Latria

Latria (LATRIA) is the witch form of Kirika Kure, who appears in the second half of the first installment of Puella Magi Oriko Magica and Sadness Prayer. She also appears in Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story: Magia Record as Kirika's Doppel and in Magia Exedra as a boss.

Witch Card

針の魔女。その性質は篭絡。

最愛の人を守り戦うために魔女へと至った。完成した願いの形。その愛は魔女の本能さえ凌駕する。すべては彼女のためであり、彼女の願いのためならばあらゆるものを捧げる。

魔女が持ちうる限りを捧げ切ったとき、最愛の人も願いを叶えるだろう。

Latria
Runes	LATRIA
Type	Witch of needles
Nature	Enticement
Episodes	Oriko Magica volume 2, Magia Exedra

LATRIA

Needles Witch. Nature: Enticement.

She became a witch to protect and fight for her beloved. It is the form of a completed wish. Her love surpasses even the witch's instincts. Everything is for her, and she will give everything for her wish. When a witch has given all she has, her beloved will be granted her wish.

Minions

針の魔女の手下。その役割は猟犬。

ふんわりとした容貌に反して、目についたものすべてに噛りつき貪る狂暴な手下。救世のための生贄達が逃げ惑い捕食から逃れたとしても、迷い込むのは魔女の待つ墓場のみである。

追い立てられた獲物に逃げ場はない。

Orkos
Runes	ORKOS
Type	Needles minion
Duty	Hound
Episodes	Oriko Magica volume 2, Magia Exedra

ORKOS Needled Witch Minion. Role: Hound. Contrary to their fluffy appearance, they are rabid minions who bite and devour everything in sight. Even if the sacrifices for salvation escape from predation, they can only wander into the graveyard where the witch awaits. There is no escape for the driven prey.

History

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Oriko Magica

Sadness Prayer

Magia Record

The Doppel of enticement. Its form is needles. The master of this emotion has vowed absolute loyalty to her savior. It penetrates enemy and master alike with sharp needles, sewing the fate of all things tight. This act represents its extreme devotion, such that it offers up everything, including its life to its benefactor, while symbolizing the perilousness of its dependence upon the other, which it cannot maintain its identity without. The sharper the needles are, the more the stitches there are, and the harder it becomes to extricate oneself from it. However, this merely serves as an expression of the master's desire.

Magia Exedra

Trivia

In Oriko Magica, Kirika's witch name was unknown and theorized by fans to be "Margot" due to a sign in her labyrinth that read "Margot Garden". In Magia Record, her name was officially revealed to be "Latria".
- Though "Margot Garden" might be a reference to the artwork Spring: Margot Standing in a Garden by Mary Cassatt.
Latria is a Latin word that means "adoration". The word has religious significance.
Latria may be a reference to the Grim Reaper due to how she composes of multiple bodies and due to the scythes on her arms. The multiple torsos are significant due to how the Grim Reaper is said to harvest souls at the time of a death.
- Also Latria's eye in her hat may be a reference to the infamous 'evil eye' who is said to have been a glare that witches would have used to curse people.
Latria's familiars are shown to be able to eat people alive as Kazuko Saotome is seen to suffer this fate.
In its Doppel animation, its name is incorrectly spelled as "Latriaa".
She is the same type of Witch as Quitterie.
Latria's design changes in Sadness Prayer, where she is seen wearing clothing. She also loses her side spikes and gains a square design protruding from where her arms would be, with strings coming out of these squares which she can control.
- Latria's design is similarly covered in Magia Record, even though she's covered further.
  - Magia Record also gives Latria arms, which she lacked in any prior appearance.
- Her design (along with her minions) also received a huge design overhaul once again in Magia Exedra, designed to look like Gekidan Inu Curry's style and also incorporated elements of her Doppel Form.
  - Her new design adopts the checkered cape from Oriko's Final ver. doppel.
The graves on her labyrinth in Magia Exedra reads RIP (RIP).
Her minions receive the name Orkos in Magia Exedra. Orkos may be a reference to the Greek mythology of a curse manifesting if one makes a false oath.
- Orkos also has some of the letters in Oriko.