Ellroy Harwood

Ellroy Harwood (エルロイ・ハーウッド), also known as the Thousand Oathbreaker (千の破戒者) (abbreviated to Oathbreaker (破戒)), is the Fourth Anguis of Ouroboros.

Appearance
Ellroy is a tall middle-aged man with medium length unkempt black hair, red eyes with snake-like slits and pronounced scars or burn marks across his face. He wears a loosely buttoned plum shirt over white trousers which features a golden diamond pattern down the leg and a chain hanging from his belt. He also wears a long, thick azure blue long coat with a hood. This coat appears to be made out a material resembling feathers or very thick fur.

Personality
Ellroy is a person who acts on his own whims. As his moniker suggests he is reputed to be quite treacherous, often breaking or going back on his various agreements. Yet at times he will also actually keep his word if only for the novelty of betraying his own title. He is also said to be a criminal mastermind, able to manipulate the underworld however he sees fit while leaving virtually no trace of his involvement.

Background
He was originally a member of the Order of the Moonlight Horse assassination organization. In S.1194, when Harwood would have been 33, the Order was destroyed by Ouroboros's most powerful agents. After fighting with Ouroboros, alongside fellow members of the now-destroyed Order, Lucrezia Isselee and Sharon Kreuger, Oathbreaker later joined them. He became the Fourth Anguis of the society.

He uses a mysterious power that can rot away even demons in purgatory. Having studied and practiced the evil deeds of all ages and places, he is a criminal specialist but it is said that a "certain plan" of Ouroboros is related to his movements within the Republic.

Harwood expresses his surprise over Georg Weissmann's death following the conclusion Gospel Plan and inquires after the assassin's name. He then criticises the Second Anguis for "not even [mourning Leonhardt's] loss for more than a second before setting [her] eyes on a new guy".

Information about Harwood before was limited. He was only known as (Thousand) Oathbreaker. He may have been active in Erebonia during. He took on the Septian Church in Arteria alongside Mariabell Crois to prevent their interference in the Empire by the time of.

Trivia

 * The alias Thousand Oathbreaker literally translates as 'one who has broken a thousand commandments'.
 * Harwood's dialogue lines are written in a distinctive style in Japanese. His vowels are lengthened playfully as "なァ" or "ねェ", a trait he shares with Lechter Arundel.
 * His voice actor in Evolution, Keisuke Baba, also voiced Carl Regnitz in  and Dogi in Ys Seven.
 * It's not known what is the cause of his ability to generate dark aura.
 * Ellroy Harwood might have willingly betrayed the Order for Ouroboros, as shown by his title and by the fact that Ouroboros' main tenet is that people have to join by their free will, and cannot be coerced to it.