Demitrio Aristides

Demitrio Aristides (デメトリオ＝アリステイディス, Demetorio Arisutidisu) is an instructor at Kimberly Magic Academy.

Background
Before joining Kimberly, Aristides used to be a remote-village mage, tending to ordinaries as a healer, teacher, and fortune teller. He was likely popular with his assigned town since the villagers constructed a deck for him and his students to stargaze on.

Aristides teaches astronomy at Kimberly. He is also a former Gnostic Hunter, as well as one of the seven conspirators in the murder of Oliver Horn's mother Chloe Halford.

As the astronomy instructor, he teaches how to read the positions of celestial bodies and estimate their influence on their world. Aristides teaches astronomy because knowing how to react to tír threats is paramount to resisting the Gnostic threat.

After Enrico Forghieri's murder in 1533, he splintered his soul and planted a familiar among the students to find his and Darius Grenville's murderer.

In 1534, he and Vanessa Aldiss lead the third year and above students to stop a tír migration from Uranischegar. When the migration began, he was furious at Vanessa's disregard for student safety as she flung pieces of tamper pillars towards their barrier. A fragment landed near Katie Aalto, who reached out to try and communicate with it. Tim Linton tried to pull her away before it could do any harm, but it attacked him as well. Demitrio eventually intervened and destroyed the creature, ordering Oliver and Godfrey to take their friends to the back of the barrier. After the battle, he examined Katie to make sure there were lingering parasites and etheric damage.

Spells

 * Soul Split: Demitrio is able to split his soul into two parts, knowledge and ignorance, creating a familiar. Ignorance represents Demitrio's personality without his accumulated knowledge and experience. The familiar is their own being and does not know they are part of Demitrio's soul, however Demitrio is able to extract information from them.

The Fifth Spellblade - Papiliosomnia, the dream of a butterfly that never wakes up again
Used by Demitrio Aristides. This spellblade functions by inducing the target into a state of selflessness, where subject and object are not separated. This blurs the target's cognition, making them lose the ability to distinguish between themself and their opponent; between attacking and being attacked. The caster then guides attack and defense to a result in which only the target is killed, typically by making the target kill themself. Because the target mentally agrees with the result, there is no resistance in the process.

Trivia

 * This character may have been named after Aristides Demetrios, an American sculptor that came to prominence in the 1960's.