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The Angelo Regiment is a little-known part of Amdapori history, the brainchild of the Magus Elio Solae. Well into their conflict with Mhach, the Amdapori Council of Magi sought a way to turn the tides in their favor, and so Elio proposed the idea of an army of forcibly reconditioned and reformed criminals. Utilizing the beings of Light (now known to be Sin Eaters) that had been discovered in a parallel plane not unlike the Void, Elio’s idea was to bind these creatures to obey the commands of White Mages, fuse them with a criminal host, and use the Sin Eater to control the criminal. At the same time, this would provide the criminal with a variety of new abilities depending on the nature of the Eater they were bound to.

Every Sin Eater was given a name, and in a ritual known as Forgiveness — where the Eater was forced into the host’s body — the host would take on that name as a designation befitting the Sin that was being Forgiven.

Forgiveness

The ritual itself was rather simple — a criminal would be bound to a summoning circle, the chosen Sin Eater would be summoned into them, and a Magi would grant them their new title. Take for example someone whose crime was theft — they would be given the title of Forgiven Greed. While the specific abilities of each Angelo Knight varied from individual to individual, some things were rather consistent.

1. Whatever form the Eater took within them would cause their corporeal aether to stagnate toward Light.
2. An Angelo Knight’s perception of time would often slow down or warp. They also age at a far slower rate.
3. An Angelo Knight must feed upon the aether of other living beings in order to prevent the Sin Eater from fully stagnating their aether. The consequence of failing to do such a thing would be either the Sin Eater breaking free and leaving the knight dead, or the knight themself turning into a new Sin Eater.
4. As a last resort, an Angelo Knight could unleash the Sin Eater in a suicide attack, or willingly allow it to transform them. There are no reports of an Angelo Knight returning to their prior form after a transformation, and most who transformed had to be put to the sword in the end.

Notable Members

Valentine de Angelo — Forgiven Charity. A captain in the Amdapori army who was Forgiven after healing Mhachi civilians.

Lockhart de Angelo — Forgiven Devotion. Valentine’s lieutenant who who was Forgiven for consorting with the retainer of the Mhachi princess. Past life of Kaiyo Mikazuki.

Merveilleux Angelo — Forgiven Ambition. Willingly chose to become commander of the Angelo regiment upon promotion for catching Valentine’s act of “charity.”