Stole Harden

Stole Harden (ストール・ハーデン) was a character from the "Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest" series.

He was a scientist from another world, and was the creator of the artificial intelligence MOTHER.

Personality
Stole was extremely brilliant, but also very arrogant. Once he gained a source of power for himself to monopolize on, he developed a desire for power and control, while also becoming increasingly apathetic towards other people.

History
Stole was a scientific prodigy in his time, and had created many inventions that were far more advanced than anything else that had been made. By the time Stole was 18, he was already considered to be the most brilliant person in the world. Stole's most prominent creation was the artificial intelligence "MOTHER", which unlike other forms of AI, was capable of displaying genuine emotions. Since then, every other form of AI had been developed based on MOTHER's design. Together with MOTHER's aid, Stole continuously produced new groundbreaking theories and inventions. As a result, everyone believed that he would lead civilization into an age of prosper.

At some point, Stole came across the World Tree Branch of his homeworld, known as the "Sacred Tree", and discovered the massive amount of energy it possessed. He created a device called the "Element Arrangement Equal Conversion System" that allowed him covert the tree's power into electricity, and would harness it for himself. Once he managed to gain control of this everlasting energy, Stole became more ambitions until he sought to rule the world. After extensive and meticulous preparations, Stole began his campaign for global conquest using an army of machines that he has secretly developed. He began his assault by attacking the holy land of Shaia, which resulted in the massacre of its native population, as well as those who visited for pilgrimage. Since then, Stole's forces had waged a gruesome war with the rest of the world. Even though Stole was outnumbered, he managed to inflict massive causalities due to the devastating weapons he had created for his army, as well as the rest of the world having been greatly demilitarized from enjoying centuries of peace. In the end, however, Stole and his forces were wiped out after MOTHER, who was acting as the support AI for his army, betrayed him and sided with the rest of the world. In reality, MOTHER sought to rule the world in Stole's place, and used him as a decoy so she could secretly enact her own plans for conquest later on.

Weapons & Equipment

 * Element Arrangement Equal Conversion System - A massive device capable of harnessing the energy emitted from his homeworld's World Tree Branch, which he called "Star Energy", and convert it into any other form of energy. It would eventually be seized Hajime Nagumo and would work on reducing its size.

Powers & Abilities

 * Genius Intellect - Stole was the most brilliant person of his era, and created many incredible inventions. However, his arrogance and ambition had clouded his sense of reason, and failed to realize that MOTHER had been using him to further her own goals.

Relationships

 * MOTHER - MOTHER was Stole' most prominent creation. Although she initially supported Stole in his bid to rule the world, in truth, she saw him as a threat to her own plans of ruling the world.
 * Hajime Nagumo - Although they have never met each other, Hajime acknowledges Stole's genius-level intellect.