Ellroy Harwood (エルロイ・ハーウッド), also known as the Thousand Oathbreaker (千の破戒者) and the Savant Lawbreaker (犯罪の天才), is the Fourth Anguis of Ouroboros.[1]
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Introduction[]
The Fourth Anguis of Ouroboros, known as the Thousand Oathbreaker. He has a strange power that allows him to make anything rot away, even devils from the Abyss. Like Lucrezia the Golden Butterfly, he previously worked for the Order of the Moonlight Horse. When he surrendered, the Grandmaster appointed him to the position of Anguis. He is a expert at criminal endeavors and has studied and applied learnings from crimes around the continent and throughout history. While he normally acts according to his own desires, his current movements in the Republic seem to align with some plan of the society's.[2][3]
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.
Trivia[]
- His Japanese alias 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 Trails in the Sky the 3rd Evolution, Keisuke Baba, also voiced Carl Regnitz in Trails of Cold Steel I, II, III, and IV and Dogi in Ys Seven. His voice actor in Kuro also voices Giacomo Conte, a character who only appears and dies in the Prologue of the game.
- Harwood is frequently mentioned to be a quite despicable character, even described as "the worst" by the Enforcers he works with along with ex-Enforcer Renne. He however considers it a compliment and takes pride in it.
- Renne states at one point that Harwood seems to take pleasure in toeing the line the Grandmaster has set very closely.
- Bermotti considers Ellroy Harwood "his type".
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Sources
- ↑ Trails of Cold Steel III, Chapter 2: "Conflict in Crossbell".
- ↑ EN https://www.thelegendofheroes.com/daybreak/characters/harwood
- ↑ JP https://www.falcom.co.jp/kuro/character/harwood.html
