Gloria

Gloria (グローリエ Guroorie) is the Viscountess of Dahldolf, and is Shikikoza's mother, a knight who was executed for attacking Myne.

Gloria planned to eliminate her husbands other son from his previous first wife and install her own as the successor. But to her dismay Shikikoza was born with a mana capacity far below what was expected of a mednoble, leaving only the choices of marrying him off into a laynoble family or sending him to the temple. Because she was on good terms with the High Bishop at the time she chose the latter, where her relation with Bezewanst secured her son preferential treatment among the Blue Priests.

After the purge following the civil war and subsequent mana shortage, she was able to convince her husband to recall Shikikoza to the family and once again grant him the status of a mednoble, in spite of how small his mana capacity was and promptly resumed her plans to have him become the successor. Though before her plans could come to fruition, Shikikoza was chosen to take part in the fateful trombe extermination mission that saw him commit a crime so serious it carried the death sentence.

Despite her best efforts and calling in every favour she could, Gloria was unable to overturn her son's death sentence, only managing to have the official announcement altered to Shikikoza having bravely died in the line of duty, rather than officially announcing to anyone that he was executed as a criminal. Part of the agreement was the promise to never again approach Myne.

She holds Myne and Ferdinand personally responsible for her son's death. Like her son, she believes that nothing a noble does to a commoner can ever be considered a crime due to their difference in station, while tacitly ignoring the fact that Shikikoza was executed for not just disobeying direct orders by two archnobles, but doing the direct opposite. As a consequence she considers her son's death to be a travesty and entirely unjust.

While her promise prevents her from interfering with Myne directly, she takes great pleasure in constantly besmirching Myne's and Ferdinand's reputations to anyone who's willing to listen and supporting anyone who plans to make a move against either.

After Shikikoza's execution, she has continuously tried to get revenge on Myne for causing her son's death. She is limited in acting because she was forced to sign a contract that prevents her from approaching Myne. Although she signed the contract to stop interfering with Myne (Rozemyne) she still schemes behind the scene with anyone who will listen about Myne.

It was Gloria who told Georgine that Rozemyne used to be a commoner, while making sure to paint the girl as the main reason for Bezewanst's demise.

Among other things Gloria was involved in the scheming to bring Georgine back to Ehrenfest, which indirectly led to the abduciton attempt that saw Rozemyne nearly die from poison and which resulted in her two year sleep in the jureve.


 * She doesn't buy Sylvester's cover story of Rozemyne having been a noble disguised as a commoner and believes that she is in fact a commoner, just like Bezewanst told her.