Framrodia Byandiraz

Framrodia Byandiraz (フラムロディア・バャディラーズ Furamurodia Bayadirāzu) was the last emperor of the Byandy Empire, his reign and empire concomitantly ending when he was assassinated by Corpse God, the fourth of rank among his imperial sorcerers and his closest friend. He and several members of his court remain Corpse God's friends in death as souls who are bound to him via necromancy.

Appearance
Framrodia has short white or platinum hair and multicolored heterochromatic eyes: his right iris is a predominant purple fringed with blue; and his left iris is a more evenly balanced blend of green and blue.

As a child, Framrodia's formal dress consists of a cape and a neckcloth tied into a bow, a tunic, trousers, and thigh-high boots. Several adjustments in style have been made by the time Framrodia dies as a possible adolescent: he retains the neckcloth but replaces the cape with a white overcoat with gold trim and blue lining; he wears an orange, white, and green sash over a military tunic with a trim; his thigh-high boots, like his tunic, also sport a trim at the top of their sleeves.

Personality
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Reign
Framrodia ascends the Byandy imperial throne in the wake of his father's reign when he is still quite young. One of his first acts as emperor is to redesign the imperial emblem, as he is of the opinion his father's design was too "dull and simplistic." When the second-ranked imperial court sorcerer Easlies Swordfrail shows her new apprentice Rizdilusia Redrazalf the palace's crest above a grand staircase, Framrodia proudly relates the crest's origins to the neophyte and shows off his original sketch of the design.

Rizdilusia will eventually become Framrodia's greatest friend and one of his imperial court sorcerers under the name of Corpse God, joining his master as one of the few necromancers who hold court positions. A day arrives when his fame and consequently his father betray him, and his dissolving skeleton is discovered by Easlies near a graveyard; Easlies rushes Corpse God to Framrodia and Utsurojuza, the latter of whom successfully neutralizes the poison and curse that were on the cusp of destroying Corpse God's brain while Framrodia focuses on capturing Corpse God's father. Framrodia with Utsurojuza cheerfully explains all this to Corpse God when he is revived as a living skeleton, and, when Easlies mentions his friend's distress, assures Corpse God that he and the empire will always be on his side.

Unbeknownst to Corpse God, Framrodia approves his father's torture as carried out by Easlies and Utsurojuza—though neither approve of allowing Corpse God to witness the deed. That the two are in agreement is a rarity, but Framrodia nonetheless without warning invites Corpse God, once he has resettled himself, to the room where his father's torture is ongoing. The man begs for relief as they enter, his body grossly elongated and overlimbed like that of an insect, but his pleas shift into a scream when Easlies, at her emperor's uttering of her name, sets various undead hands to claw at his flesh. At Utsurojuza's heated reminder that both sorcerers opposed Corpse God's presence, especially since only the barest of restraint keeps Utsurojuza from personally killing his confrere's father, Framrodia stabs his sword into the latter and declares that his duty as emperor is to carry out the people's "dirty work." He has done so now, sullying his hands so that neither Corpse God nor Utsurojuza need sully theirs.

Framrodia's reign is one of continued war, with Byandy's imperial sorcerers and armies never far between battlefields; indeed, in the empire's final days, they are settling the latest of clashes with troops of the Kingdom of Nyanild. On the eve of the empire's collapse, Rizdilusia succumbs to the vengeful wishes of souls who loathe the empire when an enemy necromancer weaponizes his empathy against him; he slays Framrodia in his madness, and, upon realizing what he has done, succumbs to anguish beside the bloody corpse of his dearest friend.

Above the corpse manifests Framrodia, whose first thought as a spirit is to assure Corpse God that his actions were not his own. His second thought is that they must hide the "physical evidence" of Corpse God's crime, cognizant that the testimony of a spirit—even or because it is his own—will have little weight, as spirits can be manipulated by necromancers. This third thought of defending his involuntary murderer, let alone being that assassin's accomplice, proves a fun prospect, so Framrodia laughingly promises to make his "best friend" atone by aiding and abetting him in living a "nice and long life."

Regardless of whether a trial does occur, or the trial's verdict, Corpse God earns a reputation as the "Emperor Killer." Byandy Empire, without its emperor, crumbles within a matter of days: its capital suffers a devastating sinkhole that swallows all but one unit of the stationed imperial army, and its annexed principalities are reported to have rebelled. Framrodia, despite Corpse God's guilt and discomfort, remains bound to Corpse God throughout the remaining hundred years of his life in their world: through Corpse God's founding and loss of a found family; through Corpse God's time in the labyrinth; through his battle with the Calamity Crusher, and, thereafter, through to Corpse God's reincarnation on Earth as Polka Shinoyama.

After life
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Abilities
Framrodia possesses great magical strength, though specifics of his capabilities have yet to be explained. He remains able to use magic in death.

Trivia

 * Amidst the shouting in the palace during the capital's collapse in Chapter 31, mention is made of the "imperial prince and Her Majesty." No other reference to a potential son and wife has been made as of Chapter 80 and Volume 6, the latest respective chapter and volume with English translations as of March 18, 2022.