Laufen

Laufen (ラオフェン) is a second-class mage who participated in the First Class Mage Exam at the same time as Frieren and Fern.

Personality
Laufen is not a very talkative type, but is shown to be sympathetic as she shows concern for corpses of other mages that have become bait for monsters, and when she was unable to leave Denken when Frieren defeats him and threatens to torture him. These two instances show her slight naivety and inexperience as a mage. During the first and second stage of the First Class Mage Exam, she proves herself to be a reliable and cooperative mage.

Laufen also quickly took a liking to Denken, who treats and spoils her as if she was his grandchild, with her going as far as to call him "grandpa" and even speaking on his behalf with Richter.

Appearance
Laufen is a young, slender teen of slightly taller height than Fern. She has light brown hair tied into twin hairbuns that has a tassel hanging down on each side and short, asymmetrical slanted bangs.

Her outfit consists of a primarily black dress that is split at the sides and decorated with white lines. The dress has exposed shoulders and is crossed in the front and back around the shoulders by thick, white straps. The middle of the crossing front strap is adorned with a gem with two tassels hanging from it. This is paired with white shorts, black bracers and calf-high boots. Both of the bracers and boots are also adorned with similar, smaller tassels.

Abilities

 * Jilwer: Laufen utilises the spell Jilwer, a folk spell that belongs to a mountain tribe in the southern lands, which allows her to move at incredibly high speeds. The speed at which she moves is faster than the eye can see, and she appears to be able to go from not moving at all to Jilwer's speed almost immediately, giving the impression that she disappeared. While considered a novice by Denken, her use of Jilwer is powerful enough for her to be able to fight Methode, a powerful second class mage and later a first class mage, on even footing, with her even calling the fight 'easy'.

Trivia

 * Laufen is German for "to run" or "to walk".