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Continental Magic Association

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Serie

The Great Mage Serie

Debut: Chapter 43

Voiced by: Mariya Ise (Japanese), Anastasia Muñoz (English)

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"Mages spend their lives in pursuit of magic. Name it. I shall grant it."

A truly ancient elven mage who possesses knowledge about practically every magic spell that exists and strength that have led to comparisons with the creator goddess of their world. She was Flamme's master. After having lived in seclusion for a millennium, she appeared to human society suddenly and founded the Continental Magic Association around 20 years before Himmel's death. First-class mages get the privilege of meeting her and can ask for any magic they desire.

Always Someone Better: Serie is this to Frieren, being an far more ancient Elven mage, with a greater wealth of magical knowledge, a greater mana reservoir and a greater control of said mana. Frieren herself admits that she cannot imagine being able to beat Serie at all, placing her as the unquestioned supreme mage of the era.
The Archmage: Serie is called a Great Mage, just like her disciple, Flamme. People claim that she is like a walking encyclopedia of magic and can grant any spell one may wish for.
Attack Reflector: One of the many spells she knows, Mistilziela, completely reflects anything Serie perceives as curse right back at the opponent, note that "curses" in this universe are specifically magic that is not understood by Mages and thus cannot normally be countered except by Priests. She notes it is a primitive magic, a “crystallization of mankind’s wisdom” during the Mythical era she hails from. It took her 100 years to learn it.
Awesomeness by Analysis: During her fight with Macht she systematically analyzes and makes comments on his prowess and limitations on magic, while dealing with each and every one of his attacks.
Blood Knight: Flamme accused Serie to be one, when Serie was disappointed to see that Flamme's disciple, Frieren, apparently lacked the burning ambition of a warrior. She apparently can't imagine herself living in a peaceful era. When she acts as the final examiner for the first class mage test, she lets people with a fighting spirit like Wirbel, Übel, and Denken pass, even when they know they don't stand a chance against her. Fifty years ago, when confronting Macht after the latter transmuted Weise into gold, she very obviously enjoyed fighting him, whom she appraised to be close to the pinnacle of magic. When the fight was interrupted by her disciples — who wanted Macht sealed in Weise rather than be killed, for a chance to undo his Diagoldze in the future — Serie claimed her mood has been spoiled and let her students do what they want.
Cannot Spit It Out: Though she acts aloof towards her human disciples, putting up an air that she doesn't have any particular feelings towards them due to them having extremely short lifespans compared to her and rarely reaching her level of power, in truth she has made sure to remember each of them and their likes and dislikes clearly, long after they have died. She herself seems bemused by this, but she has never regretted taking a disciple. She also practices magic she mocks and considers "asinine" to far greater heights than those other mages, such as Frieren's and Flamme's habit of suppressing their mana.
Character Tic: Usually sits cross-legged, or as slovenly as possible.
Crazy-Prepared: As a consequence of knowing most of the human spells that have ever been made, Serie tends to have multiple options for any situation she faces. She didn't consider giving up Mistilziela to Denken to be any great loss (she can relearn it, but it will take at least a century), because she has other, unnamed, defenses against curses already learned.
The Dreaded: When fighting Macht, Serie claims she was once feared among demons during the Mythical era — so long ago that modern demons like Macht have never even heard of her name.
Foil:
- Flamme called Serie a "warmonger", which is why she would not be able to defeat the demon king one day. This is in contrast to Frieren, who Flamme thought is the perfect mage of a peaceful era and indeed eventually managed to do what Serie and Flamme could not, though Frieren herself notes it is because she has good comrades (the Hero party).
- She's one to the Great Demon King himself. Serie loves battle, but is content to sit back, train mages, and deal with crises as they inevitably occur. The Great Demon King wanted peace but all his attempts to bridge the gap between demons and the rest of the world for that dream of coexistence caused such widespread systemic carnage that his vassals selfishly running renegade after his death is seen as an improvement by all.
Gut Feeling: Frieren notes that Serie often makes decisions purely based on instinct. But she is always right.
Hates Being Touched: Her rather touchy-feely new apprentice, Methode, likes giving hugs and headpats to adorable people. Serie, as a young-looking elf, is one of these people, but she doesn't like being touched by Methode at all and Genau limits Methode to ten minutes of touching Serie a day, tops.
Hyper-Awareness: Serie has great sensory skills, which is demonstrated in Chapter 58 when she is the only one who has noticed that Land's real body is far away from the examination grounds and is just leisurely drinking tea. She could also detect Frieren breaking her barrier from several cities away. She often can tell at a glance what people are thinking or feeling.
Hypocrite: She states that Frieren's practice of deliberately hiding her mana level (which can be used to fool demons who are infamously mana sensitive) is a waste of time and inefficient. However, she herself does it as well (though while exuding a much larger mana level than Frieren), with Fern being the first human to notice it. In general her words and actual feelings often contradict each other, with her caring far more about her students than she lets on.
Immortal Immaturity: Despite being far older and stronger than Frieren, she childishly bans her from entering any magic association buildings for a thousand years out of petty pique. She doesn't like that Frieren is fundamentally nonaggressive and more suited by nature to studying spells that Serie considers pointless, and moreover did not like it when Frieren got her in a casual conversation to admit that she cares about her students.
Informed Flaw: She has a similar momentary fluctuations with her mana suppressing ability with Frieren, with only Fern managing to notice after all these years. However, it is not like knowing this makes her any easier to fight, making it moot as a flaw.
- Her cadres of first-class mages are worried about her safety during the Empire's celebration day, ridiculous as it may sound (both Fern and Frieren immediately dismiss this threat prior to some explanations), purely because all mages share a specific weakness towards specialized close-ranged assassins. However, from what we've seen so far, Serie likely has many contingencies of her own against such attacks (given that, for instance, she remarks that her auto-curse-deflection spell is not the only defense against curses she has), even if it is still probably her only real weakness.
It's Personal: She has held a bit of a grudge against Frieren and Flamme for a thousand years due to their philosophy of magic pursuit conflicting with hers. Part of the reason she fails Frieren after the examination is due to the fact that she doesn't like this aspect of her.
Jerkass Has a Point: While it's plainly obvious that she has a bit of a petty dislike for Frieren as a whole, she is sound when explaining how much of a disruption her presence was for the second test. The tests are intended to whittle down the applicants so only a select few become first-class mages, if only to preserve their elite status. But because Frieren is so far beyond anyone else besides Serie herself in terms of power, a total of twelve mages won the second test after allying with her when normally they'd have been whittled out by the difficulty of the exam. She points out how a traditional third exam that Lernen would've proctored would kill quite a few of these mages (likely the ones Serie failed herself), and decides to proctor the exam herself to avoid unnecessary deaths.
Jerkass to One: Serie has a personal dislike for Frieren. Frieren is clearly overqualified for a first-class mage title, but Serie intentionally fails her because of their different views. She then bans Frieren from any association building for the next 1,000 years.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Serie's harsh words never quite match her actions. In a flashback in Chapter 53, after Frieren came to Serie to inform her of Flamme's death and pass on her will, Serie tore the will apart, not wanting to fulfill Flamme's request to continue her work and teach humanity magic. She also generally insists that she just takes apprentices like Flamme on a whim and constantly voices her disappointment that none of her apprentices reached her height, yet she vividly remembers everything about them, from their dreams, to their favorite spells, to their personalities. Never has she regretted taking on a student, regardless of whether they made a mark on history or not, and she did in fact eventually decide to teach humanity magic, only it took her a thousand years to decide to found the Continental Magic Association (which from her perspective was simply delaying a important decision for a bit). Even as she belittles Flamme's dreams in a flashback, her thoughts shift to the smiling Flamme as a child looking at her adoringly, and Serie smiles fondly even as she continues to claim training Flamme was nothing but a whim.
Living Legend: She is said to be a living grimoire, as she knows almost every spell created in the history of mankind. Richter describes Serie as a mage closest to the omniscient and omnipotent Goddess.
Magical Barefooter: She typically prefers to avoid footwear unless she's going out and dealing with matters herself, like when she decided to confront Macht. She's also considered the strongest living mage in the series' setting.
Manchild: Frieren calls her the world's oldest child when she learns that Serie banned her from all buildings in the continental magic association for 1000 years, simply out of spite.
Master of All: Literally. Most, if not all of what her students, and to an extent all of human mages, have learnt about magic comes from her. She's so strong to such an unattainable level both Frieren and Fern immediately surrendered when asked the rhetorical question of whether they could defeat Serie or not. To put it into perspective: her mana level when suppressed is equal to Frieren's full capacity.
Meaningful Name: Her name means series or sequence in German. Fitting for who is likely the most powerful and knowledgeable mage alive, to the point of being known as a living encyclopedia of magic.
Merlin and Nimue: Serie has this relationship with all of her human disciples. As an elf, she is virtually ageless, while all her disciples pass away in the blink of an eye for her. However, she never regrets taking on disciples and never forgets them either.
No Place for a Warrior: Serie loves battles, which is why Flamme once told her master that she could not defeat the Demon King, as she wouldn't be able to imagine herself living in a peaceful era, and magic cannot accomplish what the user cannot imagine. According to Richter, Serie is seeking mages like the ones from the era of war against the Demon King and his army, and she's been known to fail applicants that aren't Blood Knighty enough (though outside of her pettiness toward Frieren, she will pass a mage of supreme talent even if they hold to Frieren's principles).
The Older Immortal: Implicitly, she is older than the already ancient Frieren. Serie was already an accomplished archmage who trained Flamme by the time the latter was teaching Frieren to be the one that would eventually defeat the Demon King. She even knows the ways of magic from an epoch before any that Frieren is capable of casting.
Prefers Going Barefoot: Most of the time (as shown in her image), she normally just wears ankle bracelets, though she will don actual shoes in some circumstances, like when she goes up against Macht.
Really 700 Years Old: Perhaps the oldest still-living being on the planet. While she is an elf like Frieren, and Frieren in fact already visited her with Flamme 1,000 years ago, she's already a legend during this time. She doesn't seem to have aged at all and still looks like a young woman.
Reasonable Authority Figure: Despite being a Blood Knight who enjoys her fight with Macht, when her disciples propose to have him sealed Serie insists he needs to be killed then and there to protect the continent, showing she does not at all let her personal enjoyment cloud her judgment. Even though she disagrees with her disciples about handling Macht, she ultimately lets them do so despite being entirely authorized to ignore them.
Running Gag: She just cannot fathom the latest generation of mages' mindset, particularly Fern and Methode, making incredibly morose expressions (identical to Frieren's, ironically) whenever they do or say something she doesn't expect.
Parental Substitute: There are implications that she was to Flamme what Flamme was to Frieren—a mentor and a mother figure.
Secret Test of Character: Her personal exam to test first-class mages boils down to two questions:
- "Can you imagine yourself as a first-class mage?"—Serie adores people who are bold and unyielding in front of impossible odds, because that's exactly the kind of attitude she likes from a first-class mage. For example, fighting her. Those who are scared, give up, or don't bother are instantly failed, like Frieren with the latter.
- "What kind of magic do you like?"—Serie wants to know the examinees' perspective on magic, both present and future. Those who have little desire to further improve combat magic are instantly failed, like Frieren, and those who are Blood Knight material pass, like Wirbel and Übel.
- Or one could Take a Third Option. This entails exceeding her expectations, as shown when Fern sees through her mana instability, signifying her great potential for magic.
Stealth Expert: Serie controls and suppresses her mana so well that the only one who can even tell any instability in her mana is Fern. Macht, whose magic detection is noted by Frieren to be pretty much impossible for her to sneak close to, literally cannot sense Serie until she is already right behind him and had him dead to rights.
Time Abyss: Serie states that she hails from the "Mythical Era", when the Goddess of Creation is said to have walked among humans and provided them the holy texts now used by priests, a time so long ago that even demons, who are themselves Long-Lived, have completely forgotten it. Indeed she implies she was around before humans had even created any form of civilization. May be downplayed if the Mythical Era was only 1,500 years ago (as implied in the time travel arc).
Transferable Memory: The reason why Serie is referred as a living encyclopedia of magic — Fearvelia, the spell transfer magic, literally cuts away her experiences of learning a specific magic and materializes it into a book which when read, will transfer said magic to the reader perfectly. Serie loses her ability to use said magic as a result, but she notes she can simply re-learn it again.
Tsundere: To the extreme, though of a stoic form. She's shown to have behaved dismissively when Frieren informed her of Flamme's death, repeating to Frieren that she just trained Flamme on a whim and making a mockery of Flamme's last will and testament asking her to mentor humanity on their pursuit of magic. Despite this, Serie prevents Frieren from leaving in order to reminisce about Flamme, and centuries later, Serie did relent and strove to fulfill Flamme's wish for her. In general her words seldom reflect her true feelings, which are implied to be much softer and affectionate toward those she cares for (namely her many students).
Vocal Dissonance: In the anime, Serie has a deep, boyish voice, despite her cup size being the only visual indication that she's older than Frieren. This emphasizes how, despite her youthful appearance, she's quite possibly the oldest living being in the series' setting.
World's Strongest Woman: Serie is the most powerful being in the series thus far. Her suppressed mana aura reads as equal to Frieren's fully revealed mana level (and if her suppression is to the same degree as Frieren's, then her actual mana amount is roughly ten times that). When she dueled Macht, the unquestioned strongest of the Seven Sages of Destruction, she could and would have eviscerated him if not for her disciples requesting that she let them seal him away instead. She is considered a walking magical encyclopedia, and is seen by Richter as the closest entity the world has seen since the time the omnipotent and omniscient Goddess visited.

First-Class Mages

Genau

Debut: Chapter 37

Voiced by: Tarusuke Shingaki (Japanese), Aaron Roberts (English)

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The proctor of the first round of exams. Genau is a hard-nosed man who's renowned for being completely emotionless and "a completely abominable man", according to Serie.

Blatant Lies: Sense accused him of being overly-sadistic in setting up an exam where conflict, betrayals, and deaths were practically guaranteed, but he dismissed her concerns by saying those who failed right here had no right to call themselves first-class mages. This was also a test which heavily relied on luck, to the point some teams were unfairly penalized against, but he didn't care.
Characterization Marches On: His first appearance has him repeatedly make comments which, while harsh, are completely fair and true. When Frieren and her party meet him again amidst the ruins of his hometown, his personality takes a turn to the worse, showing a callous, heartless man who can't even bother to communicate and bond properly with his partners.
Death Seeker: The source of his abrasive personality. He felt he's done so many atrocities under the name of doing his job, he constantly challenges dangerous demons and tackles suicidal missions just so he can find a decent way to die. Unfortunately for him, it's the people around him who tend to get killed, increasing his guilt even more.
Doomed Hometown: The mini-arc right after the First-Class Exam focuses on a mission of his, alongside Methode, to investigate the destruction of his hometown by demons.
Good Wings, Evil Wings: His signature magic grants him powerful black wings, both for flight and outright offense. It's strong enough to effortlessly cleave through rocks and demons alike.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He's truly an unpleasant person to work with, and while Sense can tolerate being around him during the duration of the exam, Methode is clearly off-put by his behaviour and manner of speech. Outwardly, he couldn't even feel anger or sadness when his long-time partner was killed after the latter fell for a demon's bait, and dismissed the deaths of his childhood friend and destruction of his hometown coldly. However, he's truly feeling the aforementioned emotions—he just have a really hard time showing it, after years and years of duty in the northern regions.
Running Gag: He's so unsociable, rude, and aloof Serie and Methode have to order him around to give out proper interactions with others, like he's some sort of feral dog.
Serie: Shake hands.
Methode: Genau. How about you thank them?

Sense

Debut: Chapter 37

Voiced by: Haruka Terui (Japanese), Lindsay Seidel (English)

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The proctor of the second round of exams. A petite, quiet woman with overflowing hair and a constant desire for peace.

Hypocrite: Subverted. Right at the start of the second exam, after Sense just said that she dislikes conflict and violence, and how she's always striving for a laid-back, friendly exam, she is called out by an examinee for throwing all of them into a lethal dungeon from where almost no one has returned alive. However, she is not hypocritical about it at all:
- Sense minimizes the risk of casualties drastically by giving each examinee an Escape Rope in the form of a golem that can withstand pretty much every trap and enemy inside the dungeon and will get the examinee to safety should they use it.
- The exam would have been significantly easier if people had listened to Denken and worked together from the start instead of splitting up. While she doesn't enforce any rules, there is basically no competition, so it should have been a relatively friendly and laid-back exam as long as they learn to cooperate (which is exactly what she wants to teach the examinees). Sense also is happy when she sees that Fern and Frieren genuinely have fun exploring the dungeon.
- This does not, however, excuse that she went against her promise not to interfere with the events of the test; her very presence is creating one of the deadliest hazards, and when this specifically is brought up, she essentially shrugs and tells them life's not fair and to solve the problem anyway.
Kung-Fu Wizard: Sense's actually one of the most accomplished mages in terms of close-range combat, with her Prehensile Hair magic perfectly suited for human-to-human duels and bodyguarding duty.
Logical Weakness: Her magic—and to the same extent, Sense herself—is very weak against Übel, with her Imagination-Based Superpower usage of magic. Her clone, having by that point taken out several other powerful examinees, is easily one-shot by the latter. Hair is meant to be cut.
Meaningful Name: Sense (ゼンゼ, zenze) is the German word for "scythe", a tool with which one harvests wheat. As a proctor, she figuratively separates the wheat from the chaff. After concluding the first-class exam, Serie similarly tells Sense that they had a "bumper crop" this year.
Not So Above It All: In her debut in the first-class mage exam, Sense comes across as the most down-to-earth and reasonable of the first-class mages. Her test for the exam while extremally difficult and dangerous was manageable and truly test the examines skills provide that worked together. Unlike Genau's luck based test which encouraged test takers to kill each other and resulted in several deaths. She also lacked the blood knight tendencies of some the other apprentices. In the Empire arc She wanted to bail out Ubel and Land after they got captured to show of her status as their senior, only to be reminded that doing so would cause a major scene. It also revealed that Sense gets into fights with one of her peers every time they meet.
Prehensile Hair: Her signature magic manipulates all the individual strands of hair on her head, before multiplying, lengthening, and hardening them into powerful cutters and spears. It also increases their mass greatly, enough to overwhelm modern defense magic in a few seconds. Notably, she's almost never seen using her hands even for menial tasks such as drinking tea, with her hair doing everything in her stead, ranging from doing presentations to capturing Frieren; the only time she uses her hands for anything is during the anime's second opening, where she's shown holding an umbrella.
Stealth Expert: When Sense meets Genau during the first first-class exam, she is seen playing around with a stille, a bird that notoriously flies away when it detects mana. Her replica in the second exam also cannot be detected by Methode or Frieren at all and it successfully ambushes Richter and Lawine.
Technical Pacifist: Sense says she dislikes unnecessary conflict and death. She is true to her word, as her exam enforces teamwork and, unlike in the first exam, none of the remaining examinees die in her exam.
Token Mini-Moe: By far the smallest among all first-class mages, and likely one of the youngest prior to the latest edition of the exam. Even among the most recent graduates, they're all still taller than her.
Trickster Mentor: Sort of. Unlike Genau, whose enforced cooperation for a hunting competition in the first exam is actually just a disguised battle between the examinees, Sense sets up her exam in a way that basically makes it impossible for the examinees to pass unless they actually work together. As the final boss of the dungeon creates perfect replicas of the intruders, the examinees can only defeat it by sharing information, developing a plan and fighting together. Serie generally approves of Sense's exam, since many mages do not know how to cooperate nowadays, though Frieren's presence allowed more examinees to pass than Serie anticipated.

Lernen

Debut: Chapter 37

Voiced by: Atsushi Miyauchi (Japanese), Kent Williams (English)

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The very first first-class mage and Serie's first disciple during the founding of the Continental Magic Association. He usually administers the third round of exams, before Serie hijacked the round and proctored it herself.

Because You Were Nice to Me: Denken stood up for Lernen when they were young, for which Lernen is eternally grateful and in Denken's debt. Thus, he has aimed for years to repay this debt. After Denken becomes the barrier keeper of the Golden Land, Lernen personally hires Edel to read Macht's memories and then requests Frieren's help to assist Denken in his plan to defeat Macht and restore the Golden Land.
Blood Knight: Lernen is a mage who thrives in battle. Ironically, he was born right after the centuries-long war with the Demon King ended. While Frieren refuses to fight him, he gets to show his skills when he holds off Macht for a while so Edel can analyze the Stone Bracelet of Servitude Macht is wearing. Facing Macht in battle actually excites him.
Lernen: I'm an old-fashioned mage who knows only battle.
Born in the Wrong Century: Lernen is an exceptional battle mage, who was born one century too late. Serie laments that if he had been born in the era of the war against the Demon King, he would have surely left his mark on history. He fears his accomplishments are far lesser than Flamme, which means Serie won't get the fame she deserves for taking in and teaching him. Hence, he strives to make a name for himself, good or bad—and in desperation briefly seeks the infamy that would come to him if he killed Frieren, challenging her to a duel to do just that, though the situation ends up resolving peacefully.
Chekhov's Gunman: Aside from letting Frieren participate in the first-class mage exam after recognizing her and the holy emblem she carries, Lernen's relevance in the first-class exam is relatively limited. He provides the Escape Rope golems Serie hands out for the second exam to the examinees and he was supposed to be the proctor for the third exam, except Serie hijacks it to prevent too many unnecessary casualties. However, flashbacks reveal that he is an old friend of Denken's and motivated his friend to become a first-class mage and go back home. He later personally requests Frieren to come to Weise and help Denken, after he and Edel successfully extracted 100 years of Macht's memories.
Combat Pragmatist: Lernen is a mage who fights the old-fashioned way which is still taught in the magic academies. Aside from his golems, he mostly uses basic spells and is an expert when it comes to stalling. When Ehre faced Fern during the first first-class mage exam, Fern's fighting style reminded her of her grandfather.
Connected All Along: In Chapter 42, after Wirbel's party seemingly has lost and must now return to the north by sea (which Wirbel hates because he easily gets seasick), Ehre mentions that they could go by land, since her grandfather is a first-class mage. The mage in question turns out to be Lernen.
Cowardly Lion: He openly admits he is not very brave. Or perhaps he simply knows when it's futile to keep fighting, as he simply runs away then. Therefore, he takes being called a "daredevil" actually as a compliment.
Lernen: Do you know how I've managed to survive this long? By knowing when to give up.
Golem: His signature magic. His golem creations are strong enough to not just bulldoze their way through a supposedly unconquerable dungeon, but easily block the attacks of his fellow first-class mages like Sense, despite being technically prototypes. They even have Healing Hands. A select few can even hold their own against Macht, requiring him to use Diagoldze to neutralize them.
Hyper-Awareness: Like Fern and the Demon King, he can see Frieren's mana instability. The latter, too, has difficulty reacting to his incredibly-fast Zoltraak when ambushed. However, he's unable to see Serie's instability, unlike Fern.
Legacy Seeker: Of an unusual variety, in that he doesn't seek to leave a legacy for his own sake but for the sake of his master, Serie, not feeling so alone in the world. In his mind, if he dies without making his mark on the world, it will mean all the work Serie put in teaching him will have amounted to nothing and be forgotten by her as well as a waste of time. Frieren reassures him by revealing that in spite of her dismissive words Serie has never forgotten any of her students, nor has she regretted teaching them, regardless of what they did or didn't accomplish. He needn't worry about a legacy, as Serie will always treasure him.
Meaningful Name: His name is German for "to learn/study", which matches Denken's name ("to think") and they get along well. He also plays a crucial part in the Golden Land arc by gathering the memories Frieren needs to study to counter Macht's curse Diagoldze.
No Social Skills: Lernen in his youth lost his place because he lacked the social skills. His Only Friend back then was Denken.
Odd Friendship: Lernen is from a noble family of mages, yet he somehow got along very well with Denken, who had a military background. Denken was in their youth Lernen's Only Friend and stood up for Lernen.
Old Master: The oldest first-class mage shown so far (apart from Denken who's of the same age and has recently graduated into first-class status), and is a powerful combatant. He easily shattered Frieren's defense magic three times and wounded her in the shoulder (the first time in the series Frieren is shown to be injured by a human), though she didn't want to fight him at the time. His combat ability was shown further when he effortlessly fought, then retreated from being entangled with Macht, which was much more than any other mage apart from his own master managed.

Äußerst First-Class Exam Examinees

First Party

General

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Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy: To be fair, Töne isn't the only character like this. However, he is the only person who vocalizes this side of him without care, strolling into the second test and not heeding Denken's advice. As we know now, the latter and his own teammate, Methode, were among the most powerful examinees around, and it'd pay to have their assistance at hand.
We Hardly Knew Ye: Apart from Methode, the other members didn't get much characterization. Länge, at least, got some screentime, but only to showcase how dangerous the second round dungeon was.

Methode

Debut: Chapter 40

Voiced by: Reina Ueda (Japanese), Caitlin Glass (English)

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A mage that is part of the First Party during the first-class mage exam. Methode is a mature and calm woman with a variety of talents.

After the first-class mage exam, Frieren's party teams up with Methode for a demon subjugation request.

Awesomeness by Analysis: She has a very analytical mind that helps her assess scenarios faster than others might.
Blood Knight: Implied, though she subtly denies it when accused as such from a demon. Her fighting style is very similar to a demon-hunting tribe who fanatically dedicate their lives to hunting demons just for the sake of it. Methode, meanwhile, still manages to pursue magic for her love of it, instead of actual, constant bloodlust.
Buxom Beauty Standard: The bustiest character in the manga, even more so than Fern. Stark remarks that she is exactly the sort of sexy, mature woman that Sein dreams of traveling with.
Cool Big Sis: Tries to be one to the people she's fond of, not realizing she's actually freaking them out (like Edel) or bothering them (like Serie). However, Stark notes Methode's personality is exactly to Sein's tastes.
Cuteness Proximity: In the third round of the first-class mage's exam, rather than show fear at Serie's presence like all the applicants who failed before her, Methode's only thought is "Well, isn't she just the cutest thing?" Serie ends up passing her. Methode later explains that she just finds cute, childish people in general to be really adorable and finds it hard to resist cuddling them. In fact, Serie (via Genau) ends up limiting her headpatting of her to 10 minutes a day, since she'll just do that all day to the elf instead of doing her job (and Serie is shown to be rather weirded out by Methode's obsession). Serie forbids hugs, however, so Methode makes a deal get Frieren to accept hugs from her. She also considers Fern to be adorable in her own right.
Jack of All Stats: She has a variety of magical talents, from paralysis spells to hypnosis spells to healing magic that requires a scripture to be used. However, much of her magic is situational and she doesn't seem to have any single specialty that stands out like many of the other first-class mages, yet it's precisely this variety and flexibility that makes her very dangerous in combat.
Irony: Methode is, for all purposes, the kind of companion that Sein wants as a party member due to his preference for older, mature women. Of course, Frieren and her party meet her at the point in time when Sein parted ways with them.
Out of Focus: During the first round of the first-class mage exam, we do not see how her team succeeded in capturing their bird (though given her paralysis spell, one can imagine pretty easily). She has more focus in the second round, and then even bigger focus during the subsequent arc where Frieren and co. have to work with her and Genau to hunt down demons who have been slaughtering villages in the north.
The Red Mage: Methode both is proficient in human magic and Goddess magic. Her ability to heal is a valuable skill.
Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Interestingly, to Frieren. Their combat style, choice of words against demons, tactics, and habit of multitasking during combat are almost identical. Even their family background and motivation to learn magic are similar. She also retains a considerable advantage against Fern when she fought the latter's clone due to this, because her sensory magic is even better than Frieren's, meaning Fern's clone can't just casually hide her mana like usual.
Yin-Yang Clash: With her eventual partner, Genau, though they get along reasonably well enough to work together effectively. Their personalities, habits, likes, and how they express them are diametrically opposite to each other, to the point Genau was wondering why Serie bothered to pair them up together, and warning Methode not to end up like him. Weirdly, his partners are of her ilk, so perhaps this is intentional by Serie.

Second Party

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Parent-Child Team: Their real dynamic, despite appearing to be of the same age. Lawine and Kanne would've likely kept bickering and gone through the exam inefficiently, requiring Frieren to keep them in check and actually form the plans to succeed in the first round.
Team Kids: They have the youngest appearance among all teams, including Frieren.

Kanne

Debut: Chapter 37

Voiced by: Azumi Waki (Japanese), Madeleine Morris (English)

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A young third-class mage who came from the same academy of magic as Lawine and is paired with Lawine and Frieren during the first exam.

Cowardly Lion: Kanne is a bit of a coward and can quickly lose her confidence, partially because she is aware of her inferiority. Lawine is usually the person who can get her back up on her feet though. This is also the reason why Serie fails Kanne in the final exam. She only sees a part of Serie and immediately gives up ever trying to match Serie.
Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Kanne is a ditzy, somewhat immature girl most of the time, and because she can't generate her own element, she can be pretty weak sometimes, but if the conditions are right, she can dish out destructive magic.
Field Power Effect: Since both Kanne and Lawine manipulate water, fighting them in a dry area significantly limits their potential. On the other hand, they are much more powerful near water sources or when it rains.
The Force Is Strong with This One: A notable aversion for Kanne. She is bad at detecting mana, as, unlike Lawine, she cannot see that Frieren has the mana of an elderly mage. She also gets ambushed by a giant bird in Chapter 38 because she didn't listen to Frieren's warning and couldn't sense the bird.
Girlish Pigtails: Kanne has part of her hair done up in pigtails, fitting with her young age and immature personality. Lawine tends to pull on Kanne's pigtails whenever they argue.
No Sense of Personal Space: She likes to fuss with Lawine, which usually earns her a headlock or a suplex.
Making a Splash: Kanne can manipulate water with her spell Reamstroha. This is an important distinction, as she can't generate more water, she needs water to already be around her to use her magic.
Meaningful Name: Kanne is German for pot, jug or can, like in watering can (Gießkanne). She's a water mage.
This Looks Like a Job for Aquaman: Kanne has the ability to manipulate water. However, as she cannot create water with her magic, she is restricted to existing sources of water, which makes her helpless if none are around. However, in the middle of a rainstorm, she is extremely powerful. Even Frieren states that she can't imagine being able to defeat Kanne under such circumstances.
Vitriolic Best Buds: Kanne tends to argue a lot with Lawine and will even do things like put each other in wrestling holds or pull each other's hair, yet they view each other as Childhood Friends and are a synchronized team, as Lawine can utilize the water Kanne manipulates with her ice magic.

Lawine

Debut: Chapter 37

Voiced by: Sayumi Suzushiro (Japanese), Rebecca Danae (English)

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A young third-class mage who came from the same academy of magic as Kanne and is paired with Kanne and Frieren during the first exam.

The Baby of the Bunch: She's the youngest child of her family and the only girl, so she's pampered by her older brothers to the point that they treat her like their doll they try cute clothes on.
Field Power Effect: Since both Kanne and Lawine manipulate water, fighting them in a dry area significantly limits their potential. On the other hand, they are much more powerful near water sources or when it rains. Still, unlike Kanne, she's able to condense and freeze existing moisture in the air for small offensive purposes.
Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak: Lawine is an Ojou who has long hair and wears a frilly dress. However, while she's usually refined, she does have a rougher side; her speech patterns in Japanese tend to be rather masculine, she doesn't like it when her family uses her as a dress-up doll for new outfits, and she has a habit of getting physically violent with Kanne whenever they argue.
Hidden Buxom: Lawine is fairly busty underneath her expensive dresses and despite her young age.
An Ice Person: Lawine uses ice magic.
Meaningful Name: Lawine is German for avalanche. She's an ice mage.
Ojou: Lawine's family is very rich, and her mother and older brothers all spoil her by buying her things (mainly new outfits to dress her up in). Her demeanor, aside from when bullying Kanne, is also quite refined.
Properly Paranoid: At the start of the second exam, Lawine and Kanne do not join Denken's party. When later being called out by Richter for withholding intel and refusing to cooperate, Lawine replies that she didn't want to cooperate with him because he is a middle-aged man who would likely abandon his allies if he isn't bound by rules to do so. He only takes offense to being called middle-aged, which means that her impression of Richter is otherwise likely correct. Later in the exam, they're forced to work together but are forced to forfeit when they're ambushed and gored by Sense's copy's attacks.
Sibling Rivalry: A one-sided view from her part. Her parents have always compared her to her much more talented older brothers, so she's predictably fed up with this treatment. Given she's already a third-class mage in her young age, this is likely an understatement in that she just so happens to be less talented in an overly-talented family.
Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: She works together with Richter to face some Replicas during the second round of the first-class mage exam, but she really doesn't like him—understandably so, after he not only beat the crap out of her and Kanne during the first half of their fight in the previous round, but actively tried to kill them. She and Kanne, also initially refuse to work together with Denken's group at the outset of the second test.
Tsundere: Lawine doesn't like admitting that she thinks highly of the effort Kanne puts in to improve, how she cares about others and how cute Kanne looks When She Smiles.
Vitriolic Best Buds: Lawine tends to argue a lot with Kanne, and will even do things like put her in wrestling holds or pull on her hair, yet they view each other as Childhood Friends and are a synchronized team, as Lawine can utilize the water Kanne manipulates with her ice magic.

Fourth Party

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Badass Crew: Overall, they have the most skilled team members on their team and are very well-balanced as a whole, with no obvious weak links. Fern handles the long-range attacks, Übel moves forward to the front line, and Land can cover anything in-between. They're also the only team to have every member pass the final test.
Breakout Character: Übel and Land, and particularly their relationship, is one of the highlights of both the manga and anime, to the point that, after the anime aired, the author created an arc in the manga with them as focus characters.
Nice Mean And In Between: Fern's the Nice Girl, Übel is the Blood Knight, and Land is the aloof guy.
Odd Friendship: 'Friends' might not be the best word, but Übel, a morally dubious Blood Knight, and Land, a stoic boy who hasn't left his village in years, eventually form some sort of bond and are each the closest thing to a friend they have.

Übel

Debut: Chapter 37

Voiced by: Ikumi Hasegawa (Japanese), Morgan Berry (English)

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A third-class mage, who is an infamous troublemaker. She is paired with Fern and Land in the first exam.

Absurdly Sharp Blade: An invisible one too, at that. Her signature magic, Reelseiden, is titled "A Spell That Slashes Almost Anything" for good reason. Übel easily cleaves rocks, trees, and the earth itself, and while the spell is blockable by modern defense magic, Übel can simply choose to attack from any direction and with varying strength.
Achilles' Heel: Downplayed. Her copied restraint magic from Wirbel is dependent on sight, and thus has all the same weaknesses as his. Further, while she could still use Reelseiden somewhat effectively after an imperial mage blinded her with a spell, she is less accurate than before and easily beaten when he follows up by striking her staff from her hand. She appears to require her staff in order to cast Reelseiden, as she has never been seen to use it without holding said staff, and when it is knocked from her hands she can only grab the foe and tell Land to take the opportunity to attack.
Almighty Janitor: She possesses excellent combat skills, an insanely powerful cutting spell, and the ability to copy magic by empathizing with the original posessor. The only reason she's still a third-class mage is because she failed on a technicality the last time she took a second-class exam, after accidentally killing the proctor, himself a first-class mage, not because she lacks the strength or ability. This gets corrected at the end of the Exam Arc, as Serie only needs to take one glance before promoting Übel straight to the top.
Ambiguously Evil: Just look at what her name means in German. Despite the fact that her power relies on her empathizing with her opponent to copy their magic, she is a very off-putting person with a vaguely menacing demeanor who nobody feels particularly comfortable around, but she hasn't committed any truly evil acts before the viewer.
- In her first appearance, she's jumped by bandits only for Kraft (who happened to be wandering by) to intervene and drive them off. He then reveals that he was saving the bandits from Ubel, not the other way around, noting that he found the remains of other bandits in the nearby forest who had been chopped to pieces by magic. With Ubel's complete lack of surprise at the bandits ambushing her, her conspicuously glancing in their direction before they even show up and her loudly talking to herself about how she ought to take a rest, the implication that is that she was deliberately baiting bandits into attacking her in order to sate her bloodlust on acceptable targets. As Kraft notes however, this was technically still self-defense regardless, as they were bandits preying on what they thought was a vulnerable traveler.
- She's fond of trying to provoke a reaction from Land in various ways order to try and understand him and copy his clone magic. This includes acting in ways that implicitly, but don't quite outright, threaten him, such as suddenly restraining him with Sorganeil in the middle of a conversation and then continuing on as if nothing's wrong while he's at her mercy, or when she finds his home village she idly suggests that she might "make a scene" if he won't welcome her into his house as a guest, though she hasn't ever followed through. Land himself seriously considers the idea that Ubel might be out to kill him, though he seems to find himself drawn to her anyway, and even finds himself grateful that she gives him the impetus to finally leave his village.
- She straight up killed her first-class mage proctor, Burg, during her previous exam, where the test was to attack the proctor (who specialized in defensive magic) in such a way that knocked him at least one step back, Ubel immediately cut him in half with Reelseiden. It's ambiguous whether this was a straight up opportunistic murder, as Reelseiden can only cut what Ubel believes it can cut, meaning that Ubel had to have known for a fact that it would penetrate Burg's defenses for it to do so; if it was an honest accident, as it is possible that Ubel simply misjudged the force behind the blow and/or had less precise control over her mana 3 years ago, and she knew that causing a fatality would result in an immediate fail; or if it was simply an uncaring afterthought, with Ubel simply instinctively lashing out with a lethal blow without any specific intent to kill or considering the consequences. Her own words indicate it was the second option, as she remarks she cut too deep upon seeing Burg is dead, though she is still seemingly not bothered at all by it aside from acknowledging this means she has failed the exam.
Because You Were Nice to Me: It's shown that she appreciates that Land worries about her life and safety, even when she herself completely disregards those as if they were nothing.
Blood Knight: In her very first scene, she provokes a group of bandits into attacking her. Kraft shows up and saves the bandits by beating them up and making them retreat before Übel can kill them, as he earlier buried the remains of some bandits who were chopped to pieces by a very skilled mage. After the bandits flee, Übel immediately glares at Kraft as if she's looking for a fight. She actually failed the exam for second-class because she killed the first-class mage proctor during the exam (though this was likely by accident). It's ultimately the reason why she passes the first-class test, as she's open to taking on Serie in a fight.
Casual Danger Dialogue: Übel loves doing this, continuously chattering away at her opponents and teammates at any and all situations. It's partially her own personality, and partially as the activation condition for her Power Copying ability, since she needs to emphatize with her victims to do so.
Cute and Psycho: Pretty girl wearing a side ponytail and a short dress gives everyone a coy smile full of mischief. Problem is, that mischief includes slicing people in twain with a surprising amount of eagerness behind it.
Dissonant Serenity: She sports a coy, serene smile while hiding a seemingly boundless lack of respect for life accompanied with a knife that can cut through anything she can think of.
Dreary Half-Lidded Eyes: Her default look, which emphasizes her laid-back approach towards life.
Everyone Has Standards:
- A shameless killer of questionable morals she may be, but even Übel is creeped out by, or at least embarrassed by, Fern's X-Ray Vision spell, instantly moving to the back of the cave and crouching down to cover herself when she mentions it.
- While on an infiltration mission with Land, she gets embarrassed by him wall-leaning onto her to fool their pursuers into thinking that they're partygoers trying to get some "alone" time. Once their pursuers are out of sight, she starts kicking Land on the back for being so daring as to do something like that to her.
Foil: To Fern.
- Fern's the typical orthodox party mage with a great disposition towards a large variety of miscellaneous, often ordinary magic. Übel's a Black Magician Girl whose magic are geared almost exclusively towards combat. Fern's formally taught by both Frieren and Heiter, while Übel is largely self-taught and relies on copying others' magic to enhance her repertoire.
- Fern's always dressed conservatively with coats and long dresses, while Übel is the most scantily-clad female character with her skimpy minidress and generous cleavage.
- In combat, Fern is almost entirely silent, befitting her strengths of stealth and ultra-long range sniping. Übel likes conversing and snarking in combat, both to destabilize her opponents and attempt to copy their magic, and is far more of a close-range combatant than Fern. Fern prioritizes fatal shots to weakpoints to end fights in an instant, while Übel enjoys inflicting unnecessary pain and bloodshed before killing her opponents.
- Fern's expression gravitates between The Stoic and Deadpan Snarker, while Übel sports a serene and paradoxically unnerving grin most of the time.
Imagination-Based Power: Her Razor Wind magic, Reelseiden, can cut anything she can imagine being cut. She once cut down a man with an enchanted cloak that was considered to be indestructible because she was raised with a seamstress mother and saw cloth being cut down many times. She is the one to defeat a doppelgänger of another powerful mage who used her hair as a weapon because she could picture hair being cut, then easily slices an imperial mage's cluster of building-sized boulders before falling into a trap and being subdued. Her opponent, recognizing this trope, wondered if stone can be imagined to be cut this easily.
Insistent Terminology: She always refers to Land as "Four-Eyes".
Lack of Empathy: Inverted. Despite her Blood Knight attitude, Übel actively tries to empathize with her opponents because it allows her to use their magic. If she doesn't understand her opponent, it won't work.
Meaningful Name: Übel is German for nasty, obnoxious, or evil.
Ms. Fanservice: In a series with very light Fanservice aspects, Übel stands out as someone dressed in a very skimpy outfit that reveals lots of her legs and arms. The camera also doesn't shy away from showing her armpits and Between My Legs shots in episode 24.
Names to Run Away from Really Fast: "Evil" in German.
The Nicknamer: Always calls Land "Four-Eyes".
Not So Stoic: When Land pushes Übel against a wall and acts intimately to make it seem like they are kissing to fool two Imperial mages about to aprehend them during their infiltration mission, she's flustered enough to kick him in retaliation afterwards.
Perpetual Smiler: It's rare that she isn't smiling. Along with her Dreary Half-Lidded Eyes, this gives her a perpetually smug expression.
Power Copying: Übel has a unique ability to copy the magic of others. She doesn't need to know how exactly it works, she just needs to understand their feelings and nature.
Razor Wind: Übel is proficient in cleaving magic which is invisible and cuts through trees like butter. Called Reelseiden, one of its few weaknesses is tt only has a range of roughly five meters.
Stalker without a Crush: Amibigous. She starts to follow Land around following after the first exam regardless of his say in the matter. Due to Übel's special ability to copy the magic of those she empathizes, she claims she hangs around him for that purpose. While she is fond of him, and even teases him flirtatiously, it is not entirely clear yet if this is a genuine romantic attraction.
The Tease: Played with. While she's a markedly beautiful young woman, Übel is not one to use her feminine wiles to achieve her ends. If anything, Übel is actually somewhat prudish in that respect. In contrast, in her introduction, she exploits the scenario where she's a "helpless" traveler in order to butcher bandits who come across her, though this is more of a situation where she passes herself as vulnerable.

Land

Debut: Chapter 37

Voiced by: Shōhei Komatsu (Japanese), Corey Wilder (English)

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"Right from the start. When the first exam began. I never trust anyone, you see."

A stoic mage that teams up with Übel and Fern. His signature spell is using illusion magic to create clones of himself, which have physical mass and can even cast spells themselves.

Actually a Doombot: Since his clones have physical mass and can independently cast spells, Land's favored tactic is to have a clone face all the dangers in his stead while his real body remains unseen. During the first and second tests of the First-Class Mage Exam he's seemingly gravely injured by his opponents twice only to reveal that it was actually a clone all along, and it's revealed by Serie that Land's real body actually never even left his village to travel to exam in the first place, having just been remotely taking the test via his clones the whole time.
Doppelgänger Attack: He uses illusion magic. This is shown with him creating an illusion of himself to fight against an enemy while he hides, letting him study and understand the enemy to properly take him out. However, he notes that the illusion is technically a clone, since it's a flawless copy of his actual body and possesses the same power. The fact that he passed the first two exams without his real body ever stepping a foot on the examination grounds impresses Serie enough that she lets him pass. In fact he passes the third exam (a meeting and a chat with Living Legend Serie) with his real body being in a village miles away and drinking tea and it is that irreverence that amuses Serie so much that she lets him pass.
Foil: Is one to Ubel. Land is an outwardly stoic and cautious mage that careful considers his options before taking action. This is reinforced by his signature clone magic that allows to use misdirection without putting his real body in harm's way. However, underneath his stoicism he isn't the type of person to abandon someone to their fate if he could do something about it. Ubel on the other hand is a very chatty and casual with people but has little apparent regard towards the lives of others and herself. This is reinforced by her fighting style of getting up close and personal with cleaving magic and willingness to throw herself into danger without second thought. As seen when she left her escape golem behind to fight her clone because she was betting on Land arriving just in time to save her.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He tries his best to be as much of a Jerkass as possible and pushes other people away, but can't stand having others die for him. Übel got a good read on him in this regard.
Parental Abandonment: Land lost his parents early and he was instead raised by his grandmother, but she was old and thus eventually left him too.
Properly Paranoid: Land refuses to socialize and give any information about himself to Übel, no matter how often she insists. Turns out, Übel actively tries to empathize with people to copy their abilities.
Raised by Grandparents: His parents passed away early and he was instead raised by his grandmother until her death of old age. Or so he claims.
Refuge in Audacity: Serie lets him pass the exam despite never actually participating precisely because it is such a daring move.
The Shut-In: At the end of the first-class exam, it's revealed that he never set a foot on the examination grounds and merely used his clones instead, a daring move that impresses Serie so much that she lets him pass. Chapter 126 reveals that due to his aging grandmother, he didn't leave her side and went to magic school using his clone. Even after her death, he hasn't moved away until Übel finds him and drags him out for a mission. He somewhat welcomes this, as, since his grandmother is long dead, there really isn't anything left that keeps him in the village and he needed a push to leave.
Tsundere:
- While Land justifiably keeps Übel at arm's length, it's shown that he appreciates her insistence at keeping him company regardless of her motives and that she's actively trying to empathize with him in her wonky, messed-up way.
- When on a mission with Übel, Land refuses to let her put herself in harm's way in order to provide him the opportunity to strike down an enemy mage, as it would have meant harm and even death for her. When in captivity, Übel realizes that, on top of that, Land purposely let himself be captured in the flesh (and not one of his clones) to not leave her helplessly alone to their captors, and he raises concern about the fact that she doesn't care about life (even her own), thus implying that he cares about her and her safety.

Eighth Party

General

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Bash Brothers: They form a genuine friendship during the first-class mage exam, with Scharf and Ehre accompanying him back to the northern frontlines when the exam's finished. It's notable they're the only team who manage to accomplish this, despite one of the main theme of their edition of exam is "teamwork".
Big, Thin, Short Trio: Though Wirbel's more stocky and muscular than "big", their team is this.
Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: Wirbel's blond, Scharf's black-haired, and Ehre's redheaded.
Running Gag: Scharf and Ehre being incapacitated, requiring Wirbel to carry them both around like luggage.

Wirbel

Debut: Chapter 37

Voiced by: Kishow Taniyama (Japanese), Ricco Fajardo (English)

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"Go ahead and take a shot at my back. It only means that an unnecessary kill would turn into a necessary one."

A second-class mage and the leader of the eighth party during the examination. He's the captain of the Northern Magic Corps and is thus a very experienced mage.

Bruiser with a Soft Center: Wirbel pretends to be a ruthless tough warrior, but he is actually very kind. He is reluctant to kill and will try to make people give up before being forced to kill them. In the first exam, he had every opportunity to instantly paralyze Fern's party and kill them to steal their stille while they were distracted, but he attacked them first and then gave them the chance to surrender.
Collared by Fashion: He wears a long belt on his neck, which is fashioned to look like he's wearing a dog collar with a leash.
Combat Pragmatist: As a soldier on the front lines of the ongoing war against demons in the northern lands, his magic is mostly focused on winning in any way he can.
Ehre: The magic he uses is vulgar and cowardly... designed to win at all costs.
Declaration of Protection: His main motivation for fighting in the north was to make it a safe place for a girl he had a crush on, who moved to the central countries with her family 29 years ago. He can't even remember anymore how she looks like, but he has not forgotten the promise he made to her.
Good Counterpart: To Übel. While she is a Blood Knight overjoyed at the prospect of a fight to the death, Wirbel doesn't like killing unnecessarily and avoids doing so when he can. Even when he judges killing her to be necessary, he has to buy time to psych himself up to do it.
Hired Guns: The Northern Magic Corps is a mercenary group specializing in demons, but at times they have also been hired to fight in wars between nations.
The Knights Who Say "Squee!": He has always admired Himmel and the party of heroes, which explains part of his kind and heroic nature. He is a bit disappointed when he sees that Frieren is not that nice.
Magic Wand: The only character uniquely using it, while others use long staffs.
Meaningful Name: "Wirbel" is German for "whirl", "vortex", "fuss" or "vertebra".
It Never Gets Any Easier: Even though Wirbel has participed in wars and killed countless people, he needs to fight hard to bring himself to kill opponents he has at his mercy.
Older Than They Look: He's around 35, but could pass for a teenager.
The Paralyzer: His target-binding spell, Sorganeel, allows him to trap any being, as long as he is able to look at—and, most importantly, keep looking at—their entire body.
Personality Powers: Übel suspects that his target-binding magic is the result of this: he needs this to buy himself time to build the resolve to kill, since he doesn't like killing humans. Wirbel clarifies that while he does need a moment to steel himself, when he needs to kill he always follows through.
Technical Pacifist: Bordering on Wirbel being a Reluctant Warrior. He does not like to kill and would rather avoid fights if he can. He gives Fern's party multiple chances to peacefully surrender, and when Fern later tells him that she killed Ehre, he immediately gives up the fight and retreats, as his party can't pass the exam anymore.
War Is Hell: War is hell, and hell is real in the north. Wirbel has killed women and Child Soldiers before. It has not completely traumatized him though and he still only kills when absolutely necessary.

Scharf

Debut: Chapter 39

Voiced by: Yuji Murai (Japanese), Alejandro Saab (English)

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A third-class mage and one of Wirbel's comrades.

Adaptational Badass: In the anime, instead of carrying a bouquet of flowers with him, he can produce his own flower field to use his Petal Power. This is a bit of Mythology Gag, since this is Frieren's personal favourite spell.
Incompletely Trained: His magic and combat style are mostly self-taught, which Land gleefully takes advantage off in their fight.
Meaningful Name: Scharf means "sharp" in German, which matches his ability to turn flower petals into razor sharp objects.
Petal Power: His signature magic converts flower petals to steel. Most notably, this does not conjure the petals by itself, so he usually has to prepare a bouquet of flowers beforehand.

Ehre

Debut: Chapter 39

Voiced by: Kanae Itō (Japanese), Trina Nishimura (English)

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"Resorting to brute force like this is stupid! Have some dignity!"

A second-class mage from the northern lands, who is teamed up with Scharf and Wirbel. She faces Fern in the first exam and is quickly overpowered.

Because You Were Nice to Me: She accompanies Wirbel north, possibly because he once saved her and her village from demons when she was little.
Book Smart: The valedictorian of her magic academy... yet was trounced by Fern who's practically homeschooled her whole life.
Connected All Along: In Chapter 42, after Wirbel's party seemingly has lost and must now return to the north by sea (which Wirbel hates because he easily gets seasick), Ehre mentions that they could go by land, since her grandfather is a first-class mage. The mage in question turns out to be Lernen.
Dramatic Irony: In two ways during her fight against Fern. She dissmisively considers Fern's mana pool to be lower than hers and her fighting style to be quaint and simple, comparing the feeling of fighting her to sparing with her grandfather. That is ironic because 1) her grandfather is the first and the strongest first-class mage Lernen and 2) Fern has spent her whole life intentionally limiting her mana output to trick demons, like Serie and Frieren do, so they make the exact miscalculation during the fight that Ehre made. Which means that Ehre had unconsciously realized that Fern is much stronger than her but wasn't able to do anything with that information before she lost the fight.
Dishing Out Dirt: Ehre's spell Doragate allows her to launch rock pellets at her opponents.
Honor Before Reason: Fern points out that Ehre should be stronger than Wirbel, but Ehre quickly retorts that Wirbel is a Combat Pragmatist. Ehre is not one, because she otherwise would not have faced Fern directly in combat and is called out by Wirbel after losing.
Meaningful Name: Her name means "honor" in German. She is a bit too focused on fighting with dignity and fair and square, which leads to her defeat as Fern quickly overpowers her.
Nerves of Steel: Subverted. While she initially appears to be calm and composed, when she encounters something unexpected (like Fern's Beam Spam), she quickly panicks. She has a similar reaction in the third exam when she sees Serie, which is why Serie immediately fails her.
Not So Above It All: Ehre usually appears to be very mature and composed, but after she loses to Fern and runs out of mana, she insists that Wirbel should give her a piggyback ride instead of making her levitate with magic.

Thirteenth Party

General

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Combat Pragmatist: Somewhat. While Laufen's more straightforward, both Denken and Richter will do everything they can to triumph in the end, though they have different ways and standards to do so.
Like a Son to Me: Denken has this sort of a relationship with Laufen, which drives Richter crazy with how close they've become in just one day.
Richter: What's your actual relationship with Denken, anyway?

Denken

Debut: Chapter 37

Voiced by: Jiro Saito (Japanese), Ben Phillips (English)

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"What do you think an imperial mage would do at a time like this? We struggle until the very end, however ugly it may be."

A 76 years-old second-class mage, who is known for having won a violent power struggle, which earned him the status of an imperial mage. During the first exam, Denken targets Frieren's party and is utterly defeated.

After the first-class exam, Frieren's party meets him again near the Fortified City of Weise at the request of Lernen.

Almighty Janitor: Downplayed. Denken clearly has the skills of a first-class mage, he just never bothered to do the first-class mage exam until now. He still is a famous and feared imperial mage.
Awesomeness by Analysis: Denken is quite adept at understanding a situation and formulating a plan very quickly. When Lawine freezes the lake where the stille would appear, he understands the other teams' efforts to melt the lake is a waste of time since it would only further scare the stille away; and that to take such massive, flashy measures, means that Frieren's team must have a surefire plan to get the stille, so they're better off trying to steal it from them.
Birds of a Feather: He finds joy in pursuing magic rather than it being handed to him, which is why he isn't particularly interested in the privilege that Serie grants to first-class mages. He also has longtime regrets of not visiting his loved ones, which he only realizes in his old age. Frieren respects and helps Denken because they think similarly.
Blood Knight: Even at his age, and even when he knows it's futile, he is excited to fight other far more powerful mages like Frieren or Serie. He claims that this thought came to him for a mere instant, but that he even dares to think he could challenge them is impressive enough in the present.
Blue Blood: Denken is a distant relative of the noble Glück family (and was also married to the daughter of the family head), so he is technically a noble, but he prefers keeping things casual.
Cool Old Guy: Denken in his old age is a very social person and friendly to most people. Denken's comrade, Laufen, takes a liking to him and affectionately calls him "gramps". Denken in turn treats her like a granddaughter. He in general treats young people like Laufen, Fern and Stark well.
Court Mage: As an imperial mage, he used to advise kings in the past.
Determinator: This is what made Denken the mage he is now. He refuses to give up, no matter what.
- After Denken's team is defeated by Frieren, Kanne, and Lawine, Richter gives up since they don't have any mana and there is no time left. Denken tells his comrades that an imperial mage struggles until the bitter end and starts looking for another party. When they find a party that is in possession of a stille, Richter asks Denken how they are supposed to defeat them when they have no mana left. Denken's answer? Good Old Fisticuffs.
- Despite knowing the terrible odds against a perfect replica of Frieren in the second exam, and admitting that he immediately would have fled if this wasn't an exam, he faces the replica head-on and only retreats when it appears to be hopeless.
- In the climax of the Golden Land arc, Macht praises Denken for his refusal to give up, despite being completely outclassed by both Macht and Solitär. Once Denken can no longer be turned into gold, he puts up a far better fight against Macht and refuses to go down despite his near-fatal wounds. He ends up defeating his former master and survives.
Healthcare Motivation: When Denken was young, he pursued magic to obtain power and money to find a way to save his Delicate and Sickly wife. When he obtained all of that though, it was too late and his wife already passed away.
Hidden Depths: He gets an ominous introduction during the mage exams, with the proctors noting how he bloodily intrigued his way into his imperial position. This makes him an easy fit for the "Evil Chancellor out to increase his political clout" archetype, compounded by his cold and calculating strategy to attack another party and steal their Stille in the first exam. Denken's actual actions, however, slowly paint him in a different light, showing his desire to limit bloodshed and encourage cooperation, yet who is also willing to get his hands dirty to accomplish his goals. Denken has the capacity to be ruthless when he feels it is required, but genuinely wants to avoid unnecessary bloodshed and conflict wherever possible.
The Knights Who Say "Squee!": Denken became a mage because he has always admired Frieren.
The Leader: Intelligent, experienced, headstrong, charismatic and rational, Denken is this all. He very quickly establishes himself as the leader of his party during the first exam due to being the strongest and most intelligent and skilled mage among them. He also suggests to cooperate and leads his group during the second exam and avoids most traps in the dungeon, though it also shows that he is not quite as experienced as Frieren.
Married to the Job: Denken was Happily Married, but he spent a lot of his time studying magic. After the death of his beloved wife, he became consumed with his work, telling himself that he would visit his wife's grave one day, but always used his duties as an excuse to not go. He only started to act over fifty years later after he was informed that his hometown was no longer easily accessible, realizing that he has almost no time left.
Meaningful Name: "Denken" is German for "think", "thinking" or "thought". Denken is a very thoughtful man that thoroughly analyzes and understands his surroundings.
Merlin and Nimue: Denken's master was Macht, one of the Seven Sages of Destruction, who is several centuries old.
Might Makes Right: Subverted. He does not agree with this ideology and rebukes it when Richter thinks of it because as Denken points out, first-class mages need to be authorities, and an authority that is feared, rather than one that is respected and liked, will eventually fall when people no longer want to hear from them.
Military Mage: Denken used to serve in the imperial army as a mage.
My Greatest Failure: Denken obsessively pursued magic for power and money for his Delicate and Sickly wife, whose noble family lost a power struggle. However, it was All for Nothing because by the time he got what he wanted and when Serie established the Continental Magic Association with its special privilege for first-class mages, his wife already passed away. Denken at least wanted to visit his wife's grave regularly then, but out of shame and guilt never did, always using his duties as an excuse to not go.
My Greatest Second Chance: After he successfully becomes a first-class mage, he moves to Weise and becomes the barrier keeper of the Golden Land. Seeing his hometown, full of happy memories of his life, turned to gold awakens his desire to restore the Golden Land and kill Macht.
Odd Friendship:
- Despite meeting for the first time during the first-class mage exam, Denken and Laufen become close enough afterwards that their relationship is like grandfather and granddaughter.
- Lernen notes that it's quite strange how he and Denken became friends, since they have very different backgrounds.
Older Than They Look: He's about the same age as Himmel when he died but looks about 20 years younger than that.
Old Master: He is a powerful mage and even capable of winning a fist fight with someone theoretically in their physical prime despite his age. And after becoming a first-class mage and gaining a certain spell from Serie as a reward, he is able to go toe-to-toe with Macht, a very strong demon lord, and not only (barely) survives, but even emerges victorious. Granted, he's been preparing and analyzing this fight for close to fifty years, but still.
Only Friend: Denken was the only one who kept standing by Lernen's side when he was politically pushed aside in his career. Thus, Lernen is immensely grateful to Denken and wishes to repay the kindness by personally helping him in his quest to restore the Golden Land and defeat Macht.
Parental Abandonment: Denken lost his parents to demons, which is why he hates them. He was then taken in by distant relatives, the Glück family.
Seeker Archetype: He and Frieren share a similar thinking. He's not interested in having magic handed to him. Magic should be pursued. Frieren respects him for that.
Sensor Character: Denken is good at detecting even minuscule amounts of mana, understanding the second team's plans by being able to detect the minuscule quantity of mana Kanne has poured in multiple water sources.
Team Dad: Quickly settles into the role following the first test, doting on Laufen like a grandfather would, buying her treats and trying to make her eat her vegetables, and doing his best to get Richter to open up, such as getting him to show them the way to a fancy restaurant so he can treat them both. He later gives Richter some words of encouragement at his shop after he failed the second test, which Richter later stated did improve his mood.
Technical Pacifist: While his reputation makes him look like a violent and cold person, unlike Richter he doesn't see any need to kill others, especially children, for a privilege that he deems meaningless.
There's No Place Like Home: His main motivation for participating in the first-class exam is neither fame nor a desire to obtain a spell from Serie. He just wants to go home and visit the cemetery of his hometown, but since the north is overrun by demons, the passage is only granted to first-class mages. Once he reaches Weise and sees how Macht has turned everything into gold, his goal becomes to defeat Macht and restore the Golden Land.

Richter

Debut: Chapter 39

Voiced by: Eiji Hanawa (Japanese), Ian Moore (English)

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A second-class mage that teams up with Denken and uses Earth Manipulation Magic. He is very cold and calculating about his actions. He also owns and runs a magic tool shop in Äußerst.

Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy: When Richter is assigned to fight Kanne and Lawine, he states that he would only need one minute to kill them and complains that he's just babysitting kids. During their whole fight he arrogantly looks down on them and even lectures them about their naive usage of magic. To be fair, he is far more experienced and knows that Kanne practically can't fight and Lawine's ice magic is weak because there are no water sources nearby. Once Frieren breaks the barrier and lets the rain in, he quickly loses his composure and the fight. He's also very prideful in his own ability to repair and maintain magic tools. Frieren later funnily takes advantage of his arrogance by baiting him with Fern's smashed magic staff.
The Comically Serious: During Denken and Laufen's visit to his shop, he continuously snarks at Denken without changing his expression. When Frieren shows up, he simply puts his head in his hands and wonders if it's his unlucky day, still without changing expression.
Consummate Professional: When trying to throw Denken and Laufen out of his shop, he cites his foul mood, to which Denken points out he has opened shop. Richter simply snarks that Denken may not understand, but no matter how horrible of a mood one is in they must work to survive. Moreover, despite calling Fern's smashed magic staff trash at a glance he is able to restore it perfectly within a single day by Frieren's request. Having worked with it closely, he apologizes for calling it trash and notes the meticulous level of care that it must have received, something that Frieren herself hadn't fully understood and had just fought with Fern over.
Dishing Out Dirt: Richter uses earth manipulation magic first and foremost by touching the ground with his hand. He states how this kind of magic, which manipulates physical elements, is the current way mages fight each other, since magic shields are quickly overpowered by pure mass.
Graceful Loser: For all his hubris, he calmly accepts his defeat when Frieren breaks the barrier of the first exam and allows Kanne to use the falling rain to throw a gigantic attack of water at him, which takes him down.
Irony: Despite running a magic staff shop, he rarely uses his own when fighting, manipulating the earth around him through direct touch instead.
I Take Offense to That Last One: When he asks Lavine and Kanne why they didn't share information about the dungeon with anyone else, they respond that the people they would have cooperated with (Frieren and Fern) had already left and that they wouldn't offer information to Richter because he's just an old man who is willing to be ruthless if there are no rules against it. Richter protests with a smile that being called "old" part is what stings.
Jerkass: Absolutely one. Not only does he constantly mock Lawine and Kanne's Crippling Overspecialization while beating the crap out of them, he also doesn't hold back on his opinions regarding his own teammates, once callously saying Denken doesn't have much time left in this world (a suggestion Serie quickly debunks later). However, he is a Consummate Professional, willing to work together with Denken and later Lawine, when it's required. His jerkass behavior was the reason Lawine and Kanne initially refused to cooperate with Denken's group at the start of the second exam.
Jerkass with a Heart of Gold: Make no mistake, Richter is a prideful asshole, plain and simple, and so ruthless in the pursuit of his goals that he has no problem with killing Lawine and Kanne during the first test if he feels he has to, but he is shown to be a good person deep down. In the second test he's amused by the insults Lavine and Kanne throw at him, encourages Lawine to use her escape golem alongside him, stating they can always retake the test in another three years, and later at his shop he shows some humility and apologizes to Frieren for insulting Fern's destroyed staff after seeing how well maintained it is.
Meaningful Name:
- Richter is German for judge, and Richter is a pretty judgmental person. Richter is also the name of a measurement unit used for earthquake scales, fitting for a person whose strongest magic is geokinesis.
- Richter can also be derived from the German word "richten", which means "to fix". He is the Mr. Fixit of Äußerst.
Mr. Fixit: Richter runs a magic shop in Äußerst, where he sells his wares and offers to repair items from magic lighting lamps to magic staffs and is renowned for being able to fix pretty much any such item. After Fern's staff breaks in the fight against Frieren's Spiegel clone, she goes to Richter and goads him into repairing the staff.
"Not So Different" Remark: Denken notes that he is incredibly brazen, mocks authority and does not hesitate to exploit the weak to pursue his goals. Yet, he bore Richter no enmity, for he recognized that he was also a brazen boy at one point, and followed up by pointing out he had wound up an Imperial Mage. He then leaves Richter with a few remarks on how in three years' time, Richter would have grown far stronger and more capable of passing the exam, telling him not to be downcast from a single defeat.
Super-Stoic Shopkeeper: He runs the best magic tool shop in town, complete with a magic staff repair service (which Frieren happily makes use of). He's constantly trying to kick out his own teammates, since they usually just browse and not buy a damn thing—plus, Laufen likes to snack at his store.
Touché: When he asks Lavine and Kanne why they didn't cooperate with him, they call him a treacherous old man. He actually smiles and drops the question, only lightly protesting being called old.
Would Hurt a Child: He is absolutely ruthless against Lawine and Kanne, girls half his age, and only Denken's repeated requests stayed his hand from being overly brutal.

Laufen

Debut: Chapter 39

Voiced by: Shizuka Ishigami (Japanese), Marisa Duran (English)

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A third-class mage, who is teamed up with Denken and Richter in the first exam. She is a descendant of a mountain tribe from the southern lands.

Adaptational Badass: Episode 23 gives Laufen the opportunity to show her fighting skills in the second exam, showing that she uses her staff to fight in close combat, which she can also extend magically at will.
Anime Chinese Girl: Laufen wears a dress reminiscent of a Qipao, has Odango Hair and even her name ラオフェン (raofen) distantly sounds Chinese. She also is a Monkey King Lite.
The Baby of the Bunch: Laufen's far younger than her teammates, with Richter already nearing his 40s and Denken being 76.
Flash Step: Her specialty. Jilwer is a high-speed movement spell, but its mana signature is hard to conceal.
Fragile Speedster: Her high-speed movement spell Jilwer enables her to Flash Step anywhere she likes. It doesn't increase her combat abilities in any other way, and Frieren easily defeats her barehanded.
The Ingenue: While good-natured, due to her young age, she is rather naive. During the first exam, she wants to get the corpses of a team that was killed down, not realizing that it's a trap set up by the monsters that killed them. She also tries to save Denken from Frieren torturing and potentially killing him, despite his repeated pleas to not fall for Frieren's bluffs.
Like a Son to Me: She practically acts like Denken's granddaughter, since he often treats her to sweets. She doesn't listen to him regarding eating her vegetables, either.
Magic Knight: Laufen is proficient in close-combat. She uses her staff to physically engage enemies.
Monkey King Lite: Laufen is an Anime Chinese Girl who can use her magic to attack with her Telescoping Staff.
Punny Name: Her name Laufen in German means "to walk/run", which fits because of her Flash Step ability. It also sounds kind of Chinese, which matches her appearance and fighting style.
Sweet Tooth: She is always seen eating donuts or other pastries around town.

Seventeenth Party

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Non-Action Guy: Unfortunately for them for the second round, their party consists of mostly noncombatants. It's implied they got through the first round through pure luck, too.
We Hardly Knew Ye: Much like the First Party, apart from Edel, the other two men didn't get much story time, though their struggles in the second round were at least drawn.

Edel

Debut: Chapter 39

Voiced by: Tomoyo Kurosawa (Japanese), Nia Celeste (English)

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A second-class mage skilled in mental magic. After the first-class exam, she is hired by Lernen to assist him in an unofficial mission in the Fortified City of Weise.

Brilliant, but Lazy: She outright refused Lernen's offer the first time because she simply didn't want to work, even when he brought up her family head.
Chekhov's Gunman: Edel doesn't get much screentime during the first-class mage exam and mostly appears in the background. The second exam reveals that she is strong in hypnosis magic, which is why Lernen later hires her to restore the Stone Bracelet of Servitude Macht is wearing, and if that fails, read his memories. Without Edel copying Macht's memories, Frieren would not have been able to develop a counterspell against Macht's curse.
Deadpan Snarker: Is absolutely not impressed by Lernen's ploy to rope her into his unofficial mission in Weise.
Heroic RRoD: Ambitiously absorbing and reading a century's worth of Macht's memories immediately induced extreme nosebleed from her and knocked her out in an instant.
Sweet Tooth: She enjoys the pastries from a bakery of Kanne's recommendation, and Lernen buys some for her as a bribe.
Telepathy: Her speciality. Unfortunately for her, most of the demons humanity are facing (and the Sense clone she fought in the second round) are impossible to be fought solely with this, and their minds are more often too alien for her to comprehend to gain any proper information. However, she managed to read 100 years' worth of memories just by touching Macht once—a feat which amazed everybody, and the reason Lernen brought her along.

Other

Flamme

The Great Mage Flamme

Debut: Chapter 7

Voiced by: Atsuko Tanaka (Japanese), Lydia Mackay (English)

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One of, if not the, most powerful human mage to exist. She lived a millennium before the story and was Frieren's teacher. She was known as mankind's progenitor of magic and was Serie's first and greatest disciple.

The Anticipator:
- Flamme set up a grimoire with notes, protected by a sapling that she planted and enchanted, which served as the grimoire's protector until Frieren would return one day. She knew Frieren so well, that she expected Frieren to one day seek guidance after making a grave mistake. She would then want to learn more about people, and the notes Flamme left behind would then guide Frieren.
  Frieren: It's been over a thousand years, and yet my master still has me wrapped around her little finger, eh?
- After Flamme passed away, Frieren visited Serie and passed on Flamme's will to her with the request that Serie teach humanity magic. Serie angrily tore the will apart, noting that in the end she and her former disciple never understood each other, only for Frieren to mention that Flamme actually foresaw that Serie would do exactly that, thus immediately proving Serie wrong.
The Archmage: Flamme was one of the greatest mages that have ever lived. Even a millennium after her death, the barriers she conjured are so strong that demons still cannot break through them in the present.
Bare-Fisted Monk: A mage variant. Like Serie, Flamme barely bothered with a staff, since her magic casting was that strong already.
Birds of a Feather: Flamme also lost everything dear to her to demons, and has a deep love for magic, just like Frieren.
Combat Pragmatist: The first time she met Frieren, she praised her for standing her ground against and defeating a horde of powerful demons, but at the same time told her that it would have been smarter to just run away and hide or resort to ambushes. She was also the one who taught Frieren to hide her mana output so that demons underestimate her and get caught off guard, fully aware that it's seen as dirty and cowardly.
Eccentric Mentor: Flamme was a young Frieren's teacher with her own quirks, according to Frieren. She was often quite cryptic about what she taught her and an "irresponsible person".
Fake Weakness: She developed a method to continuously suppress her own mana, allowing her to get the drop on demons and other mages who read mana to gauge an opponent's power by suddenly releasing it when needed, and went on to teach Frieren the same skill.
The Magnificent: She is known as "The Great Mage Flamme", for being one of the most renowned mages that have ever existed, even after over a thousand years have passed.
Meaningful Name: Her name is the German word for "flame". She is possibly a reference to Prometheus, the titan that brought fire to humanity and thus started the era of humans. Similarly, Flamme convinced the emperor of the Unified Empire to lift the ban on studying magic and trained the first imperial mages, which Serie claimed would be the start of the era of humans. Flamme was also the fire that warmed the "freezing" Frieren's heart, giving a young Frieren purpose in life.
Mundane Utility: The ethos of her magic discipline and one of the most important teachings she inculcated on Frieren. The magic of the mundane happens to be the discipline of the craft that has the most variation, and has the virtue of showing the user the sheer beauty of the world around them. This pursuit is Frieren's most precious task, as it has kept her entertained for over a thousand years, and it's one of the main reasons she's so good at improvising.
Noodle Incident: Apparently Flamme "begging for her life" was a common enough scene that Frieren was used to it, making it easy for her to destroy an illusion a monster crafted of Flamme doing this. Fern inquires just what sort of scenarios could lead to this familiarity and Frieren refuses to elaborate.
Parental Abandonment: It's implied that Flamme lost her parents to demons and then was taken in by Serie.
Parental Substitute: Flamme raised a young Frieren until she died of old age.
Posthumous Character: She died a thousand years before the story takes place.
Small Role, Big Impact: Flamme is long dead by the time the story takes place, but she's the one who trained Frieren, one of the strongest forces of good in the world. Even aside from that, she's directly responsible for two major changes in the world:
- For one, she's the reason human mages even exist. Before, magic was viewed with suspicion and outlawed by most human civilizations, but in her will she explains to Serie how she convinced the largest kingdom on the continent (shown on a map to cover nearly 80% of the land) to begin researching magic, thus triggering a chain reaction throughout the other human kingdoms to study magic in turn to defend themselves.
- Her favorite spell is one that creates a field of flowers. She taught this to Frieren, who centuries later would use this spell to comfort a young Himmel who had gotten lost in the forest. It was because of that chance meeting and Frieren's kindness to him that he would later seek her out to join his party in defeating the Demon King, a battle that is implied to have pushed Frieren to her absolute limits for them to win. In other words, Flamme passing on a simple spell to create flowers ultimately lead to the downfall of the Demon King.
World's Strongest Man: During her lifetime, she was at the very least the most powerful human alive, being on par with elven mages who were many times her own lifespan.

Characters / Frieren: Beyond Journey's End - Mages

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Continental Magic Association

Leadership

The Great Mage Serie

Debut: Chapter 43

Voiced by: Mariya Ise (Japanese), Anastasia Muñoz (English)

First-Class Mages

Genau

Debut: Chapter 37

Voiced by: Tarusuke Shingaki (Japanese), Aaron Roberts (English)

Sense

Debut: Chapter 37

Voiced by: Haruka Terui (Japanese), Lindsay Seidel (English)

Lernen

Debut: Chapter 37

Voiced by: Atsushi Miyauchi (Japanese), Kent Williams (English)

Äußerst First-Class Exam Examinees

First Party

Methode

Debut: Chapter 40

Voiced by: Reina Ueda (Japanese), Caitlin Glass (English)

Second Party

Kanne

Debut: Chapter 37

Voiced by: Azumi Waki (Japanese), Madeleine Morris (English)

Lawine

Debut: Chapter 37

Voiced by: Sayumi Suzushiro (Japanese), Rebecca Danae (English)

Fourth Party

Übel

Debut: Chapter 37

Voiced by: Ikumi Hasegawa (Japanese), Morgan Berry (English)

Land

Debut: Chapter 37

Voiced by: Shōhei Komatsu (Japanese), Corey Wilder (English)

Eighth Party

Wirbel

Debut: Chapter 37

Voiced by: Kishow Taniyama (Japanese), Ricco Fajardo (English)

Scharf

Debut: Chapter 39

Voiced by: Yuji Murai (Japanese), Alejandro Saab (English)

Ehre

Debut: Chapter 39

Voiced by: Kanae Itō (Japanese), Trina Nishimura (English)

Thirteenth Party

Denken

Debut: Chapter 37

Voiced by: Jiro Saito (Japanese), Ben Phillips (English)

Richter

Debut: Chapter 39

Voiced by: Eiji Hanawa (Japanese), Ian Moore (English)

Laufen

Debut: Chapter 39

Voiced by: Shizuka Ishigami (Japanese), Marisa Duran (English)

Seventeenth Party

Edel

Debut: Chapter 39

Voiced by: Tomoyo Kurosawa (Japanese), Nia Celeste (English)

Other

The Great Mage Flamme

Debut: Chapter 7

Voiced by: Atsuko Tanaka (Japanese), Lydia Mackay (English)

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