Ragishss Cryhausen

About
Ragishss Cryhausen was a mage from the town of Kathtom in the Free Cities Alliance that served as the Magic teacher for the group of girls that would later be known as the Four Witches of Kathtom.

In his younger years, he was a gifted mage that was chosen as one of the ten students to be trained by the legendary witch Mysteria Tou. While Ragishss showed aptitude for being mage, he was far from reaching the expectatives Mysteria had to succeed her. Still, being taught by such an incredible mage like her granted Ragishss with wide knowledge of magic, especially of secret forbidden spells most mages would be unaware of, like the existance of magic items like the Phil Rings. Ten years prior to the events of Rance 02, Ragishss was a mage who opened his own cram school that taught the ways of magic. Among the students, there were four girls who he did consider as having the potential to become great magicians who are able to protect Kathtom in the future. He raised them like a father and taught them everything about magic but in the year LP0001, Raghishss gave his four top students the Phil Rings in celebration of their graduation and they become known as the Four Witches of Kathtom. The rings were actually catalysts to supply Ragishss with unlimited power by sucking magic out of their wearers, but they use this extra-power and face him in a battle that ends with his life.

 As a side effect of the rings, Shizuka and the other three witches of Kathtom go insane and twisted. Shizuka uses the town of Kathtom and starts researching forbidden spells, also convincing the other three witches to help her. The strong attachment to life and resentment over his plans not going as he wished, Ragishss soul stays and turns him into a Ghost, yet the Four Witches are unaware of this.

After all the Four Witches are released from the curse of the rigns by Rance during the events of Rance 02, Ragishss manages to steal the rings and take the accumulated power for himself, growing immensely powerful. However, a combined effort of the now free Four Witches with Rance and Sill's help manages to be good enough to take Ragishss  down  for good this time.

Personality and Appearance
Ragishss was a man commonly seen as a gentle and virtuous man, often helping people in need and being kind to others. To his adopted children, he was seen as a harsh and strict father, but still warm-hearted man. He disliked other disciplines, as he prohibited his students from studying subjects unrelated to magic. He was also widely respected by the people of Kathtom due to his status as an experienced and important mage. He was a polite and soft-spoken old man, with love towards the magic arts that wanted to gift to the next generation.

This all, however, was nothing but a mask to disguise his manipulative and cunning nature. In reality, Ragishss only chose to raise his children to become powerful mages he could use in order to empower himself through the use of the Phil Rings. He cared little about them or the people of the town of Kathtom, being only interested in growing into an incomparable mage. Despite this, he still held some level of respect towards some people like Shizuka, who she considered a talented prodigy, but still only cared about her as a useful tool to improve his own potential.

The only one he seems to have genuinely looked up to was his magic teacher Mysteria Tou, who taught him everything he knows about magic, including the most forbidden arts. His true intentions led his students to gain an intense grudge towards him and did everything in their power to erase him forever. Maria was seen being sad and nostalgic when visiting his mansion, but that only enraged her all the more due to knowing his true colours.

Abilities
Ragishss was a man with a very solid talent for the magic arts, being knowleadgable of its many uses and being able to make a school to introduce many young children to this complex art. He was shown capable of serving as a teacher to apprentinces in a wide variety of magics, be it conventional magic, summoning or even to a spell-blader, proving his vast knowledge over the many different forms of magic.

He had a Magic Lv1 skill and a Level Cap of 32, being his current level by the time of his death. While a Lv1 skill is fairly unimpressive for Mysteria's standards, he was still proven to be talented enough to be one of the ten selected students she picked as her apprentices. The training he received from her not only granted him an incredible knowledge over conventional magic, but also of the most secret, dark and forbidden forms of magic that very few mages know about. He was a powerful and respected wizard of the town of Kathtom, even without the Phil Rings, as it took the alliance of the Four Witches of Kathtom with the power boost they received from the Phil Rings to be able to overpower him in a 4v1 scenario.

As an effect from the Phil Rings used on the Four Witches of Kathtom, his skill level changed to Magic Lv2 and his raw magic power increased exponentially. At this point, the Four Witches were no match for him and his power would continuosly grow bigger and bigger over the course of the fight after Rance and Sill arrived to give their assistance. Even then, Ragishss power was big enough to still defeat the party and also died from the excess of his own power after his magic grew too big from being taken to the limit in the battle.

Rance 02
At the beginning, Rance will enter his house and have a chat with him. He appears as a ghost who claimed himself to be the town's protector, though he also claimed that he doesn't have any power to attain his form forever. He gives him information about the Four Witches of Kathtom, be it their abilities, names and advices to deal with them.

Ragishss stated that they stole his rings to increase their magical powers and also killed him in the process, but it is later revealed that the main villain is actually Ragishss himself. The rings which Ragishss mentioned aren't just able to give boost to magical powers, but they can also steal magic power from virgin sorceresses and drive them insane little by little. After collecting a total amount of magic power equal to that of of 40 maidens, the rings are able to grant a magician unlimited power. Knowing Ragishss's plan, Masou Shizuka, who was the strongest and considered as the leader of four maidens, rebelled against him to prevent his plan from succeeding. This was all revealed to Rance after he defeated and freed Maria Custard from her curse, who joined him in an attempt to free the other members. However, when they visit his mansion again, he's already vanished.

In the last chapter, or more precisely after Rance releases all the maidens from their curse and collects all the Phil Rings, Raghishss possesses Cith Gode and steals the rings from Rance to possess unlimited magic power. The Four Witches, along with Milli Yorks, try to fight Ragishss but they are defeated.



Rance and Sill join them in their final battle against their teacher, since he's responsible for Ragishss assension, and they a team is formed to fight Ragishss. Shizuka uses everything on her power to regulate Ragishss power and preventing him from casting as many spells as possible, while Maria uses her newly built Tulip #2 (a high-ranged canon) to attack him from afar. The team is capable of giving Ragishss a good fight but he grows stronger and stronger over time, since the Ring's are capable of exponentially increasing his power infinitely. Evenetually, he reaches a limit in which his appearance drastically changes and he over-powers the party, knocking everyone unconcious except Rance, who uses his last effort to raise his blade against Ragishss while protecting a knocked out Sill. Fortunately, the excess of magical power proves to be to high for Ragishss and he dies upon reaching his limit, being finally put to rest forever.

Trivia

 * He's one of the few characters that has increased the skill level he was born with, albeit only for a short period of time prior to his death.
 * He shares a few similarities with Chenezale do Ragarl, both being former students of Mysteria Tou that raised mages for their own selfish goals and making use of forbidden magic items in the process. Both were intensely hated by Shizuka Masou as well.
 * He was one of the few humans to reach his Level Cap.