Introduction
Due to his long name, he is usually tagged as Kayneth (ケイネス).
Overview
Kayneth is a very wealthy and successful nobleman and a renowned mage from the Mage's Association and also Euryphis lecturer with a magical lineage that goes back for over nine generations.
He is the Master of a Lancer class Servant in the 4th Holy Grail War.
Background
A proud magus with ancient heritage and great status. Kayneth was born with immense magical talent and rarely if ever encountered any hurdles in life. Though talented, he is a cruel man with a selfish personality.
He is a teacher of Waver Velvet but has very little care or respect for him. As shown when he dismissed Waver's thesis manuscript and humilated him after reading Waver's radical thesis concerning increasing magical potential during a lecture. Waver, in retaliation, enters the fourth Holy Grail War after stealing Kayneth's artifact without him noticed. Kayneth originally intended to summon Iskander, he instead summons the Lancer-class Servant Diarmuid Ua Duibhne as a backup after the artifact was stolen.
He is engaged to Sola-Ui Nuada-Re Sophia-Ri, the daughter of the head of the spiritual evocation division, through an arranged marriage. They apparently do not get along and Sola-Ui considers Kayneth a coward for not going and attacking the opposing Masters face to face. Kayneth's love for her is mainly one sided throughout the show.
Abilities
Kayneth, is ranked by Kiritsugu initially as one of the three most threatening magi involved in the war in terms of magical power and control, proving his prowess as a magus. He ranks the second, ahead of Tokiomi Tohsaka who is the third while Kirei Kotomine is the first. He is one of the few magi Kiritsugu calls a "formidable enemy", whose strength is a great enough threat to utilize his Thompson Contender. His magical abilities are attributed to wind and water and he is an expert who is proficient summoning, alchemy, and spiritual evocation. He has managed to modify the Master-Servant system to his advantage, albeit normally limited to the founding families of the Grail War. He has devised a method to allow two simultaneous connections to Lancer; while he holds the command spells for Lancer, the energy to materialize the Servant is maintained by Sola-Ui.
He made his base at top 24 floors at Hyatt Hotel and transformed it into an impenetrable fortress, with various Boundary Fields, traps and even summoned monsters. He also made a spatial alteration at the main lobby to confuse the intruders.
Healing: Kayneth can heal moderate wounds in seconds. The magic can repair the damaged clothes as well and essentially looks like he turned back time.
Invisibility: Kayneth initially used this to masks his presence while he controlled Lancer. Through an illusion he became invisible to the naked eye. His voice became untraceable as well. In the end Kiritsugu used infrared binoculars to find him.
Volumen Hydragyrum
The Volumen Hydragyrum (Tag name: 月霊髄液, Getsurei Zuieki) is the strongest and the only remaining of the Mystic Codes that Kayneth Archibald El-Melloi carries in the fourth War of the Holy Grail following the destruction of the Hyatt Hotel. It is the battle tool that Kayneth has the most proficiency in, as his forte is the manipulation of fluids. Its weight can go up to 140kg.
With 10l of mercury manipulated through magecraft, it has the ability to search, attack and defend. It can attack with the shape of a whip, a spear or a blade that rotate freely, sharper than a razor; like a current of extremely high pressure, it can even cut through titanium and diamond.
However, as the attack of the whip or the blade relies on centrifugal force, the power is at the base, and none on the extremity; thus, knowledge of close-combat allows an opponent to read through the orbit of the attack.
The defensive mode is automatic, reacting immediately to anything that can harm Kayneth, protecting him with a thin, hyper hard membrane stretching around him. A membrane of 1 mm thick as rigid as steel can defend him even from a claymore land mine, and of course, from the destruction of the Hyatt hotel. Even if the user is unaware of the threat, it will react by itself. However, it will only dispatch the optimum power to defend against the immediate threat, thus applying more power than expected allows an attack to break through it.
In hunting mode, tentacles with high sensitivity will stretch out from the main body, examining the vibrations and the pressure of the atmosphere, even searching for sound or heat sources.
Yet, as it has no sense of vision, taste or smell, it is possible to deceive it if it cannot recognize the heartbeat, breathing and body temperature as that of a human.
In pixiv
Due to his personality and his unlucky fate, he became the subject of a joke character amongst the artist, and usually depicted as a joke character. Although portrayed mainly that way, he is also one of the characters where the fans can feel for him, along with Lancer
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