Andrea Farnese

Andrea Farnese (アンドレア·ファルネーゼ, Andorea Farunēze) is the Grand Master of the Knights of St. Raphael. He is a close friend of Michele Manfredi and loyal retainer to Grand Duke August Highland.

Personality
Andrea is shown be very honorable and deep thinking. He has complete respect from his subordinates and would rather retreat than lose more of his warriors.

Andrea Farnese remains the only character in the series to recognize, if only vaguely, the twisted natures of both Shin Hyuga Shaing and Julius Kingsley. He has shown to be rather insightful, though he recognizes their true nature too late to prevent damage.

Character Outline
Andrea Farnese first appeared in episode 1 during battle against EU's W-0 Forces. Due to their unconventional tactics with suicide attacks, Knight of St. Raphael is severely crippled, losing at least two teams. He resolves to pull his forces back to prevent further deaths.

He believes that Michele Manfredi would never commit suicide and is distrustful of Shin at first until Shin will claim that he will lead the Knights of St. Michael to glory.

He is among the first to distrust Julius Kingsley, the Military Advisor sent by the Emperor himself and labels him as coward. Andrea is also the only one of the Grand Masters who survives assassination from Shin's coup against Britannia. He vows to never forgive Shin.

His current status is unknown.

Trivia

 * Andrea is the Italian form of "Andrew", and "Farnese" is the name of an important Italian noble family during the Renaissance.