Ithere

Originally belonged in the Hornet faction, but left the faction along with Noce. Under Noce' directions, he invaded Leazas, not aware that the plan was to resurrect the Demon King Gele.

He was turned into a Dark Lord by Gele, which means he's from 1021 to 2025 years old. He's also had his apostles since Gele's era.

Appearance and Personality He is a tall man of 202 cm, very handsome and formal in dressing. With long golden hair and bloody red eyes, although in earlier games he used to have golden eyes. He's pretty vampiric in looking. He cannot stand the sight of ugly beings. Like Kesselring he loves beauty and loathes ugliness. He prefers to use others to fight his battles, often using his apostles or brainwashing the enemies to make them fight each other. He likes people with strong mental fortitude and force of will that can resiste his mind control. He's very respectful and merciful towards his enemies.

Ithere feared Gele, he revealed to Shizuka that he once was weak and powerless against her, and never dared to go against her in any way. When she was revived, all Ithere could do was kneel.



He's not a bad man though, specially for a Dark Lord. He fell in love with Shizuka on the battlefield and seemed very honest about it. He also joined Hornet's faction, indicating that he wishes peaceful coexistance with humanity. He's loyal to Hornet and wishes to help her as much as he can, reason why he was tricked by Noce into getting Chaos.

He has three loyal apostles called Garnet, Saphire and Topaz that serve under him and follow all his orders and instructions. All three of them have a deep respect and love for him, to the point they are willing to throw away their lives with no second thought in order to save Ithere, and claiming they wouldn't like to live in a world where Ithere is dead anyway.

Abilities
He wasn't a top tier Dark Lord but he was certainly strong. Rance was unsure if he would be able to beat him in a 1v1 scenario, so he had to resort to dirty tricks in order to win. He's mostly proficient in magic related to the element of Darkness and he's very powerful with it. Even while injured he's still a dangerous opponent.

He has the ability to mind control humans and seems to be more effective with females. He could even used this ability to brainwash Leila, captain of Leazas. He is also adept with sword. He has three apostles, known as the Jewel Three, called  Garnet, Topaz and Sapphire. Each control the elements of Ice, Lightning and Fire respectively. They can also combine their powers to make one powerful Black Destruction Beam. His apostles also have the mind control ability although to a lesser extent. They are pretty powerful by themselves and average humans would stand no chance at defeating them.



Personal History He was turned into a Dark Lord by Gele and, at some point in Gele's era, he encountered his current apostles while still humans and invited them to serve under him. Ithere is known to have fought in the Dark Lord War and at some point met and fought Toushin Delta while trying to attack his toushin toshi. They fought to a draw but he was forced to retreat from the Toushin Toshi. How active he was in the war it is unknown.In the year LP0001 when the Dark Lords were splitted between two factions, he joined the Hornet Faction making his goal to protect Kurusu Miki and turn her into the next Demon King while fighting the Kayblis Faction. He loyally served Hornet but in LP0002, during the events of Rance 03, he was convinced by Noce to retrieve a powerful weapon that could be found in Leazas that would give them an advantage over the Kayblis Faction.Along with Dark Lords Satella and Noce, they left Hornet's side making sure she wouldn't notice and aided Helman in their invasion to Leazas. They tried to find the holy weapons to break the seal of the Demon Sword Chaos. In the battlefield he fell in love with Masou Shizuka after a brief fight with her. He would later confess but was turned down. Rance used his crush on Shizuka to his advantage by making her appear in front of him naked, and tell him she loves him. The plan worked, and Rance stabbed him with Chaos while Ithere was distracted. He fought Rance afterwards, but the damage caused by the thrust was too grieve. His apostles however, unable to see him die, all agree to sacrifice themselves to save him. They stab themselves in their chests and remove the blood Ithere originally gave them and give it to him. They all die but Ithere's wounds are partially healed, but he's still wounded. In the epilogue there's a rumour about a ghost haunting Leazas castle. Said ghost is blonde and late at night it moves around as it it were looking for something, which turns out to be Ithere who's still injured.His current whereabouts are unknown but he survived.==Trivia==
 * In the original Rance III he died at the end and was reduced to a blood soul whereas in the Rance 03 remake he survived making him the only character whose fate changed in the canonical storyline with the remakes.
 * In the Rance 03 popularity poll he was ranked as high as 4th place within male characters, making him the highest ranked villain in the series.
 * He's one of the few Dark Lords whose previous skill levels and level cap remain unknown.
 * While it's safe to assume that he was a human before turning into a Dark Lord, this was never officially confirmed.