Armin Schrader

Armin Schrader (アーミンシュレイダー; Āmin shureidā), also known by the codename Hellgeist (ヘルゲイスト; Herugeisuto) is a chemist, Dark Mage, mercenary, drug manufacturer, assassin freelance terrorist and a crime consultant operating within the borders of Ishgar. Armin Schrader is a first-rate chemist who has put his talent and outstanding knowledge in all kinds of criminal activities, as long as they were conspicuously remunerated. In his long career, Armin has collected hundreds of bounties, assassinated thousand of targets, manufactured drug of the highest quality, aided the planning of terrorists attacks which shook entire nations and gained infamy throughout the entire continent and possibly beyond.

Armin is one of the most well connected criminal in the whole underworld of Ishgar, having performed tasks and given his professional advice to all the most important and powerful Dark Guild with impeccable competence; by the same token, he is at the very top of the Magic Council blacklist He also got a reputation of lethal and extremely dangerous Magic, having gained perfect control over Airspace, a particularly dangerous branch of Air Magic, notoriously difficult to master, as well as Air Magic and especially Gas Magic, which he uses to conjure almost all kinds of chemical weapons known to man and then some, having invented many special chemical agents with lethal property. Armin has dedicated himself to master every single aspect of his field of chemical warfare, and its ability to control and manipulate elements is so renowned that he gained the epithet Green Alchemist (緑の錬金術師; Midori no renkinjutsu-shi).

Despite such widespread reputation, very few people actually know much of the man himself: Armin always an heavy anti gas equipment which covers his entire body. Very few people in the entire underworld barely manage to known his true. Some speculated that he was an underpaid chemist that turned a drug dealer in a time of desperation, then become a mercenary when his activity caught the attention of some top dogs operating in that zone. Regardless of any of that, Armin has no life outside crime. His only scope in life is making the best use of the talent he has, selling to the highest bidder, consequences and moral scruples be damned.

Trivia

 * Armin's surname: Schrader, is the same of Gerhard Schrader, German chemists, which, in his quest to develop powerful insecticide, accidentally created nerve agents such as sarin and tabun. For this reason, he is often referred as the "father of nerve agents". Coincidentally, (perhaps not) he also share the surname with Hank Schrader from Breaking Bad, the brother-in-law of the protagonist, which is the author's favorite TV series.