Albert Leiland

"*It is SIR ALBERT to you NAIVE. The CHAMPION of Vanireheim and YOU WILL address me with RESPECT. UNDERSTOOD?*"

**Albert Leiland** (アルバート・レイランド, *Arubāto reirando*) is a Human that hails from The Kingdom of Cornelia. Known as the "Iron Champion", Albert is a seasoned B-Rank adventurer with the grand dream of accomplishing grand feats that will cement him in history. He is the leader of the Iron Champion Party and rival of Atem Atreus Lucis Sindria.

## Journal Log Entry

### Biography

Albert Leiland was born in the capital of Cornelia Kingdom, Radiant Garden, to a family of former adventures. Hearing romanticized stories about the life of an adventurer, Albert dreams of becoming a famed hero at a young age. At the age of 5, Albert was taken to the Cathedral of Cornelia to receive his blessing which was the blessing: "The Champion".

At age 12, Albert registered as an adventure and kicked started his dream. Thanks to the divine blessing of the Champion and a strong ambition to move up in the world, Albert quickly move up the ranks. Although in the top tier for the frontier, he only ended up drifting out to Zoltan after not being able to cut it in Central.

### Physical Description

According to his fanbase, Lord Albert (prefers to be addressed) is described as a young adult in his early twenties, standing at 5'8 ft and weighing at round 172 lbs. Albert has short silver hair and light blue eyes. He is known for always wearing a scowl expression, likely due to living a peaceful life in Vanirheim instead of one with adventure and excitement. Albert also has a strong built physique as a result of physical training in order to utilized his champion blessing to the fullest.

He is usually dressed in a favorite armor, The Iron Champion Armor, which is a dark armor with a yellow outline. The armor set consists of a black armor breast plate, black shoulder pauldron, black dual bracers, black faulds armor for his hips, and black steel boots. It helps him stylize as some sort of dark knight or a black swordsmen. Strapped to his back is his custom made weapon, the Iron Champion Sword.

After the duel between him and Atreus, Albert lost his left arm and now has a prosaic arm.

It is debated wether it is due to his status or his physical features but Albers is considered attractive and popular.

### Characteristics & Traits

According to Atreus theory, ones personality can be heavily influenced by being granted a blessing of a rare skill. As such, being bestowed with a powerful blessing at a young age, Albert developed into a cocky, impulsive, impatient, arrogant, and a confident man. Aware of how special his blessing truly is, coupled with the unreasonable expectation set by people and himself, Albert desperately desires to achieve grand accolades in order to cement himself in history as a legend just like the great heroes that came before.

Theodora Dephilo, a fellow adventurer has commented that Albert personality is similar to her teammate Ares but unlike him, Albert has redeeming qualities and is capable of growing as a person after acknowledging and accepting his mistakes. The main difference between the two is that Ares is willing to dispose or get rid of party members who do not contribute to the party based on his standards and ones overall strength, especially those that are weaker than him and his party members unlike Albert who values one's skills and mastery regardless of rank.

Like Ares and most high ranking adventurers, he greatly mistake's ones rank as synonyms with one's overall strength, greatly looking down to those that are lower rank than him, even going so far as correcting them when they speak his name, to address him as "sir" Albert. However, despite his condescending demeanor, he is willing to allow them to join his party if they earn his acknowledgment and respect base on their mastery of their profession and skill such as the case with Atreus, an E- Rank adventurer (at the time). He is even willing to help them get promoted to a higher rank and give mentorship to them as an incentive to joining his party, an oath he keeps. He is known to greatly hound potential party members (to the point of annoyance) until they join his party.

Nevertheless, he is considered ruthless and careless. As even through he and his party members tried to hunt down an Owlbear with minimal damage being a high priority, his lack of leadership skill and decision making choices resulted in accidentally burning down an area within the forest that was full of precious resources for medicine treatment. Atreus noted that during his encounter with the Owlbear, the creature was full of non-lethal wounds and covered with slow acting poison and hallucinogens suggesting that Albert and his party encounter the creature early on and preferred to hunt it slowly out of enjoyment.

Underneath his bravado, he understands his party is less than ideal and his position as leader is lacking. With many of his party addicted to power enhancement drugs, he has had a difficult time managing his party as well as being afraid of shouldering all responsibility for their actions. This was the main reason wanted Atreus to join party due to the lack of guidance of the leadership and lack of moral compass missing from the party.

Ironically, like some sort of drug, Albert craves for a life filled with adventure and excitement rather than live a peaceful life and be forgotten by time. This fear of possibly failing to achieving his dream is what allowed him to be susceptible into forming a contract with a demon for the sake of his ambition. He event went so far deeming it a necessary evil for the sake of peace, claiming that his intentions are noble and pure.

Following Ares' death and betrayal, Albert revealed his dream is to become a hero when he looked up to the Heroes' Party. He realized the path of wanted to become a Hero has turned to be so grim after he learned it is nothing but a lonely and cruel fate.

## Reference

https://banished-from-the-heros-party.fandom.com/wiki/Albert\_Leland