Christian Rosencreutz

**Christian Rosencreutz** (クリスチャン・ローゼンクロイツ, *Kurisuchan Rōzenkuroitsu*?) (also spelt **Christian Rosenkreuz/kreutz** or rendered **Christian Rose Cross**, abbreviated to **CRC**), is a legendary German magician, said to have lived in the 14th century, and the supposed founder of the Rosicrucian Order.

## Appearance

When brought into the world via the Bridge Builders Cabal's ceremony, CRC had the appearance of a young man, about 18 years old, with silver hair and a long beard (though with the voice of an old man). He wore a red robe draped over himself which was provided by Trismegistus.

## Personality

According to legend, Christian Rosencreutz was said to have been a holy man, the wisest of wise men, who would seek to heal people and the world, holding out his hand or providing potions then leaving without asking anything in return.

However, after being summoned by the Bridge Builders Cabal in hopes that he would provide the answers for the world's salvation that they could not, it is soon revealed that Rosencreutz's actual personality is drastically different and far worse than what the legends claimed. In actuality, he is nothing more than a malevolent, cold-hearted, unrelenting, self-centered, and exceptionally misanthropic psychopath who takes massive enjoyment in the destruction of life. In the past, Rosencreutz helped people in exchange for servitude. Once they were no longer of use to him, CRC would callously abandon them, and his followers purged those who defied his will.

Egotistical, nihilistic and completely sadistic, CRC thrives off destruction and displays great satisfaction in both destroying lives and bragging about the carnage wrought afterwards, feeling incredibly proud and pleased with himself after claiming countless innocent lives. Because of his immense power, CRC believes that he is superior to the whole of humanity. CRC regards mankind as insignificant and treats people with extreme indifference. He states that his level of conscience is too different (and much higher) for humans to grasp. He caused countless gory slaughters, killed hundreds of thousands, trapping their souls in endless suffering, and would have killed millions more without so much as a qualm, but cannot bear the idea of not being in control of the situation.

At his core, CRC is a supremely arrogant and small-minded narcissist who sees himself as a "divine being" or "the most satisfying existence in the world" and truly believes that he is above everyone and everything. To this end, he normally exhibits extreme megalomania and even traits of an outright God complex, feeling entitled to force his cruel beliefs onto civilizations and takes great hubris in his power, not hesitating to boast at any given opportunity. All that he wants is to create chaos and destruction, solely to project his perceived power towards everyone around him. If his opponents says something that goes against his opinions or beliefs, Rosencreutz will find unreasonable faults in them, gradually becoming furious while accusing them of "violating his rights", before attacking and brutally killing them without mercy or even a second thought, as to him, the act of taking away what is his is the most disgusting and abhorrent sin a person could ever commit, punishable by death.

However, in spite of how utterly twisted, manipulative, remorseless and evil CRC is, he dosen't view himself as such. Rather, Rosencreutz believes that he's doing the right thing by bringing what it sees as an uncontrollably imperfect existence to "balance", "neutrality" and "nothing". Rosencreutz undoubtedly embodies nihilism and through his perspective, everything will ultimately die a "pointless" death. Therefore, he intends to locate the Swirl of the Root as a means of bringing about the destruction of reality and in doing so, the end of all life. He believes that by destroying reality he will be able to govern its remnants, believing that it would allow him to view the records of every single individual human's life on Earth. By gaining this power and governance over reality, he wishes to pinpoint what he would consider to be the happiest moment (or at least the peak point) of every single human during their lifetime, with the intention of bringing a sense of contentment to his mind.

Nevertheless, Rosencreutz's "altruistic" goals are merely just delusions brought on by his arrogant nature and nihilistic thoughts, as he forces his beliefs onto countless civilizations because he views himself as the ultimate authority, showing that his delusions are solely motivated by ego rather than any real goodwill. Subsequently, while he does believe what he's doing is right, he isn't above toying with others for no reason other than sheer sadism, showing that he takes pleasure in what he does. In spite of his strength, power, intelligence, sadism and destructiveness, Rosencreutz can also be extremely petty and childish when he doesn't get his way.

## Background

Most of Rosencreutz's background is largely unknown, due to most of legends surrounding him being fabricated. However, what is known is that he existed in the 14th centrury, during the Age of Gods. He was also a rival to Kischur Zelretch Schweinorg. At some point in time, Rosencreutz traveled the entire world and gathered knowledge during his travels. After his long journey, CRC organized and redistributed this knowledge in a form usable by ordinary people, and having gathered disciples who shared his goals, established the Rosicrucian Order, which was to meant to remain a secret for a hundred years after its establishment. Due to the atrocities he had commited, Rosencreutz went into hiding, faking his death.

In the late 16th century and the first half of the 17th century, Rosencreutz would resurface and adopt the identity of **Johann Valentin Andreae** (ヨハン・ヴァレンティン・アンドレーエ, *Yohan Vuarentin Andorēe*?), an abbot in Germany. He would then write a false book about his own invented experiences out of fear of being forgotten by history. In the legends, he made himself as a wise holy man who heasl people suffering from diseases, curses and sin, at times holding out his hand and other times providing miracle-working potions, leaving without asking for anything in return. This later re-ingnited the Rosicrucian movement.

Rosencreutz believed himself to be at the center of the movement that grew from his story, but his creation would end up leaving his control. He later "confessed" to the lie, claiming in his writings to have invented and distributed the Chymische Hochzeit when he was 19. However, he was ignored, the Rosicrucian movement having by then grown into something more, and would survive to the modern day, despite Andreae's claim that confessing to the prank ended the dream. In modern times, the fantasized version of himself would become more popular than the real Rosencreutz. Envious and resentful of his own creation eclipsing him, CRC would eventually seek to tarnish the legend of Christian Rosencreutz that he had created.

## Abilities

Christian Rosencreutz is an extraordinarily powerful and talented magician who has immense magical powers which transcends the rules under which they operate, making him the exception to those rules or beyond them all togther and granting him total dominion over the cause and effects to the rules of magic by his source. A notable display of his great power was when he was able to topple the assembled Transcendents of the Bridge Builders Cabal in a single attack (with the exception of Alice Anotherbible), in a way they couldn't understand and faster than they could react, an impact accompanied by a flash of light. He was also able to apparently kill the likes of the exceptional Transcendent Alice Anotherbible, crushing her head.

As someone who has crossed the Abyss, Rosencreutz exists beyond the reasons of the Physical World, and as such, is virtually invulnerable to nearly all mortal opposition – an existence no single person alone can rival. His absoluteness is akin to that of a story's author; those partaking in his fable have no chance of ever challenging him. With this, Rosencreutz is able to manipulate all the fortune and misfortune that occurs within his sphere of influence, all good fortune experienced by an opponent in causing injury to him will be re-directed back to them as misfortune of the same magnitude. He can redirect all misfortune meant for him to someone else while only leaving good fortune, such as redirecting the misfortune of the ocean being in his path. He can use this ability offensively, using it to move a target's injuries to elsewhere on this body. This way, a mere scratch on the hand can become a lethal blow to the heart. However, this ability can easily backfire on him if he isn't careful with it.

CRC also makes use of common tones, similar to those used by the Transcendents of the Bridge Builders Cabal.

### Rosicrucian Magic

As with Rosicrucianism in general, some of these techniques included elements and influences from other systems, such as Kabbalah and alchemy, the latter described as a starting point for CRC's miracles. He utilizes carbon-based magic, described as a rehash of St. Germain, for basic attacks, using it to fire dense carbon (or rather diamond) bullets, primarily from his palm. The bullets, resembling a black coal about the size of a golf ball, were fired with a lethal amount of destructive force, enough to take down a Transcendent-level opponent in a single shot, and moving too fast for the naked eye to see. Additionally, the diamond crystal was constantly growing at a rate too quick for Imagine Breaker to fully negate. The carbon-controlling spell also had other applications (such as forcing an Anti-Skill officer to count on his fingers, crushing them in the process).

Through his carbon-based magic, the red elixir or some another basis, Rosencreutz was able to manipulate the corpse of Alice Anotherbible (prior to her own resurrection) as a puppet to use as a surprise attack against Anna Kingsford. When his arm was severed, CRC made nearby rubble gather around and form a new arm to stop the bleeding with the command **"Mend"** (修繕, *Shūzen*?), described as repairing by creating something new rather than a resurrection that returned him to normal. Specifically by invoking the **red elixir** (赤き秘薬, *Akaki Hiyaku*?) that conquers disease and manipulates lifepspan, Rosencreutz made numerous inorganic items combine into a giant doll, though it was destroyed before it could do anything. It isn't certain whether he could perform the secret alchemical art to create a human inside a still or grow artificial life inside crystal like in the legends.

Another Rosicrucian technique connected to alchemy that Rosencreutz used was the Citrinitas spell (which had previously been granted to Darris Hewlane by Anna Sprengel), derived from the third of the four stages, which produces a vast amount of yellow sand that traps and dissolves its victims as nutrients. Unlike Darris's use of the spell, Rosencreutz doesn't require a spiritual item to use as its core. In his initial use, he instead mimed rocking something and verbally invoked the yellow symbol, symbolizing the transformation beyond decompositon and the role of fermentation. CRC also makes use of a spell called **Alt Nagel** (アルトネーゲル, *Arutonēgeru*?), which create immensely destructive pillars of wind that can stretch as far as the heavens.

Utilizing the Rosicrucian symbol of clouds covering up wisdom and truth to keep it from being viewed by the unworthy, CRC could explosively discharge a white steam and within the space covered by that cloud, not be hit by regular attacks even from point-blank range or with a dense scattershot filling the space (compared to trying attack the non-observable Schrödinger's cat), though it was ineffective against the Dragon Strike. He was also able to use this control of clouds to disrupt that opponent's similar weather-based attack, blowing between two fingers to send one cloud at another, forcibly altering the weather conditions and diverting a lightning strike. When an interference method based on bloodstain patterns was used to draw out his own magic from his mind against him, Rosencreutz applied a random encryption to the formed texts and magic circles to lock them so they couldn't be used, using a method that Westcott coincidentally discovered by invoking the name Trithemius and moving his fingers. CRC can also summon five orbs of energy in the air around a target that shoot out concentrated beams of energy at the target, forming the shape of a cross.

Furthermore, Rosencreutz is also capable of utilizing Golden-style Magic to some extent, due to the Golden Dawn's incorporation of several aspects of Rosicrucianism. His most notable spell is **Al Shario** (アル・シャリオ, *Aru Shario*?), which summons the very stars from the sky down to the earth and sends them hurling towards his enemies, causing unimaginable devastation. The speed of the stars are stated to be nigh impossible to evade or counter, with each one of them having the same power to match the entirety of Reinhard's army.

### The Almighty

Rosencreutz's main ability is known as **The Almighty** (全知全能（ジ・オールマイティ）, *Zenchi Zen'nō (Ji Ōrumaiti)*?, lit. "All-Knowing and All-Powerful"), which allows him to perceive the 'quantum strings' that forms existence, which he can pull (or just think about what he wants to do) to manipulate reality. CRC observes all possible quantum realities and is able to choose which one happens, allowing him to manipulate all probabilities. Using this, he can neutralize attacks by establishing that he isn't fated to be hit by them and remove all obstacles by establishing that he is destined to overcome them. Rosencreutz can also change the result of an action or the state of an object into his own desired outcome, no matter how improbable. It is even possible to permanently alter the status of any living being or object to make an abnormal state their normal state, rendering all forms of healing obsolete.

When **The Almighty** is active, Rosencreutz's irises and pupils split in two. Anna Sprengel states that this ability allows him to physically materialize the cosmic filaments that make up the world itself, jumbled with differing degrees of tightness and looseness. Moreover, CRC can also change the events in the past which, immediately affects the events in the future and vice versa based on each decision he makes in the present via causality of the fourth dimension. By linking individual time periods and causing actions in the past to directly alter the future, this power may also cause any changes in the future to have similar effects to events set in the past.

#### Fundamental Forces

In addition, Rosencreutz's most prominent application of **The Almighty** is to manipulate the four fundamental forces that govern the universe: gravity, electromagnetism, strong nuclear force and weak nuclear force. With this, CRC is able to create, manipulate and/or destroy matter from a cosmic scale down to the subatomic level at will. He can use them to replicate and manipulate virtually every naturally occurring phenomena on Earth, reaching nearly any effect he desires. This ability also allows Rosencreutz to rearrange matter to create other configurations and to even transmute elements and manipulate space-time to a degree by using gravity to distort them. The abilities he has demonstrated include:

* **Gravity Manipulation**: Rosencreutz is capable of manipulating gravity for a number of purposes, ranging from weakening gravity to levitate himself and large objects or strengthening gravity to slam things into the ground with tremendous force. He can use this power to augment his strength or speed and can use gravity to compress an object from any side, shaping it into a desired form. CRC has also showed that he could redirect attacks to his opponent by bending space or tear apart magic, and even affect intangible concepts, like dreams. He can even directly control people's physical gravities. For instance, he can make them levitate by lightening their masses and immediately plunge them to the ground with a heavy force.
	+ **Attraction & Repulsion**: CRC can use the gravitational pull between two objects to pull something towards him or push them back. Usually, he does this by pulling someone towards him then using repulsion to augment his attack. He can also use his repulsion to emit an enormous shockwave.
	+ **Haste Makes Waste** (油断大敵, *Yudan Taiteki*?): Another type of gravitational field created by Rosencreutz. He can use this ability to interfere with gravity and compress ultra-dense matter to create massive gravitational spheres, a pseudo-black hole, that can cause indiscriminate and inescapable mass destruction, ripping buildings and people down to sub-atomic particles. He is also able to create focused rips in the fabric of reality and generate all-consuming singularities.
	+ **Tachyon Jail** (未来粒子加速牢（タキオンジェイル）, *Mirai Ryūshin Kasoku Rō (Takionjeiru)*?, lit. "Future Particle Accelerator Prison"): An ability that allows CRC to manipulate Tachyon particles. Through it, he can effectively stop local space-time for himself or anyone and anything he designates, though it isn't actually "stopping" time, but rather causing his targets to move faster than time can keep up with.

* **Velocity Manipulation**: With this power, Rosencreutz is capable of manipulating the velocity of anything or anyone in his current vicinity. This allows him to greatly accelerate his own speed or the velocity of his target, and even enhance the impact force of his own physical strikes. By manipulating the velocity of the wind around Ruyi Jingu, CRC was able to induce drag and stop the staff before it managed to hit him.

* **Friction Manipulation:** Manipulating frictional force enables CRC to easily ward off foes attempting to grapple him, forcing them to slip off him as if they were grabbing a lubricated surface. It can also be used to slip off an attack, preventing the opponent from damaging him. He can also use this power to scale walls and ceilings, no matter how rough or smooth they are. Moreover, Rosencreutz can even use this ability to remove friction from the floor, creating an ice-like slippery surface that only he can walk on.
	+ **Inertia Manipulation:** CRC can manipulate inertia to maximize his striking force, ensuring that his next attack suffers from no loss of speed or power. He also can make an object's inertia lower, causing it to freeze mid-air.
	+ **Zero Friction:** CRC lowers the friction coefficient of his body to zero, allowing him to brush off virtually any shock with ease.
	+ **Zero Inertia + Zero Frictional Force:** CRC reduces the inertia and frictional force of his foe's movements to zero, effectively nullifying it.

* **Electromagnetism Manipulation**: CRC is able to generate and manipulate electromagnetic energy down to photons. With this, Rosencreutz is capable of generating and projecting powerful bolts of electricity as well as absorbing lightning bolts and creating electromagnetic fields and currents capable of moving and manipulating non-metallic objects. He even managed to redirected Misaka Mikoto's lightning strike to his cane instead of hitting him. In addition to this, CRC has comprehensive control of magnetism and utilizes that control to manipulate any metal and achieve a variety of effects. He can magnetize and demagnetize metallic objects at will and can harness magnetism in order to raise islands from the ocean floors, move mountains, change the course of rivers, or threaten to devastate the world with floods and earthquakes.

* **Weak Force Manipulation**: By using the very force that decays nuclear particles, Rosencreutz is able to disintegrate any object in his way, best shown when he used weak force to tear off Touma's arm. He is able to dissociate atomic bonds and tear apart the tethers of molecules that hold together all matter. With this power, CRC once completely annihilated an entire city in a matter of seconds. He can use his control over nuclear fission to make things and people grind to a standstill by slowing their quantum spin, effectively freezing them in time & space. CRC can also speed up the aging process of any organic being or material that he touches, halving the normal lifespan that the victim has at that point, stealing "half of their life".

* **Strong Force Manipulation:** By manipulating the very force that binds protons and neutrons together in atomic nuclei, CRC can imitate the state of nuclear fusion inside stars for various purposes. He can control the bond of local atoms, allowing him to manipulate all non-living matter simply by rearranging the atomic structure, i.e. turning air into a wall of water, turning a stone column into a large uprising spike, turning the floor into sand, and turning wind into a blast of fire. He can even craft and build various constructs or even sentient effigy's by rearranging molecules by force of will. With this, he can create a tremendous burst of nuclear energy strong enough to obliterate Zeus's entire upper body. The blast is visible in space which also annihilated much of the surrounding landscape and vaporized the entire body of water in the area.

### Other abilities

**Vast Intellect**: Christian Rosencreutz has been shown to possess an enormous amount of knowledge that he's acquired over hundreds of years of existence. This includes general expertise, a comprehensive understanding of magic, and strategic intellect. He came into the world already knowing every existing concept. When he was first confronted with something, he demonstrated said knowledge by giving a dictionary-like definition of it. He has extensive knowledge of magic and the supernatural, able to know the true purpose of Pandora's box, which no one else knows. In addition to harbouring an impressive understanding of pre-existing magical information, Rosencreutz was also a keen inventor of new magical practices that were often known only to him. Numerous people from every nation used to come to him, seeking his wisdom when he was still active. Furthermore, CRC also has vast knowledge about an ancient era, to the point he could boast there is nothing he doesn't know.

* **Master Tactician**: Rosencreutz is shown to be an astonishing strategist and planner, able to concoct various plans that will take years to come into fruition and is also brilliant at changing his plans at the drop of a hat if something unexpected comes up or he sees a better path. CRC's great tactical expertise, along with his focus and patience are what makes him most cunning. He was willing to wait hundreds of years to create the proper conditions to accomplish his goals. His careful consideration and planning are what allowed him to be resurrected by the Transcendents of the Bridge Builders Cabal by spreading his false legends and convicing them that he is mankind's savior. CRC has also shown to be a very duplicitous and excellent manipulator, capable of deceiving and manipulating others around him in various ways for a multitude of different purposes. For years, he convinced everyone that he was a noble and benevolent messiah with the best intentions for all of humanity while performing the most horrific actions possible.

### Equipment

One of Rosencreutz's spiritual items is a transparent card, described as a **crystal world map** (水晶の世界地図, *Suishō no Sekai Chizu*?), made up of jigsaw-like pieces constantly changing their shape and number. It is based on the perfect miniature model of the world that Rosencreutz supposedly completed, accurately recreating all phenomena in a miniature garden, all things relating to the world's past, present and future, to calculate any answer desired. It was described as useful for searching, but it only provided information that Rosencreutz actively searched for, meaning he could miss something, especially from a blind spot he hadn't considered.

Other spiritual items he used included a 1m long gold cross with rose vines wrapped around it that he can wield as a weapon, an old glass lamp based on the undying flame, a flask containing a red powder, and a pack of Tarot cards (activated by an anagram 'Rota' command). He also uses the Pneuma-less Shell previously used by Anna Sprengel, drawing out the symbolism from items representing the oldest forms of types of death. By grasping another device with a ruby shine corresponding to the female symbol of the red rose paired with the cross, Rosencreutz is even able to mass-produce and remotely activate numerous Pneuma-less Shells at once.

## Character Art Designs

### Gallery

Christian Rosencreutz as he appears in the contents of *Souyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index Volume 9* by Haimura Kiyotaka
## Trivia

* CRC's voice is described as a normal voice but one of a wrinkled old man, a mismatch with his young appearance.

## External Links

* Christian Rosencreutz (Wikipedia article)