Paul

Paul Sneallart is the head general of the second military base whose failed assault on the vampire settlement forces him to exchange institutional command for service in Quinn's growing faction. As the tenth family's Vampire Knight, he combines military discipline with poison techniques and ultimately dies protecting Kazz from Laxmus. (Chapters 198, 527–530, 831, 889, 1186, 1365, and 2471)

Biography

Command at the Second Military Base

Paul begins as one of the eight head generals on whom the Earthborn military's strength depends. He supervises the academy through officers such as Nathan and Duke, orders the first-years' portal expedition upgraded from green to orange, and treats inter-base performance as preparation for the renewed Dalki threat. His command is practical and survival-driven, but it also makes him responsible for the hierarchy beneath him. Duke hides his dealings with Truedream because Paul would insist on formal court procedure, while Quinn later confronts Paul with the harm done to weak and orphaned students under the system Paul helped preserve. (Chapters 198, 223, 272, 277, and 530)

Paul admits that he knew about Truedream and had accepted sacrificing a few people to prevent social collapse and strengthen humanity against the Dalki. He does not persuade Quinn, but he gives an honest account of the fear that shaped the military's choices. That dispute becomes central to their relationship: Paul sees leadership as choosing under imperfect conditions, while Quinn demands that power protect the people institutions overlook. (Chapters 286–289 and 530)

Captivity, Conversion, and the Cursed Faction

Paul leads human soldiers in an assault on the hidden vampire settlement, only for the operation to fail and leave his force captured. To preserve Paul and his surviving men, the settlement approves a bargain under which Quinn performs a blood ritual on him and the group returns to Earth under vampire oversight. Conversion strips Paul of his earth ability and its linked soul weapon, subjects him to unfamiliar blood hunger, and abruptly makes the former head general one of the weakest fighters in Quinn's party. He responds through restraint and training rather than denial, earning Traveller Rank C while the group operates with the Crows. (Chapters 527–550 and 566)

Paul does not surrender his standards of command. After newly converted soldiers are killed, he rebukes Quinn for failing to control people acting under his banner, arguing that a leader remains responsible even when an atrocity was not personally ordered. At the same time, he begins rebuilding his own strength with the poison ability. He reaches level six without a teacher, then keeps experimenting because he refuses to accept that the book's limit must be his own. His soldiers and the wider Cursed faction give him a new chain of responsibility outside the institution he once defended. (Chapters 543, 607, 675, and 741)

Vampire Knight of the Tenth Family

When Quinn reorganises the tenth family, he names Paul his Vampire Knight. Paul applies military planning to the family's defence rather than treating the appointment as ceremonial: he chooses targets carefully, reduces enemy numbers before challenging their leaders, and uses poison-coated claw weapons and his soul weapon to defeat forces that outnumber the tenth. Against Jill, his controlled poison spheres can pursue from several angles and weaken even a leader, although her mental ability disrupts his focus by forcing him to hear the battlefield's pain. (Chapters 831 and 889–890)

Authority in the tenth family also changes Paul's idea of what strength should accomplish. He supports Quinn and Timmy's abolition of the inner-family class barrier, values a cook for sustaining morale rather than combat power, and insists that missing outer-family members remain his responsibility. These choices influence Kazz, who comes to Paul when Bryce's rule turns increasingly ruthless; she remembers that Paul taught her lessons her father did not and made her reconsider vampire tradition. Paul's earlier argument about survival does not disappear, but his leadership becomes more attentive to the individuals hidden by institutional totals. (Chapters 924, 968, and 1186)

Sacrifice during Laxmus's Attack

As the settlement fractures, Paul works with Muka and other leaders opposed to Bryce's abuses and helps maintain the tenth family while Quinn is absent. When Laxmus attacks, Paul risks himself to protect Kazz rather than preserve his position. Laxmus's blood breath, empowered by Immortui, burns Paul away; Kazz dies shortly afterwards while protecting her father, but Paul never learns that outcome. His former soldiers endure as part of the Vampire Corps, leaving his influence in the military force that succeeds his original expedition. (Chapters 1262, 1327, 1365, and 1383)

A Final Lesson for Quinn

Long after his death, Paul is the first figure Quinn meets in a mist-filled passage among people lost during his journey. Paul retains only the memories up to his death and asks whether Quinn has finally understood what it means to lead. Quinn concedes that he can now see the good intentions behind decisions he still does not approve. Paul affirms that he regrets neither his life nor his sacrifice for Kazz, then passes the pain and emotions of his death into Quinn so that Quinn can move onward. Their last exchange resolves the argument begun at the academy without pretending that either man's choices were simple. (Chapters 2471–2472)

Appearance and personality

Paul is introduced in a tailored black-and-white suit that his colleagues have never seen him without. He is well built and carries himself with the punctual, formal authority of a career commander. Later descriptions emphasise discipline, self-control, and a habit of assessing responsibility before personal comfort. He can be stern and uncompromising, especially about a commander's duty to subordinates, but his humour with old comrades and his defence of low-status family members show a warmer loyalty beneath the severity. (Chapters 198, 530, 543, 550, 1186, and 1262)

Powers and abilities

Paul's combat development has two distinct phases. As a human general, most of his power comes from the earth ability and a soul weapon tied to it. The vampire blood ritual removes both, but grants him a stronger body and lets him build a new poison-based style suited to controlling a battlefield. (Chapters 530, 550, 675, and 889)

Military training and tactical command

Paul is an experienced fighter and large-unit commander. He evaluates threats, assigns personnel, and deliberately chooses engagements that reduce losses rather than chasing the most prominent enemy. Against Jill's family he attacks weak vampires first, allowing defensive towers and gargoyles to thin the force while Jill hesitates; this contrasts with Peter's more direct aggression. His judgment is not infallible—his assault on the settlement ends in capture, and Jill's mental attack exploits the guilt he carries for soldiers who followed him—but planning remains the foundation of his later victories. (Chapters 198, 431, 530, 889–890, and 1336)

Earth ability and original soul weapon

Before conversion, Paul is an earth-ability user whose strength depends substantially on that power. His human soul weapon is based on the same ability, so the blood ritual's conversion of his MC cells removes access to both. The corpus does not give enough detail to describe that soul weapon's exact form or technique, and Paul does not regain the earth ability afterwards. (Chapters 530 and 550)

Vampire physiology and blood skills

Quinn's blood ritual gives Paul a vampire's physical strength, stamina, recovery, and longevity, but also the hunger and loss of control that accompany a new vampire's first feeding. He initially holds back to disguise what he has become and discovers that, despite his endurance, his ability-less state leaves him behind the group's specialist fighters. Over time, his transformed body becomes stronger than it was in his human prime and supports the speed and durability required of a Vampire Knight. (Chapters 530, 543, 550, 889, and 1262)

Poison ability and soul weapon

Paul trains a poison ability to level six without instruction and later reaches level eight through Mantis's ability book. He channels poison through scratches from long, three-bladed gloves; weak vampires can collapse after one hit, while nobles and leaders require more exposure. Adding Blood Fairy blood to the weapons further slows vampire targets, but blood hardening can isolate or scrape away the poison before it spreads. (Chapters 675, 889, and 924)

His later soul weapon produces eight dark-green poison spheres from his body. Paul controls them at speeds above his own movement, redirects missed projectiles, and surrounds a target so that attacks arrive from different angles. Contact blurs vision and weakens Jill, but maintaining the spheres requires concentration; when Jill's mental ability floods him with the thoughts and suffering of nearby soldiers, they slow and fall. The technique is therefore powerful crowd control rather than an unconditional answer to stronger opponents. (Chapters 889–890)

Power progression

Relationships

• Quinn: Paul moves from senior officer and ideological opponent to Quinn's subordinate Vampire Knight. Their recurring dispute over leadership ends only when Quinn acknowledges the pressure behind Paul's decisions and Paul helps him continue through the realm of the dead. (Chapters 530, 543, 831, and 2471–2472)
• Kazz: Kazz begins as Paul's watcher but comes to respect his judgment and seek his moral guidance. Paul dies protecting her from Laxmus and states after death that he does not regret that choice. (Chapters 543, 550, 1186, 1365, and 2471)
• Leo: Paul and Leo are same-aged military veterans whose relationship survives their transformation and change of allegiance. Leo challenges Paul's institutional assumptions, yet trusts him to manage the tenth family and its teleporters. (Chapters 530, 1262, and 1270)
• Peter: Paul treats Peter as a powerful but impulsive fighter and switches assignments with him when restraint offers a tactical advantage. Peter later uses Paul's anti-vampire claws to protect Logan. (Chapters 889 and 924)
• Hayley: Hayley is Paul's daughter and a military doctor. Their familial connection is revealed after both have already contributed independently to the war effort. (Chapters 198 and 968)

Items

• Poisoned claw gloves: Three-bladed gloves that let Paul deliver poison through scratches. Later red versions are enhanced with Blood Fairy blood and can be lent to allies such as Peter. (Chapters 889 and 924)