Shagrua Lugrid

Sir Shagrua Edith Lugrid (シャグルア Shagurua) the Calamity Crusher (災厄潰し Saiyaku Tsubushi) is a former knight of the Geldwood church's subjugation unit who possesses the Evil Eye.

Appearance
Shagrua has bluish grey hair, shadow green eyes, and has both ears pierced with green studs. When in combat, he wears grey armor with a type of blue robe or surcoat over it.

Personality
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Chronology
Shagrua is first discovered to possess the Evil Eye when he is three years old. He is the first "true possessor" to emerge in a long time, and his homeland and home village - deeply superstitious and fearful of the supernatural - is deeply entrenched in rumors which portend great misfortune concurrent with Evil Eye holders.

As a result, the villagers resolve to exile his parents as punishment for birthing a 'cursed child'. Upon hearing a rumor that his organs can be sold for an immortality elixir, however, they change their mind and leak his home's location to marauding bandits. On the day originally planned for the exile, these bandits invade Shagrua's home and slaughter his entire family.

Shagrua does not learn this until he is already a holy soldier of the Geldwood church and granted salvation, in addition to the fact that Geldwood later burned both the bandits and his fellow villagers to death. This knowledge does not come from Geldwood, which endeavored to keep him ignorant of the deeds; instead, he is told as much by the spirits of the bandits, villagers, and church soldiers caught in the crossfire - all haunting him and cursing his name. That Geldwood is responsible for burning down his village troubles Shagrua for years to come.

In order to drown out the spirits' jeers, Shagrua chooses to fight and throws himself into various battlefields' front lines, as the "driving member" of Geldwood's subjugation unit. From heretical cults and criminal syndicates to dragons and other monsters, more and more of his victims' spirits come to haunt him until they mingle with and drown out the voices of those from his past. Over the years, his exploits earn him the admiration of many as a hero - and the title "Calamity Crusher."

Eventually, Geldwood's long-standing vendetta against the Corpse God - an undead necromancer without peer - reaches a day of reckoning. A Geldwood force, subjugation unit included, invades the Corpse God's undead labyrinth and challenges the Corpse God with the intention to vanquish him once and for all. Their initial assault does not bode well for them; they suffer injuries without inflicting much if any on the Corpse God, and mostly hold out as best they can until Shagrua arrives.

Once Shagrua does, he finds that the Corpse God is - like him - also haunted by the countless souls of his victims. During their battle, he shatters one of the Corpse God's armored plates, revealing the Corpse God's true form: a human brain, contained in a jar suspended by chains.

Where Shagrua condemns the Corpse God's monstrosity, the Corpse God compares the both of them and says they both take lives "for fun," each playing the role of the Grim Reaper. Declaring that their game has come to an end, he fills the air with magic spells whose patterns Shagrua neither recognizes nor trusts - spells that Shagrua charges at with the intention of stopping whatever the Corpse God is planning.

A second before Shagrua's sword reaches him, the Corpse God vanishes in a flash of bright light - and so too vanish all the spirits haunting Shagrua, repurposed as magic for the Corpse God's final, exceptionally powerful spell.

In the aftermath, Shagrua confides to a Geldwood priestess that he is afraid he did not "complete his task." The Corpse God's spell felt like teleportation magic, and though Shagrua did see his soul with his Evil Eye, his disappearance feels suspiciously sudden. At this, the priestess informs him that Geldwood's observation unit cannot detect any traces of the Corpse God's soul, which she takes as proof that Shagrua saved the world.

Shagrua remains unconvinced, already nurturing a seed of doubt from the Corpse God's forcible exorcism of his spirits. The doubt within him only grows as he and the priestess examine the books in the Corpse God's laboratory, most of which are written in ink visible only to the Evil Eye and otherwise appear blank in the priestess' eyes.

One such book is the Corpse God's journal, which contains entries dating back to his time with his found family. The evident care he held for the children under his watch causes Shagrua to question whether the Corpse God was as irredeemably evil as he thought, and, with the question burning at the back of his mind, he scrutinizes the other specially-inked books with greater urgency.

Some of the tomes contain essays on Geldwood's "underbelly" - the "other face" of the institution to which many Geldwood followers remain ignorant. These hidden truths, coupled with the journal, inexorably, irreversibly shake Shagrua's devotion to the Geldwood faith for good. Over the next few days, Shagrua holes himself up in the Geldwood cathedral's library and tirelessly researches the essay's claims so as to verify their truth. The effort alone in discovering the research room's hidden vault is backbreaking.

When the priestess from before visits him in the library, Shagrua explains that he has been looking into the Corpse God and asks if she knows from which country the Corpse God hailed. The priestess dutifully recounts what she knows: that the Corpse God was a royal necromancer of an empire which, over one hundred years ago, collapsed within the span of a year.

Shagrua, his voice distant, realizes she must be talking about the Byandy Peninsula - also known as the 'Abandoned Peninsula'. When she urges him to rest, joking that he looks like 'someone possessed', he falls silent for a time. Then, as if steeling himself, he decides to make 'that' his 'story': that the Corpse God used teleportation magic to switch his and Shagrua's souls, effectively killing Shagrua and taking over his body.

Filled with trepidation, the priestess reminds him that switching a body and soul with a still-living being is impossible (or incredibly dangerous), to which Shagrua agrees: necromancers' possession is limited to dolls and corpses. However, he wants the priestess to tell Geldwood that the Corpse God "surpassed that hurdle."

As she is still confused, and as Shagrua is fond of her, he confesses his break with the Geldwood faith and his investigation of Geldwood's corruption - which he is sure she knows nothing about. As he casts a sleeping spell on her, he requests she continue feigning ignorance to that end and tell the Church he has been possessed by the Corpse God (thus ensuring her safety among the church).

Once the priestess falls asleep, Shagrua leaves the library carrying evidence proving Geldwood's corruption. Acting in the name of the Corpse God, he seeks out and assaults multiple high-ranking Church members - further ensuring that the rumors of the Calamity Crusher's demise and possession will spread throughout the land.

With the Church's holy soldiers searching high and low for him, Shagrua leaves the Kingdom of Nwyandil and heads west for the Abandoned Peninsula. The land is said to have been cursed after the fall of the empire, home to fearsome roaming ghosts and monsters, and Shagrua resolves to cast these spirits out as atonement for "the sins he'd committed against the Corpse God." While he does not know for certain whether the Corpse God is "good or bad," he hopes that the Corpse God's soul is somehow and somewhere still alive and well.