Reinheit Ashe

Reinheit Ashe (ラインハイト・アシエ) was the personal knight for the Holy Church's Holy Templar Knights's Commander Laus Barn, but defected the church alongside Laus. In doing so, he would be chosen to be the Hero of Tortus, and would later became a member of the Liberators.

Appearance
Reinheit was a adult man in his mid 20s with smooth ash-brown hair.

Personalty
Reinheit was loyal and pure-hearted. He strived to be of use to those he cared for, and protect those in need.

Reinheit was very friendly and able to get along with many people.

Reinheit was initially a loyal follower of the Holy Church, but eventually decided to oppose them in order to support Laus Barn.

Background
Reinheit was born in the Elbard Theocracy's countryside. At some point, he was discovered to be an atavist, and was invited to the theocracy's capital to join the ranks of the Holy Church. As the people of his village cheered him on as he left his home, Reinheit vowed to make them all proud. However, his magical abilities were considered the weakest among the Atavists, which ultimately ended any chance of being promoted to an important position within the church. Before long, he started to worry that he might end up letting his village down. Fortunately for him, he was selected by Commander of the church's Holy Templar Knights Laus Barn to be his gatekeeper, to which he happily accepted.

Chronology
One evening, Reinheit greeted Laus as the latter was returning home after attending an important meeting with the leaders of the Holy Church. After noticing the fatigue on Laus' face, Reinheit asked him if he was alright, but Laus assured him that he was fine while expressing his opinion that he was just getting soft. Reinheit attempted to cheer Laus up by affirming his belief that Laus was still strong (unaware that the source of Laus' weariness was him having a realization of how corrupt the Holy Church actually was) and the two headed for the entrance to Laus's home.

When Laus returned home after the church was defeated in battle with the Haltina Republic, he sought to take his family away from the Holy Church and join its sworn enemy, the Liberators. In order to avoid detection, he covered. himself in a robe in order to hide his identity from the public. When as he returned, Reinheit took a fighting stance against Laus due to not recognizing him at first, but immediately ceased hostilities when Laus identified himself. When Laus wished to see his family. Reinheit explained that they were at the Holy Church's Main Cathedral, and that they had visited frequently to pray for Laus' safe return. Laus then decided to head there and asked Reinheit to accompany him. As they headed towards the church, Reinheit grew more curious at Laus' unusual behaviour. Laus then lead him to a alleyway and privately asked him if would be willing to sacrifice his family id the church told him to in a hypothetical situation, to which Reinheit hesitantly replied by saying that he would if its was for the greater good. Laus was satisfied with Reinheit's honesty, but this served to only confuse the young knight further and asked Laus what had happened to him while he away after seeing him in an unusually cheery demeanor. After Laus explained that church lost their war with the republic, Reinheit suspected that Laus had gained something even more important than victory to him. Laus confirmed Reinheit's suspicions and the two continued heading towards the church.

When they arrived at the cathedral, Laus gave Reinheit some parting words by telling him to do what his heart felt right from that point on, much to Reinheit's confusion. The two of them entered and were approached by the apostle Hearst. She had. Laus' youngest son Sharm brought to him in severely injured state and order Laus to use his magic to brainwash Sharm into worshiping their god Ehit after resisting all previous efforts to make him do so. This prompted Laus to immediately attack Hearst and the church's knights that escorted Sharm, in order to rescue his son. Laus then healed him with his magic before calling out to Reinheit for his help. Reinheit was stunned from watching the recent turn of events, but he regained himself and responded by attacking the Holy Church's Paladins Commander Darrion Kaus with a "Celestial Flash" attack. Laus then flung his son towards Reinheit, so that the two of them could escape while he would engage church's forces. As they fled, Sharm begged Reinheit to go back to rescue his father, but he didn't want Laus' sacrifice to be in vain. Just then, Reinheit was attacked by Darrion. After stabbing Reinheit with his Divine Spear, Darrion offered to spare Reinheit if he handed over Sharm, but he refused out of his own desire to help those that were in need of help. Darrion effortlessly managed to severely injure Reinheit and proceeded to capture Sharm by grabbing the scruff of his shirt and headed back to the church. It was then that Reinheit managed to awaken the true power of his special magic "Pure Soul" and prompted Darrion's Holy Sword artifact to approach him on its own. It managed to heal him, and gave him the strength to fight back against Darrion. As Reinheit charged in with his new weapon, Darrion managed to block him with his Divine Spear. The battle soon ended with both of them mortally wounding each other with a single stab. As Reinheit laid dying, a distraught Sharm came running over to him in an attempt to save him. Reinheit used his remaining strength to tell Sharm to head out and find the person that had inspired Laus to stand up against the church, believing that they would be able to help the boy. Sharm had no idea how to find them, but Reinheit assured him that he would succeed because he was Laus' son. Hearing this gave Sharm the courage to venture out on his own and thanked Reinheit far all the he did for him. As he was about to leave, he was blocked by Darrion, who somehow still had enough life left in him to fight. As Darrion was prepared to kill both of them, Laus arrived at the last second and killed him a lethal punch in the face after having escaped the church's forces at the cost of his left arm. Laus healed up Reinheit after a tear-filled reunion with Sharm. Before Sharm or Reinheit could say anything, Laus told them that they needed to hide from the church. Sharm then gave the Holy Sword to Reineit and all three of them fled while Sharm and Laus were supporting Reinheit.

Relationships

 * Laus Barn - After Reinheit was deemed worthless by the Holy Church, Laus offered him a job as his personal guard. Since then, Reiheit has had nothing but respect for him, even though Laus only appointed him due to his special magic making him impervious to mind control. When Laus betrayed the Holy Church, Reinheit decided to become a heretic in order to aid Laus.
 * Sharm Barn - Sharm was good friends with Renheit as a result of him being the most amicable of all the Barn family servants. Initially, Sharm was not too impressed with Reinheit's abilities as a knight, but was still very nice to him. However, when Reinheit helped to protect Sharm as they escaped from the church, Sharm considered him to be just as great a knight as his father. Before Reinheit's death, he had chosen Sharm to succeed him as he next hero of Tortus.
 * Darrion Kaus - Darrion despised Reinheit for stealing the Holy Sword (and by extension, Uralt) from him. He planned to take over his body in order to reclaim the sword, but was ultimately killed by Reinheit in he end.
 * Miledi Reisen - Reinheit instantly became attracted to Miledi during their first encounter. He did everything to impress her, but to no avail.
 * Oscar Orcus - Oscar did not like the attention Reinheit constantly gave to Miledi.

Powers & Abilities

 * Skilled Combatant - As a knight of the Holy Church, Reinheit was trained to fight though various ways, including swordsmanship. Initally, his skills were only average, but after becoming the hero of Tortus, his abilities had considerably improved.

Skills

 * Mana Manipulation - A skill to use magic without chants and magic circles.
 * Pure Soul - It allows the user to resist any and all external influences on their mental state. Its true power, however, allows the user to possess any Job they wished, so long as they willed it.
 * Light Magic Affinity - It allows the user to wield light magic at a capable rate.
 * Limit Break - A skill to go over one's limits; amplifying their power by three times one's basic stats, but this power comes with a rebound - once used the user will be heavily fatigued. Using it for long periods of time will damage the user's body.
 * Overload - A skill greater than "Limit Break" - it multiplies the abilities of the user by fives times with more damage recoil to the user than the normal "Limit Break".
 * True Martyr - It multiplies the user’s stats a dozen-fold, but lasts only ten seconds, and costs the user their life afterwards.

Spells/Attacks

 * Celestial Flash - An advance-rank light spell. It is so powerful that it can shatter through barriers of similar rank. Unleashes a blade of light to destroy the enemy.

Weapons & Equipment

 * Holy Sword Uralt - An artifact that was created from the Grand Tree Uralt by combining one of its roots with various minerals from its surroundings. It is a legendary weapon that was used by various heroes in the past, and was known as one of the seven holy artifacts while the Holy Church was in possession of it. It is blessed with the Light Magic element, which gave it the properties of simultaneously weakening enemies that were hit by the light it emitted, while also increasing one's own physical strength, along with the ability to return to its users hand on-command. It can change its shape into whatever type of sword its user wishes for. It also possess' the ability to automatically return to its owner without their consent, when they move away from it for a certain distance or try to abandon it. It was actually possessed by the hero that the Grand Tree's first avatar "Uralt" summoned and it was originally created to defeat the mad god Ehit. After Ehit defeated Uralt, she used the last of her powers to seal her will inside of the sword.

Quotes

 * (To Laus): "P-Perish the thought! You won’t be losing your touch for another thirty years at least! Please don’t joke about something like that!"
 * (To Laus): "Let me guess, you lost the battle but won the war?"
 * (To Darrion): "This has nothing to do with Laus-sama. I’m making this choice of my own free will."
 * (To Darrion): "There’s a crying child begging for my help. What kind of knight would I be if I didn’t save him?"
 * (To Sharm): "Pull yourself together! Your Laus Barn’s, the strongest knight’s, son!"
 * (To Darrion): "I’m taking you down here and now!"
 * (To Uralt): "Uralt, I have a request. Please...grant your strength to this boy."
 * (To Uralt): "I entrust you, the Holy Sword, to Sharm Barn...the kindest child of the strongest knight."
 * (His last words to Sharm): "I know...that you can grow...to be stronger...than anyone else."

Trivia

 * Reinheit means "purity" or "clean" in German.