Christian Rosenkreuz

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**Christian Rosenkreuz**, also called **Christian Red Cross**, is a 14th-century magician and the legendary founder of Rosicrucianism. He is an Ultimate-class Rating Game champion affiliated with the Iron Bank, of which he also works at as the managing director.

## Overview

**Christian Rosenkreuz** (also spelled **Rosenkreutz**, **Rosencreutz**, **Christiani Rosencreütz** and **Christian Rose Cross**) is the legendary, possibly allegorical, founder of the Rosicrucian Order (Order of the Rose Cross). He is presented in three manifestos that were published early in the 17th century. These were:

* **Fama Fraternitatis**. This manifesto introduced the founder, "Frater C.R.C."
* **Confessio Fraternitatis**.
* **The Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz**.

## Appearance

Christian appears as an attractive man in his 20s, with collar-length silver hair that is longer on the left side-bang, and lime-green eyes. During Rating Games, he wears an ornate suit of armor decorated with the signature blue roses of the Mammon Clan.

## Personality

Christian is bizarre and unpredictable, doing what he pleases without much thought or restraint. He tends to have a meaningful smile on him and behaves or speaks mysteriously, though those who know him would be able to tell that they don't actually hold any deep meaning. While he dislikes and is weak against obligation, he can work very earnestly if he focuses on it, although it is unknown what he thinks about during these moments.

He is often praised for his elegant mannerisms which is like an art form to which his body exudes a sense of dignity, giving him strong stateliness. However, depending on whoever he is talking to, his behavior may vary, from being more spoiled with Lorath, to attentive and level-headed with Mathers, to playful and lively with you children, or being elegant and calm with other champions during meetings.

He is very intelligent, being considered to be among the most intelligent of reincarnated devils such as Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers and Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, and is known for his mastery of over a thousand forms of magic, many of which he created himself by combining his own personal background as a Catharist and the magecraft he learned from his pilgrimage to the Holy Land.

With his intelligence and mysterious characteristics, he can play with his use of words which result in them sounding metaphoric or sometimes sarcastic. Because of that he can be quite secretive and difficult to read. According to Dulio, he is the type of person to prefer sitting himself down and sip on his tea elegantly while watching the interesting scenes of life unfold.

He is a good listener and a positive thinker, and despite his bizarre and unexpected upbringing, he is kind and caring and loves seeing people smile. He values the little things in life and says that every ordinary day that passes is important. He is thoughtful, considerate, and cares for the bonds of people he considers friends.

## History

### Early Life

Christian Rosenkreuz was born in 1378 as the youngest child of the Germelshausen, an aristocratic German family which flourished in the 13th-century. Not much is known about his family, other than the fact they embraced Catharism, which combined Gnostic and Christian beliefs, which ultimately led to their death sentence by Konrad von Marburg.

However, before he was captured alongside his parents, he was saved by a monk who secretly saved him and took him to Languedoc to be raised in a monastery. There, he was educated by the monks, who had already been influenced by Catharism, to become a "Good Catharist" for twelve years.

### Pilgrimage

When Christian was 16 years old, he left the monastery to the Holy Land to discover and learn more esoteric wisdom. among the Turkish, Arab, and Persian sages, as well as Sufi and Zoroastrian masters, all of which resulted in him learning magecraft and became proficient in the magic systems of multiple different religions.

### Rosenkreutzer

After his pilgrimage, Christian returned to Europe, wanting to spread the knowledge he had acquired to the scientists and philosophers of his time, but due to his backgrounds, he was unable to. Instead, he gathered a small circle of disciplines and founded the Rosicrucian Order sometimes around 1407.

During his time among the Rosicrucian Order, he taught his friends and disciplines all the magecraft he had learned from the magicians during his pilgrimage. At first, the order comprised no more than eight members, though as time went on, the group began to gain more followers by the years.

Later on, the order expanded and became an influential magician association in its own right, primarily due to its magical studies which were built on a combination of Christian's own Catharistic knowledge and the magecraft he learned from Sufi and Zoroastrian magicians. However, it wasn't until much later that the organization became popular within the mundane world.

### Revenge on Konrad

Years after the Rosenkreutzer was founded, during a trip back to Germany, Christian heard the news of Konrad von Marburg's infamous reputation and began to plot his revenge against the monk who sentenced his family to death. Through a series of manipulations, of which being the Count of Sayn, Henry III, who was planted evidences of "Satanic orgies" in a scandal to destroy Konrad's reputation, he successfully got him excommunicated from Mainz and return to Marburg.

On the trip back to Marburg, he ambushed Konrad's travelling group and killed his assistant, a Franciscan friar named Gerhard Lutzelkolb, with the company of several knights whose lives were destroyed because of Konrad's zealotry.

#### Germelshausen

After ambushing Konrad, Christian captured him and took him to his family's old castle in the Thuringian Forest on the border of Hesse. He then killed and sacrificed all the town's people in a Dark Magic ritual to turn the entire territory in a time loop where Konrad would have to experience all kinds of deaths and torment, both physical and psychological, for all eternity. To prevent the town to be discovered, he wove the Mist to hide it into the Earth, only making it reappear once every century so that the Mist can garner enough energy to re-activate it for another 100 years.

### Lorathi Magician

After his revenge, he returned to the Rosicrucian Order and led the order for three generations before stepping down in 1484, choosing a suitable heir for the position of chairman and faking his own death after living for 106 years. During his time in retirement, he met and fell in love with Lorath Mammon, the head of the Mammon Clan, and accepted his offer to become the [Bishop] of his peerage.

Afterward, using his own magical knowledge and experience, he quickly rose through the ranks and became an Ultimate-class devil through one Rating Game after another. Sometimes in the early 18th-century, he married Lorath. Sometimes in early 20XX, they adopted the human child Rudiger Edelstein whose Sacred Gear manifested right before his birth, thus slowly killing him as he grew up, in addition to preventing him from being reincarnated as a devil.

Due to his child's admiration toward Dulio Gesualdo, who once saved the entire orphanage he was in from a terrorist attack, Christian sent a letter to the Vatican asking if it was possible for his son, a sickly human child adopted by two male devils, to meet the exorcist he admired, though he didn't have hope for his request to be accepted. However, much to their family's surprise, Dulio did arrive and visit Rudiger frequently to cheer him up.

In Rudiger's funeral, he arrived and cried for his son, which earned him the respect from Christian and his husband. Afterward, the couple and Dulio keep in touch and often exchange letters to each other.

## Equipment

**Bishop Pieces** (僧侶の駒, *Sōryo no Koma*): Christian was reincarnated using two Bishop Pieces, which grant him an immense increase in his magical power as all of his pre-existed magical powers and skills were greatly enhanced. In addition, they also act as a pseudo-magical foci that allow him to wield the Mammon Clan's magic circle to cast his demonic magic.

## Trivia

* Due to personal reasons, he chose not to take on the official title of "Head-Consort".
* Most modern members of Rosenkreutzer believed him to be an allegorical figure.
* Historians and occultists believe him to be a pseudonym for a more famous historical figure, usually Francis Bacon, an English philosopher and statesman whose works are seen as developing the scientific method and remained influential through the scientific revolution.
* It's believed that he's the descendant of John the Apostle and Lazarus of Bethany.