Gilead Lionheart

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## Gilead Lionheart

* Manwha
* Novel

## Relationships

### Wife

* Tanis Lionheart (Wife)
* Ancilla Lionheart (Concubine)/(Second Wife)

### Relatives

* Unnamed father
* Carmen Lionheart  (Aunt)
* Klein Lionheart  (Uncle)
* Gilford Lionheart (Brother)
* Gion Lionheart (Brother)
* Eward Lionheart (Son)
* Cyan Lionheart (Son)
* Ciel Lionheart (Daughter)
* Eugene Lionheart (Adopted son)

## Mana Cultivation Information

### Cultivation Level

6 Stars7 Stars (RAWS)

8 Stars (RAWS)

## Professional Information

### Occupations

* Patriarch of the Lionheart Family
* Member of the council of the Lionheart Family

**Gilead Lionheart** is the Patriarch of the Lionheart Family as well as a member of the council. He is the husband of Tanis Lionheart with whom he fathered Eward. He also married Ancilla Lionheart, with whom he had a pair of twins, Cyan and Ciel. He also adopted Eugene Lionheart.

## **Appearance**

Just like his ancestor and all members of the Lionheart Family, he has golden eyes and long gray hair. However, he is noted by Eugene to not resemble Vermouth much. Being the patriarch of a martial family, his body is in good shape.

After the mess caused by Eward and his attempt to sacrifice the Lionheart youths to revive the deceased Demon Kings, Gilead’s physical and mental health had taken a turn for the worse. As noted by Eugene, Gilead had deeply sunken cheeks and dark circles beneath his eyes, His beard was still neatly trimmed, but one could clearly see the cuts that had been left on Gilead’s cheeks and chin from shaving badly and his body’s muscles and physical frame were noted to have shrunken due to stress.

## **Personality**

Although he is a prideful person, he is not arrogant or conceited. He showed himself to be just and merciful as well as a caring father and dutiful patriarch.

He has shown himself to be kind and values effort, fairness, honor and competition. For this reason, he does not like the Lionheart Family traditions, viewing them as discriminatory and unfair.

As shown, Gilead is constantly torn between his duties as the Patriarch of the Lionheart family and his responsibilities as a father. Gilead genuinely loves all of his children and constantly tries to support them in whatever they decide to do in their lives. But at the same time, Gilead is shown to take his responsibilities as the patriarch very seriously, sometimes causing the two sides to clash with each other. This could be seen for example when despite wishing for Eward to follow his dreams, he is also bound by his duty to ensure the future of his family by preparing his child to become the next Patriarch, causing him to, albeit unwillingly, pressure him to excel and do better in everything. When it became evident that his first wife, Tanis, was not able to have any more children after Eward, Gilead took Anise as his second wife in order to have more children to have additional heirs despite it bringing friction to his relationship with his first wife. Gilead himself also admitted that he did this in the hopes that this would also help Eward by awakening a competitive spirit against his younger siblings and make his talents bloom. As stated by Gilead, he will support his children in anything they chose to do in their lives and do his best to grant them the best opportunities to succeed, but made it clear that he himself would not interfere or help them unfairly and that he wishes for them to succeed using the opportunities he gave them through their own hard work and effort.

After the debacle of Eward attempting black magic, Gilead was shown to have been greatly saddened by what happened and blamed himself due to believing that it was his fault and that he did not give him enough support and love. However, despite his feelings, Gilead still punished Eward regardless. However, it can be noted that he made the punishment considerably lighter than expected. Despite the circumstances and the dishonor he brought upon their family, Gilead still showcased active worry and care for Eward and during his stay with his in-laws and deeply desired to go visit him and throw him a proper-coming of age ceremony or at least attend the one organized by his in-laws. Gilead himself showed deep frustration and anger at the Lionheart’s Council of Elders for stopping him from visiting Eward and forbidding him from having further contact with him. Later, despite the majority opinion of the Lionheart and even that of his other children, Gilead would tirelessly negotiate and persuade the Lionheart council of elders to allow Eward back into the clan and allow him to participate in clan affairs once again despite the dishonor he brought to their clan and objection of a vast majority of his family, further showing his love for his son.

Later, after Eward’s corruption by the Demon King’s remnant and his attempt to sacrifice his siblings and other relatives during the Black Lion’s Hunt, that then resulted in his death, Gilead was noted to have taken the news particularly hard. As shown, Gilead blamed himself for the entire incident, from his failure to properly raise Eward, to his attempt to integrate him into the family again, which only ended up putting the rest of his children in danger. This caused both his physical and mental health to decline rapidly. However, his sense of duty as a father and patriarch of the Lionhearts was great enough that he attempted to take responsibility for Eward’s mess by stepping down as the clan’s patriarch, and stopped only when realizing that there was no one else who could take up the position immediately and doing so would demote Ancilla and Cyan to collateral family members and disinherit them.

## Abilities & Powers

As a Lionheart, Gilead was trained since childhood in martial combat and mana manipulation. While no longer seeing much active duty, Gilead was noted to have continued training and refining his mana using the White Flame Formula of his clan.

As noted by Eugene, Gilead had successfully developed his White Flame to 6 Stars, making him one of the strongest warriors in the continent.

## Trivia

* His favorite hero out of 5 Great Heroes is not his ancestor but Hamel. Unlike his powerful ancestor, Gilead always liked the human qualities of Hamel more.
* As a child, he used to collect old coins.

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 17
2. ↑ Chapter 20-2