Ludwig van Rosenkranz

* Ludwig
* Methuselah

## Special Abilities

Gloria Virtutem Tamquam Umbra SequiturMagna Voluisse Magnum
Nihili Est Qui Nihil Amat
Nihil Difficile Amanti

**Ludwig van Rosenkranz** (ルートヴィヒ・ヴァン・ローゼンクランツ, *Rūtovihi van Rōzenkurantsu*?), also known as **Methuselah** (メトシェラ, *Metoshera*?), is an ancient deity and the embodiment of darkness. He appears in Dies Irae ~Interview with Kaziklu Bey~.

## Story

### Background

Methuselah is the ancient god of darkness, having been around since the beginning of the world through the thoughts and ideas of mankind.

He is the only god to have kept his existence from disappearing from the world due to his desire to live, his fellow gods (whom all, including Methuselah himself, have been birthed from Mercurius as a byproduct of his Law) having perished due to their mystery deteriorating over time.

### Dies Irae ~Interview with Kaziklu Bey~

It would be many years later where he would arise yet again to the world
 in the year 1944 around the time of the Warsaw Uprising in WW2, taking
up the form and identity of a human being named "Ludwig van Rosenkranz", where he would eventually encounter and fight Wilhelm Ehrenburg for the heart of Claudia Jerusalem as well the forces of the Longinus Dreizehn Orden.

## Power & Abilities

### Gloria Virtutem Tamquam Umbra Sequitur

(*Glory Follows Bravery as if It Were Its Shadow*) Methuselah creates a passive barrier that takes any attack, regardless of magnitude and be it physical, mental or otherwise, and reflects it back at the opponent through a source of darkness, the attack not losing any of its power.

### Magna Voluisse Magnum

(*Great Ones Have Wished for Greatness*) Methuselah
 manipulates the shadows to darken the skies as far as the eyes can see, where he then sends it crashing down on whatever it hits, with the mere activation boasting enough power to sink an entire continent. This attack was however interrupted by Wilhelm before its could be completed.

### Nihili Est Qui Nihil Amat

(*Nothing Is That Which Nothing Loves*) Methuselah binds his targets inside a sphere and then ejects multiple layers of night. It contains a density of 500,000 layers of night, which equals to 1,400 years. These layers are separated from each other, so they must be destroyed individually to escape. Not only that, but this prison compresses itself until it crushes anything inside it. Moreover, since circumferences of heaven and earth inside this is indecipherable, one may end up harming themselves. Methuselah can also opt to move the cage and send it elsewhere, essentially removing the target from the battlefield.

### Nihil Difficile Amanti

(*Nothing Is Difficult For a Lover*) Methuselah summons a pentagram that rotates and speeds up time in the surrounding area, starting at a rate of thousands of years per second at its initial activation, where it is at such point that it essentially reduces everything, including souls, to dust. This was potent enough to where Methuselah was destroying the Legion (who would have perished for good were it not for Reinhard's Briah constantly reviving them) and various WW2 machinery to dust.

## Trivia

* In Judaism, Christianity, and Islam **Methuselah** was a biblical patriarch . Said to have died at the age of 969, he lived the longest of all figures mentioned in the Bible.
	+ Fittingly, Ludwig is the longest living god created by Mercurius's law.