Daemon

Demon (Terminology)
The 6th Imaginary Aspect. Existences born of the wishes of humans, passively (受動的な, shuudou-teki-na^?, lit. "as acted upon") called forth by human desire. Manifest phantasms (実像幻想, jitsuzou gensou^?) that take form via the aggregation of ideation (想念, sounen^?, lit. "thoughts"). For materialization (実体化, kittaika^?, lit. "manifestation to material") to occur, "a form fabricated by humans" is necessary. Not True Demons, but existences that obtain being by the imposition of a Designation (個体名, kotai-mei^?, lit. "unit designation").
As Demons attain true freedom upon receiving a Designation, it is a general rule that the naming of Demons is not an act to lightly engage within.
Temporarily setting aside the outcomes of engaging with such, Demons may be assessed as allies of humanity, who exist so as to empathize with and resolve the sufferings of humanity.

True Demon [Circumstances]

Even in the world of Extra, the concept of Demons (悪魔の概念, akuma no gainen^?) is by humanity treated as the greatest of obstacles; so as God is to omniscience and omnipotence (全知全能, zenchi zenou^?), so as demons as an existence are to mortal levels of awareness and impotence (人知無能, Jinchi Munou^?, lit. "human intellect and impotence").

They are as an abyss (淵, fuchi^?) that lies within arm's reach, yet decisively beyond comprehension.

Distinct from those demons from Stay Night, which exist only as imitations, the real thing -- Enfleshed Demons (受肉した悪魔, juniku-shita akuma^?, lit. "Incarnated Demon") are that with which humans are incapable of competing 太刀打ちできない (tachi-uchi-dekinai, lit. "incapable of crossing swords"^?).

(※ There is in record only a single instance in which an Enfleshed Demon was forced to disperse (退散, taisan^?, lit. "disperse / retreat"), but that's a different story.)

In general, demons are existences that take possession, utilizing the corpus of a human to incarnate (受肉, juniku) and take action, but in the event that the psyche (精神, seishin^?) of the human host (苗床になる人間, naedoko ni naru ningen^?, lit. "the human that becomes a seed-bed") cannot withstand the strain, it is commonplace for self-annihilation (自壊, jikai^?) of the host to occur, dispersing the essence of the demon into the vicinity.

There exist also humans who by way of their own acts (業, gō^?, lit. "sins; worldly preoccupations / fixations / absorptions; karma") are subsumed unto the category of Demons as a result of losing their humanity; but these creatures that are said to have become Fiends (魔人, Majin^?) cannot be considered True Demons.

In the world of Extra -- whether by way of Demonic possession, or in the circumstance that one's own actions bring about a transformation -- the phenomenon whereby a True Demon is birthed unto the world has, as of present day in 2030, not been brought successful fruition even once.

Though the classifications of "Demons" and "Fiends" do exist, their manner of existence is in essence indistinguishable from that of a higher-order lifeform (高次元生命体, kou-jigen seimeitai^?, lit. "higher-dimension lifeform") that inhabits a different sphere of civilization (異なる文明圏, koto-naru bunmei-ken^?) upon a different planet (異なる惑星, koto-naru wakusei^?).

In sum, said existences can, per the recognition of the Universe of Awareness (認識宇宙, ninshiki-uchuu^?, lit. "the universe derived of observation / perception"), no longer be discerned as "human."

Their existences would approximate to that of the cosmic horrors (邪神, jashin^?, lit. "evil god") of a certain fictitious Mythos popular in the 20th century.

In the True Route of CCC, a certain individual that has undergone transmigration did indeed manage to reach this realm, but owing to a slight mistake, they were capsized from the Seat of Divinity (神の座, kami no za^?).

Ma (魔^?)
① Demons are a part of the law of nature itself, but their existence is unnecessary to nature since their demon powers distort the flows of natural power.
② Their existence itself is distortion, so demon hunters move to exterminate them as soon as possible.

I killed.
With the killing, I changed.
To the extent that my name soared in prominence, the humans that came to challenge me grew in volume.
Man, Monster (魔, ma), and Hero (英雄, eiyuu) are as a cyclical order of superiorities (循環する勢力, junkan-suru seiryoku, "potency that cycles").
Humans are incapable of overcoming Monstrosities (魔, ma).
Even if it be that many thousands of troops are dispatched, so long as they are 『Humans』, contending on equal footing against 『Monsters』 (怪物, kaibutsu) is an impossibility.
In accordance with such a principle, I was further escalated in my aspect (属性, zokusei, "element / attribute / nature") as a Monstrosity (怪物, kaibutsu).
 
Such is the trilemma (三すくみ, sansukumi) of Man, Demon (悪魔, akuma), and Hero.
Man can obtain no victory against Monstrosities (魔, ma); Monstrosities fall before Heroes; and Heroes are subject to the regulation (粛正, shukusei, "correction / administration; enforcement of discipline"; alternatively, "purging of undesirable elements") of Man.
Per this principle, the Medusa that had become as a Monstrosity slaughtered the masses of Men, growing therefore; and cycling along the circuit, she became as a sacrifice to a single hero.

Reality Marble [Unusual talent]
Intrinsic Field. Originally referred to the alien common sense possessed by the beings called devils, but now also includes the unique boundary fields possessed by many people.
A subset of marble phantasm, it erodes reality and gives form to the user's imagined world. It is the sorcery closest to magic, and a forbidden art within the Association.

I was omnipotent.
It was not omnipotence possessed because Solomon created me thus.
We were originally born of Distortions within the activities of the human psyche --
a Collective of Demon Gods (魔神, Majin, lit. "jinn") which had obtained Names and Powers.
I was from the beginning a Transcendent One,
and when We were become, omnipotence and omniscience were had.

Solomon - Caster

Illustrator and Voice actor
Illustrator: Takeuchi Takashi
Voice Actor:

Parameters
Strength: E
Endurance: E
Agility: B
Magic: A++
Luck: A++
Noble Phantasm: A++

Character details
An individual from 1011~931 BC.
The Third King of Ancient Israel
The great king who made Ancient Israel prosper the most.
Employing 72 demon gods, and also the first individual who build the Temple of Israel.
He performed excellent political measures as a king, but beside that also have many anecdotes as a magus.

Level 1 Bond
Solomon married with the daughter of an Egyptian Pharaoh, but it has been said that, later, God appeared while he was dreaming on his bed and said "you are qualified. Speak your wishes. I'll shall grant it".
Rather than gold or political power, he sought wisdom more than anything. God was satisfied. For that answer itself was proof that he had the qualifications to attain "true wisdom".
When he woke up, Solomon had ten rings inserted on both hands. It was the proof of the wise man recognized by God. Later, it would be called Ring of Solomon, the source of the magecraft that employs angels and demons.

Level 2 Bond
Chaldea’s heroic spirit summoning; its first successful example.
The Grand magus that participated and achieved victory on the Holy Grail War of Fuyuki, secretly summoned by Marisbilly Animusphere.

The wish he entrusted to the Holy Grail was “to become human”.
Through the power of the Holy Grail, he did not “incarnated as a heroic spirit”, but instead was reborn as a new human that had no relation to King Solomon.

Such was Romani Archman.
A quite ordinary young man, who wished to live as an “individual” that did not have anything of peculiar.

...however.
The man who began his second life was unable to know the “happiness, fulfillment as a human” that was never given to him in his previous lifetime.
Because the future of “mankind’s demise”, which he caught a glimpse of right before becoming human, stole any kind of freedom from him.

Level 3 Bond
[CLASS SKILLS]

• Territory Creation: A
  

Creates an advantageous encampment to oneself as a magus.
Having built the Temple of Israel, he is regarded as a greatest authority in regards to Territory Creation.

• High-Speed Aria: C
  

A technique to hasten magic aria. Despite being fast, sometimes he makes a mistake due his worrywart nature and ruins everything.

• Item Construction: C
  

Produces devices that carry magical power. Maybe because he has specialized in contracts, his Item Construction ability is of average level.

Level 4 Bond
Introverted, self-assured and passive.
A laid-back king, without a hint of seriousness.
The gist of his personality is “self-assured”, but this is simply the power to “no read the mood”.
Thus, he is merely making statements on a self-assured manner, and his nature is that of a chicken. Although serious, he is not earnest and is constantly living at 80% power.
He properly ascertained people, properly established laws and properly governed the country. Despite lacking in vigor, he was loved and respected by the masses as a wise, gentle king who was full of love.

...yet, none of those traits came from Solomon’s own will.
Having been ordained as a king from the moment he was born, Solomon had no choice but to hear the voice of God and act accordingly.
His psyche is dispassionate and (having been deprived of the freedom to sympathize with the joys and sorrows of people) inhuman.

Level 5 Bond
After becoming human, Solomon finally acquired the human nature called romance.
At his roots, he is a realist and a pessimist.
Despite uttering wishful thinkings as a mood-maker, he seems somewhat shameless due to inwardly thinking of them as pipe dreams.
While he likes humans, because of his chicken side that “does not want to see something sad”, he maintains a superficial socializing with anyone. In exchange, he can get along with anyone.
An archetypal “everybody’s friend(1)”.
He has a bad habit of, when caught in a dilemma, ending up choosing to either “stick to observing without making any decisions” or “running away” so that “the status quo is preserved”.
Since Roman himself is reflecting on such weakness of his, if someone in his surroundings were to just say a word - “Please, do your best” - he will somehow get a hold of himself and show a decisive judgment fitting of the king of magecraft.

Incidentally, because the first impression that any Servant ends up getting about Roman is “I don’t get the reason, but he is at fault here”, they unconsciously complained at him.
The only ones who did not find fault at him were those who were no Servants, crackpots and Berserkers that do not perceive evil as evil.

Interlude
"The Time of Parting Has Come, He Is the One Who Lets Go of the World"
Rank: D　　Type: Anti-Unit
Are Nova.
The first Noble Phantasm of King Solomon.
Rather than Goetia, this is a Noble Phantasm possessed by the true King Solomon.
A poem of farewell in which he relinquishes of all the exploits accomplished, all the miracles performed, all the magecrafts established until then.

Upon invoking his Noble Phantasm, Solomon sends all the graces bestowed by God back to heavens and loses the eyes that gaze at the world.
The result is King Solomon’s death.
From another angle, this also means the self-destruction of the 72 demons.
It can also be described as a safety device prepared by Solomon, in order to destroy “magecraft” when it becomes an evil for humans in the distant future.
When this is employed as a Noble Phantasm, all traces of King Solomon are extinguished from this world.
---even from the Throne of Heroes.

(1): the original uses an expression that can also mean “faultless beauty”

Solomon - Grand Caster

Illustrator and Voice actor
Illustrator: Takeuchi Takashi

Parameters
Strength: E
Endurance: E
Agility: B
Magic: A++
Luck: A++
Noble Phantasm: A++

Character details
An individual from 1011~931 BC.
The Third King of Ancient Israel
The great king who made Ancient Israel prosper the most.
Employing 72 demon gods, and also the first individual who build the Temple of Israel.
He performed excellent political measures as a king, but beside that also have many anecdotes as a magus.

Level 1 Bond
Solomon married with the daughter of an Egyptian Pharaoh, but it has been said that, later, God appeared while he was dreaming on his bed and said "you are qualified. Speak your wishes. I'll shall grant it".
Rather than gold or political power, he sought wisdom more than anything. God was satisfied. For that answer itself was proof that he had the qualifications to attain "true wisdom".
When he woke up, Solomon had ten rings inserted on both hands. It was the proof of the wise man recognized by God. Later, it would be called Ring of Solomon, the source of the magecraft that employs angels and demons.

Level 2 Bond

• Revelation: B
  

To hear the "voice of heavens" and take optimum action.
"Instinct" is a sixth sense for battles, but Revelation accommodates all matters concerning the achievement of an objective (for instance, to choose the most suitable path during a trip).
Solomon received a revelation only once, but based on said revelation he established a phenomena operation technique--- that is, a magecraft that could be performed even by the hands of a common man (up until then, magecraft was the work of only those who stand in row to god).

Level 3 Bond
King Solomon accomplished only one miracle, but, on the other hand, that exemplifies his prudence.
It is better to be made known to the people that "the king is receiving God's protection" only once. Because any more miracles than that will either frighten or corrupt the people.
Even without using magecraft, Solomon had his reputation as King of Magecraft spread to the neighboring countries and left this world as a wise king.

Level 4 Bond

• Evocation: EX
  

A magecraft that evokes spiritual bodies from the past, or possibly from the future.
Solomon's evocation - which tells about the spiritual existences called "72 demon gods" and establishes them as capable familiars - is worthy of the name of King of Magecraft.
There is an art for employing demons among the knowledge that King Solomon left behind, but said manuscript would later be named Lemegeton or Goetia.

Level 5 Bond

• Ring of Solomon: EX
  

The rings inserted in his ten fingers that were given by God.
The proof of a king, the founder of magecraft.
In case all ten rings are together, any and all magecrafts performed by mankind are negated and placed under his subordination.

• Clairvoyance: EX
  

It has been said that Solomon's clairvoyance can see through the past and the future.

Interlude
"The Time of Birth Has Come, He Is The One Who Master Everything"
Ars Almadel Salomonis.
King Solomon's Third Noble Phantasm. The "|" of original sin.
At a first glance it looks like a ring of light that encircles the Earth, but in reality it is an aggregation of some hundred millions lines of light.
Each one of these lines carry extreme damage values comparable to Excalibur, an A Rank Noble Phantasm.
Unfortunately, there is nothing on the surface of the Earth that surpasses the heat value of this Noble Phantasm.

Introduction - Merem Solomon

The Fifth of the Burial Agency. Number 20 of the 27 Dead Apostle Ancestors. In Ciel’s opinion, an annoying senior. Collects treasures from all ages and places.

The reason he affiliates with the Burial Agency is supposedly in order to get closer to the sealed treasures of the Church.

Originally, he was a divine child (planet terminal) that could manifest peoples’ wishes and communicate with animals. His arms and legs were torn off and worshiped in order to prevent him from ever leaving the village.

The reason his limbs were cut off is because of the religious belief that a divine child must not take on a mortal’s form, and also qutie simply to prevent such a convenient tool from escaping.

(His circumstances resemble those of a certain Angra Mainyu, but Merem actually is a divine child.)

Merem would have simply lived the rest of his life as the villagers’ plaything, but was noticed by the Crimson Moon, who was coincidentally passing by.

The Crimson Moon, who thought that “the power to put into shape the wishes of the people” was quite amusing, declared to the villagers that he would slaughter them all at dawn. “If you want to live, then use your wishes to try and kill me,” he said, and the game began.

The villagers’ wishes, “We don’t want to die”, were truly ugly but strong.

Without thinking of the burden on Merem, who manifested them into reality, the villagers kept on imagining “convenient divine beasts” to challenge the Crimson Moon.

Of course, those kinds of beings could never win against the Crimson Moon.

There was no end to the villagers’ wishes, but with only a little time left before daybreak, Merem reached his limit and died. The remaining villagers died, cursing Merem and the Crimson Moon.

…After that.

When the sun rose above the horizon, the Crimson Moon gave the dead Merem a big fat kiss, and revived him as a Dead Apostle.

“How amusing. You may live as you see fit. You have drawn many pictures of what could replace your arms and legs, correct? The wishes of those others were ugly, but yours were masterpieces.

―――Idols like that would be adequate to bear the burden of being your limbs.”

Entranced by the Crimson Moon’s words, Merem imagined four idols from the religious temple that the villagers built, gave them the power to be his limbs, and stood on the ground like a person for the first time.

Afterwards, he held a kind of adoration towards the Crimson Moon, and became a Dead Apostle who swore his allegiance only to the Crimson Moon --- Brunestud.

After the 27 Ancestors’ separation from the True Ancestors and the Crimson Moon’s demise, it was assumed that he went into reclusion, but for some reason he began to affiliate with their enemy, the Holy Church .

Introduction: Demonition

Merem’s special power. A first-ranked spiritual evocation power.

It is able to embody others’ wishes, but interestingly enough, not his own. Merem possesses a truly strong power, but can’t do anything by himself. In all senses, he’s like a demon himself.

While it resembles the manifestation of fantasies, Merem’s demon summoning takes the wishes of people as a model, and makes something similar after applying his own dreams.

The demons’ powers are warped by peoples’ images, but the mold itself is done by Merem’s image of it. Also, the magnitude of their power changes based on Merem’s prana input.

Given Merem’s personality, he’s not good at manifesting realistic or calculating demons.

In the end, he’s just a Peter Pan living in a fantasy world. The drawings he’s good at and the fantasies that he wants to draw are “the type of demons that you’d see in a fairy tale”.

Source: Tsukihime Dokuhon “talk”

He appears in a small episode several years after Tsukihime.

A one-man monster battle. He’s related to King Solomon in name only.

Although it’s just a plan, he’s planned to appear in “the dark six”. …Really, I wonder what kind of story it’ll become…

Introduction - Four Great Demon Beasts

Four Demon - The Great Beast.

The familiars that serve as limbs for Merem Solomon, the Dead Apostle who is both one of the 27 Ancestors and the Burial Agency.

It is said that each one is equal to a single Ancestor.

Each one of the Four Great Demon Beasts is a Divine Beast class fantasy creature, but they were all creatures that Merem “literally” imagined.

They don’t belong to any species on earth, but they pay homage to many organisms throughout the world.

Source: Source/Tsukihime Dokuhon “talk”, “the dark six”

Boss-class monsters that obey the Dead Apostle Merem Solomon. The Demon of the Right Leg appeared in Talk. Well, it kind of got owned, but that’s because the Living Forest and the Whale Dog had just the worst compatibility.

The fact that they don’t have names is because of the rule that “you can’t give demons a name so easily”. Merem wants to give them cool names, but it seems that if he did, they would become truly free, so he can’t.

Explanation - Demon of the Left Hand

Class: King of Rats

User requirements: Manifestation of admiration towards others and the wish to transform.

Design reference: His little friends living above the ceiling of the temple.

The hero and idol of the rat world.

A demon with absolutely zero fighting power, but the transformation ability to completely imitate the appearance of any human.

In human society, he holds the status of priest. In the past, as the third most beautiful rat in the world, he has a lot of support among narrow communities living in narrow spaces like underground, above ceilings, in gutters, and behind furniture.

“Left Hand” itself likes its priest self, and spends his days working relaxedly for Merem, humans and rats.

“…That’s weird. Hey, did I design you to like humans?”

“I will be an ally of humans as long as there is pizza.”

Is a conversation this cheese lover has had with Merem.

Also, every time the rats ask him,

“Hey, hey, what part of you is a “Great” Demon Beast?”

He apologetically tries to think of a response.

Explanation 02 - Memorandum

The representative of Merem, who can’t grow any older from his boy form. While he can transform into many types of people, he normally likes to take the form of a kind old priest.

When faced with high-level exorcism, this appearance becomes undone and he reverts to his original form.

Just a note so that you don’t misunderstand, but the power to transform into any human is a power of the “Left Hand” and not Merem. What Merem created was an existence able to freely change into a human, but the one actually execute that is the “Left Hand” only. Meremu himself wants to become an adult, and wants arms and legs, but he cannot himself transform.

Again, although the Four Great Demon Beasts are basically Merem’s limbs, they are actually just providing him with limbs.

If Merem disappears, the Demon Beasts won’t disappear until they are destroyed, but if they disappear, Merem will lose his limbs and have to reimagine them.

To the Demon Beasts, Merem is their creator, but he is not someone absolutely necessary. But since they will be reimagined if they’re destroyed as long as Merem is still alive, they seem to hold some loyalty towards him.

Explanation 03 - Demon of the Right Leg

Class: King of the Earth

User Wish: Manifestation of divine punishment and huge tsunami

Design reference: The animal sculptures and stuffed animals decorating the temple, and also the temple itself

The black dog of destruction. The bell of the end. The dog of gods. The whale dog.

The demon of conquest and destruction that Merem prefers to drag along with him. It doesn't have any specific powers, but just having a huge body close to 200 meters in length is enough to qualify it as a "demon".

Supposedly, Merem actually wanted a cuter dog, but it seems that his art skills are a little biased. The demon beasts that make up his "legs" do not act independently in a human fashion, but take action directly according to his orders. Perhaps it's because Merem loves dogs, but apparently his "Right Leg" listens to him more than the "Left Leg".

Explanation 04 - Memorandum

Just like other demons, the Four Great Demon Beasts are separate beings from Merem.

Although they are demons conceived by Merem’s imagination, once he draws an image out it begins to walk away from him. While they listen to Merem, their creator, he cannot manipulate their ways or feelings.

Basically, while humans can make as many revisions as they want when something is still in their head, once it’s put into form (ex: statue, drawing) and let into the world, it can no longer be changed.

Indeed. The only things left in the author’s hands after he lets it into the world are the ownership rights.

Explanation 05 - Demon of the Right Arm

Class: Clever Daughter

User wish: Manifestation of bayonets and war… is the official front for the manifestation of doll moe. Otherwise known as The Angel-Tricking Demon.

Design reference: Goddess statue in the temple, funeral

A huge, anthromorphized pile of trash, Sword-chan.

A living gear statue around 10 meters tall.

Among the four beasts, the only one actively undergoing model (fashion) changes. Fundamentally a downer-type, super-lazy goddess.

Usually hides its face with a mask. Rarely takes it off. Also a mobile temple, with stairs and an entrance in the stomach region.

As an idol, only possesses a minimum amount of intelligence, and is not very adaptable. As an example, it has around the computational power of a Family BASIC. A problem child that has trouble deleting commands after they’ve been given. Kind of like a printer that doesn’t stop printing even after the cancel button has been pressed!

It’s a demon that symbolizes weaponry, but this is on principle limited to “weapons that it can possess”.  The design changes slightly to keep up with weapons development, but it settled on this model about 100 years ago.

Explanation 06 - Memorandum

The demon beast doesn’t appear much, maybe because Merem is being stingy. If we were talking Ultra Seven, it would be Windam. A character with few appearances despite its popularity.

Going off topic, but in the initial planning phase we thought of it as a V2 rocket anthromorphism.

Aim at the target and shoot, and with it transform into human shape and hack it to pieces. That was some kind of rocket-like intelligence mode we planned, but we thought that if it’s a demon then it should fully anthromorphize, so its acting style was changed. Also, keep it a secret, but personally I wanted to see Mr. PFALZ’s mech girl.

Explanation 07 - Demon of the Right Leg

Class: King of the Sky

User wish: Manifestation of wandering and liberation. One who aims for the stars.

Design references: The floor style in the temple. Talking with birds.

An amalgamation of many different animals. The king of beasts that swims in the sky. A huge demon on the same scale as the “Right Leg”. Its tiled skin stores many different animals. Though it has aspects of a sky fortress, but perhaps because of the fate of those who fly, it will be destroyed if its wings touch the ground.

The most beautiful of the demons that Merem imagined. The “Right Leg” specializes in annihilation warfare, but this one specializes in one-on-one combat against a super high-class enemy. …Well, generally it just deals critical injuries, then crashes and disperses.

Merem treats it as a weapon with a too-high cost.

Explanation 08 - Memorandum

The Four Great Demon Beasts ---- treated by Merem Solomon as “odd entities” even among the 27 Ancestors, who pride themselves as being odd to begin with.

It’s probably like having anime characters in elaborately drawn landscape paintings.

While Reality Marbles repaint reality with one’s own imagined world, Merem’s Four Great Demon Beasts might be revenge against reality, from a fairy-tale world abandoned by the people.

The Four Demons are the child called Merem’s doodles that have been given form. Therefore, when they appear, the landscape’s reality starts to crack.

In order to demonstrate this unbalance, we requested their designs from someone with a completely different perspective, the gothic artist Mr. PFALZ.

…The result goes without saying. The back of the giant beast that is “Right Leg” sinking in the city. The author definitely dreamed of this black prairie lined with lion statues, where the two protagonists clash. Screw that, I wanna write it.

Introduction - Mr. Dawn
Exorcist from the Holy Church. Driver of a 30-ton-class trailer.

Visits the rural town of Aylesbury together with one other exorcist, but Dawn himself does not possess demon exorcism power, and his main role is considered as the transport of the other exorcist who "easily loses their way."

Dawn has neither attack nor self-defence abilities, so his exorcism work is chiefly carried out by the "other exorcist" that he transports.

He has a sharp expression, but he has a gentle personality and good manners.

He has the appearance of a schoolteacher rather than an exorcist.

Although, it seems according to him, he does not have the capability to teach, and it would be happier for everyone to live a carefree life on their own.

A quiet pacifist. While agreeing to head into the battleground of Aylesbury, he does not carry any weapons for self-defence.

He is weak to blood and violence, and even to horror movies. Because he will freeze out of panic the moment he witnesses the scene of a heretic's massacre, the other Executors fear him as "the far and away #1 man you don't want to go on a mission with."

Explanation - Memorandum
Burial Agency Rank 5 (Provisional). The deadbeat of the Burial Agency.

(Once he is supplemented with a partner, they will both be officially Rank 5 together)

Originally head of the 5th department of development at V&V Industry.

He was an elite among elites as an engineer, but he resigned from V&V on the occasion of a certain incident, and was scouted by Narbareck, the head of the Burial Agency, upon appraisal of his achievement in resolving the incident.

Be that as it may, he's a little below average as a believer. He has enough faith to keep a Bible in the drawer, and that hasn't changed even since the incident.

He is a precious type of Excorcist, and at the present time, it's believed that there are no Exorcists that could replace him under certain conditions.

The Holy Mother's prophecy revealed that he will perform three demon exorcisms in his career.

Source: the dark six (alias)
A character from the Holy Church in Tsukihime 2, a game in Kinoko's brain.

As an Executor he has no sacrament or superpower, and no magical training, so he plays an active role as one who understands the ordinary person's side.

A worldly man worked hard by people of the Church side: "since you won’t participate in deadly battles, then die doing odd jobs."

Mainly serves as a transporter and supplier of weapons.

That which is called Prana is merely a fuel for the purpose of activating Magecraft; by itself, it can wield no effect.
However, there do exist exceptions to this rule, whereby -- restricted to those circumstances in which Prana itself comes to bear qualities that approach the nature of Magecraft -- it is let to take a 'form' (カタチ, katachi^?, lit. "shape").
For example ――― it is rumored that the Einzberns bestowed a personality unto the Holy Grail.
If said personality is possessed of Prana, it would from its birth come to bear the Thaumaturgical Trait (魔術特性, Majutsu Tokusei^?) of "Wishgranting" (願いを叶える, negai wo kanaeru^?).
Should its vital processes and the faculties that it holds as a Holy Grail come into direct junction, it would likely be able to give 'form' to the Miracle (奇跡, kiseki^?) of "Magecraft" merely by the release of Prana.

The "Incarnated Demons" (受肉した魔, juniku-shita ma^?) spoken of by the Holy Church also follow this convention.
Those beings created as fiends before existing as organisms exercise a Magecraft of an order beyond human ability.
The Thaumaturgical Circuits that Magi (we) bear are little more than spurious nerves (疑似神経, giji shinkei^?, lit. "pseudo- / quasi- / virtual nerves") -- fabricated (作り上げた, tsukuri-ageta^?) in the shadow 裏 (ura, lit. "shadow / reverse / behind"^?) of the nerves that we possess as of existing as humans; a faculty extrinsically affixed (後付, atozuke^?, lit. "attached after").
However ――― fiends possess nothing so much as 'spurious nerves.'
To them, the entirety of their vital processes serve as faculties that exist for the purpose of calling forth fiends.
It appears that the Holy Church refer to such beings as "True Daemons" (真性悪魔, shinsei akuma^?).
Distinct from those imposters (偽物, nisemono^?) that clad themselves in the Ideations of Man (人間の想念, ningen no sounen^?) and come into being (成る, naru^?) via "Unit Designation" (個体名, kotai-mei^?, lit. "unit name"), they are authentic "Daemons" brought forth by the Lord, who were as they were before being Named (名付ける, nazukeru^?) by Man.

Q: In Nasu's work (Kara no Kyoukai, Tsukihime, Fate, DDD) Who's the top three strongest characters?

A: Magical Amber, Neco Arc, and Tiger. Well, not really.
Seriously, it's Arcueid, "Ryougi Shiki", and primordial demons.(Not counting Servants)