Lantis

Lantis appears on the battlefield a little later, after the death of his twin brother Zagato.

## Appearance

Lantis is a tall, well-built, and handsome man with short black hair and blue eyes. Hikaru and others have noted Lantis's resemblance to his older brother Zagato to the point that in the anime's second season, Alcyone even mistakes him for Zagato.

Lantis wears black wrought armor with a wide light blue mantle hanging loose from the shoulders for his whole length. Two black pieces of cloth, pinned under a white belt, frame both his waist sides until the ankles. His undergarments are a simple pair of black pants and a high-collared, long-sleeved shirt of the same color. He also wears a light golden ring around his head, and pale blue jewels are set in decorative patterns all along the shoulders and chest of his armor. He also has matching protectors for both his lower legs and arms.

## Personality

Lantis is a serious, stoic, and charming man. He is a person of few words, but he is highly idealistic. He is a very powerful mage, even though he is humble about it. In the manga, Mokona describes Lantis as having "the strongest heart of all the people of Cephiro."

Initially, Lantis was regarded with a mixture of suspicion and fear, particularly from Lafarga, due to his reclusive nature and the timing of his return, but it was eventually revealed that he had a heart of gold: he helps to protect the innocent citizens of Cephiro, demonstrates a genuine love of nature and innocent young children, and even forgives Hikaru and the other Knights for Zagato's death.

The reason for his return was also unveiled: he wished to destroy the Pillar System in order to prevent the tragedy and pain that engulfed Zagato and Princess Emeraude from happening again. Ultimately, not only was his goal met, albeit not by himself, but he also came to bond with Hikaru, the one who had accomplished this goal.

## Story

Very little was revealed about Lantis's childhood and early years prior to the series. All that was made known was that he studied magic along with Zagato under Master Mage Clef, and that his mother's deathbed gift to him was a mirror pendant that possessed strong magical powers, hinting that she might have been a magician herself. It is also possible that Lantis and Zagato were of noble or royal blood, given that they were able to receive a prestigious magical education from the supreme sorcerer of Cephiro.

When Lantis grew to manhood, he was the best swordsman in Cephiro, as well as an exceptionally powerful and accomplished magician capable of effortlessly casting spells of the highest order, very much like Zagato and Clef, the latter of whom even once commented that Lantis could effectively rival his older brother in terms of magical strength and skill. Lantis in fact came to be the only one in Cephiro worthy of gaining the title of *Kailu* (Magic Swordsman) and was appointed to be the personal bodyguard of Princess Emeraude, testaments to his formidable skills as a warrior and magician.

Through his older brother's own heartfelt confession, Lantis came to be one of the only two (the other being Clef) to learn that Zagato and Emeraude had fallen in love with each other. Presumably having foreseen that this was a love doomed from the start, Lantis left Cephiro altogether, not wanting to witness the inevitable tragic end of two people he had come to care for deeply.

Having learned about the sources of evil, namely the Dark King, he was also ready to help new allies.