Jean Rum

In this version of the story, she, along with other Masters of the Red Faction, learn of Shirou Kotomine's conspiracy and decide to cross him and summon their Servants on their own, away from Assassin's Master. She manages to summon Caster William Shakespeare.

The enemies are clearly the Negative faction, the Yggdmillennia family.

A persistent legend exists within the Clock Tower that Jean dedicated several years to searching for the lost Library of the Thunder Emperor, a collection of esoteric texts attributed to Ivan IV Vasilyevich.

No one has been able to verify the story. Some maintain that the search ended in failure; others claim that he returned from Russia with documents whose provenance he never explained. The only indisputable fact is that, after those travels, he began citing sources unknown even to several Lords of the Association.

When asked directly about the matter, Jean usually replies with a slight smile:

"Every lost library longs to be found. Some simply await the right reader."

Unlike many magicians, Jean doesn't pursue the Root for reasons of power or personal transcendence. Her dream is to create an archive capable of preserving the entirety of human experience, a collection where no precious memory, historical discovery, or personal history can ever be lost.

For her, true immortality isn't about living forever, but about ensuring that what deserves to be remembered never disappears.

Jean's most distinctive technique is called Echo Record. Through it, she can perceive and reconstruct fragments of past events from the emotional impressions that remain attached to a place or object. The result is not a perfect vision of the past, but a reconstruction based on preserved spiritual traces.

Her most advanced spell is Library of Silence, an incomplete Reality Marble of an investigative nature. When activated, the environment takes on the symbolic appearance of an immense library where memories present in the area manifest as volumes stored on endless shelves. Within this conceptual space, Jean can analyze information, trace events, and identify hidden connections between people and events.

Jean se especializa en una rama poco común del Espiritualismo conocida informalmente como Mnemosinismo. Esta disciplina estudia las huellas emocionales y conceptuales que los acontecimientos dejan sobre personas, objetos y lugares. A diferencia de la necromancia tradicional, Jean no intenta comunicarse con los muertos ni manipular almas. Su interés se centra en los recuerdos y en las marcas que estos dejan sobre la realidad.

Gracias a esta especialización es capaz de reconstruir acontecimientos pasados mediante el análisis de rastros espirituales residuales. Esta capacidad la convierte en una investigadora excepcional y en una de las especialistas más respetadas de la Torre del Reloj cuando se trata de incidentes mágicos complejos.

Jean was born in Strasbourg, France, into a minor family of magicians specializing in the preservation of magical documents and archives. The Rums were never a particularly powerful or influential family, but for generations they acted as custodians of grimoires, historical records, and correspondence between various branches of the Wizards' Association.

From a young age, she displayed an uncommon fascination with reading and history. While other children from magical families were instructed in basic rituals and the theory of magical circuits, Jean spent hours studying ancient manuscripts and comparing conflicting versions of the same historical events. Her family soon realized that she possessed a natural aptitude for research.

At the age of eleven, she was sent to the Clock Tower, where she excelled at organizing information and establishing connections between seemingly unrelated texts. During her formative years, she developed a profound interest in the relationship between memory, soul, and history—a theme that would eventually become the central focus of all her magical research.

Jean Rum is a reserved and extraordinarily patient woman whose presence is more reminiscent of a librarian than a mage of the Mage's Association. She speaks little, listens attentively, and rarely expresses an opinion without prior reflection. Unlike many researchers at the Clock Tower, she does not believe that the pursuit of knowledge justifies any imaginable means.

Although she fully understands the pragmatic mindset that dominates the magi world, she maintains a strong sense of personal responsibility. She does not seek to impose moral ideals on others, but she believes that certain acts reveal a corruption incompatible with the true purpose of magical research. This stance was clearly demonstrated when she learned of Rottweil Berzinsky's actions during a subspecies of the Holy Grail War. The way he eliminated his client and subsequently betrayed his own allies filled her with a deep aversion. For Jean, deliberate betrayal is one of the most despicable forms of human failure.

Within the Clock Tower, she is informally known as "The Librarian." His obsession with preserving historical records and lost knowledge is as well-known as his skill in locating them. Jean believes that memories, experiences, and history possess a value comparable to any Mystic Code or ancestral ritual. In his view, as long as a story is remembered, a part of those who lived it continues to exist.

Jean Rum is a woman of average height and slender build whose presence conveys a blend of academic elegance and professional composure. She has fair skin, violet-gray eyes, and dark hair neatly trimmed to jaw length. Her rectangular glasses have become an inseparable part of her image within the Clock Tower, to the point that many students cannot imagine her without them.

Her usual attire consists of black dresses inspired by Victorian fashion, characterized by high collars, long sleeves, and carefully fitted white or ivory corsets. Although her clothes possess remarkable craftsmanship, they lack excessive embellishment. Jean prefers to project competence and authority through her demeanor rather than through status symbols. When working in archives or libraries, she typically carries a small leather-bound notebook in which she records observations, references, and research notes.

Her usual expression is calm and difficult to interpret. Even during tense situations, she rarely displays visible surprise, fear, or anger.