Pandora, the Witch of Vainglory, stands as a central antagonist. She belongs to the nine Witches of Sin yet operates distinctly, embodying the sin of vainglory instead of the traditional seven. Her existence spans over 400 years, with confirmed activities stretching back at least a century before the main narrative and continuing into the present. She possesses an inhuman, terrifying beauty marked by pale skin, deep blue eyes with slit pupils, and long, radiant platinum hair cascading below her knees. Her mere presence induces overwhelming emotions, described as capable of inflicting happiness intense enough to kill ordinary observers. Pandora dresses minimally, typically in a simple white poncho-like garment accented with blue stitching and ribbons, leaving her legs and feet bare. Outward grace masks profound cruelty in her personality. She maintains a calm, polite demeanor regardless of circumstance, even amidst hostility, revealing a sociopathic nature. Pandora views others as expendable tools, exhibits no remorse for her actions, and demonstrates a complete lack of guilt for causing suffering or death, driven solely by selfish goals. She orchestrates major historical events through the Witch Cult, an organization she likely leads or holds high-ranking influence within. Key incidents include: - **Elior Forest Incident (100 years ago)**: Pandora, accompanied by the Sin Archbishop of Greed, Regulus Corneas, invaded the forest to break a sealed world-ending threat. She manipulated the Black Serpent to attack the elves and exploited the young Emilia as a "key" to unlock the seal. During the conflict, she used her powers to deceive Petelgeuse Romanée-Conti into killing his beloved Fortuna, driving him to insanity. The incident culminated in Emilia unleashing uncontrollable magic, freezing the forest and trapping its inhabitants. Pandora subsequently altered Emilia’s memories to erase her own involvement. - **Theresia van Astrea's Death (14 years ago)**: Pandora directed the Hakugei (White Whale) during the Great Conquest, leading to the death of the former Sword Saint after she lost her Divine Protection. Pandora’s intervention ensured Theresia's demise; Theresia was later reanimated as a corpse soldier under the Witch Cult’s control. Her primary ability is the **Authority of Vainglory**, enabling manipulation of phenomena and causality. This includes: - **Reality Rewriting**: Altering events to suit her desires, such as erasing Regulus’s attack on Elior Forest by teleporting him away and undoing all resulting damage, or narrating outcomes like burying opponents instantly. - **Immortality and Resurrection**: Negating death through causality manipulation; any fatal injury is rewritten as never occurring, allowing her to resurrect unscathed—a fundamental alteration of reality, not regeneration. - **Sensory and Memory Manipulation**: Implanting false perceptions (e.g., making Petelgeuse mistake Fortuna for herself) and modifying memories, as seen with Emilia. Her tampering is not absolute, as fragmented memories can resurface. - **Teleportation and Mabeast Control**: Relocating living beings or objects across vast distances and exerting limited influence over mabeasts like the Black Serpent or White Whale. Pandora’s relationships highlight her manipulative role: - **Emilia**: Heavily implied to have killed Emilia’s parents, her memory tampering left Emilia traumatized and isolated. Pandora feigned friendliness to exploit Emilia as a tool for opening the Elior seal. - **Witch Cult**: Sin Archbishops like Regulus and Petelgeuse show deference to her, indicating her authority. She appointed Petelgeuse as Archbishop of Sloth after he absorbed the incompatible Witch Factor. - **Other Witches**: Echidna acknowledges her but dismisses her power as self-preservation, suggesting disdain. Pandora’s motives remain enigmatic, though she consistently seeks to reshape reality for undisclosed ends, positioning her as a persistent, behind-the-scenes threat across the series' timeline.