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The major targets of Lelouch of the Wings of Rebellion.

Leviathan (Coach Nu)

Villetta Nu

Sin: Invidia (Envy)
Shadow: Leviathan

The first major target of the Black Knights, a noble and the Swim Coach at Ashford Academy. Her Palace, "The Castle of Envy" is located at Ashford Academy. In her Palace, her Treasure resembles a golden scepter, while in the real world, it is a ceremonial sword that was passed over her in receiving.

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• Adaptational Heroism: Villetta Nu as the Starter Villain when compared to her game counterpart Suguru Kamoshida. While she is still a bigoted elitist Sadist Teacher, she isn't a sexual predator and never drives anyone to attempt suicide.
• Adaptational Villainy: Relative to her canon self. Canon Villetta proves to be one of the more noble Britannians and eventually ends up in a relationship with Ohgi. This story's Villetta is a physically abusive, racist Sadist Teacher obsessed with her own success, who will stop at nothing to get Suzaku kicked out of Ashford just because he's Japanese and to make herself look good in the process.
• Fantastic Racism: Towards the Japanese (or Elevens, as the Britannians call them).
• Frame-Up: Lelouch learns from Shadow Villetta that her real self is planning on getting Suzaku expelled from Ashford Academy this way.
• Green-Eyed Monster: Villetta has issues with how the nobility flaunt the titles that she had to work hard to earn.
• Horrible Judge of Character: Played for Laughs. Coach Villetta completely buys into Kallen and Lelouch's public personas, meaning that her Cognitions of them inhabiting her Palace's version of detention hall are a Prone to Tears Sheltered Aristocrat and a womanizing troublemaker, respectively. Kallen is outright mortified to see her Cognitive Self completely swept off her feet by Cognitive Lelouch, to the point Cognitive Kallen fainted from getting kissed by him. Lelouch finds the sight Actually Pretty Funny until his Cognitive Self starts bragging about having seduced Shirley, Milly, and now Kallen, and finds it even less funny when the Cognition nonchalantly admits to getting it on with his own sister behind closed doors.
• Irony: In Persona 5, Leviathan was the last palace the Thieves had to face before they moved to take down the head of the conspiracy. Here? She's the very first one.
• Mythology Gag: She's the swim coach at Ashford Academy, which was her cover in R2 of the anime when she was spying on Lelouch.
• Scaled Up: Like the Leviathan of her namesake, Shadow Viletta morphs into a serpentine sea monster into order to fight the Black Knights.
• Tactical Suicide Boss: Leviathan wields a lightning spewing scepter while standing in a large chlorinated pool. Do the math. In her defense, she is careful with her aim and this only becomes a problem when Milly grabs the scepter and uses it to electrify the water.

Azazel (Viceroy Clovis)

Third Prince Clovis la Britannia

Sin: Irritum (Vanity)
Shadow: Azazel

The second target of the Black Knights, and the Viceroy of Area Eleven. His Palace, "The Theater of Vanity" is located at the Government Bureau in the Tokyo Settlement. His Treasure is shown in his Palace as a painting of Lelouch, Nunnally, and their mother, Empress Marianne. The Treasure manifests in the real world as the same painting.

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• Adaptational Badass: Clovis was pathetic in Code Geass, easily giving in to Lelouch's demands when held at gunpoint and outright begging not to be killed. Here, he (or at least, his shadow) only goes down after a difficult battle, and while his shadow ultimately does beg for mercy, it's because he knows he WILL be disposed of should he attempt to squeal on the conspiracy.
• Adaptational Villainy: Played With - while in Canon Clovis came off as a Smug Snake Starter Villain, he was also conducting illegal human research on C.C. Here, this research is brought up in detail and expanded to include a much larger pool of candidates. He also has connections to the Mafia in this story (primarily to acquire subjects for said research), something that isn't even remotely implied in canon.
• Attack Its Weak Point: Azazel plays it smart and targets the elemental weaknesses of the party's Personas. Lelouch counters this by casting Wall spells which make his teammates temporarily resistant to them instead.
• Dies Differently in Adaptation: Similarly to Kunikazu Okumura, Clovis is killed by the Black Mask after Lelouch changed his heart, thus making the world believe the Black Knights did it.
• Dual Boss: Azazel's body consists of two halves that fight as a team called Tragedy Mask and Comedy Mask — the former immune to physical attacks, the latter capable of absorbing several types of magical attacks.
• Emotion Bomb: His final ability consists of two different types, depending on their gender. Where for women he can make them so infatuated with him, they'll immediately obey his commands; while for males he can induce overwhelming despair to the point of death. Thankfully both effects can be broken with a strong enough will.
• Fantastic Racism: Towards Japanese (or Elevens, as the Britannians call them), for the presumed deaths of Lelouch and Nunnally.
• Foil: To Madarame, his counterpart in Persona 5.
  • While Madarame was distant toward his adoptive son, Clovis is close to Cornelia and Euphemia and, before they were sent away to Japan, was also close to Lelouch and Nunnally.
  • Both are artists, but diametric opposites in terms of skill: Madarame is, while not a terrible artist, not the genius he portrays himself as, instead relying on passing off his students' work as his own to both maintain his wealth and stroke his ego. By contrast, while Clovis may be a total failure in many fields, he is an undeniably talented artist whose work's are of top quality.
• He Knows Too Much: Is offed by the rest of the conspiracy for trying to spill the beans on them.
• Hopeless Suitor: Prince Clovis for Leila Breisgau in a self-styled Courtly Love fashion. The only reason she plays along is because she correctly suspects he's involved in the death of her parents and needs to be close to him to prove it.
• In Spite of a Nail: Despite Lelouch being a bit kinder than he was in canon, Clovis still bites it. This time, though, he is killed by this universe's version of Black Mask.
• Intimate Artistry: His Palace has a portrait of Leila lounging on a sofa, wearing lingerie and jewelry. Leila herself is aghast and disgusted, but Milly comments the portrait is surprisingly tasteful.
• It's All About Me: Can't resist to show off and prove how talented he thinks he is, especially as an artist. The fact that he is a talented artist feeds his ego even more, which is part of the reason why his Cardinal Sin is Vanity.
• Loving a Shadow: Prince Clovis has such an idealized image of Leila Breisgau, that the fact she hates his guts because she correctly suspects he got her parents killed doesn't seem to register at all. There's the implication that Clovis fell for Leila because of it, out of a really twisted sense of dramatic aesthetics at having the grieving beautiful maiden fall in love with the man that ordered her parents murdered. His defining sin is, after all, vanity.
• Neck Lift: Azazel when he tries to kill Bishop close and personal.
• Taken for Granite: Similarly to the "ratted" special status effect from Shido's Palace in Persona 5, certain areas in Clovis' Palace slowly turn girls into statues. This is based on how the real Clovis sees beautiful women as works of art rather than their own persons, which is why Lelouch and Arthur remain unaffected.
• Villain Has a Point: Later on Leila admits that his criticism of Europia's democratic system as just as corrupt as Britannia's aristocracy in its own way isn't exactly wrong despite the self-righteous way he said it.

Alciel (The Black King)

Blake King

Sin: Gula (Gluttony)
Shadow: Alciel

A Britannian Crime Boss, and the third target the team faces. His Palace, "The Resort of Gluttony" is located at the Babel Tower. His Treasure, which manifests a red crown lined with spikes in the Palace, is a chess set of great craftsmanship.

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• Adaptational Early Appearance: In canon, he isn't seen or mentioned until after the Time Skip. Here, he comes into the story shortly after Clovis' death.
• Adaptational Expansion: Was a nameless nobody who had a minimal role in R2 before getting unceremoniously killed off. Here, he's the third target.
• Arms Dealer: One of his illegal businesses, which helps the Black Knights a lot because his Cognition has created entire stores in his Palace with all kinds of firearms for sale. Or for a Kleptomaniac Hero like Lelouch, weapons free for the taking after getting rid of the security.
• Ascended Extra: The Black King in canon was just some Sore Loser thug who harassed Lelouch at the beginning of R2, only to be unceremoniously killed off without making any impact on the plot. Here? He's been promoted to Arc Villain and the blackmail he has on Lelouch makes the Black Knights' conflict with him very personal. The author said that his expanded role resulted from the character helped to highlight the social problems of the setting in a way similar to Kaneshiro in Persona 5.
• Blackmail: As in canon, the reason he becomes a target. In this case, it's a picture of Euphemia with Lelouch, whom he assumes is her secret commoner lover.
• Cut Lex Luthor a Check: During the first confrontation with Shadow Blake, Euphemia points out that he's already rich and can easily keep himself wealthy from his legitimate businesses alone, so why does he even bother breaking the law and destroying so many lives in the process? Shadow Blake's response basically amounts to "supply and demand". There will always be money to be made in drugs, prostitution, illegal weapons, Loan Sharking, and etcetera because "the appetites of mankind are endless and perverse", so why should he let anyone else try to supply that demand and get the profits when he can do it himself?
• Entertainingly Wrong: After losing to Lelouch in a game of chess, the Black King decides to blackmail Lelouch with a picture of him together with Euphemia, who had coincidentally also tried sneaking into his club at the same time, upon realizing that they knew each other. The Black King correctly assumes that the photo is excellent blackmail material, but he's wrong about the reasons.
• Fat Bastard: His real self has a noticeable girth, but his Shadow Self is bloated to the point of corpulence. And whether it's his inward self or outward, he's a thoroughly despicable person.
• Flunky Boss: Alciel summons a team of Mooks styled after chess pieces — with himself as the King — during his Boss Fight.
• Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: When he reveals that he grew up poor and had to claw his way to "the top of the food chain", Kallen instantly retorts that a crappy childhood doesn't give him the right to ruin so many lives.
• I'm a Humanitarian: After the Black Knights deal with most of his chess Mooks, his shadow tries to devour them.
• Monstrous Cannibalism: Fittingly for the sin of gluttony, his Shadow's Alciel form, which is a giant black head with shark teeth, is able to eat his own chess-themed Mooks in order to heal any damage he takes.
• Punny Name: The Black King's real name turns out to be Blake King.
• Right for the Wrong Reasons: The Black King is right in thinking that a photo of Euphemia with Lelouch in her arms is prime Black Mail material, but he's wrong about the reason why that's the case. The Don thinks he's sitting on a paparazzi shot suggesting a scandalous affair between the Third Princess and a handsome commoner, plus the legal problems the two minors will get from entering a nightclub, but the real value (and danger) of the picture is that it proves that the "late" 11th Prince is in fact very much alive.
• Sore Loser: Utterly cannot believe that Lelouch could beat him fairly in chess, leading to the Blackmail above.
• Vampiric Draining: His Alciel form is able to drain energy from some of the Black Knights after weakening them with debilitating hunger. Lelouch notes how the energy looks red like blood.

Angel (Shadow Shirley)

Shirley Fenette

Sin: Luxuria (Lust)
Shadow: Angel

A student at Ashford Academy and the fourth target the team faces. Her Palace, "The Sinking Ship of Lust" is located at Ashford Academy. Her Treasure, which takes the shape of a diary, is her memories of Lelouch.

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• Adaptational Badass: In the Shin Megami Tensei video games, Angel is almost always a fairly low-level demon and the weakest demon/Persona of the Divine race/ Justice Arcana. Here, she's a Palace boss.
• Batman Gambit: She puts a knife on Shirley's hand and tells her to kill Lelouch in order to avenge her father's murder. Shirley doesn't hesitate to use that very same knife and stab her own Shadow in order to protect him, which is exactly what Shadow Shirley wanted because such a violent rejection would give her a massive power-up to go One-Winged Angel on the Black Knights and kill them with her own hands.
• Bondage Is Bad: Her Berserk form looks like Shirley with white angel wings, but dressed only in a Stripperiffic black bondage gear complete with a blindfold and a leash, symbolizing her corruption by lust.
• Foreshadowing: She's able to easily Shapeshift between human and mermaid form despite that being far from the case for the Little Mermaid in the fairy tale. Shadow Shirley is actually based on the Sea Witch who did have magical powers of her own, whereas the real Shirley is a more direct counterpart of the Little Mermaid with her Shadow being the corrupting influence giving her just enough rope to hang herself.
• Godiva Hair: Unsurprising considering she's based on Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid.
• Gratuitous Princess: She's referred to as a princess by the other Cognitions to further The Little Mermaid comparison, but she is not really one.
• Hypocritical Humor: Despite her near lack of dress, sexualization of Lelouch, and just general behavior towards him, she constantly calls out Milly as a pervert for the President's antics towards her.
• Love Confession: She gives one to Lelouch that somehow comes across as both fervently romantic and utterly bonkers.
  Shadow Shirley: Still, Lulu, I can forgive anything. And as devastated as I was by my father's death, it doesn't matter if I can have you. So please, Lulu. Hold me. Kiss me. No matter what, I will forgive you and love you for eternity. Where others might betray you, with that promise, I can be the one thing that is truthful to you. All that I ask is that you love me for real in turn. So step away from Kallen and the others, and be mine forever. We can repent for our sins together, and live on in heaven. Or maybe we'll be reborn, and fall in love with each other all over again! Doesn't that sound wonderful, Lulu?
• Lust: Her Cardinal Sin and the theme of her Palace. Much like Futaba with her rightful Wrath toward the people actually to blame for her mother's death, Shirley's personal breakthrough actually came from embracing her Lust for love in order to give it its due place at a driving passion that pushes her forward rather than a corrupting obsession leading her to self-destruction.
• Lust Object: Lelouch for her, big time. Played With in that she also wants him dead.
• Mood-Swinger: Shadow Shirley shifts between wanting to jump Lelouch's bones and exacting bloody vengeance on him and his team for allegedly killing her father.
• Murder-Suicide: Shadow Shirley wants the Black Knight to enter her Palace so she can kill them all, and then herself.
• Nigh-Invulnerability: After she transforms from Shirley's rejection, she becomes powerful enough to largely shrug off almost all of the Black Knight's attacks. This makes Lelouch quickly realize only Shirley coming to terms with her feelings can beat her.
• No-Nonsense Nemesis: The Black Knights usually have the chance to explore a Palace before their presence is detected, and even then, the Palace Ruler usually waits for them to arrive at a room where he or she holds the Home Field Advantage before fighting them. Shadow Shirley, on the other hand, summons two very large Mid-Bosses to kill them after they barely put a foot in the Palace, even if that means bringing the entire Palace down with them. It takes all of Lelouch's tactical acumen and the party's might and teamwork to divide the battle into solvable problems just to get rid of the summoned Shadows and keep the Palace in one piece. Even with that out of the way, the Palace Ruler simply dials the alert level to the max, forcing the team to withdraw before they can get swarmed by Shadows.
• Power Gives You Wings: After Shirley violently rejects her the resulting power transforms her into the appearance of Persona Angel in Persona 5, complete with a pair of angelic wings... and a bondage outfit.
• Scylla and Charybdis: Invoked by her, who locks the Black Knights in a Duel Boss fight — one Mini-Boss that prepares an Instant-Win Condition, and the other that keeps them too busy to escape or take aim at the former. Shadow Shirley gets extra style points for shaping her Elite Mooks after the Charybdis and Scylla sea monsters of Classical Mythology.
• Stalker Shrine: The entire areas of fourth Palace are lined with statues of the ruler's Lust Object in different physique-flattering poses and state of undress. Played With in that it's all a subconscious manifestation of the ruler's unrestrained Unresolved Sexual Tension and no actual Stalker Shrine was built. Milly tries to crack a few off-color jokes about some of the more risqué statues of Lelouch to tease his girlfriend and lighten the mood a bit, but Lelouch cuts them short and pushes the team to move past such areas as quickly as possible.
• Stripperiffic:
  • One of her getups is described "revealing, to say the least; No, practically nonexistent was more accurate." Suffice to say that her hair was doing a better job protecting her modesty.
  • Her berserk form is even worse despite possibly covering a bit more. It consists in the same black bondage gear the demon Angel often wears throughout the Shin Megami Tensei series, which can be described as strategically placed strips of leather, a blindfold, a collar attached to a chain leash, and, well, that's it.
• Yandere: Practically the personification of this.

Mammon (Consul-General Gao)

Gao Hai

Sin: Avaritia (Greed)
Shadow: Mammon

The fifth target of the Black Knights, and the Consul General of the Chinese Federation to Area 11, and one of eight High Eunuchs, who are the de facto rulers of the Chinese Federation. His Palace, "The Forbidden City of Greed" is located at the Chinese Federation Consulate Building. His treasure is unstated, but is heavily implied to be his severed gonads.

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• Adaptational Intelligence: He's a lot smarter and more cunning than his canonical counterpart. For example, he figured out Xingke was preparing a coup d'état, but pretended not to notice because it kept Xingke busy for the time being and not angling for something less overt, all the while Gao Hai prepared himself to take advantage of the situation when the time comes to get rid of his co-conspirators. Although to be fair to the character, Gao Hai barely made an appearance in canon before Lelouch Geassed him.
• Affectionate Gesture to the Head: His Shadow does the patronizing version to the Cognitive double of Empress Tianzi in his Palace, whom he sees as a life-sized porcelain doll.
• Annoying Arrows: Fond of having his terracotta soldiers shoot lots of arrows at the good guys from a safe distance.
• Cavalry Betrayal: His Shadow expected to be saved by Cognitive Schneizel's arrival to the Boss Battle, but the latter sees the defeated Palace Ruler and simply leaves him to his luck. When the Shadow demanded an explanation, Cognitive Schneizel matter-of-factly explains there's no gain in saving him, as the real Schneizel can simply wait until Gao Hai's change of heart and ensuing public confession that will mark the downfall of the High Eunuchs, and then just "pick up the pieces when the Chinese Federation crumbles."
• Conspicuous Consumption: The Chinese Federation Embassy in Area 11, especially his office, is ostentatiously decorated as a way to display the power and wealth of his country — or rather, the power and wealth of he and the other High Eunuchs. Lelouch takes especial notice of a particularly well-crafted chess set in Gao Hai's office, apparent only commissioned as a conversation piece for visiting Britannian diplomats, especially Schneizel who is a renowned grandmaster.
• Corrupt Politician: Follows the Eunuchs Are Evil stereotype to a T. The Irregulars discover that he has been accepting bribes to cover for a human trafficking ring kidnapping people from the ghettos and selling them to someone in the Taklamakan Desert in Northwestern China.
• Dual Boss: The Guardian Lions in his Palace.
• Excellent Judge of Character: His Cognition of Xingke reveals he knows precisely what motivates the young man, and he has such an accurate portrayal of Schneizel that even the Cognitive version in his head abandons him to take advantage of whatever opportunities come about later.
• Flunky Boss: Much like Shadow Okumura Boss Battle in the game, Mammon relies on summoning waves after waves of terracotta soldiers to try to overwhelm the Black Knights with numbers, but Lelouch counters with his trademark usage of the terrain as a weapon — namely by triggering avalanches to cut down those numbers to manageable levels.
• Freudian Excuse: He was born in poverty as the son of common criminals, becoming obsessed with acquiring wealth, success, and power after having to sacrifice his manhood to get a well-paid job in the government. Given all the horrible crimes he committed in order to become a High Eunuch and remain in power, the Black Knights don't think he is in any way a Justified Criminal.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: In the final stage of his Marathon Boss fight, he tries to bombard the good guys with the Cognitive version of the floating fortress Longdan from canon. Lelouch takes advantage of this by goading Shadow Gao Hai to attack him with everything he has. What the Palace Ruler doesn't know is that Lelouch just equipped a Persona that reflects Gun-type attacks; given that the Longdan's siege cannon counts as a projectile-based weapon, the powerful artillery shell is reflected back to its source, destroying the main cannon and leaving an exploitable gaping hole in the land battleship's armor.
• Imperial China: His Palace is shaped as the Forbidden City and his Shadow fancies himself Huangdi, or Yellow Emperor. Even the Mooks are based on the terracotta soldiers that turn into Shadows inspired by Chinese Mythology such as Senri, Neko Shogun, Zhen, and a Dual Mini-Boss styled after a pair Chinese Guardian Lions statues.
• Impossibly Tacky Clothes: His Shadow fancies himself the Yellow Emperor and runs away with the Gold Makes Everything Shiny motif to a truly gaudy effect.
• Lack of Empathy: When Alice demands him to spill the beans about the Human Trafficking ring bribing him to operate unimpeded in the Taklamakan Desert, his Shadow simply states that he doesn't know or care what they're doing with the people being kidnapped and shipped there. His only concern is that the ringleaders will keep on paying him to look the other side on time.
• Marathon Boss: Like Shadow Okumura and Shido, his Boss Battle is fought in consecutive stages. He opens with a Zerg Rush, followed by two Elite Mooks based on Cognitive doubles of two Knights of the Round, Gino Weinberg and Anya Alstreim, then he summons The Dragon, a Cognitive equivalent of the Chinese Federation's Super Prototype Knightmare Frame Shen Hu piloted by Cognitive Xingke (which can count as two stages), and he calls in the floating fortress Longdan. Also like Shadow Okumura, the fight against the actual boss is pretty much effortless once he runs out of things to throw at the Black Knights.
• Never My Fault: He blames Xingke for letting Euphemia get kidnapped, despite the fact that he personally fell for an anonymous tip and ordered his guards elsewhere.
• O.C. Stand-in: The canonical Gao Hai barely did a thing before Lelouch Geassed him to help the Black Knights. Here he's the fifth major target of the team.
• One-Winged Angel: Played With. While his "transformation" for the Boss Battle doesn't make him any stronger himself and in fact the only thing that visually changes is his seat — to the point that the Black Knights are left confused and rather disappointed — Shadow Gao Hai becomes able to summon Mooks en masse to fight his opponents and then uses Cognitive Xingke piloting a Cognitive representation of the Shen Hu (his Knightmare Frame in R2) as The Dragon, and when that fails, the Shadow summons the Longdan.
• Plausible Deniability: He orders Xingke to take Lelouch and Kallen back to the Masquerade Ball after they get caught in his office, but in a way that his words could also mean to have them arrested or even killed. He has no way to predict Lelouch would know what to do and say in order to instead get Xingke to ally himself with him, or rather with the Black Knights.
• Plunder: The areas of his Palace behind the first Cognitive Barriers are lined with trophies from countries conquered by the Chinese Federation, all thrown around without really a care. The Black Knights interpret the sight as a manifestation of his insatiable Greed always focusing on what he can have next and ignoring the wealth and power he already has. This sight is part of what makes Euphemia/Noire give up on looking for an alternative to changing Gao Hai's heart, as the dangers of a potential revolution in the Chinese Federation don't outweigh the harm that allowing the High Eunuchs to continue in power would indubitably cause.
• Sarcasm-Blind: Bishop thoroughly insults the guards in his Palace and they barely notice.
• Self-Made Man: His Shadow reveals his parents were common criminals and that it took years to become one of the de facto rulers of the Chinese Federation. The Black Knights are less than impressed because they're privy to the despicable means he resorted to in order to raise about his station.
• Smug Snake: Kallen is surprised and disgusted that Gao Hai — as in the person, not the Shadow — is not even trying to hide he's basically selling out his country as an untapped market and cheap labor to Britannia for his own profit.
• Treasure Room: Unsurprisingly given the Cardinal Sin he represents, several rooms in his Palace feel the description to a T. The eponymous Treasure Room of his Palace takes this to whole different level, containing mountainous piles of plundered wealth. An Exploited Trope by Lelouch who weaponizes them by triggering veritable avalanches of gold that decimates Shadow Gao Hai's troops.
• Villains Want Mercy: His Shadow has no dignity left in defeat.
• Zero-Effort Boss: Once he runs out of borrowed strength to throw at the Black Knights, which to be fair is quite a bit, Shadow Gao Hai goes down like a chump after a single kick from Kallen.

??? (Shadow Cornelia)

Second Princess Cornelia li Britannia

Sin: Ira (Wrath)

The sixth target of the Black Knights, and the Second Viceroy of Area Eleven. Her Palace, the "Temple of Wrath" is located at the Government Bureau in the Tokyo Settlement.

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• Dungeon Bypass: The Palace has at least one set of sigils that allow teleportation between the two points, so the Cognitions Cornelia trusts can bypass the bureaucracy of the Labyrinth going in and out.
• The Maze: Cornelia's Palace is a maze-like area that only allows certain Cognitions to pass. Further impeding arrivals is the Labyrinth, a maze of mired Bureaucracy that makes travel difficult for those Cornelia does not deem worthy.

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