List of The Seven Deadly Sins characters
The Seven Deadly Sins is a manga series written and illustrated by Nakaba Suzuki, set in a fictitious Britannia (ブリタニア, Buritania) in a time period superficially akin to the European Middle Ages.
Likewise superficially, and frequently in ironic or contradictory ways, the series references various traditions, including Christianity (e.g., the Seven Deadly Sins, the Ten Commandments) and the Arthurian legend (e.g., in naming Meliodas, Escanor, Merlin, Diane, Gowther, King, and Ban).
In naming the characters, the manga offers a wide variety of further mythical, historical, geographical, and cultural allusions, e.g., King Arthur, Merlin, Gowther,[6] Zaratras (Zoroaster), Dreyfus, Gustaf, Frisia, Jericho, Galland,[7][8] Derierrie, Albions, The Vampires, and Zhivago.
Despite being called the Sin of Wrath, displaying it whenever those dear to him are endangered or killed, Meliodas conceals his rage under the façade of a mellow, foolish trickster more interested in fondling women than fighting.
Meliodas initially carried a sword hilt called the Dragon Handle before it was stolen by Helbram and later revealed to be a fragment of the Coffin of Eternal Darkness, which was used to seal away the Demon clan.
His sacred treasure Courechouse is a four-sectioned staff that was ironically stolen from him during the Deadly Sins' disbandment, the culprit revealed to be Merlin when she returned it to him during the final battle with the Demon King.
She fled Bérialin and crossed paths with Meliodas, with whom she fell in love, motivating her to assume an adult form and use a combination of the Infinity and Chrono Coffin (時の棺, Toki no Hitsugi/Kurono Kofin) spells to render herself an ageless immortal.[ch.
Following the death of the Demon King, having influenced events of the group's final battles by reactivating Elizabeth's reincarnation curse, Merlin reveals her true reasons for aiding the Sins when she conducts a ritual to resurrect Arthur as a vessel of Chaos.
Merlin's Sacred Treasure is a crystal ball known as Morning Star Aldan (明星 アルダン/モーニングスター アルダン, Myōjō Arudan/Mōningusutā Arudan), which allows her to perceive anything or transfer her consciousness into it, which she makes use of when her body is temporarily turned to stone by Galland's commandment.
Despite being frail and not a fighter, Elizabeth is very courageous and willing to protect others at the cost of her own health, like allowing Hendrickson to acquire her blood to free the Demon Race from the Coffin of Eternal Darkness.
Though mostly serving as comic relief by acting overly arrogant, he yet aids Elizabeth and the Sins several times, utilizing headbutts and other modest attacks on weaker enemies and transporting wounded allies.
He later became affiliated with Liones and has been tasked by Meliodas to find those prophesied to become the Four Knights of the Apocalypse, assuming the identity of a talking fox named Sin (シン, Shin) to act without being discovered by Camelot's forces.
Guila later learns that her father was subject to Hendrickson's experiments with demon blood, with herself being one of his New-Generation Holy Knights; she sides with the Sins after Diane risks her well-being to save Zeal from Helbram's attack.[vol.
Hendrickson drinks a vial of demon blood after Gilthunder mortally injures him, reattaching his severed arm as he becomes a youthful version of himself with some of Meliodas' powers as he kidnaps Elizabeth to complete his plan and seemingly kills Dreyfus.
Griamore is later cursed to revert into his childhood self by the ability of a monster that he and Slader fight during their training in Istal, ultimately playing a role in Fraudin's defeat as the demon grew to care about him.
Vivian later assumed the disguise of a male mage named Gilfrost to infiltrate Liones as an ally until the Ten Commandants conquered the city, when she spirits Gilthunder away to a tower high above the skies so she could keep him forever.
He later participates in defending Liones from the Ten Commandments; fatally stabbed by one of the Holy Knights under Zeldris' control, he uses his remaining strength to prevent his sister and Zeal from being turned into demons by Grayroad.
Spurred by the circumstances of Denzel's death and the Archangels’ manipulative nature, unable to serve Liones after Meliodas and Elizabeth become its rulers, Deathpierce renounces his title of Holy Knight after the Demon King's defeat and resolves to rebuild Edinburgh as a human-only kingdom under his rule.[vol.
Camelot serves as an antagonistic force in the sequel series Four Knights of the Apocalypse, due to the titular group foretold to kill Arthur while his subordinates seek to use the Coffin of Eternal Darkness.
335] Arthur becomes the main antagonist of Four Knights of the Apocalypse, replacing his arm with a prosthetic limb after Cath Palug ate it, and instigated the events of The Seven Deadly Sins: Grudge of Edinburgh through Deathpierce.
37-39] The Demon King is eventually exorcised from Zeldris and is forced to create a body from the surrounding countryside before being destroyed for good by Meliodas, his death breaking the seal that he and the Supreme Deity placed on Chaos.[vol.
Estarossa is later revealed to be originally the Archangel Mael (マエル, Maeru) of the Goddess Race who possessed the Grace Sunshine (太陽, Taiyō) which increases his power while exposed to sunlight.
Being easily defeated by a fully powered Escanor during the siege of Liones since his opponent did not harbour any hatred towards him, Estarossa learns of Zeldris's alliance with Meliodas to make the latter the new Demon King and acts against them by taking Galland and Monspeet's Commandments.
He is brought back as an armorless and muscular version of himself called Chaos Galland (カオス＝ガラン, Kaosu Garan) to carry out Arthur's orders to kill the Four Knights of the Apocalyse while acting on his own desire to enact revenge on the Deadly Sins.
Monspeet manages to save her from being killed by launching her away from Estarossa, conveniently sending her to where the assault team composed of Holy Knights, the Four Archangels, and the Seven Deadly Sins are fending off a demon attack.
Drole is the founding king of the Giant Race also known to the humans as Balor, revered by his people for developing a sacred dance and valor in battle despite being shunned as a child for his four arms, grayish-blue skin, and his gouged-out left eye.
Though they won the war by using the Coffin of Eternal Darkness after the demon mage Gowther altered their memories that Mael was killed, the Supreme Deity was sealed away while the other members of the Goddess Race lost their physical forms.
One of the head druids alongside her younger twin sister Zaneri in their sacred land Istar, the two revealed to be members of the Goddess Race who deserted during the ancient war in disgust of their kind's conduct.
Energetic and teasing compared to Zaneri, Jenna shows interest in outsiders while supervising the druids' physical training which she placed Arthur, King, and Holy Knights members through in preparation for their battle against the Ten Commandments.
His distressed cries alerted the guards outside of the room, who burst in to discover a bloodied and naked Gowther on top of Nadja's unclothed body, mourning about how his heart had failed to revive her.
