Lecheroth

Lecheroth is the second female clone of the Vanishing Dragon Albion and the first foster mother of Jellal Nightwalker.

Appearance
In her normal dragon form, Lecheroth has the appearance of a white Western Dragon with a beautiful pure white body, blue eyes, two golden horns, and feathered wings, having a familiar resemblance to Albion her genetic source. In her human form, Lecheroth is an exceptionally beautiful young woman with waist length silver gray hair, blue eyes and a voluptous figure. Her appearance is described as like a silver fairy. Her body measurements are [B99-W60-H89 cm]; height is 162 cm. Her hair also has spiky bangs covering her forehead and chin length sidehair framing her face. She wore two small black ribbons on both sides of her head.

Personality
Lecheroth is refined, introverted and mysterious yet energetic with a cool impression. Always speaking in an extremely polite tone, Lecheroth despite her quite nature, is very passionate about the things she like. Being a complete Japanophile with insatiable interest in Japanese culture, Lecheroth have amassed an enormous lavish collection of Japanese objects, souvenirs and artifacts such as books, pottery, porcelain, lacquerware, ukiyo-e woodblock art prints, paintings, calligraphy, kimonos, kanzashi hair ornaments in her monastry which are carefully and neatly arranged in the various rooms which she regarded as her treasures. Her obsession with Japan stems from her close friendship with the historical William Adams her past contract master, an English sailor who became the first Western Samurai who had taught her many things about Japan. Lecheroth would also make frequent trips to Japan from England for leisure particularly Kyoto.

Like her fellow clone sisters and foster brother Acnologia, Lecheroth is a glutton who loves to eat delicious food. She is particularly fond of English cuisine, Japanese cuisine and Yoshoku cuisine. Due to her profound love for eating, she dislike wasting food, having frequently witnessed many humans dying from hunger due to famine since ancient times. She is also particular in the order she ate food as she taught Jellal her personal idea that the best way to fully enjoy a delicious meal is to save the best for the last.

Described as the kindest of the Vanishing Dragon Sisters, Lecheroth has immense kindness and compassion, having adopted Jellal and raised him as her foster son, she dearly loved Jellal like her own, and was even willing to sacrificed herself to protect him. Lecheroth has a totally different side when it comes to his training. Reshiroth is also extremely wise, having taught Jellal from an early age many life lessons and advices which would proved crucial in his future, believeing that one is never too young to learn wisdom.

History
One of the three female clones of Albion the Vanishing Dragon created by Solomon in ancient times, Lecheroth was the second clone to be created. When the Original Lucifer hunted Solomon down to capture the clones of the Heavenly Dragons he created to be used for his war against Angels and Fallen Angels, her elder foster brother Acnologia was captured, while Lecheroth and her fellow clone sisters managed to safely escaped. Several years after escaping capture, Lecheroth and her sisters became independent from Solomon, as they travelled together to secretly explore the Human World, Underworld as well as various mythological worlds during the Middle Ages for 250 years before going their separate ways. At some point, Lecheroth formed a contract with William Adams an English navigator, after William travelled to Japan and became the first western samurai and a hatamoto serving the Tokugawa Shogun, Tokugawa Ieyasu under the name Anjin Miura, Lecheroth learnt from William about Japan and the various aspects of its exotic culture which sparked Lecheroth obsessive fascination with Japanese culture as Lecheroth started demand Japanese objects and artifacts as payment for their contract. After William's death, Lecheroth remained in Japan for the next three centuries,first working as a maid and lady in waiting for various samurai families under different aliases to earn funds for her Japanese objects collection while also learning and gaining unparallel insight and knowledge on samurai culture, with the popular rise of the geisha profession in Edo Japan, Lecheroth switched jobs to working as a professional geisha under different stage names in Kyoto and Tokyo to amass more funds for buying and collecting Japanese objects and artifacts for her personal collection. With the fall of the Tokugawa shogunate and Japan's transition to the Meiji era, Lecheroth had continued to work as a geisha until 1887 by chance Reshiroth heard a captivating piano song by a Japanese pianist in the newly created Tokyo Music Academy of that time which intrigued her, inspiring her to switch to self-learning and playing the piano, becoming masterful enough that she could become a piano teacher in the Tokyo Music Academy. She also became acquainted with Natsume Soseki a brilliant scholar working in Tokyo Imperial University, becoming a fan of his novels. When Japan became an aggresive Facist nation during the Second World War, Lecheroth disliking the violent negative change of the Japanese people, move back to England, where she settled down in an ancient Christian Monastery that was abandoned and ruined due to war which she rebuilt into her new home. She would spent most of her time as a recluse indulged in various hobbies such as reading, cooking, playing music and studying magic, she also formed a contract with Eliot Woodman, a prominent Magician of the Golden Dawn in exchange for the Golden Dawn's magic research and knowledge. Lecheroth would also frequently started visiting Japan again during the Heisei era when in 2014, she met and fell in love with Tadashi Kurogane a Japanese highschool student. Happily dating for over a year, they frequently discussed various topics including what names to gave to their first child in the future, unfortunately Tadashi died in an accident, leaving Lecheroth completely heartbroken to the point, she went back to England in mourning and never visit Japan again for the next five years.

Power and Abilities
Immense Strength: Being a magically enhanced clone of the Vanishing Dragon Albion, Lecheroth is a powerful Dragon, having strength on pair with a Dragon King.

Immense Stamina: Lecheroth has immense stamina even for a Dragon,

Master Magician: Taught by the legendary wizard Solomon, Lecheroth has immense proficiency in using Magic, being well-versed in a different variety of Magic ranging from ancient Black magic, White magic, Norse magic and Fairy magic as well as advanced modern magic of the Golden Dawn which she had learnt from Eliot Woodman. Having also spends vast amount of time researching magic for centuries, Lecheroth also has accumulated tremendous magic knowledge including forbidden spells. Lecheroth is capable of casting the most powerful magic, even spells to manipulate space-time. Her skill was such that she had been the one to taught Jellal how to use magic, training him into a powerful magic user with rudimentary yet well developed magic skills when he was still very young before entrusting his magic training to Rossweisse, occasionally instructed Jellal from time to time yet she could still effectively taught one fifth of her personal knowledge and understanding of magic to Jellal before her death.

Reduce (減少, Genshō): Albion's original ability which Lecheroth can used as his clone, she can generate a unique and deadly venom that is capable of reducing the existence of all living beings, including Gods. Even their souls are cut down bit by bit. However, this is ineffective against Great Red, Ophis, and Ddraig.

Power Division and Absorption (力を「半減」と「吸収」, Chikara Hangen to Kyūshū):Being a genetic clone of Albion, Lecheroth can used Albion's signature ability to divide an opponent's strength and absorb that halved power to add to her own.

Reflect (リフレクト, Rifurekuto): Lecheroth also possessed Albion's ability to reflect attacks to a certain degree. Given her defensive and passive nature for fighting, Reflect was the ability Lecheroth most commonly used out of Albion's ability, able to effectively reflect powerful attacks with minimal effort.

Senjutsu Master

Master Hand to Hand Combatant: Lecheroth is a highly skilled self taught master of Taichi and Karate

Shapeshifting: Lecheroth has the ability to shapeshift from her Dragon form into a human form.

Flight: Like most dragons, Lecheroth is capable of flying using her Dragon wings.

Genius Intellect: Even for a dragon, Lecheroth has immense intelligence, having attained several centuries worth of wisdom from her life long interactions with humans and supernatural beings which makes her one of the wisest dragons in existance. She has extraordinary talent and intellectual capacity for autodidactism, having developed extremely high level of specialized skills in the piano, cooking, Senjutsu and martial arts by self-learning.


 * Master Scholar:Stemming from Solomon's influence, she is an keen and avid scholar in researching subjects of her interest, such as Occultism, Judaism, Christianity, Magic, Literature and Poetry of England and Japan, making her immensely knowledgeable about them.

Master Artist: Lecheroth was a grandmaster calligrapher, having learnt and mastered Japanese Calligraphy ever since her time serving the Tokugawa samurais as a maid and lady in waiting, and continued to practised as a hobby. Regarding Hosoi Kotaku's works highly, Lecheroth practise Japanese calligraphy using Kotaku's calligraphy style for over 400 years, refining her skills to the point, she could create unique calligraphy manuscripts of the finest artistic quality.

Master Musician: Lecheroth was an immensely talented genius master pianist whose skills were completely self-taught. In addition to playing music, Lecheroth was talented at musical compositions, having composed thirty beautiful and unique solo piano compositions of classical music, with the Dawn of Paradise, Twilight Sonata and Little Hope From Another World being her best masterpieces which required extremely high level of musical skills to play and produced due to its immense difficulty.
 * Traditional Japanese Music: Lecheroth was an outstanding geisha musician, having more than eighty years of experience in playing the shamisen and singing traditional Japanese songs as a professional geisha in Japan during the Edo period before switching to the piano. Though she had stopped playing the shamisen, Reshiroth still retained her knowledge and skills in singing traditional Japanese songs.
 * Classical Music: Lecheroth had fully mastered all the piano compositions of Franz Liszt, Frédéric Chopin, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms, Robert Schumann and Felix Mendelssohn during her time in Tokyo Music Academy and continued to intensively study and practised the works of many other classical music composers such as Franz Schubert, Anton Rubinstein, Camille Saint-Saëns, Gabriel Fauré, Edvard Grieg, Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel after she had returned to England as a hobby. She can also perform chamber music with her clone sisters Reine and Olentia.
 * Aria of the Dragon's Soul: One of Reine's chamber music compositions, a duet for the violin and piano which Lecheroth could perform with Reine.
 * Soulmate After a Thousand Lifetime: One of Lecheroth's thirty compositions, a classical love song for the piano which she written after she met and fell in love with Tadashi Kurogane.
 * Dawn of Paradise: One of the three most difficult pieces of Lecheroth's compositions, a piano sonata Lecheroth composed half a year after she became lovers with Tadashi Kurogane which expressed the overwhelming joy she felt from dating and spending time with Tadashi as a couple and the high hopes Reshiroth had held for her future with Tadashi. It is immensely beautiful with an estactic tune.
 * Mourning Rain of Tears: One of Lecheroth's thirty compositions, a melancholic piano piece which Lecheroth composed to expressed her mournful thoughts after the death of her lover Tadashi Kurogane, in Jellal's flashback when he first heard Lecheroth played Mourning Rain of Tears with full mastery, Mourning Rain of Tears's melody was described as extremely beautiful yet deeply frought with hidden sorrows.
 * Twilight Sonata: One of the three most difficult pieces of Lecheroth's compositions, it is a melancholy tribute to her lover Tadashi Kurogane, which she composed on his first death anniversary to expressed the desolated loneliness and emptiness she felt ever since she lost him.
 * Little Hope From Another World: One of Lecheroth's three most difficult compositions and also the last of her compositions.

Master Chef: Lecheroth have tremendous culinary skills and talent, which she had honed since ancient times to satisfied her gluttonous love for delicious food, able to cook countless types of extremely delicious food. Lecheroth had learned and mastered medieval cuisine during the Middle Ages in Europe, traditional Japanese cuisine during the Edo period and Yoshoku cuisine during the Meiji period in Japan, after returning to England, Lecheroth began to study in depth numerous cookbooks of modern English cuisine as well as many other foreign cuisines, Lecheroth have accumulated encyclopedic knowledge of cuisines of various countries in the Human World. Lecheroth is immensely creative in inventing her own recipes sometimes using simple and ordinary ingredients, which according to Jellal and her clone sisters taste amazingly delicious. Lecheroth had wrote two personal cookbooks titled A White Dragon's Secret of Culinary Arts, each detailing one thousand different homemade recipes which consist of 700 personally altered variations of existing recipes and 300 original recipes of her invention. Reine called Lecheroth the most ingenious master of fusion cuisine.
 * Master Brewer: Having learnt and practised Japanese tea ceremony since the Edo period, Lecheroth is also immensely skilled and experienced in brewing green tea. A great tea connoisseur with masterful skill in Japanese tea ceremony, Lecheroth also wrote a treatise on Japanese tea ceremony.
 * Apple Pie: Lecheroth's home made apple pie.
 * Hamburg Steak: Lecheroth's homemade hamburg steak which a patty made of ground beef is mixed with brunoise of carrots and celery.
 * Shrimp and Pineapple Bisque: Lecheroth's invented recipe Bisque made using prawns and pineapples.
 * Shiitake Pork and Tofu Congee: A porridge made of shiitake mushrooms, minced pork and sliced tofu, the shiitake mushroom are first simmered in hot water for a prolonged duration to make a make shift vegetarian dashi stock before putting the pork and rice with tofu added last, lightly seasoned with small amount of shoyu and mirin. It is delicious and nutritous.
 * Mapo Tofu: Lecheroth's personal version of the Sichuan dish, Mapo Tofu, which consist of Tofu stir fry in fermented broadbean and chili paste, fermented black beans, along with minced beef and sliced shiitake mushroom.
 * Spicy Sweet Gongbao Diced Chicken: Lecheroth's personal altered variation of the Sichuan dish Gongbao Diced Chicken which consist of diced chicken stir-fired in olive oil with crushed red pepper, Sichuan peppercorn, honey, vinegar, sweet flour sauce, spring onion, garlic and ginger.
 * Cheese Bacon Omelette: An omelette with fillings of cheese and bacon seasoned with parsley and thyme.
 * Stir Fried Eels and Bamboo Shoots: A dish of eels and bamboo shoots stir fried in a sauce made from mixing vinegar, honey, scallions ginger and sake.
 * Stilton Cheesecake: Cheese cake that is made using Stilton cheese, a type of English cheese
 * Stilton Back York Carbonara: Lecheroth's modified recipe of traditional Carbonara Pasta that is made using Stilton cheese, Back bacon and York ham seasoned with oregano herb.
 * Natto Shitake Ramen:A dry ramen dish consist of boiled ramen noodles topped stir-fried natto and shitake mushroom.
 * Natto Tuna Pasta: A pasta dish consist of boiled pasta topped with Natto and slices of pan seared tuna.
 * Tsukimi Natto Soba: Boiled Soba noodles topped with natto and raw egg.
 * Teriyaki Chicken: Home made teriyaki chicken grilled with tare of sugar, sake, soy ssuce and mirin.
 * Honey Teriyaki Chicken: A variation of Teriyaki chicken which uses honey and mead to substiute sugar and sake in the glazing sauce of soy sauce and mirin.
 * Japanese Pork Curry Rice: Reshiroth's homemade Japanese Curry which uses instant Japanese curry roux but further improved by first making sautéed onions, potatos, carrots and pan seared pork belly in olive oil in the same pot before adding water, small amounts of Worcestershire sauce, yogurt, one cup of red wine or mead before putting the roux last and then simmered until thickened.
 * Indian Chicken Curry: Chicken Curry made in the Indian tradition, deboned chicken thigh are cut into bite sized pieces and pan seared in a pot, while curry leaves, ginger, garlic, celery, cabbage, carrots, tomatoes and onions are blended into a puree like juice before adding into the pot with water, curry powder and yogurt and the chicken in the curry mixture is simmered until it turn tender to the point of melting in the mouth.
 * Sesame Walnut Paste: A dessert soup made of black sesame,walnut and soy milk flavoured with amazake and honey. It can be served with Dango.
 * Oat Barley and Red Bean Porridge: A porridge made of oatmeal, barley and red azuki beans cooked in milk and water.
 * Pork Loin Tonkatsu: Lecheroth's homemade version of Tonkatsu using pork loin.
 * Bacon Wrapped Mash Potatoes: Bacon wrapped Mashed potatoes mixed with onions and mushrooms baked in the oven before having a red wine based sauce poured over it before serving.
 * Menchi Katsu: Lecheroth's homemade Menchi Katsu in which small diced carrots and rosemary leaves are mixed into minced pork alongside finely diced onions, seasoned with the right balance of pepper and salt.
 * Japanese Style Buddha jump over the Wall:A fusion cuisine version of the Fujian delicacy, which uses popular Japanese ingredients to substitue certain ingredients of the original recipe, such as shark meat to substitute the original sharkfin, overall it consist of shark meat, shiitake mushroom, bamboo shoots, lily bulbs, daikon, abalone, jinhua ham, scallops, pork collar, chicken thighs, simmered in a dashi broth mixed with Japanese sake and mirin in place of Shaoxing wine.
 * Spicy Mutton Jiaozi Soup: Lecheroth personal recipe of Chinese dumpling soup, partly inspired by Zhang Zhongjing's ancient original Jiaozi recipe, which minced mutton are mixed with chili, black pepper, shredded ginger and garlic and wrapped in dough wrappers. The dumplings are boiled and served in a soup made of mutton bones, chili, ginger, garlic and black pepper.
 * Banoffee pie: Lecheroth's home made Banoffee pie.

Equipment
Anjin & Miura: A daisho pair of Katana and Wakizashi which Tokugawa Ieyasu the first Shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate presented to William Adams to represent his authority as a Samurai. After William's death, Lecheroth kept William's daisho swords as a keepsake, rechristened them using William's Japanese name. Lecheroth also imbued them with powerful magic, turning them into magic swords with enchanted strength, sharpness and durability.

Trivia

 * Lecheroth's hobbies are cooking, studying magic, researching Occultism, Judaism and Christianity, reading English and Japanese Literature particularly light novels and manga, collecting Japanese objects and artifacts, and playing the piano.
 * Though not a Christian, Lecheroth is fascinated with the Bible.
 * Like her fellow clone sisters of Albion, Lecheroth has a very large appetite due to their Dragon physiology.
 * In the past when Lecheroth travelled the world with her sisters during the Middle Ages, Lecheroth was the team chef in charge of cooking during mealtimes, having been the first out of them to learn cooking due to her love for delicious food as Reine and Olentia only started taking interest in cooking during the Renaissance and Song Dynasty respectively after discovering their favourite food, Italian cuisine for and Chinese noodles for Olentia respectively.
 * Lecheroth's favourite food are;
 * Apple pie
 * Sunday roast
 * Scotch eggs
 * Yōkan
 * Daifuku
 * Manju
 * Kusa mochi
 * Shiruko
 * Soba
 * Tonkatsu
 * Teriyaki chicken
 * Menchi-katsu
 * Salted grilled mackerel
 * Salted grilled pacific saury
 * Sukiyaki
 * Yakiniku
 * Nigiri sushi
 * Japanese pork curry rice
 * Chicken cream stew.
 * Lecheroth's favourite drinks are
 * Mead
 * Red Wine
 * Matcha
 * Sake
 * Japanese whisky
 * Apple juice
 * Lecheroth can play the shamisen when she was still a geisha, though having chose to switch to becoming a classical pianist and piano teacher after falling in love with piano music, it is unknown if she still can.
 * Lecheroth owns multiple pianos of famous brand in the Human World, including one Bechstein grand piano in the Hall Church and an Sauter upright piano in her own room of her monastery.
 * Lecheroth's favourite genre to read in Japanese Literature is Samurai literature, with The Tale of Heike being her particular favourite. She also has encyclopedic knowledge about samurai history particularly about Samurai warlords.
 * Lecheroth is also a fan of Murasaki Shikibu, Izumi Shikibu, Matsuo Bashō and Natsume Sōseki