Anna Sprengel

* Child
* Adult

Join the Bridge Builders Cabal so that she can meet other powerful magicians like her (both succeeded).
Find someone who can fulfill her desires and grant her anything she wishes.
Gain more power and anything that she wants.
Obtain and subjugate the One who Purifies God and Slays Demons to relive her heyday through its power.
Ruin Touma Kamijou's life by making him embrace his inner turmoil.
Defeat Anna Kingsford.
Kill Touma Kamijou for disappointing her  (all failed).

### Crimes

Serial murder
Vandalism
Smuggling
Coercion
Malefic
Torture
Organized crime
Child poisoning
Assault and battery
Indirect mass murder
Disturbing the peace
Abuse of power
Brainwashing
Conspiracy
Terrorism
Embezzlement
Racketeering
Physical and psychological abuse
Incitement to riot
Multiple acts of criminal mischief
Cruel and unusual punishments
Public endangerment
Child abuse
Mass property damage
Blackmail
Sabotage
Fraud
Arson
Kidnapping
Corruption
Treason
Forced imprisonment
Attempted global hegemony

### Type of Villian

Extravagant Mastermind

**Anna Sprengel** is one of the main antagonists of the *A Certain Magical Index* franchise.

She serves as a mentoned character in *A Certain Magical Index: Old Testament*, the final antagonist of *A Certain Magical Index: New Testament* and one of the main antagonists of *A Certain Magical Index: Genesis Testament*, serving as the main antagonist of the R&C Occultics Saga, particularly as the overarching antagonist of the Christmas Eve, Operation Handcuffs and Los Angeles Arcs, the main antagonist of the Christmas Day Arc, and as a major antagonist of the Transcendent Saga, specifically as the overarching antagonist of both the Post-Handcuffs Arc and the New Year's Eve Arc, and as one of the two secondary antagonists (alongside Aleister Crowley) of the New Year's Arc.

A very powerful and influential magician of the Rosicrucian Order, Anna has kept the foundation alive for one of the longest timeframes, being the master of its Number 1 temple residing in Germany. She is also the founder of R&C Occultics and is said to have played apart in the foundation of Golden Dawn, having access to the Secret Chiefs and the Sephiroth tree. She is also one of Touma Kamijou's archenemies.

## Appearance

Anna Sprengel has the physical appearance of a ten-year old girl, about 30-40% shorter than Madame Horos when she was possessing Anna's body and with a flat chest. She has purple eyes and long reddish-blonde hair which reaches her ankles, rolled into large ringlet curls and squished flat at the ends into several fried shrimp shapes, with rose decorations throughout. Anna is also capable of assuming an adult form like the one that Madame Horos had used.

After being restored to her body, Anna wore the gaudy red dress which Madame Horos had been wearing while using her body (the fabric and design of which Anna did not like), which was now too big for her and had to be held to avoid it falling off. She was also barefooted, having discarded the shoes as they were now the wrong size for her.

## Personality

Egotistical to a fault, Anna Sprengel sees herself as the end all of intelligence and power. She is a cruel, arrogant, ruthless, self-centred, and utterly megalomaniacal individual, who looks down on most other people and things in the world, and is focused on pursuing her own goals and interests, with no regard for whoever or whatever is harmed in the process. While not entirely obsessed with herself, she sees all other entities as lower forms of life, useful only as pawns in her schemes for conquest, although she has stated upon her return to power that she cannot beat Choronzon or Aleister Crowley.

Given her immense power and her ability to predict outcomes with near certainty, Anna is often bored and finds enjoyment in things which defy her predictions. While various things can catch her interest, they usually don't hold it for very long and when she loses interest, she moves on. If something actually disappoints her, she is likely to destroy it before moving on.

Most of the time, Anna is casual and uncaring, having a very polite and knowledgeable manner about her and rarely showing any signs of alarm. She often tries to make small talk with her enemies so as to anger them. Because of her sheer power and genius intellect, she is confident in herself and is capable of executing her plans successfully. Combined with a total lack of care for any of her minions, this makes working for Anna very unappealing, and only her immense power holds the loyalty of those who serve her. Anna also thinks of herself as practically infallible, and always refuses to believe that she can be defeated even when the odds are clearly against her. However, the only time Anna has shown true fear is when she was confronted by a reanimated Anna Kingsford, knowing full well that she would be defeated.

She is a callous and toxic but charismatic manipulator who ingratiates herself to the populace and has no compunction about manipulating or harming others for the sake of her own goals, often setting things up so that her pawns end up destroying themselves. Anna is deceptive and selfish in her desires, to the degree she is willing to manipulate people and let them die in her service, while justifying this as a necessary sacrifice for the "greater good". Due to her ambitions, Anna is apathetic to the lives of others but her own, which was most notable when she remarked that her only hope toward Touma and Aleister was that they would last long enough to distract Choronzon for her to gain control over Aiwass.

From past experiences, with cabals and magicians not truly understanding the meaning of her words and distorting them to suit themselves, Anna believes that no one could understand her and is angered at people thinking that they can. She also believes that exchanges of words only distort the truth and spread corrupted information. She hates being interrupted in the middle of an explanation, in at least one case going on a rant and taking out her anger on a nearby object.

Anna has been described as clinging to success and victory more than anyone, regardless of what she says, to the point that she cannot maintain herself without them.

## Background

In the past, Anna supposedly helped in the foundation of the Golden Dawn. She was said to have functioned as a point of contact for the Secret Chiefs, much like Aleister Crowley would act as a point of contact for Aiwass, described by him as one of the theories concerning the Secret Chief. However, to most of the world it wasn't certain whether she actually existed or whether her existence was fabricated. In truth, Anna Sprengel was indeed a member of the Rosicrucian Order, master of its No.1 temple in Germany and a priestess who could call on the power of the Secret Chiefs.

A letter which William Wynn Westcott supposed received from her was actually forged by him in order to give prestige to the cabal he helped found. Wanting to claim that the cabal was the continuation of an ancient Rosicrucian line, he faked a letter sent to the German cabal (whom he claimed to have two temples) as well as a response from Anna Sprengel authorizing the creation of a British branch (hence the Isis-Urania Temple being called #3), an exchange known as the **Sprengel Letters**. While he faked the letters, Westcott did actually know Anna Sprengel in some form and was acting as a *cloud*. Anna Sprengel apparently allowed for her name to be used in the formation of the Golden Dawn on a whim, breaking one of the rules of the Rosicrucian Order in the process.

At one time, Anna tried out the iron maiden in Nuremberg but was disappointed. Another time, she consumed a sample of that time's St. Germain, which apparently left a bit more of a tingle on the tongue than the present-day one.

At some point in the late 19th century, Anna Sprengel's body was stolen by the fraud Madame Horos under unknown circumstances. Having been summoned by Anna, Aiwass was to hunt down the fraud and return Anna to her body. While the Golden Dawn was still active, Madame Horos approached Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers posing as Anna Sprengel and made off with crucial cabal documents after deceiving him, bringing a disaster to the cabal and earning Mathers' hatred.

## Abilities

A magical expert of the Rosicrucian Order and master of its No. 1 temple in Germany, Anna Sprengel is an immensely powerful and knowledgeable magician, possessing an extremely high level of mastery over magic. While not being a Secret Chief herself, Anna is a priestess who can freely contact and summon these transcendent beings, including Aiwass, as well as channel their power. With this, she can utilize unbelievable power beyond worldly comprehension which grants her great strength and control over numerous godlike abilities. As a Transcendent of the Bridge Builders Cabal, Anna is said to be powerful enough to rival the regular magic side on her own.

According to Aleister Crowley when he confronted Fiamma at the end of World War III, as a contact point for the Secret Chiefs, Anna was said to have been the same kind of higher existence that he had become at that point (described as existing in a different dimension, transcends duality and all binary oppositions, beyond just being expressible as 0 or 1, and being able to exist in multiple locations at the same time). Aiwass has referred to Anna as a genius who can rearrange atoms in front of her like it was normal and someone who can see an end result from the beginning like it was normal. Using her ability to control matter, Anna could forcibly fuse a man with a tree, turn a woman into stone and accomplish other strange feats. After actually encountering her, Aleister referred to her in a message to Tsuchimikado Motoharu as someone who had crossed the Ungrund (or the Abyss).

At her full strength, Anna is apparently powerful enough to destroy Aiwass in his non-incarnated state in a single blow. After being weakened due to Madame Horos squandering much of that power, an arm stab to the gut from her was only able to bring Aiwass to his knees. She can jump on a spiked chair or into an iron maiden without scratching her skin and with only a mild feeling, and consume a sample of the potent St. Germain virus without any ill effects. A drop of her blood can apparently produce unknown miracles. In addition to her wealth of knowledge, Anna also has a high degree of foresight, having known the situation which would befall Lilith many years in advance, and while her predictions are not absolute, the end results of events don't often betray her expectations.

She has magical powers which transcends the rules under which they operate, making her the exceptions to those rules and beyond them all together and granting her total dominion over the cause and effects to the rules of magic by her source. Her magic can be used to further enhance or augment her physical diagram, like her speed, strength, and stamina, but only temporarily. This was best demostrated when she lifted a freight train, which on average should weigh 9.98 x 106 kg. Anna can fire scorching beams of heat that can incinerate a person or object almost instantly. She can also grab the air itself to manipulate it. That way she can for instance create whirlwinds to attack. Moreover, Anna can manipulate the air pressure and use that to prevent flight via wings. She is also capable of generating "sound beyond the very fabric of sound itself" in the form of waves of overwhelming energy which can make the likes of Accelerator reel in pain. By going through and whispering things to a crowd, Anna was able to grant random people supernatural abilities by manipulating the desires within their hearts and is even able activate latent powers in people that they weren't aware they had before.

As per the rules of the Rosicrucian Order, Anna is skilled at blending in with her surroundings, able to slip into the damaged Tower of London unnoticed by the many people viewing the damaged exterior through digital devices and the Anglican jailers careful to set up various measures to conceal the interior. Together with Aiwass, Anna has also made use of an invisibility spell based on the symbol of the black egg.

While in the Tower of London, she used a technique derived from the legend of the miniature garden which Christian Rosenkreuz supposedly used to view the world, in order to view the current scene inside Windsor Castle. She made use of a jump rope, with silver paper and plastic film from chocolate boxes attached at set intervals and blue lighting provided by Aiwass. While she was swinging and jumping over the rope, the light was reflected off the pieces attached to it, forming an egg-shaped display area around her. A bluish-white image of Windsor Castle was visible from inside this area (but not from the outside), with people being shown in yellow. She also has knowledge of methods connected to Rosenkreuz's seven-walled tomb and considered using them to restore her lost power.

Anna is capable of creating magical landmines through distortions in the ley lines. Utilizing the Sephiroth's correspondence to the human body, she can focus on the channels between the spheres to make her physical blows obstruct the unseen circulation and flow of power through an opponent's body.

Against a reanimated Anna Kingsford, Anna Sprengel's thwarted attempt to kill her involved a spell contained in a glass anti-personnel mine with a glass vial of chemicals in place of a regular fuse. When stepped on or hitting the floor, the vial breaking would cause the chemicals to mix and detonate. For Anna's spell, in the mine, controlling its own microcosm, the aspect of 'summer growth' would be extracted from the four-step cycle and used to stop up the regular cycle of life and death (the boundary of which her target had crossed) to create an environment of endless growth, which would then by linked to the eighth operation, separation. The intended result was a deadly, expanding space which would separate every joint and organ from the victim's body. However, Anna Kingsford suspended the explosive in mid-air and never let it hit the floor.