Witches

*Note: This page contains a list of the witches from the book. For a list of all significant characters, including the witches, visit Characters. For a database of various witches that appeared in the story, Visit Witch Database.*

## Primary Information

### Title(s)

Devil (Current)Superior Being (Taquila Age)

## Professional & Social Status

### Affiliation(s)

Sleeping Spell
Witch Union
Taquila

**Witches** are a species derived from mortals found in the world of *Release that Witch*.

## Appearance

With the exception of greater physical beauty and faster body health regeneration, there are no major physical differences between normal people and witches. They can also have unnatural hair color, as seen in the picture to the right with Sylvie (top) and Shavi (middle).

## Background

Witches are mortal women who start to absorb magic power, and become a new species. Witches awaken their powers at a random moment in their lives, usually during puberty; if a woman doesn't awaken by the time they turn 18, they will never be a witch for their rest of their lifespan. Witches are sterile, perhaps due to the fact that they have magic power and cannot share it with mortals. Roland, however, believes it may be due to witches being an evolved form of humanity and thus have genetic difference that make their DNA incompatible for reproduction with old humanity.

According to Taquila's witch data given by Agatha in WN chapter 346, only 1 out of 100 women can become a witch, and then only 10% witches have the chance to exhibit "combat" powers, this includes Extraordinaries, which have an irregular rate of appearing. However, evolution may unlock combat powers for initially non-combat witches.

There are 3 important events for a witch:

1. **Day of Awakening:** Awakening of their ability.
2. **Day of Adulthood:** Improvement of their ability with a chance to gain a **Branch ability,** occurring at the age of 18.
3. **High Awakening / Evolution:** Improvement of the ability by obtaining a better understanding of their powers and possible use.

Witches can feel an **awakening call**. Magic power would gather inside a witch's body on the aforementioned **Day of Awakening**. During this process, a witch would not only be able to feel the weird changes inside her body, but also, for a majority of witches, they would be unable to restrain the strange magic power, causing them to use their newly-gained ability involuntarily.

For witches who awakened only near the end of adulthood, it was as if they never had a **Day of Adulthood**. Their magic powers were never able to develop and thus remained in the pre-adulthood form forever. Naturally, they didn't have the derivative skills and steady growth that were unique to adulthood. We don't know if such witches were able to have **High Awakenings**, but if they were unable to develop, the problems with their magic power would bug them for the rest of their lives.

The self-reinforcing witches are called **Extraordinaries**. These witches never suffer magic energy backlash as their bodies are always using magic energy. They are also immune to the effects of God stone of Retaliation, and can use them offensively. Evolved **Extraordinaries** are called **Transcendants**.

The **red mist** required for the Demons' respiration is fatal to witches.

## Abilities

A witches' body gathers magic energy starting from the day they awaken. This fuels their magic ability(ies). What kind of magic ability they have can't be determined beforehand, but upon awakening the witch mysteriously 'knows' what her ability is. Witches also get the following enhancements after awakening: slight self-healing, physical beauty, slower aging, in general live healthier, and the temperament is changed too.

Though it can vary, witches have greater resistance to getting drunk. Wendy and Scroll get drunk off one bottle, while Lightning has outdrunk numerous sailors before being legal drinking age.

## List of Witches

Notes: List of powers can be found in the Magic page. Click this for the detailed witch database.

### Witch Union (From Sleeping Island)

Shapeshifts into massive flying demonic beast (Dreadbeast)
 Evelyn | Chapter 255 | Creates wine
Creates chaos drinks
 Candle | Chapter 255 | Material state preservation touch (eg: protects machine tools from wear & tear, prevents ice from melting)

### Witch Union (From Kingdom of Dawn/Wolfheart)

 Amy | Chapter 650 | Body Health Regeneration
 Broken Sword | Chapter 671 | Shapeshifts into blade-like objects, amplifying another witch's ability up to 200%
 Hero | Chapter 671 | Disease Transfer

### Witch Union (Former Pure Witches)

 Vanilla | Chapter 625 | Scent Tracking
 Isabella | Chapter 310 | Manipulates God Punishment stones (eg: disable)

### Others

 Joan | Chapter 563, 954
 Kabala | Chapter 136 | Mind control
 Lorgar Burnflame | Chapter 763 | Wolf Transformation
 Sandra Sandrain

## Trivia

* Thanks to the combined efforts of Roland and Tilly, witches can live normally in the Kingdom of Graycastle. Additionally, it's possible they may now even be allowed to adopt children if they wish to raise families; this would be the only real road block if witches fall in love with someone, since they are infertile.
* Witches only have one power, but it can be evolved into more diverse uses. So they work similarly to Semblances in *RWBY.*
* Witches of the Witch Union have a tendency to call each other "sisters".
* It is shown that the Church has a book, containing details about the different kinds of witches and their powers.
* It was mentioned that a noble in King's City has a witch capable of changing temperatures; the name of the witch was never mentioned.
* Witches are known as divine ladies by mojin people. They are unique as no one hates or fears them in the Sand Nation.
* Witches being sterile is the Cradle's way to manage memory allocated to magic being distributed properly. Though this may change with Roland in control.
* Witches quickly recuperate their strength with some sleep, whether due to physical or magical exhaustion.
	+ Anna slept for a few days after expending all her magic, though her Day of Adulthood seemed to hasten her recovery.
	+ Nana was similarly exhausted from healing a lot of people, but only needed a nap.
	+ Innate powers like Sylvie and Nightingale's lie detection do not drain their magic.
	+ Anna was not any less active the morning after a passionate night with Roland.
		- It's implied other nobles have used witches in this manner, due to their fast recuperation ability.

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 692 (novel)
2. ↑ Chapter 466 (novel)
3. ↑ Chapter 976 (novel)
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Chapter 1277
5. ↑ Chapter 1065 (novel)
6. ↑ Chapter 147 (novel)