Archbishop Orwell

Orwell is a member of the Faust and the archbishop of the Church. As a clergy member, she dedicated years of service to others and worked alongside the executioner Flare.

Appearance
Orwell has long gray hair, translucent gray eyes, and pale skin. Dressed in clerical clothing as the archbishop, she wears white robes with yellow bands and a headdress.

Background
Orwell likely served as a clerical member once she came of age, and was already an elder when she met Menou as a child after the Lost One destroyed her hometown. Flare suspected Orwell of corruption, but was unable to expose or confront Orwell after she became archbishop.

Present Day
After Menou reported her failed assassination attempt of Akari Tokito due to her Pure Concept of Time (the power of manipulating time), Orwell instructs Menou to bring Akari to the capital Garm where a special ceremonial hall is designated for destroying Lost Ones similar to Akari.

Orwell warmly greets Menou and Akari upon their arrival and clarifies that the Church will cover the funds for their trip. She further requests Menou to investigate the disappearance of multiple young women in Garm while waiting for the preparations to finalize in the next two days.

On the day of the ritual, Menou accompanies Akari through the cathedral while Momo discovers an underground passageway nearby the Noblesse castle. She unwittingly encounters Princess Ashuna, and discover that the chamber is designed for a summoning ritual containing magecraft, the signature work of the Faust. Realizing the Church is corrupt, Ashuna shatters the Faust's communication barrier to allow Momo to warn Menou of the Church's betrayal.

Orwell senses the barrier's change and reveals to Menou that the investigation was intended to separate her from Momo. Wielding three primary gems, she easily wards off Menou's attacks, incinerating her scripture and forcing her to fall underground. Menou discovers dozens of corpses drained of blood for Orwell's magecraft, who are recognized to be the missing young women Orwell asked her to investigate. Menou further realizes that the summoning of the Lost Ones in the royal capital was a ploy by Orwell, who divulges that she felt entitled to restore her youth after years of helping others.

Menou fights Orwell and a Red Automa Angel, while Momo and Ashuna confront a Red Automa Dragon in the Faust's and Noblesse's underground chamber. In the ceremonial hall, Akari regresses time and retrieves her memories, revealing that she has already encountered this situation from previous regressions. She eliminates Orwell's clergy members before erasing her own memories again. She finds Menou locked in a struggle against Orwell, who is nearly defeated with a series of diversions. However, Menou's attacks are halted by an automatic magecraft system that protects the archbishop. As a last resort, Menou connects with Akari to access her ether and Pure Concept, and kill Orwell by accelerating her age beyond repair.

Personality
Orwell's gentle and kind persona as the archbishop concealed her conniving and ruthless intentions in being willing to sacrifice human lives to restore her youth.

Abilities
Orwell is a powerful mage tempered with years of experience, in addition to being a powerful and trusted figure in the clergy.

Quotes
"The older you get, you inevitably become more underhanded and learn to manipulate the young..." - Orwell to Menou

"When you help too many people, you come to loathe their pleas for help... you see, my lower back has been aching something terribly lately. I can hardly get up in the morning. Now at this age I've finally realized something. I'm no holy woman. I'm just an ordinary person who had the time and energy to help others. But who can blame me? I've helped so many. Can't I get a little something in return?" - Orwell explaining her reasoning behind using Akari's Pure Concept of Time

Trivia

 * Orwell is the surname of the author George Orwell, who famously wrote the dystopian book 1984,
 * the term "orwell" describes an attribute, idea, condition, or system that is intended to "benefit" society, but unavoidably impedes and harms the people. This highlights Orwell's true nature of using falsehoods to secure her position while exploiting others to achieve her goal of eternal youth. This also implies that she is the product of a society that has exploited her prior to her committing unethical acts.