Kischur Zelretch Schweinorg

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**Kischur Zelretch Schweinorg** (キシュア・ゼルレッチ・シュバインオーグ, *Kishua Zerurecchi Shubain'ōgu*?) is a recurring character in the *Toaru Majutsu no Index* universe. He is the founder and leader of the Global Occult Coalition and is the **Wizard of the Second Magic** (第二魔法の魔法使い, *Dai Ni Mahō no Mahōtsukai*?). He holds the title of Wizard Marshal in the Mage's Association and is best known for defeating CRC in battle.

## Appearance

Zelretch is a tall man of advanced age with a stony-faced look and has swept-back dishevelled grey hair that matches his short beard. He also has blood red eyes with "stars of gold and silver dancing in them". Despite his old age, Zelretch is surprisingly well-built, and has excellent posture—the very stereotype of an esteemed military-man. Moreover, he is seen wearing elegant clothes sharing an overall black motif and a capelet.

## Personality

Kischur Zelretch Schweinorg is typically characterized as being a rather complicated and weird individual with a demeanor that can be called "old, but not out". He possesses a whimsical and passionate personality where he will become angered with those who commit irredeemable acts of evil and laughs at do-gooders. Despite this, Zelretch is a very authoritative and self-assured individual who is utterly dedicated to maintaining the balance of the Multiverse at any cost and has little respect for anyone who might try to threaten that same balance.

Extroverted, confident, and proactive, Zelretch is extremely wise and thoughtful sage, one who assesses the whole and imagines a bright future. Though he has an ominous aura that makes others distance themselves from him, he is a noble man of social justice and possesses good and honest morals. In spite of this, while he has them, that doesn’t mean he applies them to himself, and is a man of freedom who does what he wants.

He is surprisingly meddlesome in worldly affairs, and is known to be quite a troublesome figure who frequently sparks conflicts. In fact, he is both admired and disliked by the magic community due to his tendency to cripple his proteges. Zelretch has the same attitude as a grandpa who often laughs as he watches over the life of his mischievous grandchild. While he is an observer, he will still butt into arguments, and if he realizes things are about to spill over onto him, he will childishly hinder it with full force. However, Zelretch has shown to deeply care for the Multiverse and the various stories within it, saying he'll protect it till the very end of time itself.

## Background

Zelretch was a Magus of the Age of Gods who studied under King Solomon some time before Solomon's death in 900 BC. After Solomon died Zelretch witnessed the end of the Age of Gods with his own eyes and disappeared from the center stage.

At some point in time, Zelretch managed to reach the Swirl of the Root, a feat that earned numerous nicknames, including **Zelretch the Wizard Marshal** (魔道元帥ゼルレッチ, *Madō Gensui Zerurecchi*?), **Zelretch of the Jewels** (宝石のゼルレッチ, *Hōseki no Zerurecchi*?), **Old Man of the Jewels** (宝石翁, *Hōseki Okina*?), **Kaleidoscope** (万華鏡（カレイドスコープ）, *Mangekyō (Kareidosukōpu)*?), and the **Father of Jewel Magic** (宝石魔術の祖, *Hōseki Majutsu no So*?).

After the final decline of the Age of Gods at the start of the AD era, Zelretch met Tengen who helped him establish the Global Occult Coalition.

## Chronology

### Toaru Majutsu no Index

#### Toaru Majutsu no Index Light Novel Volume SS2

*Main article: Toaru Majutsu no Index Light Novel Volume SS2*

## Abilities

As the Wizard Marshal famed as being the pinnacle of magi and as one of the only people able to use True Magic, Kischur Zelretch Schweinorg is an extraordinarily powerful and gifted magician, capable of rivaling a Magic God in power alone. He is capable of drawing his magic from the Root to preform incredible feats. Zelretch is also has some degree of Immortality, on the level of beings like Fräulein Kreutune or Tengen.

Zelretch is primarily skilled in the usage of **Jewel Magic** (宝石魔術, *Hōseki Majutsu*?), the technique of storing Magical Energy into minerals, stabilizing them and using it for various applications in life and for supporting civilization. It is said that they are able to act as "prisons that stop flow", easily accumulating and storing the thoughts of their owner. He mianly uses them as disposable, single-shot spiritual items with the magical power that he has built up over the years. By releasing all the magical power of the jewel at once, it will produce the effect that is fine tuned for at maximum power, but all at the expenses of burning out the jewel to ashes.

### Second Magic

*Main article: Second Magic*
Zelretch's main magic is the Second Magic, also called **Kaleidoscope** (カレイドスコープ, *Kareidosukōpu*?) in honor of its discoverer and user. While the whole scope of the Second Magic's abilities has yet to be revealed, it mainly revolves around the "**Operation of Parallel Worlds**" (並行世界の運営, *Heikō Sekai no Un'ei*?), allowing him to observe and interact with Parallel Worlds. Having complete mastery of this thaumaturgy, Zelretch is able to use it in a variety of ways, such as traveling through alternate timelines, using them as a source of energy and even revising events or rewriting alternate realities. He is also capable of performing large-scale and complex spells capable of manipulating the timeline and insert an "unused" future in place of the current timeline.

#### Observation

Zelretch is able to see the eventual outcome of the Parallel Worlds that he observes, akin to perceiving every grain of sand in a sandstorm. However, due to his immense magical power, the mere fact of Zelretch observing a single possibility among many will instantly make that possibility the only true one. This causes him to choose the realities that he observes with extreme consideration, only intervening when it is absolutely necessary.

##### Observation Room

* The Observation Room
* Zelretch in his Observation Room with his book.
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Zelretch performs the observation of Parallel Worlds inside a spherical room, said to be a "completed world." It is jet black in appearance, dotted with points of light resembling stars. As he dictates the characteristics of an observed world, these points of light rapidly rotate with the turning of the pages of the book he utilizes. This room is hard to enter, Zelretch possessing a count of those with the ability, like Merlin or Aleister Crowley.

Within the center of the room floats a wooden chair upon which he sits, said to "imbue the space around it with a conspicuous gravity" simply through existing. The chair's appearance is described as "extravagant" with its wood possessing a "refined hue," but not repulsively ornamental like that owned by the elite. The very significance of the chair in the space is such that an unrefined person would be "consumed by the weight of the chair’s existence and hidden from surrounding view."

From the chair, he utilizes a hovering book that, while the size and thickness of a standard encyclopedia, flips through tens of thousands of pages in an instant at his beckoning. It inscribes and erases pages in real time, filled with information on different worlds and specifications, down to the individual characteristics of a person.

#### Traveling to Parallel Worlds

To travel between Parallel Worlds, Zelretch transfers himself to jewels in a different temporal axis. If he wanted to travel from "World A" to "World B", he would gather up enough gems in World B until there were enough to take his shape, and then transfer his soul into them, turning the jewel golem into Zelretch. At the same time, Zelretch's body back in World A will turn back into a pile of jewels. As long as he has enough materials he can travel to any world he wishes, but since he only has one soul, he can only be active in one world at a time.

He used to travel with his physical body, but after various circumstances he has found that this method is easier. In addition to this, as a small amount of time lag occurs whenever he travels to a different reality, Zelretch is also capable of preforming a tiny bit of time travel as well.

### Equipment

#### Jeweled Sword Zelretch

Zelretch's main weapon is known as the **Jewel Sword Kischur Zelretch Schweinorg** (宝石剣キシュア・ゼルレッチ・シュバインオーグ, *Hōseki-ken Kishua Zerurecchi Shubain'ōgu*?), more commonly referred to as **Jeweled Sword Zelretch** (宝石剣ゼルレッチ, *Hōseki-ken Zerurecchi*?), or the **Jewel Sword** (宝石剣, *Hōseki-ken*?), an extremely powerful spiritual item taking the form of a ritual dagger with a jeweled blade. It is decribed as alien technology embodying general knowledge from a far-flung future, beyond the reach of modern humanity. Zelretch carries the original, and only those of his lineage can use it in any form. It is the tool with which he pushed back the mirror image of the moon by utilizing it to create a virtually limitless Ether Cannon unleashed through a Magic Square, a special magic circle.

The sword is also capable of performing the Multi-Dimensional Refraction Phenomenon, allowing the user to draw in potentially infinite amounts of Magical Energy. The kaleidoscope-like jewel blade creates a small opening to the same area in another parallel world, though any further interference is impossible, and it draws in all of the magical energy from that space. Magical energy channeled into the blade can be fired off in a blinding stream of light. Also, as a jewel, the sword can also be detonated as a one-shot explosive.