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. In her human form, 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 immensely 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, lacquerware, ukiyo-e woodblock art prints, paintings, calligraphies, folding fans, 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 for sight seeing and buying Japanese crafts as souvenirs, Tokyo for enjoying Japanese popular culture and Osaka for indulging in her appetite.
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 is an enthusiastic cook and also 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 such as finish the vegetables first before eating meat or seafood.
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. Though normally an extremely doting and pampering parent towards Jellal, Lecheroth is firm when it comes to his training, she is also careful in how she raised him as she avoid turning him into a spoiled individual by teaching him morality and training him to be independent from an early age. Lecheroth 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. Twelve years after escaping capture, Lecheroth and her sisters became independent from Solomon's guidance and care, as they travelled together to secretly explore the Human World, Underworld as well as various mythological worlds for 300 years during the Middle Ages, learning new knowledge and experience before going their separate ways. During the Renaissance, Lecheroth and her clone sisters co-founded the Magician Organization the Order of the White Dragon using their genetic source Albion as a symbol. At some point, Lecheroth formed a contract with William Adams an English navigator and amateur magician. 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 in 1610, 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 unparalleled insight and knowledge on Japanese culture particularly the samurais, 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 into the Meiji era, Lecheroth had continued to work as a geisha until 1887 by chance Lecheroth 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 by anonymously stealing a grand piano, music textbooks by Luther Whiting Mason as well as numerous piano compositions from Tokyo Music Academy using magic for her to self-study and practice piano music in her home, being so completely devoted to learning and practising the piano that she frequently neglected to eat and rest in the first six months. Within two years, she became a master pianist with superior skill, able to become a piano teacher in the Tokyo Music Academy. Lecheroth also joined the Asiatic Society of Japan due to her interest in Japanology. She became acquainted with a number of famous Japanese historical figures such as Natsume Soseki a brilliant scholar and novelist working in Tokyo Imperial University, Kano Jigoro, founder of Judo and Onisaburo Deguchi, religious leader of Ōmoto. When Japan became an aggressive Facist nation during Second Sino-Japanese War, Lecheroth disliking the violent negative change of the Japanese people, decide to move back to England, returning to her homeland for the first time in three hundred years where she eventually settled down in an ancient Christian Monastery that was abandoned and ruined due to the Second World War which she rebuilt into her new home. Lecheroth later joined her clone sisters in helping Jewish humans from Nazi Germany's persecution in German-occupied Europe during the Holocaust. After the Second World War ended, Lecheroth return home to England and for the next 15 years, 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 studied modern magic under Eliot Woodman, a prominent young Magician of the Golden Dawn. In 1960, Lecheroth started working for the Philharmonia Orchestra in London as a full time professional classical pianist under the stage name and alias Elektrichka Sapsan. During a tour to France with the Philharmonia Orchestra she met and became close friends with Flora a French Dragon due to their mutual love for music and cooking. Lecheroth worked for Philharmonia Orchestra for thirty years before retiring in 1990. After retiring, Lecheroth would also started frequently visit Japan again since the second year of 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 which Tadashi suggested Jellal if they were to have a son. Tadashi eventually proposes to Lecheroth which she tearfully accepted, they officially became fiances which Tadashi gifted Lecheroth a sapphire ring made by Reine as an engagement ring. Unfortunately, Tadashi died in an accident, just six days after proposing, leaving Lecheroth completely heartbroken to the point, she went back to England in mourning and never visit her favourite country Japan again for the next five years.
Power and Abilities[]
Immense Strength: Being a magically and genetically 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 mastery in using Magic, being well-versed in a different variety of Magic ranging from ancient magic, 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 enormous amount of time researching magic for more than a millenia including greatly contribute to the development of Renaissance magic during the 15th and 16th centuries as one of the co-founders of the Order of the White Dragon, 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, she continued to instructed Jellal and effectively taught at least one seventh of her personal knowledge and understanding of magic to Jellal before her death.
- Architecture Magic: Lecheroth can use architecture magic, to create, shaped and control buildings, having used it to fully renovate a once damaged monastry into her personal home in a single night.
- Teleportation Magic: Lecheroth is highly masterful in using teleportation magic, being to teleport herself and other to any location, being able to freely travel between the Human World, Underworld, Heaven as well as other mythological worlds due to her superior mastery of teleportation magic. Lecheroth frequently used teleportation magic for long distance travel from England to Japan back and forth instantly.
- Alchemy: Lecheroth is very proficient in alchemy which she frequently used for mundane purposes such as cooking, crafting household items and tools. Though Lecheroth admitted her alchemy skills is vastly inferior to Reine, she has in-depth understanding of alchemy’s concepts.
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 extremely skilled self taught master of Shito-ryu Karate which she learnt from a book about Karate which she used to teach herself before passing it down to Jellal
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 due to genetic and magical enhancements performed on her by Solomon. Having also attained more than a millenia worth of wisdom from her life long observation, experiences and 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: Lecheroth is a genius polymath scholar keen in researching numerous subjects of her interest, such as European studies, Jewish studies, Western esotericism, Occultism, Judaism, Shintoism, Christianity, Magic, Literature and Poetry. From having accompanied her clone sisters to Arabia and Iran for academic pursuits, she is also highly well-versed in Arab studies and Iranian studies. Lecheroth is also a self-taught master Japanologist with immense knowledge and understanding on Japanese culture.
- Literary Master: Having studied countless works of literature of various languages since the Middle Ages, Lecheroth is a master of literature with immense literary knowledge and skills, specializing in European literature, Latin literature, Hebrew literature and Japanese literature. She is particularly interested in novels and poetry.
- Master Historian: Lecheroth is a master historian, having vast and encyclopedic knowledge about European history, Arab history, Iranian history and Japanese history. She is particularly interested in Japanese history subjects about samurais and daimyos.
- Master Linguist: Though not as extensive as her clone sisters, Lecheroth is a great linguist, highly skilled and talented in reading and writing Latin, German, Norwegian, Danish, French, Italian, Greek, Arabic, Persian and Hebrew with her best languages being her native English and favourite Japanese.
Master Calligrapher: Lecheroth was a grandmaster calligrapher, having learnt and mastered Japanese calligraphy during the Edo period, and continued to practised as a hobby for centuries. Lecheroth studied the calligraphy of Hosoi Kotaku, Kato Chikage and Maki Ryouko to develop her own calligraphy style, she also studied with Kusakabe Meikaku during the Meiji era, refining her skills to the point, she could create unique calligraphy masterpieces of the finest artistic quality. Ouka also stated Lecheroth is one of the finest masters of Shodo.
Master Musician: Lecheroth was an immensely talented genius master pianist whose skills were completely self-taught. In fact, her piano skills are so immense, her foster son Jellal who is a genius virtuoso pianist himself even with his skill replication talent can only partially replicate Lecheroth's piano technique as a child, as he required years of extensive study and practise into his young adulthood to fully replicate and mastered Lecheroth's piano technique. Jellal considered Lecheroth the finest pianist he ever knew. In addition to playing music, Lecheroth was also a talented composer, having composed thirty beautiful and unique solo piano compositions of contemporary 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, Lecheroth still retained her knowledge and skills in singing traditional Japanese songs.
- Classical Music: Lecheroth had fully mastered all the solo piano compositions of Franz Liszt, Frédéric Chopin, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms during her time in Tokyo Music Academy and learnt the music of Robert Schumann and Felix Mendelssohn from Reine. Lecheroth continued to intensively study and practised the music of many other classical composers such as Johann Sebastian Bach, 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 and also when she joined the Philharmonia Orchestra. While Lecheroth primarily excelled as a soloist, she can also perform chamber music with her clone sisters Reine and Olentia as well as symphonies with her colleagues of Philharmonia Orchestra. Reine considered Lecheroth to be one of the greatest pianists in classical music, stating Lecheroth's piano technique in classical music is superior to Reine's former piano mentors Robert Schumann and Felix Mendelssohn whom are among the foremost classical pianists of the Romantic era.
- 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 after Tadashi Kurogane proposed to her which expressed the overwhelming joy she felt from her engagement to Tadashi and the high hopes Lecheroth 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. During the Middle Ages, Lecheroth had learned and mastered medieval cuisine in Europe, Arab cuisine in Arabia, Jewish cuisine in Israel and Iranian cuisine in Iran. When she first came to Japan, Lecheroth quickly mastered traditional Japanese cuisine during the Edo period and Yoshoku cuisine in the Meiji era. After returning to England, Lecheroth began to study in depth numerous cookbooks of modern English cuisine as well as many other foreign cuisines she borrowed from Olentia particularly the cookbooks of Elizabeth David and Jane Grigson, as well as learning many new recipes from her clone sisters and other culinary masters such as Leila, Carmen and her best friend Flora, gaining great knowledge of cuisines of various countries in the Human World. Lecheroth is also 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 three personal cookbooks the first two 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 for home cooking. The last recipe book the White Dragon’s Exotic Gourmet Cooking Guide consist of two thousand recipes using rare and exotic ingredients. Reine called Lecheroth the most ingenious master of fusion cuisine. Her culinary specialities are Yoshoku cuisine and fusion cuisine. She can also apply magic and alchemy into cooking
- Apple Pie: Lecheroth's home made apple pie.
- Hamburg Steak: Lecheroth's homemade hamburg steak
- Hamburg Steak mixed with Mirepox: A variation of Hamburg steak which a patty made of ground beef is mixed with brunoise mirepox of carrots, celery and onions. Meant for children who dislike vegetables
- Roast Beef: Lecheroth's homemade roast beef simply seasoned with black pepper and salt. Served with mustard.
- Shrimp and Pineapple Bisque: Lecheroth's invented recipe Bisque made using prawns and pineapples.
- Omurice: Lecheroth's homemade omurice consist of mirepoix and minced garlic sauted in olive oil and stir fried with bite sized chicken, pre-cooked rice and ketchup wrapped in an omelette. She often made this dish for herself and Jellal.
- 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.
- Oyakodon
- Sukiyaki: Lecheroth's homemade Kanto style sukiyaki with significantly more favourful than ordinary sukiyaki. The warishita is made using her modified recipe including shochu, cinnamon, honey, mirin, shoyu and a broth made from garlic, thyme, bay leaf, rosemary and parsley mixed with konbu dashi and one tablespoon of olive oil. It is suitable for both normal quality beef or high quality beef such as Angus beef or Wagyu beef. Bison or buffalo meat can also be used.
- Mapo Tofu: Lecheroth's personal version of the Sichuan dish, Mapo Tofu, which consist of minced beef and sliced shiitake mushroom stir fry in doubanjiang and chili oil, douchi, Sichuan pepper before adding tofu and hot water for it to boil until ready.
- 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, peanuts, honey, vinegar, tianmian sauce, spring onion, garlic and ginger. It has a sweet and spicy taste when compared to authentic version.
- 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: Lecheroth's homemade Cheese cake that is made using Stilton cheese, a type of English cheese.
- Stilton Blue York Carbonara: Lecheroth's modified recipe of traditional Carbonara Pasta that is made using eggs mixed with Stilton blue cheese, back bacon and York ham seasoned with oregano herb and black pepper. The use of English local specialties Stilton blue cheese and York ham gave it a distinctive flavour from Italian Carbonara.
- Yoshoku Style Chicken Rice: Lecheroth homemade Yoshoku chicken rice, consist of rice stir fried with diced chicken, button mushrooms, carrots, bell peppers and onions in tomato ketchup. Lecheroth frequently cooked this dish for Jellal which became one of his favourite food.
- 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 sauce 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: Lecheroth's homemade Japanese Curry which uses instant extra spicy Japanese curry roux but Lecheroth further modified its flavour by first sauteing onions in olive oil before pan searing pork belly with minced garlic and ginger in a pot before adding potatoes, carrots, tomatoes, water, pork bone broth, one teaspoon of chili powder, tumeric powder, cinnamon powder, cumin powder, nutmeg powder, cardamon powder, coriander powder, black pepper, cloves, instant coffee, Worcestershire sauce, honey, yogurt, one cup of red wine before putting the roux last and then simmered until thickened. This modified Japanese curry possess a complex richness admist its spiciness .
- 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 further mixed 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. Served with rice or naan
- Japanese Beef Chuck Curry:
- 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. Extremely delicious.
- Inoshishi Katsu: A variation of tonkatsu made using boar meat instead of pork thus its seasonings used are slightly different from Lecheroth's homemade tonkatsu.
- Fried Prawns in Pumpkin Sauce:
- Venison and Bison Pot au Feu: Pot au Feu made using venison and bison meat
- Bacon Wrapped Mash Potatoes: Bacon wrapped Mashed potatoes mixed with onions and mushrooms baked in the oven before having a red wine sauce poured over it before serving.
- Oxford Naporitan: Lecheroth's homemade Naporitan that uses Oxford sausages.
- British Style Hayashi Rice: Lecheroth's homemade Hayashi rice that uses Angus beef and English porter beer instead of regular beef and red wine to give it a unique flavour.
- Menchi Katsu: Lecheroth's homemade Menchi Katsu in which small diced carrots, onions, thyme and rosemary leaves are mixed into minced pork seasoned with the right balance of pepper and salt.
- Japanese Style Buddha jump over the Wall: A Japanese-Chinese fusion cuisine version of the Fujian delicacy, which uses popular Japanese ingredients alongside ingredients of the original recipe while using shark meat which is common in Japanese cuisine to substitute shark fin, overall it consist of shark meat, shiitake mushroom, bamboo shoots, lily bulbs, turnips, daikon, abalone, jinhua ham, conpoy, scallops, pork collar, chicken thighs, sea cucumber and fish maw simmered in a broth made of dashi and chicken bone broth mixed with Japanese sake and Shaoxing wine.
- Spicy Mutton Jiaozi Soup: Olentia's personal recipe of Chinese dumpling soup which she taught to Lecheroth, 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.
- Sweet and Sour Tangerine Pork: A variation of Cantonese sweet and sour pork, pork shoulder cut into bite sized, marinated and coated in potato starch, fried in vegetable oil, before being stir fried with onions, tomatoes and bell peppers in a sauce made of vinegar, blended tangerine juice and hawthorn tea.
- Banoffee pie: Lecheroth's home made Banoffee pie.
- Tas Kebab: A turkish meat stew made from mutton.
- Ramen: Lecheroth is a creative and versatile ramen chef, having come up with different ramen soup bases including fusion based ramen. The ramen noodles used were freshly home made using wind magic to knead the dough then shaped into noodles using a kitchen pasta machine
- Tonkotsu Ramen: Standard homemade tonkotsu ramen made in accordance to Lecheroth's personal recipe, the soup is boiled using pork bones and before being infused with blended puree of onions, garlic and ginger and left to simmer much longer.
- Shio Ramen: Chicken based shio ramen noodle soup which the soup is made from chicken bones instead of pork bones, and infused with blended vegetable purée of carrot, celery and onions, seasoned with plenty of salt.
- Inokotsu Ramen: A variation of Tonkotsu ramen which the broth is made from boar bones. The Chashu is also made using boar meat
- Carbonara Ramen: Carbonara style Italian-Japanese fusion ramen, Using her homemade tonkotsu soup as the sauce base for which eggs and cheese are mixed into tonkotsu soup to boiled and reduced to create a particularly creamy sauce while sauteed pieces of bacons and button mushroom are briefly cooked in the sauce before being poured over ramen noodles.
- Minestrone Ramen: Minestrone style Italian-Japanese fusion ramen, the soup is made using tonkotsu soup as its base, which blended puree juice of tomatoes, carrots, celery, oregano and onions are added along with potatoes, mushrooms and sausages topped with cheese and basil leaves.
- Oden Style Beef Tendons Ramen: A homemade ramen soup inspired by Oden which beef tendons, hard boiled eggs and finely sliced daikon are simmered in a shoyu based dashi broth made from both konbu and beef bones until tender being served with ramen noodles topped with kamaboko.
- Kimchi Sausage Ramen: A Korean-Japanese fusion ramen, made of kimchi, sausages, gochujiang, tteok and tonkotsu broth along with ramen noodles. It is similar to Budae Jjigae.
- Escudella Ramen: A Escudella style Japanese-Spanish fusion ramen, which the soup is made from tonkotsu broth, spices, celery, cabbage, carrots, pilota meatballs and botifara sausages.
- French Style Seafood Ramen: A French-Japanese fusion ramen that combines French Cuisine's soupe de poisson with ramen which is both hearty and full of impact. The broth is made from boilling fish heads, bones, innards and prawn shells, filtered through a sieve and mixed with sea salt and dashi. Topped with aioli sauce and rouillie as well as prawns, croutons and slices of fish.
- Hotate Ramen: A scallop ramen which the soup is made of chicken bones, conpoy and dried vegetables topped with blanched scallops seasoned with sea salt.
- Watermelon Pheasant: Chopped pheasant meat steamed in a watermelon shell with jujube fruits.
- Steamed Ginseng Goose: Goose marinated with salt and pepper before being steamed over high heat for three hours in a claypot with ginseng, ginger, spring onions, konbu dashi, sake and chinese wolfberry.
- Buffalo Hamburg Steak: A variation of Lecheroth’s Hamburg Steak recipe that uses ground Buffalo meat mixed with shredded ginger and brunoise of leeks and turnips
- Pork Offal Soup: Inspired by Motsunabe, a soup made using pork offal, root vegetables in demi glace sauce and pork bone broth.
- Tomato Chicken Risotto: A creamy tomato based risotto with bite sized diced chicken topped with cheese and basil
- Spicy Risotto: A very spicy risotto cooked with butter, chicken bone broth, chili oil, shichimi tougarashi pepper flakes, pork and chorizo, topped with parmesan cheese.
- Fried Chicken: Lecheroth's homemade fried chicken, Lecheroth has devised several versions.
- American Fried Chicken: Fried Chicken made in original American recipe, chicken marinated in buttermilk, garlic, salt, pepper coated with flour before deep frying. Served with mustard or mayonaise.
- Rabbit Stew: Lecheroth's homemade rabbit stew, very delicious, the meat is stewed in a vegetable based soup stock, flavoured with herbs and spices for a prolonged period, tender to the point of melting in the mouth.
- Snake Oyakodon: A variation of oyakodon that is made using snake meat and snake eggs.
- Chicken Nanbam: Lecheroth's homemade chicken nanbam
- Swan Namban: A variation of chicken namban which is made using swan meat.
- Tom Yum Crocodile Soup:
- Pork Shogayaki: Lecheroth
- Budae-Jjigae: Lecheroth’s homemade budae-jjigae made using her modified recipe.
- Stir Fried Pork with Kimchi and Green pepper: Sliced pork belly stir fired with kimchi and green pepper.
Master Brewer: A great tea connoisseur and master of Japanese tea ceremony, Lecheroth had learnt Japanese tea ceremony from Ouka and practised it since the Edo period, thus Lecheroth is immensely skilled and experienced in brewing green tea. Lecheroth also wrote a treatise on Japanese tea ceremony.
Master Huntress: Having more than a millenia of hunting experience since the Middle Ages, Lecheroth is a master huntress, she could hunt and field dressed various animals such as pheasants, swans, doves, snakes, seals, hares, bisons, rabbits, turkeys, deers, boars and bears with great skill. Lecheroth would go hunting in the forests and mountains of Europe, United States, Australia, Africa or Japan whenever she needed to procure special meat such as the meat of boar, bison, swan, snake, seal, hare, rabbit and occasionally bear, ostrich, crocodile and alligator which are not commonly or easily avaliable in the Eden Farm, grocery stores, marketplaces or supermarkets in the United Kingdom or Japan.
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, christened them using William's Japanese name. Lecheroth also imbued them with powerful magic, turning them into magic swords with enchanted strength, sharpness and durability.
Lecheroth and Tadashi's Engagement rings: A pair of sapphire rings with the design of a dragon which Reine crafted at Tadashi Kurogane's request as engagement rings for Lecheroth and himself. After Tadashi's death, Lecheroth kept both rings as a memento, wearing one on her finger in Human form while the other ring which belong to Tadashi, she wore it on a chain as a necklace around her neck. Both rings are enchanted with magic.
Quotes[]
- There is no such things as useless magic, many people who are already used to using magic may have a tendency to take basic and common magic for granted. They never realised that even basic and common magic can be extremely useful even life saving depending on how it is used and when it is used.
- No matter what happens, the one thing you must never do is avert your eyes from reality, in difficult times, it is okay to cry, to feel sad or to feel afraid, but the most important thing is you must keep moving forward and never give up.
- Live strong, my beloved son.
Trivia[]
- Lecheroth's hobbies are reading, cooking, studying magic, researching European studies, Occultism, Jewish studies, Judaism, Shintoism and Christianity, Japanese studies, collecting Japanese crafts, objects and artifacts, and playing the piano.
- As a chef, Lecheroth enjoyed experimenting with different ingredients, recipes and cuisines.
- All of Lecheroth's collections of Japanese crafts and objects are imbued with powerful defensive magic to protect them from any damage. Out of of all the Japanese crafts, Lecheroth is particularly fond of kimonos and Japanese lacquerware.
- Lecheroth owns over 1,000,000 different types of kimonos and 500,000 different types of kanzashi hair ornaments which she collected since the Edo period. All her kimonos and kanzashi hair ornaments are imbued with defensive magic to prevent them from any damage such as age, preserving them in perfect condition.
- Lecheroth has collected a total 1,000,000 pieces of Japanese lacquerware from the Edo period, Meiji period and Heisei period.
- Like her best friend Ouka, Lecheroth likes to collect raku chawan tea bowls due to her interest in Japanese tea ceremony, having amass a collection of 100,000 raku chawan tea bowls since the Edo period, her collection also include works by famous raku potters such as Honami Koetsu and Deguchi Onisaburo.
- Though not a Christian nor a Shintoist, Lecheroth is fascinated with the Bible, Kojiki and Nihon Shoki.
- Like her fellow clone sisters of Albion, Lecheroth has an immense appetite due to their Dragon physiology.
- Lecheroth's favourite cuisine are European cuisine particularly British cuisine and Italian cuisine, Japanese cuisine and fusion cuisine.
- Lecheroth's favourite food are;
- Tonkatsu
- Omurice
- Apple pie
- Fish and chips
- Sunday roast
- Scotch eggs
- Cheese particularly Stilton cheese
- Scouse
- Strawberry cake
- Pancake
- All kinds of wagashi particularly Yōkan, Daifuku, Fruit Anmitsu and Shiruko
- Soba
- Teriyaki chicken
- Menchi-katsu
- Salted grilled mackerel served with rice and tsukemono
- Salted grilled tuna served with rice and tsukemono
- Osaka's Okonomiyaki
- Osaka's Takoyaki
- Sendai's Gyutan
- Hokkaido's Chanchanyaki
- Sukiyaki
- Sakura Nabe
- Nigirizushi
- Sashimi particularly tuna
- Japanese pork curry rice
- Chicken cream stew
- Lecheroth's favourite drinks are
- Mead
- Wine
- Gin and tonic
- 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 first came to Japan in 1610, ten years after her contracted master William Adams came to Japan himself in 1600, due to William Adams being extremely busy as he had to finished countless of his assigned duties by Tokugawa Ieyasu and gradually settled down in Japan as a samurai under the name Anjin Miura, William never had spare time to contact Lecheroth which they lose contact for ten years. Only in 1610 after William became a hatamoto for the Tokugawa shogunate, he finally summoned and contacted Lecheroth through magic which he then inform her about Japan whom William personally had a high regard for its culture and people which deeply influenced Lecheroth to become a Japanophile.
- While raising Jellal, Lecheroth never bought toys for Jellal, as she strongly instilled him to take interest in reading novels and mangas instead. This greatly influence Jellal's otaku interests.
- Lecheroth is pleasantly surprised when Jellal learnt to read Italian, French and German during his time living with Vergil, thus she started buying Italian books, French books and German books for Jellal to encourage his interests.
- Lecheroth's favourite genre to read in Japanese Literature is Samurai literature, with The Tale of Heike being her particular favourite.
- As a scholar of Japanese literature, Lecheroth is also a great fan of Murasaki Shikibu, Izumi Shikibu, Matsuo Bashō, Ihara Saikaku, Hakushū Kitahara, Natsume Sōseki, Eiji Yoshikawa, Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, Yasunari Kawabata and Mishima Yukio