Edel Meitner

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**Edel Meitner** is the former acting President of Eckhart's Society for Preternatural Research. Her true identity is **Gha'agsheblah**, one of the Demon Lords of Qliphoth, and the living will of the Lake of Knowledge.

## Collection Profile

*Edel Meitner is a sniper who commands strange beings residing in her shadow in inflict AOE damage. Her strange familiars are especially powerful against Soldiers and Corrupted Objects.*

*The newly appointed President of Eckhart's Society for Preternatural Research and an insatiable glutton, she even treats Corrupted Objects as food ingredients. Unlike other people, she sees Anti-Corruption battles as opportunities to feat, which was the very reason she presented herself to the TASKFORCE industry, to satisfy for hunger while avoiding her successor at the Society who's trying to restrict her diet. Her appetite may not be comprehensible to most people, but she claims that she eats to sustain knowledge, rather to sustain life.*

*She's only categorized as a Counter for the sake of administrative convenience. So far, no one knows what exactly those creatures that follow her are.*

## Abilities

### Powers

* **Consumption:** Edel uses the Lake of Knowledge (or fragments of it) to consume people and obtain knowledge directly from them.
* **Transformation:** Edel's human form is the Antagonist who defeated the previous iteration of Gha'agsheblah. She can transform into her true form as a Demon Lord— an enormous black, tentacled monster that can split itself into separate beings.
* **Accelerated healing:** Edel can heal from her wounds at an extremely fast rate.

### Weaknesses

As a Demon Lord, Edel draws power from the Qlipha Dimension. If the flow of power is cut off, she becomes much less powerful within the Normalside unless a special Counter makes use of his/her Qliphoth Factor.

The MacCready family's Counter Watch can suppress Edel's, or more specifically Gha'agsheblah's, desire for knowledge.

## Personality

Being the living will of the Lake Knowledge, Edel Meitner has a nigh-insatiable hunger for anything that may hold knowledge, whether it be a human being or a Corrupted Object. If this hunger becomes intense enough, she will lose all rationality and prey uncontrollably upon any potential target, including those important to her. The only way to stop her hunger-induced frenzy (aside from feeding her) is to physically pin her down until she calms down.

Outside her Demon Lord persona, Edel is, as described as Rivet, a "phenomenal scholar and a fierce monster" but also "absolutely clueless as a human being." She has a very polite and friendly demeanor but lacks proper etiquette and doesn't always realize that humans perceive things very differently from her until someone points it out; she finds the creatures she summons as genuinely cute and adorable pets, thinks C.O.s are common snacks, has poor table manners, and thinks her violent feeding frenzies are characteristically modest.

Edel is said to be generally fretful around human beings. However, she is very cordial around Regina MacCready primarily because she highly anticipated Regina would eventually become the next President of the Society. Edel truly cares for Regina's well-being and will become wrathful towards anyone who dares to harm her, even if Regina does not return her feelings.

## Gallery

* Cutscenes
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* Miscellaneous

Edel meets with Anna MacCready.A fragment of Gha'agsheblah imprisoned at the Prydwen Institution's LAKE-4 facility.Gha'agsheblah attacks Harab.Edel embraces Regina.

Edel Meitner - Devourer on the Beach | *Even you don't invite her, she'll always be near you, like your shadow. She doesn't care if you worship her or love her, so long as she can feed on your knowledge.*

Edel Meitner - Unspeakable Flapjack | *Shrinking her size to appear harmless has been proven effective on the Vice President. But would she show that side of herself to others as well? Oops, tentacles sprouted out of my fingertips as soon as I said that.*
*Why does Miss Regina refuse to become one with such adorable creatures.*

Profile*Old Fear* title screen.
## References

1. ↑ *Old Fear* Act 2–6 — Interlude #5
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 *Old Fear* Act 1–4 — Interlude #3.