Anime Character Design
Aura
(Aura)
Aura(Japanese:アウラ) is aKanehito YamadaOriginal Story,Tsukasa AbeIllustrated manga "Frieren: Beyond Journey's End" and its derivative works.
Introduction
One of the "Seven Sages of Destruction" directly under the Demon King, a demon nicknamed "Aura the Guillotine."
Mana is a symbol of status and position for demons. Therefore, Aura was extremely dedicated to training her mana, never stopping for 500 years, and thus possesses an incredibly vast amount of mana.
She is cruel, arrogant, and supercilious. She possesses the magical item "Scales of Obedience," which allows her to cast Obedience Magic to make those with less mana than her obey until their bodies rot. To prevent the controlled individuals from resisting with their willpower, Aura would [behead] those she controlleddecapitated, which is also the origin of her title "the Guillotine."
She is one of the few whoHimmelfought against the Hero Party and managed to survive as one of the demons.
Her name originates from German, meaning "aura."
History
She became one of the Seven Sages of Destruction 500 years ago, beheading all humans controlled by her Obedience Magic and using them as her own army.
While the Hero Party was on their way to defeat the Demon King, Aura led her army to battle Himmel and his companions but was defeated. Her troops were crushed, and Aura herself fled. Because Frieren used wide-range destructive magic to blast the human soldiers controlled by Aura during the battle, she was later lectured by Himmel.
She wanted to kill the Hero Party but was defeated instead. Realizing she had underestimated her enemy and that the one she should have truly focused on was not Himmel but Frieren, she had already been defeated. Abandoning her immortal army and fleeing alone, Aura went into hiding to recover her strength. It wasn't until after Himmel's death that Aura gradually restored her mana and made a comeback, assembling a puppet army even larger than before. Coveting the territories of the Northern Kingdoms, she repeatedly led her troops to invade Count Granat's domain, where the Count's son died heroically in battle against her.
28 years after Himmel's death, Aura feigned weariness of war and dispatched the Executioners under her commandLugner、LinieandDrahtto enter Count Granat's territory for "peace talks," which were actually a ploy to threaten the Count into disabling the magical barrier created by the great mage Flamme that protected the domain. At this time, it happened that Frieren,FernandStarkand the new Hero Party she formed also entered the territory. The three Executioners were killed one by one by Frieren's group, and Frieren herself appeared alone before Aura and her puppet army.
Aura believed that Frieren's mana was far inferior to her own and that without the protection of the Hero Party, she was no match for her. However, to be safe, she first controlled her puppet soldiers to fight Frieren. Out of respect for the controlled human soldiers, Frieren used a more mana-intensive purification magic to dispel the Obedience Magic controlling them. After wearing Frieren down, Aura was convinced that Frieren's mana had dropped below her own level, so she cast her Obedience Magic on her. Confidently holding a sword, she intended to behead Frieren, but this was exactly what Frieren had planned—under Flamme's tutelage, Frieren had learned to perfectly conceal her massive mana, causing many opponents, including Aura, to misjudge the gap in their power. While Aura had indeed accumulated a vast amount of mana over 500 years of training, Frieren's true power was the colossal amount of mana from 1,000 years of training, far exceeding Aura's.
Because Frieren's mana exceeded her own, Aura was ultimately backfired upon by her own Obedience Magic and became subject to Frieren's will. Under Frieren's command, Aura committed suicide by slitting her throat with a sword amidst intense resentment, and the human soldiers controlled by the Obedience Magic were finally set free.
Afterwards, Frieren prayed on the battlefield for all the human soldiers who had died because of Aura.
Magic
Obedience Magic（ ）：
Magic activated via the Scales of Obedience allows one to place their own soul and their opponent's soul upon the scales. The scales tilt toward the side with higher mana, and the side with weaker mana becomes subservient to the side with stronger mana, with control over the body completely held by the victor until the body rots away. Due to Aura's extremely vast mana capacity, she has almost never lost to any human warrior in a contest of mana reserves, allowing her to amass a staggering army of puppets.
Humans with sufficiently strong willpower can temporarily resist the control of Auserlese through mental strength. Therefore, after controlling humans, Aura decapitates them to strip them of all thought, turning their bodies entirely into puppets.
The weakness of this magic is quite obvious: although Aura holds the Scales of Obedience, if her mana capacity is lower than her opponent's, the scales will not show favoritism and will make Aura herself a puppet subservient to her opponent.
Trivia
- In the anime version, a flashback segment of Himmel's party's adventure was added, including a scene where Aura fights Himmel and is wounded by his sword. From the visuals, it seems Aura was defeated by Himmel, who interrupted her spellcasting before she could use Auserlese.Actually, according to the original novel content, it was Frieren who knocked away the scales, and by the time Aura realized that the one she truly needed to watch out for was Frieren rather than Himmel, it was already too late.
- During the final battle with Frieren, Aura's expression changed from confidence to shock as the situation shifted, and finally to tears of regret when she was forced to commit suicide, making Aura's "posturingfailure and being counter-killed" plot point a memorable one for the audience.Famous scene. At the same time, in the anime version, Aura's action of slitting her throat with a sword easily creates the illusion of playing the violinViolin, which has led to the clip of Aura's suicide being frequently parodied in "Kichiku" videos, such as looping the motion of her slitting her throat and pairing it with various violin pieces to performPersecution。
- toEren Yeagershare a strange fate:
Both died by decapitation, and it was a "suicide" related to the female lead;[1]
Both of their death scenes were animated within the same week;[2]
Both of theirvoice actorsare a married couple.