Alfred Nobel/Quartzeemer

*"The one who is the most likely to win in a fight is not always the strongest one. It may be the smartest one."*

— **Alfred Nobel**, about to kill Taranis.

## Personal information

### Relatives

Immanuel Nobel - father
Karolina Ahlsell - mother
Ludvig Nobel - brother
Robert Nobel - brother
Emil Oskar Nobel - brother

## Ragnarok information

### Conclusion

Win

**Alfred Nobel** is a Swedish chemist, inventor and weapons maker. He created more than 350 inventions, including the dynamite, and earned a lot of money in his career. That allowed him to bequeath his fortune to the Nobel Prize institution.

He fought Taranis in the Round 10 of Ragnarok.

## Appearance

Nobel is a 42-year-old man with well-groomed brown hair, glazed blue eyes and a dense brown hair. He wears a white shirt and a red tie under a dark blue tuxedo, with light blue trousers and polished brown shoes. He also wears a huge overcoat, dark brown outside and light brown inside, with two big inner pouches full of small blue and green explosives.

## Personality

Nobel is a very serious and focused man, who has never been seen smiling. His penetrating gaze describes well his intelligent, analytical and strategic mind. He is also shown to be very cautious and wise, as he always thinks before he acts. However, he doesn't seem to have much feelings: Taranis has noticed that Nobel has never been scared or fearful at any moment of their fight. Even when Nobel killed Taranis, his face didn't show any emotion at all, neither pride nor joy nor sadness nor exhaustion; he even looked a bit jaded.

## Abilities

* **High sturdiness:** Nobel has been able to survive many times to Taranis's lightning attacks, and even to survive one time to his Lightning Claw, which should be able to make an instant kill of anyone.
* **Volund:** Nobel's Volund is his coat. We learn that towards the middle of his fight. The coat is really resistive and can hugely damp impacts. But its main power is about its two big inner pouches: everything that has stayed in it for a few minutes can become a weapon capable to harm a god.
	+ **Explosives:** as the inventor of dynamite, Nobel has put many small blue and green oval-shaped explosives in his pockets. They all have a diameter of 2 cm, but they are all powerful enough to make Taranis lose his balance and split blood, significantly because of the overcoat's power. It looks like they don't explode if Nobel is too close to be safe from the explosion.
		- **Throws of explosives:** the explosives can be thrown at a rather high cadence, and explode their targets.
		- **"Minefield":** Nobel quickly inters some explosives in the ground, in an area of ten square meters. And when someone steps on that area, all the explosives detonate at once under his feet. After he was hit only one time by a minefield, the supreme Celtic god Taranis could not use his legs to walk and run anymore, and had to levitate for the rest of the fight.
		- **"Giant Minefield":** at some point of the fight, Nobel had interred explosives in a huge area of a thousand square meters. His opponent could only stay in levitation, or he would get exploded wherever he would land.
			* **"The Pillars of Fire":** the explosives of the Giant Minefield change their way to explode, and fuse into groupe to release quick columns of explosions, that rise into the sky like mushroom clouds. Because of that, even when he was levitating above the ground, Taranis could get harmed several times.
		- **Mantle of explosives:** Nobel waits for the opponent to be close to him, then he quickly wraps up the opponent in his coat and make all the remaining explosives in the pouches explode at once. That surprise attack has been able to destroy a powerful god.
	+ **Guns:** at the bottom of his inner pouches, Nobel has not only explosives, but also two guns, which are consequently also able to harm the gods. Unveiling them near the end of Round 10 could reverse the situation and change the outcome of the fight.

## Plot

See Alfred Nobel vs Taranis for complete informations.

## Note from Quartzeemer

Yeah, for all the other humans from my roster, you can easily imagine them fight, as they were real fighters. When I noticed that, I knew I also had to put someone who isn't really a fighter, like Michel Nostradamus and Nikola Tesla from the original manga. So I wanted to take an inventor, but someone who made offensive inventions. I think Alfred Nobel was a pretty good choice: did you know that in Greek, "power" translates as "dynamite"? I shouldn't need to tell you that, but it's going to make a loud BOOM!