Amshel Goldsmith
Amshel Goldsmith is a male anime and manga character who features in Blood+.
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Biography
Amshel Goldsmith (Japanese: ゴールドスミス・アンシェル) was a male human aristocrat born over a century ago as part of a branch family connected to the Goldschmidts. By adulthood, he came serve as a research assistant to the wealthy Joel Goldschmidt I who maintained the Zoo at his manor where he studied creatures from all over the world. One day, their expeditions came to uncover mummified remains of a monstrous creature along with two egg sacs. Taken for study, Amshel assisted Joel as they decided to open up one of the eggs. In that time, Amshel came to cut himself accidentally leading to a drop of his blood falling on the egg-like container. Both eggs then hatched revealing seemingly human infants where the pair quickly discovered them to be an entirely different species. These were Chiropterans children and the mummified remains were their mother. Joel I had decided to raise one of the children as his own whilst the other would remain a research subject at the Zoo. The one raised as a human became an adoptive daughter who was named Saya whilst the other one remained nameless where she was trapped within a tower.
In 1883, after Diva's release from the tower, Diva spares Amshel during her murder spree and turns him into a chevalier. After Joel I's death, Amshel continues the research of chiropterans and chevaliers. During the Russian Revolution, Amshel brings his relative Solomon for Diva to turn into a chevalier. He kills Solomon to resurrect him with Diva's blood. When Diva approaches hibernation and Saya follows her trail to a Russian village, Amshel escaped taking Diva in a carriage.
Amshel is generally seen as the leader of Diva's chevaliers and is the head of Cinq Flèches. After Saya's awakening, Amshel initially tried to bring her to their side. In Russia, he killed the Red Shield contact Liza and took her place during a train ride to Ekaterinburg. He reveals to Saya her true nature as a chiropteran and that she is killing her own kind with her sword. When Saya remains determined to fight and kill Diva, he decides she must be exterminated.
Overview
Personality and attributes
In appearance, Amshel Goldsmith was a male human from a French background who was middle-aged aristocratic man with pale skin, jet black, slick-backed hair and mustache and beard. He was always shown to dons a purple suit and wore a thick silver ring with a sapphire stone.
Amshel is a truly evil character with twisted ambitions of experimenting to satisfy his scientific curiosities. He can go to any extent to reach his goal. Diva is nothing but an experimental object to him. He refers to Diva as his "little treasure", later revealing that he was completely obsessed with Diva, which he feels is the "ultimate form" of love for her. He once tells Saya that he wished she hadn't freed Diva because then Diva would still be his and his alone.
He came to refer to the other Chevaliers as being his brothers. Despite that, he showed almost no concern over the loss of Karl.
Powers and abilities
Originally, Amshel Goldsmith was an ordinary human being with no special inherent powers. By adulthood, he came to cultivate a keen scientific mind with a particular focus on biology. This saw him becoming a research assistant for Joel Goldschmidt where they studied many creatures together. Amshel is beyond doubt an adept top-notch researcher. He assisted Joel I while they were in the Zoo researching origin. He also witnessed Saya and Diva's birth. After Joel I's death, he takes over experimenting on chiropterans. He creates the Schiff, brings specimen for creating each chevalier, looks after the delta project and also exerts his efforts for Diva to mate.
After pledging himself to Diva, he was transformed by the Chiropteran queen into one of her Chevaliers. Thus, he was turned into a Chiropteran himself but one of a higher order and with greater abilities than the others. Amshel was Diva's first and most powerful chevalier. Amshel possesses superhuman strength and speed. He is faster and stronger than the average chevalier, having easily caught Saya's arm and crushed it when she attacked. His power is shown when he saved Diva from being stabbed when Solomon threw a dagger at her. He was able to perform telepathic communication with other chevaliers. Amshel is shown to be able to use telekinesis to extents like breaking things with a wave of his hand.
Over the decades, he came to establish a powerful business conglomerate called Goldsmith Holdings. It was responsible for his status among high society and helped fund the operations of Cinq Flèches.
Notes
- Amshel Goldsmith was created by Chizu Hashii, Production I.G and Aniplex where he featured in the setting of the Blood+ universe.
- He was named after the real life Amschel Rothschild.
In other media
Television
Appearances
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