Main characters
Yuji Sakai
: : is just an average high school student. However, his world is turned upside down when he discovers that he is already dead and does not have much time before he disappears. Fortunately, Yuji is a Mystes who contains a treasure known as the . Unlike normal torches, the treasure inside him restores his Power of Existence every night at midnight. :With the Midnight Lost Child, Yuji has the possibility to live on like an average human as long as he makes sure that his power of existence does not run out before midnight. Due to Midnight Lost Child, no one is sure if Yuji will age like a regular human or be immortal as he is. Since the Midnight Lost Child restores his power of existence, Yuji is training to use that power in the hopes of fighting alongside Shana. In the second season of the anime, it is mentioned that Yuji's power of existence can rival that of a Lord of the Crimson Realm in terms of quantity because the power was altered by The Master Throne, Hecate. :Even when Yuji is ignorant of the fact that he possessed the Midnight Lost Child in the first episodes of the first season of ''Shakugan no Shana'', Yuji develops a somewhat optimistic, yet ultimately fatalistic view of his life. Even when he believed he was slated to perish as a Torch, Yuji took the information in a stride after the initial shock, and did not seem too disturbed or melancholy with the idea that everyone would simply forget about him, accepting this. Rather, his acts of heroism, demonstrated often in the series, is justified by his belief that even if his existence would one day disappear, his sacrifice would be proof that he had once lived. :Although Yuji initially lacks the training and discipline of a Flame Haze, he has demonstrated an admirable amount of intelligence and logic, often thinking outside the box and solving puzzles others can't (though he is still totally clueless to the fact that Shana loves him and is often jealous of any girls who get too close to him). While many Flame Hazes and Lords of the Crimson Realm would be deceived or confused by unconventional casting of magic, Yuji is able to quickly deduce and see through the ploys despite his unfamiliarity with many magical spells, enabling his allies, generally Shana, to strike at the heart of their opposition. Furthermore, by the start of the second season, Yuji's training has enabled him to anticipate as well as dodge a good majority of attacks even from Flame Hazes as skilled as Shana and Wilhelmina, and he has gained the ability to cast Power of Unrestraint. He also has the ability to wield Blutsauger and infusing it with some of his own power. He also can create his own fire, which is silver in color, to fire at targets. :When Yuji first activates the Fuzetsu on his own, the presence of the silver flames is an omen of The Snake of the Festival's return into the world, for the silver flames were a tool created by the himself to collect elements necessary for his revival. It is revealed that two entities are locked inside Yuji's treasure. One is Johan, the lover of Pheles who created the Treasure for him. The other is "The Snake of the Festival", the Crimson Lord with the black flame and silver shadow who is one of the ''true gods'' of the Crimson World and is the founder/true leader of the Bal Masqué. He is later reborn and merges with Yuji, whom he honors by demanding that his subordinates refer to him as their new leader. Later, Pheles' second attempt to free Johan causes the Bal Masque's god to awaken. As both entities have merged into one, it is hard to distinguish which actions are based on Yuji's will and which are the Snake's, sometimes leaving his allies and enemies confused about his true intentions. :Upon learning of Chigusa's pregnancy, Kantaro reveals that Yuji actually had an older twin brother who died at birth. Thus, in memory of their first baby, they named the second baby Yuji, which means "second (child) who shall live long". Yuji is a kind person who puts others before himself. This often causes Shana much confusion and annoyance, as in her experience other Torches exhibited selfish attitudes. At the same time Yuji's compassion and empathy sow the seeds of attraction between him and Shana, and surprisingly, also the reason for their separation, as both Yuji and Sairei no Hebi's main objective is to create a new world between the Human Realm and the Crimson Realm named "Xanadu" in which the Crimson Denizens and Lords can live peacefully without interfering on both worlds, and thus ending the conflict between the Flame Hazes and Bal Masqué. This plan is opposed by Shana and her allies who fear that an eventual collapse of Xanadu would further degrade the balance between the worlds. :In the final battle, Yuji brings out his very own Unrestricted Spell which looks like a collection of clear crystals and has been used primarily as a shield, but its versatility is bound only by Yuji's will and has even been witnessed to be used as a means of teleportation. When Lamia enters Xanadu after fulfilling his wish, she grants Yuji a new Unrestricted Spell, Grammatica. He then asks Yuji to ponder upon its name and meaning. In the end when Yuji accepts Shana's feelings and the two kiss, Grammatica activates restoring Yuji's existence, so that Yuji is no longer a Torch. With the help of another spell from Lamia, Yuji successfully restores all of the humans in Misaki City whose existence was absorbed by the Denizens before he and Shana depart for Xanadu together.Shana
: : is the female lead of the show and calls herself a "Flame Haze" who hunts the "Guze no Tomogara", creatures from another world. She was formerly human (but as stated in the novels and manga, that once a human makes a contract with a crimson lord, they become a Flame Haze and live forever). Her nickname is the Initially she is concentrated solely on her duty as a Flame Haze, going as far as to not bearing even a name. She sees Yuji only as a Torch, an object, marginally interesting because of his status as a Mystes. Yuji, in his need to humanize her, chose to name her "Shana" after her katana. However, she slowly opens up to Yuji, coming to think of him as a person, despite being a Torch, and eventually comes to love him. Until she met Yuji, she was identified by only her Flame Haze title "Flame-Haired Burning-Eyed Hunter," or her nodachi, . Shana has a habit of saying "Urusai! Urusai! Urusai!" ("Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!") whenever Yuji asks her questions or makes remarks that disturb her original world view or embarrass her. But in reality, they really care for each other. She has a great fondness for sweets, especiallyAlastor
: : is the Lord of the Crimson Realm to whom Shana is bound. He is known as the He expresses his will through a divine vessel called the Cocytus, which (in Shana's case) takes the form of a pendant. Alastor is considered to be one of the strongest of all Lords or Denizens; in fact, being one of the ''true Gods'' of the Crimson Realm. But even so, he tries to keep the Denizens from consuming Power of Existence. Unlike other lords that have a Flame Haze, his contractor can perform Divine Summoning (神威召喚 Shin'i Shoukan, God's Power Summoning), a method called , which requires a lot of Power of Existence and will manifest his being as the in the form of a giant minotaur to the world to consume all Denizens around him. This method is his Flame Haze's last resort, as prior to Shana, no Flame Haze had survived after using it. Alastor and Shana seem to have a parent-child dynamic at first, but Alastor is aware that Shana must grow up and may be trying to adapt.Snake of the Festival
: : is a powerful Lord of Crimson Realm who leads the organization Crimson Denizens known as Bal Masqué and is contracted to his one-time contractor Yuji Sakai. He is in fact one of the ''True Gods'' of the Crimson Realm - known as the God of Creation. Although he has a kind and noble side that he shows to his comrades and subjects he can be cruel - willing do anything to make his plans come to fruition. He also showed wisdom when he acknowledged Yuji's philosophies and understood them. According to Yuji he is quite talkative when it comes to granting peoples wishes. :In far past, Snake of the Festival received many prayers from Denizens to create the world for themselves. He answered those wishes by launching the ritual to build a small, bounded world called the Great Chained (大縛鎖 Daibakusa) which was to be a living paradise for Denizens on the world. But the process required a great number of human lives (using their Power of Existence) to complete, and the ancient Flame Hazes, including Tis and Khamsin, intercepted and disrupted the ritual thus creating the massive distortion that backfired upon the body of Snake of the Festival and sealed him inside the rift between two worlds. :The Snake of the Festival also has his own Divine Summoning called which unleashes his power as the and requires a large amount of Power of Existence which was the reason why the Bal Masqué seek the Reiji Maigo. Saiki Reisō summons his power over "Creation" and "Settlement" to create anything. Like all other summonings of Gods, it the spell requires a sacrifice. This Divine Summoning is used for the creation of Xanadu, and Hecate was the required sacrifice.Humans
Misaki High School students
; : :Kazumi is Yuji's classmate. She has a crush on Yuji, but is a bit too shy to tell him directly. In the first season, she spends most of her screen time remaining ignorant of Shana's true nature and her actual relationship with Yuji. When Shana became her love-rival, she vowed to tell Yuji her feelings and to let him decide between her and Shana. :These state of affairs, however, changed after her chance meeting with Khamsin Nbh'w, a Flame Haze, who requested her assistance in his tuning of the distortions in the city. After revealing the truth of the world to her, Khamsin provided Kazumi an eyeglass which can detect Torches after he realized Kazumi was worried if Yuji was a Torch. Kazumi decided to test the eyeglass on Yuji during the Misago Festival, and was horrified to discover that Yuji was indeed a Torch. However, as the battle with Bal Masque raged on, Yuji revealed that, with the Reiji Maigo, he would not disappear, and Kazumi eventually accepted that near the end of the season. :Kazumi carries a small relic provided to her by Khamsin during their first meeting, permitting her to move within a Fuzetsu. Yuji became aware of this in the second season. Also, it is revealed that Pheles gave Kazumi a cross-shaped treasure tool, which would summon Pheles if there was any trouble happening to Yuji/Johan. The catch was that it would take all of Kazumi's power of existence, if she used it. In the sixteenth volume of the light novels, Kazumi is currently in a state of shock after being rejected by Yuji. In the final battle in Misaki City in the third season, during the creation of Xanadu, Kazumi uses the treasure tool to summon Pheles to stop the fight between Yuji and Shana but somehow, she survives. In Kazumi's dream, Pheles is sleeping in Johan's arms while he talks with Kazumi. He reveals that Pheles felt bad for not letting Wilhelmina come with her. Because Johan doesn't have the Midnight Lost Child anymore, he is just a Torch, and wants to pass on his hope, hinting that this was his plan. Pheles wakes up they approach Kazumi, but disappears as Kazumi wakes up from the dream. Yuji uses her memory to revive Yukari Hirai and to restore order in Misaki City. ; : :Keisaku is Eita's friend and class-skipping companion. When Margery Daw came to Misaki City, she randomly chose Keisaku and Eita to be her guides to the city. When he and Eita found The Crystal Altar, a magical map to the city that Friagne had been using until his demise, the two often acted as support. Being a member of a wealthy family and independent of his parents, his house becomes a place for Margery to stay. He and Eita both like Margery, but he hides his feelings; although when betrayed by Margery, he displayed emotions even more powerful than Eita's. Keisaku has notably chosen Yuji as a rival, especially after he had learned that Yuji was being trained by Flame Hazes, Shana and Wilhelmina. Though, after several events, he accepted the fact that he doesn't need to be like Yuji. Instead, he decided to study harder by changing schools, so that he could someday work at the Outlaw to support Margery other than in combat. Later, he is informed by Eita that Margery broke down and is in a coma. He quickly rushes back to Misaki City where he tells Margery that he loves her. The two become intimate, and Keisaku has given Margery a new reason to live. He is one of the characters most changed in the anime adaptation of the novel where he is more sociable and somewhat cheerful, and is friends with Yuji and Ike from the beginning of the story. ; : :Eita is a well-built classmate of Keisaku's. When Margery Daw came to Misaki City, she randomly chose the two to be her guides to the city. When he and Keisaku found The Crystal Altar, a magical map to the city that Friagne had been using until his demise, the two often acted as support. He and Keisaku show respect, admiration and affection towards Margery as an "''ane-san''" (respectable elder sister), but his feelings are more immediately apparent than Keisaku's. However, he has also shown some obvious affection towards Matake Ogata. Like Keisaku, he is friends with Yuji and Ike from the start in the novel. When a battle takes place at the school festival Matake is serious injured by Margery's rampage while inside the seal. At this sight, Eita begins to cry and scream uncontrollably rushing to her side. Following this Eita decided to keep his distance from the events concerning the Guze and part ways with Satou and Margery. ; : :Hayato, otherwise chiefly known as Ike, has been Yuji's friend since junior high school. He carries the title "''Megane-man''" ("Glasses Man"), or Four-Eyes in the English version. He is secretly fond of Kazumi Yoshida. However, as Yuji's loyal (and best) friend, he is the one who helps her to show her feelings toward Yuji. He often gives Kazumi advice. He rarely competes with Yuji for her affection, except one time when he invited Kazumi to help him with his student council meetings. Ike is notably intelligent and is often unavailable due to having to study or attending extra classes outside school. During the school festival, he was continually dragged away by Fujiota, a fellow council member. Ike is prone to motion-sickness, and turns pale at the sight of buses. He cannot ride roller-coasters, and even kid rides, although he made it through a Ferris wheel ride when he was in kindergarten. :Ike is notably more emotionally aware than single-minded Yuji. While Yuji's desire to help just about any girl is admirable, he seems unaware that this is a source of heartache for others around him, especially Shana and Kazumi, and Ike is generally the one to point this out to him. This caused a slight problem when it is revealed that Ike also has feelings for Kazumi. At the end of the first season, Ike decides not to hold back where Kazumi was concerned. He even invited her out on Christmas Eve and confessed that he loved her. Ike never found out of Guze's existence that Yuji's involved with. ; : :Matake is Yuji's classmate. She is a strong-willed physically active girl, as well as a bit of a tomboy. She is very good at playing volleyball. She also has feelings for Eita, and worries about his well-being. She gets jealous of Margery Daw because of her closeness to Eita. She and Eita later become a couple. Eita determined to have a normal life with Matake and not tip her about the Crimson Denizens. ; :In the second season of the anime, the transfer student Fumina Konoe bears an uncanny resemblance to Hecate. She develops a bond to Yuji has Shana and Yoshida on the edge of uneasiness, which lessens slightly after a study session. In episode fifteen, it is revealed that Fumina is in fact a faux vessel created by Hecate, whose purpose had been sent to primarily keep an eye on the Midnight Lost Child and seal the Silver should it attempt to escape. Her secondary purpose was to collect memories of interacting with Yuji and the others. In the last episode of the second season, it seems that the memories and feelings from Fumina Konoe have given Hecate human feelings, causing her to hesitate to fire at Yuji at the last moment. This in turn, helps Yuji and Shana overcome the Taimei Shihen, leaving a confused Hecate to wonder what had overcome her state of mind. In this episode, she is also shown shedding tears. ; : :Yukari is Yuji's classmate. She has dark-colorred hair which has two small ponytails tied up from it. She has a very upbeat personality, and is kind and quick to help others out. In the anime, she loved Hayato Ike, but implies that she also had feelings for Yuji. However, she died when a Rinne appeared on her way home. Shana makes a Torch of Yukari that same day. Unfortunately, her flame burns out on the next day, and she disappeared as a result. Before her flame went out, Yukari became very melancholy and silent. Yuji attempted to give her the best last day of her life, and persuaded Ike to hang out with her. They took a photo together, but Yukari's image fades out when her flame burns out. Her last moment in her life was when she sat on a hill watching the sunset, her favorite view. The fading of her existence teaches Yuji some very valuable lessons about both the world around him, and his own inability to affect it. Shana uses a remnant of Yukari's existence to shift the perception of others' identification of Yukari Hirai to herself (others recognize her as Yukari Hirai, as if Shana had been so all along). At the end of the series after the city has been restored, Yukari reappears into the world.Sakai family
; : :Chigusa is Yuji's mother. Her husband, Kantaro, works outside the country. Chigusa remains ignorant of Shana and Yuji's true nature, but becomes a source of good advice for Shana on matters where Alastor cannot counsel her. The Crimson Lord himself acknowledges and bows to her wisdom after a phone call between the two of them. Described as a woman who can accept anything, she seems to harbor absolutely no problems with Shana often visiting Yuji under the pretext of "training". :As Shana's affection for Yuji grows, she begins to seek out Chigusa more often for advice or help. Generally, this is in the form of asking her to teach Shana how to make aMystes
; : :Tenmoku Ikko is a Mystes known as "the worst Mystes in history" or "monster torch", he is a huge man wearingFlame Hazes
; / : :Margery is a tall, "well-endowed" and mature blond Flame Haze with a drinking habit. She uses the bookLords of the Crimson Realm
; / : :Marchosias is the Crimson Lord to whom Margery Daw is contracted. He expresses his will through the divine vessel Grimoire, which takes the form of a book. He talks wildly, makes comments without remorse, and often teases Margery, and in return earning a retaliatory punch. He does genuinely care about her, however, perhaps not in the form of friendship but as a companion in battle. ; / : :Tiamat is the female Crimson Lord to whom Wilhelmina is bound. She is described by her own Flame Haze as a most unsociable entity; she is taciturn and to the point, saying nothing more than what is necessary, usually in a monotone, betraying no emotion regardless of the situation. In the novels, her lines are almost always written in four kanji letters (Rinne and Denizens of the Crimson Realm
;Pheles / : :Once a trickster who toyed with the life of a mad alchemist, Pheles is a lord who fell in love with a human, Johan the alchemist's son. In order to stay with him forever, they created the most precious treasure in Guze, a Treasure that can grant eternity to the Mystes bearing it: the Midnight Lost Child. Due to the Midnight Lost Child, she doesn't need to consume other humans' power of existence; she can get enough to survive from Johan without him being in danger of disappearing. Due to a fight against the Bal Masque's assassin Sabrac that severely wounded Johan, she sealed her lover into the Midnight Lost Child. She was unaware that Sabrac had also placed the Silver into the treasure tool simultaneously. The Midnight Lost Child was then lost, so now she searches for him everywhere with a Power of Unrestraint “The Wheel of Wind” (Kaze no Tenrin), a guiding beacon that becomes a duplicate of her own when the target is found. Johan commandeers Yuji's body to persuade her from sacrificing the current Mystes to bring him back and Pheles agrees to her lover's wish before leaving for parts unknown. Before she left, Pheles gives Yoshida a cross treasure tool called the Giralda. :She is friends with Wilhelmina who once she had saved from the trap set by the Denizen Lord Sabrac. She does not appear in the first season of the anime but appears in the second season around the end of episode twelve amid her search for the Midnight Lost Child. She tries to free Johan the first time, only to be interrupted by Margery's berserk rage as well as the coordinated actions of Wilhelmina and Shana. During the creation of Xanadu as Kazumi activates the Giralda. Pheles appears before the floating Kazumi in the twister that was formed. She explains that Giralda is specifically designed for human use, and that humans can only use Treasure Tools when they are sacrificing themselves, revealing that Kazumi won't die. She says it's a miracle that Kazumi had summoned her. Pheles informs Yūji, Shana, Wilhelmina, and Sydonay that she will change the current situation. She says sorry to Wilhelmina before going to Yūji. She distracts him with Kazumi's body, grasping his hand. She twists it around his back and tells Johan to wake up. Pheles blocks Shana from interfering with her wind. When Johan calls out to her, Pheles rushes over to him, leaving Kazumi with Shana. They embrace, as Pheles tells Johan how hard she has worked. They activate an Unrestricted Spell that smashes into the river, allowing the Hyakki Yakō's van to drive up it, Pheles as well as Johan and an unconscious Kazumi, enter. ; :Justus is the child created from the combined existences of Pheles and Johan. He is taken care of by Wilhelmina at Xanadu. He is the first descendant born from a Crimson Denizen and a human, which gives him the title "Heir to Both Worlds". They entrust the flask that would become Justus to Kazumi, who takes care of it until its completion and gives the newborn Justus to Wilhelmina. The Xanadu ceremony summons the Crimson God Shaher into this world. She announces the news of an extraordinary existence born from both worlds to everyone before disappearing. Brought to Xanadu, Justus is mainly taken care of by Wilhelmina and Rebecca within ''Tendōkyū''. Shana occasionally visits and Justus views her like an older sister. ; Lamis / : :Lamis is the Torch of an old man under the control of a Crimson Denizen as means to travel in secrecy. Lamis collects the Power of Existence from torches on the verge of flickering out and is a rare one among Denizens due to respecting the balance and does not simply feed on people. As the nickname 'Corpse Retriever' indicates, he only draws power from torches that would perish any moment anyway. Lamis is a master wizard, renowned for past feats of creating the most prominent Power of Unrestraint (Jizai Hou), including the ''Seal'' itself. He is an old acquaintance of Alastor, but does not take part in battles. :The name of the female Crimson Denizen residing within Lamis is "Rasen no Fuukin (''The Spiral Organ'')"; in the past, she used the name Leanan-sidhe, and assumed the form of a young girl who fell in love with a human painter, who unfortunately caught her consuming humans one day, a possible reason that made her stop eating humans later on. She was captured and imprisoned by a Crimson Lord for so many years that upon being released, she found out that the painter, who still loved her, had died of old age. He had drawn a picture of the Spiral Organ, but it had been damaged beyond repair, so now she seeks to gather enough power of existence to hopefully one day activate a Power of Unrestraint that would restore the painting. ;Friagne / : :Friagne, also known as "Flame Haze Murderer", takes his name's meaning as his hobby, "treasure hunter". He is a powerful Tomogara arrayed in robes of untarnishable white. Unlike other Tomogara, he doesn't associate with the organizations like Bal Masqué. He has very intimate relationship with his favorite doll, Marianne. He came to Misaki City to perform a notorious Power of Unrestraint "City Devourer" to gain the power of existence enough to make Marianne a fully independent being, instead of a Rinne which needs to depend on its master just to exist. He has a vast collection of Treasure Items (powerful tools or implements contained within Mystes), pictured as mountain of treasure in an extra story in Guren (Itou Noizi artbook), of which all are useless. This is also the reason for his having the largest collection of hougu: most are not the highly sought battle-use Hougu. He later meets his end at the hands of Shana. In all media except for the anime film, he was incinerated by the wrath of Alastor, who had materialized when the enraged Friagne shot Shana with the Triggerhappy which couldn't destroy her body like it did with many other Flame Hazes. ; : :Marianne is one of Friagne's Rinne servants. Friagne seems to treasure her a bit more than is healthy for him. She usually takes the form of a doll. In order to buy time to complete the sequence of the "City Devourer", she fought Shana and exploded for the love of her master. ;Sorath / : :Sorath is an extravagant occidental looking boy with beautiful hair, continuously perplexed despite being Tiriel's elder brother, and is subject to the passion and whims of his younger sister. With the "Butsuyoku" (an arms type hougu) he uses "the olfactory sense of desire" to seek powers of existence. He is armed with a sword called "Blutsauger" (German for "blood sucker"), which is capable of damaging anything that it touches if a user channels power of existence into it. He is obsessed with, and is searching for the "Nietono no Shana" (Shana's Sword). His obsession with the sword proved to be his undoing in the end. ; / : :Tiriel is Sorath's younger sister. Though being the younger one, she thinks and acts in a much more mature way and teaches everything to her almost will-less brother. Tiriel has stated that her only goal in life is to fulfill every desire of her brother and to protect him. She will do so without regrets, even if it means sacrificing her power of existence, or even her own life. But she is also a very jealous girl, strangling Sorath near death when he had spoken of names of other females, such as "Hecate". She can use a Power of Unrestraint called "Cradle Garden" with the aid of a Treasure Tool, which alters a Seal, so its area becomes an advantage to the siblings. Shana was disgusted with their way of expressing love, yet she was greatly moved by Tiriel's self-sacrifice, learning from her the "Uncontrollable feeling". ;Merihim a.k.a. Shiro / : :Merihim is one of the nine lords that gathered under , the greatest Denizen organization that rivaled Bal-Masque, led by the late Lord Asiz. Merihim and the dragon shaped Lord Illuyanka were feared as the "Pair of Wings", being the most powerful subordinates of Asiz. It was then when he gained the title . Wilhelmina loves him, but Merihim is crazily in love with Mathilde, who in turn, loved Alastor. To fulfill his promise to the woman he loved, he changed shape into the skeleton Shana knew as Shiro and trained the next successor of "Flame-Haired Blazing-Eyed Hunter" title. His promise is his only motivation, however. ; / : :Mare is the antagonist in the ''Shakugan no Shana''Bal Masqué
An organization of Denizens who moved into the human world several millennia ago under the Grand Master and the God of Creation, the . After his defeat by Flame Hazes, it is led by three powerful figures called the Trinity. Since then, the Bal Masqué stayed low and became an organization to support Denizens, like Outlaw does with Flame Hazes. Their goal is to accomplish the "Grand Order", and the Power of Unrestraint called the "Psalm of Grand Order" and the Midnight Lost Child, which resides in Yuji, are the keys vital to their plot. The subordinate members of Bal Masqué are largely classified into three types of functions; the combatants called Wanderers, the trackers and scouts called Jaegers, and the messengers called Heralds. ;Hecate / : :Hecate is one of the Trinity of the Bal Masqué, entitled as "the Priestess". She also controls the movements of Serei-den, Bal Masqué's base. A small pale girl with white cape and hat wielding a staff-like treasure tool, Trigon, she doesn't speak much. Sydonay seems to care for her a lot. Bel Peol always mentions her having "eternal existence". Her position is very important with respect to what the Bal Masqué plans to do with the Midnight Lost Child, since she is the one who can take the power of the Midnight Lost Child and send it out to everything in Seireiden. :Hecate is a sad, quiet character, who has taken up the habit of prayer - despite having no one to pray to and despite Bel Peol considering it an odd thing to do - and frequently laments that she is 'empty'. In the light novels, it is implied that Hecate is praying to the Bal Masqué's god, the Snake of the Festival (God of Creation). In contrast to her counterpart in the anime, the light novels depict Hecate as a cold and feared leader that even the entire Bal Masqué itself fear her. She has hobby of trekking in mountain tops, yet she despises mountain climbers who litter her favorite sites, so she slaughters them on sight. She is extremely skilled in combat using Aster, a Power of Unrestraint which shoots energy beams like meteor shower, and is capable in grappling as well which equals to Shana's skill. She has a flute that can summon dragons of blue flame body. She also plays this flute when announcing the end of Serei-den's anchoring. :In the anime, Hecate synchronized with Yuji, allowing her to draw on his sense of self to fill the void inside of her. The purpose of this synchronization was more sinister, however; once midnight struck, the Midnight Lost Child attempted to restore the power of existence of its bearer. Since Yuji and Hecate were synchronized at the time, the Midnight Lost Child started pouring out an infinite amount of power in an attempt to fill Hecate's capacity which is infinite. She considers the feelings that she gets from synchronizing with others are hers and no longer from their owners, much like a Torch being the remainder of their original human self takes over its identity. She was defeated when Yuji points out that the feelings, memories and sense of self that she is reveling about are not hers but his. When he says that Hecate is just as empty as she was before synchronizing and she cannot possibly fill her sense of self by drawing it from others(i.e.: questioning her "where her unique self"), she is forced to face the void that lies inside of her and screams in horror, losing control of the synchronization, Serei-den and herself as well as discharging massive amounts of power of existence she stored while synchronized with Yuji which could destroy an entire city requiring Sydonay to save her. As the Snake of the Festival begins to create Xanadu, he bids farewell to Hecate as she becomes the sacrifice. Hecate appears before Sydonay in a dreamlike afterlife and is surprised that he had died. He tells her that he wanted to die. They hold hands and walk towards a white light, waiting for the day the Trinity and their leader are together once more. ; / : :Sydonay is one of the Trinity of the Bal Masqué, and is known as the "General". For some time, he stayed outside of the Organization, because he wanted the freedom to do what he wanted to, including serving various Denizens as a bodyguard (just for fun). He also appreciates human civilization enough to enjoy smoking cigarettes. However, after finding the Midnight Lost Child, he has assumed his former position. He usually appears as a tall, well-built man wearing a pair of sunglasses and dark colored suits. However, he has great shape-shifting abilities and, unlike other Denizens, can change into various chimeras without the use of spells. In addition, when he is on duty as the General, he wields a spear-like treasure called the , which shifts shape and size at will. With this weapon in hand, he leads an army of Denizens and Lords, destroying major Outlaws throughout Europe and China. Sydonay and Margery have fought one another in the past, as Sydonay describes their battle in the current events as a reunion. He cares deeply for Hecate, coming to her rescue even when in the middle of a battle (as he abandons his fight with Margery to save Hecate from being burned). He chooses to stay behind when the gateway to Xanadu open, and is subsequently killed by Margery Daw. He meets Hecate in a dream-like afterlife where she expresses surprise that he had died. He tells her that he wanted to die. They hold hands and walk towards a white light, waiting for the day that the Trinity and their leader are together once more. ;Bel Peol / : :Bel Peol is one of the Trinity of the Bal Masqué, entitled as the "Strategist". She takes the form of a woman with three eyes, but has an eye-patch covering her right eye. A scheming character that would have no qualms in manipulating her unsuspecting subordinates and sending them off to die. Apparently, she also has a gift for engendering loyalty in her subordinates, such as Vine, as she is capable of inspiring them to perform obviously dangerous tasks on her behalf. Her strategic skills are balanced by a considerable aptitude for combat. :In the novel, Bel Peol's catchphrase is "Much things in life don't come as one pleases". Unlike most Denizens, who live their lives as they will, Bel Peol is exceptional in that she enjoys the obstacles that come against her plans, delighting in the challenges they pose, feeling that it is the overcoming of such obstacles that makes life interesting. ;Fecor / : :Fecor is a Lord who looks like a feeble middle-aged businessman with stereotypical features of devils, such as horns, a pair of bat's wings and a long tail. He usually acts as a guide of Seireiden, greeting Denizens and Lords at the gate. Being polite and timid, young Denizens like Vine had thought of him as a mere guide; but in fact, Fecor is Bel Peol's right-hand man, who is in charge of the Seireiden's defense. Despite his looks and behaviour, he uses very powerful and deadly "defensive" Power of Unrestraint called Magnesia, which creates storm of heavy particles. The particles are controlled at Fecor's will, its streams inflict heavy blows upon the enemies in spite of its true purpose as defensive maneuver. They can also be concentrated to form giant objects to crush the enemies. :He appeared in Misaki city as Hecate's bodyguard, fending off Flame Hazes away from her with his power. :He was killed by Tenmoku Ikko when he was guarding Bal Masque and the Dimensional Gate when Yuji and the Trinity were in the gate. ;Sabrac / : :Sabrac was a powerful Crimson Lord who was victorious in numerous battles against the Flame Haze. He was an assassin, who worked for hire, but chose only those targets he deemed interesting. He liked to make long fancy speeches, and while he may have seemed to be dissatisfied, it was rare to see him lose his temper. He collected bladed weapons of various kinds whether they were Treasure Tools or not, and he used them in fights. He and Dantalion loathed each other, because the latter transfigured Sabrac's Treasure blade Hystorix into a blade-spinning drill-like contraption without permission, and Dantalion was greatly offended by Sabrac's subsequent insults. :During combat, his first strike was notorious for both its stealth, as even the most sensitive Flame Haze and Denizens were unable to sense its imminent arrival, and that it could be cast at an unlimited number of targets, with each strike hitting with maximum power. His Power of Unrestraint, Stigma, caused all wounds he inflicted to increase in severity over time. This spell, created for battle, was fatal for most targets, and even if victim was strong, the power would usually give Sabrac victory because of the debilitating effects of the wounds. :Sabrac was actually an unbalanced Lord with a ridiculously gigantic body, yet with the range of sight, hearing, and other senses of a human. He hid his body by blending into the area he had chosen for battlefield, enabling him to launch a surprise attack without being detected. The humanoid Sabrac that appeared after the first strike possessed Sabrac's mind and was almost invulnerable because it is created from only a small part of his overall body. As such, it could recover from any damage. :Hired by Bal Masqué, he hunted down the Engage Link and cast a part of "Psalm of Grand Order" into Reiji Maigo. He was again hired by Bel Peol and went to Misaki City, badly wounding the Flame Haze by surprise attack and he then set another part of the "Psalm" into Yuji. But his arrogance allowed Wilhelmina to cure the wounds inflicted by Stigma, and Yuji was able to deduce Sabrac's true nature as well as come up with a plan to defeat him by levitating a few city blocks of the city and thereby severing the connection between Sabrac's humanoid part and his true body. This cut off his power of recovery and his ability to retreat. Although Sabrac was defeated, he managed to escape to Seireiden with the power of Gordian Knot. Later, Sabrac was shown speaking with Bel Peol and announcing that he no longer has a reason to have his base at Seireiden. In volume nineteen, Sabrac is destroyed, falling into the gap between worlds after losing the will to fight upon seeing the Snake of the Festival's true form and refusing Bel Peol's aid. ;Dantalion / : :Dantalion is a stereotypical mad scientist. Dantalion is not liked, even hated by most Denizens, among the Bal Masque, because he is willing to perform research on their own people and also being responsible for an experiment which created some of the powerful Flame Haze. Among the Trinity, Bel Peol does not like or trust him and Sydonay hates him, but somehow Hecate seems close to him, even calling him "ojisama" (the greeting toward uncles or respectable seniors) and protecting him from repercussions with the higher-ups. He doesn't care who he works with, Denizens, humans, or even Flame Haze, as long as if it's necessary to do whatever that he's interested in, even ruining them at the end is an option. He created a lot of gadgets, from creatures like the "Rinne" Cantate Domino 28 () (a parody ofReception
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