Randolph Marianne

Randolph Marianne is the current Death God after defeating the previous Death God.

Appearance
Has a Skull like face, in the sense that his face is so sickly that his skin warps tightly around his face. This appearance might be due to his mixed blood as he's not particularly sick.

Personality
Randolph used to be battle-thirsty but after countless battles, he's fed up. Now, he enjoys cooking (despite not being good at it) and walks around yawning without a care, even in time of turmoil. Generally a pacifist but Randolph does not mind killing anyone he's ordered to or in self-defense.

He is very loyal to Pax Shirone and Benedict Kingdragon because they were the only ones who enjoyed his cooking and understood him.

Background
After retiring he returned to his home country and started working as a chef and restaurant owner but soon the restaurant became bankrupt, leaving him with a huge debt. He then started working in Dragon King Kingdom as a Knight to pay off the debt.

Light Novel Volume 5 Extra Chapter I: Dragon Meat, Nanahoshi-Style
Randolph Marianne ran the restaurant that serves Nanahoshi-style dragon meat. Due to Rudeus' harsh criticism, he decided to shutter the family kitchen business and accepted the recruitment of Shagall Garantis, a general of the King Dragon Realm.

Light Novel Volume 19
Randolph was originally Dragon King Kingdom's knight but was ordered to escort Pax in his coup d’état, where he easily overpowered the nation's imperial knights. He served as Pax's personal bodyguard since then. He was present during Zanoba's return but had no interest in it.

When Zanoba and Rudeus came back from the front line, he had a fight with them due to being mistaken for an apostle of Hitogami. It came into a tie. It's revealed, however, that he only attempted to help Pax out of personal interest, for he and his queen were the only two people to praise his cooking. He was absolutely fine with letting his assailants go.

After Pax's suicide, Randolph carried Queen Benedict out of the siege, resolving to teach Pax's son skill in the swords and in cutlery.

Light Novel Volume 22
Rudeus would seek Randolph's help in the final battle but having to protect Pax's son, he can't leave. However, he offers Rudeus that if he can protect Pax Jr. from being targeted by the Shirone Kingdom Royalty he would would help in other ways, as to take down Hitogami and avenge Pax.

Power and Abilities

 * Sword of Bewitching (幻惑剣, Genwaku-ken): A sword style that tricks the opponent and creates opening in combat. It consists of two different set of techniques known as Sword of Luring and Sword of Hesitation.
 * Sword of Luring (誘剣, Yū-ken): This technique entices an enemy to attack when they should defend.
 * Sword of Hesitation (迷剣, Mei-ken): This technique entices an enemy to defend or retreat when they should attack.
 * North God Style: Trained in the North God Style to at least Emperor rank. Was skilled enough to be a candidate for the North God rank.
 * Demon Eye of Absolute Void: This let him create an impenetrable barrier around a location with minor loopholes.
 * Master of Stealth: Randolph is capable of appearing behind a person without a sound or whatsoever with a saying "God of Death is always behind you".
 * Psychological warfare: Randolph makes up for his lack of overwhelming power by making suggestions mid-battle, causing distraught to his enemies and allowing him to easily turn the table.

Equipment

 * Gauntlets created by and purchased from Tallhand, with the Mana Absorbing Stone planted inside. This allows Randolph to overwhelm magic users, though has limited use, as the Mana Absorbing Stones consume as much Mana as they cancel out, making them less effective against a magician with large amount of mana like Rudeus.

Achievements
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Quotes
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Trivia

 * Dead End were the last clients of his restaurant.
 * Badigadi told him about Hitogami, not to trust nor make enemy out of him, a long time ago.
 * In light of things, Hitogami might have instructed Gisu to sell Randolph the magic gauntlet in hope the Death God would take down Rudeus.
 * Despite being part immortal, Randolph has not shown to have omnipotent regeneration nor tremendous magical energy like his elders, probably due to him only have 1/8 of Atofe’s blood.
 * In the side story "Jobless Oblige", Sieghart succeeded Randolph as the next Death God, implying that he either defeated Randolph or accepted his offer to succeed his position somehow.
 * His grandmother was also called Death God Knight and her connection to Laxus is unknown.