Gogyou Stoicheion

**Gogyou Stoicheion** (五行ごぎょうストイキーエン, *Gogyō Sutoikīen*), whose real name is **Mordred Reid** (モルドレッド・リード), was one of the Eleven Executives of the Insurrection and their best puppeteer until his betrayal against the organization. Known as **Zarathustra** (五行達人ザラトゥストラ, *Master of Five Elements*), he was also the ruler of Orestes until he was defeated.

## Appearance

Gogyou is a young-looking boy with long grayish-white hair and a rare case of heterochromatic eyes, with his left being white with an vermilion red pupil and the right being black with an azure pupil. He also has shark-like teeth. Gogyou is also most seen to be dressed in a black hooded coat.

## Personality

Gogyou is a cruel and playful person, who enjoys the suffering of others like it was entertainment similar to movies, this is most seen as he forced Georg to abuse  Enalis' dead body watching as the latter cried and begged. He has shown to only care about his objectives, going against the orders of a group as mighty as the Insurrection. Gogyou is also very prideful of his own power, as he believed nothing could stop him.

However, in truth Gogyou is extremely cowardly by nature and when he finds himself in severe danger, he will start to run away or beg for mercy, as seen when he realized his Technique nothing cause of Fuyumi's Winter Maiden of the North. He also believes that everyone is making him the bad guy and enjoy trying to hurt him. In his final moment, he starts feeling regret and cries.

## Powers & Abilities

* **Puppets:** Gogyou is mentioned having one thousand, seven hundred and sixty-two wooden and mechanical dolls, puppets and marionettes, which he can control from anywhere.
	+ **Hiraga:** Hiraga was one of the puppets of Gogyou. He used it to become a part of the Iketsu Team and secretly enter the Three Great Families. It was destroyed by Fuyumi Tsukihime.
	+ **Deus Ex Machina** (機械仕掛けの神デウス・エクス・マキナ, *God of Machine*): One of Gogyou's dolls, and presumably his strongest one. It is gigantic automaton which wields a whip. It was later destroyed by Ieyasu Tokugawa.
	+ **Copy Puppets:** He has a number of puppets, which resemble the victims of the Camlann Massacre incident. One of these copies is Guinevere Pendragon in her childhood. All of them were destroyed by Guinevere.

**Immense Speed:** Gogyou has shown being quite fast, being able to dodge multiple slashes from Guinevere. He uses his strings and lightning to improve his maneuverability.

**Enhanced Endurance:**

### Five Elements

**Five Elements** (五行ごぎょう, *Gogyō*?): Gogyou's SS-rank Technique. It gives Gogyo the ability to control the five elements of the Wuxing/Gogyo.

* **A・W Phase** (青木の行あおきのぎょう, *Aoki no Gyō*?, lit. "Phase of QīngmùAzure Wood"):
* **V・F Phase** (朱火の行あけびのぎょう, *Akebi no Gyō*?, lit. "Phase of ZhūhuǒVermilion Fire"):
* **Y・E Phase** (黄土の行おうどのぎょう, *Ōdo no Gyō*?, lit. "Phase of HuángtǔYellow Earth"):
	+ **Y・E: Shatterdome** (黄土：粘土人の巣おうど：シャッタードーム, *HuángtǔYellow Earth: Golem's Nest*?)
* **W・M Phase** (白金の行しろがねのぎょう, *Shirogane no Gyō*?, lit. "Phase of BáijīnWhite Metal"):
	+ **W・M: Marionette** (白金：蜘蛛の傀儡しろがね：マリオネット, *BáijīnWhite Metal: Spider's Puppet*?)
		- **Grande Finale** (悲しい人の自殺グランデ・フィナーレ, *Sad Man's Suicide*?)
	+ **W・M: Spider's Web:**
* **B・W Phase** (玄水の行げんみずのぎょう, *Genmizu no Gyō*?, lit. "Phase of XuánshuǐBlack Water"):
	+ **B・W: Noah's Ark** (玄水：大地獄洪水げんみず：ノアスアーク, *XuánshuǐBlack Water: Great Hell Flood*?)
* **Unison Phases:**
	+ **Dead Reincarnation** (五行の統一, *Unification of WǔxíngFive Elements*)
	+ **V・M: Brûler la Sorcière** (朱金：魔女の燃焼しゅきん：ブレール・ラ・ソルシエール, *ZhūjīnVermilion Metal: Burning of the Witch*?)

## Trivia

* Gogyou (五行) means "Five Elements/Phases", and is a reference to the Wuxing, the Taoist five elements system.
	+ His birth name Mordred means "controlled, moderated", and is reference to the traitorous knight Sir Mordred, King Arthur's illegitimate son (in some versions nephew) from Arthurian Legend, who was slayed by Arthur's own hand.
	+ Reid is an surname of Scottish origin meaning "red".
* Gogyou has a base of operations located inside a ruin in the jungles of South-Asia, where keeps his vast collection of wooden and mechanical dolls, puppets, marionettes and automata.
* Gogyou is the first Aka Manah to die, then come back to life.