Sorcerer Kingdom Orphanage

## Orphanage

**Sorcerer Kingdom Orphanage** is the tentative term for a place built and controlled by various denizens of Nazarick to educate all kinds of children within the Sorcerer Kingdom.

## Background

Ainz Ooal Gown's objective to have an orphanage is for the sake of preventing information on the Great Tomb of Nazarick from leaking outside to the Sorcerer Kingdom and beyond its borders. More so, the goal for establishing this orphanage was to commence education nationwide through brainwashing children. Many of these includes the need for Nazarick to indoctrinate infant children living in the Sorcerer Kingdom especially the orphans without parents into following their rules and regulations. However, the Sorcerer Kingdom will still go out of their way in order to differentiate the knowledge being taught there between those regarded as close to them and those who are not. In other words, a selected group of people being chosen to be given a higher level of education as long as they were deemed trustworthy enough for Nazarick to accept. Ainz entrusted the founding and administration of such an orphanage to the leader of the Pleiades, Yuri Alpha.

## Chronology

### The Ruler of Conspiracy Arc

*Main article: The Ruler of Conspiracy Arc*
While taking into consideration Yuri Alpha's suggestion, the Sorcerer King immediately thought about the idea of founding an orphanage in the name of Ainz Ooal Gown. He plans to organize the orphanage in the city of E-Rantel. It was decided between Ainz and Albedo that they intend to make the Sorcerer Kingdom use widows for the orphanage staff. These widows include the women who lost their husbands in the Massacre at Katze Plains. It serves as financial aid of sorts for those women who are struggling below the poverty line. According to Albedo, such aid will only improve the popular opinion of the Sorcerer King. In order to accomplish this, Ainz orders Albedo to release both Pestonya Shortcake Wanko and Nigredo from their confinement and have them do some work for running the orphanage.

### The Pleiades Day Arc

*Main article: The Pleiades Day Arc*
Ainz approved Yuri Alpha's suggestion of building a new orphanage. Yuri made a promise with her master that she will do her very best to put all of the Sorcerer Kingdom's resources behind her. She was given permission by Ainz to request any help from other like-minded individuals who could help on the job. This, in turn, encourages Yuri to free Pestonya and Nigredo from confinement with approval from Ainz.

### The Witch of the Falling Kingdom Arc

*Main article: The Witch of the Falling Kingdom Arc*
While strolling the main streets of E-Rantel, Ainz thought about starting up a decent conversation with Narberal. He inquires Narberal's impression about Yuri's orphanage and whether she had already visited it. Despite the former's attempt to create a conversation with his subordinate, the latter responded back to her master, stating that she has yet to go to her sister's orphanage. Although the conversation about it was easily dismissed, Ainz informs Narberal that they will be visiting the orphanage. Because the full responsibility for the orphanage had been given to Yuri, not even Ainz knew of its current status. Although Ainz was given detailed reports regarding the orphanage, he had no way of recalling everything about it whatsoever. There have also been some scheduled reports on the finances of the orphanage. However, since Ainz delegated those responsibilities over to Albedo, it was said that he had only pretended to have read those reports.

Later it was revealed that toddlers that had been saved during the assault on the capital had been left in the hands of Nigredo to be look after and were placed under Pestonya's care once they were two years old and were probably transferred to the orphanage.

## Trivia

* While Ainz Ooal Gown had been living in E-Rantel as the adventurer Momon, he had heard there were several orphanages run by the temples.
* As a person who originally hailed from the World of 2138, there was a time where Suzuki Satoru used to be the sort of person who was not bothered by seeing the corpses of street orphans.
* Yuri Alpha is revealed to use books from Ashurbanipal to help her run the orphanage.
* The purpose of the Orphanage is to not only provide education and shelter of children in order to subtly brainwash them to be loyal to the Sorcerer Kingdom, but also a number of other purposes as well.
	+ By opening an orphanage, this gave the opportunity for those widowed during the Massacre at Katze Plains a job caring for the orphans and a way to support themselves.
	+ The orphanage itself is also used by Ainz and his subordinates to locate children with talent, and from there raise(brainwash) them into becoming loyal subordinates to help better run the rapidly expanding Sorcerer Kingdom.
	+ The orphanage itself also acts as a form of positive publicity for Ainz, as building such a facility showcases him as a compassionate and benevolent ruler and allow him to win the hearts of his new citizens.
* Later its revealed that the children that Pestonya and Nigredo rescued from death after the Demonic Disturbance would be transferred to the newly built orphanage.

## References

1. ↑ *Overlord Volume 10 Chapter 1: The Sorcerer Kingdom of Ainz Ooal Gown*
2. ↑ *Overlord Compilation Movie 01 Bonus: The Pleiades Day*
3. ↑ *Overlord Volume 14 Chapter 1: An Unexpected Move*
4. ↑ *Overlord Volume 14 Chapter 2: The Beginning of the End*
5. ↑ *Overlord Bonus Volume Chapter 2: Encounter in the Lost Country*
6. ↑ *Overlord: The Undead Oh! Chapter 70*
7. ↑ *Overlord: The Undead Oh! Chapter 71*