Noah Fawkes

Noah Fawkes is an Imperial Prince of the Ascension Empire and Leonel Morales's cousin. Raised to embody discipline, law, and imperial duty, he begins as Leonel's institutional opposite, but repeated defeats, shared wars, and exploitation by more powerful factions teach him to temper ambition, place earned loyalty above status, and choose family without abandoning the responsibilities that formed him.

Biography

The hidden cousin and imperial heir

Noah grows up within the Ascension Empire as the son of Gervaise's younger child and the apparent figurehead of Earth's next generation. He receives the training, resources, and discipline appropriate to a prince, but not uncomplicated affection: even his absent mother is presented as part of a larger imperial plan. When Gervaise publicly reveals Leonel, Noah goes directly to his grandfather. His first reaction mixes jealousy with concern—he asks whether Leonel is more valuable, then asks to leave the protected Ascension Province so that the cousins can face Earth's dangers together. Gervaise refuses, leaving Noah with the harsher commission that both young men must become worthy figureheads rather than sheltered heirs. (Chapter 99)

This introduction establishes the conflict that follows Noah for most of the novel. He genuinely wants to serve and protect, but measures himself through the hierarchy that raised him. Gervaise's blunt judgment that Leonel has the superior parents becomes a private standard Noah cannot defeat merely by working harder. Instead of rebelling, he tries to become the perfect prince: restrained, meticulous, deferential to the Emperor, and severe with himself whenever feeling threatens duty. (Chapter 99)

That choice binds his personal ambition to imperial service before he has met the cousin he is measuring himself against. Noah does not ask Gervaise to diminish Leonel; he asks for the burden of confronting danger beside him. The refusal turns rivalry inward, so Noah's earliest development is the creation of a disciplined public self meant to prove that inherited judgment need not dictate earned worth. (Chapter 99)

Camelot, White City, and collision with Leonel

Chosen to lead Earth's expedition to the second moon, Noah approaches Camelot as a military and political problem. He studies its unknown Forces, numbers, and terrain, delegates intelligence and beast control to Jessica, and plans annexation rather than destruction. His command is experienced rather than ceremonial; subordinates fear the exacting standards of a prince who has already led Zone and Invalid-clearing expeditions. When White City attacks, he cooperates with Arthur and Mordred, redirects his charge toward the common enemy, and later captures White City despite severe injuries. These choices show that his obedience to law is paired with real battlefield responsibility. (Chapters 418–425, 472–476, and 509–511)

That same legal absolutism causes his first disaster with Leonel. Noah concludes that Aina's apparent Brazinger connection and failure to report to the Capital justify detention, and he prevents Arthur from healing her while trying to assert the Empire's authority. He does not act from personal cruelty so much as a conviction that hidden families threaten Earth and the Emperor's law must be applied consistently, but the distinction offers Aina no protection. Leonel attacks him, breaks through his transformed body, and beats him unconscious. Noah refuses to plead or invoke their blood relationship; pride and responsibility require him to accept the consequence of the order he gave. (Chapters 470–472 and 489–499)

Noah returns rather than abandon the campaign, completes White City's occupation, and conducts annexation negotiations with Leonel across the table. The cousins remain wary, but Noah stops Jessica from escalating their disputes and accepts Leonel's lawful counterproposal for Camelot. Their relationship therefore begins not with instant familial warmth, but with a recognition that each will act according to his own code and bear the consequences. (Chapters 509–512)

Earth's defense and a changing standard of loyalty

During the conflicts surrounding Valiant Heart and the invading families, Noah resumes his role as a commander. He helps coordinate Earth's forces, recognizes when Leonel's actions shift the morale of exhausted troops, and repeatedly throws himself into the hardest fighting. His respect for Leonel grows alongside resentment of the comparison between them: Noah has trained as a prince all his life, yet the cousin raised outside the court repeatedly creates solutions Noah cannot. When the Puppet Master nearly kills Leonel, Noah's anger turns toward Gervaise for the first time; if the Emperor's tests are meant to favor superior talent, Noah cannot understand why even Leonel is left unaided. (Chapters 509–571)

The defense of Earth against higher-dimensional invaders changes him more permanently. Noah completes the Heavenly Body cycle and fights beside Leonel against Rotsan, accepting Leonel's decision to kill rather than attempting to preserve diplomatic appearances. His reason is protective: the youths of Earth are under his charge, and an insult backed by an intention to kill or enslave them is an attack on his people. Years of watching friends die while status and individual strength fail to save them loosen his attachment to being the flawless prince. He remains outwardly controlled, but the source describes an inward “caged beast” increasingly willing to break the expected rules. (Chapters 1010 and 1042–1045)

The trip to the Luxnix estate gives Noah his first sustained experience of companionship without clear hierarchy. He carries family information Leonel lacks, helps the Earth group navigate registration, and is visibly moved when Leonel's school friends accept dependency terms without hesitation because they trust him. Noah has known Jessica as a loyal right hand, but has otherwise lived among subordinates and courtiers who might want his influence. Being teased, included, and treated as a peer begins to separate loyalty from formal obedience in his mind. (Chapters 1091–1106)

At the Luxnix selection, Noah's bloodline density and Snowy Star Owl manifestation demonstrate that he belongs to the same maternal inheritance as Leonel. When Jessica's defeat leaves her masking guilt, Noah reads the emotions others miss and takes the stage in anger, using his saber and Morphing to restore courage to Earth's humiliated geniuses. He later fights through the Void Palace trials with Leonel and Aina and accepts Leonel's offer of resources as something closer to brotherhood than royal patronage. (Chapters 1097–1160 and 1286–1314)

Captivity, the Rapax world, and the Heir Wars

Noah and Myghell are captured and caged after being drawn into the hostile world connected to the Rapax crisis. Leonel risks exposure to free them, and Noah responds without wounded pride, acting on the rescue immediately and helping other captives escape. The episode reverses their first conflict: the cousin Noah once tried to arrest now treats abandoning him as impossible, while Noah accepts that relationship without trying to reassert rank. (Chapters 1504–1507)

In the Heir Wars, Noah joins Leonel's faction, but the widening difference between them becomes emotionally corrosive. He watches Leonel lead millions of constructs and wonders why lifelong training cannot close a gap that seems rooted in birth. His thinking still reflects the imperial world of “haves and have-nots,” and he assumes that Leonel's competence is the principal reason others follow him. When Leonel appears to overextend, Noah doubts where Aina, James, and the others remain calm. Recognizing their belief forces him to see that loyalty can rest on character and shared history rather than flawless execution. (Chapters 1876–1902 and 1961–1983)

Noah begins acting on that lesson. He protects threatened allies even when doing so leaves him stranded, grows to ten meters despite the damage already cracking his body, and chooses a defiant counterattack over a cowardly death. Leonel and Little Blackstar save him in turn. The sequence does not make Noah Leonel's equal, but it changes what equality means to him: value lies in what he chooses under pressure, not whether talent or imperial approval lets him stand at the front alone. (Chapters 1983–1988)

Domain-ring corruption and the Godlen experiments

After entering the wider human Bubbles, Noah acquires the Saber Domain Ring and undergoes a Sovereign-related breakthrough. The ring's hidden connection attracts the Godlens, who seize him and Jessica. Its corrupting influence dulls Noah's visible responses, and the family treats him as a specimen in experiments meant to perfect a Domain Lineage Factor capable of producing Sovereign Weapon Force. Even under that pressure, the one visible remnant of his will is his refusal to abandon the injured Jessica, whom he carries with him. (Chapters 2408–2412)

Noah survives mentally by spontaneously awakening an Emperor's Might defense. He retreats his consciousness into its weakest sanctuary and allows the resulting dullness to resemble the submission his captors expect. This is imperfect—he cannot retain his ordinary faculties while maintaining it and initially remembers the experiments only indistinctly—but it preserves an inner self capable of recognizing Leonel, assessing the Godlens' purpose, and helping plan their escape. Leonel and Aina stabilize Jessica, and Leonel later extracts Noah and Amery from the laboratory. The experience turns the imperial discipline once used to enforce a system into the means by which Noah resists being absorbed by another. (Chapters 2413–2429)

While recovering under Leonel's protection, Noah begins integrating more fully with the people and resources around him. He is not instantly remade into a new personality; the quiet, rule-oriented prince remains. What changes is the object of that discipline. Leonel trusts him to hone his saber in the coming conflicts, and Noah accepts a place in a coalition grounded in chosen interdependence rather than the court hierarchy of his childhood. (Chapters 2480 and 2790)

Return to the Fawkes and the final battlefield

After Leonel's death and resurrection, Noah returns to Ascension Empire life during Leonel's three-year coma. He takes up imperial duties, marries the heiress of the Grand Prime Minister family, and becomes established again as an Imperial Prince. This is not framed as betrayal: Noah has an adult life and obligations independent of his cousin. Yet his relative talent leaves him in the middle of Gervaise's third generation, and Gervaise sends him into the youth war carrying the enormous blue saber that has always suited his Morphing. (Chapter 3134)

Noah admits to Leonel that he would prefer to follow him, but has learned to temper his ambitions and accepts that life does not yield every desired path. The cousins part without resentment; Leonel warns him to take care, while Noah's first concern is relief that Leonel survived. This quiet exchange completes their reversal from their first meeting: Noah no longer needs to compete for Gervaise's judgment, and Leonel regards him as his one true cousin even when their political choices diverge. (Chapter 3134)

Noah survives the skirmishes and appears on the saber monument of the Idol Battlefield with James and Elthor. The source confirms his continuing saber alignment and survival, but does not name a later dimensional tier, Dharma, Idol, or precise Sovereign state. His endpoint is therefore one of demonstrated participation and preserved identity rather than a safely quantifiable formal level. (Chapter 3227)

Appearance and personality

Noah is introduced as a handsome, broad-shouldered young man with white-gold hair, deep-green eyes, callused hands, and a confident bearing. He is normally around two meters tall, but Morphing can raise him beyond five or even ten meters; density changes make his skin crystalline or diamond-like, and he often enlarges his blue saber with him. He favors an enormous weapon that can resemble a flat blue tower shield when carried on his back. (Chapters 99, 476, 1987–1988, and 3134)

He is restrained, serious, and difficult to read. Years in court make him meticulous, respectful of hierarchy, and suspicious of casual disorder; intimacy, teasing, and unresolved affection for Jessica can make him visibly awkward. Beneath that reserve is pride, protectiveness, and a willingness to suffer without complaint. Noah's central weakness is his early tendency to confuse law and talent with moral value. His growth comes through recognizing that institutions can exploit obedience, that earned belief matters more than formal status, and that accepting another person's leadership need not erase his own dignity. (Chapters 99, 421, 499, 1091–1106, 1972–1983, and 3134)

Abilities and cultivation

Noah cultivates through Dimensional Cleanse's Universal Force cycle and possesses several complementary inheritances: the body-altering Morphing Ability Index, Fawkes Emperor's Might, Luxnix/Northern Star blood, and a saber path later altered by the Saber Domain Ring. His record contains major demonstrated advances but long formal gaps. The source explicitly says he remains below the Fourth Dimension in Chapter 492 and later completes the Heavenly Body Realm, yet does not name his intervening or endpoint dimensional tier; apparent strength, environments, and opponents are not substitutes for a formal confirmation. (Chapters 492, 1043, 1097–1098, and 3227)

Morphing Ability Index

Noah's Morphing is an offensive, defensive, and mobility-oriented Ability Index already graded in the Fifth Dimension while his cultivation remains below the Fourth. It gives him conscious control over physical synthesis: he can enlarge or shrink his body and selected objects, alter the chemical structure and density of skin, bone, and muscle, and proportionally reinforce his frame so increased volume does not make it collapse. He can make bones diamond-hard, concentrate mass without remaining gigantic, and extend a limb explosively for movement or capture. Aina later distinguishes this from passive absorption abilities because Noah directs both the synthesis and the resulting structural change. (Chapters 476, 489–492, and 2069)

In combat he grows beyond five meters, enlarges his saber with him, and increases muscle and skeletal density so the scale produces real weight and striking strength. He can instead shrink while retaining extreme density, use a suddenly enlarged leg as propulsion, or make the saber light during a swing and increase its density by more than tenfold immediately before impact. He can reverse those bodily and weapon changes quickly while his concentration remains intact. (Chapters 476 and 489–497)

Morphing is controlled transformation, not invulnerability. Hardening one property can expose another: diamond-like skin becomes brittle enough for Leonel to fracture, and concentrating strength while neglecting internal protection lets reflected force damage Noah's organs. Larger bodies are more obvious targets, the oversized saber loses flexibility at close range, stronger forces can crack his hardened skin, and losing focus causes the transformation to recede. Extreme expansion through existing injuries—such as his ten-meter last stand in the Heir Wars—can shatter a limb rather than save it. (Chapters 496–497 and 1987–1988)

Four Seasons and Heavenly Body Realm

Noah's Universal Force path is self-comprehended rather than received through another person's understanding. At Chapter 496 he has reached Winter, not the complete Four Seasons Realm; his winter conception chills the battlefield, weakens competing Universal Force, and overlays the terrain with ice and snow. This depth lets his saber attacks carry environmental pressure even before his dimensional cultivation reaches the Fourth Dimension. (Chapters 492 and 496)

By Chapter 1043 he manifests the complete Heavenly Body Realm: meteors, moons, planets, and stars fill the sky as his Universal Force descends. The cycle reinforces an enormous saber strike strongly enough to match a hurried Quasi Sixth-Dimensional opponent and marks a confirmed conceptual advance beyond Four Seasons. The precise chapter of his completed Four Seasons transition and his dimensional tier during this later state are not stated, so neither should be inferred. (Chapters 1042–1043)

Saber path and Saber Domain Ring

Noah's main weapon is an exceptionally heavy blue saber. Morphing lets him change its scale, mass, and density along with his body, producing a style built on deceptive weight: the blade moves like a feather until impact, then lands with the force of a blunt weapon. He can use it to cover allies, break formations, or alternate wide, mountain-like blows with dense close-range body attacks. The style's limitations follow both weapon and body—its length can be smothered in boxing range, disarmament removes the central focus of his offense, and structural reinforcement does not erase recoil or superior Weapon Force. (Chapters 471, 476, 492, 1159–1160, and 1987–1988)

The Saber Domain Ring connects Noah to the hidden spatial network of Domain Rings and draws him into a trial or inheritance that produces a Sovereign-related breakthrough. Its benefit is inseparable from danger: the ring carries a corrupting mechanism that dulls him and exposes him to the Godlens, who hope to use its Lineage Factor to create innate Sovereign Weapon Force. The source first confirms his possession and off-page breakthrough in Chapter 2411, but does not date the acquisition itself, explicitly name Noah a Saber Sovereign, or define the exact post-experiment mechanics. His appearance on the saber monument in Chapter 3227 confirms that saber remains his living path, not the formal grade it has reached. (Chapters 2408–2415 and 3227)

Emperor's Might and Mind's Sanctuary

As a direct Fawkes descendant, Noah carries pure Emperor's Might. Its ordinary expression is the oppressive royal presence that stills subordinates, contests Arthur's kingly aura, steadies mounts, and makes commands carry unusual force. The source demonstrates this authority as both inherited presence and trained leadership, but does not show Noah mastering Leonel's highest tablet techniques or reality-scale Words of Power. (Chapters 99, 421, 471, and 1042)

Under the Saber Domain Ring's mental corruption, Emperor's Might awakens Mind's Sanctuary, a staged defense that holes Noah's consciousness away from Dream Plane intrusion. Its weakest stage blocks easy prying and lets him preserve intent behind the dull obedience the Godlens expect. The activation is initially poorly mastered: Noah cannot keep normal faculties while maintaining it, memory of experiments remains hazy, and the resulting expressionless state is best suited to sleep rather than continuous waking life. Even so, it lets him deceive captors stronger than himself and pass the method to Leonel by example. The source does not confirm a later stage, so the weakest awakened sanctuary is his latest explicit state. (Chapters 2413–2417)

Northern Star inheritance and combat skill

Noah's Luxnix blood produces a Snowy Star Owl manifestation beyond the fifty-foot mark during the family's density test, demonstrating exceptional Northern Star lineage density. He receives associated techniques alongside Leonel and understands applications such as Starlight Illusion, but the source does not individually confirm which branches or awakenings Noah masters. These inheritances supplement rather than replace his defining Morphing, saber, and Universal Force style. (Chapters 1097–1098 and 1121–1126)

He is also an experienced commander and close-combatant. Noah reads formations, adapts his physical parameters between exchanges, and uses timing to turn an unwieldy saber into a variable-mass weapon. His tactical judgment can be rigid when law or comparison clouds it, and he is not Leonel's equal as a predictor, but long battlefield experience lets him recognize overextension, coordinate disciplined troops, and protect allies under pressure. (Chapters 421, 472–476, 492, 1010, and 1972–1988)

Power progression

Relationships

• Leonel Morales: Noah's cousin, first rival, later rescuer and chosen leader. Their relationship grows through accountability rather than automatic blood loyalty; Noah ultimately prefers Leonel's path even when imperial duty takes them in different directions.
• Emperor Fawkes: Noah's grandfather, sovereign, and earliest standard of value. Gervaise's judgments drive Noah's inferiority and discipline, while later experience teaches Noah to temper the ambitions that standard created.
• Jessica: Noah's lifelong right hand, closest peer, and unresolved romantic attachment. He reads the feelings hidden by her reserve and protects her through captivity. The later text says he marries a young Grand Prime Minister heiress but does not explicitly name that spouse, so the marriage cannot safely be assigned to Jessica.
• Aina Morales: Noah initially treats Aina as a threat under imperial law, causing his catastrophic first conflict with Leonel. She later fights beside him and helps preserve Jessica's life during the Godlen captivity.
• King Arthur: A rival king whom Noah first confronts over Aina and later negotiates with as Camelot enters the Empire. Their battle forces Noah to reveal the versatility of Morphing and his saber.
• Mordred: A battlefield ally and political opponent during Camelot's annexation. She protects Aina from Noah's order, but also joins him against White City.
• Myghell: Fellow Earth genius and captive in the hostile Rapax-connected world. Leonel frees them together, and both act immediately on the opening.
• Amery: Fellow Domain Ring subject in the Godlen laboratory. The family experiments on both in pursuit of Sovereign Weapon Force, and Leonel extracts them together.
• Little Blackstar: Saves Noah from fatal rope-dart attacks in the Heir Wars by phasing him, buying time for Leonel to return.
• Elthor: Fellow warrior of Leonel's coalition who appears near Noah on the saber monument at the final Idol Battlefield.

Items

• Noah's Blue Saber: Noah's principal weapon, enlarged and density-shifted through Morphing; it remains his defining arm through the final battlefield.
• Saber Domain Ring: Domain inheritance whose acquisition advances Noah's saber path but also exposes him to corruptive influence and Godlen experimentation.