Eldrie Woolsburg

Eldrie Woolsburg (エルドリエ・ウールスブルーグ), also known as Eldrie Synthesis Thirty-one (エルドリエ・シンセシス・サーティワン), was one of the Integrity Knights in the Alicization Arc.

Appearance


Eldrie was rather tall and had a thin stature, a stunningly beautiful face with eyebrows that gave off a rugged expression, and long pale purple hair.

As an Integrity Knight, Eldrie wore a suit of polished silver armor with a purple mantle, which had a crest with a cross going through a circle embroidered upon it.

Background
He was trained in the Imperial Knight Order, where his father was a general, and became its representative for the Empire Swordsmanship Tournament, where he defeated Sortiliena Serlut in his first match and Uolo Levanteinn in the second. He later won the Four Empires Unity Tournament and was invited to the Central Cathedral. After he had arrived at the Cathedral, Quinella performed a «Synthesis Ritual» on him. The ritual involved suppressing the memories of his past life via manipulation of his Fluctlight, as well as the use of a «Piety Module», and the creation of a new identity, who was completely loyal to Quinella due to the «Piety Module» that took the form of a purple prism embedded into his forehead.

Alicization Turning


After Kirito and Eugeo escaped from prison at the Axiom Church, they found him waiting for them in the rose garden maze of the Church, since Alice ordered him to spend the night in the maze, anticipating that the prisoners would try to escape. Eldrie himself initially did not think that this would be possible and intended to admire the rosebuds with a glass of wine.

To enjoy himself, he decided to fight Kirito and Eugeo before returning them to prison. Since Kirito was using a chain as a whip, he decided to use his Frost Scale Whip instead of his sword. He enhanced the whip with an extremely powerful spell and was able to easily counter Kirito's spell with his speed chanting.

After a series of struggles his left cheek was cut by Kirito using a fragment of a glass cup that Eldrie shattered beforehand. Kirito took him to a stalemate while Eugeo attacked him by surprise from the back; with no other option, he activated the Release Recollection command and transformed his whip into a snake, throwing Eugeo to the floor and breaking Kirito's chain.

At this point, Eugeo recalled that Eldrie Woolsburg was the champion of the Four Empires Unity tournament that took place in the first third of the fourth month (which he had read on a weekly wall newspaper published on the bulletin board at the main academy). This revelation shocked Eldrie, as he had no memories of his life as Eldrie Woolsburg, before becoming an Integrity Knight, and as Eldrie began thinking of his past, a purple prism protruded from his forehead, though began fading away with time. Noticing this, Kirito encouraged Eugeo to trigger more of Eldrie's memories to stop the prism from fading away. However, this was soon afterwards interrupted by another Integrity Knight shooting arrows at the prisoners and the prism continued returning to Eldrie's forehead.

Trivia

 * In the web version, Eldrie was called "Eldrie Synthesis Twenty-six", instead of "Thirty-one" in the printed version.

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