Darklaw

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Eve Belduke V · T · F
Occupation	High Inquisitor of Labyrinthia (lapsed) Great Witch to the Shades (lapsed) First Shade (lapsed)
Biological information
Reckoned birth year(s) (this is for age comparison purposes, and so may look odd; click on the question mark for details)?	1999
Documented age range (as recorded in court record profiles & case files)	20* (age at debut)
Eye color	Green
Hair color	Dark brown
Height (the metric (cm) values are sourced from official guidebooks and may not reflect the relative sizes of characters as depicted in-game or in other official media)	Unknown
Associates
Family	Newton Belduke (Father; deceased) An unnamed mother (deceased)
Friends	Espella Cantabella (Childhood friend)
Affiliates	Storyteller (Superior) Zacharias Barnham (Subordinate)
Aliases/nicknames
Darklaw
Names in other languages
Japanese (romanization written with the given name first)	ジョドーラ (Jodōra)
French	Aurora* (equivalent of Darklaw) Eva Belleduque* (equivalent of Eve Belduke)
German	Gloria* (equivalent of Darklaw) Nora de Victoire* (equivalent of Eve Belduke)
Spanish	Diana
Italian	Laura
Dutch	Darvell* (equivalent of Darklaw) Eva Belduke* (equivalent of Eve Belduke)
Actors
Japanese (romanization written with the given name first)	Toa Yukinari
Miscellaneous
Debut episode	On a Dark and Stormy Night

Darklaw

Did you all just come here to stand around speculating? If so, there's a quiet cell in the dungeon which has just become vacant... You can speculate all you want in there.

— The Great Witch

Darklaw was the High Inquisitor of Labyrinthia, where she worked to rid the town of witches. She was also the only person normally able to meet directly with the town's "creator", the mysterious Storyteller.

Legendary Fire

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Darklaw was born Eve Belduke, daughter of Newton Belduke, and was the childhood friend of Espella Cantabella. After a terrible fire killed the entire population of their town, she was forced to change her name to Darklaw in order to hide the truth about the incident from Cantabella, and aid her friend's father, Arthur Cantabella, in fabricating a new town called Labyrinthia.

Name

• Her English alias is a portmanteau of the words "dark" and "law", likely in reference to her seemingly brutal prosecution of witches. It may also be a reference to the claws-like gloves she wears.

Development

As "Ms. Darklaw" the "school teacher".