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Charles de Valois

2026-06-10T00:11:20Z

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{{Infobox_character
|name=Charles de Valois
|image=[[File:Charlescharacterimg.jpg|250px]]
|jname=
|designer=[[Golden Pe Done]]
}}

{{Distinguish|[[Charles VI]]}}

'''Charles de Valois''' (also known as '''Dauphin Charles''' or '''Charles VII''') is a supporting character in [[Puella Magi Tart Magica: The Legend of "Jeanne d'Arc"]]. He was the heir to the throne of England before he was forced to give up his title. [[Tart]] intends to make him King and save France. He is based on the [[wikipedia:Charles VII of France|real-life King of the same name]].

==General Info==
{{Character Details
|birth=22 February, 1403
|origin=[[wikipedia:Paris|Paris, France]]
|relatives=[[wikipedia:Charles VI of France|Charles VI of France]] (father), [[Isabeau de Bavière]] (mother), [[Corbeau]], [[Lapin]] and [[Minou]] (sisters), additional siblings not shown <ref>Although the official English translation of Tart Magica suggests that Isabeau adopted Corbeau, Minou and Lapin, [[:File:EB43-BDE2-AB93-4-B39-BD33-D765-E31-B5-EA0.jpg|this is not the case in the original Japanese]]</ref>, Louis I (uncle), Louis XI (son), Marie D'Anjou (wife), various children, [[wikipedia:Bernab%C3%B2_Visconti|Bernabó Visconti]] (great-grandfather), [[Riz Hawkwood]] (second cousin)
|job=King of France
}}

{{reflist}}

==History==
The fifth son of the previous French King, Charles VI, and the crown prince (Dauphin) of the French monarchy. By 1417, all four of his older brothers had died, and Charles was named crown prince. But not long after, the alliance of England and Burgundy forced Charles VI to sign the Treaty of Troyes, denying his son Charles his birthright as heir to the throne. A Burgundian chronicler wrote that Charles VII was extremely thin, gangly, and weak-boned with an odd, wavering gait. It was a pretty awful description, even from an enemy political faction.

===In ''Puella Magi Tart Magica: The Legend of "Jeanne d'Arc"''===
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Charles de Valois appears in ''Puella Magi Tart Magica: The Legend of "Jeanne d'Arc"'' as the rightful King of England who [[Tart]] wishes to crown. Thanks to her efforts, he is able to be crowned and becomes a uniting factor behind the French forces. After the war, he is convinced by [[George de la Tremoille]] that Tart is a witch and subjects her to trial, in which she is found guilty. Her execution is seen at the start and end of ''Puella Magi Tart Magica: The Legend of "Jeanne d'Arc"''. After, Charles greatly regrets his decision.

==In real life==
[[wikipedia:Charles VII of France|Charles VII of France]] was born on the 22nd of February, 1403, in Paris, France. When he became the Dauphin, all of his siblings and family had died without any children. This gave him a large amount of money and many titles. He was forced to flee Paris on May 29th, 1418 due to a threat on his life by partisans of [[wikipedia:John the Fearless|John the Fearless]] and the [[wikipedia:Duke of Burgundy|Duke of Burgundy]]. John the Fearless was killed, and tensions rose between the Armagnac and Burgundian factions in France. The feud was only settled when Charles made a treaty with [[wikipedia:Philip the Good|Philip the Good]], John the Fearless' son and promised to pay penance for the murder, which was never payed. 
When his father died in 1422, a power struggle began. Charles and Henry V of England's heir both held a right to the throne due to the [[wikipedia:Treaty of Troyes|Treaty of Troyes]]. Charles argued that the treaty was made with taking advantage of his father and also argued that the young Henry VI was too young to lead France (at the time, Henry VI was an infant). However, his attempts were unsuccessful and he prepared for war. 
Thus, the [[wikipedia:Hundred Years' War|Hundred Years' War]] was continued under Dauphin Charles. At first, he was losing and was pushed back by English forces into the south of France. However, before they lost, [[wikipedia:Joan of Arc|Joan of Arc]] appeared and vowed to make Charles the King of France. With her uniting the French forces, Charles won the Hundred Years' War and was crowned as King. They were able to completely remove Britain from France, save the northernmost ports. 
In the later years of his life, Charles began feuding with his heir [[wikipedia:Louis XI|Louis XI]]. Louis had repeatedly asked to become Dauphin, and Charles repeatedly refused. Louis had planned to overthrow Charles, but the plan was found out and Louis was exiled. Charles died 22 July 1461, aged 58, due to an infection that he had gained in 1458.

==Etymology==
The name '''Charles''' comes from the old English word "''ceorl''", meaning "''free man''". '''The House of Valois''' is the royal family that Charles is a part of.

==Gallery==
===Manga Panels===
<gallery>
File:Charles1.jpg
File:Charles2.jpg
</gallery>

===Art by the artist===
<gallery>
File:EvAPs4dUYAMhNut.jpg|Pictured in the bottom left. [https://twitter.com/masugitune/status/1364608092223148033 Source.]
</gallery>
===Games===
====[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story: Magia Record]]====
<gallery>
File:-830200.png|Charles' Live2D in Magia Record.
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{{Character Categories|Valois}}

Minou in Magia Record

2026-06-10T00:08:54Z

InquisitorKrieg: /* General Info */ Related through Bernabó Visconti

{{Infobox_character
|name=Minou
|image=[[File:Card 40244 l.png|300px]]
|jname={{lang|ja|ミヌゥ}} (Minou)
|designer=[[Golden Pe Done]]
|voices=Japanese: [[wikipedia:Rie_Tanaka|Rie Tanaka]]
|id=4024
|release1=JP:May 24, 2021
}}
{{SeeMainBio|[[Minou]]}}

'''Minou''' was a playable character in the 2017 mobile game [[Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story]]. She is an original character from [[Puella Magi Tart Magica: The Legend of "Jeanne d'Arc"]].

==General Info==
{{Magical Girl Details
|birth= 1407<ref>Hinted at in Isabeau's (witch) magical girl story</ref>
|eyes=Yellow
|hair=Blonde
|height=151cm
|origin= Paris, France
|soulgem=Yellow Diamond (below her neck)
|weapon=Torture Devices (Cat o' nine tails whip, branding irons, great sword, etc)
|witch=Capricieux
|witchlink=Minou in Magia Record#Doppel Description
|powers= Spatial Manipulation (Can also turn magical girls into witches with the despair from her torture devices {{spoiler|[Only magical girls that contracted with Isabeau]}}).
|wish={{spoiler|That mother (Isabeau) shall not be defeated by any type of magical girl in existence.}}
|pronoun={{nihongo|''Watakushi''|私/わたくし|}}
|relatives=[[Corbeau]] (older sister), [[Lapin]] (oldest sister), [[Isabeau]] (mother), Louis I (possible father)<ref>In Isabeau's (Witch) magical girl story in Magia Record it's stated that Isabeau had an affair with her brother-in-law, Louis I between 1404 to 1407, prior to his death, hinting that he might be the biological father of Minou and her sisters</ref>, [[wikipedia:Charles VII of France|Charles VII]] (older brother), Louis IX (nephew), Marie D'Anjou (sister-in-law), additional siblings not shown, [[wikipedia:Bernab%C3%B2_Visconti|Bernabó Visconti]] (great-grandfather), [[Riz Hawkwood]] (second cousin).
|school=[[Holy Maiden Academy Edition|Holy Maiden Academy]] (only in one special event)
|mainpage=Minou
}}
{{reflist}}

==Game Info==
{{:Magia Record Units/Minou}}

==Summary==
A masked Magical Girl who fights in the shadows for the English in the Hundred Years’ War. The youngest sister of three, her behavior is calm and calculated. She directs her battles from the sidelines rather than take center stage. Her mother is a noblewoman, whom she loves more than anyone.

===Doppel Description===
[[File:Doppel_402400_l.png|thumb|right|150px|Capricieux, Minou's doppel]]
The Doppel of cruelty. Its form is a mischievous cat. The master of this emotion sets the stage of the battlefield like a conductor waving her baton. It may take the form of a cat, but the depths of its mischievous grin are unimaginably dark, and a fearsome, insanity-laden instinct hides within its furthest reaches. Its ninefold waving tails are each equipped with an implement of torture. Every time it waves its tails, the tails hunt and harm those who oppose it, and continue to do so until its victims can no longer move– much like how a cat simply plays with its prey, rather than hunting it.
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===Side Story===

==Abilities==
Minou is able to summon various instruments of torture as her weapons, such as a cat-o-nine tails whip and a branding iron.

Minou has demonstrated the ability to create portals, which she uses to travel long distances. She can also corrupt the soul gems of other magical girls.

In her Side Story is confirmed that due to a side effect of her wish, Minou is the only one capable of understanding Isabeau's ambiguous words after she turned into a witch and was reversed into her body by Lapin's wish.

==Etymology==
* Minou is the French word for "kitty".

==Appearances==
===Event Appearances===
*[[Magia Record Story Rebel of a Dawnless Land|Rebel of a Dawnless Land]]
*[[Magia Record Story End of a Legend, the Limits of Light|End of a Legend, the Limits of Light]]
*[[Magia Record Story The Masked Student Council Strikes Back (Holy Maiden Academy Edition)|The Masked Student Council Strikes Back (Holy Maiden Academy Edition)]]
===Magical Girl Story Appearances===
* [[Corbeau in Magia Record|Corbeau]]

==Trivia==
* Her Doppel's name means "capricious" in French.
* Her Magia attack is French for "Cat o' Nine Tails", her weapon of choice.
* Her eye color was changed from green to yellow from her initial event debut to her release.
* Her Doppel holds 8 weapons on its tails, and in the clockwise order of how they're held they are:
** Iron maiden ring: A circular collar device with inward and outward-facing spikes. This seems to be a miniaturized symbolic take on the Iron Maiden or the spiked restraint collar. While such devices weren't used in medieval Europe, spiked collars or restraints with spikes did exist, and were mostly used to humiliate or control prisoners.
** Branding iron: Similar to the branding irons she summons, this device is a rod with a hot, circular end. Branding as a punishment was common to use against criminals or slaves at the time.
** Pincers: A gripping tool with strong, claw-like ends designed to grasp and pull. Iron pincers or tongs were widely used for torture and execution in medieval Europe, where they were heated and used to tear flesh or extract nails.
** Pear of anguish: A mechanical object with a bulbous body with a split and key-like mechanism. It is inserted into a victim's body, likely their mouth, and then expanded. This device wasn't used until around the 17th century.
*** Alternatively, what Minou's Doppel is holding could be a simple arrowhead dagger.
** Bone saw: A stylized, toothed saw for cutting through bone. It has a rough, and sparkly texture, possibly referencing a sawfish-style weapon or serrated torture blade. Saws were commonly used for execution and post-mortem procedures at the time, but bone saws for torture were less common.
** Multi-tailed whip: A weapon similar to the cat o' nine tails whip one she uses, which also has nine cords. Whips with multiple tails were used for corporal punishment in medieval Europe, but the exact “cat o’ nine tails” term came later with the British Navy in the 17th century. There’s additionally no strong evidence that a whip with exactly nine tails was standard.
** Bodkin: A sharp spike on a handle used for impaling, or puncturing, and appearing similar to a present day skewer, or screwdriver. This tool, or ones similar to it, were very common for the time period and used for many trades, including torture.
** Shears: Scissor-like cutting instruments with sharp blades, giving the impression of present-day iron cutters. They were common in everyday life, both for cloth and metal, as well as for torture procedures. This is the only tool which the Doppel holds with two of its tails.

==Gallery==
===Game Gallery===
<gallery>
File:Card 40244 c.png|Magia Record Four Star art
File:Card 40245 c.png|Magia Record Five Star art
File:Mini 402400 s.png|In-battle Sprite
File:Doppel 402400 l.png|Doppel Sprite
File:Minou profile.png
File:Minou PM.png
File:Minou (Maskless).png
File:Minou school (mask).png
File:Minou school (no mask).png
File:230 the cat.png|Magical Girl Seal 2021
File:UltimateMadoka-2ndMagia-Minou.png|In [[Ultimate Madoka in Magia Record|Ultimate Madoka]]'s 2nd Magia
</gallery>

===Official Art===
<gallery>
File:Minou 01.png
File:Minou 02.png
File:1562921157977.jpg
File:Memoria 1375.jpg
File:51065 minou magic circle.png|The magic circles Minou uses
File:Sasa, Himena, Minou, Yuuri.jpg|A drawn by [https://twitter.com/masugitune/status/1370888092094140416 Masugitune] featuring Minou with [[Kagari Hinata]], [[Sasa Yuuki]], and [[Yuuri]].
File:Memoria 1625.jpg
File:Memoria 1626.jpg
File:E2YvAxWVUAMCwfv.jpg|[https://twitter.com/masugitune/status/1397857328523669514 Source]
File:MasugitsuneMRTribute.jpg|Art by Masugitsune as a tribute to Magia Record.
</gallery>

==Memoria Cards==
{{Magia Record Memoria List|character=Minou}}

==External links==
*[http://magireco.com Official Magia Record Website - Japanese]

===Gameplay Videos===
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYElIDT6awE Recording of Minou's Transformation Video on Youtube (JP)]
*[https://youtu.be/Nrs5twXOUzM?si=NLEj_bma0zYWE9kt Recording of Minou's Magia Video on Youtube (JP)]
*[https://youtu.be/Au5zePNVJYE?si=h2uLiHAnnUEGDLa4 Recording of Minou's Doppel Video on Youtube (JP)]

===Side Story and Costume Story Videos===
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQ17MV-OuRI Recording of Minou's MSS on Youtube (JP)]
*[https://youtu.be/pVy0wTU9pWU?si=cNzkhF3KzFePez6a Recording of Minou's Dialogue lines on Youtube (JP)]

[[Category:Magia Record Event-limited Characters]]
[[Category:Tart Magica Content in Magia Record]]

Minou

2026-06-10T00:06:07Z

InquisitorKrieg: /* General Info */ Related through Bernabó Visconti

{{Infobox_character
|name=Minou
|image=[[File:Minou Lapin pageBIO.png|220px]]
|jname={{lang|ja|ミヌゥ}}
|designer=[[Golden Pe Done]]
|voices=Japanese: [[wikipedia:Rie_Tanaka|Rie Tanaka]]
}}
'''Minou''' is an antagonist in ''[[Puella Magi Tart Magica|Puella Magi Tart Magica: The Legend of "Jeanne d'Arc"]]'' alongside her sisters [[Corbeau]] and [[Lapine]].

==General Info==
{{Magical Girl Details
|birth= 1407<ref>Hinted at in [[Isabeau de Bavière (Witch ver.)]]'s Magical Girl story.</ref>
|eyes=Yellow
|hair=Blonde
|height=151cm
|origin= Paris, France
|soulgem=Yellow Diamond (below her neck)
|weapon=Torture Devices (Cat o' nine tails whip, branding irons, great sword, etc)
|witch=Capricieux
|witchlink=Minou in Magia Record#Doppel Description
|powers= Spatial Manipulation (Can also Turn magical girls into witches with the despair from her torture devices {{spoiler|[Only magical girls that contracted with Isabeau]}}).
|wish={{spoiler|That mother (Isabeau) shall not be defeated by any type of magical girl in existence.}}
|pronoun={{nihongo|''Watakushi''|私/わたくし|}}
|relatives=[[Corbeau]] (older sister), [[Lapine]] (oldest sister), [[Isabeau]] (mother), Louis I (possible father)<ref>In Isabeau's (Witch) magical girl story in Magia Record it's stated that Isabeau had an affair with her brother-in-law, Louis I between 1404 to 1407, prior to his death, hinting that he might be the biological father of Minou and her sisters</ref>, [[Charles de Valois]] (older brother), Louis XI (nephew), Marie D'Anjou (sister-in-law), additional siblings not shown <ref>Although the official English translation of Tart Magica suggests that Isabeau adopted Corbeau, Minou and Lapine, [[:File:EB43-BDE2-AB93-4-B39-BD33-D765-E31-B5-EA0.jpg|this is not the case in the original Japanese]]]</ref>, [[wikipedia:Bernab%C3%B2_Visconti|Bernabó Visconti]] (great-grandfather), [[Riz Hawkwood]] (second cousin)
}}
{{reflist}}

==Story==
===Backstory===
{{Spoilerbox|
As a young girl, Minou was chosen alongside her sisters [[Lapine]] and [[Corbeau]] to be among the first magical girls [[Isabeau]] contracted due to their closely interwoven fates. Isabeau grew to become like a mother to the three girls she took in. However, she eventually turned into a witch and was poised to kill the three girls, of whom only Corbeau had as yet contracted to become a magical girl. This lead to Lapine making her wish for her mother to “return to how she was.” Since the transformation from magical girl to witch is irreversible, her wish lead to Isabeau’s witch mind inhabiting the now empty husk of her former physical body. Isabeau was no longer mindless and now retained her original powers that were granted to her from her own wish. Even so, she still retained her witch’s ambition to destroy all of France.
}}

===During ''Tart Magica''===
Minou first appeared in Chapter 1 as an unnamed antagonist. As [[Tart]], [[Riz Hawkwood|Riz]], [[Melissa de Vignolles|Melissa]], and [[Elisa Celjska|Elisa]] attempt to stop her, she calls [[Lame]] to her defense. Lame is easily defeated, prompting Minou to summon a magical branding iron and burns Lame with it. This causes Lame to transform into a witch, allowing Minou to escape through a portal. She later reports the defeat of Lame to her mother Isabeau.

In Chapter 5, Minou stands with Lapine and Corbeau as they finish slaughtering the soldiers of Orleans, a stronghold that held four thousand soldiers. Corbeau threatens the last of the injured soldiers as Lapine jeers and taunts them and Minou cuts off their retreat with her cat-o-nine tails. Before Corbeau can finish off the commander of the troops, someone fires an arrow at her. [[Etienne de Vignolles|Etienne]] appears, having been searching for Jean and assists him to stand. Minou notices what is happening and lashing at them with her whip, but the two are able to limp away to safety.

Back at the outskirts of Orleans, at the fort of Saint-Loup, Lapine is busy singing as she walks along the edge of the outermost wall, kicking the dismembered limbs of dead soldiers out into the distance. Corbeau asks her to go easy with the gore, claiming she's making a huge mess. Minou appears and relays orders to her sisters, leaving [[Flèche]] with Corbeau to take care of [[Tart]] as Minou takes Lapine back home for the time being.

Towards the end of the battle between Corbeau, Tart, and Riz, Minou appears before an unconscious Flèche. She had planned to gather up what was left of her but instead she conjures a seal with her magic and presses it to Fleche, causing her to scream. As Corbeau summons black feathers around her, Minou walks over and calls out to Corbeau. She tells her she knows better than to use ''that'' while there are still English troops in the vicinity. Corbeau warns Minou away since she will automatically absorb any impurities in Corbeau's soul gem. But Minou isn't worried and tells her Lapine had been asking for her. She tells Corbeau to leave everything to Fleche instead. The two disappear into Minou’s portal, leaving Tart and her friends to fend against a now transformed Flèche.

Several months later at the city of Patay, Minou, Corbeau and Lapine stand at the head of the English forces as Lapine relishes the idea of ‘playing’ with the French forces opposing them. Before Minou can say anything, Lapine had already began her attack on Tart, Riz, Melissa, and Elisa. Unfortunately, the four magical girls are able to deflect most of Lapine’s initial attacks, hitting her with their weapons several times and causing Lapine’s soul gem to darken. Minou warns Corbeau away from their sister as her soul gem transforms into a grief seed and hatches Lapine’s witch form. After transforming, Lapine activates her ability to possess any and all weapons in her vicinity, including that of her English allies (with the exception of Tart and Elisa as their weapons have magical abilities imparted on them by Pernelle. She telepathically causes them to fly at her enemies and damaging them. She even forms a towering sword-like shape composed of the weapons she’s amassed and drops it at the opposing magical girls. Tart is able to deflect this massive attack on her friends even as Lapine activates her secondary ability: the ability to cause magical girls to lose their magical girl state temporarily. As Lapine in her witch form continues to battle the magical girls, Corbeau takes this opportunity to continue her fight with Riz earlier.

On the other side of the field, Minou watches the skirmish between the magical girls. Talbot asks if she is not going to join the fray and support her comrades but Minou only giggles in response. While she may worry about her older sisters, getting too close to the witch would relieve her of her own weapon and she would only serve as a hindrance. Eventually Tart and Elisa are able to defeat Lapine, who reverts to her human form. Corbeau picks up her sister and hands her to Minou, who retreats into one of her portals and leaves Corbeau behind to unleash her ''Danse Macabre''. Following the defeat of Corbeau at the hands of Tart, she lands against the trunk of a tree and falls to her knees, greatly weakened. Tart aims her blade at Corbeau, telling her this is the end as Corbeau tries to stand. But all Corbeau can think of is her two sisters, Lapine and Minou. Before she can deliver the finishing blow, a portal appears behind Corbeau and Minou steps through. {{spoiler|While Corbeau is overfilled with joy at the sight of her sister, Minou kneels down and takes Corbeau’s soul gem in her hands, informing her this is the end. Confused, Corbeau asks her why and if she doesn't see how much she loves her and Lapine. Minou confirms that this is what she suspected and says she stopped serving their benefactor a long time ago. As Corbeau yells out once more to Minou asking her why she can't understand how much she loves them, Minou shatters Corbeau's soul gem and tells her she doesn't love her any longer. Corbeau falls forward, calling out her sisters' names as she dies. Minou tells her that at the very least she will tell Lapine that Corbeau died honorably in battle. Tart angrily demands she explain herself as Riz calls her heartless. As Minou summons a portal, she giggles and says it'll be something to look forward to as she gathers Corbeau's body and takes it back with her, leaving the heroines alone in the woods. The two turn to go, knowing the battle isn't over yet.}}

After the coronation of the Dauphin Charles, many of his courtiers were celebrating this triumphant moment when several of the women in attendance suddenly ignite in flame as the lights cut out. Isabeau suddenly appears without warning accompanied by Minou. As Charles stammers and crawls away from her, he begs Tart to save him and demands she kill the queen. At his word Tart rushes forward and stabs her sword straight through the queen's heart as she stands there. Charles initially laughs at this display, but the queen smiles as a white miasma escapes from the queen's wound and she merely stands there smiling. Tart leaps back, certain she had injured the queen but thinking to herself that it didn't feel like she had stabbed her. Riz summons her shadowy tendrils and ties the queen up as Elisa and Melissa both swing their weapons directly at her. Isabeau merely smiles more broadly, completely unharmed from both their attacks. She raises her finger and shoots a beam of magical energy at the two girls, causing them to be knocked away hard. As Minou knocks Riz away with her whip, Tart unleashes her “La Lumiere” attack on Isabeau. However Isabeau remains completely unharmed. As Minou begins to admonish Charles, Isabeau faints, prompting Minou to catch her in her arms. Isabeau whispers to Minou, who declares to all that in one year’s time death shall befall Tart. Minou and Isabeau leave through Minou’s portal as Charles cries and the magical girls tend to their wounds. From here on, the four magical girls travelled the lands of France for several months, possibly years in search of Isabeau’s stronghold in order to thwart her plan to spread grief seeds throughout France and allow them to hatch into witches. With the chaos brought on by these incidents, Isabeau planned to deliver these lands into the hands of the English army and their allies and thus bring the country under her influence.

In May 1430 in Compiegne, Tart, Riz, Melissa and Elisa arrive at a witch’s barrier just outside of the town. Minou greets them from inside the barrier as she calls their daily battles ultimately futile. Minou then summons her portal and lets through an army of mind-controlled magical girls. She raises her hand and several brands drop down onto the girls, causing them to be consumed by despair and transformed into witches. She commands the witch army forward as she declares this to be the appointed time at which death would befall La Pucelle. As the four magical girls fight off this army of witches, Minou watches the battle rage on before her and decides that this small contingency of witches won't be enough to stop them and turns to where Lapine now stands. She tells her this is her chance to avenge the death of their sister Corbeau as Lapine stands there seething, promising to tear them limb from limb. Lapine demands revenge for the death of her sister, having been told by Minou that it was Tart and her friends who ended Corbeau’s life. Despite having defeated Lapine’s human and witch form once more, Lapine only reappears each time with her soul gem cleansed. Minou laughs to herself, as this is just the outcome she had hoped for. As Riz tosses a grief seed to Melissa to replenish her magic, Minou lashes with her whip and knocks the grief seed away. She then summons a portal beneath Melissa as Elisa races to protect her. Minou smiles and transports both of them away to an unknown location. As Tart calls out for her friends, a worm-like witch lashes at her with its tongue but Riz cuts it down with one of her daggers. She warns Tart not to lose focus as they try to cut their way out of the throng.

Melissa and Elisa look around for Tart and Riz as they stand inside a witch's barrier. Minou appears behind them as she promises they won't be bored here and summons several more magical girls from her portals. Once more, she raises her hand and several seals burn despair into the magical girls, causing them to transform into witches. The two girls begin to fight off the second horde of witches, Minou watching them and applauding their efforts. Elisa growls at Minou, incensed at her words. Minou laughs and readies her whip in order to "apologize" for her words when the ceiling of the barrier begins to crack and rain down on them. As Minou summons her portal, she can't believe that anyone would be able to dispose of so many witches, much less her sister Lapine as well. She looks inside her portal and sees Tart on her knees crying. She admires her for having been the only survivor and both Melissa and Elisa are stunned at these words. Despite having lost her only other sister, Minou is not bothered in the least and instead looks forward to what will come. As the barrier continues to shatter, she promises to allow Melissa and Elisa to spectate during La Pucelle's final curtain call, a battle that Minou intends for Tart alone. As the barrier dissipates, Tart is left alone to a small battalion of troops who capture her as a prisoner. It is after the Chamberlain advises King Charles to allow Tart to be sold off to the English to their advantage, it is revealed that {{spoiler|he had been working under the orders of Minou and her sisters for some time.}}

Following the capture of Tart and her subsequent selling to her enemies in England, she is held capture in a prison tower in the town of Rouen near the border channel between England and France. Minou walks into the prison cell, followed by Isabeau and two maidens who hold the train of Isabeau's gown. Minou lashes at Tart and Kyubey with her whip, mocking them and accusing them of being the source of their troubles. Before she can continue to torture them, a large booming noise rings out causing the walls to shake. A soldier opens the door to the cell, informing Minou of reports of a French attack. She orders him to get rid of them, but the soldier informs her that it was a larger assault than they had expected since it seems there is a concerted effort throughout France to recapture Tart. She apologizes to Queen Isabeau for the disturbance and vows to go forth herself to handle this trouble. As Minou deals with the French forces outside, Elisa and Melissa fight their way towards her prison cell, disarming soldiers and sentries along the way.

Isabeau makes her way outside, Minou humbling herself before her. Isabeau waves her hands before her which causes the troops to collapse to their knees, their strength being sucked out from them. As she aims her hand forward, a magic circle having formed around it, Tart stabs a standard into the ground before her and blocks her next move. Minou orders the magical girl slaves she brought with her to stop Tart, but Elisa and Melissa hold them off so Tart can race in towards Isabeau. Once more her sword attacks seem to have no effect on the queen. Isabeau raises her hands once more and fires a beam of magic directly at her. As the dust settles, Tart looks up from behind her shield to find that [[Pernelle]] has blocked the attack with her own magic circle, explaining to Tart that Isabeau is immune to attacks due to someone else’s wish.
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|style="padding:10px; background:#fff;"|Kyubey and Pernelle explain to Tart that Isabeau is now part magical girl, part witch, and part incubator thanks to her and Lapine’s wish. Minou declares to all that she wished for Isabeau to be undefeated by any magical girl. Isabeau transforms into her witch state as the empty shell of her human body sits cradled in an enormous hand jutting from the ground nearby. As Tart, Elisa and Melissa continues the struggle against the witch Crepuscule de la Reine (Twilight of the Queen), all of their attacks having no effect on the witch. Tart’s soul gem grows black with impurities as she reaches her limit, when she suddenly hears the voice of Riz reminding her of her sword training back in her home village. From before Tart, Riz's soul gem materializes from a shadow as Riz tells her that her final vow was for her soul to remain with her from that day forward. Even if Riz's body was lost, her soul remained behind like her shadow, always by Tart's side. Tart’s gauntlet turns black with Riz’s soul gem encased on the back. As Tart’s soul gem crackles with impurities, she slashes her sword down and successfully injures the witch. Due to Riz’s wish, Tart’s soul gem has been prevented from transforming into a grief seed, making her more than just a magical girl. Enraged, Minou threatens to tear Tart apart for having dared to hurt her mother. She lashes her whip repeatedly at Tart, who blocks the whip with her weapon. Minou continues her assault, not letting up for a second as Tart advances towards her, continuing to block each blow. She swings her sword down at Minou who is knocked backwards by the might of the attack. Before Tart can finish her off, Isabeau's body begins to shake as a larger body emerges from underneath, a second larger witch form that causes the cathedral to crumble under the size and might of this new body as everyone gazes up in terror at the true form of Crepuscule de la Reine. However, Tart remains determined as ever as she faces down her foe. Isabeau begins to charge her cannon and aims it at Tart who immediately summons her standard and smashes through the center of it, causing the cannon to crumble. As Isabeau flies above the ruined cathedral, Tart summons a massive magic circle in the sky above her in an attack known as the Gate of Heaven. The center of the circle slides open like a gateway as crosses of light pierce Isabeau and hold her in place. Tart leaps up and swings her weapon down at the witch, slicing the massive body in half and then half again. As the pieces of the witch's corpse fall back to earth, the gate closes and disappears. Tart's shadowy gauntlet also begins to dissipate as Riz's soul gem crumbles. Tart thanks Riz for protecting her until the very end.

{{spoiler|Pernelle hands the girls a grief seed to Tart but before they can do so, they're interrupted by the lamentations of Minou who stands over her mother's human yet empty body. Melissa and Elisa prepare themselves to defend Tart as Minou threatens to kill them herself no matter what may happen. Suddenly, Minou's soul gem shatters. She demands answers and Pernelle provides them: having been created by an imperfect creator she lost her powers the moment Isabeau was destroyed. Minou is devastated by the news and orders her soldiers to capture and kill them all. La Hire urges his men to pull out but Tart instead walks quietly towards the enemy soldiers with her hand over her chest. Minou promises that Tart will be the first to die and urges her men to kill her, however Tart instead offers herself as a prisoner in exchange for the lives of the French soldiers. Melissa begs her not to do this, but Tart holds Melissa's hands in her own and smiles. Tart turns back to the enemy soldiers and once more offers herself as prisoner on the condition they take no acts of aggression against anyone else. Minou cackles gleefully at the thought of at least being able to execute the "criminal who defiled mother". Alone, Minou knocks Tart to the ground and pins her down, promising her a merciless execution in which her sins will burn through her body until nothing but ash remains. The last scene of Minou shows her crying longingly over the empty body of her mother.
|}

===Minou in [[Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story: Magia Record|Magia Record]]===
See [[Minou in Magia Record]]

Minou is one of the secondary antagonists in the three Tart events that were released for Magia Record. In it, she plays much the same role as she does in the original manga. She relays orders and information to and from Isabeau using her teleportation and orders the mindless Magical Girls that Isabeau has enslaved to further their plans. Her element is light. During the first event, Minou and her sisters go into Tart's dreams in order to cause Tart to lose hope and lose the fight for France. During the second event, Minou and her sisters attempt to rewrite history so Iroha and Yachiyo never exist and don't travel back in time to thwart their plans. During the final event, Minou attempts to erase Tart's memories so she'll be powerless to stop them.

For more information, see [[Magia Record Story The Chiming Bell that Transcends Time|The Chiming Bell that Transcends Time ''(NA: The Maiden of Hope)'']], [[Magia Record Story Rebel of a Dawnless Land|Rebel of a Dawnless Land]], and [[Magia Record Story End of a Legend, the Limits of Light|End of a Legend, the Limits of Light]].

==Powers and Abilities==
Minou is able to summon various instruments of torture as her weapons, such as a cat-o-nine tails whip and a branding iron. The cat-o-nine tails can also transform into a large sword.

Minou has demonstrated the ability to create portals, which she uses to travel long distances. Her main power is to corrupt the soul gems of other magical girls and turn them into witches.

Due to a side effect of her wish, Minou is the only one capable of understanding Isabeau's ambiguous words after she turned into a witch and was reversed into her body by Lapine's wish. This was confirmed in her magical girl story in Magia Record.

==Observations==
Minou is the youngest sister of the three daughters of Isabeau and the last to be defeated. She speaks elegantly and never loses her cool, however she hides a dark soul and twisted mind as Corbeau has noted that torture and "information extraction" were Minou's specialty. Like her sisters, she wears an animal themed mask based on her name similar to the kind worn at masquerade parties. Until the final volume, Minou's face remained hidden from view even when she was not in her magical girl state.

==Etymology==
* Minou is the French word for "kitty".

==Trivia==
* While not confirmed, the art of younger Minou shows her as a timid girl, and leads to the possibility that becoming a Magical Girl gave her much more confidence.
* Minou's hairstyle and her overall complexion resembles Tart, her arch-nemesis. It's still unconfirmed for the reason of the design choice, but it's highly possible to make a contrast between two enemies. In fact, their similar characteristics was briefly stated in one of the voice lines of Minou's School Uniform Costume in Magia Record.

==Gallery==
See [[Gallery:Minou]]

{{Character Categories|magicalgirl=yes}}
[[Category:Irregulars]]

Lapine in Magia Record

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InquisitorKrieg: /* General Info */ Related through Bernabó Visconti

{{Infobox_character
|name=Lapine
|image=[[File:Card 40273 l.png|300px]]
|jname=(ラピヌ)
|designer=[[Golden Pe Done]]
|voices=Japanese: [[wikipedia:Shiori Izawa|Shiori Izawa]]
|id=4027
|release1=JP:June 19, 2020
}}
{{SeeMainBio|[[Lapine]]}}

'''Lapine''' (also known as '''Lapin''' in most official translations) was a playable character in the 2017 mobile game [[Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story]]. She is an original character from [[Puella Magi Tart Magica: The Legend of "Jeanne d'Arc"]].

==General Info==
{{Magical Girl Details
|birth=1405<ref>Hinted at in Isabeau's (witch) magical girl story</ref>
|eyes=Pink
|hair=Light Pink
|height=135cm (120cm when turned into a witch)
|origin= Paris, France
|soulgem=Oval (under her neck)
|weapon= Floating rabbit-shaped masks and light Khopesh (curved sword)
|witch=Enfant Terrible
|powers=Eternal Return/Unstoppable (Can transform back into her Magical Girl form after transforming into a Witch)
|wish={{spoiler|{{Q|I want my mother to return to how she was.}} – referring to Isabeau}}
|pronoun={{nihongo||私|watashi}}
|relatives=[[Corbeau]] (younger sister), [[Minou]] (youngest sister), [[Isabeau]] (mother), Louis I (possible father)<ref>In Isabeau's (Witch) magical girl story in Magia Record it's stated that Isabeau had an affair with her brother-in-law, Louis I between 1404 to 1407, prior to his death, hinting that he might be the biological father of Lapin and her sisters</ref>, [[wikipedia:Charles VII of France|Charles VII]] (older brother), Louis IX (nephew), Marie D'Anjou (sister-in-law), additional siblings not shown, [[wikipedia:Bernab%C3%B2_Visconti|Bernabó Visconti]] (great-grandfather), [[Riz Hawkwood]] (second cousin)
|school=[[Holy Maiden Academy Edition|Holy Maiden Academy]] (only in one special event)
|mainpage=Lapin
}}
{{reflist}}

==Game Info==
{{:Magia Record Units/Lapin}}

==Summary==
In the midst of the Hundred Year War, a masked magical girl who secretly operates for the English faction. She’s the eldest of three sisters, but her speech and actions are childish. Her nature is more sadistic than her sister Corbeau’s, and she enjoys “breaking” people for fun. Her mother is a certain noblewoman, and she loves her mother and sisters.

===Doppel Description===
[[File:Doppel_402700_l.png|thumb|right|150px|Enfante Terrible, Lapin's doppel]]
The Doppel of sadism. Its form is a weeping hare. The master of this emotion holds feelings of utter brutality in her heart. It may appear to be an adorable rabbit, but one must take absolute care not to lower their guard near it. In reality, it’s the exact opposite of the impression its appearance may give off. Should one be captured by it, they will be overwhelmed as if caught in the fangs of a wild beast, then innocently, playfully, and most cruelly tormented. Accompanied all the while by its pure and terrifying laughter, which resounds far and wide… If one meets this fate, the only option left is to accept the fact that your luck has run out.
{{-}}

===Side Story===
{{Spoilerbox|
'''''April, 1429: France – Tourelles Fortress''''' 
Lapin and [[Corbeau in Magia Record|Corbeau]] were sent on an expedition to Orleans, but [[Minou in Magia Record|Minou]] arrives there with [[Flèche]], so that she could assist Corbeau in his fight against [[Tart in Magia Record|Tart]], since it would be very risky for Lapin to fight with Corbeau and her magic. Lapin becomes sad, but Corbeau promises to bathe with her when he's done there to make it up to her. A voice says that she hopes nothing happens to Corbeau, showing her meeting Tart and [[Riz Hawkwood in Magia Record|Riz]] at the Tourelles Fortress. Lapin wonders how Corbeau is doing and receives news from a servant named [[Fauchard]], who tells Lapin and Minou of Tart's arrival at Tourelles Fortress. Lapin laments that she can't fight alongside Corbeau because of her magic, but Minou says that it's more fun fighting Magical Girls than mere humans for Corbeau.

Lapin remembers how their older brother, [[Dauphin Charles]], was expelled from their court of Paris, but Minou does not feel comfortable calling him "brother" because he stopped serving [[Isabeau de Bavière (Witch ver.)|their mother]] some time ago when seeking the crown, but Lapin tells her that he is still their brother. Minou says that from that day on he dared to abandon their mother and fled to Bourges he stopped being their brother and is now a traitor. Minou considers it ironic that Tart does not know that her main enemies are Charles' sisters and not the English army. Lapin asks Fauchard about this, but she doesn't know what to answer. Lapin says that the three of them sold France to the english with the intention of controlling both nations, and she asks if Fauchard thinks they are evil for doing that. Fauchard doesn't see it that way because they took her in after her parents died, and she is comfortable at Lapin's side, in addition to considering Corbeau kind and Minou wise, and serving her three sisters makes her very happy.

Minou considers that Fauchard is exaggerating, but Lapin tells her that Fauchard is a very honest girl, adding that what she says is true, plus she also thinks their mother is incredible. Minou insists that Lapin is also kind, since she used her wish for the sake of their mother. Lapin insists that Minou is also kind for using her wish to protect her mother. Lapin says that's why she loves her sisters, because they all asked for something to protect her mother, insisting that she loves all three of them. Minou, however, becomes sad upon hearing this and doubtfully agrees with Lapin. Minou says that she must return to see how everything is going in Orleans. However, Fauchard approaches Minou and tells her that Lapin has been feeling lonely lately, like the last time she was left to fight alone in enemy territory, but Minou insists that it was Lapin alone who went there and Corbeau went to get her. Minou wonders if it's boredom that motivates Lapin, but Fauchard insists that Lapin feels like she doesn't contribute to her family like her younger sisters and her mother, saying that she misses spending time with her family. Minou says she understands why Lapin loves having Fauchard as a servant, so Minou says that she will give Lapin a mission even though they would be "advancing" their plans, she wants more things to be done to help Isabeau, even asking Fauchard to accompany Lapin in her journey so that she doesn't feel alone. Fauchard later delivers a message to Lapin with her mission while Lapin thinks about her promise to shower with her sisters.

Lapin and Fauchard are transported to an english camp by Minou's portal magic, and are greeted by English troops. The camp is located near a lord's fortress in the south of France, but Lapin realizes that they arrived "early", so she invites Fauchard to speak with her. Fauchard comments that she heard that there were many allies of the Dauphin Charles in the area, and Lapin agrees, saying that the lord of the southern fortress should be on their side but rebelled by allying himself with Charles, saying that she plans to "replace him." with someone more loyal and Fauchard mentions that after all there is not only a conflict with the English, but the French also have an internal fight over their monarchy, but Lapin says that it doesn't matter because in the end everything will belong to her mother. Lapin asks about Fauchard's family, and she says that he was daughter of a lord who ruled a small state within France, and that her father was a warrior for a long time, so he raised her to survive on her own. Lapin believes that this is what makes it very easy to communicate with Fauchard. Lapin asks her why she is praised so much by Fauchard and she tells her that the night her family was massacred by bandits, it was Lapin who rescued her and took her in, saying that is why she is so loyal to her. Lapin then tells Fauchard that she has "potential" to be a Magical Girl like she and her sisters, and Fauchard wonders if it will be the same with the quiet maids who accompany Minou all the time. Lapin subsequently says that she must now begin her mission and leaves...

Lapin plants a Grief Seed on the path the lord's family takes on their departures from his fortress, saying it is best to plant the Grief Seeds in places where Witches are guaranteed to attract death. Fauchard begins to feel alone, but at that moment she sees [[Kyubey]] in the distance and decides to follow her when she sees that he had something similar to angel halos, similar to the flag of La Pucelle. Fauchard arrives near the path where Lapin planted the Grief Seed, being attacked by surprise but being warned of the attack by Kyubey, however, Fauchard is saved by [[Pernelle Flamel in Magia Record|Pernelle]], who introduces herself to Fauchard as an alchemist and a Magical Girl. Pernelle tells Fauchard that the soldiers who attacked her are influenced by a Witch's Kiss, and she puts them to sleep.

Kyubey greets Pernelle, revealing that they have both been on the trail of the masked sisters. Kyubey explains to Pernelle that they have been the ones who have been planting Grief Seeds throughout France, to which Fauchard asks what he is talking about, and Kyubey tells her that the Grief Seed are "Witches' eggs", and that Witches are beings that control people to do bad stuff, like soldiers, bandits and other people. Pernelle knows that Fauchard is one of the three sisters' servants, and she clarifies to Kyubey that they have been collecting girls with magical potential from all over the country. Fauchard claims not to understand, so Pernelle offers to show her the creatures her mistresses have been spreading to bring chaos to the country, taking Fauchard with her inside the Witch's Barrier planted by Lapin. The Witch is killed by Pernelle.

Fauchard still doesn't understand, but Pernelle explains to her about Witches and how Lapin and the others have planted Witches to kill people. Fauchard doesn't understand why, but Kyubey believes that Fauchard doesn't want to accept the obvious truth: that the three sisters have been spreading curses throughout France. Pernelle thinks it is a strategy to get a new servants for Isabeau's court, to which Kyubey explains that the three sisters use Witches to murder entire families and leave only the daughters with magic potential, who they take in to become their servants. Fauchard realizes that this makes sense, but refuses to accept that Lapin was responsible for the death of her family, even though she knows that the same thing happened to the other maids who lost their families. Pernelle asks if there is a girl nearby with potential and Kyubey tells her the daughter of the lord of the southern fortress. Kyubey believes that it would also be an advantage for the English to get rid of a traitor, but Fauchard can only think about what Lapin is doing...

Very close to the place, Lapin massacres the family of the lord of the fortress, saying that she had to do it herself because of the death of her Witch, but on the other hand, she was able to have fun. However, the lord's daughter witnessed the death of her father when she woke up after falling unconscious, so Lapin decides to kill her because she could not serve as her servant if she cannot be manipulated. Happily, Lapin rejoices at having crushed her victims. After killing the girl Lapin hears something, but seeing nothing she thinks it was her imagination. Lapin leaves saying that she couldn't get a new girl for her mother, but at least she got rid of the lord of the fortress, waiting for her bath with Corbeau and remembering the promise they made to bathe together. Lapin returns to the camp and finds a sad Fauchard, who asks about the blood on her outfit, offering to clean her clothes. Fauchard reveals that she saw everything Lapin did. In a flashback, Pernelle laments that she could not save the life of the fortress lord nor his daughter. Later, Pernelle tells Fauchard that Lapin and her sisters force the daughters of the families they massacre to become Magical Girls, but since their creator is defective, these girls lose their will.

Pernelle reveals that they are all Magical Girls, including La Pucelle who liberated Orleans. Fauchard is surprised by this and says that the English are defending the fortress of Tourelles, but Kyubey informs her that Corbeau was defeated by Tart and her companions. Pernelle later tells Fauchard of Tart's inevitable victory to save France. Kyubey invites Fauchard to join Tart and make a contract with him, in exchange for a wish. However, Fauchard rejects the offer because Tart is an ally of the Dauphin Charles and he was an enemy of her father. Kyubey insists that it is better to avoid a bad fate for Fauchard as Tart's enemy, but Perenelle tells him that they can't force her to do something she doesn't want to, and Pernelle proceeds to transport Fauchard with one of her portals back to the english camp. Back in the present, Fauchard and Lapin prepare to return to the court. At that moment Minou appears, who tells Lapin about Tart's victory and that she and her friends beat Corbeau, and how she had to go rescue her from them. Fauchard realizes that what Pernelle told her is true, but he pretends not to feel bad when Lapin asks her what's going on.

The three sisters meet in their palace. Lapin asks Corbeau about Tart and she tells her that she is very powerful and is excited for her next confrontation with La Pucelle. Minou insists that they prepare for her shower, but before Fauchard can speak to Lapin she is stopped by Minou. Once Lapin and Corbeau leave, Minou tells Fauchard that she will have to take Lapin's "favorite servant" away from her. Minou then takes Fauchard to Isabeau and tortures her to force her to make a wish to Isabeau and make Fauchard one of her Magical Girl servants. Later, Minou, Lapin and Corbeau enjoy their shower together while Corbeau tells Lapin about her fight against Tart, so Lapin says she wants to fight her too while Minou says that Lapin's wishes will be granted. The sisters finish showering and Lapin asks Fauchard if her bed is ready, but she doesn't answer her. Lapin wonders Fauchard didn't hear her but Minou says that the girl can hear her but she no longer speaks, so Lapin with a smile says that "she was turned into a doll." Minou asks Lapin if she won't be lonely, but Lapin says that even though Fauchard was her favorite, she can't change what has been done, but Corbeau promises to get her a new maid and Minou says that it is a good idea, so Lapin agrees, saying that next time it will be her turn to play with Tart and her friends.
}}

==Appearances==
===Event Appearances===
*[[Magia Record Story Rebel of a Dawnless Land|Rebel of a Dawnless Land]]
*[[Magia Record Story End of a Legend, the Limits of Light|End of a Legend, the Limits of Light]]
*[[Magia Record Story The Masked Student Council Strikes Back (Holy Maiden Academy Edition)|The Masked Student Council Strikes Back (Holy Maiden Academy Edition)]]
===Magical Girl Story Appearances===
* [[Corbeau in Magia Record|Corbeau]]

==Etymology==
* In the original Japanese, her name is spelled "Lapine". Lapine is the French word for a female rabbit.
**However, in the official English translation of Tart Magica, her named is changed instead to "Lapin", which is the French word for a male rabbit.

==Trivia==
*Lapin's live2D model in Magia Record initially lacked the soul gem on her chest, even though her profile image and battle sprite had it included.
*Her Magia is French for "Hundred eyes rabbit". This is probably a reference to her Witch, [[Enfant Terrible]].
*Her Doppel's name, "[[wikipedia:Enfant_terrible|Enfant Terrible]]" ("unruly child"), is a French phrase that traditionally refers to a child who is terrifyingly candid by saying embarrassing things to parents or others. In modern times, the phrase has also seen usage in relation to the arts, referring to an artist who is young and successful who is very unorthodox, offensive, or rebellious.

==Gallery==
===Game Gallery===
<gallery>
File:Card 40273 c.png|Magia Record Three Star card
File:Card 40274 c.png|Magia Record Four Star card
File:Card 40275 c.png|Magia Record Five Star card
File:Mini 402700 s.png|In-Battle Sprite
File:Mini 402701 s.png|In-Battle (Five Star)
File:Doppel 402700 l.png|Doppel Sprite
File:Lapin doppel card.png
File:Lapine profile.png
File:Lapine.png
File:Lapine (Maskless).png
File:Lapin Papa Seal 2021.jpg|Magical Girl Seal 2021
</gallery>
===Official Art===
<gallery>
File:Lapine 01.png
File:Lapine 02.png
File:1562921157977.jpg
File:Lapine magia.png|Lapin's magia attack
File:Lapin doppel attack.png|Lapin's doppel attack
File:Memoria 1375.jpg
File:51065 lapine witch.jpg
File:Memoria 1507.jpg
File:Manaka Bunny.jpg|[[Lapin]], in her [[Enfant Terrible|Witch]] form, being held by [[Manaka Kurumi|Manaka]], made by [https://twitter.com/masugitune/status/1261439647546294272 Masugitune], one of ''[[Puella Magi Tart Magica]]'' illustrators.
File:Memoria 1625.jpg
File:E2YvAxWVUAMCwfv.jpg|[https://twitter.com/masugitune/status/1397857328523669514 Source]
File:MasugitsuneMRTribute.jpg|Art by Masugitsune as a tribute to Magia Record.
File:UltimateMadoka-2ndMagia-Lapine.png|In [[Ultimate Madoka in Magia Record|Ultimate Madoka]]'s 2nd Magia
</gallery>

==Memoria Cards==
{{Magia Record Memoria List|character=Lapin}}

==External links==
*[http://magireco.com Official Magia Record Website - Japanese]
*[https://magiarecord-en.com/ Official Magia Record Website - English]

===Gameplay Videos===
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8Hnn_YRWnU Recording of Lapin's Transformation Video on Youtube (JP)]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9WYdvVGLVg Recording of Lapin's Magia Video on Youtube (JP)]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyeqvVnmkMQ Recording of Lapin's Doppel Video on Youtube (JP)]

===Side Story and Costume Story Videos===
*Recording of Lapin's MSS on Youtube (JP): [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShySMPioP3k Episode 1/3], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biCvI6OWYv8 Episode 2/3], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m58qavCeFiw Episode 3/3]

===Dialogue Lines===
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjdiKnz6qAE Recording of Lapin's Dialogue lines on Youtube (JP)]

[[Category:Magia Record Event-limited Characters]]
[[Category:Tart Magica Content in Magia Record]]

Lapine

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InquisitorKrieg: /* General Info */ Related through Bernabó Visconti

{{Infobox_character
|name=Lapine
|image=[[File:Minou Lapin pageBIO.png|250px]]
|jname={{lang|ja|ラピヌ}}
|designer=[[Golden Pe Done]]
|voices=Japanese: [[wikipedia:Shiori Izawa| Shiori Izawa]]
}}
'''Lapine''' (also known as '''Lapin''' in some official translations) is an antagonist in ''[[Puella Magi Tart Magica|Puella Magi Tart Magica: The Legend of "Jeanne d'Arc"]]'' alongside her sisters [[Corbeau]] and [[Minou]].

==General Info==
{{Magical Girl Details
|birth= 1405<ref>Hinted at in [[Isabeau de Bavière (Witch ver.)]]'s Magical Girl story.</ref>
|eyes=Pink
|hair=Light Pink
|height=135cm (120cm when turned into a witch)
|origin= Paris, France
|soulgem=Oval (under her neck)
|weapon= Floating rabbit-shaped masks and light Khopesh (curved sword)
|witch=Enfant Terrible
|powers= Eternal Return/Unstoppable (Can transform back into her Magical Girl form after transforming into a Witch)
|wish={{spoiler|{{Q|I want my mother to return to how she was.}} – referring to Isabeau}}
|pronoun={{nihongo||私|watashi}}
|relatives=[[Corbeau]] (younger sister), [[Minou]] (youngest sister), [[Isabeau]] (mother), Louis I (possible father)<ref>In Isabeau's (Witch) magical girl story in Magia Record it's stated that Isabeau had an affair with her brother-in-law, Louis I between 1404 to 1407, prior to his death, hinting that he might be the biological father of Lapine and her sisters</ref>, [[Charles de Valois]] (older brother), Louis XI (nephew), Marie D'Anjou (sister-in-law), additional siblings not shown <ref>Although the official English translation of Tart Magica suggests that Isabeau adopted Corbeau, Minou and Lapine, [[:File:EB43-BDE2-AB93-4-B39-BD33-D765-E31-B5-EA0.jpg|this is not the case in the original Japanese]]</ref>, [[wikipedia:Bernab%C3%B2_Visconti|Bernabó Visconti]] (great-grandfather), [[Riz Hawkwood]] (second cousin)
}}
{{reflist}}

==Story==
===Backstory===
{{Spoilerbox|
As a young girl, Lapine was chosen alongside her sisters [[Minou]] and [[Corbeau]] to be among the first magical girls [[Isabeau]] contracted due to their closely interwoven fates.

Isabeau grew to become like a mother to the three girls she took in. However, she eventually turned into a witch and was poised to kill the three girls, of whom only Corbeau had as yet contracted to become a magical girl. This lead to Lapine making her wish for her mother to "return to how she was." Since the transformation from magical girl to witch is irreversible, her wish lead to Isabeau's witch mind inhabiting the now empty husk of her former physical body. Isabeau was no longer mindless and now retained her original powers that were granted to her from her own wish. Even so, she still retained her witch's ambition to destroy all of France.
}}

===During ''Tart Magica''===
Lapine first appears in Chapter 5, standing with Corbeau and Minou as they finish slaughtering the soldiers of Orleans, a stronghold that held four thousand soldiers. She jeers and taunts the last of the injured soldiers as Corbeau threatens him and Minou cuts off their retreat with her cat-o-nine tails. She's later seen singing and walking along the edge of the outermost walls of the city as she kicks the dismembered limbs of the dead soldiers off into the distance. Minou appears with [[Flèche]] and relays orders from their mother, informing Lapine that she and herself are to return for a short time and to leave Corbeau along with Fleche to handle [[Tart]], who is about to arrive at Orleans. Despite being upset that Corbeau "get(s) all the fun!", she complies with orders and returns home through Minou's portal. Back at the castle later that evening, Lapine is seen having a bath along with her two sisters and is overjoyed at the possibility of fighting Tart and her friends herself.

Several months later at the city of Patay, Minou, Corbeau and Lapine stand at the head of the English forces as Lapine relishes the idea of 'playing' with the French forces opposing them. Before Minou can say anything, Lapine had already began her attack on Tart, [[Riz Hawkwood|Riz]], [[Melissa de Vignolles|Melissa]], and [[Elisa Celjska|Elisa]]. Unfortunately, the four magical girls are able to deflect most of Lapine's initial attacks, hitting her with their weapons several times and causing Lapine’s soul gem to darken. Her soul gem transforms into a grief seed and hatches Lapine’s witch form.

After transforming, Lapine activates her ability to possess any and all weapons in her vicinity, including that of her English allies (with the exception of Tart and Elisa as their weapons have magical abilities imparted on them by [[Pernelle]]. She telepathically causes them to fly at her enemies and damage them. She even forms a towering sword-like shape composed of the weapons she's amassed and drops it at the opposing magical girls. Tart is able to deflect this massive attack on her friends even as Lapine activates her secondary ability: the ability to cause magical girls to lose their magical girl state temporarily. As Lapine in her witch form continues to battle the magical girls, Corbeau takes this opportunity to continue her fight with Riz earlier. Elisa and Tart attempt to coordinate a surprise attack on Lapine, but the eyes on her cape have the same ability as her rabbit eyes and they both revert to normal girls temporarily. Despite this, the two girls are eventually able to distract Lapine and successfully defeat her with Elisa's rifle-turned-canon. However, her defeat only causes her to revert back into a magical girl, owing to the nature of her wish and the abilities it granted her. Minou retreats with an unconscious Lapine into one of her portals as Corbeau unleashes her ''Danse Macabre''. {{spoiler|After Corbeau's subsequent defeat at the hands of Tart, Minou finishes Corbeau off in the woods and tells Lapine that it was Tart that killed their sister.}}

A considerable time later, Minou has summoned an army of magical girls and subsequently transformed them into witches all of whom are poised to kill Tart and her friends. Minou has also summoned Lapine to this battlefield where she informs her of her chance to take revenge for the loss of their sister. Lapine is enraged and more than eager to tear them limb from limb. She begins by summoning her rabbit-shaped discs and impeding their magical girl transformations. Despite this, Riz is easily able to dodge her attacks and slashes at her rabbit-shaped discs as Lapine is not used to combat the way her sister Corbeau was. When Riz informs Lapine that it was in fact {{spoiler|Minou who killed her sister,}} this causes Lapine to snap with rage and abandon all thinking. Riz aims to shatter Lapine’s soul gem in order to prevent her from transforming into her witch form, but the news she received and the subsequent despair it caused her has instead only accelerated the impurities of Lapine ’s soul gem. It is too late, as Lapine quickly becomes a witch continues her attack on the girls.

The magical girls coordinate their attacks and unleash Melissa’s ultimate destructive move on Lapine. But it is not enough and Lapine reemerges from the bottom of the crater formed by the explosion, now human and her soul gem cleansed. Minou then causes a portal to appear beneath Elisa and Melissa and transports them to a different part of the castle in which they are battling. Tart and Riz are left to fend for themselves against not only Lapine's witch form, but the army of witches that are left from earlier. Tart and Riz begin to grow weary from the fighting and the amount of magic they've spent, causing Riz to charge her soul gem's power and throw a dagger at Lapine's feet. Shadows emerge from the dagger and wrap themselves around Lapine, effectively immobilizing her. As Tart calls out to her, Riz summons her ultimate attack, ''Gates of Hell''. {{spoiler|A large marble doorway comes up from the ground, skeletons adorning its framework. As the Gates of Hell begin to crack open, shadowy hands reach out from inside each of them grabbing at a different part of Lapine. She cries out for them to let go of her but they continue to hold on relentlessly as more hands reach out from the gate and grab at the witches in the area and pull them into the dark void that lurks behind the doors. Lapine continues to strain at the shadowy hands, crying out that nothing Riz does will make a difference since she'll keep coming back over and over again, returning to normal only for her to kill Riz no matter how many times it takes her. Riz acknowledges this, and informs her that she will be joining Lapine inside the black void of the gates to prevent her from escaping as the doors can only be opened from the outside. As Riz walks into the gate, Lapine is pulled into the darkness with her and the doors snap shut behind them, effectively ending Lapine's life.}}

===Lapine in [[Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story: Magia Record|Magia Record]]===
See [[Lapine in Magia Record]]

==Powers and Abilities==
Lapine has the ability to turn back into a human after she turns into a witch. While in magical girl form, she uses a handheld scythe as her weapon and can summon rabbit-shaped discs that float about her. When the discs flash, magical girls lose their ability to remain in magical form for a limited time.

While in witch form, Lapine is able to summon all weapons in the vicinity to her side and is able to manipulate them at will, for example creating a wall of shields or raining various weapons down on her enemies. Her eyes can cause any magical girl to lose her ability to remain in magical girl form as well as the eyes on her cape.

==Observations==
* Lapine is the eldest of the three sisters despite her childish personality and physical looks and is very fond of her younger sisters.
* However, she may in fact be the most powerful as her ability to transform to and from her witch form makes her incredibly difficult to defeat.
* While in witch form, she is able to speak in coherent french with an elaborate font. This is in contrast to other witches, many of whom do not speak and when they do it is in Runes.
* Her favorite sister may be Corbeau, as she often asks her to scrub her down during baths and has no problem hugging and burying her face in her sisters' chest when she hugs them.

==Trivia==
* Lapine's live2D model in Magia Record initially lacked the soul gem on her chest, even though her profile image and battle sprite had it included.
* As a child, Lapine was still the shortest of the three sisters.

==Etymology==
* Lapine is the French word for a female rabbit.
** However, in the official English translation of Tart Magica, her named is changed instead to "Lapin", which is the French word for a male rabbit, making this a case of [[Romanes eunt domus]].

==Gallery==
See [[Gallery:Lapine]]

{{Character Categories|magicalgirl=yes|deceased=yes}}
[[Category:Magical girls with Witches]]
[[Category:Irregulars]]

Corbeau in Magia Exedra

2026-06-10T00:00:06Z

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{{Infobox_character
|name=Corbeau
|image=[[File:1120-thumbnail.png|150px]]
|jname={{lang|ja|コルボー}}
|designer=[[Golden Pe Done]]
|voices=Japanese: [[wikipedia:Yuka_%C5%8Ctsubo|Yuka Ōtsubo]]
|release1=Global: March 18, 2026
}}
{{SeeMainBio|[[Corbeau]]}}

<blockquote>''"Calm never suited me. Conflict, on the other hand... I revel in brutal clashes where neither side holds back. But what I love most...are my sisters, whom I want to protect no matter the cost."'' - Episode 0 of her Magical Girl Story.</blockquote>

'''Corbeau''' is a playable character in the 2025 mobile game [[Puella Magi Madoka Magica Magia Exedra]]. She is an original character from ''[[Puella Magi Tart Magica: The Legend of "Jeanne d'Arc"]]''.

==General Info==
{{Magical Girl Details
|birth= 1406<ref>Hinted at in [[Isabeau de Bavière (Witch ver.)]]'s Magical Girl story.</ref>
|eyes=Grey
|hair=White
|height=177cm
|origin= Paris, France
|soulgem=White upside down triangle (base of her neck)
|weapon=Cloak and Feathers (rarely used), primarily uses hand-to-hand combat
|witch=Plaisir
|witchlink=Corbeau in Magia Record#Doppel Description
|powers=Physical enhancement, with various other magics added later at the request of their maids (such as Magic usage redirection)
|wish= "I want to become the spear that protects my dear sisters and my beloved mother"<ref> Originally stated that she wanted to fight so her sisters wouldn't fight https://twitter.com/amashin/status/1127445734729457665</ref>
|pronoun={{nihongo||私|watashi}}
|relatives=[[Minou]] (younger sister), [[Lapin]] (older sister), [[Isabeau]] (mother), Louis I (possible father)<ref>In Isabeau's (Witch) magical girl story in Magia Record it's stated that Isabeau had an affair with her brother-in-law, Louis I between 1404 to 1407, prior to his death, hinting that he might be the biological father of Corbeau and her sisters</ref>, [[Charles de Valois]] (older brother), Louis XI (nephew), Marie D'Anjou (sister-in-law), additional siblings not shown <ref>Although the official English translation of Tart Magica suggests that Isabeau adopted Corbeau, Minou and Lapin, [[:File:EB43-BDE2-AB93-4-B39-BD33-D765-E31-B5-EA0.jpg|this is not the case in the original Japanese]]</ref>, [[wikipedia:Bernab%C3%B2_Visconti|Bernabó Visconti]] (great-grandfather), [[Riz Hawkwood]] (second cousin)
}}
{{reflist}}

==Game Info==
{{Magia Exedra Game Info|character=Corbeau}}

==Summary==
A masked Magical Girl who fights in the shadows for the English in the Hundred Years' War. The second sister of three, and like her mother, adores her family. This love does not spill over to her enemies though. For nothing excites her more than a strong opponent, it's what she lives for.

===Side Story===

==Gallery==
{{SectionRef|Gallery:Corbeau|Magia Exedra}}

Corbeau in Magia Record

2026-06-09T23:57:25Z

InquisitorKrieg: /* General Info */ Related through Bernabó Visconti

{{Infobox_character
|name=Corbeau
|image=[[File:Corbeau profile.png|300px]]
|jname={{lang|ja|コルボー}}
|designer=[[Golden Pe Done]]
|voices=Japanese: [[wikipedia:Yuka_%C5%8Ctsubo|Yuka Ōtsubo]]
|id=4025
|release1=JP:July 12, 2019
|release2=NA:July 22, 2020
}}
{{SeeMainBio|[[Corbeau]]}}

'''Corbeau''' was a playable character in the 2017 mobile game [[Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story]]. She is an original character from [[Puella Magi Tart Magica: The Legend of "Jeanne d'Arc"]].

==General Info==
{{Magical Girl Details
|birth=1406<ref>Hinted at in Isabeau's (witch) magical girl story</ref>
|eyes=Grey
|hair=White
|height=177 cm
|origin= Paris, France
|soulgem=Upside down triangle above the chest
|weapon=Cloak and Feathers, hand-to-hand combat
|doppel=Plaisir
|powers= Body Reinforcement and Magic usage redirection
|wish= "I want to become the spear that protects my dear sisters and my beloved mother"<ref> Originally stated that she wanted to fight so her sisters wouldn't fight https://twitter.com/amashin/status/1127445734729457665</ref>
|pronoun={{nihongo||私|watashi}}
|relatives=[[Minou]] (younger sister), [[Lapin]] (older sister), [[Isabeau]] (mother), Louis I (possible father)<ref>In Isabeau's (Witch) magical girl story in Magia Record it's stated that Isabeau had an affair with her brother-in-law, Louis I between 1404 to 1407, prior to his death, hinting that he might be the biological father of Corbeau and her sisters</ref>, [[wikipedia:Charles VII of France|Charles VII]] (older brother), Louis IX (nephew), Marie D'Anjou (sister-in-law), additional siblings not shown, [[wikipedia:Bernab%C3%B2_Visconti|Bernabó Visconti]] (great-grandfather), [[Riz Hawkwood]] (second cousin)
|school=[[Holy Maiden Academy Edition|Holy Maiden Academy]] (only in one special event)
|mainpage=Corbeau
}}
{{reflist}}

==Game Info==
{{:Magia Record Units/Corbeau}}

==Summary==
A masked Magical Girl who fights in the shadows for the English in the Hundred Years' War. The second sister of three, and like her mother, adores her family. This love does not spill over to her enemies, though. For nothing excites her more than a strong opponent, it's what she lives for.

===Doppel Description===
[[File:Doppel_402500_l.png|thumb|right|150px|Plaisir, Corbeau's doppel]]
The Doppel of masochism. Its form is a moon-cawing crow. The master of this emotion rushes about in a wild, mad frenzy, and loses her mind with joy… As the physical manifestation of such unbecoming tastes, this Doppel takes the form of a crow that caws in enjoyment of the moonlit night. An aberrantly-shaped being that strikes dread in the hearts of all who see it, born from the final throes of manic revelry. Those who confront this Doppel are sure to feel terror from the very bottom of their hearts. But this is no ordinary fear– as the sort of fear that can be engendered only by those who live their lives on Death’s door, those who taste it will have their sense of self destroyed, and eventually be led to insanity.
{{-}}
===Side Story===
{{Spoilerbox|
'''''April, 1429: France – Orléans Outskirts''''' 
Corbeau cackles evilly as she easily overpowers the French forces. So easily does she defeat them that Corbeau has gotten bored with their little game. One of the French soldiers encourages the others, asking them to hold out a little longer until Corbeau is worn out eventually. But Corbeau hasn’t even broken a sweat yet despite fighting without weapons. In just a few more moments she’s defeated every one of the soldiers save for the general. The commanding officer tries to hold out a little longer but Corbeau tells him it’s futile as she has passed on all the impurities of her Soul Gem onto one of the mindless Magical Girl slaves she has brought with her. She doesn’t expect the commander to understand what she means so she takes his sword from him and slashes up her arm. In the blink of an eye her arm has healed and the impurities of her Soul Gem dissipate, only to appear in the other girl’s Soul Gem. The commander asks if she’s immortal, but Corbeau shakes her head, saying this kind of power is much more terrifying to a Magical Girl. Either way, she’s done talking to someone who will soon be dead. The commander rallies what’s left of his forces in a final battle to the death. Corbeau likes his spirit and promises to kill him herself. Noticing the enslaved Magical Girl is at her limit, Corbeau chuckles and pushes her to the edge, making her transform into a Witch that she unleashes on the remainder of the French forces. The French are terrified of the monster before them as they are easily overwhelmed and slaughtered.

Back at their camp, Lapin asks Corbeau how the battle went. Corbeau sighs, saying the French weren’t even worth her presence. Lapin giggles, calling all the humans too weak for someone like Corbeau. Corbeau agrees, which is the problem. All she really wants is uncertain victory, a real battle to the death. Lapin says she should have gone, as she’d have had plenty of fun breaking the little weaklings and hearing their cries. Corbeau complains about how weak and cowardly the English forces are, causing her to go in herself and clean up their messes. She thinks Lapin is too important to have her dirtying her hands in battles that aren’t important. Lapin calls her the best and glomps onto Corbeau. Minou appears, pretending to be jealous at how well they’re getting along. Lapin is all too happy to see her other younger sister and gives her a big hug as well before Corbeau relates her dilemma to Minou.

Hearing the problem, Minou guesses that the only person who could meet Corbeau’s expectations might be La Pucelle herself. Lapin believes that La Pucelle must be a Magical Girl too, which means she’ll be no match for Corbeau’s ability. Corbeau agrees, since it would be no fun to rain magic down on her enemy and have her Soul Gem turn black in the first five minutes of battle. Minou asks what happened to the girl that Corbeau took with her to battle. Corbeau explains that the girl took the brunt of her impurities and turned into a Witch. Minou calls it a shame, since she’ll have to find a replacement. Thankfully, she brought one with her and displays the girl to her sisters. Despite how recently the girl had contracted, Corbeau decides to take her with her on her next battle. She asks when she will be able to do battle with La Pucelle and Minou promises her it will be soon. It seems La Pucelle has joined the French forces and is due to arrive in Orléans within the month where she will confront the sisters directly. When asked how she could be so certain of this, Minou claims she “saw” the future. Lapin and Corbeau ask how that’s possible.

Minou explains that she saw their benefactor recently. She told Minou to “have a vision of the future” and explained that [[Homura Akemi|tiny ripples from the future have caused a disturbance in time]]. When prompted by Lapin once more on how she was able to see the future, Minou giggles and reminds her that’s what their Magical Girl slaves are for, indicating the newly contracted girl she brought with her. Nodding in understanding, Corbeau asks her to continue her story. Minou asks them to prepare for this news, as she relates what she saw in her vision of the future: their benefactor’s wish is destroyed at the hands of La Pucelle while she herself turns into nothing more than a silent corpse. Corbeau is outraged at this news. How can France be saved by one girl when they’re already on the brink of utter collapse. Minou finds it also hard to believe, but she knows what she saw was true hence why she rushed to inform her sisters of what she saw before anyone else. Corbeau then asks her what happens to Minou and Lapin in the future. Minou isn’t certain, as she can’t see all of the future. But if their benefactor is reduced to nothing, than their futures can’t be that bright either.

Corbeau asks if there isn’t anything they can do. Minou has an idea. In the future she saw, Tart began by first leading the French forces into liberating Orléans. After that, she helps the heir to the French crown become coronated as king. If they can erase her from history before any of that comes to pass, then they will be successful in changing history. Minou shows her sisters a magic grimoire she found that contains a spell to trap people in a never-ending dream. If they use this spell to trap Tart in an endless nightmare, than no matter how powerful she may be she is still a Magical Girl and will surely despair and become a Witch. All they need now is a strand of La Pucelle’s hair for the spell to work. Once they cast the spell, Corbeau will invade Tart’s dreams and wreak havoc to her heart’s content. Lapin wants to go too, but Minou warns her against joining Corbeau since her ability will simply end up corrupting Lapin’s Soul Gem instead. Lapin relents while Corbeau agrees to the plan.

'''''April 29, 1429: Cathedral of the Holy Cross - Orléans''''' 
Corbeau comments on the commotion outside the church. Despite the English forcings holding down every fortress in the vicinity, Tart was able to enter the castle through the Burgundy Gate. Corbeau can’t believe that a single girl joining in the battle could turn the tides of the war so greatly. Minou warns her not to underestimate La Pucelle’s powers. Hearing that makes Corbeau even more excited to be facing her in battle. The church bells ring, indicating the preparations are complete. Minou and Corbea return to their camp before they can be seen.

Minou reports that La Pucelle is now asleep after having entered Orléans. However, she underestimated the huge impact La Pucelle’s fate has as all the people who hold a deep affinity with her have also been drawn into her dream. Not just the commanders Gilles and La Hire, but even the crown prince was dragged into it. But so long as Tart sleeps, they’ll stay trapped within her dream. So if Corbeau invades her dreams and causes Tart to Witch out, then the French forces will be completely annihilated. Corbeau prepares to invade Tart’s dream, but not before warning Minou and Lapin to stay away from her while she’s in there. Otherwise they’re liable to absorb Corbeau’s impurities themselves and cause their Soul Gems to become tainted. Minou leaves the Magical Girl slave to stand by and watch over Corbeau’s tent. Minou places a red and blue candle by Corbeau’s bedside so she can enter Tart’s dream and leaves.

Corbeau falls asleep and finds herself in a pitch-black void. It is the realm between dreams and reality. As she looks around herself, she spies a beacon of light in the distance. Figuring it to be Tart’s dream, Corbeau attempts to enter the light only to be repelled.

'''''Orléans Outskirts – Within La Pucelle’s Dream''''' 
Tart stands with Gilles at the head of the army, as they prepare to liberate Orléans at last. The sky soon turns pitch-black, throwing the army into chaos as Corbeau sneaks up and takes down several of the soldiers with ease. She greets Tart, introducing herself as Corbeau, the angel of her death. Corbeau summons several soldier-like Familiars and has them attack the French soldiers. The Familiars turn their attention to La Hire but Tart runs up to defend him and the others, easily repelling the Familiars. Corbeau smiles, glad that the fight won’t be over so quickly as she successfully strikes at Tart. Melissa watches in fear as the two girls trade blows, Tart being pushed back further and further. Corbeau laughs, ready to kill Tart here and now. La Hire orders his men to support Tart, but Corbeau merely summons more Familiars who easily take down the soldiers. With so many Familiars and more being conjured every moment, Gilles tells La Hire they have no choice but to retreat. Tart admits she agrees and tells the men to retreat while she holds Corbeau off. But Corbeau isn’t done having her fun yet and uleashes another relentless attack on Tart.

'''''May, 1429 – Allied English Forces Camp''''' 
Inside the church Lapin asks Corbeau what it’s like inside La Pucelle’s dreams. Corbeau says it’s not bad, and just like Minou said she’s able to wreak all the havoc she likes. Normally she would use her own magic to torture Tart with, but in this case the Magical Girl slave she has with her takes on the brunt of her impurities. Even though she can’t use her normal abilities in the dream, she can instead summon Witches and Familiars to fight with. This is something that Minou arranged when she cast the spell. Even with all of those advantages, Lapin asks if Corbeau still doesn’t have a trick up her sleeve left, referring to Corbeau’s “La Dance Macabre” attack. She does, but Minou warned her not to use it just yet. In the future she saw, Tart was able to thwart their efforts and saved France. If they move too early, they might end up drawing out her true strength. What they need to do now is hurt her enough, little by little, so she falls into despair. That, and it’s much more fun for Corbeau to take her time with Tart. Lapin agrees with Corbeau on that.

Just then Minou appears, looking for her sisters. It seems that a French spy was able to infiltrate Corbeau’s tent in the middle of the night and took the candles. Even though they can replace the candles, it’s possible the French were able to figure out their plan. Instead of being distraught at this turn of events, Corbeau only smiles broadly and laughs in joy. She thinks this will make the fight more interesting.

'''''Within La Pucelle’s Dream''''' 
Corbeau violently throws Tart into a tree as Iroha and Yachiyo cry out to Tart. Miraculously Tart is unharmed by the devastating attack, causing Corbeau to giggle maliciously with glee. She steps up to Tart, prepared to finally fight to the death, but Riz emerges from the shadows and strikes at Corbeau. She warns Tart to go back and help the French soldiers, who are struggling against the Familiars with Melissa leading Iroha and Yachiyo back. Corbeau is determined to not let them go, but Riz stops Corbeau. Corbeau settles for fighting one of Tart’s friends in her place and asks Riz not to disappoint her as they begin their battle.

'''''May, 1429 – United English Forces Camp''''' 
Lapin asks Corbeau what happened during the battle. Corbeau explains that more Magical Girls showed up to help Tart, including a girl who can manipulate shadows. Sicne she was in the shadows when Tart fell asleep, she wasn’t pulled into Tart’s dream. Now it seems she’s meddling from the outside using the candles that were stolen from them. She also described a pair of Magical Girls with names she’d never heard of. Judging from Corbeau’s description, Minou figures they must be foreigners, possibly from another time. Corbeau doesn’t care who they are so long as she’s able to fight them in battle. She especially looks forward to fighting the Magical Girl who was dressed entirely in black.

'''''Several days later… ''''' 
Corbeau reports to Minou that things aren’t faring as well as she’d hoped within Tart’s dreams. At this rate she’ll need even more Familiars and Witches to hold them off. Minou has an idea, however. She proposes they use Tart’s love for her friends to set a trap for them. This way they can take care of all of them in one fell swoop.

'''''Shortly after… ''''' 
Corbeau shakes her head in dismay. At the rate things are going, the French will be able to recapture Orléans even from within the dream. She has to crush them no matter what during their next battle. Lapin offers to join Corbeau, but Corbeau doesn’t want Lapin’s help. She was entrusted by Minou to complete this mission and she plans on doing so with her own hands. Minou says it was her fault for miscalculating the interlopers from the future, but asks Corbeau not to trade her life away for this mission. Even if they fail they have other ways of obtaining victory. Lapin makes Corbeau promise to keep back. Corbeau promises to come back, and once she does they can all take a nice soak together.

Once more Corbeau ventures into the void between dreams and reality. And just like before, Tart’s dreams attempt to repel Corbeau and prevent her from entering. But Corbeau has gotten used to this and knows she just needs to keep pushing towards the place where the resistance is strongest.

'''''Within Tart’s dream… ''''' 
Riz calls out to Tart, telling her they need to enter the Cathedral of the Holy Cross. Iroha and Yachiyo offer to hold off the enemy so they can complete the mission. But Corbeau appears from seemingly nowhere and strikes Iroha from behind. She walks up to Tart, tsking at how far they were able to encroach on her territory while she was away. She’s glad to see that Riz is here, but she has an obligation to fulfill as she summons the soldier-like Familiars to aid her in the battle. She smiles as she sees that Tart too has decided to join in this battle. The four Magical Girls prepare to face their opponent as Corbeau warns them they better aim to kill or she’ll kill them first as the battle commences.

'''''May, 1429 – United English Forces Camp''''' 
The sound of the cathedral’s bells can be heard ringing across the land as Corbeau awakens in the English camp. Corbeau reminds her sisters she warned them to stay away from her, but the two were worried she’d never wake up. Corbeau apologizes for the trouble she caused since the mission was a failure. She was unable to stop the girls from ringing the bells and allowing Tart to awaken from her nightmare. Lapin asks what will happen now. Minou says that the memory of the curse will disappear from everyone that was involved. Everyone, including Corbeau and Lapin, will forget what the chaos that has happened over the last few days. All except Minou, who cast the spell to begin with, but she doesn’t relay this last bit to her sisters. Corbeau asks if they’ll meet the girl in black and La Pucelle for the “first time” again. If so, she’s glad they forgot everything because now they get to kill each other all over again. Lapin asks what they will do now, since they lose in the future that Minou saw. Minou isn’t too worried since their next plan involves taking out the girls from the future so they can’t interfere again. Only this time Minou will need the help of her sisters to enact this plan since she won’t be able to do it on her own. Lapin is happy to hear she’ll be fighting alongside her sisters, but Corbeau becomes worried she will make it difficult for them to work together thanks to her ability.

Corbeau considers using a girl’s wish to seal her power and prevent her from forcing her impurities on others. That way her sisters stay out of harm’s way. Also, Corbeau thinks it wouldn’t be any fun if she won the battle using this ability and would gain a new power in its place, one that could be more helpful to her sisters. It would cost them an eligible maiden, but Corbeau believes it’s worth the price if it means she can more easily protect her sisters in the upcoming battles. Minou thinks for a moment, hesitating before she agrees with Corbeau so long as it is in line with their benefactor’s will. Internally, Minou believes that they shouldn’t do it if it is only for their own sakes. Minou changes the subject, saying they can discuss all of this tomorrow. For tonight, she suggests they take that nice, long soak together they’d been looking forward to. Minou has already made arrangements for their bath.

Refreshed after soaking in hot water together, Corbeau and Lapin thank Minou for the arrangements. Corbeau is particularly proud of her younger sister, who is all too glad to hold up their promise to each other.
}}

==Appearances==
===Event Appearances===
*[[Magia Record Story The Chiming Bell that Transcends Time|The Maiden of Hope]]
*[[Magia Record Story Rebel of a Dawnless Land|Rebel of a Dawnless Land]]
*[[Magia Record Story End of a Legend, the Limits of Light|End of a Legend, the Limits of Light]]
*[[Magia Record Story The Masked Student Council Strikes Back (Holy Maiden Academy Edition)|The Masked Student Council Strikes Back (Holy Maiden Academy Edition)]]

==Abilities==
As explained in her personal story, Corbeau's original wish-given magic was the ability to push her magic usage onto other soul gems within a 50 meter radius of herself (essentially, so long as another soul gem was within range, they would bear the burden of her magic usage; thus, her soul gem never darkened).

She eventually abandoned (as the game says, "sealed away") this power and replaced it with other abilities by having other magical girls contract with her mother for Corbeau's benefit.

She also has the ability to use a powerful magical attack called 'La Danse Macabre' (referred to by her as "'Death Dance' magic" in the NA translation) that inflicts everyone in her surroundings with the Bubonic plague.

==Trivia==
* Her Magia causing Poison and having chance to Curse reflects the same attack in Tart Magica, where the feathers cause the bubonic plague. As an extension, her doppel summons rats, as they were known to spread said illness (although, to be more precisely, the lice on the rats carried it in particular).
** Her magia is also French for "The dance of death". A personification of death itself.
* Her Doppel's name means "Pleasure" in french.
* There was an error where during her doppel attack she had [[Hazuki Yusa]]'s Doppel, Tagitu's, runes appeared instead of her own Doppel's name.

==Gallery==
===Game Gallery===
<gallery>
File:Corbeau 3 star.png|Magia Record Three Star card
File:Corbeau 4 star art.png|Magia Record Four Star card
File:Card 40255 c.png|Magia Record Five Star card
File:Corbeau Battle Sprite.png|In-Battle Sprite (as an enemy)
File:Corbeau battle sprite.png|In-Battle Sprite
File:Mini 402501 s.png|In-Battle Sprite (Five Star)
File:Doppel 402500 l.png|Doppel Sprite
File:Corbeau doppel card.png
File:Corbeau.png
File:Corbeau casual.PNG
File:Corbeau Papa Seal 2021.png|Magical Girl Seal 2021
</gallery>
===Official Art===
<gallery>
File:Corbeau 01.png
File:Corbeau 02.png
File:Corbeau magia record.png
File:1562921157977.jpg
File:51065 la danse macabre.jpg
File:Memoria 1375.jpg
File:Memoria 1373.jpg
File:Memoria 1625.jpg
File:EI9yNAOUEAE25bw.jpg|[https://twitter.com/masugitune/status/1193297998710636548 Source]
File:E2YvAxWVUAMCwfv.jpg|[https://twitter.com/masugitune/status/1397857328523669514 Source]
File:MasugitsuneMRTribute.jpg|Art by Masugitsune as a tribute to Magia Record.
File:UltimateMadoka-2ndMagia-Corbeau.png|In [[Ultimate Madoka in Magia Record|Ultimate Madoka]]'s 2nd Magia
</gallery>

==Memoria Cards==
{{Magia Record Memoria List|character=Corbeau}}

==External links==
*[http://magireco.com Official Magia Record Website - Japanese]
*[https://magiarecord-en.com/ Official Magia Record Website - English]

===Gameplay Videos===
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlDg49MakDU Recording of Corbeau's Transformation Video on Youtube (JP)]
*[https://youtu.be/Tmr03bwdmgo?si=Neon0gGi8kyUGF3V Recording of Corbeau's Magia Video on Youtube (JP)]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXDBbD0-uys Recording of Corbeau's Doppel Video on Youtube (JP)]

===Side Story and Costume Story Videos===
*Recording of Corbeau's MSS on Youtube (JP): [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WnthIOWXmM Episode 1/3], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKa8eTalQV Episode 2/3], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbCJNertn_g Episode 3/3]
**[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUc8JLaY050 Recording of Corbeau's MSS on Youtube (NA)]

===Dialogue Lines===
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXl_qlUtWHM Recording of Corbeau's Dialogue lines on Youtube (NA)]

[[Category:Magia Record Event-limited Characters]]
[[Category:Tart Magica Content in Magia Record]]

Corbeau

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{{Infobox_character
|name=Corbeau
|image=[[File:Corbeau pageBIO.png|220px]]
|jname={{lang|ja|コルボー}}
|designer=[[Golden Pe Done]]
|voices=Japanese: [[wikipedia:Yuka_%C5%8Ctsubo|Yuka Ōtsubo]]
}}
'''Corbeau''' is an antagonist in ''[[Puella Magi Tart Magica|Puella Magi Tart Magica: The Legend of "Jeanne d'Arc"]]'' alongside her sisters [[Minou]] and [[Lapine]].

==General Info==
{{Magical Girl Details
|birth= 1406<ref>Hinted at in [[Isabeau de Bavière (Witch ver.)]]'s Magical Girl story.</ref>
|eyes=Grey
|hair=White
|height=177cm
|origin= Paris, France
|soulgem=White upside down triangle (base of her neck)
|weapon=Cloak and Feathers (rarely used), primarily uses hand-to-hand combat
|witch=Plaisir
|witchlink=Corbeau in Magia Record#Doppel Description
|powers=Physical enhancement, with various other magics added later at the request of their maids (such as Magic usage redirection)
|wish= "I want to become the spear that protects my dear sisters and my beloved mother"<ref> Originally stated that she wanted to fight so her sisters wouldn't fight https://twitter.com/amashin/status/1127445734729457665</ref>
|pronoun={{nihongo||私|watashi}}
|relatives=[[Minou]] (younger sister), [[Lapine]] (older sister), [[Isabeau]] (mother), Louis I (possible father)<ref>In Isabeau's (Witch) magical girl story in Magia Record it's stated that Isabeau had an affair with her brother-in-law, Louis I between 1404 to 1407, prior to his death, hinting that he might be the biological father of Corbeau and her sisters</ref>, [[Charles de Valois]] (older brother), Louis XI (nephew), Marie D'Anjou (sister-in-law), additional siblings not shown <ref>Although the official English translation of Tart Magica suggests that Isabeau adopted Corbeau, Minou and Lapine, [[:File:EB43-BDE2-AB93-4-B39-BD33-D765-E31-B5-EA0.jpg|this is not the case in the original Japanese]]</ref>, [[wikipedia:Bernab%C3%B2_Visconti|Bernabó Visconti]] (great-grandfather), [[Riz Hawkwood]] (second cousin)
}}
{{reflist}}

==Story==
===Backstory===
{{Spoilerbox|
As a young girl, Corbeau was chosen alongside her sisters [[Minou]] and [[Lapine]] to be among the first magical girls [[Isabeau]] contracted due to their closely interwoven fates.
Isabeau grew to become like a mother to the three girls she took in. However, she eventually turned into a witch and was poised to kill the three girls, of whom only Corbeau had as yet contracted to become a magical girl. This lead to Lapine making her wish for her mother to “return to how she was.” Since the transformation from magical girl to witch is irreversible, her wish lead to Isabeau’s witch mind inhabiting the now empty husk of her former physical body. Isabeau was no longer mindless and now retained her original powers that were granted to her from her own wish. Even so, she still retained her witch’s ambition to destroy all of France.
}}

===During ''Tart Magica''===
Corbeau first appeared in Chapter 5, standing with Lapine and Minou as they finish slaughtering the soldiers of Orleans, a stronghold that held four thousand soldiers. Corbeau threatens the last of the injured soldiers as Lapine jeers and taunts them and Minou cuts off their retreat with her cat-o-nine tails. Before Corbeau can finish off the commander of the troops, someone fires an arrow at her. [[Etienne de Vignolles |Etienne]] appears, having been searching for Jean and assists him to stand. Minou notices what is happening and lashing at them with her whip, but the two are able to limp away to safety.

Back at the outskirts of Orleans, at the fort of Saint-Loup, Lapine is busy singing as she walks along the edge of the outermost wall, kicking the dismembered limbs of dead soldiers out into the distance. Corbeau asks her to go easy with the gore, claiming she's making a huge mess. Minou appears and relays orders to her sisters, leaving [[Flèche]] with Corbeau to take care of [[Tart]] as Minou takes Lapine back home for the time being. A short time later, Corbeau is seen speaking with the English military commander, John Talbot, letting them know they can leave the fort to the French if need be. When the English Captain William Glasdale contradicts Corbeau, she orders Flèche to fire her arrows at him, killing him in the process. She then orders the soldiers to leave as she wants Tart all to herself.

As the French soldiers began their assault on the fort, Corbeau causes black feathers to fly at the soldiers, impaling several of them. She leaps down from here viewpoint on the tower and, after knocking Tart away, challenges [[Riz Hawkwood|Riz]]. As they struggle against each other, Riz notes that Corbeau’s soul gem has not darkened despite the magic she is using to heal herself of her wounds. {{spoiler|It seems that Corbeau is pushing her own impurities onto Riz’s soul gem, causing it to darken that much faster.}} As Tart attempts to join the battle, Corbeau orders Flèche to aim her arrows at Tart. Corbeau then uses her feathers to pin Riz’s shadow down, immobilizing her. Before she can strike, Etienne attacks Corbeau, causing her to throw him face first into the ground. As [[Melissa de Vignolles|Melissa]] rushes to his side, Corbeau orders Flèche to finish Etienne, which she does by conjuring a large spear-like arrow. As she unleashes her attack, Tart steps in to block it, taking the full brunt of the damage and collapsing from her wound. It is at this point that Melissa contracts with Kyubey in order to save Tart and her father from their fatal wounds. Melissa then begins to attack Corbeau with her newfound powers, even going so far as to use her anti-matter bomb in an attempt to destroy her. But the attack misses, leaving a large gaping hole where a bridge formerly stood. Corbeau is unfazed by this, and is confused when she encounters Kyubey as she had never met him before. As she’s distracted, Riz pulls Tart and Melissa into her shadow realm to formulate a plan. A few moments later, the girls come out of the shadows and coordinate a two-pronged attack against Corbeau between Riz and Melissa as Tart continues her battle with Flèche. Corbeau is surprised to find that her soul gem is now accumulating impurities due to {{spoiler|Riz and Melissa handing their soul gems to Tart, who is battling outside the range of Corbeau's magic.}} As Tart incapacitates Flèche with her “La Lumiere”, Minou appears and calls out to Corbeau to use *that* while the English soldiers are away. Minou and Corbeau leave in one of Minou’s portals after Minou brands Flèche, causing her to transform into a witch and leaving her behind to continue her attack on Riz, Melissa, and Tart.
Back at the castle later that evening, Corbeau is seen having a bath along with her two sisters as Lapine is overjoyed at the possibility of fighting Tart and her friends herself.

Several months later at the city of Patay, Minou, Corbeau and Lapine stand at the head of the English forces as Lapine relishes the idea of ‘playing’ with the French forces opposing them. Before Minou can say anything, Lapine had already began her attack on Tart, Riz, Melissa, and [[Elisa Celjska|Elisa]]. Unfortunately, the four magical girls are able to deflect most of Lapine’s initial attacks, hitting her with their weapons several times and causing Lapine’s soul gem to darken. Her soul gem transforms into a grief seed and hatches Lapine’s witch form. After transforming, Lapine activates her ability to possess any and all weapons in her vicinity, including that of her English allies (with the exception of Tart and Elisa as their weapons have magical abilities imparted on them by [[Pernelle]]. She telepathically causes them to fly at her enemies and damaging them. She even forms a towering sword-like shape composed of the weapons she’s amassed and drops it at the opposing magical girls. Tart is able to deflect this massive attack on her friends even as Lapine activates her secondary ability: the ability to cause magical girls to lose their magical girl state temporarily. As Lapine in her witch form continues to battle the magical girls, Corbeau takes this opportunity to continue her fight with Riz earlier. As Corbeau and Riz trade blows, Riz is able to aim a high kick at her face. As Corbeau is distracted by this, Riz aims a high kick at her face which connects. As her shadows tie down Corbeau's feet, Riz somersaults at her and grabs her by the head as she lands, twisting it completely backwards. Corbeau lands on the ground as Riz lands a few feet away. Melissa congratulates her for defeating Corbeau, but Corbeau is still alive and begins to struggle to her feet. Riz and Melissa watch as Corbeau stands and realigns her head, Melissa surprised that she's still alive even after such an injury.

Elisa and Tart attempt to coordinate a surprise attack on Lapine, but the eyes on her cape have the same ability as her rabbit eyes and they both revert to normal girls temporarily. Despite this, the two girls are eventually able to distract Lapine and successfully defeat her with Elisa’s rifle-turned-canon. However, her defeat only causes her to revert back into a magical girl, owing to the nature of her wish and the abilities it granted her. Minou retreats with an unconscious Lapine into one of her portals as Corbeau unleashes her ''Danse Macabre''. Reaper-like skeletons fly out of the magic circles Corbeau summoned, black feathers flying out from their eyeless sockets. Everyone begins to double over in pain, wondering what's happening to their bodies. Riz looks at the tumor-like boils on her hands and recognizes it as something she's seen before. Corbeau laughs and reminds Riz she told her this fight would be a massacre and tells them all to show her the dance of death. As both the French and English forces alike lay doubled in agony, Corbeau beats down the weakened magical girls. Tart struggles to her feet and attempts to fight Corbeau, but is too weakened to do more than swing her sword feebly. Corbeau picks her up by the neck and mocks Tart’s attempts to fight back. As Tart warns her that she’s hurting her English allies as well with her magic, Corbeau scoffs and responds that she doesn’t care since her magic will kill everyone who comes near. She demands to know what it matters since everyone must die eventually, just like Tart’s sister. At these words, Tart's soul gem shines brightly and Corbeau's fingers are bent backwards as the force of Tart's magic caused her to be released from her grip. Tart glows with the power of her magic and an immense magic circle of Tart's doing appears in the sky overhead, casting light down on the soldiers below.

As the light bathes the battlefield, all of the soldiers and magical girls both English and French alike begin to stand and realize they've been healed of plague as well as their wounds. Corbeau is enraged by this and as she demands to know who Tart really is, Tart leaps up and slashed down her sword with full force at Corbeau, ultimately defeating her as the force of it knocks her into some nearby woods. She lands against the trunk of a tree and falls to her knees, greatly weakened. Tart aims her blade at Corbeau, telling her this is the end as Corbeau tries to stand. But all Corbeau can think of is her two sisters, Lapine and Minou. Before she can deliver the finishing blow, a portal appears behind Corbeau and Minou steps through. {{spoiler|While Corbeau is overfilled with joy at the sight of her sister, Minou kneels down and takes Corbeau’s soul gem in her hands, informing her this is the end. Confused, Corbeau asks her why and if she doesn't see how much she loves her and Lapine. Minou confirms that this is what she suspected and says she stopped serving their benefactor a long time ago. As Corbeau yells out once more to Minou asking her why she can't understand how much she loves them, Minou shatters Corbeau's soul gem and tells her she doesn't love her any longer. Corbeau falls forward, calling out her sisters' names as she dies. Minou tells her that at the very least she will tell Lapine that Corbeau died honorably in battle. Tart angrily demands she explain herself as Riz calls her heartless. As Minou summons a portal, she giggles and says it'll be something to look forward to as she gathers Corbeau's body and takes it back with her, leaving the heroines alone in the woods. The two turn to go, knowing the battle isn't over yet.}}

===Corbeau in [[Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story: Magia Record|Magia Record]]===
Corbeau was the primary antagonist of the special event [[Magia Record Story The Chiming Bell that Transcends Time|The Chiming Bell that Transcends Time]]. In the event, she fused some of Tart's hair into special candles that would allow her to invade Tart's dreams and mess with her mind, hopefully breaking her spirit so she could no longer lead France to victory. Her element is dark and her magia is named "La Danse Macabre".

She was later released as a playable character in the follow-up event [[Magia Record Story Rebel of a Dawnless Land|Rebel of a Dawnless Land]].

For more information, see [[Corbeau in Magia Record]]
===Corbeau in [[Magia Exedra]]===
''See [[Corbeau in Magia Exedra]]''

==Powers and Abilities==
Corbeau's abilities change from encounter to encounter. She can get rid of certain powers once her enemies learn to work around them {{spoiler|by forcing her servants to make contracts with Isabeau for her own benefit.}} For example, in Chapter 8, Corbeau had the ability to corrupt other soul gems in the place of her own within a 50 meter radius, but abandoned this power after [[Riz Hawkwood| Riz]] figures out and exploits the limits of that power. When she used this power, she warned Minou away lest her impurities accidentally get pushed onto Minou.

Corbeau's most dangerous ability is "La Danse Macabre", which gives her opponents the bubonic plague.

==Observations==
Corbeau is the second eldest of the three sisters and the first one to step onto any battlefield. While Minou acts more as an intelligence gatherer and coordinates the three sisters and Lapine is more of a childish trump card, Corbeau is usually the one to do most of the dirty work in killing off armies of enemy soldiers and holding down the fort at Orleans where she was ordered to be rid of La Pucelle. However, she finds battles to be more of a fun thing and revels in anything that can give her even the slightest bit of challenge.

==Etymology==
* Corbeau is the French word for "raven".
==Gallery==
See [[Gallery:Corbeau]]
{{Character Categories|magicalgirl=yes|deceased=yes}}
[[Category:Irregulars]]

Isabeau de Bavière in Magia Record

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{{Infobox_character
|name=Isabeau de Bavière
|image=[[File:Card 41224 l.png|300px]]
|jname= イザボー・ド・バヴィエール (Isabeau de Bavière)
|designer=[[Golden Pe Done]]
|voices=Japanese: [[wikipedia:Chiaki_Takahashi_(actress)|Chiaki Takahashi]]
|id=4122
|release1=JP:March 18, 2022
}}
{{SeeMainBio|[[Isabeau de Bavière]]}}

'''Isabeau de Bavière''' was a playable character in the 2017 mobile game [[Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story]]. She is an original character from [[Puella Magi Tart Magica: The Legend of "Jeanne d'Arc"]].

==General Info==
{{Magical Girl Details
|birth=c. 1370
|age=19
|agenote=contracted at 14, in-game files listed as ''19 year old version''
|eyes=Yellow (Dark Pink when transformed)
|hair=Blonde
|height=155cm
|origin=Holy Roman Empire, Duchy of Bavaria, [[:wikipedia:Munich|Munich, (Germany)]]
|soulgem=Two pink gems located on her cloak clasps (near her arms, resembling Kyubey's eyes)
|weapon=Ribbons on her dress covered in black roses
|witch=Crépuscule de La Reine
|witchnote=Real name Isabeau
|powers={{spoiler|"Lesser Incubator" (Creation of Magical Girls)}}, {{spoiler|all the powers of Kyubey}}
|wish={{spoiler|For everything you ([[Kyubey]]) possess.}}
|pronoun=watashi (私)
|relatives=[[wikipedia:Charles VI of France|Charles VI of France]] (husband), [[wikipedia:Charles VII of France|Dauphin Charles]] (son), [[Corbeau]], [[Lapin]] and [[Minou]] (daughters), additional children not shown, Louis I (brother-in-law/lover), Louis IX (grandson), Marie D'Anjou (daughter-in-law), [[wikipedia:Bernab%C3%B2_Visconti|Bernabó Visconti]] (grandfather), [[Riz Hawkwood]] (first cousin once removed)
|mainpage=Isabeau
}}

==Game Info==
{{:Magia Record Units/Isabeau de Bavière}}

==Summary==
Queen of France, in the midst of the Hundred Years War, is busy expanding her rule and power. She is a Magical Girl with a powerful causality, and has a large number of Magical Girls who have lost their will. She later sells out the kingdom of France to England and becomes Tart's (Jeanne d'Arc) greatest enemy.

===Doppel Description===
[[File:Doppel_412200_l.png|thumb|right|150px|Crépuscule de la Reine, Isabeau's doppel]]
The Doppel of dominion. Its form is La Reine’s Twilight. The master of this emotion seeks dominion and influence ad infinitum, for as long as she exists. The curses scattered by this Doppel are themselves a death-bringing darkness to all other humans, and if bathed in these curses, those without a resistance to them will instantly vanish from existence. The joy its master derives from this sight is synonymous with purification to her. The more her surroundings are stained with despair and darkness, the brighter her Soul Gem’s rhapsodic light shines.
{{-}}

===Side Story===
{{Spoilerbox|
'''Episode 1 - A Planned Revival'''

1424, Paris - The scene opens with Isabeau remaining silent as Minou receives and relays her mother's orders to continue the siege of Ivry. Minou explains that Corbeau has already been dispatched there, ensuring the enemy stronghold will soon fall. A servant expresses amazement at young Minou's command over English forces, but Lapin clarifies Minou is merely conveying Isabeau's messages through their unique mental connection. The servants discuss how Isabeau's daughters, Minou, Lapin, and Corbeau, each possess extraordinary abilities, while Isabeau herself reigns as the shadow queen controlling both England and France through her grandson King Henry.

When Corbeau returns from Ivry, Isabeau unexpectedly greets her with a rare spoken word "Ça va." Through Minou's translation, Isabeau praises Corbeau's work and orders her to assist allies at Guise. Corbeau inquires about other orders and learns of Isabeau's concern about Verneuil's situation. The sisters explain that their faction supports Henry as dual monarch, while the Dauphin Charles' faction allies with Scotland against them. Suddenly, a messenger bursts in declaring that Verneuil has fallen to a Scottish force led by a girl using magic to teleport troops inside the city walls.

The sisters debate the implications. Lapin suggests the enemy might be a Magical Girl like themselves. Corbeau suspects a betrayal among their own contracted servants but Minou dismisses this. Despite Corbeau's concerns about the unknown enemy's power potentially surpassing theirs, Minou insists she and Lapin will handle Verneuil while Corbeau obeys Isabeau's orders for Guise. In a private moment, Corbeau recalls how Lapin's wish restored Isabeau's form but not her sanity after she became a Witch. She devises a plan of selecting an exceptionally talented servant, originally a noble's daughter skilled in archery, to make another wish to temporarily restore Isabeau's full faculties for the coming battle.

Isabeau unexpectedly regains full consciousness when presented with the servant. She immediately grasps the strategic situation upon hearing about the enemy Magical Girl at Verneuil. Deciding to personally intervene, Isabeau names the servant "Flèche" and prepares to depart with her. Corbeau is relieved this will keep her sisters out of direct danger.

August 1424, Near Verneuil - Isabeau arrives dramatically at the English camp. Through careful questioning, she identifies Sir John Talbot as their most capable field commander after the Duke of Bedford. She privately notes Talbot's humility and battlefield prowess make him ideal to counter the inexperienced Duke of Alençon leading the enemy forces. Isabeau plans to deliberately weaken part of their formation to lure Alençon into a trap where Flèche's archery skills will prove decisive. The only remaining variable is the enemy Magical Girl and as Isabeau prepares to transform for battle, she remarks it's been years since she last took her active combat form.

{{-}}

'''Episode 2 - The Queen's Game'''

Near Verneuil - Isabeau arrives at the battlefield, remarking how essential it is for rulers to experience war firsthand. As the decisive battle begins, she first deals with the enemy Magical Girl responsible for Verneuil's fall, a Scottish girl who used camouflage magic to infiltrate the city. Isabeau mocks her modest wish ("I wanted the Prince's army to take back the town") and trivial power before effortlessly eliminating her. With this threat gone, the Scottish reinforcements fail to arrive as planned.

August 1424 - Isabeau orchestrates the battle like a chess game. She deliberately weakens the English right flank to lure the inexperienced Duke of Alençon into a trap. As predicted, Alençon leads a cavalry charge straight into Flèche's killing zone, where she picks off the French knights with magical arrows, proving Isabeau's point about the end of chivalric warfare. John Talbot capitalizes on this to rout the enemy. Isabeau orders Alençon's capture for ransom value, while observing spies from Richemont's faction taking notes on these new warfare tactics.

1427, Paris - Three years later, Minou reports to her sisters about court intrigues. They discuss eliminating Charles VII's capable marshal Richemont through a multi-step plan. Their agent Pierre de Giac, Charles' corrupt favorite, has become a liability. Flèche and a new Magical Girl named Lame (Blade) are deployed to kill him during an "arrest" by Richemont's men, framing the marshal for the murder. The vacated position will be filled by their mole La Trémoille, a bureaucrat secretly loyal to the English faction due to his belief in Henry VI's superior claim to the French throne. La Trémoille will then turn Charles VII's court against Richemont by exacerbating existing rivalries.

1427, French Countryside - The plan unfolds precisely. Richemont's men capture Giac for corruption charges and Flèche snipes Giac mid-transport with an impossible shot, leaving no trace. Lame drives off observers including the alchemist Pernelle Flamel. The scheme succeeds perfectly and La Trémoille becomes Charles VII's chamberlain.

1428 - In the aftermath of their plan, Richemont is expelled from court.

{{-}}

'''Episode 3 - Thus do the Actors Gather'''

October 12, 1428 - Pernelle Flamel and Cube discuss the dire situation in France where northern territories, including Paris and Reims, are under English control. Orléans, the last major stronghold of the Dauphin Charles' faction, is now besieged. If it falls, France’s fate will be sealed.

February 1429, Paris - Isabeau, through Minou, commands her three daughters to move toward Orléans. She declares that all key players will soon gather there, calling this the "first act" of a grand performance.

February 12, 1429, Near Orléans - Bâtard de Orléans, the city’s commander, attempts a surprise attack on English supply lines with overwhelming numbers. However, the three sisters effortlessly crush his forces. Corbeau mocks Bâtard’s futile efforts, while Lapin gleefully toys with the soldiers. Just as they are about to finish Bâtard, the mercenary La Hire (The Fury) intervenes, dragging the wounded commander to safety. Minou notes La Hire’s reputation and muses that this battle will be entertaining.

March 6, 1429, Chinon Castle - At the Dauphin’s court, Charles VII tests the legitimacy of Tart (Jeanne d’Arc), the so-called "Maid of Orléans." Disguising himself among the courtiers, he watches as Tart immediately identifies him despite the deception as proof of her divine insight. The Dauphin publicly declares her a true messenger of God, rallying his forces for the liberation of Orléans.

April 1429, Chinon to Orléans - Gilles de Rais delivers a rousing speech, inspiring the troops to march toward Orléans. Tart, now accompanied by Melissa de Vignolles, La Hire’s daughter, rides a white horse gifted by the Duke of Alençon. Pernelle observes her from afar, retrieving the legendary Sword of Clovis with magic to aid Tart.

Meanwhile, Isabeau orders Corbeau and Flèche to remain in Orléans, allowing the French forces to gain momentum, only to torment them later.

May 1429, France - Elisa Celjska and Oswald von Wolkenstein of the Holy Roman Empire’s Order of the Dragon seek out the exiled Marshal Richemont, intending to assess Tart’s strength firsthand.

May 7, 1429, Orléans - The decisive clash begins as Tart leads a fierce assault on the Tourelles Fortress. Corbeau, lying in wait, finally confronts and greets her personally.

May 1429, Paris - Minou reports to Isabeau that Orléans is on the verge of falling, with Tart’s forces gaining momentum. Isabeau, silent as ever, watches the unfolding conflict with anticipation. The stage is set with heroes and villains in place.
}}

===Quotes===
{{Spoilerbox|

}}

==Appearances==
===Event Appearances===
*[[Magia Record Story The Inheritors of Our Souls|The Inheritors of Our Souls]]

===Other Appearances===
*See [[Isabeau (Witch ver.)]]

==Etymology==


==Trivia==
*Both Isabeau and [[Ui Tamaki]] wished for some if not all of the abilities of Kyubey. Isabeau's final Witch form resembles a butterfly while Ui's final Witch form resembles a moth.
*Isabeau's Magical Girl form bears many similarities to Kyubey: the jewels on her shoulders resemble his eyes, she has cat ears on her head, her veil resembles Kyubey's earflaps while her bracelets resemble the rings, and she is surrounded by the [[:File:Vlcsnap-2022-03-18-13h24m19s827.png|same monitoring system]] Kyubey uses in [[Rebellion]]. Looking up close on her Doppel form also reveals a pair of Kyubey's eyes inside the skull's mouth.
*Her magic seal has German, French and English within its design.
** The center of her seal is German and reads "Komm, süsser Tod." which means "Come, sweet Death", likely referencing an 18th Century, German song MWV 478.
*** The song is attributed to Johann Sebastian Bach, though it's more accurate to say that he harmonized or arranged it rather than composing it entirely. It first appeared in 1736, and its full title is "Komm, süßer Tod, komm selge Ruh", meaning "Come, sweet death, come blessed rest". The song is a personal, spiritual prayer, where the speaker welcomes death not with fear, but with longing, asking it to come gently and bring release from the world’s pain and struggles. It expresses the Lutheran Christian idea that death is a passage into peace, and it is commonly sung today in funerals, memorials, or private devotion. It also represents the Pietist tradition, a movement in German Protestantism that emphasized personal piety, humility, and an intimate connection with God.
** The triangle around the center is French and splits the sentence into three parts: "L’enfer est / pavé de bonnes / intentions." together translating to "The road to hell is paved with good intentions."
*** This is an old proverb with unclear exact origin, but popularized in French and English by the 17th–18th centuries. It warns that good intentions without good outcomes or action can still lead to terrible consequences.
** The middle circle has two sayings, one in French and one in English. The French words once more read "L’enfer est pavé de bonnes intentions." and they're followed by the English translation of the proverb, "Hell is full of good intentions."
** The outer border of the seal is made up from two sentences back to back. They are both common French proverbs.
***The first reads "La raison du plus fort est toujours la meilleure." which translates to "The strongest reason is always the best." The English equivalent would be "Might makes right."
***The second reads "Faute de grives, on mange des merles." which translates to "Lack of thrushes, one eats blackbirds". The English equivalent would be "Beggars can't be choosers."

==Gallery==
===Game Gallery===
<gallery>
File:Card 41224 c.png|Magia Record Four Star Art
File:Card 41225 c.png|Magia Record Five Star Art
File:Mini 412200 s.png|In-Battle Sprite
File:Doppel 412200 l.png|Doppel Sprite
File:Isabeau doppel card.jpg
File:Isabeau (Witch ver.) MagiReco.png|[[Isabeau (Witch ver.)]]
File:Isabeau (14 yo).png|Isabeau at 14 years old.
File:Isabeau (14 yo MG).png|Isabeau's Magical Girl form at 14 years old.
File:Isabeau (19 yo).png|Isabeau at 19 years old.
File:Isabeau (19 yo MG).png|Isabeau in Magia Record|Isabeau's Magical Girl form at 19 years old.
File:233 queen mom.png|Magical Girl Seal 2021
</gallery>

===Official Art===
<gallery>
File:WIsabeau 01.png
File:WIsabeau 02.png
File:Isabeau Cocoon.jpg
File:Isabeau transform 1.jpg
File:Isabeau transform 2.jpg
File:Isabeau transform 3.png
File:Isabeau doppel attack 1.jpg
File:Isabeau doppel attack 2.jpg
File:51158 isabeau magic circle.png|Isabeau's magic circle
File:Memoria 1733.jpg
File:Memoria 1735.jpg
</gallery>

==Memoria Cards==
{{Magia Record Memoria List|character=Isabeau de Bavière}}

==External links==
*[http://magireco.com Official Magia Record Website - Japanese]

===Gameplay Videos===
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSWNIqKqlUA Recording of Isabeau's Transformation Video on Youtube (JP)]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WP68yhmv5-c Recording of Isabeau's Magia Video on Youtube (JP)]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQe7lIh6tgg Recording of Isabeau's Doppel Video on Youtube (JP)]

===Side Story and Costume Story Videos===
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0OY3Vv8GNg Recording of Isabeau's MSS on Youtube (JP)]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DliApW8k7Tc Recording of Isabeau's Dialogue lines on Youtube (JP)]

[[Category:Magia Record Event-limited Characters]]
[[Category:Tart Magica Content in Magia Record]]

Isabeau de Bavière (Witch)

2026-06-09T23:46:53Z

InquisitorKrieg: /* General Info */ Related through Bernabó Visconti

{{Infobox_character
|name=Isabeau de Bavière
|image=[[File:Card 41214 l.png|300px]]
|jname= イザボー・ド・バヴィエール魔女ver.
|designer=[[Golden Pe Done]]
|voices=Japanese: [[wikipedia:Chiaki_Takahashi_(actress)|Chiaki Takahashi]]
|id=4121
|release1=JP:May 24, 2021
}}
{{SeeMainBio|{{MainOrMagia|Isabeau de Bavière}}}}

'''Isabeau de Bavière (Witch)''' was a playable character in the 2017 mobile game [[Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story: Magia Record]]. She is an original character from [[Puella Magi Tart Magica: The Legend of "Jeanne d'Arc"]].

==General Info==
{{Magical Girl Details
|birth=c. 1370
|approxage=early 60's
|agenote=by 1431
|eyes=Yellow (Dark Pink when transformed)
|hair=Blonde
|height=155cm
|origin=Holy Roman Empire, Duchy of Bavaria, [[:wikipedia:Munich|Munich, (Germany)]]
|soulgem=Two pink gems located on her cloak clasps (near her arms, resembling Kyubey's eyes)
|weapon=Ribbons on her dress covered in black roses
|witch=Crépuscule de La Reine
|witchnote=Real name Isabeau
|powers={{spoiler|"Lesser Incubator" (Creation of Magical Girls)}}, {{spoiler|all the powers of Kyubey}}
|wish={{spoiler|For everything you (Kyubey) possess.}}
|pronoun=watashi (私)
|relatives=[[wikipedia:Charles VI of France|Charles VI of France]] (husband), [[wikipedia:Charles VII of France|Dauphin Charles]] (son), [[Corbeau]], [[Lapin]] and [[Minou]] (daughters), additional children not shown, Louis I (brother-in-law/lover), Louis IX (grandson), Marie D'Anjou (daughter-in-law), [[wikipedia:Bernab%C3%B2_Visconti|Bernabó Visconti]] (grandfather), [[Riz Hawkwood]] (first cousin once removed)
|mainpage=Isabeau
}}

==Game Info==
{{:Magia Record Units/Isabeau de Bavière (Witch ver.)}}

==Summary==
A former queen of France who sold the throne of France to England in the midst of the Hundred Years War, and was called the "traitor queen". She does not transform into a magical girl, but uses unusual magic reminiscent of a Witch, and stands as the last enemy of Tart (Jeanne d'Arc) and others.

===Witch Description===
La Reine’s Twilight. Her nature is dominion. An avaricious witch who desires endless power and influence. This witch’s main body is actually separate from her larva-shaped legs, and the real body protected by a hard outer shell only rarely reveals its true form. Her Labyrinth is immense enough to cover an entire country, and the populace trapped within it remain none the wiser. The witch feeds on the grief, terror and other negative emotions of the populace swallowed by her Labyrinth’s darkness, and expands her power and territory to become an ever-mightier witch within an ever-larger Labyrinth.

===Side Story===
{{Spoilerbox|
'''''October, 1428''''' 
Melissa de Vignolles and her father La Hire, alongside many other soldiers, move to fight for the freedom of Orleans and to meet Jean de Dunois. All of this is seen by Pernelle and Kyubey within the nearest woods. Pernelle is concerned about the fate of Orleans and it's sudden fallen into the English forces. Pernelle claims that the one responsible for the English army is the traitorous queen, Isabeau de Bavière, saying it is all Kyubey's fault for giving power to Isabeau.

At noon, La Hire tells Melissa that the English have taken full control of Orleans, that all this happened because of the Treaty of Troyes: an agreement made by Isabeau to marry her daughter Catherine de Valois to the King of England, since her plan was for her grandchild to be the king of both France and England. But since this couldn't happen, things got worse between the English and the French. In another place, Pernelle asks Kyubey if the girl he has chosen will stop Isabeau. Kyubey says he isn't interested in stopping the war, he only wants to stop Isabeau from interfering in his work. Kyubey says that Isabeau was always an intelligent woman, even as a teen, but she always had ambition, so that's what made her have a great potential as a magical girl, but could never have guessed what wish she would make...

'''''1385: Northern France – Amiens''''' 
Isabeau, formerly known as Elisabeth, arrives from Bavaria to France in 1385 to marry Charles VI, the future monarch of the French kingdom. Isabeau proved to be a charming and intelligent young woman, as she managed to master much of the French language in a short time and win the affection of much of the court of her future husband. A few days after she arrived in France, she was called to a meeting with Charles and some of his maids, where it was mentioned that their wedding would be soon. But one of the maids, attempting to humiliate Elisabeth, points out that another member of the royal court was named Elisabeth too, and they could not call her "Isabelle" because one of Charles's sisters already had that name too. She proposes calling the future queen "Isabeau" as a joke, something that bothers another of the servants, but Elisabeth proceeds to smile, saying that she loves it. Ffrom that moment on, they call her "Isabeau", enchanting Charles and the rest of her court with her "angelic smile", even making the maid feel ashamed for trying to toy with such a "good girl".

Back in the present, Pernelle says that Isabeau also could read and write in Latin, so she quickly became loved in Charles VI's court, being both intelligent and beautiful. Kyubey says that one of Isabeau's talents was the ability to adapt her personality to the tastes of others in order to control them. Kyubey remembers what Isabeau once told him, since she was a foreigner in France, she needed to make allies fast, so she charmed all the court with a fake personality, since only a fool would fight with someone to make enemies. Pernelle guesses that was her way of masking her greedy and power-hungry nature...

'''''1385: France – Paris''''' 
One day, Isabeau returns to her chambers and at that moment, she meets Kyubey, who appears in front of her and tells her that she has great potential as a magical girl and wants to make a contract with her in exchange for a wish. Isabeau, instead of making her wish, proceeds to ask Kyubey questions about magical girls, witches, and information about him, to which Kyubey answers each and every one of her questions: about what would happen to her body, that magical girls would become witches, and about his role in gathering energy generated by girls and witches and how he is basically immortal due to having many bodies.

Back in the present, Pernelle questions Kyubey how he didn't see that the 14-year-old Isabeau seemed to be curious about witches and magical girls, and why he didn't see her as a threat, but Kyubey says he took the risk as the incubators thought that her energy was worth for making a contract, even with all the risks.

In the flashback, Isabeau happily starts laughing while making a big face and proceeds to kill Kyubey with a candelabra. At that moment, another Kyubey appeared, asking why she did that if he had already explained himself to her. Isabeau continues smiling as she tells Kyubey that she just wanted to verify that what he told her was true and tells Kyubey how happy she is to have met him, explaining that she did not come to France just to be an ornament and the wife of a king, as she wants to have control over France, England, Spain, Portugal, the Holy Roman Empire and the rest of the European continent. Kyubey tells her that if that is her case, she can grant her that wish, but Isabeau explains that she actually wants to achieve that for herself and has discovered how to achieve it. With a smile, she proceeds to hold Kyubey with her hands, saying that he is magnificent as if he was "a true incubus". So she asks him for her wish: "I want everything you possess."

Isabeau becomes a magical girl, being surprised by her outfit. Kyubey explains to her that it is her magical girl outfit and that, due to her desire, she has become part of him: an Incubator. She obtains the unique ability to create magical girls like Kyubey by sensing their karmic potential like he does. In addition, she also has a large part of the Incubators' other abilities, having great access to all the knowledge that Kyubey possesses, and that her body is eternal and will have the same appearance when older. Isabeau doesn't really understand much of Kyubey's knowledge because it is almost impossible for humans to understand it as Kyubey explains, but Isabeau doesn't seem to care and adds that now that her body is immortal she can start creating her own army of magical girls, who will strengthen her with their wishes and help her eventually dominate Europe. Kyubey asks her how she feels about everything she knows, to which Isabeau adds that she feels like "the Devil himself incarnate."

Pernelle thinks that Isabeaus's powers are too powerful, and she finds it strange that Kyubey didn't feel that she was dangerous to him. But Kyubey says that no human will ever be capable of replacing the Incubators, since humans can't comprehend all the knowledge they have, and Isabeau wasn't a threat to them at that moment, since Isabeau wanted to take every step of her conquest slowly, as she thought she had all the time of the world because her body was immortal.

'''''1385: France – Paris''''' 
Isabeau begins spending time exploring the French palace with the servant who tried to humiliate her. They wanted to help her after being fascinated by "her angelic aura" and thought how difficult it could be for her as a foreigner now living as a monarch in a foreign country. The servant tells Isabeau about several of her husband's most powerful relatives in his court, such as his uncle Philip I, who arranged the marriage between Isabeau and Charles, adding that she thinks Charles VI is now ready to lead the country.

Isabeau proceeds to ask the servant what would happen if her husband could no longer rule France, to which the servant says it'd very difficult to say, but the power will probably pass to Charles's brother, Louis I. Isabeau proceeds to ask the servant more questions about other members who could inherit control of France, and she tells her that they would be Philip I himself or his son John I. Isabeau thanks her for the information, and the delighted servant tells her that it is an honor to serve the future Queen and that "her only wish is to serve her for the rest of eternity." Isabeau smiles at her having realized that she has great karmic potential, just as Kyubey told her, and asks the maid if that is what she really wants, she can grant her wish. Isabeau proceeds to transform in her magical girl form and tells her maid to close her eyes, empty her mind, and in this way, she will grant her wish, so that she will swear eternal loyalty to her.

'''''1392: France – Paris''''' 

Isabeau begins her plan using her maids and servants as spies, who overheard conversations between the palace soldiers as they moved unnoticed from one place to another. A servant of Isabeau spies on a conversation, in which the soldiers talk about Charles VI's poor mental state and how he attacked his brother Louis I on an expedition after having a terrifying vision. The maid informs Isabeau of this, and she realizes that her plan to drive her husband crazy has begun to flourish. Isabeau used the power of one of her servants to start trying to drive her husband crazy, causing him to have these visions while attacking Louis I. Kyubey appears in her room, saying that it has been years since they last saw each other. Kyubey tells her that she has turned several of her maids into magical girls to increase her number of powers or use them for her own benefit in her conspiracies, stating that she forces them to make those wishes. Kyubey does not understand how Isabeau is unable to realize that she now grants miracles, but instead of asking to change things, she only sees her maid servants as magic that just gives her more power in order to be better at manipulation and to make herself more powerful. Isabeau deduces that this must bother Kyubey, but he explains that he really has no emotions and is only intrigued by her incoherent actions and sees them as disadvantageous to his species because he cannot collect the magical energy that Isabeau has been collecting for herself during those years. Isabeau seems to ignore this and Kyubey asks her what she plans to do now. Isabeau tells him that she will make her husband leave the stage with a new power that she has obtained from one of her maids.

'''''1393: France – Near Paris - Saint-Marche''''' 
Isabeau organizes a ball in honor of one of her bridesmaids, in which she uses her magic to summon fire that burns alive a large part of Charles's court and Charles himself, who was almost burned alive during the event, which became known as Bal des Ardents (The Dance of the Burned), where Isabeau acted the part of a worried wife asking soldiers to "save" the lives of her husband and the other attendees. Due to her husband's obvious paranoia, Isabeau proceeded to try to claim control of the crown, although Charles's uncle Philip II, his cousin John I, and his younger brother Louis I also tried to obtain control of the crown.

'''''1403: France – Paris ''''' 
Isabeau became the head of the French crown and acted as a "mediator" between Phillip and John's conflicts with Louis.

'''''1404: France – Paris ''''' 
Isabeau summoned her brother-in-law, Louis I. He wasn't interested in talking to her as she and John I had the power of France, but Isabeau asked him if he was really interested in having power, to which Louis I told her that he did and that he would not mind being called vain for that, saying that he would be better at ruling than his uncle or his cousin. Isabeau approaches him smiling and saying that she "highly values honesty" and kisses him, beginning a secret love affair with him. Some time later, several of the people at court quickly discovered that Isabeau had an affair with her brother-in-law Louis, even though Isabeau's main ally at that time was John I, who had been left alone in his conflict after the death of his father, Philip II.

'''''November 1407: France – Paris ''''' 
People still can't believe Isabeau had been in a secret affair with Louis I for 4 years, since he was the enemy of her main ally, John I, but then Louis was murdered while returning from an encounter with Isabeau at his home, being killed by Isabeau's influence on John. Kyubey approaches Isabeau again to point out that he is aware of her actions and warns her that the French people are beginning to lean in favor of John I after the rumor spread that Isabeau and Louis were lovers, but Isabeau laughs, saying that she doesn't care, and she has been thinking of a way to get rid of John.

'''''1410''''' 
La Hire hears from fellow soldiers that an alliance between the Argmanacs and the Burgudians has been formed to carry on the legacy of Louis I, and the leaders of this faction are John I and Queen Isabeau, but La Hire sees it as a traitorous action that Isabeau is jumping back and forth between allies that are enemies. Then La Hire learns about the division of France and the plans of the Argmanacs to take France...

In her palace, Isabeau is questioned by Kyubey once again if everything is going according to her plan. Isabeau says that she wants to divide France in two and eventually take control of the crown in a more easy way. Isabeau admits that not everything has really gone in the way she wants, but she is making more and more progress in taking down John I. Kyubey tells her that her actions have led to the fragmentation of the country and a civil war about to break out, to which Isabeau responds that she already has one more plan. Due to the events of internal conflicts, England will probably plan to intervene to take over French territory as they did in the past. Isabeau says that some of her daughters are "very pretty" and they can probably marry into the English crown. Isabeau plans to wed her daughter Catherine de Valois to the future king of England, Henry V. Isabeau also states that her youngest daughters "have" the same potential as her, and she is interested in making them like her.

Kyubey points out that he is not surprised that Isabeau is planning to turn her youngest daughters into magical girls, saying that unlike all the other sons and daughters Isabeau had, she spends all her time with them, even taking them on field trips, and deduces that she must really love the three of them. Isabeau tells Kyubey that he is right, and reveals that the real reason she wants to make her three youngest daughters into magical girls is because she wants to keep them by her side forever. Kyubey changes the subject and asks Isabeau if it wouldn't be better to use her own magic to take over France for herself and points out that she doesn't seem to take full advantage of her magical girl powers. Isabeau explains that she actually feels great pleasure in doing all this from the shadows slowly, saying that, in this way, she "savors" the process of gaining control and power. And thanks to her desire, she has obtained a body that has stopped aging for a long time, and by using little of her magic, she will have an eternal life, and rushing to achieve her goals would not be as satisfying as that moment. Kyubey wonders why Isabeau considers this to be true, knowing the inevitable truth of every magical girl...

Back in the present, Pernelle says that things really did go in favor of Isabeau: the Argmanacs installed Dalphin Charles, Isabeau's son, as the heir of the throne, and in 1419, he was responsible for the death of John I, being manipulated by Isabeau to get rid of him. Kyubey says that then, to get rid of Charles as soon as possible, she started the rumor that Dalphin Charles was an illegitimate son, and caused problems with his throne succession, signing the Treaty of Troyes in 1420 in order to marry her daughter Catherine to King Henry V of England. Isabeau's plan was to have control over her future grandchild to take control of both France and England, but things didn't happen as she wanted them to...

'''''August 31, 1422''''' 
King Henry V of England dies.

'''''October 21, 1422''''' 
King Charles VI of France dies.

This is what set Isabeau into a state of despair, as her ambitions would not become true. Kyubey says what happened at that moment was inevitable: Isabeau was slowly turning into a witch. Kyubey states that by this point, Corbeau was the only one of her three daughters to have become a magical girl and shortly after that is when Isabeau started to go insane, and she couldn't recognize her daughters anymore, although she still loved them. She was consumed by her frustration and, in the words of Pernelle, became a monster in the form of a human. Pernelle says that at that moment, Kyubey should have won like he always does, but something else happened...

In a flashback, Isabeau is shown turning into a witch in front of her three daughters while in a fit of rage, saying that she couldn't let things end like this because she hadn't taken control of anything yet. Watching everything from afar, Kyubey finally believed he could collect the energy produced by Isabeau and the magical girls she had created, but just as the three girls were crying for the death of their mother, the older sister Lapin screamed that she didn't want things to end this way. While Corbeau fought the witch, Lapin was holding her mother's body and said to the witch that she too would become a magical girl and made her wish: "I want my mother to return to the way she was before".

Back in the present, Pernelle says that Kyubey didn't account for Crèpuscule de la Reine to retain Isabeau's powers, so she still was part incubator and this was how she granted Lapin's wish, turning Isabeau's body into a puppet for her witch form. Kyubey says that's true, and the real enemy is the witch born out of Isabeau's despair. Pernelle says that if Isabeau and her daughters aren't stopped, humanity could disappear, so that's why Kyubey wants to stop them as this is inconvenient for him...

'''''October, 1428''''' 
Isabeau orders Minou to attack Orleans, which the three sisters are excited about. But Minou says their mother also wants to support the English in Normandy, so they divide their tasks up: Corbeau will take care of Orleans, Lapin Normandy, and Minou will scatter grief seeds from their maids in rebellious villages around France. Minou also suggests they start recruiting more magical girl servants for their army, so she plans on killing families and taking the daughters from those families to make them magical girls. The three sisters start working this way, creating carnage everywhere they went.

Back in the present, Pernelle hopes that Kyubey is working on solving the problem, and he says that, thanks to a certain girl (Riz Hawkwood), he has been searching for a girl to stop Isabeau, and believes they might be close to finding that girl. Pernelle says that the prophecy is something invented, and he shouldn't believe it, but Kyubey insists that it is people's belief that can increase the karmic potential of the girl he is looking for. Pernelle says that Isabeau is becoming stronger, and they don't know what wish was made by Minou, Isabeau's youngest daughter, and that it might be a problem. Still, Pernelle wants to save humanity. Kyubey asks her what her plans are, but she refuses to tell him, but she does think that her husband, Nicolas, once told her about the importance of miracles and belief in the human heart.
}}

==Appearances==
===Event Appearances===
*[[Magia Record Story The Masked Student Council Strikes Back (Holy Maiden Academy Edition)|The Masked Student Council Strikes Back (Holy Maiden Academy Edition)]]

===Other Appearances===
*See [[Isabeau in Magia Record]]

==Etymology==


==Trivia==
*Isabeau cannot have a doppel attack because she herself is already a Witch.
*The word "Éclosion" is defined as the act of emerging from the pupal case or hatching from the egg.
*Both Isabeau and [[Ui Tamaki]] wished for some if not all of the abilities of Kyubey. Isabeau's final Witch form resembles a butterfly while Ui's final Witch form resembles a moth.

==Gallery==
===Game Gallery===
<gallery>
File:Card 41214 c.png|Magia Record Four Star Art
File:Card 41215 c.png|Magia Record Five Star Art
File:Mini 412100 s.png|In-Battle Sprite
File:Mini 412100 dd.png|2nd Magia Sprite
File:Mini 412100 Magia2.png|Full Witch Sprite
File:Isabeau (Witch ver.) MagiReco.png|Isabeau (Witch ver.)
File:Isabeau (14 yo).png|Isabeau at 14 years old.
File:Isabeau (14 yo MG).png|Isabeau's Magical Girl form at 14 years old.
File:Isabeau (19 yo).png|Isabeau at 19 years old.
File:Isabeau (19 yo MG).png|[[Isabeau in Magia Record|Isabeau's Magical Girl form at 19 years old.]]
File:232 witch mom.png|Magical Girl Seal 2021
</gallery>

===Official Art===
<gallery>
File:Memoria 1373.jpg
File:Chara 6601 00 b.png
File:Enemy 6601 l.png
Isabeau Witch form Magia Record.png
File:51102 la reine.jpg|Note the eyes on the wings being the same as Kyubey's.
File:51134 isabeau resurrected.jpg
File:Memoria 1623.jpg
File:Memoria 1624.jpg
File:E2YvAxWVUAMCwfv.jpg|[https://twitter.com/masugitune/status/1397857328523669514 Source]
File:Isabeau single attack.PNG|Isabeau single attack
File:Isabeau side attack.PNG|Isabeau side attack
File:Isabeau side attack 2.PNG
File:Isabeau vertical attack.PNG|Isabeau vertical attack
File:Isabeau vertical attack 2.PNG
File:Isabeau dying.PNG|Isabeau dying
File:Isabeau defeated.PNG|Isabeau defeated
File:Isabeau deferted 2.PNG
File:Isabeau second magia 1.PNG|Isabeau second magia
File:Isabeau second magia 2.PNG
File:Isabeau second magia 3.PNG
File:Isabeau second magia 4.PNG
File:Isabeau second magia 5.PNG
File:Isabeau second magia 6.PNG
</gallery>

==Memoria Cards==
{{Magia Record Memoria List|character=Witch Isabeau}}

==External links==
*[http://magireco.com Official Magia Record Website - Japanese]

===Gameplay Videos===
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxrZ70o8Haw Recording of Isabeau's Transformation Video on Youtube (JP)]
*[https://youtu.be/mNrHjX2nB3Q?si=VSyyOHfBoqqLTjwc Recording of Isabeau's Magia Video on Youtube (JP)]
*[https://youtu.be/tWhiZmWKAKM?si=diZkl-HSFSnskW_p Recording of Isabeau's 2nd Magia Video on Youtube (JP)]

===Side Story and Costume Story Videos===
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOkFC6td1xA Recording of Isabeau's MSS on Youtube (JP)]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqKZdUn3W14 Recording of Isabeau's Dialogue lines on Youtube (JP)]

[[Category:Magia Record Special Variant Units]]
[[Category:Magia Record Event-limited Characters]]
[[Category:Tart Magica Content in Magia Record]]

Isabeau de Bavière

2026-06-09T23:43:27Z

InquisitorKrieg: /* General Info */ Related through Bernabó Visconti

{{spoilers|for=[[Tart Magica]]}}
{{distinguish|[[Izabel]]}}{{Infobox_character
|name=Isabeau
|image=[[File:Isabeau pageBIO.png|250px]]
|jname={{lang|ja|イザボー・ド・バヴィエール}}
|designer=[[Golden Pe Done]]
|voices=Japanese: [[wikipedia:Chiaki_Takahashi_(actress)|Chiaki Takahashi]]
}}

[[wikipedia:Isabeau_of_Bavaria|Isabeau de Bavière]] is the main antagonist in ''[[Puella Magi Tart Magica|Puella Magi Tart Magica: The Legend of "Jeanne d'Arc"]]''. She is the Queen of France.

==General Info==
{{Magical Girl Details
|birth=c. 1370
|approxage=early 60's
|agenote=by 1431
|eyes=Yellow
|hair=Blonde
|height=155cm
|origin= Holy Roman Empire, Duchy of Bavaria, [[:wikipedia:Munich|Munich, (Germany)]]
|soulgem=Two pink gems located on her cloak clasps (near her arms, resembling Kyubey's eyes)
|weapon=Ribbons on her dress covered in black roses
|witch=Isabeau
|witchlink=Crépuscule de la Reine
|powers={{spoiler|"Lesser Incubator" (Creation of Magical Girls)}}, {{spoiler|all the powers of Kyubey}}
|wish={{spoiler|For everything you (Kyubey) possess.}}
|pronoun=watashi (私)
|relatives=[[wikipedia:Charles VI of France|Charles VI of France]] (husband), [[Charles de Valois]] (son), [[Corbeau]], [[Lapine]] and [[Minou]] (daughters), additional children not shown <ref>Although the official English translation of Tart Magica suggests that Isabeau adopted Corbeau, Minou and Lapine, [[:File:EB43-BDE2-AB93-4-B39-BD33-D765-E31-B5-EA0.jpg|this is not the case in the original Japanese]]</ref>, Louis I (brother-in-law/lover)<ref>In Isabeau's (Witch) magical girl story in Magia Record it's stated that Isabeau had an affair with Louis I between 1404 to 1407, prior to his death</ref>, Louis XI (grandson), Marie D'Anjou (daughter-in-law), [[wikipedia:Bernab%C3%B2_Visconti|Bernabó Visconti]] (grandfather), [[Riz Hawkwood]] (first cousin once removed)
|job=Queen of England and France
}}
{{reflist}}

==Story==
===Backstory===
In 1385, at the young age of fourteen, Isabeau was sent to France to wed the king. Due to the timing of her arrival and coronation, in the thick of the Hundred Years' War, much of the people of France pitied the young queen, who was in the heart of the turmoil. However Isabel used her beauty and charm to her ends and woo all the people around her. One day as the king was attending a ball organized by Isabeau to celebrate the marriage of one of her ladies-in-waiting, without warning the guests suddenly ignited and the flames spread throughout the room. While the king remained unharmed, his psyche was so scarred and his nerves so frayed that he was no longer fit to rule. The next incident occurred when the king’s younger brother, Louis I, duke of Orleans was assassinated in the streets of Paris by the king’s nephew, John of Burgundy, following a visit to Isabeau’s home. John of Burgundy was himself later assassinated in a plan orchestrated by Isabeau’s own son, the Dauphin Charles. Soon Isabeau was the only one with any real power in the regency and it was she, acting on behalf of her husband, who signed the treaty with England that ceded the right to inherit the throne of France to the offspring of the English King. Even though the Dauphin was the son of the king and the rightful heir to the throne, a condition of the treaty stated that the king of France would offer his daughter to the King of England to wed and their offspring would be the next king. This offspring would therefore be the king of both England and France, allowing Isabeau to wield her influence over both countries. In the end, Isabeau came to be known as "The woman who swore France away."

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During Isabeau’s first days in France, Kyubey approached her in her bedchambers. While Kyubey was trying to work out a contract with her, Isabeau asked him a number of questions as well, such as what magical girls and witches were. She wanted details on contracts, wishes, and also about Kyubey's very existence. After Isabeau kills Kyubey with a candlestick to test the veracity of his words, she makes her wish “for everything he possesses” (in reference to Kyubey). This gave her the powers of an Incubator, but despite this she was still a magical girl and fated to eventually become a witch.
As a young girl, [[Corbeau]] was chosen alongside her sisters [[Minou]] and [[Lapine]] to be among the first magical girls Isabeau contracted due to their closely interwoven fates.
Isabeau grew to become like a mother to the three girls she took in. However, she eventually turned into a witch and was poised to kill the three girls, of whom only Corbeau had as yet contracted to become a magical girl. This lead to Lapine making her wish for her mother to “return to how she was.” Since the transformation from magical girl to witch is irreversible, her wish lead to Isabeau’s witch mind inhabiting the now empty husk of her former physical body. Isabeau was no longer mindless and now retained her original powers that were granted to her from her own wish. Even so, she still retained her witch’s ambition to destroy all of France.
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===During ''Tart Magica''===
Isabeau first appeared in Chapter 15, following the coronation of the Dauphin Charles. As the people celebrate the coronation, several of the women in attendance suddenly ignite in flame as the lights cut out. Isabeau suddenly appears without warning accompanied by Minou. As Charles stammers and crawls away from her, he begs [[Tart]] to save him and demands she kill the queen. At his word Tart rushes forward and stabs her sword straight through the queen's heart as she stands there. Charles initially laughs at this display, but the queen smiles as a white miasma escapes from the queen's wound and she merely stands there smiling. Tart leaps back, certain she had injured the queen but thinking to herself that it didn't feel like she had stabbed her. [[Riz Hawkwood|Riz]] summons her shadowy tendrils and ties the queen up as [[Elisa Celjska|Elisa]] and [[Melissa de Vignolles|Melissa]] both swing their weapons directly at her. Isabeau merely smiles more broadly, completely unharmed from both their attacks. She raises her finger and shoots a beam of magical energy at the two girls, causing them to be knocked away hard. As Minou knocks Riz away with her whip, Tart unleashes her “La Lumiere” attack on Isabeau. However Isabeau remains completely unharmed. As Minou begins to admonish Charles, Isabeau faints, prompting Minou to catch her in her arms. Isabeau whispers to Minou, who declares to all that in one year’s time death shall befall Tart. Minou and Isabeau leave through Minou’s portal as Charles cries and the magical girls tend to their wounds. From here on, the four magical girls travelled the lands of France for several months, possibly years in search of Isabeau’s stronghold in order to thwart her plan to spread grief seeds throughout France and allow them to hatch into witches. With the chaos brought on by these incidents, Isabeau planned to deliver these lands into the hands of the English army and their allies and thus bring the country under her influence.

Following the capture of Tart and her subsequent selling to her enemies in England, she is held capture in a prison tower in the town of Rouen near the border channel between England and France. Minou walks into the prison cell, followed by Isabeau and two maidens who hold the train of Isabeau's gown. Minou lashes at Tart and Kyubey with her whip, mocking them and accusing them of being the source of their troubles. Before she can continue to torture them, a large booming noise rings out causing the walls to shake. A soldier opens the door to the cell, informing Minou of reports of a French attack. She orders him to get rid of them, but the soldier informs her that it was a larger assault than they had expected since it seems there is a concerted effort throughout France to recapture Tart. She apologizes to Queen Isabeau for the disturbance and vows to go forth herself to handle this trouble. As Minou deals with the French forces outside, Elisa and Melissa fight their way towards her prison cell, disarming soldiers and sentries along the way.

Isabeau makes her way outside, Minou humbling herself before her. Isabeau waves her hands before her which causes the troops to collapse to their knees, their strength being sucked out from them. As she aims her hand forward, a magic circle having formed around it, Tart stabs a standard into the ground before her and blocks her next move. Minou orders the magical girl slaves she brought with her to stop Tart, but Elisa and Melissa hold them off so Tart can race in towards Isabeau. Once more her sword attacks seem to have no effect on the queen. Isabeau raises her hands once more and fires a beam of magic directly at her. As the dust settles, Tart looks up from behind her shield to find that [[Pernelle]] has blocked the attack with her own magic circle, explaining to Tart that Isabeau is immune to attacks due to someone else’s wish.
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Kyubey and Pernelle explain to Tart that Isabeau is now part magical girl, part witch, and part incubator thanks to her and Lapine’s wish. Minou declares to all that she wished for Isabeau to be undefeated by any magical girl. Isabeau transforms into her witch state as the empty shell of her human body sits cradled in an enormous hand jutting from the ground nearby. As Tart, Elisa and Melissa continues the struggle against the witch Crepuscule de la Reine (Twilight of the Queen), all of their attacks having no effect on the witch. Tart’s soul gem grows black with impurities as she reaches her limit, when she suddenly hears the voice of Riz reminding her of her sword training back in her home village. From before Tart, Riz's soul gem materializes from a shadow as Riz tells her that her final vow was for her soul to remain with her from that day forward. Even if Riz's body was lost, her soul remained behind like her shadow, always by Tart's side. Tart’s gauntlet turns black with Riz’s soul gem encased on the back. As Tart’s soul gem crackles with impurities, she slashes her sword down and successfully injures the witch. Due to Riz’s wish, Tart’s soul gem has been prevented from transforming into a grief seed, making her more than just a magical girl. Before Tart can finish her off, Isabea's body begins to shake as a larger body emerges from underneath, a second larger witch form that causes the cathedral to crumble under the size and might of this new body as everyone gazes up in terror at the true form of Crepuscule de la Reine. However, Tart remains determined as ever as she faces down her foe. Isabeau begins to charge her cannon and aims it at Tart who immediately summons her standard and smashes through the center of it, causing the cannon to crumble. As Isabeau flies above the ruined cathedral, Tart summons a massive magic circle in the sky above her in an attack known as the Gate of Heaven. The center of the circle slides open like a gateway as crosses of light pierce Isabeau and hold her in place. Tart leaps up and swings her weapon down at the witch, slicing the massive body in half and then half again. As the pieces of the witch's corpse fall back to earth, the gate closes and disappears. Tart's shadowy gauntlet also begins to dissipate as Riz's soul gem crumbles. Tart thanks Riz for protecting her until the very end.

Isabeau de Baviere was reviled throughout the land as the woman who sold out her country. When she met her end in 1435, her funeral service was so quiet and subdued, you wouldn't have thought it was for a former queen.
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===Isabeau in [[Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story: Magia Record|Magia Record]]===
Isabeau remains a shadowy figure who orchestrates the three events involving Tart. She is primarily seen as a shadowy figure sitting behind her bed's curtains until the third event where her character is finally revealed.

For more information, see [[Magia Record Story The Chiming Bell that Transcends Time|The Chiming Bell that Transcends Time ''(NA: The Maiden of Hope)'']], [[Magia Record Story Rebel of a Dawnless Land|Rebel of a Dawnless Land]], and [[Magia Record Story End of a Legend, the Limits of Light|End of a Legend, the Limits of Light]].

''See also: [[Isabeau in Magia Record]], [[Isabeau (Witch ver.)]]''

==Witch and Doppel Description==
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===Doppel Description===
The Doppel of dominion. Its form is Queen’s Twilight. The master of this emotion seeks dominion and influence ad infinitum, for as long as she exists. The curses scattered by this Doppel are themselves a death-bringing darkness to all other humans, and if bathed in these curses, those without a resistance to them will instantly vanish from existence. The joy its master derives from this sight is synonymous with purification to her. The more her surroundings are stained with despair and darkness, the brighter her Soul Gem’s rhapsodic light shines.

===Witch===
''See also: [[Crépuscule de la Reine]]''
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|box_color=#cd16c9
|name=Isabeau (Larval Form)
|runes={{Runes|ISABEAU}}
|type=Crépuscule de la Reine
|nature=Dominion
|appearances=[[Puella Magi Tart Magica: The Legend of "Jeanne d'Arc"]], [[Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story]], [[Magia Exedra]]

|desc_english=Crépuscule de la Reine. Her nature is dominion. An avaricious Witch who desires endless power and influence. This Witch’s main body is actually separate from her larva-shaped legs, and the real body protected by a hard outer shell only rarely reveals its true form. Her Labyrinth is immense enough to cover an entire country, and the populace trapped within it remain none the wiser. The Witch feeds on the grief, terror and other negative emotions of the populace swallowed by her Labyrinth’s darkness, and expands her power and territory to become an ever-mightier Witch within an ever-larger Labyrinth.
|desc_japanese=女王の黄昏その性質は支配 
終わらぬ権勢を求める食欲な魔女。幼体状の脚部は魔女の本体ではなく、固い外殻に守られた本体が真の姿を見せることは滅多にない。 
一国をまるごと覆うほどの巨大な結界を持ち、結界に取り込まれた人々はそのことに気づかない。魔女はその闇に呑香まれた人々の嘆きや恐怖といった負の感情を喰らい、より強大な魔女、より広大な結界へとその力と領域を拡大してゆく。
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|name=Isabeau (Moth Form)
|runes={{Runes|ISABEAU}}
|type=Crépuscule de la Reine
|nature=Dominion
|appearances=[[Puella Magi Tart Magica: The Legend of "Jeanne d'Arc"]], [[Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story]], [[Magia Exedra]]

|desc_english=Crépuscule de la Reine. Her nature is dominion. An avaricious Witch who desires endless power and influence. This Witch’s main body is actually separate from her larva-shaped legs, and the real body protected by a hard outer shell only rarely reveals its true form. Her Labyrinth is immense enough to cover an entire country, and the populace trapped within it remain none the wiser. The Witch feeds on the grief, terror and other negative emotions of the populace swallowed by her Labyrinth’s darkness, and expands her power and territory to become an ever-mightier Witch within an ever-larger Labyrinth.
|desc_japanese=女王の黄昏その性質は支配 
終わらぬ権勢を求める食欲な魔女。幼体状の脚部は魔女の本体ではなく、固い外殻に守られた本体が真の姿を見せることは滅多にない。 
一国をまるごと覆うほどの巨大な結界を持ち、結界に取り込まれた人々はそのことに気づかない。魔女はその闇に呑香まれた人々の嘆きや恐怖といった負の感情を喰らい、より強大な魔女、より広大な結界へとその力と領域を拡大してゆく。
}}
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==Powers and Abilities==
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Because of her wish, Isabeau gained the same abilities and knowledge as Kyubey, making her partly an Incubator, magical girl, and ultimately a Witch.
She could form contracts with magical girls and grant their wishes, and her body also couldn't be permanently destroyed. But her power was limited as she was unable to fully comprehend her abilities and knowledge, and despite becoming everything an Incubator was she still became a Witch. According to Kyubey, the reasons for this was because transformation from magical girl to Witch only happens to other lifeforms and not Incubators (this is possibly because Isabeau still had a soul and emotions, the necessary element for witchification to occur, which Incubators don't have.)

When she became a Witch, her labyrinth encased all of France, allowing Witches to be seen by humans. Any girl who contracted with Isabeau after that lost their wills and souls, and Kyubey notes that this prevented his race from collecting the energy made by those magical girls when they became Witches. When she died, her magic and the contracts created with it also disappeared, causing Minou to become a normal girl again as Isabeau was an imperfect creator.

Due to the wishes to Minou and Lapine, Isabeau also became a Witch in a human shell and couldn't be defeated by any ordinary magical girl with the exception of Tart. Any magical girls who tried to fight her would have their attacks go right through her, leaving her completely unharmed.

While in her human guise, she possesses the ability to cause those around her to spontaneously combust.
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==Observations==
* Out of all the witches that appear in Tart Magica, Isabeau's and Lapine's witches are the only ones that are named.
* Her witch name is French and translates to, "Twilight of the Queen".

==Etymology==
"Isabeau" is a name of Hebrew origin meaning "God's promise". It is a French variant of the name "Elisabeth", Isabeau's baptismal name.
Bavière is the French form of Bavaria, a state in Germany.

==Trivia==
*Her ability to cause spontaneous combustion is a reference to the [[wikipedia:Bal_des_Ardents|Bal des Ardents]] ("Ball of the Burning Men"), a ball Isabeau of Bavaria held to entertain her husband, Charles VI, who had suffered an attack of insanity the year prior. During the ball, several dancers were killed by a fire caused by a torch brought by Charles' brother; Charles and one other dancer survived. The incident undermined faith in Charles' ability to rule.
*Isabeau's Magical Girl form bears many similarities to Kyubey: the jewels on her shoulders resemble his eyes, she has cat ears on her head, her veil resemble's Kyubey's earflaps while her bracelets resemble the rings, and she is surrounded by the [[:File:Vlcsnap-2022-03-18-13h24m19s827.png|same monitoring system]] Kyubey uses in [[Rebellion]].
*Her name has the same meaning as [[Elisa Celjska]]'s first name and [[Liz Hawkwood]]'s first name.
*Both [[Ui Tamaki]] and Isabeau wished for some if not all of the abilities of Kyubey. Isabeau's Witch form resembles a butterfly while Ui's Witch form resembles a moth.

==Gallery==
See [[Gallery:Isabeau de Bavière]]

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[[Category:Magical girls with Witches]]
[[Category:Incubators]]

Liz Hawkwood in Magia Exedra

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{{Infobox_character
|name=Liz Hawkwood
|image=[[File:1116 thumbnail 2.png|150px]]
|jname={{lang|ja|リズ・ホークウッド}}
|designer=[[Golden Pe Done]]
|voices=Japanese: [[wikipedia:Ami_Koshimizu|Ami Koshimizu]]
|release1=Global:April 24, 2026
}}
{{SeeMainBio|[[Riz Hawkwood]]}}
<blockquote>''"To escape my grandfather's shadow that clings to me......I hold onto my wish as I set out on a journey. With both faith in my destiny......and a hope that my soul would always be with you..."'' - Episode 0 of her Magical Girl Story.</blockquote>
'''Liz Hawkwood''' is a playable character in the 2025 mobile game ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica Magia Exedra]]''. She is an original character from ''[[Puella Magi Tart Magica|Puella Magi Tart Magica: The Legend of "Jeanne d'Arc"]]''.

==General Info==
{{Magical Girl Details
|birth=1411
|height=168cm
|eyes=Yellow
|hair=Black
|origin=[[wikipedia:Milan|Milan, Italy]]
|soulgem=Yellow rectangle (left cufflink)
|weapon=4 shadow daggers (Shape changes due to magic power, e.g. spears, machetes, whips, scythes)
|wish=To be the one from whom a new, true hero would spring.
|powers=Shadows
|witch=Obscurite
|pronoun={{nihongo||私|watashi}}
|relatives=[[wikipedia:John_Hawkwood|John Hawkwood]] (grandfather), Donnina Visconti (grandmother), [[wikipedia:Bernab%C3%B2_Visconti|Bernabó Visconti]] (great-grandfather), [[Isabeau]] (first cousin once removed), [[Corbeau]], [[Lapine]], [[Minou]] and [[Charles de Valois]] (second cousins)
|school=[[Holy Maiden Academy Edition|Holy Maiden Academy]] (only in one special event)
|mainpage=Liz Hawkwood
}}

==Game Info==
{{Magia Exedra Game Info|character=Liz Hawkwood}}

==Summary==
A cool-headed Magical Girl from medieval Italy who uses shadow magic. In the midst of the Hundred Years' War, she fights alongside Darc and the French army to save France. Though she would never speak of it, she is said to be descended from a famous soldier.

===Side Story===

==Gallery==
{{SectionRef|Gallery:Riz Hawkwood|Magia Exedra}}

Riz Hawkwood in Magia Record

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{{Infobox_character
|name=Riz Hawkwood
|image=[[File:riz_profile.png|300px]]
|jname={{lang|ja|リズ・ホークウッド}}
|designer=[[Golden Pe Done]]
|voices=Japanese: [[wikipedia:Ami_Koshimizu|Ami Koshimizu]]
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|release1=JP:February 21, 2018
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{{SeeMainBio|[[Riz Hawkwood]]}}

'''Riz Hawkwood''' (also called '''Liz Hawkwood''') was a playable character in the 2017 mobile game [[Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story: Magia Record]]. She is an original character from [[Puella Magi Tart Magica: The Legend of "Jeanne d'Arc"]].

==General Info==
{{Magical Girl Details
|birth=1411
|height=168cm
|eyes=Yellow
|hair=Black
|origin=[[wikipedia:Milan|Milan, Italy]]
|soulgem=Yellow rectangle (left cufflink)
|weapon=4 shadow daggers (Shape changes due to magic power, e.g. spears, machetes, whips, scythes)
|wish=To be the one from whom a new, true hero would spring.
|powers=Shadows
|doppel=Obscurite
|pronoun={{nihongo||私|watashi}}
|relatives=[[wikipedia:John_Hawkwood|John Hawkwood]] (grandfather), Donnina Visconti (grandmother), [[wikipedia:Bernab%C3%B2_Visconti|Bernabó Visconti]] (great-grandfather), [[Isabeau]] (first cousin once removed), [[Corbeau]], [[Lapine]], [[Minou]] and [[Charles de Valois]] (second cousins)
|school=[[Holy Maiden Academy Edition|Holy Maiden Academy]] (only in one special event)
|mainpage=Liz Hawkwood
}}

==Game Info==
{{:Magia Record Units/Riz Hawkwood}}

==Summary==
A cool-headed Magical Girl from medieval Italy who uses shadow magic. In the midst of the Hundred Years' War, she fights alongside Tart and the French army to save France. Though she would never speak of it, she is said to be descended from a famous soldier.

===Doppel Description===
[[File:Riz_doppel.png|thumb|right|150px|Obscurite, Riz's doppel]]
The Doppel of obsession. Its form is a shadow.
The master of this Doppel feels deep sympathy for others, even at the most dire of times. Where there is light, there is dark. This is providence. But it is also providence that those who are blanketed in shadow will never have light shined upon them. This is a Doppel that stands beside the hero as their shadow, surrounded by their dazzling brilliance. It is the elusive shadow itself, and yet, it is exactly what makes the light shine so brightly. The two are connected by an unbreakable bond.
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===Side Story===
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Riz fights off a witch within the dreamworld of France. As she strikes a staggering blow to the witch, she calls out to Tart to use her magic to deal the final blow. Tart worries that Riz will be hurt, but Riz urges her to hurry and give it all she has. Tart destroys it with her "La Lumiere" as Cube congratulates Tart on a job well done. Riz appears behind Tart, having manipulated the shadows with her magic to move behind her and avoid the attack. As the barrier disappears, the girls find they have been separated from the battalion while they were inside. With no idea as to where they may be, they decide to walk until they reach a town.

As they travel through the night, they're unable to find even so much as a road. Suddenly, they sense magic nearby and are blinded by a flash of light. The girls are bewildered to find it is suddenly the middle of the day and they are in the middle of Domrémy, the hometown of Tart. Both Cube and Riz even recognize the forest where they first met Tart as well as the church that Tart and her sister Catherine would attend. Everything is exactly the same as when Catherine was still alive. Both Riz and Tart find this last detail odd, as the village was attacked and pillaged on the day Catherine died. They head to the cemetery in search of Catherine's grave, but they become overwhelmed by some kind of magic that searches through their minds.

A flashblack plays from when Riz and Cube were heading towards the village in order to meet Tart for the first time. Riz was still searching for a true hero and Tart had not contracted yet. Riz recognizes it as her memories as the flashback continues, this time showing Catherine asking Riz for sword lessons. She begs the memories to stop as they show the day the village was attacked and Catherine died protecting Tart. Tart looks away, tears in her eyes as she tells Riz what had happened, full of guilt that she couldn't protect her younger sister. She finally agrees to become a magical girl and contracts with Cube. Light begins to rain down from the sky, as she vows to bring light to all of France and Riz vows to become the shadow to that light, protect Tart from anything.

Riz finally awakens with Cube watching over her. He shows her where Tart is laying fast asleep nearby and tells her it looked like she was having a nightmare. The two had passed out for a short while, but both seemed unharmed. Riz explains she had been forced to view her most bitter memories, even against her will. They both turn and wonder if Tart is okay, but it seems Tart is sleeping peacefully. Cube finds the town suspicious, especially when its appearance coincided with a strong magical reaction. Riz agrees and decides to search the town over, asking Cube to keep watch on Tart as she explores.

Despite searching every part of town, nothing was amiss. As Riz searched, she kept being confronted by memories of the past: the field where they chased sheep, the area where she taught them swordplay. She realizes the only place she hasn't checked was the area outside of town, so she heads to the main road. As she walks down the road, she suddenly finds herself back where she started. She tries several times more, but each time she returns to Domrémy rather than leaving it. She suspects what it may be, and tests this theory by attacking the air in front of her. For a split second the woods at night appear before Domrémy reappears once more. Riz's suspicions were correct: they are trapped inside a Witch's barrier. She returns to Cube and tells him what's happening. They realize the Witch is targeting Riz by reading her memories, and constructed the village just as Riz remembered it. Before they can formulate a plan, the Witch attacks Riz once more and conjures another memory for Riz to watch.
She remembers the night she asked Cube to accompany her on her search for a true hero. Memories of her search with Cube for a true hero appear and disappear before her. Countless meetings and partings with countless Magical Girls she fought alongside and couldn't protect. Riz had wished to become the shadow from which a true hero would spring, so she herself could never become that true hero she sought for. She collapses under the weight of her tears and regrets, the dark thought that it was her fault these girls succumbed to such dark fates consuming her.

Riz wakes up once more with Cube keeping watch over both girls. She tells him about the memories she saw this time, the memories of their journey together before they met Tart. Cube listens, and tells her to think of those girls in a different light: each girl she met was a different thread of destiny that weaved together within Riz. It was Riz's very existence that helped give rise to the strongest Magical Girl, Tart. If Riz was really the reason that Tart was able to contract and become the strongest Magical Girl, then the other girls' sacrifices weren't in vain. While the idea comforts Riz, she acknowledges it would do little to comfort the dead Magical Girls of her past. Riz was forced to watch them die or become witches in front of her before having to kill them off herself. But despite the wear from her memories, Riz has confirmed that the Witch attacks by using regret as well as the identity of the Witch: one of her former Magical Girl partners. Both her and Cube were there when she finally succumbed to her grief and became a Witch. She had immediately attacked Riz's mind by dragging up Riz's feelings of regret. As Riz lay on the ground unconscious, Cube called out to her in an attempt to wake her up before she died. Riz was just able to get up. Since her initial attack was unsuccessful, the Witch then tried a direct attack.

In the present, Riz and Cube both recall that particular day and ready themselves for a direct attack from the Witch. Riz vows once more to do anything she can to protect Tart, the true light of hope, even if it means staining her hands further with sin. Blow after blow strikes Riz, but she manages to hold out. Riz fights back with her shadows and is able to defeat the Witch once and for all. As the labyrinth dissipates, Riz and Cube find themselves back in the dark woods they were lost in originally. Tart finally awakens and greets Riz and Cube. Riz checks to make sure that Tart is okay when they hear a voice calling out to them. It seems Melissa and some of the soldiers had gone in search of the two girls and had been able to finally find them. The girls all reunited back at camp, happy to be safe and sound.

Tart tells Melissa they had been trapped within a Witch's barrier as Cube describes how Riz had defeated the Witch with ease once she recognized it as a Witch she'd fought before. Riz finds the coincidence suspicious, since Iroha and Yachiyo had also been surprised to find a Witch they had fought before also. Someone or something was recreating enemies from their past. Riz then asks Tart if she remembered Domrémy or anything else before that. Tart smiles and says she remembers everything up to the point where they looked for Catherine's grave. After that all she remembers is a long dream filled with happy and nostalgic memories. Cube wonders if Tart is incapable of feeling regret. Despite having sad memories, Tart doesn't regret them one bit because she knows she will liberate her country and will never let go of her vow to Catherine. Riz knows she's found the last light of hope.
}}

==Appearances==
===Event Appearances===
*[[Magia Record Story The Chiming Bell that Transcends Time|The Maiden of Hope]]
*[[Magia Record Story Rebel of a Dawnless Land|Rebel of a Dawnless Land]]
*[[Magia Record Story End of a Legend, the Limits of Light|End of a Legend, the Limits of Light]]
*[[Magia Record Story The Masked Student Council Strikes Back (Holy Maiden Academy Edition)|The Masked Student Council Strikes Back (Holy Maiden Academy Edition)]]
===Magical Girl Story Appearances===
* [[Tart in Magia Record|Tart]]
* [[Corbeau in Magia Record|Corbeau]]

==Trivia==
* Riz was event-limited and could only be obtained through gacha.
* The name of her Magia is French for "Shadow", while the name of her Witch form/Doppel translates to "Darkness".
* Her Doppel sitting within a shell is a reference to [[wikipedia:File:Blason_John_Hawkwood.svg|her family's coat of arms]], a shield bearing three scallop shells. The pearl within it, also a reference to the sea, represents [[Tart in Magia Record|Tart]].
* In the English translation of Magia Record, Riz's name was translated as '''Liz Hawkwood'''.
* Both Riz and [[Rika Ayano]]'s doppels are based on Botticelli's [[Wikipedia: The Birth of Venus|The Birth of Venus]].

==Gallery==
===Game Gallery===
<gallery>
File:Riz 3 star card.png|Magia Record Four Star card
File:Riz 4 star card.png|Magia Record Five Star card
File:Riz Hawkwood Battle Sprite.png|In-battle Sprite
File:Riz doppel.png|Doppel
File:Riz doppel card.jpg
File:Obscurite_English_description.png
File:Riz PM.png
File:Riz Civilian.png
File:Riz School.png
File:Riz Papa Seal 2019.jpg|Magical Girl Seal 2019
File:UltimateMadoka-2ndMagia-Liz.png|In [[Ultimate Madoka in Magia Record|Ultimate Madoka]]'s 2nd Magia
</gallery>

===Official Art===
<gallery>
File:Riz 01.jpg
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File:Riz 03.jpg
File:Riz 04.jpg
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File:Riz 06.jpg
File:Obscurite riz doppel.png
File:Tart_Riz_masugitune_magireco.jpg|[https://twitter.com/masugitune/status/966193435035209730 Art by Masugitsune]
File:Memoria 1172.jpg
File:Memoria 1173.jpg
File:Memoria 1176.jpg
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File:Memoria 1377.jpg
File:51102 riz magia.jpg
File:Memoria 1512.jpg
File:51102 hell gate.jpg
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File:103304 puella gather.jpg
File:MasugitsuneMRTribute.jpg|Art by Masugitsune as a tribute to Magia Record.
</gallery>

==Memoria Cards==
{{Magia Record Memoria List|character=Riz Hawkwood}}

==External links==
*[http://magireco.com Official Magia Record Website - Japanese]
*[https://magiarecord-en.com/ Official Magia Record Website - English]

===Gameplay Videos===
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfsUMEIfNOc Recording of Riz's Transformation Video on Youtube (JP)]
*[https://youtu.be/qAYZpHwp3J4?si=Tt_dUHnj-VJhzGrX Recording of Riz's Magia Video on Youtube (JP)]
*[https://youtu.be/KM1jqXvCylk?si=NPxddyd7ido790aj Recording of Riz's Doppel Video on Youtube (JP)]

===Side Story and Costume Story Videos===
*Recording of Riz's MSS on Youtube (JP): [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SN9hXGVDVRg Episode 1/3], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wsOuwbVN0E Episode 2/3], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rj9qN657GiM Episode 3/3]
**[https://youtu.be/BdKLhJfqcKQ Recording of Riz's MSS on Youtube (NA)]

===Dialogue Lines===
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zy-CjbjRU80 Recording of Riz's Dialogue lines on Youtube (NA)]

[[Category:Magia Record Event-limited Characters]]
[[Category:Tart Magica Content in Magia Record]]

Riz Hawkwood

2026-06-09T23:37:49Z

InquisitorKrieg: /* General Info */

{{Infobox_character
|name=Riz Hawkwood
|image=[[File:Riz pageBIO.PNG|250px]]
|jname={{lang|ja|リズ・ホークウッド}} {{lang|ja|リズ・ヴィスコンティ}} (Riz Visconti)
|designer=[[Golden Pe Done]]
|voices=Japanese: [[wikipedia:Ami_Koshimizu|Ami Koshimizu]]
}}
'''Riz Hawkwood''', also known as '''Riz Visconti''' (And '''Liz Hawkwood''' in most official translations), is one of the main characters in ''[[Puella Magi Tart Magica|Puella Magi Tart Magica: The Legend of "Jeanne d'Arc"]]''. She is one of [[Tart]]'s companions and close friends.

==General Info==
{{Magical Girl Details
|birth=1411(around 19)<ref>In the Magia Record event The Maiden of Hope / The Chiming Bell That Transcends Time, Yachiyo says that she and Riz are "around the same age".</ref>
|height=168cm
|eyes=Yellow
|hair=Black
|origin=[[wikipedia:Milan|Milan, Italy]]
|soulgem=Yellow rectangle (left cufflink)
|weapon=4 shadow daggers (Shape changes due to magic power, e.g. spears, machetes, whips, scythes), named [[Machete]], [[Frusta]] and [[Falce]]. Fourth name is unknown (but theorized to be "[[Lancia]]").
|wish=To be the one from whom a new, true hero would spring.
|powers=Shadows, "Gates of Hell".
|witch=Obscurite
|witchlink=Liz Hawkwood in Magia Record#Doppel Description
|pronoun={{nihongo||私|watashi}}
|relatives=[[wikipedia:John_Hawkwood|John Hawkwood]] (grandfather), Donnina Visconti (grandmother), [[wikipedia:Bernab%C3%B2_Visconti|Bernabó Visconti]] (great-grandfather), [[Isabeau]] (first cousin once removed), [[Corbeau]], [[Lapine]], [[Minou]] and [[Charles de Valois]] (second cousins)
|voices=
Japanese: [[wikipedia:Ami_Koshimizu|Ami Koshimizu]]
}}

==Story==
===Backstory===
Riz was the grandchild of an Italian hero who had turned traitor. Her grandfather was named John Hawkwood, and he was the leader of the White Company Mercenaries. He tended to work for various landowners and nobles and would work for the enemy of a former employer so long as the price was right. The Visconti family had arranged for their daughter to marry Hawkwood, and that's how the Viscontis gained control of the White Company. But later, Hawkwood betrayed the Viscontis and brought them to ruin. Riz was born into the Visconti family as the granddaughter of a traitor and thus endured a harsh childhood. As part of her agreement to become a magical girl, she wished to be the one from whom a new, true hero would spring. For her, this was a wish that could not be granted until that condition was fulfilled. But since this was the price of her contract, it should have actually come true. So Kyubey set out with Riz in search of her hero and while they met many girls with talent, in the end none of them turned out to be the hero that Riz was searching for. Many of these girls would die at the hands of witches, some transforming into witches themselves. Due to these journeys and experiences, Riz learned much about the magical girl system and would later impart some of this knowledge to her compatriots Tart, Melissa and Elisa. It was not until she encountered Tart that her wish would be granted.

===During ''Tart Magica''===
Riz first appeared in a flash forward in Chapter 1, where [[Tart]], Riz, [[Melissa de Vignolles|Melissa]], and [[Elisa Celjska|Elisa]] are attempting to stop [[Minou]] from escaping yet again. They are deterred by [[Lame]], who is easily defeated. However Minou uses her abilities to cause Lame to fall into deep despair and instantly become a witch, fighting off the girls as she makes her escape.

Tart then recalls of how she first met her companions. In a flashback, Tart is seen with her sister Catherine following a fairy into the woods. The fairy turns out to be the familiar of a nearby grief seed that hatches into a witch before the girls. Catherine faints as several witch-kissed soldiers appear and amble towards Tart. Riz suddenly appears and knocks out the soldiers with the use of her daggers and shadow abilities. As she quickly dispatches them, the witch turns her fury towards Riz, who captures it with shadowy chains and impales it with her blade causing the witch to explode. Tart is amazed at this display as Riz explains that she and Kyubey were looking for her. They ask for her name and Kyubey nicknames her "Tart". After Tart’s family appears looking for her and her sister, Tart faints from the stress and Riz brings the girls back to their home. Once Tart awakens, Riz awaits as Kyubey asks if she would consider making a contract with him. Tart’s father enters and asks if Riz would be able to work as a village guard for a time. During the following three years, Riz remains as a village guard and trains both Tart and Catherine in the art of sword fighting. Catherine quickly grows adept at her new skill as Tart struggles slightly. Due to Tart not deciding on a wish, Kyubey declares that him and Riz will have to leave soon. Riz goes to escort a shipment of goods the village is sending out when several thieves and bandits take advantage of Riz’s absence to burn the village to the ground, pillaging homes and slaughtering the villagers indiscriminately. Catherine is able to kill and wound some of the soldiers before she is impaled before Tart’s eyes. The soldiers leave, satisfied with their spoils. A short time later, Riz returns as Tart laments the loss of her sister and asks if she and her village can be restored with her wish. Kyubey affirms it can, but warns her it’s possible she may still lose both or other members of her family due to the war ravaging France. Tart makes her wish for the power to bring light to France. Before they leave, Tart cuts off her braid and places it on Catherine’s grave.

{{Spoilerbox|
As they journey on, Tart asks what they should do next. Kyubey responds that there is much turmoil in France due to the lack of a true king sitting on the throne and reminds Tart that it is her duty also to defeat the witches that ravage France. On their journey to Vaucoleurs, Riz and Tart find that the town has been beset by a witch, as several witch-kissed soldiers aim their arrows at the two girls. Despite not being able to summon a weapon naturally, Tart is able to conjure a sword of light magic and disposes of the witch instantly. However, she used up vast amounts of magic in doing so to Riz's dismay. Riz and Kyubey then explain how all magical girls irrevocably turn into witches if they use up all of their magic. Having defeated the witch, the girls are welcomed into the village where Lord Baurdicourt offers the girls what help he can and is able to secure an audience with the Dauphin for Tart. The girls then head out for Chinon after hearing the news of the French army’s defeat at Orleans by “three mere girls”. During their journey, Tart and Riz defeat more witches, but Riz warns Tart to better learn to control her powers before she enters battle since she drains her magic needlessly every time.

The girls soon arrive at Chinon, where they make announcement of their arrival and prepare for their audience with the Dauphin Charles. Charles decides to play a trick on Tart in order to test her and instructs Lord Gilles to sit on his throne in his place. As Tart enters the courtroom, both her and Kyubey sense something off about Gilles and announce to all that he is not the Dauphin. Somehow, Tart is able to sense who Charles really is among the courtiers and kneels before him. Stunned, Charles orders Tart to speak with him privately in his bedchambers. After affirming to Charles that she was indeed sent by God to place him on his rightful throne, Charles and Tart exit the room where he announces to all that La Pucelle is truly a messenger from God. After extensive testing by various theologians, her status as a messenger from God is confirmed to all, causing her fame to spread and more soldiers to volunteer for the war. Charles then assigns Lord Gilles and [[Etienne de Vignolles]] in charge of the troops that are to journey to Orleans, as Etienne assigns his daughter [[Melissa de Vignolles|Melissa]] to act as a handmaiden to Tart and Riz. Melissa introduces herself to Tart and Riz, who both insist on dispensing with the formalities. The group soon encounter a small village that has seemingly been burned to the ground. Etienne returns to the main group of soldiers to warn them of the dangers ahead as Melissa remains in the village with Tart and Riz. Soon they encounter a witch’s barrier in from of the dilapidated church in the center of town. As Tart and Riz do battle with the witch inside, Kyubey takes Melissa with him into the barrier in order for her to watch the magical girls do battle and convince her to contract as well. As the witch is about to attack Melissa, she is saved by a barrier placed by [[Pernelle]]. Pernelle scolds Kyubey for bringing in outsiders as a magical girl is attempting to do battle and hands Tart a magically-imbued sword. Tart uses the sword to defeat the witch easily while conserving most of her magic power. As Pernelle introduces herself, she soon leaves through one of her portals.

The group slowly yet surely make their way to Orleans. Along the way they are able to recapture several forts that had been taken by the English forces and are soon able to camp not far from the outskirts of Orleans as they prepare to do battle the next day. Tart shows off her newly embroidered standard with a design of Kyubey on it to her friends. During the nightly revelry, Melissa reveals to Tart and Riz that she had been thinking about becoming a magical girl ever since Kyubey said she had the potential for it. Tart prefers that she stay as she is rather than risk herself in battle. The following day the soldiers and the girls began their assault on the fortress, the soldiers leaning ladders against the fortress’ walls but [[Corbeau]] is there to greet them and summons black feathers that rain down and impale the soldiers. She leaps down to where Riz and Tart stand. Corbeau knocks Tart away with a single blow before trading blows with Riz. Despite the injuries she’s taken, Corbeau heals herself with magic and Riz notices how incredibly dark her soul gem has become. Corbeau laughs as Riz realizes the truth: Corbeau is able to push her impurities onto other magical girls. By now Tart has managed to struggle her way back to where Riz and Corbeau are and offers to help. Riz tells her to stay back and Corbeau agrees, snapping her finger which causes her servant, [[Flèche]], to aim several arrows at Tart, a few of which find their mark. Riz looks up to see Flèche watching them from one of the fortress' towers. Corbeau charges at Riz once more and is able to pin her down using her black feathers. As Flèche continues to shoot arrows at Tart, Corbeau walks to where Tart lays. Etienne sneaks up and strikes at Corbeau from behind in an attempt to defend Tart, but Corbeau also throws Etienne into the ground face first, knocking him unconscious. Melissa rushes to her father's side and Riz calls out to her, telling her to get away from the front lines as soon as possible. Corbeau tells Flèche to make sure nothing is left of La Hire and Flèche conjures a large spear-like arrow and fits it to her bow. As she unleashes the arrow aimed at Melissa and her father, Tart suddenly stands before them and takes the full brunt of the attack, sparing the two humans. As the dust settles, Tart asks Melissa if she's alright, and thanks heaven she is as Tart stands there with a large hole the size of her fist in her right shoulder. Tart collapses face first as Melissa calls out her name. As Corbeau laughs, the dust settling, Melissa stands before her, now a magical girl as well.

Melissa battles Corbeau, attempting to defeat her with her matter disintegration magic but fails. Corbeau is surprised that Melissa is now a magical girl and doesn’t seem to recognize Kyubey. Riz pulls Melissa and Tart into her shadow realm and explains the significance of soul gems. She asks Tart to hold onto Riz and Melissa’s soul gems as she battles off Flèche and they battle Corbeau. Riz pops out of a shadow behind Corbeau, throwing her off as she realizes that Riz can jump from shadow to shadow. As she throws a feather dagger at her, Riz disappears into a shadow once more before reappearing at Corbeau's feet behind her. Riz fends off her attacks with her dagger as Corbeau taunts her, making fun of her for only defending herself and not attacking. Tart and Melissa materialize behind Flèche and Corbeau respectively. Both of them swing their weapons at their opponents but are unable to successfully connect their attacks. Corbeau calls out to Flèche to provide support as she fends off attacks from both Melissa and Riz. She then calls to Flèche to finish off La Pucelle with another attack like the one that nearly killed her earlier. Tart prepares another attack against Flèche, but Flèche has dropped down one side of the tower they were fighting on. As Flèche runs backwards down the side of the tower, she launches arrow after arrow right at Tart, each one finding their mark. She turns and using her momentum is able to run sideways across the walls of the fortress, launching more arrows up in her wake. As the dust settles, Tart remains unharmed. Corbeau is furious at all this and demands Flèche use her full magic, as if she intends to drain herself dry. Tart braces herself for the incoming attack and thinks back to when they were still on their journey over.

As Tart remembers the words of Riz telling her that she too will trust in that hope, she powers herself up and conjures a standard and lance with her magic just as Flèche is finishing powering up her final arrow attack. Tart unleashes a large beam of pure magical energy as she uses her ultimate move: La Lumiere. The attack destroys the tower where Flèche was standing as well as leaving a sizeable hole in the fortress. Corbeau returns her attention and attacks on Riz and Melissa, who are able to coordinate a few successful attacks of their own on Corbeau. Corbeau soon realizes something is wrong as her soul gem begins to darken from the exertion of battle. Back at the scene of battle, Flèche stirs slightly as Minou appears before her. She had planned to gather up what was left of her but instead she conjures a seal with her magic and presses it to Flèche, causing her to scream. Corbeau, meanwhile, laments the impurities of her soul gem as Riz asks her how it feels to be defeated by her own power. As she summons black feathers around her, Minou walks over and calls out to Corbeau. She tells her she knows better than to use *that* while there are still English troops in the vicinity. Corbeau warns Minou away since she will automatically absorb any impurities in Corbeau's soul gem. But Minou isn't worried and tells her [[Lapine]] had been asking for her. She tells Corbeau to leave everything to Flèche instead as the two disappear through one of Minou's portals.

The remaining French soldiers with Gille at the lead finally arrive at the fortress just as Flèche's witch form has spawned and stands ready and waiting in the courtyard. Tart leaps out from the tower and strikes at the witch's head with her sword. While the attack wasn't quite enough to stop the witch, it powers up its attack and Tart only barely manages to turn its head just as it fires off its attack. She grips her sword tightly and slashes the witch down the middle, parting it neatly in half. The witch explodes and is finished off. Melissa congratulates Tart but Tart assures her it wasn't just her who finished off the witch. As the smoke clears from a gun muzzle, Elisa stands at the edge of a cliff side some considerable distance away. Two men stand behind her, her uncle and the constable who praises her shot. They wonder if this was enough to secure the fate of Orleans and can see that the tide is now beginning to turn in this war. Elisa tells them to leave it to her as she will offer her greetings to the Dauphin Charles in person as well as introduce herself to La Pucelle. The leader of the English forces, John Talbot, breaks ranks and asks if they can be allowed to leave since they clearly stand no chance against the French army. Both Batard and Tart agree and allow the remaining English forces to leave with their lives. Batard declares Orleans liberated from the English much to the gusto of the French forces.

At the town of Loches, the Dauphin personally welcomes the retinue and congratulates them on their victory. It seems Elisa and her uncle raced ahead to inform the Dauphin of the news. Elisa introduces herself to Tart, Riz, and Melissa and telepathically informs them she too is a magical girl. She was sent on orders of her mother the Holy Roman Empress to see for herself the powers of La Pucelle and to render assistance if she is truly a messenger from God. Having witness the battle at Orleans, they offer their services to the Dauphin Charles. Sometime later, Elisa challenges Tart to a friendly duel but due to her battle experience she is able to defeat Tart easily. Angered, Melissa herself challenges Elisa to a duel and throws her bodily into the air. That evening, Elisa pouts in her room as Melissa enters in her maid’s uniform, offering refreshments and an apology for losing her temper. Elisa dismisses her apology, since it was a duel after all and promises to not taunt Tart in the future. After asking for Tart, and being informed that she was called to court, Elisa and her uncle head off to find a certain person.

In the Great Hall of the Chateau de Loches, Tart argues for the Dauphin to be coronated at Reims as soon as possible. While Gilles and Batard agree, the chamberlain has his own opinion on how to proceed when the Dauphin’s son burst in and is overjoyed to meet Tart. Tart promises to have his father coronated as soon as possible, the Dauphin agreein to this plan due to the prompting of his son. While the chamberlain wonders what could have brought the child to the hall at this exact moment, he eyes Oswald and Elisa who are speaking familiarly with the Dauphin’s wife.

At the city of Patay, Minou, Corbeau and Lapine stand at the head of the English forces as Lapine jumps up and down in joy at the thought of finally being able to play after waiting for so long. At the head of the French forces stand Tart, Elisa, Melissa and Riz as they note the three magical girls facing them but not recognizing Lapine as they hadn't met her before now. Corbeau turns to John Talbot and tells him they'll be acting as they please. Before they can begin, Lapine races ahead of her sisters and commences her attack. However, Elisa and Melissa are able to strike her down immediately, causing her soul gem to darken and Lapine to turn into a witch. Suddenly, the soldiers' weapons from both armies as well as Riz and Melissa's weapons begin to float in the air. Tart looks around bewildered as the soldiers fall back, unable to proceed with their fight so long as they remain without weapons. Only Tart and Elisa are able to retain their weapons thanks to the magics Pernelle has imbued them with. Lapine, now in a rabbit-like witch form, floats beneath the weapons as she directs them at Melissa and Riz. The weapons, now under the command of the witch, fly straight at the girls damaging them as Tart attempts to knock as many as she can away with her sword. Elisa, meanwhile, continues to shoot down as many of the weapons as possible when Melissa suddenly notices a huge shadow looming on them and calls out to Riz. The witch has amassed the weapons and shields she stole into a giant sword-like shape which starts to fall towards them. Riz calls Melissa to get into her shadow where she can pull them to safety but the eyes on the witch's cape flash at them, causing Melissa and Riz to revert from their magical girl forms to their human forms. The sword-shaped conglomeration of weapons bears down on them and would have crushed them had Tart not suddenly appeared in front of them and slashed at the weapons with her own sword. Melissa, Riz, Tart, and Elisa revert back into their normal forms every time Lapine or her rabbit disks flash their eyes at them.

Just as they’re getting their bearings, Corbeau charges at Riz who is just barely able to block her attack with her bare arms. Corbeau and Riz trade blows as Melissa tries to assist as best she can without her weapon, imbuing rocks with her magic and throwing them at Corbeau. Elisa and Tart attempt to coordinate a surprise attack on Lapine, but the eyes on her cape have the same ability as her rabbit eyes and they both revert to normal girls temporarily. Despite this, the two girls are eventually able to distract Lapine and successfully defeat her with Elisa's rifle-turned-canon. However, her defeat only causes her to revert back into a magical girl, owing to the nature of her wish and the abilities it granted her. Minou retreats with an unconscious Lapine into one of her portals as Corbeau unleashes her Danse Macabre. Reaper-like skeletons fly out of the magic circles Corbeau summoned, black feathers flying out from their eyeless sockets. Everyone begins to double over in pain, wondering what's happening to their bodies. Riz looks at the tumor-like boils on her hands and recognizes it as something she's seen before. Corbeau laughs and reminds Riz she told her this fight would be a massacre and tells them all to show her the dance of death. As both the French and English forces alike lay doubled in agony, Corbeau beats down the weakened magical girls. Tart struggles to her feet and attempts to fight Corbeau, but is too weakened to do more than swing her sword feebly. Corbeau picks her up by the neck and mocks Tart's attempts to fight back.

As Tart warns her that she’s hurting her English allies as well with her magic, Corbeau scoffs and responds that she doesn’t care since her magic will kill everyone who comes near. She demands to know what it matters since everyone must die eventually, just like Tart’s sister. At these words, Tart's soul gem shines brightly and Corbeau's fingers are bent backwards as the force of Tart's magic caused her to be released from her grip. Tart glows with the power of her magic and an immense magic circle of Tart's doing appears in the sky overhead, casting light down on the soldiers below. As the light bathes the battlefield, all of the soldiers and magical girls both English and French alike begin to stand and realize they've been healed of plague as well as their wounds. Corbeau is enraged by this and as she demands to know who Tart really is, Tart leaps up and slashed down her sword with full force at Corbeau, ultimately defeating her as the force of it knocks her into some nearby woods. She lands against the trunk of a tree and falls to her knees, greatly weakened. Tart aims her blade at Corbeau, telling her this is the end as Corbeau tries to stand. But all Corbeau can think of is her two sisters, Lapine and Minou. Before she can deliver the finishing blow, a portal appears behind Corbeau and Minou steps through. {{spoiler|While Corbeau is overfilled with joy at the sight of her sister, Minou kneels down and takes Corbeau's soul gem in her hands, informing her this is the end. Confused, Corbeau asks her why and if she doesn't see how much she loves her and Lapine. Minou confirms that this is what she suspected and says she stopped serving their benefactor a long time ago. As Corbeau yells out once more to Minou asking her why she can't understand how much she loves them, Minou shatters Corbeau's soul gem and tells her she doesn't love her any longer. Corbeau falls forward, calling out her sisters' names as she dies. Minou tells her that at the very least she will tell Lapine that Corbeau died honorably in battle. Tart angrily demands she explain herself as Riz calls her heartless. As Minou summons a portal, she giggles and says it'll be something to look forward to as she gathers Corbeau's body and takes it back with her, leaving the heroines alone in the woods.}}

The two turn to go, knowing the battle isn't over yet. Out in the nearby woods Tart, Melissa, Riz and Elisa are just able to hear the cries of the troops and wonder what may be happening. Pernelle appears from behind a tree and informs the girls that the French has won a victory. After asking how they’re doing, Pernelle informs them of a prophecy spreading throughout France that predicts that Tart will save France. While Charles had the right to inherit the throne, it was a woman that sold that right to the King of England and now Tart has appeared and reclaimed Orleans, opening a path for Charles to be coronated. Thus far the prophecy is fulfilling itself. Elisa and Tart both argue that it was due to their and the soldiers’ efforts that France is being liberated and not just some prophecy. Pernelle smiles and tells her to never hold back in saying what she feels from her heart. But she asks that Tart never forgets that, while a larger fate may be at work here, it is Tart who is at the center of that flow of fate. As she magically teleports away, she tells them to make their way to Reims where she may meet them again. Now that the road to Reims was secured, Dauphin Charles was coronated as the King of France. With this, the wishes of La Pucelle as well as the people of France were realized.

Charles and the other courtiers celebrate the coronation of Charles when suddenly the lights cut out, leaving the room plunged in total darkness. A scream is heard and as they turn towards the sound, a light can be seen. But this is no ordinary light, it is several women burning alive and screaming as between the flames, Minou and another woman can be seen walking towards Charles. Riz and Tart quickly transform and stand ready to defend the king. They demand he run towards safety, but Charles stammers and looks like he is about to scream as he recognizes the smiling woman who stands before Minou. As he collapses to the ground, he demands to know what she is doing here. It is his mother, the woman who sold out France to the English, [[Isabeau|Isabeau de Baviere]]. As Isabeau appears in the courtroom, Riz, Melissa and Tart stand ready to defend the newly crowned king, already transformed into their magical girl states. Charles begs Tart to save him from his mother, the queen, and demands she kill her. At his word Tart rushes forward and stabs her sword straight through the queen's heart as she stands there. Charles initially laughs at this display, but the queen smiles as a white miasma escapes from the queen's wound and she merely stands there smiling. Tart leaps back, certain she had injured the queen but thinking to herself that it didn't feel like she had stabbed her. Riz summons her shadowy tendrils and ties the queen up as Elisa and Melissa both swing their weapons directly at her. Isabeau merely smiles more broadly, completely unharmed from both their attacks. She raises her finger and shoots a beam of magical energy at the two girls, causing them to be knocked away hard. Tart draws her power to herself and summons her standard, unleashing her "La Lumiere" attack directly on Isabeau, the excess power blasting out the castle's windows. However, the dust clears and Isabeau remains where she stands, not a hair on her head harmed. Tart is amazed that she remained undamaged even after using that much magic power on her, but Minou sneaks up behind Tart and knocks her down with her whip. Isabeau staggers suddenly and whispers something to Minou as Minou stands and declares the words of her queen "In one year's time death shall befall La Pucelle!" Minou and Isabeau leave through Minou's portal as Charles cries and the magical girls tend to their wounds.

The following day, after the group gathers to discuss that night’s events. Tart's followers want to liberate Paris as quickly as possible. However, the chamberlain La Remoille advising the haggard King Charles, sending entreaties to the English forces asking for a ceasefire. The result of the endless delays was that the army had to wait until close to August before it could depart from Reims. Finally the order came for the army to advance toward Paris. From August 1429, Charles showed no signs of recovery. In fact, just when everyone thought he had finally given the order to liberate Paris on September 9, only two days later, the order was rescinded. Shortly thereafter, the order came to disband his army altogether. It seemed the king's confusion was worsening. All of the forces who supported La Pucelle were completely disbanded. But Tart went questing throughout France for some eight months, virtually alone, searching for Isabeau. Finally in Compiegne, a town in the north of France, they discovered a witch’s barrier with the symbol of a cuckoo at the center. As they enter the barrier, they are greeted by Minou who summons an army of magical girls through her many portals. As the girls arrive, Minou summons branding irons and brands the girls, causing them to fall into deep despair and transform into witches instantly. She commands the witch army forward as she declares this to be the appointed time at which death would befall La Pucelle.

Tart, Riz, Melissa and Elisa stand ready as they face down an army of witches that Minou has summoned to destroy them. The first witch, who appears like a gigantic woman in a dress with a tassel for a head, brings her arm down on our heroes who are just barely able to leap out of harm’s way. Tart blocks the witch's arm with her bare strength and slashes at it with her sword. The cleaved half of the arm falls heavily on the ground behind her but before she can react, the hand of another witch reaches for Tart. However Melissa is able to block the attack on Tart with her polearm just in time, warning Tart to not overdo it. Riz calls out to the others, advising them to stay together as there are a vast number of witches they must face. Tart summons her strength as she prepares to take out all of the witches at once but Riz warns her not to do so, knowing Minou's strategy is to deplete their magic as much as possible. As Elisa fires left and right with her rifle, she tells Tart she won't have to use her magic since she'll take out all the witches for her. Minou watches the battle rage on before her and decides that this small contingency of witches won't be enough to stop them and turns to where Lapine now stands andinforms her of her chance to take revenge for the loss of their sister. Lapine is enraged and more than eager to tear them limb from limb. She begins by summoning her rabbit-shaped discs and impeding their magical girl transformations. Despite this, Riz is easily able to dodge her attacks and slashes at her rabbit-shaped discs as Lapine is not used to combat the way her sister Corbeau was.

When Riz informs Lapine that it was in fact {{spoiler| Minou who killed her sister}}, this causes Lapine to snap with rage and abandon all thinking. Riz aims to shatter Lapine’s soul gem in order to prevent her from transforming into her witch form, but the news she received and the subsequent despair it caused her has instead only accelerated the impurities of Lapine’s soul gem. It is too late, as Lapine quickly becomes a witch continues her attacks on the girls. The magical girls coordinate their attacks and unleash Melissa’s ultimate destructive move on Lapine. But it is not enough and Lapine reemerges from the bottom of the crater formed by the explosion, now human and her soul gem cleansed. Minou then causes a portal to appear beneath Elisa and Melissa and transports them to a different part of the castle in which they are battling. Tart and Riz are left to fend for themselves against not only Lapine’s witch form, but the army of witches that are left from earlier. Tart and Riz begin to grow weary from the fighting and the amount of magic they’ve spent, causing Riz to charge her soul gem’s power and throw a dagger at Lapine’s feet. Shadows emerge from the dagger and wrap themselves around Lapine, effectively immobilizing her. As Tart calls out to her, Riz summons her ultimate attack, ‘’Gates of Hell’’. {{spoiler| A large marble doorway comes up from the ground, skeletons adorning its framework. As the Gates of Hell begin to crack open, shadowy hands reach out from inside each of them grabbing at a different part of Lapine. She cries out for them to let go of her but they continue to hold on relentlessly as more hands reach out from the gate and grab at the witches in the area and pull them into the dark void that lurks behind the doors. Lapine continues to strain at the shadowy hands, crying out that nothing Riz does will make a difference since she'll keep coming back over and over again, returning to normal only for her to kill Riz no matter how many times it takes her. Riz acknowledges this, and informs her that she will be joining Lapine inside the black void of the gates to prevent her from escaping as the doors can only be opened from the outside. As Riz walks into the gate, Lapine is pulled into the darkness with her and the doors snap shut behind them, effectively ending Lapine’s life.}}

Riz would not reappear until Chapter 20.

Kyubey and Pernelle explain to Tart that Isabeau is now part magical girl, part witch, and part incubator thanks to her and Lapine’s wish. Minou declares to all that she wished for Isabeau to be undefeated by any magical girl. Isabeau transforms into her witch state as the empty shell of her human body sits cradled in an enormous hand jutting from the ground nearby. As Tart, Elisa and Melissa continues the struggle against the witch Crepuscule de la Reine (Twilight of the Queen), all of their attacks having no effect on the witch. Tart’s soul gem grows black with impurities as she reaches her limit, when she suddenly hears the voice of Riz reminding her of her sword training back in her home village. From before Tart, Riz's soul gem materializes from a shadow as Riz tells her that her final vow was for her soul to remain with her from that day forward. Even if Riz's body was lost, her soul remained behind like her shadow, always by Tart's side. Tart's gauntlet turns black with Riz's soul gem encased on the back. As Tart's soul gem crackles with impurities, she slashes her sword down and successfully injures the witch. Due to Riz'S wish, Tart's soul gem has been prevented from transforming into a grief seed, making her more than just a magical girl. Before Tart can finish her off, Isabea's body begins to shake as a larger body emerges from underneath, a second larger witch form that causes the cathedral to crumble under the size and might of this new body as everyone gazes up in terror at the true form of Crepuscule de la Reine. However, Tart remains determined as ever as she faces down her foe. Isabeau begins to charge her cannon and aims it at Tart who immediately summons her standard and smashes through the center of it, causing the cannon to crumble. As Isabeau flies above the ruined cathedral, Tart summons a massive magic circle in the sky above her in an attack known as the Gate of Heaven. The center of the circle slides open like a gateway as crosses of light pierce Isabeau and hold her in place. Tart leaps up and swings her weapon down at the witch, slicing the massive body in half and then half again. As the pieces of the witch's corpse fall back to earth, the gate closes and disappears. Tart's shadowy gauntlet also begins to dissipate as Riz's soul gem crumbles. Tart thanks Riz for protecting her until the very end.
}}

===Riz in [[Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story: Magia Record|Magia Record]]===
See [[Riz Hawkwood in Magia Record]]

==Powers and Abilities==
Riz has the ability to use shadows as portals. During combat, Riz uses this power to teleport herself and others around the battlefield, send attacks through shadows to hit targets at a distance, and transport nearby objects/people into a temporary pocket-reality.

Riz's weapons also have the ability to change form into many different types of blades as well, allowing her to have a varied armory which actually works out in her favour as she can deal with enemies in a variety of ways.

{{spoiler| Riz's ultimate ability is the "Gates of Hell". She summons two enormous doors, which open up and drag both her opponents and herself inside before vanishing.}}

==Observations==
* Riz briefly uses the name {{nihongo|"Riz Visconti"|リズ・ヴィスコンティ}} in volume 1, possibly to disguise her name or origin.
** The surname "''Visconti''" belonged to her maternal great-grandfather, Bernabò Visconti, Lord of Milan.
* Riz may actually be of English heritage, due to John Hawkwood also being English and an ancestor of hers.

==Etymology==
* Riz is named after [[wikipedia:John_Hawkwood|John Hawkwood]], a 14th century European mercenary and one of the leaders of the White Company Mercenaries.
* "Riz" can be alternatively read as "Liz". In fact, fans referred to her as Liz until the official English translation of the manga was released.
** The name "Liz" is currently used as Riz's official English name in the translated version of [[Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story|Magia Record]].
** Liz is a shortening of "Elizabeth".
*Visconti means "deputy of a count".

==Trivia==
* In her Magical Girl outfit, on her cape is a badge or clip bearing [[wikipedia:File:Blason_John_Hawkwood.svg|her family's coat of arms]].
**In its egg form, the bottom symbol of her Soul Gem is a scallop shell, also a reference to her family's coat of arms.
* Her four daggers shape into a machete, a whip, a scythe, and a spear.
**Curiously this were the weapons of her four former companions, meaning that each dagger represents each dead friend of Riz.
**To change the shape of her daggers, Riz calls upon the names of her [https://wiki.puella-magi.net/Minor_Characters_(Tart_Magica)#Riz.27s_former_companions| former companions] (Machete, Frusta and Falce).
**Although she is shown using a spear in some panels of the manga, is never shown Riz calling for the name of that former companion's name that used a spear (Falce's twin, she is likely named "Lancia").
*Her name has the same meaning as [[Isabeau]]'s and [[Elisa]]'s names.

==Gallery==
See [[Gallery:Riz Hawkwood]]

{{Character Categories|Hawkwood|magicalgirl=yes|deceased=yes}}

Liz Hawkwood in Magia Exedra

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InquisitorKrieg: /* General Info */ Related through Bernabó Visconti

{{Infobox_character
|name=Liz Hawkwood
|image=[[File:1116 thumbnail 2.png|150px]]
|jname={{lang|ja|リズ・ホークウッド}}
|designer=[[Golden Pe Done]]
|voices=Japanese: [[wikipedia:Ami_Koshimizu|Ami Koshimizu]]
|release1=Global:April 24, 2026
}}
{{SeeMainBio|[[Riz Hawkwood]]}}
<blockquote>''"To escape my grandfather's shadow that clings to me......I hold onto my wish as I set out on a journey. With both faith in my destiny......and a hope that my soul would always be with you..."'' - Episode 0 of her Magical Girl Story.</blockquote>
'''Liz Hawkwood''' is a playable character in the 2025 mobile game ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica Magia Exedra]]''. She is an original character from ''[[Puella Magi Tart Magica|Puella Magi Tart Magica: The Legend of "Jeanne d'Arc"]]''.

==General Info==
{{Magical Girl Details
|birth=1411
|height=168cm
|eyes=Yellow
|hair=Black
|origin=[[wikipedia:Milan|Milan, Italy]]
|soulgem=Yellow rectangle (left cufflink)
|weapon=4 shadow daggers (Shape changes due to magic power, e.g. spears, machetes, whips, scythes)
|wish=To be the one from whom a new, true hero would spring.
|powers=Shadows
|witch=Obscurite
|pronoun={{nihongo||私|watashi}}
|relatives=[[wikipedia:John_Hawkwood|John Hawkwood]] (grandfather), Donnina Visconti (grandmother), [[wikipedia:Bernab%C3%B2_Visconti|Bernabó Visconti]] (great-grandfather), [[Isabeau]] (first cousins once removed), [[Corbeau]], [[Lapine]], [[Minou]] and [[Charles de Valois]] (second cousins)
|school=[[Holy Maiden Academy Edition|Holy Maiden Academy]] (only in one special event)
|mainpage=Liz Hawkwood
}}

==Game Info==
{{Magia Exedra Game Info|character=Liz Hawkwood}}

==Summary==
A cool-headed Magical Girl from medieval Italy who uses shadow magic. In the midst of the Hundred Years' War, she fights alongside Darc and the French army to save France. Though she would never speak of it, she is said to be descended from a famous soldier.

===Side Story===

==Gallery==
{{SectionRef|Gallery:Riz Hawkwood|Magia Exedra}}

Riz Hawkwood in Magia Record

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InquisitorKrieg: /* General Info */ Related through Bernabó Visconti

{{Infobox_character
|name=Riz Hawkwood
|image=[[File:riz_profile.png|300px]]
|jname={{lang|ja|リズ・ホークウッド}}
|designer=[[Golden Pe Done]]
|voices=Japanese: [[wikipedia:Ami_Koshimizu|Ami Koshimizu]]
|id=4022
|release1=JP:February 21, 2018
|release2=NA:September 19, 2019
}}
{{SeeMainBio|[[Riz Hawkwood]]}}

'''Riz Hawkwood''' (also called '''Liz Hawkwood''') was a playable character in the 2017 mobile game [[Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story: Magia Record]]. She is an original character from [[Puella Magi Tart Magica: The Legend of "Jeanne d'Arc"]].

==General Info==
{{Magical Girl Details
|birth=1411
|height=168cm
|eyes=Yellow
|hair=Black
|origin=[[wikipedia:Milan|Milan, Italy]]
|soulgem=Yellow rectangle (left cufflink)
|weapon=4 shadow daggers (Shape changes due to magic power, e.g. spears, machetes, whips, scythes)
|wish=To be the one from whom a new, true hero would spring.
|powers=Shadows
|doppel=Obscurite
|pronoun={{nihongo||私|watashi}}
|relatives=[[wikipedia:John_Hawkwood|John Hawkwood]] (grandfather), Donnina Visconti (grandmother), [[wikipedia:Bernab%C3%B2_Visconti|Bernabó Visconti]] (great-grandfather), [[Isabeau]] (first cousins once removed), [[Corbeau]], [[Lapine]], [[Minou]] and [[Charles de Valois]] (second cousins)
|school=[[Holy Maiden Academy Edition|Holy Maiden Academy]] (only in one special event)
|mainpage=Liz Hawkwood
}}

==Game Info==
{{:Magia Record Units/Riz Hawkwood}}

==Summary==
A cool-headed Magical Girl from medieval Italy who uses shadow magic. In the midst of the Hundred Years' War, she fights alongside Tart and the French army to save France. Though she would never speak of it, she is said to be descended from a famous soldier.

===Doppel Description===
[[File:Riz_doppel.png|thumb|right|150px|Obscurite, Riz's doppel]]
The Doppel of obsession. Its form is a shadow.
The master of this Doppel feels deep sympathy for others, even at the most dire of times. Where there is light, there is dark. This is providence. But it is also providence that those who are blanketed in shadow will never have light shined upon them. This is a Doppel that stands beside the hero as their shadow, surrounded by their dazzling brilliance. It is the elusive shadow itself, and yet, it is exactly what makes the light shine so brightly. The two are connected by an unbreakable bond.
{{-}}
===Side Story===
{{Spoilerbox|
Riz fights off a witch within the dreamworld of France. As she strikes a staggering blow to the witch, she calls out to Tart to use her magic to deal the final blow. Tart worries that Riz will be hurt, but Riz urges her to hurry and give it all she has. Tart destroys it with her "La Lumiere" as Cube congratulates Tart on a job well done. Riz appears behind Tart, having manipulated the shadows with her magic to move behind her and avoid the attack. As the barrier disappears, the girls find they have been separated from the battalion while they were inside. With no idea as to where they may be, they decide to walk until they reach a town.

As they travel through the night, they're unable to find even so much as a road. Suddenly, they sense magic nearby and are blinded by a flash of light. The girls are bewildered to find it is suddenly the middle of the day and they are in the middle of Domrémy, the hometown of Tart. Both Cube and Riz even recognize the forest where they first met Tart as well as the church that Tart and her sister Catherine would attend. Everything is exactly the same as when Catherine was still alive. Both Riz and Tart find this last detail odd, as the village was attacked and pillaged on the day Catherine died. They head to the cemetery in search of Catherine's grave, but they become overwhelmed by some kind of magic that searches through their minds.

A flashblack plays from when Riz and Cube were heading towards the village in order to meet Tart for the first time. Riz was still searching for a true hero and Tart had not contracted yet. Riz recognizes it as her memories as the flashback continues, this time showing Catherine asking Riz for sword lessons. She begs the memories to stop as they show the day the village was attacked and Catherine died protecting Tart. Tart looks away, tears in her eyes as she tells Riz what had happened, full of guilt that she couldn't protect her younger sister. She finally agrees to become a magical girl and contracts with Cube. Light begins to rain down from the sky, as she vows to bring light to all of France and Riz vows to become the shadow to that light, protect Tart from anything.

Riz finally awakens with Cube watching over her. He shows her where Tart is laying fast asleep nearby and tells her it looked like she was having a nightmare. The two had passed out for a short while, but both seemed unharmed. Riz explains she had been forced to view her most bitter memories, even against her will. They both turn and wonder if Tart is okay, but it seems Tart is sleeping peacefully. Cube finds the town suspicious, especially when its appearance coincided with a strong magical reaction. Riz agrees and decides to search the town over, asking Cube to keep watch on Tart as she explores.

Despite searching every part of town, nothing was amiss. As Riz searched, she kept being confronted by memories of the past: the field where they chased sheep, the area where she taught them swordplay. She realizes the only place she hasn't checked was the area outside of town, so she heads to the main road. As she walks down the road, she suddenly finds herself back where she started. She tries several times more, but each time she returns to Domrémy rather than leaving it. She suspects what it may be, and tests this theory by attacking the air in front of her. For a split second the woods at night appear before Domrémy reappears once more. Riz's suspicions were correct: they are trapped inside a Witch's barrier. She returns to Cube and tells him what's happening. They realize the Witch is targeting Riz by reading her memories, and constructed the village just as Riz remembered it. Before they can formulate a plan, the Witch attacks Riz once more and conjures another memory for Riz to watch.
She remembers the night she asked Cube to accompany her on her search for a true hero. Memories of her search with Cube for a true hero appear and disappear before her. Countless meetings and partings with countless Magical Girls she fought alongside and couldn't protect. Riz had wished to become the shadow from which a true hero would spring, so she herself could never become that true hero she sought for. She collapses under the weight of her tears and regrets, the dark thought that it was her fault these girls succumbed to such dark fates consuming her.

Riz wakes up once more with Cube keeping watch over both girls. She tells him about the memories she saw this time, the memories of their journey together before they met Tart. Cube listens, and tells her to think of those girls in a different light: each girl she met was a different thread of destiny that weaved together within Riz. It was Riz's very existence that helped give rise to the strongest Magical Girl, Tart. If Riz was really the reason that Tart was able to contract and become the strongest Magical Girl, then the other girls' sacrifices weren't in vain. While the idea comforts Riz, she acknowledges it would do little to comfort the dead Magical Girls of her past. Riz was forced to watch them die or become witches in front of her before having to kill them off herself. But despite the wear from her memories, Riz has confirmed that the Witch attacks by using regret as well as the identity of the Witch: one of her former Magical Girl partners. Both her and Cube were there when she finally succumbed to her grief and became a Witch. She had immediately attacked Riz's mind by dragging up Riz's feelings of regret. As Riz lay on the ground unconscious, Cube called out to her in an attempt to wake her up before she died. Riz was just able to get up. Since her initial attack was unsuccessful, the Witch then tried a direct attack.

In the present, Riz and Cube both recall that particular day and ready themselves for a direct attack from the Witch. Riz vows once more to do anything she can to protect Tart, the true light of hope, even if it means staining her hands further with sin. Blow after blow strikes Riz, but she manages to hold out. Riz fights back with her shadows and is able to defeat the Witch once and for all. As the labyrinth dissipates, Riz and Cube find themselves back in the dark woods they were lost in originally. Tart finally awakens and greets Riz and Cube. Riz checks to make sure that Tart is okay when they hear a voice calling out to them. It seems Melissa and some of the soldiers had gone in search of the two girls and had been able to finally find them. The girls all reunited back at camp, happy to be safe and sound.

Tart tells Melissa they had been trapped within a Witch's barrier as Cube describes how Riz had defeated the Witch with ease once she recognized it as a Witch she'd fought before. Riz finds the coincidence suspicious, since Iroha and Yachiyo had also been surprised to find a Witch they had fought before also. Someone or something was recreating enemies from their past. Riz then asks Tart if she remembered Domrémy or anything else before that. Tart smiles and says she remembers everything up to the point where they looked for Catherine's grave. After that all she remembers is a long dream filled with happy and nostalgic memories. Cube wonders if Tart is incapable of feeling regret. Despite having sad memories, Tart doesn't regret them one bit because she knows she will liberate her country and will never let go of her vow to Catherine. Riz knows she's found the last light of hope.
}}

==Appearances==
===Event Appearances===
*[[Magia Record Story The Chiming Bell that Transcends Time|The Maiden of Hope]]
*[[Magia Record Story Rebel of a Dawnless Land|Rebel of a Dawnless Land]]
*[[Magia Record Story End of a Legend, the Limits of Light|End of a Legend, the Limits of Light]]
*[[Magia Record Story The Masked Student Council Strikes Back (Holy Maiden Academy Edition)|The Masked Student Council Strikes Back (Holy Maiden Academy Edition)]]
===Magical Girl Story Appearances===
* [[Tart in Magia Record|Tart]]
* [[Corbeau in Magia Record|Corbeau]]

==Trivia==
* Riz was event-limited and could only be obtained through gacha.
* The name of her Magia is French for "Shadow", while the name of her Witch form/Doppel translates to "Darkness".
* Her Doppel sitting within a shell is a reference to [[wikipedia:File:Blason_John_Hawkwood.svg|her family's coat of arms]], a shield bearing three scallop shells. The pearl within it, also a reference to the sea, represents [[Tart in Magia Record|Tart]].
* In the English translation of Magia Record, Riz's name was translated as '''Liz Hawkwood'''.
* Both Riz and [[Rika Ayano]]'s doppels are based on Botticelli's [[Wikipedia: The Birth of Venus|The Birth of Venus]].

==Gallery==
===Game Gallery===
<gallery>
File:Riz 3 star card.png|Magia Record Four Star card
File:Riz 4 star card.png|Magia Record Five Star card
File:Riz Hawkwood Battle Sprite.png|In-battle Sprite
File:Riz doppel.png|Doppel
File:Riz doppel card.jpg
File:Obscurite_English_description.png
File:Riz PM.png
File:Riz Civilian.png
File:Riz School.png
File:Riz Papa Seal 2019.jpg|Magical Girl Seal 2019
File:UltimateMadoka-2ndMagia-Liz.png|In [[Ultimate Madoka in Magia Record|Ultimate Madoka]]'s 2nd Magia
</gallery>

===Official Art===
<gallery>
File:Riz 01.jpg
File:Riz 02.jpg
File:Riz 03.jpg
File:Riz 04.jpg
File:Riz 05.jpg
File:Riz 06.jpg
File:Obscurite riz doppel.png
File:Tart_Riz_masugitune_magireco.jpg|[https://twitter.com/masugitune/status/966193435035209730 Art by Masugitsune]
File:Memoria 1172.jpg
File:Memoria 1173.jpg
File:Memoria 1176.jpg
File:Memoria 1376.jpg
File:Memoria 1377.jpg
File:51102 riz magia.jpg
File:Memoria 1512.jpg
File:51102 hell gate.jpg
File:51102 shadow hands.png
File:Memoria 1627.jpg
File:103304 puella gather.jpg
File:MasugitsuneMRTribute.jpg|Art by Masugitsune as a tribute to Magia Record.
</gallery>

==Memoria Cards==
{{Magia Record Memoria List|character=Riz Hawkwood}}

==External links==
*[http://magireco.com Official Magia Record Website - Japanese]
*[https://magiarecord-en.com/ Official Magia Record Website - English]

===Gameplay Videos===
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfsUMEIfNOc Recording of Riz's Transformation Video on Youtube (JP)]
*[https://youtu.be/qAYZpHwp3J4?si=Tt_dUHnj-VJhzGrX Recording of Riz's Magia Video on Youtube (JP)]
*[https://youtu.be/KM1jqXvCylk?si=NPxddyd7ido790aj Recording of Riz's Doppel Video on Youtube (JP)]

===Side Story and Costume Story Videos===
*Recording of Riz's MSS on Youtube (JP): [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SN9hXGVDVRg Episode 1/3], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wsOuwbVN0E Episode 2/3], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rj9qN657GiM Episode 3/3]
**[https://youtu.be/BdKLhJfqcKQ Recording of Riz's MSS on Youtube (NA)]

===Dialogue Lines===
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zy-CjbjRU80 Recording of Riz's Dialogue lines on Youtube (NA)]

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Riz Hawkwood

2026-06-09T23:22:28Z

InquisitorKrieg: /* General Info */ Related through Bernabó Visconti

{{Infobox_character
|name=Riz Hawkwood
|image=[[File:Riz pageBIO.PNG|250px]]
|jname={{lang|ja|リズ・ホークウッド}} {{lang|ja|リズ・ヴィスコンティ}} (Riz Visconti)
|designer=[[Golden Pe Done]]
|voices=Japanese: [[wikipedia:Ami_Koshimizu|Ami Koshimizu]]
}}
'''Riz Hawkwood''', also known as '''Riz Visconti''' (And '''Liz Hawkwood''' in most official translations), is one of the main characters in ''[[Puella Magi Tart Magica|Puella Magi Tart Magica: The Legend of "Jeanne d'Arc"]]''. She is one of [[Tart]]'s companions and close friends.

==General Info==
{{Magical Girl Details
|birth=1411(around 19)<ref>In the Magia Record event The Maiden of Hope / The Chiming Bell That Transcends Time, Yachiyo says that she and Riz are "around the same age".</ref>
|height=168cm
|eyes=Yellow
|hair=Black
|origin=[[wikipedia:Milan|Milan, Italy]]
|soulgem=Yellow rectangle (left cufflink)
|weapon=4 shadow daggers (Shape changes due to magic power, e.g. spears, machetes, whips, scythes), named [[Machete]], [[Frusta]] and [[Falce]]. Fourth name is unknown (but theorized to be "[[Lancia]]").
|wish=To be the one from whom a new, true hero would spring.
|powers=Shadows, "Gates of Hell".
|witch=Obscurite
|witchlink=Liz Hawkwood in Magia Record#Doppel Description
|pronoun={{nihongo||私|watashi}}
|relatives=[[wikipedia:John_Hawkwood|John Hawkwood]] (grandfather), Donnina Visconti (grandmother), [[wikipedia:Bernab%C3%B2_Visconti|Bernabó Visconti]] (great-grandfather), [[Isabeau]] (first cousins once removed), [[Corbeau]], [[Lapine]], [[Minou]] and [[Charles de Valois]] (second cousins)
|voices=
Japanese: [[wikipedia:Ami_Koshimizu|Ami Koshimizu]]
}}

==Story==
===Backstory===
Riz was the grandchild of an Italian hero who had turned traitor. Her grandfather was named John Hawkwood, and he was the leader of the White Company Mercenaries. He tended to work for various landowners and nobles and would work for the enemy of a former employer so long as the price was right. The Visconti family had arranged for their daughter to marry Hawkwood, and that's how the Viscontis gained control of the White Company. But later, Hawkwood betrayed the Viscontis and brought them to ruin. Riz was born into the Visconti family as the granddaughter of a traitor and thus endured a harsh childhood. As part of her agreement to become a magical girl, she wished to be the one from whom a new, true hero would spring. For her, this was a wish that could not be granted until that condition was fulfilled. But since this was the price of her contract, it should have actually come true. So Kyubey set out with Riz in search of her hero and while they met many girls with talent, in the end none of them turned out to be the hero that Riz was searching for. Many of these girls would die at the hands of witches, some transforming into witches themselves. Due to these journeys and experiences, Riz learned much about the magical girl system and would later impart some of this knowledge to her compatriots Tart, Melissa and Elisa. It was not until she encountered Tart that her wish would be granted.

===During ''Tart Magica''===
Riz first appeared in a flash forward in Chapter 1, where [[Tart]], Riz, [[Melissa de Vignolles|Melissa]], and [[Elisa Celjska|Elisa]] are attempting to stop [[Minou]] from escaping yet again. They are deterred by [[Lame]], who is easily defeated. However Minou uses her abilities to cause Lame to fall into deep despair and instantly become a witch, fighting off the girls as she makes her escape.

Tart then recalls of how she first met her companions. In a flashback, Tart is seen with her sister Catherine following a fairy into the woods. The fairy turns out to be the familiar of a nearby grief seed that hatches into a witch before the girls. Catherine faints as several witch-kissed soldiers appear and amble towards Tart. Riz suddenly appears and knocks out the soldiers with the use of her daggers and shadow abilities. As she quickly dispatches them, the witch turns her fury towards Riz, who captures it with shadowy chains and impales it with her blade causing the witch to explode. Tart is amazed at this display as Riz explains that she and Kyubey were looking for her. They ask for her name and Kyubey nicknames her "Tart". After Tart’s family appears looking for her and her sister, Tart faints from the stress and Riz brings the girls back to their home. Once Tart awakens, Riz awaits as Kyubey asks if she would consider making a contract with him. Tart’s father enters and asks if Riz would be able to work as a village guard for a time. During the following three years, Riz remains as a village guard and trains both Tart and Catherine in the art of sword fighting. Catherine quickly grows adept at her new skill as Tart struggles slightly. Due to Tart not deciding on a wish, Kyubey declares that him and Riz will have to leave soon. Riz goes to escort a shipment of goods the village is sending out when several thieves and bandits take advantage of Riz’s absence to burn the village to the ground, pillaging homes and slaughtering the villagers indiscriminately. Catherine is able to kill and wound some of the soldiers before she is impaled before Tart’s eyes. The soldiers leave, satisfied with their spoils. A short time later, Riz returns as Tart laments the loss of her sister and asks if she and her village can be restored with her wish. Kyubey affirms it can, but warns her it’s possible she may still lose both or other members of her family due to the war ravaging France. Tart makes her wish for the power to bring light to France. Before they leave, Tart cuts off her braid and places it on Catherine’s grave.

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As they journey on, Tart asks what they should do next. Kyubey responds that there is much turmoil in France due to the lack of a true king sitting on the throne and reminds Tart that it is her duty also to defeat the witches that ravage France. On their journey to Vaucoleurs, Riz and Tart find that the town has been beset by a witch, as several witch-kissed soldiers aim their arrows at the two girls. Despite not being able to summon a weapon naturally, Tart is able to conjure a sword of light magic and disposes of the witch instantly. However, she used up vast amounts of magic in doing so to Riz's dismay. Riz and Kyubey then explain how all magical girls irrevocably turn into witches if they use up all of their magic. Having defeated the witch, the girls are welcomed into the village where Lord Baurdicourt offers the girls what help he can and is able to secure an audience with the Dauphin for Tart. The girls then head out for Chinon after hearing the news of the French army’s defeat at Orleans by “three mere girls”. During their journey, Tart and Riz defeat more witches, but Riz warns Tart to better learn to control her powers before she enters battle since she drains her magic needlessly every time.

The girls soon arrive at Chinon, where they make announcement of their arrival and prepare for their audience with the Dauphin Charles. Charles decides to play a trick on Tart in order to test her and instructs Lord Gilles to sit on his throne in his place. As Tart enters the courtroom, both her and Kyubey sense something off about Gilles and announce to all that he is not the Dauphin. Somehow, Tart is able to sense who Charles really is among the courtiers and kneels before him. Stunned, Charles orders Tart to speak with him privately in his bedchambers. After affirming to Charles that she was indeed sent by God to place him on his rightful throne, Charles and Tart exit the room where he announces to all that La Pucelle is truly a messenger from God. After extensive testing by various theologians, her status as a messenger from God is confirmed to all, causing her fame to spread and more soldiers to volunteer for the war. Charles then assigns Lord Gilles and [[Etienne de Vignolles]] in charge of the troops that are to journey to Orleans, as Etienne assigns his daughter [[Melissa de Vignolles|Melissa]] to act as a handmaiden to Tart and Riz. Melissa introduces herself to Tart and Riz, who both insist on dispensing with the formalities. The group soon encounter a small village that has seemingly been burned to the ground. Etienne returns to the main group of soldiers to warn them of the dangers ahead as Melissa remains in the village with Tart and Riz. Soon they encounter a witch’s barrier in from of the dilapidated church in the center of town. As Tart and Riz do battle with the witch inside, Kyubey takes Melissa with him into the barrier in order for her to watch the magical girls do battle and convince her to contract as well. As the witch is about to attack Melissa, she is saved by a barrier placed by [[Pernelle]]. Pernelle scolds Kyubey for bringing in outsiders as a magical girl is attempting to do battle and hands Tart a magically-imbued sword. Tart uses the sword to defeat the witch easily while conserving most of her magic power. As Pernelle introduces herself, she soon leaves through one of her portals.

The group slowly yet surely make their way to Orleans. Along the way they are able to recapture several forts that had been taken by the English forces and are soon able to camp not far from the outskirts of Orleans as they prepare to do battle the next day. Tart shows off her newly embroidered standard with a design of Kyubey on it to her friends. During the nightly revelry, Melissa reveals to Tart and Riz that she had been thinking about becoming a magical girl ever since Kyubey said she had the potential for it. Tart prefers that she stay as she is rather than risk herself in battle. The following day the soldiers and the girls began their assault on the fortress, the soldiers leaning ladders against the fortress’ walls but [[Corbeau]] is there to greet them and summons black feathers that rain down and impale the soldiers. She leaps down to where Riz and Tart stand. Corbeau knocks Tart away with a single blow before trading blows with Riz. Despite the injuries she’s taken, Corbeau heals herself with magic and Riz notices how incredibly dark her soul gem has become. Corbeau laughs as Riz realizes the truth: Corbeau is able to push her impurities onto other magical girls. By now Tart has managed to struggle her way back to where Riz and Corbeau are and offers to help. Riz tells her to stay back and Corbeau agrees, snapping her finger which causes her servant, [[Flèche]], to aim several arrows at Tart, a few of which find their mark. Riz looks up to see Flèche watching them from one of the fortress' towers. Corbeau charges at Riz once more and is able to pin her down using her black feathers. As Flèche continues to shoot arrows at Tart, Corbeau walks to where Tart lays. Etienne sneaks up and strikes at Corbeau from behind in an attempt to defend Tart, but Corbeau also throws Etienne into the ground face first, knocking him unconscious. Melissa rushes to her father's side and Riz calls out to her, telling her to get away from the front lines as soon as possible. Corbeau tells Flèche to make sure nothing is left of La Hire and Flèche conjures a large spear-like arrow and fits it to her bow. As she unleashes the arrow aimed at Melissa and her father, Tart suddenly stands before them and takes the full brunt of the attack, sparing the two humans. As the dust settles, Tart asks Melissa if she's alright, and thanks heaven she is as Tart stands there with a large hole the size of her fist in her right shoulder. Tart collapses face first as Melissa calls out her name. As Corbeau laughs, the dust settling, Melissa stands before her, now a magical girl as well.

Melissa battles Corbeau, attempting to defeat her with her matter disintegration magic but fails. Corbeau is surprised that Melissa is now a magical girl and doesn’t seem to recognize Kyubey. Riz pulls Melissa and Tart into her shadow realm and explains the significance of soul gems. She asks Tart to hold onto Riz and Melissa’s soul gems as she battles off Flèche and they battle Corbeau. Riz pops out of a shadow behind Corbeau, throwing her off as she realizes that Riz can jump from shadow to shadow. As she throws a feather dagger at her, Riz disappears into a shadow once more before reappearing at Corbeau's feet behind her. Riz fends off her attacks with her dagger as Corbeau taunts her, making fun of her for only defending herself and not attacking. Tart and Melissa materialize behind Flèche and Corbeau respectively. Both of them swing their weapons at their opponents but are unable to successfully connect their attacks. Corbeau calls out to Flèche to provide support as she fends off attacks from both Melissa and Riz. She then calls to Flèche to finish off La Pucelle with another attack like the one that nearly killed her earlier. Tart prepares another attack against Flèche, but Flèche has dropped down one side of the tower they were fighting on. As Flèche runs backwards down the side of the tower, she launches arrow after arrow right at Tart, each one finding their mark. She turns and using her momentum is able to run sideways across the walls of the fortress, launching more arrows up in her wake. As the dust settles, Tart remains unharmed. Corbeau is furious at all this and demands Flèche use her full magic, as if she intends to drain herself dry. Tart braces herself for the incoming attack and thinks back to when they were still on their journey over.

As Tart remembers the words of Riz telling her that she too will trust in that hope, she powers herself up and conjures a standard and lance with her magic just as Flèche is finishing powering up her final arrow attack. Tart unleashes a large beam of pure magical energy as she uses her ultimate move: La Lumiere. The attack destroys the tower where Flèche was standing as well as leaving a sizeable hole in the fortress. Corbeau returns her attention and attacks on Riz and Melissa, who are able to coordinate a few successful attacks of their own on Corbeau. Corbeau soon realizes something is wrong as her soul gem begins to darken from the exertion of battle. Back at the scene of battle, Flèche stirs slightly as Minou appears before her. She had planned to gather up what was left of her but instead she conjures a seal with her magic and presses it to Flèche, causing her to scream. Corbeau, meanwhile, laments the impurities of her soul gem as Riz asks her how it feels to be defeated by her own power. As she summons black feathers around her, Minou walks over and calls out to Corbeau. She tells her she knows better than to use *that* while there are still English troops in the vicinity. Corbeau warns Minou away since she will automatically absorb any impurities in Corbeau's soul gem. But Minou isn't worried and tells her [[Lapine]] had been asking for her. She tells Corbeau to leave everything to Flèche instead as the two disappear through one of Minou's portals.

The remaining French soldiers with Gille at the lead finally arrive at the fortress just as Flèche's witch form has spawned and stands ready and waiting in the courtyard. Tart leaps out from the tower and strikes at the witch's head with her sword. While the attack wasn't quite enough to stop the witch, it powers up its attack and Tart only barely manages to turn its head just as it fires off its attack. She grips her sword tightly and slashes the witch down the middle, parting it neatly in half. The witch explodes and is finished off. Melissa congratulates Tart but Tart assures her it wasn't just her who finished off the witch. As the smoke clears from a gun muzzle, Elisa stands at the edge of a cliff side some considerable distance away. Two men stand behind her, her uncle and the constable who praises her shot. They wonder if this was enough to secure the fate of Orleans and can see that the tide is now beginning to turn in this war. Elisa tells them to leave it to her as she will offer her greetings to the Dauphin Charles in person as well as introduce herself to La Pucelle. The leader of the English forces, John Talbot, breaks ranks and asks if they can be allowed to leave since they clearly stand no chance against the French army. Both Batard and Tart agree and allow the remaining English forces to leave with their lives. Batard declares Orleans liberated from the English much to the gusto of the French forces.

At the town of Loches, the Dauphin personally welcomes the retinue and congratulates them on their victory. It seems Elisa and her uncle raced ahead to inform the Dauphin of the news. Elisa introduces herself to Tart, Riz, and Melissa and telepathically informs them she too is a magical girl. She was sent on orders of her mother the Holy Roman Empress to see for herself the powers of La Pucelle and to render assistance if she is truly a messenger from God. Having witness the battle at Orleans, they offer their services to the Dauphin Charles. Sometime later, Elisa challenges Tart to a friendly duel but due to her battle experience she is able to defeat Tart easily. Angered, Melissa herself challenges Elisa to a duel and throws her bodily into the air. That evening, Elisa pouts in her room as Melissa enters in her maid’s uniform, offering refreshments and an apology for losing her temper. Elisa dismisses her apology, since it was a duel after all and promises to not taunt Tart in the future. After asking for Tart, and being informed that she was called to court, Elisa and her uncle head off to find a certain person.

In the Great Hall of the Chateau de Loches, Tart argues for the Dauphin to be coronated at Reims as soon as possible. While Gilles and Batard agree, the chamberlain has his own opinion on how to proceed when the Dauphin’s son burst in and is overjoyed to meet Tart. Tart promises to have his father coronated as soon as possible, the Dauphin agreein to this plan due to the prompting of his son. While the chamberlain wonders what could have brought the child to the hall at this exact moment, he eyes Oswald and Elisa who are speaking familiarly with the Dauphin’s wife.

At the city of Patay, Minou, Corbeau and Lapine stand at the head of the English forces as Lapine jumps up and down in joy at the thought of finally being able to play after waiting for so long. At the head of the French forces stand Tart, Elisa, Melissa and Riz as they note the three magical girls facing them but not recognizing Lapine as they hadn't met her before now. Corbeau turns to John Talbot and tells him they'll be acting as they please. Before they can begin, Lapine races ahead of her sisters and commences her attack. However, Elisa and Melissa are able to strike her down immediately, causing her soul gem to darken and Lapine to turn into a witch. Suddenly, the soldiers' weapons from both armies as well as Riz and Melissa's weapons begin to float in the air. Tart looks around bewildered as the soldiers fall back, unable to proceed with their fight so long as they remain without weapons. Only Tart and Elisa are able to retain their weapons thanks to the magics Pernelle has imbued them with. Lapine, now in a rabbit-like witch form, floats beneath the weapons as she directs them at Melissa and Riz. The weapons, now under the command of the witch, fly straight at the girls damaging them as Tart attempts to knock as many as she can away with her sword. Elisa, meanwhile, continues to shoot down as many of the weapons as possible when Melissa suddenly notices a huge shadow looming on them and calls out to Riz. The witch has amassed the weapons and shields she stole into a giant sword-like shape which starts to fall towards them. Riz calls Melissa to get into her shadow where she can pull them to safety but the eyes on the witch's cape flash at them, causing Melissa and Riz to revert from their magical girl forms to their human forms. The sword-shaped conglomeration of weapons bears down on them and would have crushed them had Tart not suddenly appeared in front of them and slashed at the weapons with her own sword. Melissa, Riz, Tart, and Elisa revert back into their normal forms every time Lapine or her rabbit disks flash their eyes at them.

Just as they’re getting their bearings, Corbeau charges at Riz who is just barely able to block her attack with her bare arms. Corbeau and Riz trade blows as Melissa tries to assist as best she can without her weapon, imbuing rocks with her magic and throwing them at Corbeau. Elisa and Tart attempt to coordinate a surprise attack on Lapine, but the eyes on her cape have the same ability as her rabbit eyes and they both revert to normal girls temporarily. Despite this, the two girls are eventually able to distract Lapine and successfully defeat her with Elisa's rifle-turned-canon. However, her defeat only causes her to revert back into a magical girl, owing to the nature of her wish and the abilities it granted her. Minou retreats with an unconscious Lapine into one of her portals as Corbeau unleashes her Danse Macabre. Reaper-like skeletons fly out of the magic circles Corbeau summoned, black feathers flying out from their eyeless sockets. Everyone begins to double over in pain, wondering what's happening to their bodies. Riz looks at the tumor-like boils on her hands and recognizes it as something she's seen before. Corbeau laughs and reminds Riz she told her this fight would be a massacre and tells them all to show her the dance of death. As both the French and English forces alike lay doubled in agony, Corbeau beats down the weakened magical girls. Tart struggles to her feet and attempts to fight Corbeau, but is too weakened to do more than swing her sword feebly. Corbeau picks her up by the neck and mocks Tart's attempts to fight back.

As Tart warns her that she’s hurting her English allies as well with her magic, Corbeau scoffs and responds that she doesn’t care since her magic will kill everyone who comes near. She demands to know what it matters since everyone must die eventually, just like Tart’s sister. At these words, Tart's soul gem shines brightly and Corbeau's fingers are bent backwards as the force of Tart's magic caused her to be released from her grip. Tart glows with the power of her magic and an immense magic circle of Tart's doing appears in the sky overhead, casting light down on the soldiers below. As the light bathes the battlefield, all of the soldiers and magical girls both English and French alike begin to stand and realize they've been healed of plague as well as their wounds. Corbeau is enraged by this and as she demands to know who Tart really is, Tart leaps up and slashed down her sword with full force at Corbeau, ultimately defeating her as the force of it knocks her into some nearby woods. She lands against the trunk of a tree and falls to her knees, greatly weakened. Tart aims her blade at Corbeau, telling her this is the end as Corbeau tries to stand. But all Corbeau can think of is her two sisters, Lapine and Minou. Before she can deliver the finishing blow, a portal appears behind Corbeau and Minou steps through. {{spoiler|While Corbeau is overfilled with joy at the sight of her sister, Minou kneels down and takes Corbeau's soul gem in her hands, informing her this is the end. Confused, Corbeau asks her why and if she doesn't see how much she loves her and Lapine. Minou confirms that this is what she suspected and says she stopped serving their benefactor a long time ago. As Corbeau yells out once more to Minou asking her why she can't understand how much she loves them, Minou shatters Corbeau's soul gem and tells her she doesn't love her any longer. Corbeau falls forward, calling out her sisters' names as she dies. Minou tells her that at the very least she will tell Lapine that Corbeau died honorably in battle. Tart angrily demands she explain herself as Riz calls her heartless. As Minou summons a portal, she giggles and says it'll be something to look forward to as she gathers Corbeau's body and takes it back with her, leaving the heroines alone in the woods.}}

The two turn to go, knowing the battle isn't over yet. Out in the nearby woods Tart, Melissa, Riz and Elisa are just able to hear the cries of the troops and wonder what may be happening. Pernelle appears from behind a tree and informs the girls that the French has won a victory. After asking how they’re doing, Pernelle informs them of a prophecy spreading throughout France that predicts that Tart will save France. While Charles had the right to inherit the throne, it was a woman that sold that right to the King of England and now Tart has appeared and reclaimed Orleans, opening a path for Charles to be coronated. Thus far the prophecy is fulfilling itself. Elisa and Tart both argue that it was due to their and the soldiers’ efforts that France is being liberated and not just some prophecy. Pernelle smiles and tells her to never hold back in saying what she feels from her heart. But she asks that Tart never forgets that, while a larger fate may be at work here, it is Tart who is at the center of that flow of fate. As she magically teleports away, she tells them to make their way to Reims where she may meet them again. Now that the road to Reims was secured, Dauphin Charles was coronated as the King of France. With this, the wishes of La Pucelle as well as the people of France were realized.

Charles and the other courtiers celebrate the coronation of Charles when suddenly the lights cut out, leaving the room plunged in total darkness. A scream is heard and as they turn towards the sound, a light can be seen. But this is no ordinary light, it is several women burning alive and screaming as between the flames, Minou and another woman can be seen walking towards Charles. Riz and Tart quickly transform and stand ready to defend the king. They demand he run towards safety, but Charles stammers and looks like he is about to scream as he recognizes the smiling woman who stands before Minou. As he collapses to the ground, he demands to know what she is doing here. It is his mother, the woman who sold out France to the English, [[Isabeau|Isabeau de Baviere]]. As Isabeau appears in the courtroom, Riz, Melissa and Tart stand ready to defend the newly crowned king, already transformed into their magical girl states. Charles begs Tart to save him from his mother, the queen, and demands she kill her. At his word Tart rushes forward and stabs her sword straight through the queen's heart as she stands there. Charles initially laughs at this display, but the queen smiles as a white miasma escapes from the queen's wound and she merely stands there smiling. Tart leaps back, certain she had injured the queen but thinking to herself that it didn't feel like she had stabbed her. Riz summons her shadowy tendrils and ties the queen up as Elisa and Melissa both swing their weapons directly at her. Isabeau merely smiles more broadly, completely unharmed from both their attacks. She raises her finger and shoots a beam of magical energy at the two girls, causing them to be knocked away hard. Tart draws her power to herself and summons her standard, unleashing her "La Lumiere" attack directly on Isabeau, the excess power blasting out the castle's windows. However, the dust clears and Isabeau remains where she stands, not a hair on her head harmed. Tart is amazed that she remained undamaged even after using that much magic power on her, but Minou sneaks up behind Tart and knocks her down with her whip. Isabeau staggers suddenly and whispers something to Minou as Minou stands and declares the words of her queen "In one year's time death shall befall La Pucelle!" Minou and Isabeau leave through Minou's portal as Charles cries and the magical girls tend to their wounds.

The following day, after the group gathers to discuss that night’s events. Tart's followers want to liberate Paris as quickly as possible. However, the chamberlain La Remoille advising the haggard King Charles, sending entreaties to the English forces asking for a ceasefire. The result of the endless delays was that the army had to wait until close to August before it could depart from Reims. Finally the order came for the army to advance toward Paris. From August 1429, Charles showed no signs of recovery. In fact, just when everyone thought he had finally given the order to liberate Paris on September 9, only two days later, the order was rescinded. Shortly thereafter, the order came to disband his army altogether. It seemed the king's confusion was worsening. All of the forces who supported La Pucelle were completely disbanded. But Tart went questing throughout France for some eight months, virtually alone, searching for Isabeau. Finally in Compiegne, a town in the north of France, they discovered a witch’s barrier with the symbol of a cuckoo at the center. As they enter the barrier, they are greeted by Minou who summons an army of magical girls through her many portals. As the girls arrive, Minou summons branding irons and brands the girls, causing them to fall into deep despair and transform into witches instantly. She commands the witch army forward as she declares this to be the appointed time at which death would befall La Pucelle.

Tart, Riz, Melissa and Elisa stand ready as they face down an army of witches that Minou has summoned to destroy them. The first witch, who appears like a gigantic woman in a dress with a tassel for a head, brings her arm down on our heroes who are just barely able to leap out of harm’s way. Tart blocks the witch's arm with her bare strength and slashes at it with her sword. The cleaved half of the arm falls heavily on the ground behind her but before she can react, the hand of another witch reaches for Tart. However Melissa is able to block the attack on Tart with her polearm just in time, warning Tart to not overdo it. Riz calls out to the others, advising them to stay together as there are a vast number of witches they must face. Tart summons her strength as she prepares to take out all of the witches at once but Riz warns her not to do so, knowing Minou's strategy is to deplete their magic as much as possible. As Elisa fires left and right with her rifle, she tells Tart she won't have to use her magic since she'll take out all the witches for her. Minou watches the battle rage on before her and decides that this small contingency of witches won't be enough to stop them and turns to where Lapine now stands andinforms her of her chance to take revenge for the loss of their sister. Lapine is enraged and more than eager to tear them limb from limb. She begins by summoning her rabbit-shaped discs and impeding their magical girl transformations. Despite this, Riz is easily able to dodge her attacks and slashes at her rabbit-shaped discs as Lapine is not used to combat the way her sister Corbeau was.

When Riz informs Lapine that it was in fact {{spoiler| Minou who killed her sister}}, this causes Lapine to snap with rage and abandon all thinking. Riz aims to shatter Lapine’s soul gem in order to prevent her from transforming into her witch form, but the news she received and the subsequent despair it caused her has instead only accelerated the impurities of Lapine’s soul gem. It is too late, as Lapine quickly becomes a witch continues her attacks on the girls. The magical girls coordinate their attacks and unleash Melissa’s ultimate destructive move on Lapine. But it is not enough and Lapine reemerges from the bottom of the crater formed by the explosion, now human and her soul gem cleansed. Minou then causes a portal to appear beneath Elisa and Melissa and transports them to a different part of the castle in which they are battling. Tart and Riz are left to fend for themselves against not only Lapine’s witch form, but the army of witches that are left from earlier. Tart and Riz begin to grow weary from the fighting and the amount of magic they’ve spent, causing Riz to charge her soul gem’s power and throw a dagger at Lapine’s feet. Shadows emerge from the dagger and wrap themselves around Lapine, effectively immobilizing her. As Tart calls out to her, Riz summons her ultimate attack, ‘’Gates of Hell’’. {{spoiler| A large marble doorway comes up from the ground, skeletons adorning its framework. As the Gates of Hell begin to crack open, shadowy hands reach out from inside each of them grabbing at a different part of Lapine. She cries out for them to let go of her but they continue to hold on relentlessly as more hands reach out from the gate and grab at the witches in the area and pull them into the dark void that lurks behind the doors. Lapine continues to strain at the shadowy hands, crying out that nothing Riz does will make a difference since she'll keep coming back over and over again, returning to normal only for her to kill Riz no matter how many times it takes her. Riz acknowledges this, and informs her that she will be joining Lapine inside the black void of the gates to prevent her from escaping as the doors can only be opened from the outside. As Riz walks into the gate, Lapine is pulled into the darkness with her and the doors snap shut behind them, effectively ending Lapine’s life.}}

Riz would not reappear until Chapter 20.

Kyubey and Pernelle explain to Tart that Isabeau is now part magical girl, part witch, and part incubator thanks to her and Lapine’s wish. Minou declares to all that she wished for Isabeau to be undefeated by any magical girl. Isabeau transforms into her witch state as the empty shell of her human body sits cradled in an enormous hand jutting from the ground nearby. As Tart, Elisa and Melissa continues the struggle against the witch Crepuscule de la Reine (Twilight of the Queen), all of their attacks having no effect on the witch. Tart’s soul gem grows black with impurities as she reaches her limit, when she suddenly hears the voice of Riz reminding her of her sword training back in her home village. From before Tart, Riz's soul gem materializes from a shadow as Riz tells her that her final vow was for her soul to remain with her from that day forward. Even if Riz's body was lost, her soul remained behind like her shadow, always by Tart's side. Tart's gauntlet turns black with Riz's soul gem encased on the back. As Tart's soul gem crackles with impurities, she slashes her sword down and successfully injures the witch. Due to Riz'S wish, Tart's soul gem has been prevented from transforming into a grief seed, making her more than just a magical girl. Before Tart can finish her off, Isabea's body begins to shake as a larger body emerges from underneath, a second larger witch form that causes the cathedral to crumble under the size and might of this new body as everyone gazes up in terror at the true form of Crepuscule de la Reine. However, Tart remains determined as ever as she faces down her foe. Isabeau begins to charge her cannon and aims it at Tart who immediately summons her standard and smashes through the center of it, causing the cannon to crumble. As Isabeau flies above the ruined cathedral, Tart summons a massive magic circle in the sky above her in an attack known as the Gate of Heaven. The center of the circle slides open like a gateway as crosses of light pierce Isabeau and hold her in place. Tart leaps up and swings her weapon down at the witch, slicing the massive body in half and then half again. As the pieces of the witch's corpse fall back to earth, the gate closes and disappears. Tart's shadowy gauntlet also begins to dissipate as Riz's soul gem crumbles. Tart thanks Riz for protecting her until the very end.
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===Riz in [[Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story: Magia Record|Magia Record]]===
See [[Riz Hawkwood in Magia Record]]

==Powers and Abilities==
Riz has the ability to use shadows as portals. During combat, Riz uses this power to teleport herself and others around the battlefield, send attacks through shadows to hit targets at a distance, and transport nearby objects/people into a temporary pocket-reality.

Riz's weapons also have the ability to change form into many different types of blades as well, allowing her to have a varied armory which actually works out in her favour as she can deal with enemies in a variety of ways.

{{spoiler| Riz's ultimate ability is the "Gates of Hell". She summons two enormous doors, which open up and drag both her opponents and herself inside before vanishing.}}

==Observations==
* Riz briefly uses the name {{nihongo|"Riz Visconti"|リズ・ヴィスコンティ}} in volume 1, possibly to disguise her name or origin.
** The surname "''Visconti''" belonged to her maternal great-grandfather, Bernabò Visconti, Lord of Milan.
* Riz may actually be of English heritage, due to John Hawkwood also being English and an ancestor of hers.

==Etymology==
* Riz is named after [[wikipedia:John_Hawkwood|John Hawkwood]], a 14th century European mercenary and one of the leaders of the White Company Mercenaries.
* "Riz" can be alternatively read as "Liz". In fact, fans referred to her as Liz until the official English translation of the manga was released.
** The name "Liz" is currently used as Riz's official English name in the translated version of [[Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story|Magia Record]].
** Liz is a shortening of "Elizabeth".
*Visconti means "deputy of a count".

==Trivia==
* In her Magical Girl outfit, on her cape is a badge or clip bearing [[wikipedia:File:Blason_John_Hawkwood.svg|her family's coat of arms]].
**In its egg form, the bottom symbol of her Soul Gem is a scallop shell, also a reference to her family's coat of arms.
* Her four daggers shape into a machete, a whip, a scythe, and a spear.
**Curiously this were the weapons of her four former companions, meaning that each dagger represents each dead friend of Riz.
**To change the shape of her daggers, Riz calls upon the names of her [https://wiki.puella-magi.net/Minor_Characters_(Tart_Magica)#Riz.27s_former_companions| former companions] (Machete, Frusta and Falce).
**Although she is shown using a spear in some panels of the manga, is never shown Riz calling for the name of that former companion's name that used a spear (Falce's twin, she is likely named "Lancia").
*Her name has the same meaning as [[Isabeau]]'s and [[Elisa]]'s names.

==Gallery==
See [[Gallery:Riz Hawkwood]]

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