Jude Rosenkreuz

**Jude Rosenkreuz** or **Lord Rosenkreuz** is a transcendent of the Central Power. Different from his colleagues, he is a lord of a magic clan who ascended to the level of a transcendent rather than being a transcendent through an incident.

## Appearance

Before becoming a transcendent, Jude Rosenkreuz was a relatively tall middle-aged man with black eyes and slicked back blond hair and a matching, extremely trim mustache, and a rather firm, square jaw. The man's hair was kept extremely neat and trim, and he has a penchant for wearing rather expensive tailored suits.

After becoming a transcendent, he became younger with purple eyes. He wears green suits with black coat and a black hat. He also has a monacle with a cane. His appearance looks like a gentleman of Victorian era.

Jude before becoming a transcendent
## Personality

As the lord of the Rosenkreuz, Jude takes pride in his clan's magecraft of crafting the most beautiful creature. However, different from most aristocratic family, the Rosenkreuz is a poor household, Jude does not have much pride in his family's fortune. Jude is a workaholic who wishes to fulfill his family's long dream of crafting the perfect creature.

Though creating the Rosen Princesses, he cared for them no more than his other creations due to the fact that they are not perfect as he deems. Similar to all mages, Jude cares less about morality and more about magecraft. He immediately abandoned those he deemed as unnecessary, even if it is his adopted son.

When Jude joined the Central Power, he asked the Gentoshi heirs to join with him. It is unknown if it is his kindness or he has other motives.

## Background

The Rosenkreuz family has a close relationship with the Gentoshi family for generations. Jude usually went to the Gentoshi estate to meet Lord Gentoshi. When the Gentoshi heir denied the family's heritance, Jude sided with the heir.

Jude adopted Ibuki Rosenkreuz in order to continue the clan's bloodline. However, at some point, he became immortal and advanced to a transcendent, he abandoned his adopted son. Jude joined the Central Power and asked the Gentoshi heirs to join alongside him when they became transcendents.

## Abilities

As a transcendent of the Central Power, Jude is said to be strong enough to rival the magic side by himself. However, Jude stated that he is not a warrior.

### Magecraft

**Kabbalah (A+):** As the Lord of the Rosenkreuz, Jude is a great mage. His clan's system of magecraft is Kabbalah, a study of the creation of the world through God and the mortal coil. It is a system of magecraft to explain the creation of the universe. As a result of that, the final dream of those who practiced the subject is to create the perfect and most beautiful creature, creating something mortal but resemble God himself, creating Adam and Eve.

Jude successfully mimicked a part of the Garden of Eden to grant himself immortality and the power of a transcendent.

* **Sympathetic Magecraft:** It is an extension of Kabbalah. This magecraft is to theorize the creation of the planet not by logic but by sympathy. Why Adam ate the apple? Why demons came down to Earth? Sympathetic is not only about empathy but about how people see an event. The Rosen Princesses are prime example of this magecraft. Their beauty is a magical effect that is produced through this form of magecraft, projecting a "beauty" so perfect that it blotted out the consciousness of anyone nearby just by existing, with the goal of achieving a form that seemingly reflects the universe itself. Another effect of this magecraft though, in order to produce magical effect that caught other people's perception, member of the Rosenkreuz family has one of the five senses to be sealed in order to sharpen one's magecraft.

### Territory Creation

**Territory Creation (EX):** A mage Skill. It is the Skill to build a special terrain that is advantageous to oneself as a magus, such as for the purpose of collecting mana. A skill similar to creating a bounded field.

* **Garden of Eden:** The highest form of Kabbalah to form literal paradis on Earth. This hyper bounded field is on par with True Magic itself, transforming the entire planet. The only thing that the garden lacks though was Adam and Eve. This bounded field is more than enough to make Jude a transcendent.

### Item Construction

**Item Construction (A+):** A mage skill to manufacture magical items, from implements of war to items for daily use. Also, this Skill requires time to gather components and manufacture items. It is common for the Rosenkreuz to have high level of this skill to manufacture their creations. Jude's artistic products are said to be of highest level with extreme beauty. His toy horsecar with wooden horse can enlarge itself and ride on its own. However, they are said to be more for show and less for battle.

* **Cane Sword:** Despite his items are usually not for battle, Jude still has great skill in quickly transform his possessions into powerful weapons. His cane can become a cane sword, a spiritual item that rapidly unsheathing it from its scabbard and slashing, in the manner of iaijutsu. The blade's fast projectile slash can take varying paths with the speed greater than Kimhyun's Lightning Slash.