Emilia Camp (Subaru Natsuki) | Royal Selection | Witch Cult | Witches of Sin | Vollachia Empire | Past Characters | Other Characters | The Prophecy of the Throne
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Common Tropes
- Blue-and-Orange Morality: Deconstructed. Perhaps it's due to their powers or upbringing but none of them operate mentally on the same level as other mortal beings with Daphne being the most egregious of them all. Overall, while they are capable of normal morality, they generally don't act on it.
- Good All Along: Downplayed. The witches are still largely responsible for nearly everything that goes wrong in Re:Zero, however, they are nowhere near as amoral as their cult worshipers are. Almost all of them are just ordinary girls who were dealt very bad hands in life.
- Historical Villain Upgrade: The Witches are nowadays regarded with both dread and loathing, so much so that merely saying their name is taboo. However, as Subaru and the audience came to find out, none of the Witches are truly evil with most of them having different concepts of morality and some of them had good intentions when they were alive. Even Satella is a far more sympathetic character than history tells her to be.
- The only exception is Pandora, who not only is the benefactor, and possible actual leader, of the Witch Cult, but the only witch that can be described as being truly evil, and yet Satella is basically her scapegoat.
- Our Witches Are Different: Witches are individuals who possessed a Witch Factor and an Authority that manifested from a Factor of the Seven Deadly Sins. They hold such great power that they might as well be gods. They are the reason why the Mabeasts exist, the reason why non-humans have emotions, and the reason why the world is the way it is. While most of the original seven are dead, they all continue to persist as souls long after their flesh has rotted away.
- Person of Mass Destruction: Each of the Witches could very well be equated to a force of nature rather than a mere person, and some were known to unintentionally cause destruction and loss of life on a catastrophic scale. Minerva's power caused natural disasters to spring up in random parts of the world, Typhon could wipe out a city in a matter of days by simply trying to judge its inhabitants, Carmilla's passive use of her Authority left entire crowds frozen in place until their untimely deaths, and Daphne unleashed the myriad species of vicious, predatory Mabeasts upon the world, of which the three most infamous were only the tip of a vast iceberg. Sekhmet and Echidna were comparatively the most harmless of these, although Echidna was known to meddle in human affairs to potentially disastrous results out of simple curiosity, while Sekhmet was too lazy to use her powers responsibly, meaning that, whenever she did try and do something, she'd just mess up disastrously. Oh, and let's not forget Satella swallowing half the world. Allegedly...
- Religious and Mythological Theme Naming: Most of the witches are named after a popular figure, deity, or monster from Classical Mythology. Sekhmet gets her name from a goddess of Egyptian Mythology.
- Seven Deadly Sins: As is clear from their name, each of the Witches represented one of the cardinal Sins from Christian theology, holding the Witch factor their personality was most compatible with. Uniquely, the story also incorporates two of the archaic Sins since discontinued, and both the characters representing them (Pandora and Hector respectively) seem to hold themselves somewhat apart from the main seven.
- Stellar Name: All of them, except for Satella, are named after a celestial body.
- Echidna refers to the 42355 Typhon I Echidna, a moon of the 42355 Typhon.
- Typhon refers to the 42355 Typhon, a scattered disc spatial object.
- Minerva refers to 93 Minerva, a large trinary main-belt asteroid.
- Daphne refers to 41 Daphne, a large asteroid from the asteroid belt.
- Carmilla refers to the 107 Camilla asteroid, one of the largest of the main belt asteroids.
- Sekhmet refers to 5381 Sekhmet Aten asteroid.
- Pandora refers to the 55 Pandora asteroid.
- Hector refers to 624 Hektor, the largest of Jupiter's trojans.
- Villain Takes an Interest: Downplayed, but all of them take varying levels of interest in Subaru when meeting him inside Echidna's Dream Castle, especially since his presence ultimately results in Satella's spirit arriving as well, resulting in a "Witches' Tea party" with all 7 witches together. It's furthermore later revealed in a side story that the Witches all naturally emit a miasma from their body that drives those who experience it to insanity or worse, with Echidna (in Omega's body) demonstrating by causing several bandits to violently die in under 30 seconds of her releasing her own Miasma. Subaru is not only so unaffected by this that he doesn't notice anything off, he can stand in the presence of all of them at once without any negative consequences, with Echidna noting that this is a qualification for one to be made a "sage".
Witches of Sin
Satella
Satella
Voiced by: Rie Takahashi (Japanese), Kayli Mills (English) Foreign VAs
- Abhorrent Admirer: She (or rather the Witch of Envy personality) is dangerously obsessed with Subaru and in one loop in which she possesses Emilia's body, she chases after him while gliding with her arms out toward Subaru as if trying to hug him and shouting "I LOVE YOU!" over and over again. Subaru, for his part, can only feel extreme fear and revulsion about the mere thought of getting hugged by her and would prefer to be eaten by the White Whale.
- The Ace: The Witch of Envy was the most powerful entity in the world four hundred years ago. It took the combined power of the Dragon Volcanica, the Hero Reid Astrea, and the Sage Flugel to defeat her. She was able to destroy half of the world and was said to eclipse the might of all of the other Witches combined. The only person known to be more powerful than her was Reinhard van Astrea.
- Adaptation Personality Change: The anime adaptation removes any mention that Satella and the Witch of Envy are two separate personalities, leaving no explanation as to why the Jealous Witch tended to behave differently at different times.
- Affably Evil: In spite of her status as The Dreaded Witch of Envy, when seen in action, she is soft-spoken and doesn't directly insult anyone. Her love for Subaru is also genuine, but extremely obsessive. This doesn't stop her from being the ruthless individual she actually is, though.
- All Your Powers Combined: After killing all of the Witches of Sin, Satella absorbed their powers and became the modern Witch of Envy, or so the legend goes.
- Anonymous Benefactor: Is one for Subaru by bringing him to Lugunica and giving him his power.
- Ax-Crazy: The Jealous Witch personality is more than willing to murder those who come between her and Subaru. In the event that he told anyone about their secret, she would systematically kill all of his loved ones and then him with no remorse.
- Because You Were Nice to Me: When Subaru meets her, he asks her why she's so madly in love with him and wants him to live so desperately that she makes him come back whenever he dies. Satella claims that Subaru was the one who "gave her everything" by showing her the world, holding her hand, and kissing her when she was lonely. Since Subaru has no memory of any of this, it's a mystery what Satella is talking about here.
- Big Bad: She's currently sealed and, while she hasn't acted as a completely direct antagonist in the arcs so far, has been willing to kill Subaru and his loved ones if he dares to speak of Return By Death, and is revealed to be the one who brought him to Lugunica. And the Witch Cult that worships her and wants to revive her cause a lot of suffering for the main characters. Furthermore, it's also heavily implied that Satella was the one who gave Subaru his time loop ability as well as marking him with her scent, but her motives are unknown.
- Black Cloak: Usually seen covered by a veil formed from her shadows.
- Casting a Shadow: Satella is able to control shadows.
- Clingy Jealous Girl: As Subaru points out. "As soon as I mention another woman's name you get all worked up!"
- Creepy Monotone: Whenever the Witch of Envy personality would encounter Subaru, she would begin repeatedly chanting the words "I love you" in a creepily monotonous voice. The voice performances of Rie Takahashi and Kayli Mills in their respective versions further emphasized the terrifying nature of the Witch's warped love.
- Death Seeker: In Arc 4 it is revealed that Satella wants Subaru to kill her for some unknown reason.
- The Dreaded: Simply speaking her name brings fear into all but the very brave or the ignorant.
- Enigmatic Empowering Entity: It's heavily implied Satella is the one who brought Subaru into the other world and gave him his Return by Death power. Whatever her motivations for this might be is a mystery.
- Evil Overlord: She is capable of dark magic of all kinds, which allows her to do anything while remaining unseen. She also serves as The Dreaded among all of Lugunica, and seems to be the leader of the Witches, who are already rather powerful themselves.
- Evil Smells Bad: Bearers of the Witch Factors (including Satella) and their followers emitted a notable scent that could be detected by those who were familiar with it. Both Rem and Beatrice, who could detect the scent, noted that it smelled repugnant.
- Evil Twin: Satella is the most legendary evil witch in the world of Re:Zero. Because Emilia looks (and sounds) just like her, she has been harshly discriminated against and shunned her entire life.
- Evil Wears Black: As expected of a witch who is basically the equivalent of the devil of her world, Satella wears a black dress made of shadows.
- Flower Motifs: The anime design of her dress has yellow roses on it, which is fitting since yellow roses symbolize envy.
- The Ghost: Frequently mentioned as the greatest evil and someone to be very afraid of.
- Half-Human Hybrid: Like Emilia, Satella is a half-elf.
- Hero Killer: Kills literally everyone at the Sanctuary in Arc 4, save for Subaru, who commits suicide to avoid getting stuck in her embrace.
- Identical Stranger: She is said to look exactly like Emilia. Subaru confirms it when he meets Satella in one loop.
- Leaking Can of Evil: The Evil Sealing Stone Shrine that serves as Satella's prison is unable to completely seal her because she is too powerful and is constantly surrounded by a lethal miasma and in one loop, she successfully escapes upon sensing Subaru was in the vicinity.
- Loving a Shadow: The Witch of Envy is only in love with the concept of Subaru and wants his love, regardless of what he actually feels.
- Madness Mantra: Her only words upon meeting Subaru are "I love you" and "Love me" repeated enough times that multiple pages consist of the phrases.
- Minor Insult Meltdown: Subaru, during a masterstroke of inspiration, pushes Satella past her Rage Breaking Point by telling her that there are other witches he finds more attractive than her.
- Misblamed: She is said to have been the one that created the Demon Beasts when in truth it was Daphne, the Witch of Gluttony, who did it.
- Mysterious Past: Most of the mystery behind Satella is that the number of people alive who know who she was before she became the Witch of Envy can be counted on one hand.
- Mystical White Hair: A half-elf witch with silver hair.
- Names to Run Away from Really Fast: She is Re:Zero's equivalent to Voldemort and is mainly referred to as the Witch of Envy. She is the strongest witch and destroyed half of the world.
- Nightmare Hands: Her grasp over Subaru's lifeforce is represented as a nightmare hand caressing his literal heart.
- Obviously Evil: A jet-black monster that kills people on sight isn't quite the nicest image.
- Odd Name Out: Unlike everyone else related to the Witches, Satella lacks a name related to a celestial body or legend. It is, however, possible that her name is a misspelling of the name Stella, which is Italian for star. Most likely caused in part by the fact that Japanese scripts lack a syllable for 'Ste'. Writing Stella in Katakana note requires adding a vowel between 's' and 't'.
This would make sense since, unlike all of the other users of Authorities, Satella isn't naturally suited to using them and instead went crazy after absorbing the Authority of Envy. - Pointy Ears: Due to being a half-elf, Satella has pointy ears.
- Power Parasite: It's implied that she is capable of using the Authorities of the Witches after she absorbed their Witch Factors.
- Sealed Evil in a Can: Was sealed away 400 years ago by the Dragon, the Sword Saint, and the Sage in a shrine in the Auriga Desert east of Lugnica. Unfortunately for literally everyone, the prison is a Leaking Can of Evil. She actually manages to break into Echidna's private dimension, something that was designed to keep her OUT, in one of the loops in Arc 4... all because Subaru was there.
- Signature Headgear: She wears a black star hair clip on the right side of her bangs, mirroring Emilia's white butterfly hair clip.
- Significant Double Casting: Both Satella and Emilia have the same voice actresses to further hint at the mysterious Identical Stranger connection between the two. Subaru does NOT appreciate it.
- Split Personality: Contrary to many people's beliefs, Satella and the Witch of Envy are actually two separate entities residing in one body. While the Witch of Envy is definitely evil, Satella is ambiguous. Both personalities are constantly in conflict with one another.
- Time Master: Implied to be this considering that she gave Subaru Return by Death which shares aspects of Yin/Shadow magic
- Tragic Monster: According to the other Witches, the original Satella was a good person, but she tried to absorb something that created the Witch of Envy and ended up destroying half the world; this might explain why she's a Death Seeker.
- Victor Gains Loser's Powers: It's believed that she killed all of the other Witches and absorbed their powers. However, it is later revealed that all the other witches died under circumstances unrelated to Satella.
- Villainous Crush: While she's known as the greatest evil in the world, Satella loves Subaru for unknown reasons. Whether she's really a villain or not is still questionable, which is further complicated with her split personalities.
- White Hair, Black Heart: She is said to have silver hair and is known as the world's greatest evil. Possibly subverted with the true Satella, however.
- Wight in a Wedding Dress: Her appearance in Arc 4 when she possesses Emilia's body has Satella looking like a ghostly apparition wearing a black wedding dress covered in shadows.
- Yandere: She is obsessively in love with Subaru. In one of the loops in which she escapes from her seal and possesses Emilia, she keeps saying "I LOVE YOU" over and over again while she mercilessly butchers those in between her and Subaru. This is mostly played straight with the Witch of Envy however. The true Satella plays with this as she is unstable and uncaring of anyone but Subaru, but is far more considerate of him as a person.
Echidna
Echidna
Voiced by: Maaya Sakamoto (Japanese), Anairis Quiñones (English) Foreign VAs
- Adaptational Curves: The anime has given Echidna a more prominent chest than in the light novel.
- Adaptation Dye-Job: Not her exactly, but her butterfly hairpin is described as black in the WN and LN while the anime made it green with black outlines.
- Affably Evil: She is reasonably polite and even jovial to Subaru, whenever the two interacted. Even after The Reveal that she is pretty much a sociopath and after Subaru called her a monster, she keeps acting like this, even keep aiding him, thus heavily implying that this is genuine of her. She is only openly hostile towards three people: Satella, Emilia, and an unspecified third person.
- Animal Motifs: She's associated with butterflies, same as her "daughter" Beatrice. Besides her iconic butterfly hairpin, the third anime opening shows her releasing butterflies from her hands.
- The Archmage: She's noted to be one of the three characters with the greatest magical potential in the series, though Roswaal is mentioned to be around her level, with her capability of using all forms of magic in the world.
- Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?: Interprets one of Subaru's serious gazes towards her as something quite different from what it was meant to be. She starts talking about how they can't do such a thing since he is living and she is dead, and when he corrects her misunderstanding she ends up pretty disappointed.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: At first glance, she is polite, understanding, and even a bit childish. This, coupled with him being able to talk about Return by Death with her, leads Subaru to greatly enjoy talking with her in spite of his early misgivings. Then he realizes the reason behind this behavior is her Lack of Empathy. She knows about human feelings but doesn't truly understand them, so she says whatever she needs to gain his trust without really feeling anything. She ends up looking kind and quirky because, excluding moments where she is talking about her greed and curiosity, nearly every emotion she shows is faked.
- Though with that said, later arcs and the author Q&A's on her imply this might be a Subverted Trope. While Echidna does have some trouble with certain emotions, she isn't actually as emotionless as she made herself out to be to Subaru during The Reveal. And it is notable that she does maintain elements of the personality she showed Subaru even when she isn't around him.
- The Dark Side Will Make You Forget: In Arc 6, her Book of the Dead shows that she used to be a lonely girl who just wanted to protect everyone she could, but while she knew every solution she was incapable of solving every problem and despaired when she couldn't save everyone, thus she started contracting with and sacrificing others and became obsessed with gaining knowledge to reach her goal of saving everyone. But eventually, due to her nature as a Witch or other means, she lost sight of her original goal and became obsessed solely with the gaining of knowledge.
- Deal with the Devil: She offers one to Subaru in Arc 4. In exchange for Echidna's help and wisdom, Subaru has to help with her research by dying multiple times. In the main story, Subaru rejects, but in an alternate timeline he accepts and results in a world where Subaru is a Stepford Smiler, Emilia is extremely dependent on him, Reinhard secretly hates him, and Subaru dies simply to sate Echidna's curiosity.
- Don't You Dare Pity Me!: One of the reasons why she hates Emilia is the fact that the half-elf is nice to her, even though Echidna constantly insults her.
- Duplicate Divergence: The Echidna that Subaru and Emilia met isn't quite the same Echidna Roswaal, Beatrice, and Ryuzu knew. It is unclear if she simply changed from centuries as living as a ghost and her worse traits got the better of her over time. The author has even stated that the Echidna in the Castle of Dreams and the Echidna from 400 years ago should be considered different people.
- Evil All Along: In her early interactions with Subaru, Echidna shows herself as affable and helpful in an attempt to gain his trust and persuade him to make a contract with her. Since Echidna is the only person he can confide in about Return by Death and her ample knowledge can be useful for the problems he faces, Subaru nearly accepts her offer... until the other witches show up and warn Subaru that he should ask Echidna about what she wants in return for their contract. Echidna confirms that all she wants for Subaru is using him to experiment with the infinite timelines that can be created with Return by Death with their contract having no purpose but to use each other with no concern of how much Subaru's mind can break from Echidna making him die countless times. Subaru realizes that Echidna is in fact what he first suspected her to be: a sociopathic witch who cares for nothing but knowledge and is incapable of feeling empathy for others.
- Evil Wears Black: She wears a black dress and while she isn't exactly evil, she's still a manipulative witch who doesn't understand much about compassion and empathy.
- Fixing the Game: The other Witches note that while Echidna is fine with all results, that doesn't mean she doesn't have a preference, and won't nudge things to better favor the result she wants.
- For Science!: The main reason she is interested in Subaru's Return By Death is the ability to recreate circumstances that can normally happen once.
- Graceful Loser: Despite not being successful in getting into a contract with Subaru, she still gives him advice to solve Arc 4.
- Grand Theft Me: At the end of Arc 4, she takes over the body of the original Ryuzu by merging one of the souls (or Od as the term for them in this world) of Ryuzu's clones and using her as a medium to attach herself to the body. She gives her new body the name Omega based on the one Subaru made up.
- Great Big Book of Everything: She is the creator of the original Book of Wisdom, also known as the Witch's Gospel, of which imperfect copies are notably wielded by the Witch Cult in the modern day. The Book of Wisdom provides her with intimate knowledge of transpiring events. But she dislikes using it since it sends the knowledge directly into her mind, skipping the learning process which she enjoys.
- Hate at First Sight: Echidna claims to have hated Emilia from the moment she first saw her. It's implied that part of this hatred is due to Emilia's heavy resemblance to Satella, who Echidna also hates.
- Immortality Seeker: When she was alive, Echidna performed experiments on the Ryuzu clones in order to gain immortality as a side project after the original had sacrificed herself for the Sanctuary's Barrier activation. Her research was continued by Roswaal who developed a way to swap bodies with his descendants.
- Intelligence Equals Isolation: She prefers being alone because she's only interested in getting knowledge out of people. Ironically, she was the Witch who probably got along the best with normal humans, being the one who forged the most contracts and advised people who came to her.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She does try to manipulate Subaru and turn him into another of her guinea pigs in an "experiment" that would have broken his mind and spirit. However, she ultimately helped Subaru come to terms with his use of Return by Death along with Satella and the other Witches.
- Lack of Empathy: For Echidna, people are just another element in her experiments, and it doesn't matter if the experiment brings happiness or pain to them, because as long as it gives new knowledge to her, it's a perfectly valid result.
- The Lost Lenore: To Roswaal, her former disciple. He has spent the last 400 years repeatedly stealing the bodies of his own descendants to get a chance of reviving Echidna and avenge her death by killing the legendary dragon Volcanica.
- Mad Scientist: She has this vibe, in spite of being a witch. Among other things, there is her For Science! mentality, her Lack of Empathy, and all the inhuman experiments she conducted in the past.
- Manipulative Bitch: She uses the fact that Subaru can only talk about Return by Death in her dimension to make him want to confide in her and seek her help when he's forced to face too many obstacles at once. She also deliberately only tells Subaru what's convenient for her so she can persuade him to make a contract with her faster.
- Metaphorically True: She's very fond of this. While she rarely outright lies, she tends to withhold information or bends the truth to suit her needs. Most notably it is uncertain how many of the actions of "Echidna" she explains are her own, or the actions of the Echidna entombed that Roswaal and Beatrice know. Since they were both "Echidna."
- Mirror Character: Surprisingly enough, what little background that has been revealed about her implies she is quite similar to Subaru. Her book of the dead reveals that she was a lonely person who wanted to save everyone around her without sacrificing anyone. But in spite of all that she was able to do as a Witch, she still failed, despairing at her inability to turn back time. This may explain why she is so fond of him other than just her fascination with Return by Death.
- Motor Mouth: Another one of her bad habits. Once she starts talking she finds it really hard to stop and constantly goes off on tangents.
- Mystical White Hair: She's a long-dead witch with very long white hair.
- No Sense of Personal Space: Once she gets excited she can get like this, though once she calms back down she does have the decency to get embarrassed about it.
- Obfuscating Stupidity: When Subaru first meets Echidna, she takes a persona of a Genius Ditz, but in actuality, she is a cruel and scheming chessmaster who seeks to use Subaru's gift to further her research.
- Parental Neglect: She left the spirit who views her as a mother trapped somewhere for 400 years, only telling her she had to wait for an unspecified person to come. When Subaru demands to know why she did this, Echidna indifferently admits it was all an experiment to see how Beatrice would act and who she would choose to be "that person" since Echidna didn't really have anyone in mind for Beatrice to wait for. She doesn't care how much loneliness and sadness Beatrice went through because of her curiosity.
- Pet the Dog:
- At the end of the tea party with all the witches, Echidna takes away Subaru's right to complete her trials because, as she says, she doesn't want him to think she was the witch who doesn't have a good side. This is a kindness because Subaru is uniquely unsuited to complete the trials anyway; his one attempt at completing the second trial nearly drove him insane.
- While she felt no remorse in leaving her daughter Beatrice alone in a library for 400 years, Beatrice's remarks, as well as flashbacks, shows that Echidna was, overall, a positive mother figure. She scolded Beatrice for acting mean to Ryuzu and told her to be more tolerant of others.
- Really 700 Years Old: She has existed as a spirit for 400 years, though she still looks 19.
- Sarcasm Failure: She gets hit with this when talking to Subaru, due to him being one of the few people she cannot understand.
- Seeker Archetype: Her main goal in life is to learn about everything. As a result, she is deeply interested in Subaru's Return by Death ability as it allows the user to learn of events and information from multiple different timelines.
- Signature Headgear: She wears a distinctive black butterfly hairpin.
- The Sociopath: Echidna is described as a black-hearted person who is unable to understand conventional morality and feelings. She is, however, pretty good at faking empathy for others. She also has a single-minded obsession with something that stimulates her, in this case, her quest for knowledge of everything. Even so, Echidna, unlike the stereotypical sociopath, is more of a neutral character than one driven by sadism or any other malicious intent.
- Soul Jar: She has the souls of the five dead witches in her necklace.
- Squishy Wizard: The author affirms Echidna is one of the most powerful magic users in the setting, only comparable to Roswaal, and is one of the few who can use all magic elements. Physically, however, she's so weak that just regular exercise would leave her exhausted and she can't move fast. This is hilariously showcased in the second season's Break Time specials, where she could barely keep up with a walking Emilia despite her feeble attempts to run just to catch up.
- Stepford Smiler: Of the "Unstable" variety. Echidna is rarely seen without a smile on her face. However, her friendliness hides a complete lack of basic empathy, as she doesn't seem to understand some of the emotions she is emulating. The one time she drops her smile is when Subaru tells her point blank that she should get angry after he called her out on her Lack of Empathy: she promptly thanks him, before suddenly dropping both her smile and voice, telling him that she will remember to do that the next time they meet. She immediately resumes her usual behavior afterward, as if their exchange never happened.
- Summon Bigger Fish: Her soul was saved by The Dragon for this purpose. The idea is that she and the souls of the other Witches would act as a deterrent against Satella. She notes that Sekhmet would have probably been a better choice for that purpose, but speculated Volcanica probably had a grudge because of that one time she beat them up to take a nap.
- The Tease: When Echidna is offering her Deal with the Devil to Subaru, she, among other things, offers to let him use her body for comfort.
- Tsundere: Played for Drama with Emilia, as she hates her for her connection to Satella (as well as for her general attitude), yet also is invested in her wellbeing to the point of creating Puck to watch out for her, presumably also due to her connection to Satella.
- The Unfettered: She considers her life's purpose to understand everything and watch every outcome, no matter the cost.
- Used to Be a Sweet Kid: As shown in Arc 6, she started out as a pure-hearted, empathetic child long before becoming the sociopathic witch we know her as now.
- Villainous Crush: She claims to be very fond of Subaru, and clearly expresses a desire for him to see her in a good light. Though after her manipulations are revealed, how much of this was genuine affection or just obsession with his Return by Death authority is made ambiguous. The author confirms she does legitimately like him. When asked to rate her affection levels for Subaru from 1 to 10, the author answered that it was impossible to measure.
- We Used to Be Friends: It is heavily implied that her extreme hatred towards Satella (and Emilia by proxy) is because Satella was her closest friend among the Witches before she became the Witch of Envy.
- What Is This Thing You Call "Love"?: While she isn't as incapable of emotions as Subaru believes she is, she does legitimately have trouble understanding the emotion of love. And the question of why love always fades is one she is constantly trying to answer. Though the
author Q&As state she is capable of understanding the concept of love intellectually. - When She Smiles: She gives a genuine smile towards Subaru that makes his heart flutter, and making him consider it to be a close call.
- White Hair, Black Heart: A white-haired and black-hearted witch who only cares about gaining knowledge with no regard to who suffers for it.
Typhon
Typhon
Voiced by: Misaki Kuno (Japanese), Kimberley Anne Campbell (English) Foreign VAs
- Blush Sticker: She has permanently rosy cheeks.
- Burn the Witch!: The water torture variant, taken to extreme. Typhon was drowned when Priestella deliberately flooded to do away with her.
- Cheerful Child: Typhon is a little girl who is always happy.
- Cool and Unusual Punishment: Typhon went to visit Priestella, a city with magical water canals that could prevent the city from flooding. There was a trap mechanism to submerge the whole city to drown dangerous forces. Typhon was drowned, thus ending her killing streak.
- Cute Witch: In appearance, Typhon is such a cute little girl that you wouldn't guess she's a Witch of Sin at first glance. As for her personality, however, she's certainly not cute in the way she dismembers those she considers guilty of something.
- Flowers of Femininity: Being the most childlike of the witches, the blue flowers on her headband and dress make her look even more adorable.
- Killer Rabbit: When Subaru first meets her, he thinks Typhon is just a cute, harmless little girl, until she casually rips off his arm to see if he's a "bad person".
- Knight Templar: Due to misunderstanding the lesson her father tried to impart on her, Typhon primarily judges how good or bad a person is based on how much sin they have rather than the nature or scale of it.
- Magical Barefooter: She's a witch and doesn't wear any footwear.
- Third-Person Person: She refers to herself in the third person.
- Token Mini-Moe: The youngest-looking member of the Witches of Sin, with the appearance of a very young girl.
Minerva
Minerva
Voiced by: Mikako Komatsu (Japanese), Skyler Davenport (English) Foreign VAs
- An Arm and a Leg: Punching Typhon shattered her arm at one point in Arc 4.
- Big Ol' Eyebrows: She has prominent eyebrows.
- Chronic Hero Syndrome: In life, Minerva traveled the world to heal people wherever she found people in need. Too bad the side effect of her Authority resulted in her causing as many catastrophes as she solved.
- Cleavage Window: Her outfit has a transparent section in the chest area that exposes her cleavage.
- Combat Medic: Her Authority allows her to heal people by punching them.
- Dynamic Entry: She's introduced when she falls from the sky, throws some heart blasts from her punches, and makes a Ground-Shattering Landing.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: All things considered, Minerva is still a good-natured person who can't stand people getting injured and wants to heal as many as she can.
- Heart Beat-Down: Her punches produce heart-shaped magical blasts that heal people.
- Hot-Blooded: She's extremely passionate about healing injured people and goes into a rage when one of her fellow witches hurts Subaru.
- Hypocrite: She lectures Subaru about not considering the value of his own life and the feelings for others; however, Minerva frequently disregards the wishes and feelings of others by healing them, if it is against their will. As well as the fact that in the past, she was fully aware of the negative consequences of her Authority that have led to the deaths of more people than she has saved, and recklessly continued to use it because she does not care about those she cannot see.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She's hotheaded, aggressive, and hard to talk to. Her favorite hobby also happens to be healing injured people and helping those in need.
- Prone to Tears: She rarely stops crying, especially if she sees someone injured. Instead of sadness, she says she's crying out of anger.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: She calls Subaru a coward viler than a witch for resolving to die as many times it takes to save everyone while not giving a thought about how he's making those who care about him worry as he keeps hurting himself to protect them. Subaru immediately rebukes her by pointing out that she and the rest of the witches put him in such a state to begin with.
- Reluctant Warrior: In the past, Minerva was part of an unending war that she did not want to join, but did so to end it.
- Showgirl Skirt: She wears a minidress covered by a tunic that splits at the front to display her legs.
- Signature Headgear: She wears a hairpin shaped like a pink and light blue heart.
- Super-Strength: Despite the fact she can't kill a living thing even with a weapon due to her Authority, her fists are powerful enough to break the ground and she can easily pick up Subaru with one hand.
- Symbol Motif Clothing: She wears an outfit with a heart motif.
Daphne
Daphne
Voiced by: Nao Tōyama (Japanese), Michelle Marie (English) Foreign VAs
- Big Eater: Daphne's singular purpose in life is to feel full. As a result, she made the Mabeasts in order to serve as a food source.
- Blindfolded Vision: Her eyes are covered with a black blindfold.
- Blue-and-Orange Morality: Daphne's way of thinking doesn't take into account any kind of human morality. The one thing she seems to believe in is the old rule of "you have to eat others to survive". So even though she created the Mabeasts as a food source for people in order to end world hunger, she doesn't mind if the Mabeasts end up eating people instead, since it's hypocritical for humans to try to eat other species without risking getting eaten themselves. When Subaru asks her how to defeat the Great Rabbit to save lives, she initially refuses to tell him, unfazed by the carnage her creatures leave behind. But when he sarcastically complains that she believes in "killing to eat" but not in "killing to survive", she agrees that he has a point and tells him what he wants to know.
- Exotic Eye Designs: Official artwork shows that her right eye resembles an open mouth while her left eye resembles a closed mouth.
- Extreme Omnivore: Daphne is willing to eat anything, including human meat. Her backstory says that when she was trapped at a castle, she was so hungry that she ate the throne, the carpets, and her own vomit.
- Girlish Pigtails: Her hair is tied in two low pigtails.
- Gone Horribly Right: Daphne created the Mabeast to serve as a food source to end world hunger that only ate mana and grew to large sizes. However, their size allowed them to become stronger than humans and target them for food. However, this is subverted from the point of view of Daphne herself, as she believes people who hunt for food should be aware that they can be hunted too.
- Iron Maiden: Her entire body is chained into a black coffin named the Centipede Coffin, a Mabeast that resembles an iron maiden, but with no spikes.
- Lack of Empathy: She doesn't care that the Mabeasts she created have been spreading massive death and destruction for the last 400 years, and the Mabeasts themselves don't fare much better in her mind. After she comments that the Great Rabbit is always starving, Subaru asks if she doesn't feel bad about granting it this kind of life. A confused Daphne replies that her children feeling hunger doesn't make her hungry.
- Maker of Monsters: While it is commonly believed that Satella was the one who made the Mabeasts, the original maker was Daphne. As a result, the Mabeasts feel great animosity toward those who have the smell of Satella as she was the one who killed their master.
- The Nicknamer: She likes to give nicknames to people. Some examples are Subarun to Subaru, Dna Dna to Echidna, Met Met to Sekhmet, Ner Ner to Minerva, Mila Mila to Carmilla, and Tyu Tyu to Typhon.
- Power Limiter: She must keep her eyes covered because those who look into them will be overcome with such insane hunger that they'll try eating their own body parts.
- Scary Teeth: She has shark-like teeth.
- Spider Limbs: She's often confined to her Centipede Coffin, a large coffin-like Mabeast with eight spider-like legs that will move anywhere Daphne wishes to go.
- Supernatural Gold Eyes: In the Web Novel, Daphne is revealed to have gold eyes. Looking at them causes extreme hunger, so extreme that Subaru started eating his own arm.
- Third-Person Person: She refers to herself in the third person.
Carmilla
Carmilla
Voiced by: Manaka Iwami (Japanese), Lisa Reimold (English) Foreign VAs
- Burn the Witch!: She died when she was burned alive.
- Cute Oversized Sleeves: She wears a white coat with somewhat baggy sleeves that cover up to her fingers, complementing her cute looks.
- A Form You Are Comfortable With: She can make people see and hear her as what they want to see and hear at the time.
- Girlish Pigtails: Her long hair is tied into a pair of low pigtails.
- Hidden Buxom: According to a chart made by Tappei, Carmilla has a rather large bust that is bigger than Emilia's but smaller than Frederica's. Not that anyone can tell as her clothes do a good job of hiding her figure.
- Narcissist: Lampshaded by Echidna. Carmilla only cares for herself and holds deep grudges if you were to harm or trick her in any way regardless if she's in the wrong.
- Prone to Tears: She always looks like she's on the verge of tears.
- Shapeshifting Seducer: In her introduction, she tries to seduce Subaru using Rem's appearance. Carmilla says Echidna forced her to do this to keep Subaru's mind from breaking after he saw the possible scenarios following his deaths in other timelines.
- Shrinking Violet: She's timid and has no self-confidence.
- Speech Impediment: She stutters a lot in her speech.
- Spotting the Thread: When she appears to comfort Subaru with Rem's form, Subaru figures out she's a fake because she told him to rest and leave everything to her. The real Rem would motivate Subaru to stand back up.
Sekhmet
Sekhmet
Voiced by: Mai Nakahara (Japanese), Nicole Gose (English) Foreign VAs
- Brilliant, but Lazy: While she is the Witch of Sloth and acts like such, Echidna says that Sekhmet is strong enough to defeat the other Witches of Sin outside of Satella. When the Witches gather up together, she says that she is only there as a mediator to prevent the others from using force to get their way. When Minerva tries to get violent with Typhon, Sekhmet slams her into the floor without moving or showing any extrusion of power from herself.
- Broke Your Arm Punching Out Cthulhu: In the past, Sekhmet managed to drive away Volcanica, a giant dragon, in order to take a nap. Unfortunately, she fell off the Great Waterfall in the process.
- Cleavage Window: Her dress has an opening in the chest area that shows off her cleavage.
- Hiding Behind Your Bangs: Her hair covers the left side of her face, and her incredibly lazy nature makes her easily bored and detached towards everything.
- Lazy Bum: Apparently, she's so lazy that even breathing is a bother to her.
- Messy Hair: From the looks of it, she never combs her hair. Since she's the Witch of Sloth, that would make sense.
- Odd Name Out: Sekhmet is the only one of the dead witches who doesn't have the name of a Classical Mythology figure. Instead, she's named after an Egyptian goddess.
- Sexy Slit Dress: Her black dress has a long slit showing her left leg.
- Statuesque Stunner: She is stated to be the tallest of the Witches, and is very attractive despite her languid appearance.
Pandora
Pandora
Voiced by: Rie Kugimiya (Japanese), Deneen Melody (English) Foreign VAs
- Anonymous Benefactor: She supports the Witch's Cult through various means, such as providing powerful warriors like Theresia van Astrea and Kurgan as puppets. However, Pandora's relationship with the cult isn't quite clear because members are forbidden to speak of her despite knowing of her existence and she is addressed with high respect.
- Beauty Is Bad: She's described as so beautiful that even God would hesitate to touch her. Also, if beauty could kill, Pandora would be that beauty.
- Creepy Blue Eyes: Pandora has deep blue eyes and is one of the most dangerous villains in the series.
- Death Is Cheap: No matter how many times you kill her, Pandora can undo her own death and will come out completely unharmed.
- Dissonant Serenity: She smiles calmly even while casually altering reality or spreading death and destruction around her.
- Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon: She's so beautiful that anyone would mistake her for an angel, but don't let her good looks fool you because she's the only witch that all can agree that is evil to the core.
- Faux Affably Evil: At first glance, it is hard to think that Pandora is affiliated with the Witch's Cult, due to her graceful demeanor. But since she keeps acting like this, even while committing nefarious acts, it just makes her more unsettling.
- Going Commando: She isn't wearing anything beneath her white cloth.
- Greater-Scope Villain: She is behind several major incidents in the series, such as the death of Theresia during the ill-fated White Whale subjugation 15 years ago, the destruction of Garkla, a fortress city that once belonged to the Vollachia Empire, and the death of its greatest warrior, Kurgan, and initiated the destruction of the elves of Emilia's home. Within the series, she has barely taken part in present events, and her plans and motivations remain a mystery.
- Hate Sink: While Re:Zero has a large number of villains and antagonists, Pandora is one of the most despicable, and rightly so. Even the other Witches, who all have their share of blood on their hands, are viewed in a far more sympathetic light. As the benefactor and possible founder and leader of the Witch's Cult, she can be held accountable for all the deaths and destruction caused by them. On a more personal level, she killed a weakened Theresia van Astrea, murdered Emilia's parents, made Petelgeuse kill Fortuna by using her illusions to confuse him, is responsible for Emilia freezing the entire Elior Forest and its inhabitants before warping her memories in such a way that Puck was forced to seal them away in order to protect Emilia's sanity, and turned a mourning Geuse into a lunatic that would spend the next 100 years slaughtering countless people out of a warped love for Satella.
- Hidden Agenda Villain: She has an ambiguous, important plan that requires both the Witch's Cult and Emilia to achieve.
- High Priest: She seems to act as a shadow leader of sorts to the cult.
- Informed Attractiveness: Pandora is described as one of the most beautiful women in the world to the point that her beauty could kill. The art style, however, doesn't make her look that especially pretty next to the other women in the cast.
- Kick the Dog: The way she taunted Fortuna by using her illusions, even going as far as making Fortuna believe that she hit Emilia, her beloved niece could be considered as downright Mind Rape.
- Lack of Empathy: After Emilia refused to open the seal because of her promise to Fortuna, Pandora saw nothing wrong in killing Fortuna so the person Emilia made a promise to is no more and is genuinely confused that Emilia became furious because of it.
- Light Is Not Good: She's a beautiful woman with long silver hair, white skin, and her body is covered by nothing but a white mantle that she wears like a dress. She's also been built up as one of the biggest and most evil villains in the series.
- Magic Skirt: Even though she wears nothing but her white dress, none of her movements or the wind ever expose what's under her skirt.
- Magical Barefooter: She's a witch and goes around barefoot.
- Master of Illusion: She can create illusions to distract and confuse her enemies.
- Mystical White Hair: She's a platinum-haired witch with the power to alter reality at will.
- Occult Blue Eyes: She has dark blue eyes and has one of the most powerful Authorities among the witches.
- Perpetual Smiler: Her only known facial expression is a serene smile.
- Reality Warper: Her Authority allows her to manipulate natural and supernatural phenomena in her favor to a certain extent. This means she can instantly bury people, revert her own death, alter memories, or even simply warp people away without a trace. So far, she has used her Authority to revive herself multiple times, warped Regulus away and undoing all of the damages he caused, deceived Fortuna and Petelgeuse with illusions and altered Emilia's memories to forget the events involving her in Elior Forest.
- Rei Ayanami Expy: Pandora is a very enigmatic witch with grey hair, blue eyes, and white skin. She never displays emotions, keeping an eerily calm smile at all times.
- Soft-Spoken Sadist: She speaks in a soft and serene tone, and it is very rare for her to drop this. However, make no mistake; she is undoubtedly one of the wickedest characters in the story.
- Story-Breaker Power: While Pandora is outclassed by other characters such as Reinhard and Satella, her ability to warp reality is one of the most dangerous abilities in the story as it even allows her to revive herself.
- Stupid Evil: Pandora finds the Elior Forest's seal and just needs Emilia to open it, but Emilia refuses because of her promise to her aunt Fortuna. Pandora then makes Petelgeuse kill Fortuna in front of Emilia, thinking that Emilia won't care about the promise anymore with Fortuna dead. Pandora is slightly surprised when a furious Emilia accidentally freezes herself and the entire forest, delaying Pandora's plans for another century.
- Viler New Villain: Before Pandora appeared, all previous villains were either clearly insane, had cases of Blue-and-Orange Morality, were mostly self-absorbed jerks or at the very least had Pet the Dog moments. Pandora clearly doesn't fit any of these criteria.
- White Hair, Black Heart: She has long platinum hair and is very sinister in nature.
Hector
Hector
Voiced by: Jun'ichi Suwabe (Japanese), J. Michael Tatum (English) Foreign VAs
- Battle Aura: The anime gives him a purple aura that surrounds his entire body.
- Creepy Shadowed Undereyes: He has bags under his eyes to complement his Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette look and brooding personality.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Centuries ago, he literally crushed Roswaal with his Gravity Master abilities, never giving him a chance to counterattack. Roswaal only survived because Echidna stepped in to stop Hector.
- Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: He has almost black hair and extremely pale skin that makes him look sickly.
- The Eeyore: As the one representing the sin of Melancholy, him being permanently gloomy is a given.
- Evil Smells Bad: Bearers of the Witch Factors (including Hector) and their followers emitted a notable scent that could be detected by those who were familiar with it. Both Rem and Beatrice, who could detect the scent, noted that it smelled repugnant.
- Evil Sounds Deep: He has quite a deep voice when speaking courtesy of his voice actors.
- Gravity Master: Hector's Authority allows him to summon invisible gravitational fields that could crush living creatures and magic alike.
- Lean and Mean: He is rather tall and thin, and is a powerful Warlock.
- The One Guy: The only male member of the Witches of Sin.
- Perpetual Frowner: His facial expression seems to be locked in a sulky frown.
- Sad Clown: Dresses like a jester despite being contrary to his personality.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: He appeared in Sanctuary 400 years ago and was last seen engaging Roswaal and Echidna in battle. After that, he seemingly vanished from history and the world itself.
