuitous English: Occasionally spices up her sentences with a few English words.
• Hackette: Wire tapping and hacking are all part of her forte. An early demonstration of her skill has her hack U.N.'s most secure serves to gather information on the L.D.O.'s members.
• Hand Cannon: Uses the infamous .500 S&W Magnum as her main weapon.
• It Amused Me: Pretty much half of her antics can be summed up as her doing it simply cause she can.
• Living a Double Life: By her own admission. At day, she's Eri, a Proper Lady attending a prestigious, exclusive, all girls school in Suwahara. At night, she's Ellie, a Lad-ette residing with lowlifes in Suwahara's Wretched Hive, "The Bottomless Pit".
• The Medic: Justified, she's the daughter to a hospital's director and has shown a certain degree of skill in medical treatment, most often patching up Shirou after his latest escapades.
• Nerves of Steel: She never really loses her cool throughout the novel, with even Shirou hamming it up on occasion.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Only once in the entire novel does she ever lose her nerves, namely when Shirou is close to dying from his injuries in his final battle with Wilhelm.
• Official Couple: With Shirou.
• Our Ghosts Are Different: In Marie's route after Shirou steals Die Blutgräfin from Rusalka, she is able to manifest herself with a physical body just like with Ren and Marie. Unlike them though, she uses this to fight alongside Shirou.
• Panty Thief. In Kei's route. She takes Kei's underwear as "payment" for her(Kei) medical treatment.
• Reading Lips: She can read lips. According to her, it's a self taught skill.
• Smoking Is Cool: As shown in her picture.
• This Page Will Self-Destruct: At one point she rigs Ren's phone to self destruct after they finished talking, just for shits and giggles.
• Troll: She really likes to mess with people, oftentimes in ways beyond what is usually considered sane or safe.

Kasumi Ayase

Kasumi Ayase

Voiced by: Michiru Yuimoto (VN), Ayaka Fukuhara (2017 Anime) (Japanese), Madeleine Morris (English)

"You always make that face when you're hiding something from me."

The head of the Kendo Club. Unyielding and masculine, she and Ren share a rather masochistic relationship. Unlike the infamous Ren, Kasumi is cheerful and sociable, her fame further amplified by her national-level fencing skills. She has a generally rough personality, but when it comes to Ren, she's prone to worrying and being fussy. She has a tendency to try and act the older sister from time to time, but she neither looks, nor feels the part.

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• All Just a Dream: Subverted. After she regains her memories of the murders she committed she acts as if she had some kind of nightmare. Except it is all a lie, she knows very well that it was real but doesn't want Ren to know that she remembers.
• Angrish: When she spots that Marie is naked together with Ren in his bed she get so pissed off that she fails to form any sort of coherent sentences.
• The Atoner: In her own route, Rusalka sadistically tortures her and reminds her of all the murders she committed under Mercurius's influence. As a result, her goal becomes trying to free Ren from his struggles so that she can go to hell in peace.
• Bound and Gagged: When Eri brings Kasumi to the Bottomless Pit, instead of bringing her there normally she instead kidnaps her, ties her up top to bottom, gags her, and then put her inside a bodybag. Neither Ren nor Kasumi were all that amused.
• But Not Too Foreign: She's a direct descendant of Reinhard Heydrich and Lisa Brenner who inherited some Japanese genes down the line.
• Childhood Friend Romance: In her route.
• Color Failure: Suffers a variation were all of her colors invert after Ren tells her that he sent all of the magazines (including the dirty ones) she gave him during his stay at the hospital to her home, and in turn, her mother.
• Cool Old Lady: In Marie's epilogue.
• Curtains Match the Windows: She has auburn hair and brown eyes.
• Cuteness Overload: After hanging around Marie for a while and having given her clothes, Kasumi can't contain herself and suddenly glomps Marie and begins to snuggle her thinking that she is so cute.
• Damsel in Distress: Frequently gets herself caught, leading to Ren comparing her to Princess Peach.
• Deal with the Devil: In Sakurai's route, Mercurius offers to save Ren and her other friends as long as she agrees to his simple demand of birthing and raising a child. She agrees, but promises that he will be defeated eventually.
• Eating Contest: When she and Marie both have a jumbo sized parfait, she turns into a sort of one sided competition to try and out eat Marie even though she doesn't catch the drift. Marie ends up out eating her regardless and within the half an hour time limit while Kasumi fails regardless of her speed eating and ends up going home with a stomach ache.
• Fiery Redhead: Her hair is more auburn than red, but she fits the trope.
• Genki Girl: Extremely joyful, enthusiastic and hotheaded.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: It's quite easy to make her lose her temper.
• Idiot Hair: Has one.
• I'm Going to Hell for This: Serious example. After she regains her memories of the murders she recalls a time her neighbor told her that "bad people go to hell", a moment that really stuck with her. And now knowing the truth of the things she did she believes that hell is the only place she will end up in when she dies.
• I Want Grandkids: In the Distant Finale of Marie's route, she express her wish for the reincarnated versions of Shirou and Ellie to settle down and have kids.
• Locked Out of the Loop: In every route except for her own. She is aware of that people are hiding things from her and it is a constant source of frustration for her.
• Malicious Misnaming: Shirou calls her Bakasumi ('Twitsumi' in the English release).
• Muggle: The closest thing to one among the romancable heroines. Then her lineage revealed that she is a Muggle Born of Mages.
• Orphanage of Love: In Marie's route epilogue, she has opened one of these where she ends up as the Parental Substitute of the reincarnated versions of Shirou, Ellie, Rea, Kei and Marie.
• Serial Killer: She's the one who commits the decapitation murders early in the visual novel. It's implied, however, that she's not in complete control of her actions, being driven to murder as a result of Mercurius's manipulations and her desire to be of use to Ren.
• Sole Survivor: In her own route, aside from a comatose Ren and a missing Ellie, she is all that's left from the cast. And in Marie's epilogue, she is the only member of the cast who has not reincarnated, besides Ren.
• Spit Take: Ends up spitting ice cream all over Ren after he compared their outing to a family one and Marie made an innocent comment asking of that would make the two of them married.
• Unwitting Pawn: Under Mercurius's influence, she becomes a Serial Killer who murders the citizens of Suwahara city at nighttime in order to nourish Ren's Ahenerbe. As a result, she unwittingly forces Ren right into the thick of conflict with the L.D.O and destroys his peaceful day-to-day existence.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: She is afraid of heights. Surprisingly, Ren didn't point this out despite knowing her for long before she refused to go to the amusement park.

Rea Himuro

Theresia "Rea" Himuro

Voiced by: Hitomi Nabatame (Japanese), Trina Nishimura (English)

"Don't you think God can be more than a little cruel sometimes? I'll make sure to throw Him a sucker punch for you next time I see Him."

Title: Sonnenkind II
Rune: ᛇ (Eihwaz)
Major Arcana: The Hermit
Zodiac Sign: ♍ (Virgo)
Ahnenerbe: Swastika

Ren's upperclassman. Just as popular as Kasumi. But while Kasumi's popularity can be categorized as more or less conventional, Rea is idolized by those of more peculiar tastes, as - just like Ren - she normally tends to keep her distance from those around her.

She exudes an aura of aloofness, her well-ordered features of mixed German and Japanese blood rarely betraying emotion. However, despite that initial impression, she is hardly the type to be cold to others. An "eccentric weirdo" might be a more apt way to describe her, all things considered. Incidentally, her home is also a church.

As a Sonnenkind, she acts as the heart of the Swastika which is also her Ahnenerbe.

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• A-Cup Angst: Is somewhat self-conscious about her somewhat modest chest size.
• Apocalypse Maiden: She's a Sonnenkind ^note german for sunchild, which makes her a core part of the Alchemy of Gold that will sacrifice all those within Suwahara to allow Reinhard to reach godhood.
• Armor-Piercing Question: Deliver an "And Then What?" question to Trifa about how he plans to accomplish his plan of endlessly repeating the Golden Alchemy if he needs a flawed Sonnenkind each time. They guy is left at a loss for words as he realizes this critical oversight.
• Brutal Honesty: She's not one to sugarcoat her opinions.
• But Not Too Foreign: She's a direct descendant of Reinhard Heydrich and Lisa Brenner who inherited some Japanese genes down the line.
• Color-Coded Eyes: Her eyes are violet, and it signifies she's special.
• Cooldown Hug: Gives one to Ren to snap him out of his berserk state in her route
• Emotionless Girl: What she tried to play herself as in order to avoid getting attached to others since she was aware of her status as a human sacrifice. It fell apart soon after she met Ren.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Jumps in-between Ren and Trifa at the end of Kasumi's route just as Ren attacks in order to pin Trifa down. Unfortunately as she is just a normal human, so she had no chance surviving it and they both pass away and are taken by Rainhard's castle.
• I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: She's had a crush on Ren before the story begins and comments that she's been in love with Ren before any of the girls have, though it's mostly harmless, she's content with seeing Ren happy for someone else.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: Almost no one refers to her by her real name. She herself seem to dislike the name and tries to reinforce the nickname.
• Punny Name: A character called her "Rea Himmler", after nazi occultist Heinrich Himmler at one point, that foreshadows the reveal that she is a direct descendant of Reinhard Heydrich.
• Significant Birth Date: December the 25th, Christmas and the date that the Swastika is supposed to be completed.
• Spanner in the Works: In her route, she inadvertently sets up the fight between Shirou and Ren on the rooftop on whether or not to kill her to prevent the full summoning of Reinhard. The ensuing fight delights Mercurius so much that he forgets his entire plans and causes his and Reinhards ultimate demise.
• Stepford Snarker: Despite her sharp tongue, in her route it becomes clear that it is just a front to hide her severe insecurities stemming from her nature as a Sonnenkind.
• Sugar-and-Ice Personality
• Together in Death: Dies together with Father Trifa at the end of Kasumi's route.

Marguerite Breuilh

Marguerite "Marie" Breuilh

Voiced by: Yui Sakakibara (Japanese), Jad Saxton (English)

"Odi et Amo... Hate and Love. I shall hate and love you."

A mysterious girl who appears in Ren's dreams. She is clearly not Japanese, but her background and true name are unknown. For all we know, she might be just a figment of the young man's imagination. A maiden of the twilight, she sings a loathed refrain with a pure, angelic smile. Could that scar across her neck have been left by a guillotine?

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• All-Loving Heroine: Becomes this near the end of her and Rea routes, becoming the new benevolent Goddess with the desire "to embrace all".
• All of the Other Reindeer: She was ostracized from a young age due to the circumstances of her birth and her odd behavior as she grew up.
• Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: At the end of her own and Rea's route she ascends and becomes the Goddess of the world.
• Big Eater: She manages to down a huge jumbo sized parfait with little issue in under half an hour. If Ren's narration is not meant to be hyperbolic, then that was over 6 kilos worth of desserts that she gulped down.
• Blank Slate: She starts the story with next to nothing resembling individual character. A big part of her arc as well as a crucial part of Mercurius' plans are for her to grow as an individual and have her own dreams and desires.
• Can't Act Perverted Toward a Love Interest: Downplayed, she starts out fine with waking up next to Ren naked, but once Marie begins to develop feelings for him, her modesty increases as well. In her and Rea's route, when Ren begins checking up on her for any kind of damage, Marie starts getting embarrassed over Ren checking up on her body.
• Character Tics: In the anime adaptation she is shown of having a habit of walking on tiptoes when barefoot.
• The Chosen One: Mercurius wants her to succeed him as God, and everything he did was to mature her enough to reach this point.
• Conditioned to Accept Horror: Due to being born underneath the guillotine and having been surrounded by death all her life she sees nothing wrong with decapitating people left and right as it is as natural as breathing to her. Even at her own execution she saw nothing wrong with it and calmly let let herself be killed.
• Demoted to Extra: In Kasumi's and Kei's route she pretty much disappears from the plot apart from a handful of scenes.
• Doom Magnet: Due to her Guillotine curse, anyone who makes contact with her ends up beheaded. Only Ren is immune, and her curse wears off whenever he's around her.
• Elegant Gothic Lolita: Kasumi dresses her up in some Gothic lolita clothes had. She didn't think she herself would look good in them and that they might look better on a foreigner.
• Fish out of Temporal Water: She is is a girl that has been trapped as a ghost in an alternate realm for almost 150 years, so things of the modern world kinda sticks out for her.
• Grand Theft Me: In Rea's route she temporarily takes over Ren's body to fight the L.D.O. commanders. Unfortunately, she doesn't do any better against them and only ends up causing him further mental stress.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold
• Historical Domain Character: Of a sort. Marguerite Breuilh is the subject of a Breton urban legend, "L'enfant de la perdition" (The Child of Retribution in English), reported by French author Paul Féval. It can be read in English here.
• Idiot Hair: Has a prominent cowlick.
• Incorruptible Pure Pureness: One reason Mercurius was so enamored by her was her complete lack of impurity despite her less than stellar life.
• Inn Between the Worlds: The Twilight Beach is her Gudou realm and is a place based on a beach from her home town of Saint-Malo. And as all Gudou realms exists outside of the Thrones influence beyond creation, it is unaffected by Eternal Recurrence. Ren occasionally visits the place in his dreams while Mercurius comes and goes as he pleases. It also acts as the scene for the final duel between Ren and Reinhard in her own route.
• Innocent Fanservice Girl: At first she didn't felt shame in being naked in Ren's presence, but after spending enough time with him, she develops modesty.
• Innocent Innuendo: Pre character development she is prone of honest and innocent remarks that she doesn't understand just how suggestive they come across as.
• Magical Incantation:
  • Downplayed, when she calls on her Atziluth at the end of Rea's route, she only calls on its name but not the full incantation.
  Amantes Amantes - Omnia Vincit Amor (May all your wishes find fruition in bliss)
  • While she doesn't have a full incantation of her own in the novel, she does borrow and have voicelines for both "Eine Faust Overture" and "Res novae — Also Sprach Zarathustra".
• Mundane Luxury: Given her background and the fact that she is from a completely different time period, it makes sense that things as simple as watching the skyline out of a window is so awe inspiring to her.
• Mundane Object Amazement: She is amazed by things such as binoculars and parfaits. Makes sense given that she is from a completely different time period.
• Only I Can Kill Him: She's the only person in the novel who can kill Mercurius. Reinhard and Ren can't do this since they are his parts, even though Reinhard as Mercurius' Apoptosis and Ren in Three Colours Route are equal to him.
• The Ophelia: Has aspects of this, due to her physical beauty combined with an unnerving tendency to sing about killing people.
• Our Ghosts Are Different: Even after death her spirit still lingers, bound to the Twilight Beach and the Bois de Justice. After Ren accepts his Ahenerbe she is able to manifest a physical body and can appear and disappear at will.
• Our Gods Are Different: According to the glossary in Interview with Kaziklu Bey, Marie is a full blown Transcendence God, also known as a Gudou God, at the start of the story. Mercurius' plot is basically to allow her to gain awareness of those around herself in order to change her desire from a self centered one to one that encompasses the rest of reality and allow her to be accepted by the Throne.
• Out of Focus: In spite of being such a mayor character she almost completely disappears from the plot in both Kasumi's and Kei's route, only having a handful of small scenes.
• The Pollyanna: Even as she faced endless scorn from her fellow man, she remained ever unfazed by it. In fact, she is downright unable to grasp the concept of sorrow.
• Pure Is Not Good: Early on she is described as pure without equal, yet it is also this purity that allows her to endlessly kill people without intent yet not see anything wrong with it.
• Series Fauxnale:Her route was the finale of the original ~Also Sprach Zarathustra~ visual novel, providing a definitive final battle against Reinhard Heydrich as well as showing how Mercurius succeeded in overwriting the old world of foreknowledge. It is also the route that leads into Kajiri Kamui Kagura. However, the later release, ~Acta est Fabula~ added in Rea's route, which expands upon the motivations of Mercurius as well as making him a direct participant in the final battle. Lastly, it also revealed the true origins and identity of the protagonist, Ren Fujii.
• Sins of Our Fathers: Initially, she was shunned by people of Saint-Malo as a result of her fathers actions during the revolution. This changed of course when her curse became known.
• Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: When she was just learning to talk she would cheerfully sing about the guillotine wanting blood, which unnerved her parents.
• Walking Spoiler
• What Is This Feeling?: When Ren confronts Reinhard at the bridge she start to feel some strange sensation she has never felt before. Ren notes that this sensation is fear and that she is afraid of Reinhard. This serves as the trigger for her developing the rest of her emotions and allowing her and Ren's power to grow exponentially.

Kei Sakurai

See Leonhart August at the Longinus Dreizehn Orden section.

Longinus Dreizehn Orden

The Longinus Dreizehn Orden is an organization formed in 1939 from members of the Gestapo, lead by the infamous hangman Reinhard Heydrich and the mysterious Karl Krafft. They were all former humans who were ascended as "Einherjar" thanks to Karl Krafft and became immortal warriors, forced to do his bidding and unable to die a "true death" as long as Reinhard keeps their souls in his castle.

LDO in general

• Action Girl: Every female member to some extent.
• Back from the Dead: They are all parts of Reinhard's Gladsheim, so they can be revived by him even after being erased from history.
• Badass Longcoat: One noticeable change to their uniforms when compared to the standard SS uniform is that it replaces the jacket with a longcoat in matching style following each members ascent to power.
• Bloodbath Villain Origin: All members need to have blood on their hands in order to be part of the LDO, either before or during its inception. Reinhard was a ruthless Hanging Judge. Spinne and Rusalka murdered their spouses. Wolfgang and Wilhelm murdered their parents. Machina murdered his friend. Trifa and Lisa killed their children. Despite being overall nice people, Beatrice, Kei, Kai, are no exceptions.
• Colonel Badass: Reinhard and his Three Commanders.
• Dragged Off to Hell: In the anime, instead of turning into ash when they die, they are instead grabbed and dragged underground by loads of skeletal arms.
• Drama-Preserving Handicap: Reinhard and his Battalion of Three can't fight in their full power without having all eight Swastikas open.
• The Dreaded: Despite being mostly in the shadows in the years following WWII, The LDO are an internationally wanted organization. The lower echelons alone fetch exorbitant bounties. While most LDO members being already very powerful, Mercurius, Reinhard and his Three Commanders scare even other LDO members.
• Fighter, Mage, Thief: Arguably, Reinhard's Three Commanders. Göetz von Berlichingen, who fights with his own fists, is the Fighter, Eleonore von Wittenburg, who uses long-range attacks, is the Mage, and Wolfgang Schreiber, who is specialized in speed, is the Thief.
• Genius Bruiser: Don't even think about outsmarting them. Most of the members have over sixty years of combat and war experience letting them know every strategy that could be used to try and hopelessly beat them.
• Ghostapo: The entire group is composed of people with various ties to the Gestapo, all possessing powerful supernatural abilities.
• Ironic Nickname: All of their titles might seem descriptive at first glance yet just about every member hates the name due to them understanding that this trope is in effect. For example, Beatrice's title of Valkyria might at first glance seem fitting given how she is a warrior woman seeking to arrive as a beacon of hope in battle. Dig a little deeper into the mythology however and one can see that the Valkyries role is closer to that of The Grim Reaper.
• A Nazi by Any Other Name: Inverted. They are Nazis In Name Only. Hitler is hardly ever mentioned, though their leader, Reinhard, was the head of the Gestapo and one of the most brutally efficient enforcers of the regime.
• No Body Left Behind: When killed their bodies turn to ash.
• One-Man Army: Even the weakest LDO members can withstand a nuke without getting a single scratch.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: They rarely use their actual names.
• Price on Their Head: All of them have ridiculously huge bounties on their heads with just the money from the weaker members being enough to fund an army.
• Really 700 Years Old: Since abilities provided by Die Ewigkeit include immortality, most of them look younger than they actually are. Most of them are over 80 years old.
• Reduced to Dust: They all crumble to ash when killed.
• Restraining Bolt: The Stigmata, the magical insignia that is placed upon their flesh, that can cause severe pain and eventually kill, those who go against the Table.
• Tactical Rock–Paper–Scissors: The three commanders each beat one of the others but is in turn bested by the other. Machina beats Eleonore, Eleonore beats Schreiber and Schreiber beats Machina.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: The three commanders are able to fight together in perfect unison, however this stems more from extensive knowledge about the way each one of them fights than any sort of cooperation. They have battled each-other so many times that they know their fighting-styles by instinct.
• Your Soul Is Mine!: Die Ewigkeit allows them to absorb souls to become stronger. Additionally, anyone branded with the stigmata will become one of Reinhards Einherjar upon death.

LDO I - Mephistopheles

LDO I - Mephistopheles / Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich

Voiced by: Jun'ichi Suwabe (Japanese), Dave Trosko (English)

"You would do well not to disappoint me."

"Ah, why can't you endure my touch? If a mere graze upon your delicate skin sends you shattering to a myriad pieces, how can you hope to withstand my embrace? Such cruelty. Why must this world -from the tiniest blade of grass to the vastest of mountains- be so painfully fragile. So be it, then. My love shall take the form of destruction. I shall ravage so I can cherish. I adore the weak that bow before me, as well as the defeated that bend their knees. My love expands to the vassals that rebel, and those that mean me harm. I love all and everything. And so shall I lay waste to everything before me"

Name: Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich
Rune: ᚺ (hagall)
Major Arcana: The Emperor
Zodiac Sign: ♈ (Aries)
Ewigkeit Degree: Atziluth
Ahnenerbe: Longinuslanze Testament: Covenant - The Holy Spear of Destiny

The leader of the Longinus Dreizehn Orden. Originally a high-ranking official in Germany, regarded as highly dangerous due to his seemingly boundless talent in all fields. Later, he bowed out of the public eye through the guise of a staged assassination, and formed the Obsidian Round Table alongside Mercurius.

Their subordinate members acted behind the scenes of WW2 and kept on destroying friend and foe alike. His acts of destruction reached their climax during the fall of Berlin. However, he and his three direct subordinates disappeared shortly afterwards, leaving their current whereabouts a mystery.

He wields the Longinuslanze Testament, the holy spear said to have pierced Christ on the cross. A weapon of unlimited speed, perfect accuracy and an all ending strike. It burns the minds and erodes the souls of all those unworthy to look upon it, with only the most charismatic being in the world being allowed to wield it. A criteria Reinhard meets.

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• The Ace: Even back when he was a normal human he was absurdly good at everything he did.
• A Father to His Men: Though his love of them isn't really what an average person would call normal, he's fond of the LDO and considers them his "irreplaceable shining stars" due to the beautiful and tragic stories that their lives are.
• Affably Evil: He's very charming and civilized, and is totally sincere when he says he loves everyone equally. Too bad his definition of "love" is very different from normal meanings of the word.
• All Your Powers Combined: He is able to freely use the powers of all of his Einherjar as the need arises.
• Animal Motifs: Lions.
• Always Accurate Attack: His Ahnenerbe, Longinuslanze Testament, has the properties of his Three Commanders' Beri'ah: it is always faster than its target, never loses, and always kills it.
• A Sinister Clue: He's the Big Bad and he wields his lance in the left hand.
• As Long as There Is Evil: He spouts some variation of either this or We Will Meet Again after he's thwarted or defeated in every route other than Rea's. In the epilogue of Marie's route, he's implied to have reincarnated as a priest with his beastly nature completely suppressed and forgotten, but capable of rising up again should the power of the Goddess weaken sufficiently.
• Anthropomorphic Personification: He is Mercurius's Apoptosis, which means he is the embodiment of his desire to die.
• Badass Normal: Even back when he was a regular human he was not to be trifled with, easily beating those who dared challenge him.
• Beethoven Was an Alien Spy: The infamous man behind the Holocaust is in this story the superhuman leader of a group of mass murderers and war criminals, seeking an opponent worthy to fight him and to ascend to godhood, wielding the holy lance that pierced Christ.
• Beauty Is Bad: He is repeatedly noted to posses a level of beauty that is as close to perfect as one can get, so perfect in fact that it skips from beautiful straight to unsettling as this should in no way be possible in a sane world.
• Beyond the Impossible: Under ideal circumstances someone would perhaps only be able to keep their Creation Figment active for a maximum of six hours, and the Emanation type tend to be able to stay active for even less time. Reinhard has kept his active for over 60 years at the start of the story thanks to using Isaak to help support it, something that would for any normal person be considered impossible. And even before Isaak was added to it he was able to keep his active for up to two months at a time.
• Big Bad: Of the visual novel as a whole. He shares this role with Mercurius.
• Blood Knight: His secondary objective besides creating his warmonger's paradise is finding someone who can finally fight him on his own level. When Ren (and Mercurius, in Rea's route) finally meet this criteria, he is downright ecstatic, laughing aloud in joy even when he begins to be at a disadvantage.
• Born Winner: From the day he was born he was destined for the kind of greatness that could never be fully realized in early modernity and was more suited for a conqueror of the world. It just took some prodding by Mercurius to make him realize it.
• Bring It: As Methuselah is thanking Mercurius for his help and threatening the L.D.O. of what would happen if they where to interfere with his plans, Reinhard's response? Shift Gladsheim into combat mode and readying his troops for battle.
• But for Me, It Was Tuesday: A variation, but pre awakening he viewed the whole deal around engineering the Holocaust as nothing more than a boring desk job, like a mundane math problem that needed to be solved in the most efficient manner.
• Character Filibuster: Though not nearly to the extend of Mercurius, he loves discussing hypothetics and philosophical problems just as much, and subjects Ren to a couple of them after Ren's capture in the start of Marie's route.
• Charm Person: He is able to get people to do pretty much anything he wants by virtue of just simply being that charismatic.
• Coat Cape: Wears his uniform this way.
• The Corrupter: The guy is scarily good at bringing out the worst in the people serving under him.
• Curtains Match the Windows: Has amber eyes to go with his blond hair.
• Die Laughing: At the end of Marie's route, he can't help but break out into joyful laughter as the Bois de Justice is digging itself into his neck, content with his final battle and finally being able to experience the unknown.
• Does Not Know His Own Strength: When he was younger he used to destroy whatever he interacted with by accident regardless of how careful he was. As he grew up he had to basically seal himself within his own body just to be able to function in society. His fateful encounter with Mercurius lead him to basically stop trying to hide it anymore and fully embrace his strength and all that came with it.
• The Dreaded: Everyone who knows him fears him, and all who meet him learn to fear him. The mere premonition that he was watching Ren was enough to send the latter into an ardent panic. Even Shirou was not afraid to admit that he peed himself a little from just driving past him.
• Dystopia Justifies the Means: He wants to turn the world into an eternal battlefield. A paradise for blood knights, hell for anyone else.
• Eviler than Thou: Pulls this trope on Hitler out of all people, mocking his corpse immediately following his suicide about how the man he thought was assassinated will now carry on without their Fuhrer, before having a toast with Mercurius as Berlin burns.
• Evil Is Bigger: Stands heads and shoulders above most of the cast and is the Big Bad.
• Evil Virtues: Subverted. He is more than capable of displaying virtuous traits such as honor, honesty and love among others, and yet he manages to twist and distort them so thoroughly through his own bizarre morals that most of them end up as far removed from any semblance of virtue as someone can get.
• Exactly What I Aimed At: After Ren and Rea manage to escape Gladsheim after their battle with the commanders, Reinhard fires a blast from his lance against them only for them to barely get hurt by it. Turns out he was not even aiming at them, he was aiming at the church where Rusalka lay dying, killing her and opening the sixth Swastika.
• Final Boss: Of Kei and Marie's routes.
• Forever War: In his Gladsheim, the Einherjar fight for eternity and revive after being killed.
• Gold-Colored Superiority: He's the strongest in LDO (except for Mercurius, although in his peak, apoptosis form he's equal).
• Graceful Loser: Upon his defeat in Marie's route, he wholeheartedly praises Ren for his victory and tells him that he should live and hold his head high. He departs with no regrets and gives Ren his blessing.
• Hair Antennae: Has a pair of strands sticking out from the rest of his hair. This is made even more pronounced in the anime adaptation.
• Hell Is War: Gladsheim for anyone who isn't a Blood Knight.
• Heel–Face Turn: Somewhat. In the good endings to Rea's route, he renounces his beastly ambitions and chooses to live and die as a man. Additionally, he also gives Lotus Reichhart, the original incarnation of Ren Fujii, a brief nudge in order to remind him of the promise he made to Rea, but other than that he remains the same Reinhard that he was throughout the story.
• Hijacked by Ganon: He essentially becomes the protagonist during the finale of Rea's route, realizing his true purpose and battling Mercurius in the route's climax.
• Historical Beauty Upgrade: While the real Reinhard was rather attractive, being one of the few members of the Third Reich's upper echelons to ascribe to the purported Aryan ideal beauty with being tall, blond-haired and blue-eyed, he was also known for a lanky build, and high-pitched pitched voice with laugh that was stated to be reminiscent of a braying goat which made him refuse to ever attempt public speaking. A stark contrast to the charismatic long haired Hunk with Junichi Suwabe's deep sexy voice and laugh shown here.
• Historical Domain Character: Unlike most of the other members of the L.D.O, who were either soldiers lower on the hierarchy, civilians, or criminals apprehended by the Gestapo, Reinhard Heydrich was a prominent authority figure and one of the most brutal enforcers of the Nazi regime. While the rest of the L.D.O could be considered Nazis In Name Only due to not being directly involved with Hitler or his genocidal ambitions, the same cannot be said for Heydrich, who was an active participant and orchestrator for the regime's pogroms and massacres.
• I Need You Stronger: Frequently let's Ren get away in order to allow him to grow stronger and become a more worthy adversary.
• Inn Between the Worlds: His Gladsheim is not part of the multiverse and has to be summoned back into the world through the ritual in Suwahara City.
• "It" Is Dehumanizing: While he looks down on others in general, he doesn't even acknowledge Isaak as a living being, simply referring to him as a "thing". This changes in Rea's route however where Trifa managed to convince Reinhard to speak with Isaak. While a small gesture, it was enough to change their relationship and to prevent Isaak's complete breakdown like with what happened to him in Marie's route.
• Killing Intent: His presence, even when he appears as a mere hologram-like shade of himself, is so intense and overwhelming that he makes people like Bey and Schreiber, who have never experienced fear in their lives, shake at their knees. When he first appears in person like this in the common route, both Ren and Kei freeze up like someone hit an off-switch on them.
• Large and in Charge: Is almost two meters tall with only the undead Tubal Cain being larger than him and is the leader of the L.D.O.
• Leitmotif: Götterdämmerung, Dies irae ”Mephistopheles”.
• Light Is Not Good: One of his titles is the Harbinger of Beguiling Light.
• Living Is More than Surviving: Prior to meeting Mercurius, he was living a pretty dull and monotone life as a Nazi official, just doing what he was told to, acting as a sort of problem solver to whatever issues the Reich had. Back then he considered it the proper life. After some prodding by Mercurius he finally decides to accept himself and his power, wanting to feel properly alive. And as shown in Rea's route, in one timeline Mercurius didn't even bother being subtle and just stabbed him in the chest to force him to remember the prior timelines. This leads him to reflect on just how empty his life had been and just how suddenly it could have been ended, once again leading to his awakening.
• More than Mind Control: He's extremely charismatic, to the point where he can make other people kill themselves and join his Legion just by speech.
• Mundane Utility: His Legion substitutes as an experienced orchestra, as he shows off when he invites Marie for a dance in his Gladsheimr after stealing her from Ren briefly.
• Night of the Living Mooks: The core of his power is the undead legion under his command which not only number in the millions, but can also be revived endlessly. On top of that, Reinhard is also able to channel the powers and desires of his followers, further strengthening him. Even his golden castle of bone, Gladsheim, is part of his legion and can fight on its own if necessary.
• No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction: He is extremely powerful, so he wants to fight someone who is at least comparable to him.
• One-Hit Kill: His Ahnenerbe is able to instantly kill whatever it hits as he is able to invoke the powers of his followers, including Machina's all ending attack.
• Only the Chosen May Wield: His Ahnenerbe can only be used by him, as it works only for the most charismatic being in the world, which happens to be him.
• Perpetual Frowner: Back when he was still a regular Nazi officer he practically never broke from his constant frown. Then he met a man named Karl Krafft and things kinda changed.
• Perpetual Smiler: Following his meeting with Mercurius and his subsequent boost in power, he practically never loses his smile.
• Red Baron: The Hangman of Prague, The Golden Beast, The Totenkopf's Black Prince, The Harbinger of the Beguiling Light and The Monarch of Destruction are just some of his titles.
• Satanic Archetype: His title is Mephistopheles for a reason. In true Faustian fashion he offers deals of either immortality or resurrection of the dead, making those who enter the deals to commit endless atrocities and will still be the end winner regardless of whether those taking the deals succeeds, fails or tries to get away.
• Story-Breaker Power: Back before he become the man he is today, he could casually knock out superhumans like Bey in a single blow and send Beatrice flying with what might be roughly described as a gentle pat on the back. After his transformation, he's so ludicrously powerful that he can fight Kei and easily beat her with one finger, without the full extent of his power at his disposal. In the climax of Marie's route, every strike of his that Ren doesn't tank implodes the city and landscape behind him for dozens of miles.
• Super-Empowering: If he wants, he can empower any LDO member. For example, he made Wilhelm comparable to Methuselah, despite Methuselah being stronger than Reinhard's Three Commanders, who are in turn much stronger than Wilhelm.
• Title Drop: Dies Irae is the name of his Atziluth.
• The Unfought: In Kasumi's route, he never materializes into the real world, and thus never faces off against Ren. Instead, he taunts Ren and Kasumi from his sealed-off castle in the route epilogue.
• Unblockable Attack: When invoking the powers of Machina he is able to ignore any defense with his attacks.
• Walking Wasteland: The anime portrays him as causing flowers and other greenery to wilt in his presence.
• Warrior Heaven: Gladsheim is a giant castle where warriors of all kinds can battle to their hearts content for eternity. And should his Dies Irae ever be fully completed he would then be able to emanate a Law of his own that would turn all of Creation into Gladsheim, a realm of eternal massacre.
• We Will Meet Again:
  • At the end of Kasumi's route he declares that he will be back with a new and stronger L.D.O. in the future and that he will not be so soft next time.
  • At the end of Kei's route, after his resurrection is foiled, he mock the fleeing Ren, Shirou and Kei by telling them it is but a minor setback.
  You can run but never truly escape. [...] The world shall never be free from the fire and brimstone of my ambition.
• You Are Better Than You Think You Are: At the end of Rea's Route, Lotus tells him that urges are just a part of being human and that there is nothing wrong for a person like him to have them.

LDO II - Tubal Cain

LDO II (third generation) - Tubal Cain / Kai Sakurai

Voiced by: Hiroki Yasumoto (as Tubal Cain), Takuma Terashima (as Kai Sakurai)

Name: Musashi Sakurai (I), Rei Sakurai (II), Kai Sakurai (III), Beatrice Waltrud von Kirscheisen (IV)
Rune: ᚢ (Uruz)
Zodiac Sign: ♉ (Taurus)
Major Arcana: The Hierophant
Ewigkeit Degree: Beri'ah
Ahnenerbe: Wewelsburg Longinus: The Holy Lance of the Obsidian Round Table

A series of wielders of the cursed Wewelsburg Longinus designed as a copy of Reinhard's Longinuslanze Testament and passed down by the Sakurai clan.

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• 11th-Hour Ranger: Joins Ren's Legion for the Final Battle in Rea's route.
• All There in the Manual: Any info regarding Rei is sparse within the game itself. Most info about her is from some side info released at a later date relating to Dies Irae Pantheon. The info reveals that she was an Action Girl, contrasting with Kei who is more of the Graceful Warrior kind, Rei was more of the Gritty Solider kind. Additionally, for her the Wewelsburg Longinus took the shape of an enormous bayonet at the end of an equally massive rifle.
• The Berserker: While normally calm due to being a hollow corpse, his fighting style is a brutal flurry of attacks with zero regard for self-preservation. In Kei's route it becomes even more noticeable when part of the souls absorbed by the false lance start to surface and are hungry for vengeance.
• BFS: The Wewelsburg Longinus, unlike the lance that it was based on, is one huge slab of metal vaguely shaped like a sword.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: Under Lisa's Ahnenerbe.
• Gone Horribly Right: Wewelsburg Longinus was an exact perfect copy of Reinhard's which included all of its abilities. However, the abilities came with a curse. Because it copied Reinhard's Ahnenerbe so well it copied Legion related characteristic, which gradually turning the wielder into a living, zombified Legion in itself. Only a member of the Sakurai Clan could wield the replica, and the wielder's soul became bound to the Spear, eventually reaching a point when he or she zombifies into a mindless state.
• Hereditary Curse: The third of his family to become Tubal Cain.
• Heroic Self-Deprecation: Kai holds a very low opinion on himself, viewing himself as rotten to the core. This in turn influences his Beri'ah which causes everything around him to rot.
• Hold the Line: Kai himself holds Reinhard as Kei, Ren and Shirou flee from the castle at end of Kei's route.
• Infinity -1 Sword: Wewelsburg Longinus is designed as a replica to the real Longinus and includes the ability to wield multiple Beri'ah's due to its curse.
• It Can Think: While Cain is supposed to be a mindless corpse, there are several times where characters are left surprised by him seemingly acting on his own and making actual decisions.
• Only a Flesh Wound: As he is just a corpse, deep cuts or even loosing his head is but a minor inconvenience.
• Lightning Bruiser: No pun intended. The Wewelsburg Longinus gives him incredible striking power and being an undead makes him extremely resilient to damage. And when factoring in his lightning speed and ability to become lightning itself, it's clear that he is an all-around powerhouse.
• Make Them Rot: One of the Creation Figments Cain can use causes basically everything within close proximity to start to rot.
• Morph Weapon: The Wewelsburg Longinus is able to change form depending on its user, it is a BFS for Kai and a katana for Kei.
• Name of Cain: Specifically, the Biblical Tubal-Cain who's said to be the first blacksmith.
• Nice Guy: Kai's a decent, upstanding man who's only really involved with the LDO because of his family connection.
• Poisonous Person: The Sakurai's Creation Fragments all involve some sort of poisonous infection but Kai's allowing him to decompose anything he strikes while also having anything that touches him rot to dust (even attacks such as Wilhelm's stakes are unable to pierce through him while this is active).
• Promotion to Parent: Kai, even though he was her older brother, acted more as a parent for his younger sister Kei alongside Beatrice.
• Ride the Lightning: Able to use his lightning abilities to turn into lightning and move around blazingly fast.
• Shock and Awe: His perhaps most recognizable form of attack is his black lightning as well as having the ability to turn into lightning itself making him unreasonably fast. This ability stems from the false lance having absorbed the soul of Beatrice.
• You Can't Kill What's Already Dead: As he is just a corpse controlled by the souls in the fake lance he is ridiculously difficult to put down short of completely disintegrating his whole body. And even then he is technically not dead as long as the lance is still in one piece.
• Your Soul Is Mine!: The Wewelsburg Longinus captures the souls of the members of the Sakurai family. It considers consorts of the Sakurai family members of the family, as we can see with Beatrice & Ren in Kei's route.

LDO III - Kristoff Lohengrin

LDO III - Kristoff Lohengrin / Valerian Trifa

Voice by: Ken Narita (Japanese), Ian Sinclair (English)

"Thou art bound not by evil, shackled not by sin - thou art free from chains, above taboo."

Name: Valerian Trifa
Rune: ᛉ (Algiz)
Major Arcana: The Lovers
Zodiac Sign: ♊ (Gemini)
Ewigkeit Degree: Beri'ah
Ahnenerbe: Heilige Eohl: Golden Divine Vessel

In the absence of the LDO's top members, this holy man acts as its temporary leader, as well as the one to govern the ritual serving their ultimate goal.

As a priest in command of their crusade, Trifa is an apostle not of charity, but of fanaticism. Behind his gentle smile, he formulates cruel and callous plans as he both leads and incites his subordinates to action.

His Ahnenerbe is the Heilige Eohl, the Divine Vessel, the physical body of Reinhard Heydrich. Acting as its caretaker, it contains all the souls that Reinhard once absorbed, a number so vast that they collectively become so dense it is like comparing regular carbon to diamonds. This gives the body nearly impenetrable defenses, leaving any attacker with very limited options of which to hurt him.

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• Affably Evil: His cordial attitude isn't really a façade and he seems to be respectful to Ren such as congratulating him on keeping himself together when he met Reinhard by himself for the first time in Marie's and Rea's route.
• Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Well Godfather, but early on in the story he comes across as a real goof who loves to talk about how it was when Rea was little and when he cared for her, much to her constant annoyance. Due to his deceptive nature however, it is unclear how much of this is genuine.
• The Atoner: A twisted example. His end goal is to, at the end of the day, atone for the children he killed. However he plans to do so by effectively recreating the Golden Alchemy on a smaller scale over and over again.
• Berserk Button:
  • Bringing up his past of killing the children he was supposed to protect is generally a good way to get on his nerves.
  • Calling him a discount Reinhard or anything to that effect will similarly set him off.
• Big Bad Wannabe: While a capable schemer, he is just far too outmatched when up against the likes of Reinhard and Mercurius. In fact, he takes the trope literally by trying to become the actual Big Bad in person and trying to recreate all that he is. He doesn't take kindly to being called out on the fact that he actually enjoys mimicking Reinhard.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Pretends to be just a harmless priest to Ren, despite being the Commander-in-Chief of the LDO.
• Blessed with Suck: His ability to read hearts and thoughts of everything around him was nothing but a curse to him that ate away at his spirit and mind resulting in him trying to find any way to be rid of it. It was to the point that he was seeking death just to be released from it. He found some relief in the pure hearts of children, but that came to an abrupt and bloody end.
• Can't Hold His Liquor: Get's very easily drunk as demonstrated when Ren first visited him at the church. Though given that Ahnenerbe users are immune to things such as drugs and alcohol its clear that this is just an act.
• Casual Danger Dialogue: He is prone of just talking casually and calmly as enemies wail on him. Happens most notably when Cain goes postal on him and Trifa completely No-Sell-ing the wild attacks, all while he casually asks for Ren's and Kei's assistance in getting the zombie giant off of his case.
• The Chessmaster: A low-key example given that he is up against the likes of Mercurius, but he plans and manipulates almost everyone in ways that are to further his goals. Unfortunately for him, he is often Out-Gambitted.
• Deadly Hug: He crushes Siegelinde in a deadly embrace.
• Defeating the Undefeatable: Variation, but the fact that he managed to escape from Reinhard is treated by his followers as an outright impossibility that they just can't wrap their heads around how it could even have happened.
• Didn't Think This Through: His whole plan to recreate the Swastika over and over again had one critical flaw that was so obvious that when it is brought up, he is left dumbfounded. Namely the fact that if he wants to do it, he will require an incomplete Sonnenkind each time, something that just isn't feasible.
• Discard and Draw: He gets reverted back to his old body in Rea's route, meaning he loses all the power Divine Vessel provides, and regains his mind-reading powers.
• The Empath: In his original body, he can read other people's minds.
• Evil Laugh: Engages in a pretty impressive cackle once Ren makes it clear that he fully intends to stand against the LDO.
• Eyes Always Shut: He only opens his eyes when he's serious.
• False Reassurance: He promised Kai that he wouldn't make Kei into the next Tubal Cain. He never said anything about not making her a member of the L.D.O.
• Final Boss: In Kasumi's route, he's the final opponent Ren faces, with Reinhard and his Battalion Commanders never showing up.
• Fingerpoke Of Doom: Stops Ren's flight on the bridge by simply taking advantage of his inertia and letting him run straight into his extended finger, knocking the air out of Ren.
• Foreshadowing: The fact that Trifa is able to kill Spinne by simply crushing his head under his heel might seem like a small moment but as the narration points out, it is very unusual. This is of course a small nod to the fact that his whole body is a relic.
• Glass Cannon: His Beri'ah allows him to use Reinhard's Ahnenerbe, which is the strongest Ahnenerbe in the entire novel, but it also brings his defense down to normal human.
• Heel–Face Turn: In Rea's route, he decides to abandon his deranged obsession with repenting his sins for all eternity, choosing to take the fight straight to Reinhard and his Legion in order to permanently erase the threat of Dies Irae.
• Hidden Depths: There is a lot more to this guy than what initially meets the eyes. Beneath the self assured and smug manipulator, and even deeper past his deranged persona, is just a simple, sad and lonely man.
• Historical Domain Character: Valerian Trifa.
• I Just Want to Be Normal: Due to his telepathic abilities being such a curse for him, he wanted nothing more than to be a normal man, to be someone else. However after he was brought back into the fold with the L.D.O. this wish was twisted into wanting to be Reinhard instead.
• Leitmotif: Lohengrin.
• Manipulative Bastard: He easily manipulated everyone in the LDO, except for Mercurius, Reinhard and his Three Commanders.
• Mask of Sanity: He is able to present himself as a somewhat bumbling but capable schemer, yet this façade hides a dangerously deranged individual.
• Mind Rape: In Rea's route, after having gotten back his old body, he uses his telekinetic powers to wreck Schreibers mind.
• Mundane Wish: Upon finally making it through a gauntlet to reach Reinhard, he stays true to his word and let Trifa state one wish. All Trifa wishes for is for Reinhard to talk to Isaak. Suffice to say, this leaves him momentarily dumbfounded over the wish's sheer banality. Unbeknownst to him however was that this was one final gambit by Trifa to throw of their plans and save Rea.
• Near-Villain Victory: He came oh so close to victory in Kasumi's route with him successfully sealing away the arrival of the commanders and setting Kasumi up as the Sonnenkind all while saving Rea and eliminating all possible loose elements. If not for Rea herself and the ghosts of his children, then he could very well have won over Ren. Though, given that he was up against the likes of Mercurius, it is unclear just how much of a victory that would actually have been.
• Nigh-Invulnerability: Almost as extreme an example as one could possibly get, due to having the corpse of Reinhard Heydrich himself as his holy relic. There are only three things in existence capable of dealing meaningful damage to him: Being overwhelmed by an impossibly large number of souls (that he doubts even exist anywhere in the world), a punch from Machina, or self-harm. That said, his defense drops to normal whenever he uses Reinhard's Longinuslanze Testament, as he has to tear open a hole in his chest to summon the spear into reality.
• "Not So Different" Remark: Points out to Schreiber that in the end, they might not be so different from each other as they are both walking contradictions, whose desires just lead them further and further away from their own ultimate goal.
• Official Couple: With Lisa in the epilogue of Marie's route.
• Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: Actually planned to invoke this trope in Kasumi's route. After Ren said that all of his ideals were second hand and that he was simply trying to copy Reinhard and that his body is getting to the priests head, Trifa reasoned that he then should rape Rea to prove that his beliefs are truly his own under the twisted logic that as his current body is the great-grandfather of her then if it truly was influencing his thoughts then he would be unable to go through with such an act of absolute depravity. Ren fortunately managed to stop him before anything came of it though.
• Sinister Minister: He's a priest that is the commander-in-chief for the LDO. And while he acts like a kindhearted priest, he can be quite nasty at times especially whenever his own views are challenged.
• The Starscream: Is constantly working behind the scenes to try and derail Reinhard's and Mercurius' plans for his own benefit despite appearing loyal to them.
• Stealth Expert: Is extremely capable of concealing his own existence when skulking about, allowing him to get the jump on pretty much anyone.
• Stone Wall: Reinhard's body gives him excellent defense (there are only 3 known ways to harm him), but he doesn't have any particular attack force in his base form.
• Together in Death: Dies together with Rea at the end of Kasumi's route.
• Wild Card: To Reinhard and his legion, his ultimate plan involves sabotaging Reinhard's summoning without getting the three commanders involved. His real goal is keeping Rea alive and in Kei's and Kasumi's route, uses Kasumi instead as the Sonnenkind.

LDO IV - Kaziklu Bey

LDO IV - Kaziklu Bey / Wilhelm Ehrenburg

Voiced by: Kissho Taniyama (Japanese), Aaron Roberts (English)

"State your name, kid. Don't you know anything about proper manners on the battlefield?"

"Ah, I need not the light of day, for the night shall be my chief domain. A true demon I long to be, reigning supreme in the dark of night; purged of this wicked bloodline's taint to be born anew as a maelstrom of carnage and terror and beauty - a phoenix born from midnight's ashes"

Name: Wilhelm Ehrenburg
Rune: ᚦ (Thurisaz)
Zodiac Sign: ♋ (Cancer)
Major Arcana: The Chariot
Ewigkeit Degree: Beri'ah
Ahnenerbe: Qliphoth Bacikal: The Dark Gift

A man with a long criminal record who served as a First Lieutenant for the infamous 36th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS. An albino, he shuns all light, especially that of the sun. In return, all of his senses magnify in the darkness, almost as if he was a vampire. Having embraced that nature of his as part of his identity. Wilhelm's designation and fondness for vampiric characteristics is no coincidence.

His Ahnenerbe is Qliphoth Bacikal, the crystallized blood of Vlad the Impaler, which he manifests as an endless number of stakes to skewer his enemies, use as projectiles, or as spears or stilts. Additionally they drain the life out of anyone unfortunate to become impaled.

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• Accidental Hero: Ends up saving Claudia from falling debris purely by accident while he was trying to vent some frustration.
• Arch-Enemy: Schreiber, despite the similarities, Wilhelm finds Schreiber disgusting and desires to kill him to achieve the Albedo knight status in Reinhard's commanders.
• Armor-Piercing Question: Delivers a question to Ludwig that makes him realize just how broken and one-sided his love for Claudia really was.
• Ax-Crazy: Goes without saying.
  "He was indeed a "monster". Sanity was no friend of his."
• Bad Moon Rising: His Creation Figment creates a blood red fake Moon.
• Berserk Button:
  • Bringing up his bad luck of always losing what he chases after is a good way to incur his wrath.
  • Pretty much anything relating to Ludwig is enough to get under his skin. Also, saying that nature is a nice place is another way to anger him.
• Birds of a Feather: Expresses interest in Claudia, who's also an albino like him and the first person to try interacting with him in a non-violent manner.
• Black Eyes of Crazy: In his Creation Figment, his sclerae become black.
• Blood Knight: The reason why he joined LDO is because he wants to fight anyone.
• Brother–Sister Incest: With his sister Helga.
• Brought Down to Badass: After his battle with Methuselah, he is cut off from Gladsheim's souls supply and spent pretty much all of his own. And what little he had left he ended up using to protect Claudia from being smashed against the arctic ice. Yet despite being on the level of a normal human, he is still capable enough to engage in a final duel with Ludwig.
• Casting a Shadow: His Creation Figment, among other things, creates darkness in its range, which provides him some defense against the searing light of Claudia's.
• Character Development: Shown to have become significantly more patient, less impulsive and just more in control of his emotions in the main story when comparing him to how he was back in 1944.
• Child by Rape: The result of his father/grandfather raping his sister/mother.
• Cool Shades: Has to wear shades due to his albinism, but he also wears them simply cause he despises the light.
• Curb Stomp Cushion: His battle with Schreiber was pretty much a one-sided beat-down in Schreiber's favor. Despite this he managed to keep getting back up to try and land a hit and eventually managed to pin him for the briefest of moments despite him losing pretty badly.
• Desperation Attack: When facing down against Claudia's Creation Figment, he is forced to use his own soul as fuel for the strongest version of Der Rosenkavalier Schwarzwald that he has ever used. A move used in pure desperation due to being left drained after his prior battle with Methuselah.
• "Eureka!" Moment: Has a small moment in Interview with Kaziklu Bey where he manages to figure the potential true purpose of Die Ewigkeit, namely to overwrite the law of the olden world and become a god.
• First-Person Smartass: Even as a protagonist in Interview with Kaziklu Bey, he spends most of his time mocking and deriding every people he's acquainted with.
• Flechette Storm: He can fire his stakes as projectiles whenever he feels like it, and often in massive numbers. While his Creation Figment is active this get's taken up a notch as he can then summon them from anywhere within the field of effect, not just his own body.
• Flower Motifs: Roses.
• Freudian Excuse: Wilhelm did not have a happy childhood to put it bluntly. First being born as the son to his sister Helga, and due to inbreeding he also ended up as an albino, and then forced to basically seek shelter in a box due to being unable to cope with the sunlight all while seeing his father either wasting away due to alcohol or constantly raping his sister/mother while he watched. His mother/sister wasn't much help either as she was kinda off in her own world. It all culminating with him both killing his father and raping then killing Helga. Despite this, he never uses his background as an excuse and only as a possible explanation if the topic comes up.
• Graceful Loser: In Kasumi's route he ends up saying some genuine praise to Shirou after being beaten by him.
• Hidden Depths: Interview with Kaziklu Bey shows that in his more lucid moments he can be surprisingly introspective.
• Holy Burns Evil: When he activates his Beri'ah, he gains a weakness to holy objects.
• Inbred and Evil: Born as a result of his father raping his daughter, Wilhelm loathes his origins and murdered his parents to escape his origins.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Heavily downplayed towards Claudia, the first person who cared for him and also a fellow albino.
• Laughably Evil: He is a man that waks up every morning and chooses violence, but it's basically impossible to not get a good chuckle out of his constant hysterical screaming at the top of his lungs courtesy a masterclass performance by Kissho Taniyama.
• Leitmotif: Rozen Vamp. Interview with Kaziklu Bey adds Kiss In The Dark.
• Life Drain: In his Creation Figment he starts to drain the life-force and abilities of everyone and everything caught within it.
• Mirthless Laughter: At the end of Interview with Kaziklu Bey after the death of Claudia, Wilhelm can't help but engage in a bitter laugh.
• More Dakka: Is able to spam his stake projectiles to an absurd degree. At one point in his battle with Schreiber, he is firing so many of them so densely that it would be physically impossible for Schreiber to squeeze in between them.
• Nazi Protagonist: He is the protagonist of his own prequel story Interview with Kaziklu Bey where he ping-pongs between being a Villain Protagonist and a really dark Anti-Hero. It is played with however as, while he is technically a Nazi, he is also really just a serial killer picked up from the street. While definitely on the racist side, he seems to hold none of the core values of the Nazis.
• No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: He delivers one to Ren at their first meeting.
• Not Bad: Took his defeat at Shirou's hands well enough, complimenting him before breaking down into dust.
• "Not So Different" Remark: He notes that he and Schreiber are quite a bit alike when they first meet. This is also a big reason to why he hates the guy so much. Also present with Beatrice, with both of them sharing the same "recklessness" and imprudence on the battlefield.
• Offhand Backhand: He tried to offhand Schrieber. It simply earned him a kick to the face followed by getting backhanded himself by Machina.
• Only a Flesh Wound: At one point he gets half his face blown off. It ends up not bothering him at all.
• Our Vampires Are Different: His Beri'ah, Der Rosenkavalier Schwarzwald, allows him to absorb energy from everything, including souls and non-animate things in the range of hundreds of meters.
• Pet the Dog: Overlaps with Pragmatic Villainy.
• Pragmatic Villainy: He allowed Claudia to live with him until she would be good enough to be killed and consumed by him. Not that she minds, since her terminal illness would kill her anyway.
• Psycho for Hire: When not in official missions for the LDO, he spends most of his free time in wars for the thrill of fighting.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning In his Creation Figment, his irises turn red.
• Red Sky, Take Warning: In the range of his Creation Figment, the sky becomes red.
• The Rival: He and Schrieber have always been clashing before even the creation of the LDO since they were both serial killers at large at the same time.
• Say My Name: In Interview with Kaziklu Bey as Claudia dies:
  "CLAUDIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!"
• Self-Made Orphan: He burned his own family alive in order to "free himself" from the curse of his blood, which he considered filthy.
• Serial Killer: What he was prior to joining the LDO.
• Sex Is Violence: Thrives on this. When fighting Kei in her route, He describes his fight with her, using sexual terminology. When in the heat of battle, it goes to the point that his voice actor is orgasming as he does his lines.
• Sir Swearsalot: By far the biggest pottymouth of the cast. He might physically be unable to form a sentence longer than five words without a swear or two mixed in.
• Spikes of Doom: His Ahnenerbe, Qliphoth Bacikal.
• Super-Senses: In his Beri'ah, he can sense everything in its range.
• Theme Music Power-Up: In Interview with Kaziklu Bey, after having nearly been killed by Ludwig, him eventually rejoining the fight after being empowered by Reinhard is heralded by sound of "Kiss in the Dark".
• Throw the Dog a Bone: After getting Mutual Killed by Shirou in Kasumi's route, and getting killed in the middle of two exhausting fights in Marie and Kei's route, Rea's route has Wilhelm become the last LDO member with the exception of Reinhard, Mercurius, and the Three Commanders, he finally gets his long awaited fight with Schreiber, and dies satisfied knowing he beat him.
• Touché: When confronting Jane Doe, he notes that she looks far to young to have faced him in Vietnam. She then retorts by the fact that he is in his seventies and still looks like he did fifty years prior. He couldn't help but respond with a quick "Ya got me there".
• Tsundere: Around Claudia. He ends up growing feelings for her but would never openly admit it. While incredibly abrasive most of the time, he does show a softer side when around her in private.
• Undying Loyalty: He's devoted to Reinhard's cause, primarily because Gladsheim is an absolute paradise for someone like him.
• Vampire Vannabe: His defining trait is his desire to become a true vampire, something that manifests with his Beri'ah.
• Your Vampires Suck: Certainly has a thing or two to say about many fictional vampires, calling them just filthy imitations.
• Weaksauce Weakness: In his Beri'ah, he is vulnerable to crosses and silver, and his heart is his weak point.
• Worthy Opponent:
  • Views Shirou as an opponent worth his time due to him being the only normal human Wilhelm has ever met that actually could put up a fight.
  • Before that, he pledged his loyalty to Reinhard after being the first person to ever beat him in combat. Even going so far as to view as Reinhard The Only One Allowed to Defeat You.

LDO V - Leonhart August

LDO V - Leonhart August / Kei Sakurai

Voiced by: Kei Mizusawa (Japanese), Brittany Lauda (English)

"I don't need the kind of miracle one could buy with tears."

Name: Kei Sakurai
Rune: ᛏ (Tiwaz)
Major Arcana: Strength
Zodiac Sign: ♌ (Leo)
Ewigkeit Degree: Beri'ah
Ahnenerbe: Hihiirokane: Scharlachrot, Wewelsburg Longinus (Marie route)

The descendant of a bloodline that allied with the Obsidian Round Table during World War II. She joined the Table to fill the spot left by a member who died eleven years prior. Furthermore, as her age - contrary to the other members - does actually match her appearance, she is too young to have met the five highest-ranking members of the Table.

She wields the relic Hihiirokane, a vermillion blade forged from the same legendary metal mentioned in the Takeuchi Documents that bears the blade's name.

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• 11th-Hour Ranger: She sides with Ren and Shirou at the end of Marie's route and joins Ren's Legion for the Final Battle in Rea's route.
• Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: She's a serious and aloof girl with a grim personality and long dark hair.
• Badass Boast: When Shirou expresses surprise over her easily deflecting .50 caliber bullets, she simply scoffs and says that if he had brought a 125 mm smoothbore gun she might have needed two hands.
• Broke Your Arm Punching Out Cthulhu: She manages to kill Eleonore in Marie's route but not without being horribly injured and succumbing to the deadly effects of the Wewelsburg Longinus.
• Can't Catch Up: A source of frustration for he is that she finds herself constantly outmatched by those around her. She is especially spiteful towards Ren as he gained his powers as well as mastery over them in a matter of days while she had to train for years to get where she currently is.
• Can't Live with Them, Can't Live Without Them: With Ren in her route.
• Combat Pragmatist: She is not above fighting dirty to get what she wants. Best exemplified in her fight against Ren at the end of Kasumi's route where she lights the church on fire in order to deprive Ren of oxygen. Since she is much more experienced with Die Ewigkeit than he is, she is able to fight just fine in an oxygen-deprived environment while Ren, who has just barely begun to understand it, is struggling to fight back.
• Deadly Upgrade: Eventually in Marie's route she decides to wield the Wewelsburg Longinus which slowly but surely starts to eat away at both her body and mind.
• Deadpan Snarker: Has quite the sharp tongue and is quite good at getting under Ren's skin especially.
• Driven to Suicide: Kills herself on top of the hospital at the end of Kasumi's route.
• Dropped a Bridge on Him: Gets killed off fairly early in Rea's route.
• Elemental Shapeshifter: Her Creation Figment converts her into fire.
• Emergency Transformation: In Marie's route, when Hihiirokane is destroyed, she is left with no choice but to wield the Wewelsburg Longinus.
• Flaming Sword: Hihi'irokane.
• Hihi'irokane: Her relic is named after the legendary metal it is supposedly made out of, and fittingly it is a scarlet blade wreathed in flames.
• Hot-Blooded: Normally she is fairly calm, however her Creation Figment is based on her belief that she is burning with passion which, due to how they work, leads to her becoming more and more hotheaded when she uses it.
• I Did What I Had to Do: Subverted. She knows what she is doing is bad yet keeps going regardless as she believes it to be the right thing to do. Except it is just an excuse for what is just selfish ideals done at the expense of others, something she is in denial about.
• I Just Want to Be Normal: She admits that she loves doing things girls of her age enjoyed like gossip.
• I'll Kill You!: After Ren kills Cain yet spares her, she just glares at him full of loathing and declares that the next time they meet, she will kill him.
• It's All About Me: While all of the L.D.O. members qualify to some extent, they at least don't try to hide it. Kei meanwhile is in constant denial about her selfishness, something that almost everyone calls her out on. Her Character Development in her own route involves realizing this and using it as determination for her goals.
• I've Come Too Far: Reasons that she has killed far too many to turn back even though she has nothing to gain from continuing when given the chance in Kasumi's route.
• Lady of War: Her looks and fighting style are graceful.
• Leitmotif: Krieg.
• Mutual Kill: Manages to kill Eleonore in Marie's route yet ends up dying from her wounds and the effects of the Wewelsburg Longinus.
• Omniglot: On top of Japanese she is also fluent in English as well as speaking upwards of six other languages, although not as fluently.
• Parental Abandonment: She grew up without her parents, being raised by brother Kai and Beatrice instead.
• Playing with Fire: Her creation figment causes her to become completely made of fire, giving her attacks additional strength and making any non-conceptual attack against her useless.
• Reluctant Fanservice Girl: Due to her and Ren having a Slap-Slap-Kiss type romance, she's often put in embarrassing fanservice situations with him:
  • After getting severely injured by Tubal Cain and getting her curse triggered, she is rendered unconscious, and she's stripped down and bandaged up by Erii, and when she next wakes up she finds herself alone in a bedroom with Ren, wearing only bandages and needing to "exchange bodily fluids" with him to stop her curse, forcing her to have to either kiss him or drink his blood, much to her embarrassment.
  • After the aforementioned Intimate Healing scene, they both fall asleep in bed, and when Kei wakes up she's mortified to notice they slept together in the same bed and her bandages came undone, meaning she slept in the nude in the same bed as Ren. And since there and no other clothes in the room, she tries to pry the sheet off the sleeping Ren to use it as a Modesty Bedsheet, but Erii walks in just at that moment and assumes Kei is up to something naughty, to Kei's irritation. It also takes a lot of effort for Kei to pretend she's fine being completely naked while talking to Erii in the ensuing conversation.
  • On Kasumi's route, she gets a Shower Scene complete with a CG shot (albeit with Shoulders-Up Nudity and Censor Suds) that gets broadcasted by Shirou (who sneaked a camera in the showers) right in front of Ren and Marie. She's livid when she finds out.
• Restraining Bolt: In Kasmui's and her own route, on top of the regular Stigmata, Rusalka adds a hex to her womb in order to ensure she stays in line as her Stigmata is weaker than the rest. But Rusalka also left a way to alleviate the symptoms via "exchanging bodily fluids", which naturally cause some Belligerent Sexual Tension with Ren in her route, when her curse activates and he's forced to help her.
• Sacrificed Basic Skill for Awesome Training: As a result of her upbringing she knows a lot about warfare and fighting, as well as various supplementary skills that could be useful for her. Yet as a result she also lacks understanding of many other basic skills, including just basic mathematics.
• Sarcastic Confession: When Ren questions her about why she keeps on hanging around the school, she answers in a somewhat mocking manner that she simply wants to enjoy what normal students does. And as her own route makes clear, she was telling the truth.
• Sink or Swim Mentor: When she is commissioned by the rest of the LDO to get Ren into gear and teach him about the basics of Die Ewigkeit, after having gone over the theoretical stuff, she then pulls out a gun and starts to continuously shoot Ren in the hand at point-blank until he subconsciously cleaves the bench she was pinning him to.
• Throwing Your Sword Always Works: Throws her sword at Rusalka in Kasumi's route impaling her and giving Ren an opening to behead her. She does it again in Marie's route with the Wewelsburg Longinus, impaling Eleonore through the neck.
• Token Good Teammate: As a result of joining the L.D.O at a young age, her body count is by far the lowest of the group, and even then she at least makes an effort to avoid killing those she deems innocent. However, this doesn't stop her from being complicit in the carnage her teammates commit, and she's perfectly willing to enact a massacre if the stakes are high enough. Nonetheless, she undergoes a Heel–Face Turn in Marie's route and her own.
• Too Much Alike: A lot of people like to point out to her how she and Ren are very much alike and how they are perfect for each-other. Both will frequently deny it, when they aren't too busy butting heads.
• Tragic Dream: All she wanted was to live out her days at peace with her brother, Kai, and Beatrice.
• Tragic Villain: Played With. She is indeed a villain who has ended up in her less than savory position due to circumstances outside her control. However, she has a really bad habit of playing up the tragedy surrounding her in order to justify her actions and all the lives she has taken.
• Tsundere: Often trades barbs with the snarky Ren, but still has tons of Belligerent Sexual Tension with him.
• Tyke-Bomb: Trained to fight since she was 6 years old.
• The Unfettered: She's a self-admitted "sore loser" who won't let anything stop her from reaching her goal. It's what fuels her Beri'ah, becoming a force of pure fire to blaze through anyone who gets in her way.
• Villainous Breakdown: Ends up having a pretty impressive breakdown in Kasumi's route:
  "I'm a fool. Lord Heydrich is terrifying. When I think about what will happen when the eight is opened... I get scared so much I can't take it. But it's not like my hate and past grudges have disappeared. It's not your fault, Fuji. It's not your fault. I'm the fool. I know that. I know that. I know that. I know that! I know that, but it's not like I can just apologize and turn over a new leaf at this point! I wish you didn't exist. Everything fell apart because of you. Why does someone like you exist... I hate Karl Krafft. He's the one that caused me to bump into you. I can't forgive Mercurius for playing with our lives at the palm of his hand. At this point, I have no alternative but to pass the blame to you. Because you're... You're his substitute! Die. Seriously... please just die. If you can't do so then kill me. Just kill me already. Aren't you strong? Aren't you the hero? I've had enough. This isn't funny anymore! Just end it already! Please! I don't want to touch this damn Ahnenerbe for even a second longer!"
• Well-Trained, but Inexperienced: While she has gotten full combat training as well as training in the use of Die Ewigkeit, she is sorely lacking in actual combat experience, especially when compared to the other members of the LDO.

LDO V (former) - Valkyria

LDO V (former) - Valkyria / Beatrice Waltrud von Kirscheisen

Voiced by: Kei Mizusawa (Japanese), Alexis Tipton (English)

Name: Beatrice Waltrud von Kirscheisen
Rune: ᛏ (Tiwaz)
Major Arcana: Strength
Zodiac Sign: ♌ (Leo)
Ewigkeit Degree: Beri'ah
Ahnenerbe: Thrud Walküre: Blessed Blade of Blitzkrieg

Born into a family with a history of knighthood, Beatrice was raised to believe in honor and valor. As such, she dedicated her blade to her Fatherland and was a member of the German army in the midst of World War II. She fought as a skilled soldier under Eleonore von Wittenburg until they both were recruited into the LDO. However, Beatrice quickly became disgusted with the methods the group employed and began to plot to destroy them from within while hoping to free her former commander and best friend from the thrall of its leader, Reinhard Heydrich. She is presumably dead before the novel starts as her position was taken over by Kei, however it's a lot more complicated than that.

Her Beri'ah is Donner Totentanz, Walküre. Fueled by the desire to save her comrades and Eleonore, she becomes a being of pure lightning, gaining its speed and characteristics and making it difficult to attack her physically as she is as intangible and ephemeral as real lightning.

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• 11th-Hour Ranger: She appeared in to Gladsheim to fight Eleonore at the climax of Kei's route and joins Ren's Legion for the Final Battle in Rea's route.
• A Day in the Limelight: She's featured in four of the five side stories in Amantes Amentes usually as the protagonist or at least, important to the story.
• Befriending the Enemy: The reason why she joined LDO is that she wanted to save Eleonore from Reinhard's influence.
• Beware the Silly Ones: While she may come across as a preachy goofball half the time, as soon things turn serious she shifts into the cold and calculating rationale of a true solider.
• Elemental Shapeshifter: In her Beri'ah, she becomes pure lightning, strong enough to split aircraft carries in half with her blade.
• Embarrassing Nickname: She really dislikes her title of Valkyria as comparisons can be drawn between the mythical Valkyries and the Grim Reaper.
• Foreign Exchange Student: She joins Eleonore in Berlin's university in the epilogue of Marie's route.
• Good Is Not Soft: While unfailingly good, she is not above doing what is necessary at times. While she only kills the bare minimum, she is not afraid of killing innocents to maintain her powers.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Blonde hair, and is easily the most moral member of LDO.
• Heroic Self-Deprecation: She muses that despite her young looks, she's really just an old lady on the inside.
• Hope Bringer: Her Beri'ah is based on her wish of being a ray of hope for those on the battlefield and will constantly try to live up to that ideal.
• Intangibility: In her Beri'ah, she is untangible even to Ahnenerbe attacks, which inflict both physical and spiritual damage.
• Knight in Sour Armor: While she kept her idealism and kindhearted nature, she became much more serious and ruthless following her experiences in the L.D.O.
• Lady of War: She has an elegant fighting style, as opposed to characters like Wilhelm and Wolfgang.
• Leitmotif: Thrud Walküre.
• Motor Mouth: Get her drunk and she will ramble on, fast.
• Mutual Kill: In her battle with Eleonore, she manages to kill her, but dies herself soon after due to having to force herself through Muspellsheim Lævateinn.
• My Greatest Failure: She loathed herself for having been entranced by Reinhard at one point and loathed herself even more for failing to protect Eleonore from him.
• Nazi Protagonist: She is the protagonist for three of the various side stories, most notably one that covers events before the L.D.O. had formed, taking on a heroic role. As to why she were a part of the Nazi party, despite her never being shown to hold any of the Nazi's ideologies and being such a kindhearted woman, is never elaborated on. Though it is implied that she simply wanted to help restore the country out of misplaced idealism due to it being left in shambles after the prior war. The fact that her family is of nobility might have also played a role.
• Nice Girl: Possibly the nicest character in the LDO.
• Official Couple: With Kai.
• Parental Substitute: Acted as a sort of mother figure for Kei alongside Kai. And in Rea's epilogue, she is one to Ren instead.
• Perky Female Minion: To Eleanor before the LDO's formation. She was the only officer who is not intimidated by Eleanor and had a plucky carefree air about her, something that exasperated the Crimson Knightess. Nonetheless Eleanor still ultimately treated her with integrity. Being a bubbly female officer in the Third Reich also makes her this by default.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Red Oni to Eleonore's Blue Oni. Amusingly, when things turn serious their roles shifts around with Beatrice becoming the Blue Oni to Eleonore's Red Oni.
• Ride the Lightning: She uses lighting as her element and is also the second-fastest of all the L.D.O. members, something she achieves by using said lightning to move about.
• Royal Rapier: She is of noble birth and her Ahnenerbe takes the form of a rapier.
• Sealed Good in a Can: Her soul is sealed inside the Wewelsburg Longinus and is the reason to why Tubal Cain can use her lightning abilities.
• Shipper on Deck: Frequently tries to ship Wilhelm with Claudia, much to his chagrin.
• Super-Speed: In her Beri'ah, she is stated to be the second-fastest member of the LDO after Schreiber.
• Token Good Teammate: She's an unfailingly idealistic woman who wants to ensure a brighter future for everyone who comes after her. Her decision to stick with the L.D.O even after their Jumping Off the Slippery Slope is so that she can destroy it from the inside and liberate her former commander Eleonore.
• The Von Trope Family: Fittingly of being a descendant of German nobility, she has Von as part of her name.
• What Does She See in Him?: She is never able to wrap her head around just what Claudia sees in a jerk such as Wilhelm.

LDO VI - Sonnenkind

LDO VI - Sonnenkind / Isaak Eins Sonnenkind

Voiced by: Hitomi Nabatame

Name: Isaak
Rune: ᛇ (Eihwaz)
Major Arcana: The Hermit
Zodiac Sign: ♍ (Virgo)
Ewigkeit Degree: Beri'ah
Ahnenerbe:

Son of Reinhard and Lisa as well as Rea's grandfather. He acts as the core of Gladsheim and stabilizes its existence.

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• Bastard Bastard: He's even referred to as the bastard of the castle in-text.
• Creepy Child: Being the child of Reinhard, everyone tend to find him incredibly creepy just to be around even before he became the core of Gladsheim.
• Emotionless Boy: He was basically meant as a core for Gladsheim, and as a result, emotions where pointless. A big part of his arc is awakening to them.
• Guardian Entity: He controls Gladsheim to protect Reinhard.
• Hair Antennae: Just like his father he has a pair of strands sticking out from the rest of his hair.
• Luke, You Are My Father: Reinhard didn't know he existed.
• Rapid Aging: Aged very quickly after he was born. At age one he already looked like he was five, and in another year he looked like ten.
• Spanner in the Works: While there are quite a lot of spanners in Rea's route, Isaak is perhaps the biggest one due to his decision to brute-force the summoning of Gladsheim which allowed all the other spanners to go off.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Looks like a younger, androgynous version of his father.
• Supernaturally Young Parent: Is Rea's grandfather yet looks barely older than her.
• Super-Power Meltdown: During the final battle of Marie's route, Reinhard ends up fighting Ren with such fervor that he forces more and more power to flow through the Swastika, and in turn Isaak, faster than it was meant to until the whole thing just bursts.
• "Well Done, Son" Guy: He wants to be acknowledged by his father, Reinhard, who did not even know he existed.
• When He Smiles: Finally smiles at the end of Rea's route.

LDO VII - Götz von Berlichingen / Machina

LDO VII - Götz von Berlichingen / Machina / Michael Wittmann

Voiced by: Hiroki Yasumoto

"To perish is my heart's desire. I strive for the finality of death. As one who desires a complete and absolute end, my ironclad Transcendence is clouded by no impurity; I stand proud with fists that bring all life to a close."

Name: Michael Wittmann
Rune: ᛚ (Laguz)
Major Arcana: Justice
Zodiac Sign: ♎ (Libra)
Ewigkeit Degree: Beri'ah
Ahnenerbe: Deus Ex Machina: A God from the Machine - A Hero Borne of Iron

One of Reinhard's Three Commanders. While almost all the members of the L.D.O. have a background before joining, Machina seemingly dosen't as not even he knows his real name. It's later revealed that he was the real life Michael Wittmann, a soldier from World War II who was forced into Reinhard's Gladsheim to fight to the death with other soldiers, ultimately he was forced to kill his best friend, Lotus Reichhart and had his soul split by Mercurius, one half desiring the beginning, the other desiring the end. Machina represents the end while the beginning eventually formed to become Ren. He serves as the Nigredo (Black) of Reinhard's Pentachroma.

He uses the Ahnenerbe Deus Ex Machina, a relic that is part of his very body and that was born from the Tiger II that he and Lotus burned to death inside. A passive Ahnenerbe, it allows Machina to bring whatever is hit by his fists to an end, canceling out whatever abilities the target might be using including defensive ones, resulting in him having some of the most hard hitting attacks of the L.D.O., attacks comparable to those of an artillery strike.

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• 11th-Hour Ranger: Joins Ren's Legion for the Final Battle in Rea's route.
• Adaptation Expansion: In the anime, we get to see how his backstory in greater detail including his soul splitting to form Ren's.
• Ambiguously Human: While none of the L.D.O. members can really be called human, Machina is a special case in that he has fused with his Ahnenerbe to the point that it is impossible to tell where he ends and the weapon starts. In fact, when Ren managed a strike against him, all that was visible under his skin was machinery. This is also the cause of his unusually strong defense.
• Anti-Magic: Deus Ex Machina is able to cancel almost any ability that is hit by it by "bringing them to an end". This includes those that are normally intangible or have absurdly high defenses.
• Armor-Piercing Attack: His Ahnenerbe allows him, among other things, to ignore an enemies defenses. The lone exception to this is Ren's Time Armor.
• Big Damn Heroes: Makes a rather sudden appearance in the prequel manga to save Lotus from Wilhelm and Schreiber.
• Close-Range Combatant: Fights exclusively with his fists and lacks any sort of long-range option.
• Death Seeker: He is tired of battles and wants to die, but, since he is a part of Reinhard's Gladsheim, he can't.
• Deus Exit Machina: In the battle against Methuselah, Machina gets trapped in a multilayered sphere of thousands of nights by the later and tossed out of the battle as he was viewed as the sole serious threat.
• The Dreaded: The other L.D.O. members generally keep their distance from this guy as his nature is such a counter to everyone else's that they feel a strong instinctive fear of him.
• Dynamic Entry: Shows up to Lotus's aid in the prequel manga by caving in Wilhelm's face straight through a wall, sending him flying straight across the street.
• The Eeyore: In general he comes off as a person that just has grown tired of everything, and as such, always seems to carry an air of melancholy and depression.
• Empty Eyes: Often described as having the eyes of a dead fish.
• Evil Former Friend: He used to be the best friend of Ren's original incarnation, Lotus Reichhart.
• Forced into Evil: He would have been content to die a warrior's death as his tank burst into flames during the war, but Reinhard had other plans for him.
• Foreshadowing:
  • His spot in the round table is directly opposite of where Reinhard is. In Marie and Rea's route, during his first meeting with Reinhard, Ren decides to sit there, as an act of defiance, not knowing that he and Machina share a very big connection to one another.
  • All but one of his fights in the novel are against Ren and in Rea's route, he also faces off against Rusalka. This is seemingly a coincidence until the end of Rea's route reveals that all three are all connected in Marie's new universe.
• Heel–Face Turn: In the true ending of Rea's route, he breaks away from Reinhard's legion and joins Ren's, after Ren realizes his true identity and acknowledges him as a friend and comrade.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Lotus.
• Historical Domain Character: Michael Wittmann
• Human Shield: Variation. When fighting Trifa he constantly makes sure that he has Kasumi behind himself, thus preventing Trifa from using his Beri'ah lest he wants Kasumi to be caught in the crossfire.
• I Cannot Self-Terminate: See 'Death Seeker' above.
• Leitmotif: Einherjar Nigredo.
• Man of Kryptonite: The way his powers work makes him a natural enemy of Reinhard, hence why at the round table, Machina's seat is placed facing opposite of him to symbolize this. Despite having this power, he refuses to use it on Reinhard due to his own views on what a proper death should be like.
• Mighty Glacier: While he is lacking in speed compared to the other commanders, he more than makes up for it with his unrivaled striking power and impressive defenses.
• One-Hit Kill: His Beri'ah causes whoever hit by his fists to be brought to their conclusive end.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: Almost never referred to by his real name mostly as a result of few knowing it. Most refer to him as simply Machina after the name of his relic.
• Perma-Stubble: Has a short and unkempt beard, signifying of his depressed nature.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Delivers a speech to Wilhelm as they are fighting about how he is doubting whether his actions are worth it.
  "Lukewarm. It's a pain? Not 'you'? Annoying and stupid? You only think that because you lack resolve. Deep inside, you're actually doubting the value of what you seek. You're only dissatisfied because you're questioning whether it's truly worth it. Surely you don't think that you are doing anyone a favor, do you? Then I have only one thing to say to you - don't get conceited. No matter what you say with your mouth, your heart doesn't acknowledge any deficiencies within yourself. If you truly believe that it's a half of you that you simply must have, you won't hesitate no matter how difficult the process. You find it annoying just because something didn't go well? What a joke. It's unpleasant to have you act like you understand me when you're so pitiful. I have never, not once, doubted my supreme moment in the slightest. I believe in its value more than anyone else."
• Ret-Gone: Not himself, but his Beri'ah allows him to erase the history of anything he hits.
• The Stoic: Never really emotes. Even in combat he remains calm.
• Shell-Shocked Veteran: Even in his backstory he was a very troubled veteran who doubted his ability to carry on after the war, making Lotus a bit of a Living Emotional Crutch for him. After having his soul robbed by Heydrich and being forced to participate in the deadly battles of Gladsheim, Michael ends up fighting his own friend to the death and crosses the Despair Event Horizon.
• Unblockable Attack: Trying to block his Beri'ah is nothing short of suicidal. Trying to dodge it is the only option while it is active.
• Warrior Poet: By far the most introspective of all the combatants in the novel, often musing about the nature of combat.

LDO VIII - Malleus Maleficarum

LDO VIII - Malleus Maleficarum / Rusalka Schwägelin

Voiced by: Yuka Inokuchi (Japanese), Jeannie Tirado (English)

"Keep underestimating me and I just might gobble you up."

"My being is everlasting, thus everyone leaves me behind. Wishing to cling, but unable to follow. I desire to close the gap in the moments of life without having the years catch up, And so I drag them down - as the nymph of the water's womb."

Name: Rusalka Schwägelin
Rune: ᚾ (Naudiz)
Major Arcana: Death
Zodiac Sign: ♏ (Scorpio)
Ewigkeit Degree: Beri'ah
Ahnenerbe: Die Blutgräfin: The Maddened Countess

An early member of the Deutsches Ahnenerbe - Nazi Germany's institute of archaeological and occult research - and a genuine witch who had stepped into the realm of sorcery even before joining the LDO. Her youthful appearance shelters one of the most ancient souls to have sworn loyalty to the Obsidian Round Table.

Despite being cunning and crafty at her core, she is playful and flirtatious on the outside, making her a very dangerous individual to associate with. She also has a fondness for torture and is known to be extremely moody. Though essentially not a fighter, her cruelty rivals even Wilhelm's.

In her possession she has the Ahnenerbe Die Blutgräfin, the cursed diary of Elizabeth Báthory. A grimoire that contains countless torture instruments for her to use as she pleases on her unfortunate victims.

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• 11th-Hour Ranger: Joins Ren's Legion for the Final Battle in Rea's route.
• An Arm and a Leg: Ends up losing both her legs in the battle against Methuselah when she get's partially caught in his bubble of accelerated time.
• Ax-Crazy: While she is not as obviously unhinged as someone like say Schreiber, when she get's agitated enough she shows a far more deranged side of herself that makes it clear just how far she has fallen as a human being.
• Being Tortured Makes You Evil: Was tortured by her superstitious neighbors. She notes that rather than the torture being used as a way to out her as a witch, the torture itself is what made her into one.
• Broken Bird
• The Bully: She really likes to use her powers to pick on those weaker than her and is really quick to anger when people stand up to her. This stems from her own insecurities of being unable to catch up to others and finding vindication of dragging others down.
• Can't Catch Up: Machina notes that the reason she constantly tries to drag others down is because she feels like she will be left behind, that while everyone else are growing, she has stagnated. This revelation ends up completely shattering her will to fight.
• Casting a Shadow: Her Nachtzehrer, which can immobilize and absorb her opponents.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: Hit by this in the first three routes. Impaled by Kei's sword, then beheaded by Ren, in Kasumi's route. Offed by Cain under Trifa's orders in Kei's route. Ripped apart from the inside by Shirou, with Schreiber sadistically prolonging her suffering afterwards, in Marie's route.
• Custom Uniform: Wears a more stylized version of the standard uniform compared to her peers.
• Dropped a Bridge on Him: Get's Killed Offscreen in Kei's route without much fanfare.
• Dual Age Modes: She is able to shift between her young form seen throughout most of the novel to a more physically mature form seen mostly in flashbacks.
• Dying Alone: After being bested in combat against Machina in Rea's route, she is simply dumped in front of the church to slowly die alone as the effects of Machina's Creation Figment slowly destroys her body, though she ends up dying due to a blast from Reinhard before that could happen.
• Evil Redhead: An Ax-Crazy Witch who serves as one of the main villains and possesses red hair.
• Godhood Seeker: Unlike a lot of characters in the series where godhood is merely a side effect of their desires, Rusalka craves for godhood itself. All so that she can control and pull others down so that she is never left behind, always at the apex.
• Go Out with a Smile: Dies with a smile on her face, with Tears of Joy in her eyes, in Rea's route.
• Half the Woman She Used to Be: Get's effectively bisected after Shirou burst out of her gut and claims her Ahnenerbe for himself. She manages to use magic to stay alive but she makes the mistake of trying to plead help from Schrieber which only ends up making her situation worse.
• Historical Domain Character: Anna Maria Schwägelin
• Heel–Face Turn: The closest she gets to one is in the Rea route, but her reincarnations in the aftermath of both Marie's and Rea's endings are nice people who care deeply about their comrades.
• Hot Witch: Especially in her adult form.
• Immortality Seeker: While she is effectively physically immortal, her soul is not and it is still aging. And it is reaching its limit. As such she is desperately looking for a way to allow her soul to endure, leading her to become a member of the L.D.O.
• Lady of Black Magic: On top of using Die Ewigkeit she also supplements it with a range of different unrelated magic spells to make her already dangerous spells all the more deadly.
• Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Upon her confrontation with Volker:
  "Schreiber was quite a piece of work, but... what the hell? Our audience must be seriously creeped out."
• Leitmotif: Deus Vult.
• Loophole Abuse: Normally, destroying someone's Ahnenerbe will kill the user. Rusalka however is able to get around this since hers is made up of several distinct parts, thus the only way to kill her with that method is to destroy all of them. This is something Shirou ends up milking for all it's worth after he get's hold of it.
• Lotus-Eater Machine: Puts Ren in one in Rea's Route during an attempt to find the root of Ren's existence.
• Luke, I Am Your Father: In Marie's world created at the end of Rea's Route, her reincarnation turns out to be Ren's great-grandmother, though she never reveals this to him.
• Omnicidal Maniac: She outright want to slaughter all of humanity just so that she can recreate it and then cull them again, just for the sake of feeling above others.
• Really 700 Years Old: Even compared to other LDO members (except Mercurius). She is over 200 years old.
• Sadist: She is someone who really enjoys inflicting suffering on others.
• The Scapegoat: Was scapegoated by her neighbors as a Witch, erroneously blaming her for all of the misfortunes in their village.
• Shadow Pin: Her Beri'ah allows her to lock down anyone else's movement in what is essentially a shadow swamp.
• Someone to Remember Him By: In Rea's epilogue, she bears Lotus's child before he dies during World War II with Machina.
• Torture Technician: Her Ahnenerbe, Die Blutgräfin, allows her to summon torture devices.
• Then Let Me Be Evil: In her backstory, with the encouragements of a Mysterious Benefactor (Mercurius under a different identity). She accepts her nature as one who drags those above her down to the mud.
• Throw the Dog a Bone: After receiving brutal ends in the past three routes, she gets a bone thrown in Rea's route. Due to how instantaneous Machina's powers work, she gets a relatively painless death, with Machina expressing genuine sympathy, if not envy for her case. Later ^note after being cast down to become the sixth swastika), realizing she actually managed to catch up to Lotus, she dies happy and content.
• Unresolved Sexual Tension: With Lotus.
• Villain Protagonist: She is the lead protagonist of the Song to the Witch spin-off novel.
• We Can Rule Together: At the height of her madness she tries to goad Ren to her side, for him to be the Adam to her Eve. To seek the greatest heights side by side.
• Wicked Witch: After accepting her nature after being persecuted, she becomes a Torture Technician and evil spell user of the LDO.
• Witch Hunt: A victim of one. Specifically it was used as pretext for excessive torture, public humiliation, and unjust imprisonment at the hands of her superstitious, envious neighbors.
• Your Days Are Numbered: While she is physically immortal, her soul is still aging. And being the oldest member of the entire L.D.O. by a wide margin, discounting Mercurius, means that she is approaching the end of her life despite her efforts to avert it.

LDO IX - Samiel Zentaur

LDO IX - Samiel Zentaur / Eleonore von Wittenburg

Voiced by: Asami Yaguchi (Japanese), Alex Moore (English)

"I chase the unreachable star, ever scorched by its radiance. That which is out of reach turns exalted; that which is exalted, difficult to resist. Thus, I will pursue it to the ends of the world. I wish to burn within your bosom - a world of inescapable blaze."

Name: Eleonore von Wittenburg
Rune: ᛋ (Sowilo)
Major Arcana: Temperance
Zodiac Sign: ♐ (Sagittarius)
Ewigkeit Degree: Beri'ah
Ahnenerbe: Der Freiscütz Samiel: The Colossal Artillery, Queen of the Hunt

A soldier, first and foremost. Eleonore acted as a Lieutenant for Berlin and was Beatrice's superior for when they were both recruited by the LDO. While all the members had given their loyalty to Reinhard, Eleonore stood out as being especially loyal to his cause. Anything he says will be carried out by her to the best of her ability, no exceptions. She holds a very high standard and if her opponent doesn't come up to it, she'll consider them fodder and won't even form her Yetzirah to fight them.

One of Reinhard's Three Commanders. She serves as the Rubedo (Red) of Reinhard's Pentachroma.

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• Always Accurate Attack: The true form of her Beri'ah is trapping her victim inside the barrel of her cannon, cutting off any chance of escape as a wall of fire consumes them. They can try and run or dodge all they want, but like trying to outrun a subway train, there is no escape. All you can do is run straight ahead to try and delay your demise, but it will catch you sooner or later.
• The Baroness: She is a burn scarred woman who is one of Reinhards most fanatical followers, consantly carrieing an air of piercing coldness that conceals a quiet, burning rage.
• Berserk Button: Never insult Reinhard or her loyalty to him.
• BFG: Her Ahnenerbe is Dora, the monstrously big railway cannon made by the Germans during the second world war.
• Blood Knight: Her desire is to fight for Reinhard's glory for eternity.
• Burn Scars, Burning Powers: She recived some burn scars across her face prior to the start of the story and is now using various fire and explosive powers.
• Combat Clairvoyance: Her battle experience is so high that she can predict Beatrice's movements with her eyes closed.
• Curtains Match the Windows: Has red eyes to go with her red hair.
• Deadpan Snarker: Not usually one to snark given her straight-to-the-point attitude but she has her moments.
• Evil Redhead: A very nasty member of the L.D.O. and the only one that is blatantly racist and also happens to have red hair.
• Fastball Special: In the battle with Methuselah, she fires a Beri'ah infused Beatrice out of her cannon straight at him.
• Fatal Flaw: Pride. She looks down on almost everyone not named Reinhard and as a result, rarely fights seriously, something that Kei tries to capitalize on in her fight against Eleonore.
• Female Misogynist: Despises other women apart from a select few, especially those that try to fight, due to viewing them as not understanding the nature of war. When Kei point's out the inherent contradiction of her statement, Eleonore simply scoffs at her, telling her to not lump each-other together and that as one of Reinhard's Einherjar she is something more. This misogyny is also a source of her hatred for Lisa, viewing her as a disgrace.
• The Fettered: As she admits, the source of her power is her loyalty to Reinhard.
• Foil: To Lisa. She is more liberal in her way of thinking which puts her in quite a bit of conflict with the much more conservative Lisa.
• The Fundamentalist: Suffice to say, not only does she view everyone who don't view Reinhard with the same loyalty and fervor as she does with scorn, she outright thinks that everyone who don't are close to insane for not doing so.
• Having a Blast: Fights mostly using explosives, be it from the troops she commands or just from her various fireballs.
• I Am Not Left-Handed: Beatrice thought she couldn't use her Beri'ah in Gladsheim; she later proves it wrong by releasing its true form.
• In the Blood: She comes from the family of hereditary knights for whom fighting was everything.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Beatrice.
• Hidden Depths: Turns out she's quite the tease and enjoys messing with Beatrice when their simply normal people. Beatrice is also only person Eleonore can talk to mutually (her relationship with Lisa is... complicated).
• Leitmotif: Einherjar Rubedo.
• Long-Range Fighter: Fights exclusively using ranged weaponry or traps and will often retreat backwards to maintain distance between herself and her opponent.
• More Dakka: Any opponent she deems unworthy, she simply mows down with machine-gun fire, lots and lots of machine-gun fire.
• Not So Stoic: Normally calm and collected, after Kei manages to land a solid hit on her in Marie's route, she completely looses it and summons Der Freiscütz Samiel despite it being more than overkill at that point in the fight.
• Only a Flesh Wound: At one point she get's to experience Marie's curse firsthand after touching her while Ren was unconscious. She simply scoffs at Marie after which she puts her head back into place.
• Playing with Fire: The shots of her Ahnenerbe generate explosions which temperature exceeds tens of thousands degrees.
• Patriotic Fervor: Beatrice describes her as "more German than the most Germanest German to ever German".
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Blue Oni to Beatrice's Red Oni.
• Scars Are Forever: Even though, like all Die Ewigkeit users, she has Healing Factor, her face burn hasn't healed even in 60 years.
• Smoking Is Cool: Considering that tobacco (just like alcohol and poison) is stated to not have any effect on Ewigkeit users, it's likely she has no reason to smoke except to look cool.
• Smoky Voice: She is quite the smoker, and has the voice to match.
• Spontaneous Weapon Creation: While almost all characters create weapons out of thin air, Eleonore fights almost exclusively by generating weapons of all kinds to mow down her opposition, everything from machine-guns, landmines and panzerfaust's.
• Statuesque Stunner: She's 1.80m tall, easily the tallest female character, and without the scars she would be pretty attractive.
• Tanks, but No Tanks: Her Ahnenerbe, Der Freiscutz Samiel, is not a tank, but a railway gun.
• Tranquil Fury: Although she carries herself with an air of coldness, all it does is to conceal the near-perpetual fire of rage inside of her. As a result she hardly ever shows it even when she is clearly pissed to high heaven.
• Tsundere: She is a Type II with Beatrice in the epilogue of Marie's route. Lampshaded by Rusalka.
• Undying Loyalty: Unquestionably loyal to Reinhard and looks down on all who don't do the same.
• The Von Trope Family: As with Beatrice, she is of noble birth and as a result, has Von as part of her name.
• Weaponized Teleportation: The true form of her Beri'ah teleports her target to the interior of her cannon, a dimension of scorching flames.

LDO X - Rote Spinne

LDO X - Rote Spinne

Voiced by: Kouki Harasawa (Japanese), Marcus D. Stimac (English)

Name: Unknown
Rune: ᛟ (Odal)
Major Arcana: The Devil
Zodiac Sign: ♑ (Capricorn)
Ewigkeit Degree: Yetzirah
Ahnenerbe: Warsaw Ghetto: The Asphyxiating Cord of Limbo

Number 10 of the Obsidian Table. As his forte lies in intelligence, he hasn't revealed his true name to any of his comrades, so he goes exclusively by Spinne.

A realist who possesses relatively commonplace values (in a different sense from Beatrice), he is quick-witted and possess a great knowledge for wordly matters.

His Ahnenerbe is Warsaw Ghetto: The Asphyxiating Cord of Limbo, a series of garrote wires that as the name implies, where used liberally by Spinne in Warsaw and are comparably young when put against other relics. Spinne uses it primarily to trap and restrain his opponents while choking the life out of them, though it can also be used offensively to cut through flesh as well.

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• Adaptational Wimp: While always a wimp regardless of medium, in the visual novel he at least put up something resembling a fight against Ren while he went down with little effort in the anime adaptation.
• Adaptation Expansion: Downplayed. In the anime he gets a few extra scenes showing him and Ren's father together as Ren is being created, but other than that he ends up as early fodder all the same.
• All Webbed Up: His Ahnenerbe is a web which allows him to bound humans and choke them to death.
• Animal-Themed Superbeing: Spider, obviously.
• Dance Battler: Somewhat, when he is evasive then his movement is described as that of a tap-dancer and all-in-all being very graceful when he fights properly.
• Dirty Coward: Acts like a big shot when Ren is trapped in his strings, but as soon as Ren gains the upper hand, he quickly screams for mercy. Neither Ren nor Trifa grants him any.
• Faux Affably Evil: While he appears polite and friendly at first glance, all that is just skin deep.
• Flat "What": In the middle of their battle, Ren suddenly starts talking about tits. Spinne is understandably bewildered and can't help but respond with a "...Come again?"
• Jerkass Has a Point: At one point in the story, Ren notes that Spinne's offer to join forces suddenly sounds a lot more appealing upon witnessing just what kind of monstrous beings the top brass of the L.D.O. really are. At the very least he admits that Spinne's fear of them was well justified.
• Lean and Mean: Tall, skinny, and thoroughly unpleasant.
• Miles Gloriosus: Talks big, but is at the end of the day the wimp of the group.
• Motivated by Fear: He is absolutely terrified of the prospect of Reinhard and his commanders returning to the mortal realm and it serves as his core motivation for going against the Order.
• Mysterious Past: Not much is known about his background other than at one point he was in charge of one of the infamous concentration camps that existed during the Nazi regime. It's vaguely alluded to that he might be Josef Mengele, but never confirmed or denied.
• No Name Given: His real name is unknown. He himself claims that he got rid of his real name a long time ago.
• Not Quite Dead: Survives his bout with Ren, noting that Ren should have made sure he was dead. Unfortunately for Spinne, Father Trifa has other plans and kills him soon afterwards.
• "Not So Different" Remark: Tries to pull this trope on Ren. He doesn't buy it for a second.
• Razor Floss: His strings can also slice humans and even buildings.
• Sacrificial Lamb: He's the first L.D.O member to get incapacitated by Ren, dying very early into the Common Route long before any divergence occurs. It turns out that Valeria Trifa quite literally intended for him to be the sacrifice for the second Swastika.
• Sadist: Has a real sadistic streak and is about as unpleasant, both in personality and looks, as they come.
• Tactical Withdrawal: In one of the sidestories, his cowardice is described in a more favorable light. Since he is so weak and cowardly, he has developed sharp instincts to danger and is far less overconfident than his comrades. All this proves quite useful when Doppeladler manages to disable all of their defenses.
• Villains Want Mercy: Is left begging for mercy after Ren free's himself from his Ahnenerbe. He get's none.
• We Can Rule Together: Tries to convince Ren to join his cause in rebelling against the LDO. Given that he does this while the corpses of dead women he sliced up dangle behind him, Ren's response ends up being quite to the point with a headbutt.

LDO XI - Babylon Magdalena

LDO XI - Babylon Magdalena / Lisa Brenner

Voiced by: Risato Habuki (Japanese), Caitlin Glass (English)

Name: Lisa Brenner
Rune: ᛒ (Berkanan)
Major Arcana: The Star
Zodiac Sign: ♒ (Aquarius)
Ewigkeit Degree: Yetzirah
Ahnenerbe: Pallida Mors: The Mask of Pale Death

Number 11 of the Obsidian Table. A lady who always exhibits impeccable virtue and sagacity, yet in reality killed thousands of children through human experimentation in the name of her career.

Though she and Eleonore were old friends from their time in the BDM, the vast gap between their own values causes them to get along like cats and dogs.

Her Ahnenerbe is Pallida Mors, the Mask of Pale Death. It's comprised of two forms, a shroud made from the skin of children she once cared for that allows her to seize control of any number of undead in range, and a mask that she can put on a corpse to exert greater control over it and prevent its decay.

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• 11th-Hour Ranger: Joins Ren's Legion for the Final Battle in Rea's route.
• The Beastmaster: She never fights herself, relying instead on Tubal Cain and various undead which she controls to fight for her.
• Custom Uniform: Downplayed. The top half of her uniform is standard, while she replaced the pants and boots with a side slit skirt instead.
• Female Misogynist: Has a rivalry with Eleonore due to Eleonore serving as a living example of German women being able to fight on the battlefield, where Lisa had already become famous for being an example of serving Germany by staying at home, raising strong sons and working as doctors or nurses. Their mutual hatred of each other over this in the modern-day implies that their time in the L.D.O together didn't change this in the slightest.
• Foil: To Eleonore. Lisa is heavily conservative in her mindset, thinking men and women are two separate cogs in societies machine each with their own roles, that men should be the ones who fight and die while the women rear families and secure their future. Needles to say, but Lisa and Eleonore do not get along.
• The Glasses Come Off: After she reveals herself as a member of the L.D.O. she ditches her glasses and becomes more serious.
• Hospital Hottie: She's a former SS medical officer and still looks drop-dead gorgeous, though these days she's under the cover of being a Naughty Nun in Japan to take care of Rea.
• Hypocrite: She has a really bad habit on trying to lecture other women about the nature of womanhood, something other characters find really rich coming from her and frequently call her out on it.
• Mask of Power: Her Ahnenerbe, Pallida Mors, is a mask that she can use to resurrect whatever corpse she puts it on. Additionally, it also keeps the corpse from rotting.
• Mind-Control Device: Her Ahnenerbe allows her to control Cain.
• Nerves of Steel: Despite being shot repeatedly by Samiel's guns, she manages to give one slap to her assailant, without losing her conviction.
• Necromancer: Her Ahnenerbe allows her to control the undead, including maintaining control of the undead Cain.
• Nun Too Holy: While she acts as a nun at the church, it's just a front and is in actuality a necromancer and carries the nickname of the Whore of Lebensborn.
• Official Couple: With Trifa in the epilogue of Marie's route.
• Parental Favoritism: She loathed Isaak due to just how similar he was to his father, and as a result she worked hard to conceal the existence of Johan to protect him. This extends to their grandchildren where she hates Rea for sharing Isaak's blood while wanting for Kasumi to survive. This puts her at odds with Trifa who wants to sacrifice Kasumi to save Rea.
• Parental Substitute: To Rea, her great-granddaughter.
• Power Tattoo: When she uses Pallida Mors in its shroud form she gains a tattoo on her left shoulder.
• Slut-Shaming: Samiel berates her for admitting to have used Reinhard's corpse, in order to give birth to Isaak.

LDO XII - Hrozvitnir

LDO XII - Hrozvitnir / Wolfgang Schreiber

Voiced by: Yuuki Tamaki (Japanese), Mikaela Krantz (English)

"I dread and shun the sense of touch. My love is the trail of carnage I leave in my wake. I merely wish to forget; to leave it all behind and shut my cursed memories into a cage of frenzy. I yearn to be the swiftest slaughter -a beast insatiable in its hunger."

Name: Wolfgang Schreiber, Anna Schreiber
Rune: (Wolfsangel)
Major Arcana: The Moon
Zodiac Sign: ♓ (Pisces)
Ewigkeit Degree: Beri'ah
Ahnenerbe: Lyngvi Vanargand: Tornado of Carnage

One of Reinhard's Three Commanders. Serves as the Albedo (White) of Reinhard's Pentachroma.

Though an affable boy with cherubic features, he is a murderer prone to haphazard mood swings and wields carnage like a tornado. He wishes to kill everyone in the world apart from Reinhard.

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• Ambiguous Gender: Biologically, he was born as a male but raised as both male and female. He also has the name of "Anna". In Marie's ending however, Schreiber was born and raised female from the beginning.
• Abusive Parents: He was castrated and sent to a public house to serve as a prostitute by his own parents. Then his mother still beat him up as she was jealous of him being more popular, including gouging his eye out.
• Ax-Crazy: One of the most insane members of the LDO. Even Rusalka and Wilhelm look sane compared to him.
• The Berserker: Whenever he looses it and goes more insane than usual he fights with a reckless fervor driven by a maddened blood-lust with zero consideration for anything.
• Breaking Speech: Gives one to Valeria in Rea's Route, only to be given one in return by Valeria.
• Blood Knight: "Hmmm? Do I need a reason? I'm here because I'm a soldier, much like yourself. War is our profession, murder our currency."
• Bottomless Magazines: His guns are able to never run dry on ammo. And this mixed with an abnormally high rate of fire allows him to pump his poor victims full with bullets.
• Cross-Dressing Voices
• Custom Uniform: Downplayed and played with. When compared to his peers, he ditches the longcoat in favor of a regular jacket. Which basically means that he is wearing a more standard SS uniform than the rest of the order.
• Dark and Troubled Past: See 'Abusive parents' above.
• Desperately Craves Affection: Despite his utter disdain for physical contact, deep down all he really wants is to be loved and embraced.
• Eunuchs Are Evil: Deconstructed, since his brutal mistreatment and castration is precisely why he tips over the edge and becomes Ax-Crazy. In the epilogue of Marie's route, Schreiber is reincarnated as a woman in future-day Germany and is a perfectly affable Genki Girl.
• Eyepatch of Power: His eyepatch covers the eyesocket which holds the many souls he had absorbed.
• Feral Villain: Already unstable enough as it was, once Trifa shatters his mind in Rea's route he reverts to a completely feral state, devoid of reason or though, and driven by naught but a bottomless bloodlust.
• For the Evulz: Often commits atrocities on whatever whim comes over him without rhyme or reason.
• Faux Affably Evil: Conducts brutal massacres all the while reciting poetry with a smile on his face. This is most apparent in Sakurai's route, wherein a he decides to comply with a curious public's desire to have him dance with Rusalka, only to kill them all seconds later.
• Foreign-Language Tirade: Whenever he starts to become more wild and deranged than normal he often reverts back to his native German.
• Freudian Excuse: Being castrated and abused by his mother, including her gouging his eye out, as well as being a sex-worker since a young age certainly didn't do his sanity any favors.
• Guns Akimbo: Uses two handguns in tandem during combat. A Luger P08 in one hand and a Mauser C96 in the other.
• Hates Being Touched: He hates being touched so much that it forms the basis for his Creation Figment where he always faster than his opponent.
• Insane Troll Logic: While a good chunk of the cast can be called insane, Schreiber is by far the worst. This is no more apparent whenever he tries to state anything even remotely resembling an argument, all that he produces is a nonsensical tirade to justify his lust for slaughter. This is made especially apparent in Marie's route where Rusalka pleads to him to save her life, only for him to twist it into killing her in the name of love in order to allow him to be able to enact a nonexistent revenge on Shirou.
• Leitmotif: Einherjar Albedo.
• Logical Weakness:
  • His Creation Figment makes it so that no one can touch him. However this also goes in reverse leading to him being unable to touch anyone else. Normally he get's around this by using ranged weaponry or just the vicious gales generated by his speed, but in Rea's route where his mind is destroyed he straight up breaks his own Figments rules by using physical attacks. This leads to his limbs being destroyed just to make sure the rule he has imposed stays in effect. Good Thing You Can Heal indeed.
  • Another way to cripple him is to somehow manage to pin him down so that his speed becomes useless, though that is easier said than done.
• One-Steve Limit: He is the second character named "Anna" aside from Rusalka. Played for Laughs in Omnia vincit Amor, as both bore the real name of "Anna". Schreiber was referred as "White Anna"
• Oxymoronic Being: As Trifa manages to point out, Schreiber's desire to not be touched ultimately stems from a desire to be embraced and loved. The revelation of this contradiction ends up destroying what is left of Schreiber's mind.
• Power Makes Your Hair Grow: Whenever he starts to go more insane than usual his hair will start to gain length on top of starting to glow, and usually this is accompanied with a huge boost in power as whatever restraint he had left goes down the drain.
• Psycho for Hire: Subverted, after getting consumed by Heydrich, he's his loyal servant through and through. Not to mention, slaughter and unwanton destruction are completely in line with Reinhard's 'Modus Operandi'. In Kei's route, however, Trifa, does not condone him squandering potential sacrifices, eliminates him from the ritual as a result.
• Raised as the Opposite Gender: He was castrated at a young age by his mother and then raised as a girl under the name Anna.
• Serial Killer: Was a regular serial killer prior to joining the L.D.O. Even after he joined he remained one of the most prolific murderers in the group with the highest face-to-face murder count out of any of the other members.
• Son of a Whore: He is the son of a prostitute who specifically wanted a daughter to continue the business leading to him being castrated and forced into prostitution regardless.
• Split Personality
• Super Power Lottery: Him being faster than any opponent might seem simple but it is absolutely deadly. He can outspeed even Eine Faust Finale Ren who slows down time while also speeding himself up due to his Beri'ah.
• Super-Speed: His Beri'ah allows him to be always faster than his opponent (it also includes his reflexes).
• Tears of Blood: Whenever he get's sufficiently agitated, blood will start to stream out of his eye socket, providing an effect similar to tears.
• Undying Loyalty: He was the first one to swear loyalty to Reinhard and he is the only one who can command him.
• Unstoppable Rage: In his Beri'ah, he can only be calmed down by Reinhard.
• Why Couldn't You Be Different?: His mother wanted a daughter in order to help continue the family business. As Wolfgang was a boy however, she ended up castrating him and raised him as a girl under the new name of Anna. Suffice to say, this is a major contributing factor to his gender confusion.

LDO XIII - Mercurius

LDO XIII - Mercurius

Voiced by: Kosuke Toriumi (Japanese), Brandon McInnis (English)

"Now then - Let the curtains rise on tonight's Grand Guignol"

"Although I, you, and he as well... are still bound by that miserable cycle at this moment... let us believe that the decision we are about to make truly holds a meaning... That one day, we can break free from this perpetually repeating cycle."

Name: Karl Erst Krafft
Rune: ᛞ (Dagaz)
Major Arcana: The Magician
Zodiac Sign: None. Represented by ☿ (Mercury)
Ewigkeit Degree: Atziluth
Ahnenerbe: Ren Fujii/Zarathustra

An ominous magician and alchemist who created Ewigkeit and established the Obsidian Round Table. He was the one responsible for turning the LDO from a clique of elite army officers merely dabbling in the occult into a den of genuine demons. Not only is Mercurius the one sworn friend of the Table's leader, he also stands as the only being capable of matching his sublime prowess.

Although his position could be considered that of a mentor and a father, the other LDO members - with the exception of their master - shun him as a hateful taboo. His whereabouts have remained a mystery for the past six decades.

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• Abstract Apotheosis: As a Hegemonic God, he is the personification of his Law.
• Animal Motifs: Snakes.
• Archnemesis Dad: He is Ren's true father and the leading cause of everything that has gone wrong in his life.
• Bad Samaritan: Sure he will give you a hand and help if you so desire it, but beware as there is always a catch meant to serve his ends.
• Big Bad: Shares this role with Reinhard, being responsible for all the conflicts of the novel.
• Black Speech: The (Latin) language he uses for his attacks.
• The Bad Guy Wins: In Marie's and Rea's routes, he ends up with a satisfactory outcome, while also ensuring that the destructive cycle he's been perpetuating will end for good. In Marie's route, though he survives, his world is overwritten by Marie's emanation, relieving him of the curse of foreknowledge and allowing him to experience everything anew, even if he's relegated to a mere shade who's been partially banished from the world. In Rea's route, he dies in Marie's embrace after facing off against Reinhard and (possibly) Ren.
• Be Careful What You Wish For: He's implied to have originally been a being who's thirst for being all-knowing culminated in him creating a world that served this exact need. He regrets this to the point of orchestrating the world's destruction and rebirth just to free himself from his curse.
• Character Filibuster: He really likes to run his mouth for long stretches of time. At one point he even lampshades it in a prose-laden tirade that can basically be summarized as "I talk too much".
• The Chessmaster: He has planned all events of the novel.
• Create Your Own Hero: Deliberately created Ren with the intention of him being the antagonist towards Reinhard as well as the vessel to allow Marie to reach godhood.
• Death Seeker: He was born as a being who desired to know of everything. As a result, he became a god, and since a god can't experience the unknown, he wants to die, but he can't kill himself. All events of the novel are actually his plan to die at Marie's hand.
• Deity of Human Origin: As with all gods of the Throne, he was once a regular human who managed to emanate his own law across the universe.
• Evil Sorcerer: Probably the best way to describe him.
• Final Boss: Of the Rea route.
• For the Evulz: While much of what he does is for his end goal, he has a habit of making things more tragic than they need to be simply for his own amusement.
• God: Is the god of the multiverse and has complete dominion over all of creation. Additionally, due to the nature of his law, he is essentially the father of alternate dimensions and timelines.
• God in Human Form: His real body is bound to the Throne, as such he has to use a human avatar to interact with mortals.
• God Was My Co-Pilot: While he tries to present himself as a simple magician, it is clear to all who meet him that something isn't right about his existence. He is eventually revealed to be the god of the multiverse acting under an alias.
• Gratuitous Latin: Whenever he invokes his powers, he makes great use of this, mainly through various Latin phrases and sayings.
• Hated by All: He is hated by all characters of the novel except for Reinhard and Marie. Kei initially doesn't hate him simply due to the fact that she doesn't know what kind of person he is. This changes over the course of the story. There are also hints that he deliberately fostered this image in order to make the other members of the LDO more willing to fight his substitute, Ren.
• Historical Domain Character: Most of his aliases refer to famous historical figures involved in alchemy or the occult.
• Humanoid Abomination: A big reason to why so many characters dislike this guy is that there is just something wrong with this guy on a purely fundamental level. Likened to a monster on deaths door looking down on an ant. It's to the point that Wilhelm of all people instinctively jumps between Mercurius and Claudia to protect her when he enters the room.
• I Cannot Self-Terminate: As a Hadou God, he can do almost anything except for killing himself.
• I Have Many Names: Karl Ernst Krafft, Alessandro Cagliostro, Hermes Trismegistus, Count of St. Germain, Michel de Nostredame, Paracelsus, Johann Georg Faust, Christian Rosenkreuz, Albertus Magnus and many others. You might notice a pattern emerge here...
• I Love You Because I Can't Control You: He is infatuated with Marie as she is unaffected by his eternal recurrence.
• It's All About Me: At the end of the day, his goals are entirely self-serving. The fact that they might end up helping others in the process is just a bonus.
• Laughing Mad: At the end of her route, Marie acting against his predictions and not killing him causes Mercurius to break out in an uncontrollable laughter, described as sounding like the final cry of a dying man, as his corporeal body breaks down.
• Leitmotif: Ω Ewigkeit and α Ewigkeit.
• The Man Behind the Man: While Reinhard is the story's main villain, it is Mercurius that makes it all possible and guides him from behind the scenes.
• Manipulative Bastard: One other reason people hate this guy's guts is that he is a scarily adept manipulator, able to play them like a musician does a fiddle. Pretty much all of the events from both the main novel and the spinoff can be traced back to this guys trickery.
• Meaningful Echo: In Marie's route, his text and dialogue during his Villainous Breakdown is nearly identical to when Ren caught Reinhard by surprise during their battle a little while earlier, signifying that both of them had hit the same point of their desires where they break out in full-on laughter. But while Reinhards laughter is equaled to an infant's first cry, Mercurius' is likened "a dying man's final cry".
• Old Magic: He uses magic that is far more ancient than what anyone else has access to. Not even Rusalka can get a decent grasp on it and is only able to use it to the extent she was taught by him. Makes sense as he is from a completely different universe and era.
• The Omniscient: Deconstructed. Since he was born as a god and knows everything, he can't experience anything new, as if everything which happens had already happened and thus he can't enjoy anything, so he wants to die. See also 'Death seeker' above.
• Only Friend: To Marie at first. She eventually gains some more while Mercurius is left with Reinhard as his only friend.
• Paradox Person: Became a God in the moment of his death so that he could become a god after that.
• Prescience Is Predictable
• Reality Warper: Holds absolute dominion over all of existence and as such can manipulate time and space on a cosmic scale as freely as breathing. In the final battle he does things such as force all planets to align, creating and killing stars to create supernovas, and even weaponizing the Great Attractor.
• Red Baron: His perhaps most distinct title is "The Allfather and Master of All Existence".
• Save Scumming: His Law returns Time to his very beginning allowing him to repeat events when things don't go the way he wants them to.
• Single-Target Sexuality: He's only got eyes for Marie and no one else.
• Star Power: Several of his attacks are throwing thousands of stars at his opponents.
• Stronger Than They Look: He has a pretty scrawny build and looks pretty meek on first glance, but don't be fooled as anyone who has spent more than a minute close to this guy can tell that there is way more than meets the eye with him.
• Time Abyss: He is as old as the universe itself, and this is not counting the timelines.
• Time Loop Fatigue: Being a God that has experienced the lifetime of the universe over and over again, he has simply grown sick and tired of it all and is now looking for someone that can kill him and take his place.
• Timey-Wimey Ball: Because of his Law and general Existence, his entire era can be described as one.
• Top God: Even though there exists, or used to rather, other gods, he is the one that all of the other gods owe their existence to as the Father of Magic.
• The Unfought: He's never fought or killed in any route other than Rea's.
• Voice of the Legion: He sounds like this when he invokes his attacks in the Final Battle.
• Walking Spoiler: Difficult to talk about this guy without revealing major late-game spoilers.
• The Watcher: After the events of Marie's route he is dethroned but not killed. As a result, he wanders the world as little more than a ghost, watching how things unfold in Marie's new world.

LDO Extra - Zarathustra

See Ren Fujii at the Main Characters section.

Other Characters

Other characters related to the cast in some way.

Joachim Brauner, Walter Gerlitz, Marco Schmitt

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• Child Soldiers: Marco, who is in his teens.
• Half the Man He Used to Be: Marco was alive for some time with his upper half torn off.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: They are killed in the prologue.

Johan

Johan

The twin-brother of Isaak. Originally believed to have died, in reality, Lisa managed to conceal his existence and allow him to have a normal life. He is also the grandfather of Kasumi.

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• Death Faked for You: His mother Lisa managed to make everyone believe that he died at a young age when in actuality she hid him.
• The Ghost: Never seen or heard but is an important background character.
• Strong Family Resemblance: While only briefly seen in a flashback of the anime, he certainly inherited the looks from his mother, unlike Isaac.

Helga Ehrenburg

Helga Ehrenburg

Voiced by: Hatsumi Takada

"We'll be together forever, Wilhelm. That is the dark gift that binds us."

Wilhelm's mother and sister. Though she is already dead, she had a huge influence on her son's values, and as such, his Ahnenerbe, "The Dark Gift," takes on her form, nesting in his inner world.

In other words, she's nothing more than a symbol of the mother/sister he perceives, but her love is genuine. She has sworn to exert all her power for Wilhelm.

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• Absurdly Youthful Mother: Despite having been a child when she was raped by her father and had Wilhelm, she still looked remarkably young when she was killed by him.
• Black Eyes of Crazy: Just like her son, she has black sclerae. Unlike him, she has those kind of eyes permanently.
• Brother–Sister Incest: Was raped by Wilhelm, her brother and son, before being killed by him.
• Enemy Within: While she is loving towards Wilhelm, she is so in a severely destructive way, wanting to drain his soul dry.
• Mad Love: Despite the twisted nature of her and her brothers relationship, she acts unfailingly as a Doting Parent to him. But things are clear very quickly that she doesn't exactly have all the horses in the shed.
• Mama Bear: If she feels like Wilhelm is threatened, she will immediately violently lash out against the attacker.
• The Ophelia: Cheery, friendly to visitors and a Doting Parent, and tries to take great care of the blood soaked rose garden within Wilhelm's soul.
• Our Vampires Are Different
• Parental Incest: A victim of this on both ends, first by her father and then by Wilhelm.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning
• This Is Unforgivable!: When Shirou whispers in her ear that someone is bullying Wilhelm, she goes ballistic and repeats the word "unforgivable" over and over again.
• Vocal Dissonance: Despite looking like a child, she talks in a surprisingly deep register.

Lotus Reichhart

Lotus Reichhart

Voiced by: Kosuke Toriumi

"What I like about heritage, is that it captures the light of the old days, freezing it in time. They're eternal. And I'd rather be an ephemeral moment captivated by that radiance."

A member of the Deutsches Ahnenerbe turned soldier who fought in World War II alongside his friend Michael Wittmann.

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• Badass Normal: According to the prequel manga he is perfectly able to handle himself in a fight against Wilhelm and Schreiber, although he is eventually overpowered until Michael bursts into the scene.
• Identical Grandson: In Marie's world formed at the end of the Rea Route, Ren is this to him, as he is not only Lotus' reincarnation, but also his great-grandson.
• Living Emotional Crutch: Served as Michael's sole source of emotional comfort as the stress of war further exhausted him. Unfortunately, Michael had to kill Lotus after their souls where absorbed into Gladsheim and where forced into a duel to the death, completely breaking him.
• My Name Is ???: Whenever his name is mentioned in the narrative it is blanked out and it is garbled when spoken. Only in the epilogue of Rea's route is he finally named.
• Posthumous Character: Only appears in flashbacks.
• Rejecting the Inheritance: He came from a long line of executioners and was expected to take up the mantle, something he wanted nothing to do with.

Doppeladler

The Eastern Orthodox Church's special division. They are working from the shadows to disrupt the actions of the Longinus Dreizehn Orden.

Siegelinde Eberwein

Voiced by: Kaori Mizuhashi

Leader of Doppeladler. She is one of the children produced by Lebensborn.

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• Child Prodigy: She is a psychic children and has abilities of telepathy, psychometry, and clairvoyance.
• Dying Curse: As she is dying in Trifa's embrace she calmly tells him that his attempts to fulfill his dream are futile and that he and the rest of the LDO will die.
• Elegant Gothic Lolita: Dresses in a Gothic styled dress.
• My Death Is Just the Beginning: She uses the deaths of all her followers as well as herself to set up a chain of events that will lead to the LDO's demise.
  "Yes. This is directly connected to my victory... This is the turning point due to which everything will silently begin to fall apart. As I said, I have foresight. You will lose, Valerian Trifa. Karl Krafft and Reinhard Heydrich... all of you will be put under the guillotine. I see it all in my visions. Eheheh, ahahah, hahahahahah... As proof... see? You are still bound to your plight. You... really love... killing children... You cannot help but... embrace me... and love me... until I die. What a pitiful, comical man. You think yourself the manipulator of all.. while finding pleasure in being manipulated... You wish to become Reinhard Heydrich, yet all the destruction you sow is but make-belive... You kill... the children you embrace. This moment... is the greatest proof of that... You... will not win. And will always be... the wicked saint... You will... understand... sooner or later... that we are the ones... who won... I am the one... who pulled the trigger... on the Serpent. Goodnight, Father... Make sure to... embrace your... dear little lady... to death... just like me... Ahahah, ahahahah, ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah!"
• Perpetual Smiler: Never loses the smug smile on her face.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Calls out some of Trifa's twisted ideology in her final speech.
• Regal Ringlets: Has curled hair to go along with her Elegant Gothic Lolita getup.
• Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: She may look like a child, but acts with an air of someone significantly older. And then there is of the course her whole plan that involves the deaths of both herself and her followers.

Alfred Der Vogelweide

Voiced by: Tōru Ōkawa

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• The Lost Lenore: He used to love Beatrice, but after she became part of the L.D.O. he comes to view her as nothing more than a wraith and will attack with utter hatred upon meeting her.

Volker Balling

Voiced by: Takumi Yamazaki

One of Sieglinde's agents. He was a street children during Nicolae Ceaucescu's regime when he met Rusalka, which is the reason why he was picked up by Doppeladler.

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• Mad Love: To say the man is obsessed with Rusalka is probably an understatement. He pretty much goes around with a permanent boner driven by his lust for her.

Jane Doe/Eileen Cartwright

Voiced by: Ryouko Tanaka

A CIA agent brought in to Doppeladler for being Wilhelm Ehrenburg's teammate during the Vietnam War.

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• Navel-Deep Neckline: Her dress has a plunging neckline that goes past her navel.

Kirisaki Kyouka

Voiced by: Keito Mizukiri

A Doppeladler agent posing as a Tsukinosawa High School student to get to Kai and Beatrice.

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• Alliterative Name
• Curtains Match the Windows

Interview with Kaziklu Bey

Characters who made an appearance in Dies irae ~Interview with Kaziklu Bey~.

Dinah Malloy

Dinah Malloy

Voiced by: Ryōko Shiraishi

"Just "Dinah" is fine, Mister Ehrenburg."

A modern-day woman who seeks out Wilhelm for an interview, she manages to catch him just before he sets off for Suwahara City. Calm and collected she's exactly the kind of driven career woman that Wilhelm would be quick to call his type.

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• Expy: Of Daniel Molloy from Interview with the Vampire.
• Nerves of Steel: Even as Wilhelm is recounting some of the most depraved things he has done and experienced, she keeps her cool and resumes the interview without interruption.
• The Reveal: The end of the story reveals that she was in reality a CIA agent that was interviewing Wilhelm to try and get information on the Transmutation of Gold as well as trying to kill Wilhelm once she gained that info.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Once she gained the info she needed she tries to kill Wilhelm via electrification. After she fled, she then herself suffer from this trope when her superior sets of a bomb in her car after hearing about the Transmutation of Gold.

Claudia Jerusalem

Claudia Jerusalem

Voiced by: Mamiko Noto

"He saved me, so I must return the favor, even if it costs me my life."

A nun Wilhelm met during the Warsaw Uprising. She is an albino, just like him, and thus they end up living together after their encounter. She believes herself to be only half a person since she cannot live in the realm of the day, and sees others as superior to her in every way.

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• Affectionate Nickname: Gives Ludwig the nickname of Louie.
• Angelic Transformation: One part of her long lasting desire was to be able to turn into an angel just as Wilhelm wanted to become a vampire. Suffice to say, she got her wish, and it cost her her life.
• Artifact of Doom: Her rosary was, unknown to all but Mercurius, her Ahnenerbe that she found in the tomb under Katyn forest. But it was empty and as a result, no one was able to notice it. This also enable her to create her Creation Figment, and since it was empty, it ends up using her own soul as fuel.
• Be Careful What You Wish For: She wished an eternal day. That resulted in Beri'ah that creates the light powerful that it burns everything in its range. And since she also associated the light with being burned, it also affects her as well.
  "Please, run... Before my love kills your ideal... Before my world murders yours."
• Body Horror:
  • The bite-mark left by Methuselah on her neck is not some of typically clean vampiric bites, but is rather a horrific swollen and inflamed wound that is wriggling and pulsating like a second heart.
  • Once her Beri'ah activates, she ends up with a huge and deep cross shaped wound on her chest alongside vicious burns.
• The Cameo: Briefly appears in episode 11 of the anime during Wilhelm's thoughts about the past.
• Cloud Cuckoo Lander: A bit of an airhead and and often seem quite lacking in common sense.
• Deadly Upgrade: Her Beri'ah burns everything in its range, including Claudia herself.
• Demonic Possession: Ends up possessed by Methuselah which causes her to exhibit some strange behaviors and eventually to run straight into his arms.
• Disappears into Light: She fades away in a shower of light when she dies.
• Fangirl: Is quite a fan of action and spy novels and movies. She also really looks up the the legendary spy of the First World War, Mata Hari.
• For Doom the Bell Tolls: When her Beri'ah is invoked, a deep church bell sounds. And given what it means for both Wilhelm and herself, it is most certainly not a good thing.
• Heroic Sacrifice: She overloaded her own soul to destroy her rosary in order to end her Creation Figment to protect Wilhelm.
• Heroic Self-Deprecation: Played with in that she doesn't necessary deride herself for what she lacks, but rather overvalues what others have.
• Leitmotif: Si vis amari ama and Metatron.
• I Just Want to Be Badass: Pretty quickly after meeting Wilhelm she expresses a desire to be able to use the kind of powers that he has.
• Light 'em Up: Her Beri'ah transforms her into an angel-like creature that exudes bright light that burns everything in its range.
• The Medic: Prior to meeting Wilhelm she was an army nurse.
• Nice Girl: Cheery and friendly to a fault. Even as Wilhelm threaten her and sling insults her way, she remains ever nice too him regardless.
• Not Afraid to Die: One thing that constantly bothers Wilhelm about Claudia is her seemingly complete disregard for her own life. He eventually decides that he is gonna get her to somehow fear for her life in order to make her "complete" so he can kill her then.
• Opposites Attract: Very much unlike Wilhelm, she longs for the daylight while he embraces the night. Despite that though, as both she and Wilhelm are albino and thus can only really be out and about at night, she ends up feeling a connection to him.
• Our Angels Are Different: In her Beri'ah she turns into an enormous angelic creature that exudes a burning light on everything around her.
• Our Vampires Are Different: She is temporarily turned into a half-vampire by Methuselah in his attempt to save her.
• Power Incontinence: Due to it not activating it out of her own free will and not having any experience with it, she can't control her Beri'ah.
• Quality over Quantity: Much like Ren, she has one, but powerful soul. Unfortunately, unlike him, her Beri'ah also burns her own soul.
• Secretly Dying: She was trying to hide the fact that she was dying due to terminal cancer from Wilhelm.
• The Topic of Cancer:
  • She is infatuated with the light despite all the burns and pain she suffers from it. She ends up developing skin cancer due to this.
  • Her sickness, no matter how powerful the LDO are, curing terminal cancer is something that's out of most of their expertise. Only Karl and Rusalka are the only ones capable of being able to do something about it but Wilhelm adamantly refuses to make a deal between those two.
• Unexplained Recovery: After the events in Katyn, she is left bedridden, yet she was up and about just a few days later with even more vitality than before. Both Wilhelm and Eleonore find her sudden recovery highly suspect. Methuselah later turns out to be the cause.
• Your Days Are Numbered: She is expected to only have a month left to live by the time the story starts.

Ludwig van Rosenkranz

Ludwig van Rosenkranz / Methuselah

Voiced by: Ryōtarō Okiayu

"You desire an endless, dark night... How shallow."

A mysterious man Wilhelm and the others encountered in 1944 on their mission to expel an anomaly from Katyn Forest. A self-proclaimed special operative of the Vatican, he acts cordial to the Obsidian Table, but his true motives lies shrouded in darkness.

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• Affectionate Nickname: Louie, by Claudia.
• All Take and No Give: Wilhelm points this out in regards to Ludwig's treatment to Claudia. Despite having all of his affection be directed towards Claudia and giving her everything she would ever want. Claudia had yet to create any loving affection in her heart to him before she could accept all of the things Ludwig had granted her.
• Anthropomorphic Personification: From elemental darkness to spiritual, he is the embodiment of the very concept of darkness in all its forms.
• Anti-Villain: He is simply a lonely deity that wants to live out the end of the world with someone he can love at his side. The ways in which he tries to go about it however are far from altruistic.
• Attack Reflector: His Gloria Virtutem Tamquam Umbra Sequitur sends the attacks back to opponents.
• Badass Longcoat
• Berserk Button: Making light of and disrespecting nature can really tilt this mans gears and make him drop his usually calm demeanor.
• Big "WHAT?!": He is unable to hide his surprise when he finds out that Wilhelm, who he previously defeated with little effort, is actually able to hurt him.
• Black Speech: Whenever he chants one of his spells, a static filter is overlayed to give it an alien tone in the same way as with Mercurius.
• Brown Note: As he is merely starting to unleash his powers, he causes people to either go mad or straight up commit suicide all across Europe. And those who didn't would suffer nightmares for years to come.
• Casting a Shadow: He can control darkness.
• Clap Your Hands If You Believe: He was basically born from humans worshiping the dark. This trope also influences his powers. For example, in times past darkness was simply considered another element, neither good nor evil, but as time advanced people started to fear it which resulted in the darkness taking on the traits of those fears, manifesting as countless jaws that trap and devour those caught.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: To call Wilhelm's first real fight against Methuselah one-sided might be an understatement, as Wilhelm is left a bloody mess on the floor without ever landing a single hit.
• Deadly Force Field: Tries to trap Machina in a constantly shrinking force field. Machina simply punches his way out. Methuselah then simply adds layer after layer to the field, totaling at over 500,000, effectively removing Machina from the fight as it would take him hours at the very least for him to destroy all of the layers.
• Dead Person Impersonation: "Ludwig" is just someone that was sent and died in Katyn forest whose identity Methuselah then assumed.
• Deliberate Injury Gambit: He allows himself to take a big punch from Wilhelm so that Claudia begins scolding him when she bursts in moments later.
• Disappears into Light: Inverted, he disappears into darkness when he dies.
• Flat "What": When Mercurius tells him that he still has a score to settle, Methuselah can't help but respond in confusion.
• Gratuitous Latin: All his spells are various Latin phrases.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: His act of turning Claudia into a half vampire and then hiding her within himself ends up biting him in the ass big time when Wilhelm was able to use the blood she sucked from him to not only even out the fight, but also to summon Qliphoth Bacikal from within Methuselah himself, dealing a decisive blow.
• Hopeless Suitor: Desperately wants to have Claudia by his side while she already have eyes only for Wilhelm.
• Last of His Kind: He is the last God remaining from the time of the arcane.
• Leitmotif: Tenebrae and Methuselah.
• Living Relic: He is the only god (do not confuse with Hadou/Gudou Gods) left as he was the one who was the most similar to Mercurius allowing him to retain his existence.
• My Name Is Inigo Montoya:
  "Try as you might, I am Methuselah. I am above all you Noahs. I simply cannot fall before my children."
• Our Gods Are Different: Unlike the great Hegemonic Gods, Methuselah is a god born from humans worshiping the concept of darkness from way back in the times of the Arcane. This also makes him a sort of fragment of Mercurius.
• Person of Mass Destruction: If he wanted to, he could rip away all the darkness of the world leaving only emptiness in its place where neither light nor dark could exist, followed by its inevitable collapse.
• Red Baron: Is also known as "The Last Arcane".
• Right for the Wrong Reasons: His statement about Reinhard vanishing should he achieve his hegemony was not necessarily wrong, even though he was wrong in how it would happen. Ludwig assumed it was cause either his law would be self destructive or someone else would take him down. In reality it is due to Reinhard being Mercurius' apoptosis, and thus cannot exist without him, making his quest doomed from the start.
• The Sacred Darkness: Originally, he was simply the embodiment of peoples worship of the darkness, viewed as neither good nor evil. That changed over time however.
• The Soulless: He doesn't have a soul and so the LDO members (except for Machina and Reinhard) can't harm him.
• The Stoic: He doesn't emote much, and even the times he does it tends to be rather subdued.
• Time Abyss: He is as old as the idea of humans worshiping darkness itself. According to Mercurius, he might be as old as thirty thousand years.
• Time Master: By reliving the endless number of nights he has experienced throughout his existence he is able to speed up time around himself to a ludicrous degree, reducing the bodies of both the L.D.O. and Reinhard's army to dust.
• Underestimating Badassery: He made the ever so fatal mistake of underestimating both what kind of man Reinhard is and just how powerful he really is.
• Willfully Weak:
  • When fighting a couple of soldiers he chooses to fight as a Badass Normal instead of using any of his powers in order to conceal his true nature. Wilhelm however was not convinced as something about the way he fought seemed off, like it was taken straight out of a textbook rather than some movement an actual elite fighter would use.
  • Even after revealing his true power, he keeps on holding back since he could destroy the world with his might, something he is not exactly after.
• You Cannot Grasp the True Form: As he reveals himself to Wilhelm, the former is struggling to grasp just what it is he is seeing.