Lazlow Grimmwold

**Lazlow Grimmwold** is a freelancer who is renowned in the Moonlit World. In Quest of Fate, he takes the role of the Master of Archer in the Fuyuki Grail War of 2007. Later, he becomes one of the forty eight Chaldea Master Candidates and a member of A-Team in Lostbelt Raising Project. As the Master of Archer, he is one of the seven Crypters attempting to supplant the Greater History of Man. He is known as **The Strongest Master**.

He is an antagonist in Quest of Fate, the main character of Kaleido-Nope, and a supporting character in Lostbelt Raising Project.

## Profile

### Background

The Grimmwold are an ancient magus family dating back to the Age of Gods. They are one of the greatest cartomancers in history, perhaps even the first. Possessing a Noble Phantasm from the Age of Gods in their bloodline, they are super elites that could stand atop the world through heritage alone. Unlike most magi, though, they do not seek the root or any material power. They hid themselves away in a small, old village and never associated with other magi. They simply exist to pass on the teachings of the past, never improving and never changing.

Lazlow was born the successor of the family, but found the secluded lifestyle of the family dreadfully boring. Wanting to explore the outside world, he stole the family's Noble Phantasm and then ran away. Instead of joining the Association, he became a freelancer, offering his services here and there in hopes of finding a challenge.

### Appearance

A tall young man with auburn spiky hair. He typically wears a white suit over a red collared shirt, black vest, black tie and white pants. He sometimes also wears his old black wizard robe.

When he was a kid, he wore grossly outdated blue and black robes, leather gloves and a big oversized wizard’s hat.

Lazlow (Kid) in Quest of FateLazlow with his robes
### Personality

Despite being from an ancient magus lineage, he has no interest in such stuffy outdated matters; instead, his interests lie in the new, novel, and cool. In that sense, he is a child through and through - wise beyond his years yet childish at his core. Secretly immature, he is someone who can easily one day become a great hero or a terrifying villain depending on the circumstances.

## Abilities

A genius in all terms. Lazlow Grimmwold is a combat specialist magus that works as a freelancer. Despite his young age, his talent, experience, and lineage are at such a level that he can be considered one of the strongest humans in the current era. As a child, he was compared to the enforcer **Bazett Fraga McRemitz** in terms of power.

The Grimmwold Family are **Tradition Carriers** who possess the ability to pass down their rituals through their bloodline rather than teachings. As such, Lazlow is a **God's Holder** who has the right to use a Noble Phantasm from the Age of Gods. Even without that, though, he is a peerless super genius when it comes to magecraft. He is still considered The Strongest Master in Lostbelt Raising Project, despite losing his Noble Phantasm.

### The Deck

The use of cards in magecraft is a common practice worldwide. The symbols on cards can represent any type of idea or phenomenon, while the hidden side contains innate mystery suitable for magecraft. Such common facts need not even be mentioned, but where did the concept come from? Recorded history shows early playing cards being invented in the Chinese Tang Dynasty, but the concept itself dates back much longer, all the way to the Age of Gods. From a time that cannot be remembered, an era where magecraft was beyond modern comprehension, before tarot, ombre, or leaf games, there existed something that started the very idea of cards. That is the origin of all cards. That is The Deck. And that is the divine Sorcery Trait of the Grimmwold.

To clarify, The Deck is not a physical Noble Phantasm like Avalon, but a concept that has been passed on through the family’s blood. The Deck itself is their magecraft, and every spell they use draws from the power of The Deck. To put it simply, it is the very foundation of all card-based magecrafts accumulated into one Noble Phantasm, of which the Grimmwold wield supreme. Rather than a single special conceptual effect, like the Fragarach’s causality reversal, it is more of an amplifier-type that imbues any card spell with the might of the Age of Gods. Just as cards can be used to represent anything, any type of mystic phenomenon can theoretically be created with these cards. As Lazlow would put it, “my magecraft is whatever the hell I want it to be”. And as long as cards continue to be used to date, this concept shall not lose its mystical power.

During *Quest of Fate*, he uses an attack called **Stolen Sword of Illusion (Broken False Phantasm)**. It was a one-use attack on the level of legendary Anti-Fortress Noble Phantasms. Representing the ancient swords of myth, it is a full recreation of power from the Age of Gods, a Psuedo Broken Phantasm. There are no special effects or tricks, just overwhelming, inhuman power. With infinite potential variety at his fingertips, one might suppose Lazlow would design a more complicated ability, but in the end, swords and explosions are the most efficient way to kill.

After The Deck is conceptually destroyed in *Quest of Fate*, the concept of card magic is erased from the world and all magecrafts that use cards became inert.

## Development

Lazlow was originally created by Zikari8 to be the main character of *Kaleido-Nope*. When that Quest was cancelled, though, he was then introduced to *Quest of Fate* by Bird of Hermes. After his role in *Quest of Fate* ended, he was then re-adopted to the *Zikariverse* by Zikari8 for *Lostbelt Raising Project*.