Neuvillette

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

Neuvillette came to Fontaine approximately five hundred years before the events depicted in the video, having been invited to serve as Chief Justice. He initially had no interest in humanity, but centuries among Fontaine’s people taught him to understand their thoughts and concerns 50.

During his final conversation with Focalors, he realizes that she arranged his appointment. By allowing him to develop sympathy for humanity before restoring his authority, she ensured that he would no longer be willing to condemn Fontaine’s people as guilty 50.

Appearance

• Hair: Blue and white 5.
• Features and bearing: Described as handsome, noble, and elegant, with an imposing presence noticeable even through the livestream 5.
• Courtroom accessory: Carries a scepter, also described as a cane, which he taps when addressing the court 14 34 39.

Personality

Neuvillette is composed, conscientious, and decisive during emergencies. Following the Poisson flood, he prioritizes disaster-prevention plans for nearby coastal regions before going to the scene himself. The deaths in Poisson strengthen his determination to confront the prophecy rather than allow further delays 6 17 19.

His stern courtroom manner contrasts with his gentleness in private and difficulty handling informal conversation. When Navia needs time to recover emotionally, he draws Lumine and Paimon aside under the pretext of discussing something important, then awkwardly admits that he only wanted to give her privacy. He also acknowledges that he sometimes hurts others unintentionally through small details in his speech 15 19.

He accepts mistakes without treating them as humiliating: when the livestream highlights his failure to notice the tablets’ incorrect order, he openly admits the oversight. His insistence on justice does not erase his concern for individuals—he requires that the trap for Furina leave her unharmed and rejects the idea that her alleged offense warrants execution 17 22 40.

Abilities & Skills

Hydro Manipulation

• Projects concentrated Hydro energy, although his attempt to destroy the mysterious livestream screen leaves it unharmed 2.
• Strikes the giant whale with a blue orb of light, targeting a wound opened by Tartaglia and helping force it back through the fissure 43 44.
• Cannot stop the whale from charging toward the audience unaided during its initial attack; the encounter occurs before his authority is restored 43 50.

Extraction of Tablet Information

• Channels energy through his hand into the prophecy tablets to search for information beyond their visible carvings 17 42.
• Initially fails to uncover their hidden clues while the first tablet is missing 17 42.
• Successfully accesses the information after Freminet recovers the missing tablet, confirming the origins of Fontaine’s people and clarifying the prophecy’s courtroom imagery 40 42.

Judicial Authority

• Presides over trials, recognizes charges, regulates testimony, and delivers judgments as Fontaine’s Chief Justice 32 34 36 39.
• Insists that courtroom rules apply even to someone claiming to be a god 35.
• Explains that refusing trial permits a defendant to defend their honor by defeating a Champion Duelist 30.
• Commands the Oceanids confronting Navia to fall silent, ends their proceedings, and takes her away 14.

Investigation & Crisis Management

• Connects the water and whale in Lumine’s dream to the Primordial Sea 5.
• Investigates Furina’s concealed interest in the prophecy and identifies contradictions between her public behavior and private activities 19.
• Organizes coastal disaster-prevention measures while delegating the immediate visit to Poisson to Lumine and Paimon 6.
• Identifies the whale’s attraction to the Primordial Sea power inside Fontainians and recognizes that Tartaglia had been delaying its emergence 44.

Equipment

• Scepter / cane — Carried while presiding over proceedings and tapped to establish order or announce decisions. No separate combat function is demonstrated in the provided passages 14 34 39.

Relationships

• Furina — Fontaine’s apparent Hydro Archon and his superior. Her refusal to explain the prophecy leads him to support putting her on trial, though he insists she must not be harmed. He later learns that she is Focalors’s human self and recognizes the psychological torment of her centuries-long performance 19 20 22 45 46.
• Focalors — The Hydro Archon who arranged his appointment and planned to return his stolen authority. Her willingness to sacrifice herself leaves him visibly distressed 49 50.
• Lumine and Paimon — Trusted collaborators in investigating the prophecy and organizing Furina’s trial; they are welcome to visit his office at any time 5 17 21.
• Navia — Fellow investigator whom he rescues from the Primordial Sea. He gives her privacy to grieve before accompanying the group farther into the ruins 14 15 16.
• Wriothesley — Expresses firm confidence in Neuvillette’s strength and reliability, but also teases him about his awkward conversational skills 4 15 20.
• Clorinde — Fontaine’s strongest Champion Duelist and an ally in the plan to bring Furina to court. She acknowledges his power and agrees that Furina’s capture must be nonlethal 21 22.
• Sigewinne — He asks after her adjustment to life at the Fortress of Meropide and calls on her medical expertise during Furina’s trial. She defends him when others laugh at his social awkwardness 15 37.
• Tartaglia / Childe — Helps him repel the whale at the opera house. Neuvillette subsequently credits Tartaglia’s prolonged resistance with keeping the creature from emerging sooner 43 44.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Arrival of the Livestream

• While processing documents, Neuvillette receives the mysterious screen and attempts to destroy it with Hydro energy. Its immunity prompts him to wonder whether it is a divine artifact 2.
• He also participates in the livestream discussion. After watching the ruins investigation, he proposes inspecting the prophecy-related site with Wriothesley and Clorinde 9.
• He does not automatically accept everything shown as unquestionable truth; when Navia raises doubts about the footage, he agrees that its reliability deserves consideration 42.

Poisson Disaster and Navia’s Rescue

• In the footage, he links the Fortress of Meropide tremors and Lumine’s dream to the Primordial Sea, then reports that Poisson has suffered the worst flood damage 5.
• After completing emergency planning, he travels to Poisson. Arlecchino tells him about the expedition into the ruins, allowing him to follow the group 6 16.
• He intervenes in the hostile trial Navia experiences after falling into the Primordial Sea. He later explains that two Oceanids briefly held her above the water, giving him the opportunity to rescue her before her consciousness faded; Navia recognizes their help as another act of protection by Silver and Melus 14 15.

Investigation and Furina’s Trial

• He accompanies the ruins expedition, examines the prophecy tablets, and concludes that Furina must be questioned. Her evasions persist despite his evidence that she has secretly monitored the prophecy 16 17 19 20.
• Reluctantly supporting more extreme measures, he joins the plan to capture Furina and bring her to trial, with the explicit condition that she remain unharmed 21 22.
• He presides over the trial and finds Furina guilty of impersonating a god. The Oratrice’s separate verdict—sentencing the Hydro Archon to death—shocks him; he stresses that Furina’s offense should not carry that punishment 32 39 40.

Truth of Fontaine and the Whale

• With all four tablets available, he confirms that Egeria created Fontaine’s people by enclosing Primordial Sea power within Oceanids. Contact with Primordial Sea Water can therefore dissolve them back into their original forms 40 42.
• He corrects the interpretation of the third tablet: its water symbolizes justice and judgment, foretelling the Hydro Archon’s trial by Fontaine’s people 42.
• When the whale attacks the opera house, he fights alongside Tartaglia to repel it. He then explains that its hunger for Primordial Sea energy makes the gathered Fontainians a target 43 44.

Focalors’s Revelation and Returned Authority

• Focalors reveals herself to him and explains the separation of her divinity from Furina. Neuvillette immediately recognizes that an ordinary human mind would suffer under an endless life spent maintaining the deception 45 46.
• He learns that the Oratrice was built to kill Focalors and destroy her divine throne, returning the Hydro Dragon’s authority to him 49.
• Asked how he will judge Fontaine afterward, he admits that his five hundred years among humans have made a guilty verdict impossible. During Focalors’s farewell, bubbles enter his body and restore his stolen power 50.

Notable Quotes

“This is not an argument, Lady Furina. These are rules everyone must abide by in court!” 35

“After all this... you knew I could no longer pass a guilty verdict, didn’t you?” 50