Tendou Harima

Tendou Harima is referred to as the Great Flame and the Founder of Tendoushuu. He was imprisoned in a special prison called Cocytus that placed him in cryogenic stasis. Tendou was freed after the power in Cocytus was shut down due to the chaos caused by Or-Gaule.

Appearance
Tendou is shown to be an elderly almost skeletal man described to be at least in his 70s. He possesses long hair and wears cloth wrapped around his eyes, as well as a cross made from twigs around his neck. His eyes were lost at some point in the war, but when he fight they are filled with green flames.

Personality
Tendou is a firm believer that violence and conflict is the true gift granted to them by God and to this end, he and his group caused the Teito Hotel Occupation Incident in order to start World War III. In that incident, he forced several middle school Blazers to fight one another to the death, as Tendou cried with the deaths of each one as if his own child had been murdered in front of him an act, which has caused Itsuki to question his sanity.

Though in his initial meeting with Touka Toudou, Tendou has shown to be a somewhat generous man as he even granted the young Blazer advise in the incidents that occurred to the Wakaba House where she grew up as well as hearing her plans in what to do after graduating from Hagun Academy. He had even watched the children in the orphanage, while the others were cleaning up.

However, in his talk with Touka, he started to reveal his true colors after realizing that she was dazzling like all the people around him who shines like stars. In his peaching to her, his ideology border on religious fanatism viewing all conflict and tragedies as a means of showing the true brilliance of people in the brink of despair and hardship and even viewing himself as God's Messenger even if it means starting another incident as he had done before.

History
In the past, Tendou fought in World War II and at some point, he battled against and was defeated by Ryouma Kurogane though would come to respect his skills. He later became the founder of Tendoushuu, a terrorist group who all believed that violence and conflict was the true manner of how people should live. Both Tendou and his group also caused the Teito Hotel Occupation Incident resulting in several serious injuries and deaths, the most notable incident was forced thirty middle school Blazers to fight against one another to the death leaving one survivor among them. Afterward, he was later captured and imprisoned in Cocytus by Genma Kurogane.

The Great Flame
Tendou Harima made his appearance in front of Touka and the others after the mothers of the children who broke the orphanage's windows causing them to run away hearing him begging for food.

Powers & Abilities
Desperado: Tendou is a Desperado, a being whose broken to chains of fate, which bound him through achieving his awakening. As such, he has far greater magic compared to a normal Blazer since he can increase it through training.
 * Excessive Awakening: Tendou also has undergone rare Excessive Awakening which grants him enormous power, increasing his mana and control over at the cost of him abandoning his humanity, turning him into a demon instead of a human.

Immense Magic Power: As a Desperado, Tendou has massive magic power. His magic power showed no sign of decreasing fast even after releasing so much.

Disaster Manipulation: Tendou's ability as a Blazer. He is able to create and control disasters, letting him cause things like lightning, flames, and earthquakes. Tendou can also become like a cloud letting him ward off any kind of attack without being injured. Itsuki even referred to him as a human-shaped disaster.

Mana Control: Tendou has demonstrated superior magic control, being able to turn himself like a cloud avoiding the attacks of Tohka without side-effects.

Equipment
Ame no Murakumo (天叢雲, Heavenly Cloud Masses): Tendou's Device takes form as a bronze sword.
 * Tensai - Houten Banrai (天災・方天万雷, Sky Disaster: Sky-Crashing Heavy Thunder): A Noble Art, where Tendou points his device towards the sky and sends his magic towards it to create a huge thundercloud that releases lightning a million times of Raikiri's power.
 * Kasai - Banshou Kaijin (火災・万象灰燼, Fire Disaster: All into Ash): A Noble Art where Tendou causes flames to shoot out from his device causing the area he targets to be hugely burned.
 * Fuusai - Kokuryuu Toguro (風災・黒龍とぐろ, Wind Disaster: Black Dragon's Coil): A Noble Art, where Tendou stabs his device into the ground, then covers his surrounding with a black tornado stated to surpass Ouma's wind in terms of power.
 * Shinsai - Hoshinari (震災・星鳴り, Quake Disaster: Star's Ringing): Tendou's Noble Art, which he stabs his device into the ground pouring magic power into it, causing an earthquake.

Trivia

 * The name of his devices references to the original name of Kusanagi, one of the Three Sacred Treasures of Japan. Similar to how the Noble Art of Ouma Kurogane shares its current name.