Rein Garland
From The Laid-Off Cheat-Granting Mage Enjoys a Second Lease on Life
Rein Garland is the main character of The Laid-Off Cheat-Granting Mage Enjoys a Second Lease on Life, an enchanter expelled from his guild who reclaims his mana and starts over as an adventurer. Daiki Yamashita voices him in Japanese and Justin Briner voices him in the English dub.
About Rein Garland
Rein Garland is an enchanter whose magic adds enhancement points to weapons and gear. His guild threw him out because he had already enhanced everything they owned. So he took his mana back, poured it into a copper sword, and walked into a second life with a cheat weapon and no boss.
Appearance
Rein looks like what he is: a working mage rather than a hero, usually surrounded by the tools and gear his magic exists to improve. Once he starts adventuring, the most noticeable thing about him is the absurdly over-enhanced equipment a man with his combat experience has no business carrying.
Personality
Rein is good-natured, a bit hapless, and entirely done with being taken for granted. The official description of his expulsion calls the guild's reasoning absurd, and Rein agrees. His response is not bitterness but appetite: with his power back and his time his own, he treats his second life as something to enjoy in public, loudly, with friends who actually want him around.
Background & Story
Rein spent years in his guild quietly making everyone else strong, enhancing their weapons and armour with his own mana. When every piece of gear was finished, the guild decided the enchanter was surplus and expelled him. Rein cancelled the enhancements, reclaimed the enormous amount of mana he had poured into the guild's equipment, and idly channelled it into a random copper sword, producing a weapon with 10,000 enhancement points. With no combat experience and magic that can turn anything into overpowered gear, he sets out as an adventurer to enjoy the carefree second life he has earned.
Powers & Abilities
- Enhancement magic: Rein adds enhancement points to weapons, armour and tools, raising their power far beyond their normal limits. A copper sword, the weakest blade there is, becomes a cheat-level weapon with 10,000 points in it.
- Cancellation at will: Rein can withdraw his enhancements whenever he chooses. It is the ability his old guild forgot about, and the one that let him take back years of his own mana in a single decision.
Key Relationships
- Lily Flambert: A companion of his new adventuring life, and one of the people who values the enchanter the guild threw away.
- Margaret Ells: A young woman drawn into Rein's new circle as his second life gathers people around it.
- His former guild: The organisation that expelled him once his work was done. Their gear lost its shine with him, a fact the series does not let them forget.
Quick Answers
Who voices Rein Garland?
Daiki Yamashita voices Rein in Japanese. Justin Briner voices him in the English dub.
Why was Rein expelled from his guild?
Rein had already enhanced all of the guild's equipment, so the guild decided it no longer needed him. He responded by cancelling his enhancements and taking his mana back.
What is Rein's power?
Rein is an enchanter who adds enhancement points to weapons and other objects, and he can cancel those effects at will. Channeling his reclaimed mana into a copper sword gives it 10,000 enhancement points.