Clind

Clind (クリンド) is a house steward serving the Miload Family. Despite joining the main cast after Arc 4, he remains a minor character overall, barely making any appearances in the main story.

In the past, Clind trained Frederica to help her control her beast form. Following the events of Arc 4, he was brought into the Emilia Camp by Roswaal to oversee Subaru's training after the boy officially became Emilia's knight.

Appearance
Despite being at least 400 years in age, Clind appears to be a handsome young man with a slender face with a tall, lean body. Along with that, he has eyebrow length blue hair. Clind wears a well-starched black butler uniform and sports a monocle on his left eye.

Personality
Clind is well-mannered, highly considerate of others, is extremely skilled as a servant, and tends to add idioms to the end of his sentences. Despite his good traits, he sometimes jokes around a little while behaving in a polite manner and is also a lolicon. However, he claims that he isn't drawn to them because they're young but rather because they have pure and genuine souls and people who have such souls are typically young. Because of this, he was able to determine that Emilia was mentally young for her age and that Ryuzu's soul was much more mature than her appearance suggested. Although he has known Frederica for ten years starting from the time he began working as a manservant, he tends to be prejudiced toward her appearance, resulting in bad relations between the two of them.

History
Being born before the Great Calamity, Clind was acquainted with the Witches and Warlocks of that era. At some point in time, he made a contract with a young Roswaal A Mathers which entailed Clind to protect Roswaal's property by any and all means. According to Roswaal, he had compensated the contract with Clind by forming a united front and defeating Roswaal's yet-unnamed nemesis. Clind has been faithfully abiding to his contract ever since, due to his ability to perceive souls and sensing Roswaal A Mathers' soul in other Roswaals' bodies.

At some point in the future, Clind came in contact with an unspecified Witch Factor, which granted him an Authority he possesses to this day.

Following the end of the Demi-Human War, Clind accompanied Roswaal J Mathers (Julia Mathers) to a pub where she met with Wilhelm and discussed the topic about Stride with the Sword Demon. During their talk, however, the trio were assaulted by a group of Shinobi, who were swiftly dispatched by Roswaal, Wilhelm and Clind. Wilhelm noted that Clind's technique was neither sword skill or magic, but something completely else.

Following Roswaal's death at the hands of Stride Vollachia and his Shinobi, Clind took care of her son, Roswaal K Mathers (Karl Mathers), who also inherited the soul of the original Roswaal A Mathers. The duo's only appearance can be traced back to the end of Sword Demon Battle Ballad side story, as Wilhelm met them on Roswaal J Mathers' funeral. During their short exchange, Wilhelm swore he would do everything in his power to help Karl if in need in order to honour Julia who greatly helped him during and after the Civil War. A few minutes later, Karl and Clind left the cemetery.

Some time in the following decades, Clind was entrusted with protecting and training Frederica Baumann. During that period, he was also transferred to Miload Manor, where he acted as Annerose Miload's butler, and is still actively taking care of her.

Abilities
Skilled Swordsman: Clind is talented enough with the sword that he can fight in emergencies, though he's almost never seen wearing a sword or engaging in a sword fight.

Parkour: Clind is skilled enough at parkour to teach it to Subaru. Subaru mentions that he is able to finish the Athletic Zone Garfiel made without rumpling his clothes and without breaking a sweat, calling him a monster.

Survival skills: He is mentioned by Subaru as being skilled at survival, enough to be able to teach him the basics (finding water, how to start a fire, ect).

Whip: Like his parkour, Clind is skilled at using a whip and taught Subaru the basics on how to use one.

Authority (権能 Ken'nō): Clind possesses a currently-unknown Authority that allows him to cause damage to distant objects, though the extent to how he can use it is unknown. For instance, he can use his Authority to crush people's limbs easily. However, it should be noted that Clind has been observed clenching his fist before crushing the enemies as well as having been spotted stating the word "melancholy" right before using his Authoity – two distinct actions that Hector, the Warlock of Melancholy, can be seen doing during his flashback fight with Roswaal A Mathers.

Soul Perception: Clind has the power to percieve qualities from the souls of other people. For example, he used this ability to percieve the soul of the original Roswaal within his descendants. Presumably, he is also able to use this ability in order to percieve the "purity" of a person's soul.

Trivia

 * According to the author, Clind is fond of both boys and girls, as his view on love is rather unique.
 * It's been heavily hinted that Clind accompanied Roswaal J Mathers on her campaigns during the Demi-Human War, using some sort of cloaking ability, which made it so no one ever detected him.
 * Clind is currently the only confirmed holder of a Witch Factor whose name does not have any known connection to astrology.