Barthomeloi Lorelei (バルトメロイ・ローレライ, Barutomeroi Rōrerai?), also known as Lord Barthomeloi (ロード・バルトメロイ, Rōdo Barutomeroi?), is the current head of the Barthomeloi Magus family, acting Vice Director of the Clock Tower, and acting Lord of the Department of Policies as of the early 2000s.
Profile
Background
Personality
She shares her family's great sense of aristocracy and pride in their heritage, viewing the name "Lorelei" to be just an insignificant name stuck on to her "Barthomeloi" name. While the Barthomeloi have a completely irrational hatred towards Vampires, Lorelei's own hatred is on another entirely different level than that of any past member of her family, and even she cannot understand why it is so strong. Spending time hunting them as if it were natural, she often ignores her work as the Vice Director, and even lends herself to the Church as a Vampire hunter. She has an especially abnormal obsession with the Ancestor Trhvmn Ortenrosse, and she works as part of a unit to stop the Aylesbury ritual that had been prepared by Ortenrosse for tens of years. She doesn't actively attempt to interfere so that she can stop the ritual while he is present in order to simply take pleasure in seeing the miserable looks on the faces of the despairing Vampires. Gransurg Blackmore mentions that she is part of the upcoming operation in Prelude.
Despite having her Brigade behind her, she finds fighting a Dead Apostle to not be heretic hunting, but instead a pilgrimage to show their dignity. She refuses to use followers on anything below the level of an Ancestor, considering them to be nothing more than pitiful bugs that require nothing more than her own abilities to destroy. When given the logical choices of wiping out all of the Vampires in Louvre's castle or destroying the entire lair at once to prevent any from escaping, she decides to dispose of both plans. Telling her vice-commander to be ashamed, she feels it is sinful to have the thought of using her followers against such an opponent. Even if her followers understand that she has the power to annihilate the entire clan in half an hour, cooperation with the Brigade would lessen that time by half.
While the policy of the Barthomeloi family is that a battle should be won even while it is proceeding, she feels that annihilating them is neither a trial or a battle, but rather a simple hunting game that should be completed with elegance and pleasure. She cannot stand that she was beaten to Louvre's castle by Enhance and DEATH, feeling like a headless chicken running around in circles instead of someone on a prideful hunt or battle. She almost passes out from the humiliation, bites her finger to the point of smearing blood on her gloves to stop grinding her teeth in anger, and promises to make DEATH pay for killing her prey and damaging her pride despite not having even met him.
Role
Prelude
Other appearances
Mr. Dawn, Barthomeloi Lorelei, Merem Solomon, and Gransurg Blackmore in Carnival Phantasm.
Barthomeloi Lorelei makes a brief cameo appearance in Carnival Phantasm.
Abilities
Lorelei lacks any significant special traits or unique magecraft, but she is known as one of the greatest modern Magi called The Queen: The Supreme Mage of the Present Era (現代最高峰の魔術師, Gendai Saikōhō no Majutsushi?). She has raised her own abilities close to the level of True Magic, and her number of Magic Circuits, the special and powerful Blue Blood: Noble Magic Circuits (貴い魔術回路, Tōtoi Majutsu Kairo?), even surpasses the number possessed by the Headmaster of the Clock Tower who has lived for two thousand years. She has an archetypical standard in her use of orthodox magecraft, and being a perfectionist, she believes that as long as her base is strong, simple magecraft raised to the highest degree, it is not necessary to have special abilities. Single shots of her magecraft are able to completely destroy a room in Louvre's castle and easily take down its walls.
She has produced brilliant results in any situation, and her strength equals that of members of The Twenty-seven Dead Apostle Ancestors by herself. This has allowed her to fight one-on-one with members of the Ancestors, such as Enhance, and she has destroyed two of them herself. She is confident enough in her abilities to purposely wait for a red moon, when a Dead Apostle reaches the height of their strength, to hunt Louvre, even when members of the Church who excel in Vampire hunting wouldn't dare to fight under such conditions. She uses the Wind Element, the Thaumaturgical Attribute of Almighty, a holy Mithril gauntlet, and has Mystic Eyes of an unknown attribute. The only magus she and her family respect as an equal is the user of the First Magic, though she does have some degree of friendly relations with the Archibald family.
While she herself is a brilliant magus, she is also a Wizard Marshal who has command over the Chelon Canticle Brigade (クロンの大隊, Kuron no Daitai?), fifty elite magi with the capability to act as branch heads if they wished that she personally handpicked to annihilate her enemies. Calling themselves a "brigade" with only fifty members is not a bluff on their part, but being modest of their strength. She is much like a young emperor leading an orchestra, and the Brigade, more like an army than a group of Magi, has disposed of individualism and is easily capable of annihilating each Vampire in a Dead Apostle's clan one by one or completely wiping a Dead Apostle's Bounded Field into nothingness in less than an hour.
References
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[] Character Material - Barthomeloi Lorelei, p.016-017 Introduction - Barthomeloi Lorelei
A mage hailed as the "Supreme Mage of the Modern Era, The Queen" of the Clock Tower, the central institution of the Mage's Association in London.
Vice-Director of the Clock Tower and the current Wizard Marshal commanding the Chelon Battalion. Her magical attribute is Wind.
In the past, she defeated two of the 27 Dead Apostle Ancestors and handed them over to the Church, earning her renown as a vampire hunter.
Though an orthodox mage with no singularly unique magecraft, her unparalleled mastery of foundational skills allows her to excel in any situation.
"Simple is best"—she embodies the philosophy that overwhelming strength negates the need for special abilities.
While formidable herself, she leads a handpicked elite force of 50 mages to annihilate her foes. Her presence is likened to a young emperor commanding an orchestra.
Even without her battalion, Lorelei alone is said to rival a Dead Apostle Ancestor in direct combat.
Explanation - Memo
One of the Lords within the hierarchical aristocracy of the London Mage's Association.
The Barthomeloi family, though ancient, shrouds its origins and succession rituals in mystery. They share limited ties with the Archibald family, another noble house.
Even the name "Barthomeloi" lacks a clear etymology. They rose to power during the Clock Tower's founding, leveraging their immense "Blue Blood" magic circuits to dominate as Lords for centuries.
The current head, Lorelei, adopted her name only after assuming leadership. To the family, "Barthomeloi" itself is their true identity.
Perfectionists by tradition, Barthomeloi heirs remain secluded within their estate until fully honed as mages. Emerging prematurely is considered a grave disgrace. By the time they enter the Mage's Association, they already command entire departments.
Aristocratic extremists, they deem even fellow Lords inferior, believing only the First Magician equals them.
Lorelei harbors an obsession with the White Wing Lord, Ortenrosse—27th Ancestor—and joined the task force to thwart his decades-long ritual, the Aylesbury Ceremony.
She refrained from preemptive sabotage to lure Ortenrosse out, aiming to crush him mid-ritual and relish the vampires' despair.
Source - The Dark Six (subject to change)
Leader of the Aylesbury Inspection Alliance within the Mage's Association...
...yet isolated due to her elitism, which alienates allies. Her unconventional upbringing left her indifferent to familial bonds.
She evaluates others solely by talent, not character, showing interest only in those with extraordinary abilities.
A staunch aristocrat, she dismisses all nobility except her own. To her, class distinctions are irrelevant—only innate prowess matters.
Portrayed as a quintessential noblewoman devoid of humanity, she is rumored to be a potential main heroine.Barthomeloi Lorelei
Introduction - バルトメロイ・ローレライ
魔術協会における中央学院、ロンドンは時計塔が誇る“現代最高峰の魔術師”。
時計塔院長補佐。聖歌隊・クロンの大隊を指揮する現魔導元帥。魔術属性は風。
過去、死徒二十七祖を二体撃破し、教会に引き渡したバンパイヤハンターでもある。
これといった特異魔術を持たないオーソドックスな魔術師だが、個々の能力が最高値である為、あらゆる状況において優秀な成果をあげてきた。
シンプルイズベスト。もとが強ければ特殊能力などいらない、という典型にして完成系
自身も優れた魔術師だが、ローレライが選び抜いた五十人からなる精鋭の魔術師たちを引き連れ、敵を殲滅する。その姿は楽団を率いる若き帝王そのものだとか。
ローレライの背後に控える隊員たちも一流の魔術師たちだが、彼らがおらずとも、ローレライ単体で二十七祖レベルの死徒と真っ向勝負ができるのだとか。
Explanation - 覚書
ロンドン魔術協会における支配階級、ロードの一人。
魔術協会でも古い血筋の家柄ではあるが、その起源も、後継の様式も明かではない。同じくロードであるアーチボルト家とのみ多少の交友がある程度。
家名であるパルトメロイという銘記すら由来は不明。
時計塔創設時に現れ、その強大な“責い魔術回路”を以てロードとなり、以後、何百年と頂点に君臨してきた一族。
今代の当主であるローレライも、その名は当主となった後に付けられた程度のもの。彼らにとっては“バルトメロイ”という響きこそが名前と呼べるものなのだろう。
代々完璧主義なのか、バルトメロイの当主は魔術師として完成するまで人前には現れず、バルトメロイの館内でのみ育つ。未熟なまま外界に出るのは何よりの恥であるらしい。結果、魔術協会に足を踏み入れる時は、その時点で一部門の総帥となっている。
ある意味二十七祖より強烈な貴族主義者で、同じロードたちですらより尊く優れた血に服従するべきと考えている。バルトメロイの当主が自分たちと対等と見る魔術師は第一魔法の具現者のみだ。
二十七祖の王、白翼公オーテンロッゼに並々ならぬ執着を持ち、白翼公が何十年とかけて用意してきたア ・ルズベリの儀式を阻止する実行部隊に参列する。
事前に妨害工作をしなかったのは白翼公を誘き出し、 儀式中にこれを阻止し、無念の声をあげる吸血鬼どもの無様を見るためだ。
Source - 出典/the dark six(仮名)
魔術協会におけるアルズベリ監察連盟のリーダー…
なのだが、貴族主義がいきすぎて他の魔術師たちと協力する事がない為、リーダーでありながら孤立している困 ったちゃん。
特殊な成長過程を送った為、家庭的なものに興味、耐性がない。
本人自身、”その人間の人格より、その特性を評価する”という主義なので、強力な特殊能力を持つ人間にはそれなりに関心を持つ。
徹底した貴族主義なこの人物は、しかし、自分たちのみが貴い血族と信じているが故に、他の貴族たちなどどう でもいいのだ。
ローレライにとっては労働階級も支配階級も同じもの。その中で特筆すべき物があるとすれば、そ れは生まれ ではなく授けら れた個別の能力だろう、という事らしい。
典型的な、とことん人間性を排したお嬢さまキャラとして登場。今のところ、メインヒロインの一人として考え られているとかいないとか。