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パチュリー・ノーレッジ
pat͡ɕɯ̹ɾiː nɔ̹ːɾe̞d̚d͡ʑi (♫)
Patchouli Knowledge
Patchouli Knowledge
Patchouli Knowledge in Scarlet Weather Rhapsody
The Unmoving Great Library
More Character Titles
Nickname

Patche (パチェ)

Species

Magician (Witch)

Abilities

Manipulation of fire, water, wood, metal, earth, sun, and moon

Age

About 100 years

Occupation

Intellectual, librarian, teacher, and scholar.

Location

Scarlet Devil Mansion

Music Themes
Appearances
Official Games
Print Works

Patchouli Knowledge (パチュリー・ノーレッジ Pachurii Noorejji) is a witch and resident of the Scarlet Devil Mansion in the library. She's friends with the mistress of the house, Remilia Scarlet, and acts as resident librarian. She's known as a highly capable, experienced, and studious magician, usually found researching the countless tomes within the house library. But her great abilities are offset by her poor health, caused by long-time reclusivity and asthma.

General Information

Patchouli was the Stage 4 boss and Extra midboss in Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, along with being Stage 5 target in Shoot the Bullet. She became a playable character in Immaterial and Missing Power and again in Scarlet Weather Rhapsody and Touhou Hisoutensoku as an expansion character, she was a support character for Marisa Kirisame in Subterranean Animism.

She is a magician (or witch) who is over 100 years old. As described in Perfect Memento in Strict Sense, she is the type of magician that was naturally born as a magician; rather than a human that has become a magician through training, such as Alice Margatroid.

She is "fairly short" and is around the height of Marisa and Youmu Konpaku[1]. She stays confined to the library of the Scarlet Devil Mansion because the books and her hair are damaged by sunlight.[2] Despite her enormous magic power, she has a weak constitution, has asthma, is anaemic and has vitamin A deficiency. Her physical ability is worse than that of humans.

After the Scarlet Mist Incident during Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, she became somewhat more active. It was commented that that Suika Ibuki's party at the shrine was the most enjoyable for her[3], and in Silent Sinner in Blue, she said that she herself came to the shrine to pull an omikuji. Incidentally, the result of the omikuji was "future blessing" (末吉), although it seemed to have been something prepared by Marisa. There is noted by Reimu that she tends to have bad luck.

Personality

She doesn't have a very proactive personality, but rather always walks her own path. However, she's always interested where knowledge is concerned and will proactively go and try to acquire it. She does everything by the book, but still makes a lot of mistakes. She's also described as very dark and taciturn, which in this case means she is introverted and silent in expression and manner.

Abilities

Ability: Manipulation of fire, water, wood, metal, earth, sun, and moon

Patchouli using the "five elements" makes her an "Eastern style Western magician", an antithesis existence to Marisa Kirisame: "Western style Eastern magician". Patchouli is able to handle the five phases (commonly called Wu Xing, sometimes known as the five elements) with the addition of the sun and moon elements. The order of elements she uses follows the days of the week on a Japanese calendar. Due to this, she's known as the "one-week girl".[4]

Element Weekday Description
Fire () Tuesday (火曜日) Change and movement. Fire assists earth and inhibits metal. Fire's ashes pile up to create earth, but it melts metal.
Water () Wednesday (水曜日) Silence and purification. Water assists wood and inhibits fire. Water nourishes wood, but it quenches fire.
Wood () Thursday (木曜日) Life and awakening. Wood assists fire and inhibits earth. Wood feeds fire, but it absorbs away water and nutrients from the earth.
Metal () Friday (金曜日) Wealth and abundance. Metal assists water and inhibits wood. Metal gives forth water (by condensation), but it tears up the roots of trees.
Earth () Saturday (土曜日) Foundation and immobility. Earth assists metal and inhibits water. Earth contains metal, but it absorbs water.
Sun (日) Sunday (日曜日) Activity and offense.
Moon () Monday (月曜日) Passivity and defense.

In the Japanese language, the weekdays were named after the classical planets, which in turn were named after the Wu Xing phases (e.g. Mercury, water star), plus the Sun and Moon as heavenly bodies. As the ordering is based off of the planetary hours, there's no direct relationship between the weekdays and Wu Xing. The ordering of Patchouli's elements is unique in two ways. First, they follow the Japanese weekday ordering ("fire water wood metal earth") instead of Wu Xing ("wood fire earth metal water"). Second, her set begins with Tuesday (fire) instead of Sunday or Monday. It begins with the Wu Xing phases rather than the conventional days chosen to start a week.

Elemental magic (属性魔法) (also spiritual magic (精霊魔法)) borrows the powers of spirits that exist in nature.[5] Through this, she's able to receive great output from a small input. Since the Wu Xing elements interact with each other, she can combine them and multiply their power, but this runs the risk of weakening the overall effect unless the elements are precisely controlled. When she confronts enemies that likewise use spiritual magic, then the interactions of Wu Xing would imply that she can somehow effectively use her own magic and somehow inhibit the opponent's magic.

Patchouli using the spell card Fire Water Wood Metal Earth Sign "Philosopher's Stone", as illustrated in The Grimoire of Marisa.

Since the Wu Xing elements could be said to exist in living things, she touched upon them for characters who showed up in Immaterial and Missing Power. For example, Marisa Kirisame is associated with the element "water" according to Patchouli.[6] Given Marisa's last name (Kirisame, meaning "drizzle"), her black clothing, her lack of yang (due to living in the Forest of Magic), and her "Cold Inferno" shot in Mountain of Faith, this makes sense.

She uses spell cards that combine multiple elements. In addition to using combinations with good compatibility such as Earth & Metal Sign "Emerald Megalith", she also uses combinations with poor compatibility such as Water & Fire Sign "Phlogistic Rain". Sun and moon are not within Wu Xing, but they're classically opposite to each other, and these two have been combined with each other in Sun & Moon Sign "Royal Diamond Ring". In Shoot the Bullet, she devised new experimental magic that combined elements with poor compatibility. With a large diversity of element combinations, she can do many things, such as increasing her power or covering her weaknesses.[5] As of now, among the Wu Xing, the only combination that hasn't appeared is wood & earth.

While she's capable of using advanced magic with great power, her poor health, asthma, and anemia limits her ability to use it. During Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, she says "I can't finish reciting the spells because of my anemia!" and her condition limited her to using two-element spells. On another day, her asthma wasn't as bad and she felt better, so she was able to cast three advanced spells in a row: a sun, a moon, and a five-element spell.

Fitting her magic to the same attributes as the days of the week is her secret hobby, but nobody has realized this.[7] Thanks to this, she doesn't mistake the day of the week, but oddly enough she doesn't have a good sense of the date.

In Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, she had the peculiarity of using different spell cards depending on the player's character and shot type (a recurring gimmick in many stage 4 bosses of the Touhou games). Other than spell cards, she's able to use a revolving laser that focuses on herself as her regular danmaku.

Possessions

Patchouli has many books that are in the library of the Scarlet Devil Mansion that's mostly used for magic. Some of these books appear to ack "independently" that can shoot danmaku, as shown in Stage 4 and Extra of Embodiment of Scarlet Devil. She also has waterproof books that Marisa finds interest in reading in the bath.

Character Basis

Patchouli as illustrated in Perfect Memento in Strict Sense

Name

Her full name is Patchouli Knowledge (パチュリー・ノーレッジ). Her first name Patchouli (パチュリー) is a name of a plant of the Lamiaceae family, or the essential oil or perfume that could be made from it (originally from Tamil language). Her last name, Knowledge (ノーレッジ), appears to be a reference to her amount of knowledge, though few other characters seem to have such literal surnames. The middle dot () in the middle of her name is used in foreign names to show where the next word begins.

In order to sound more natural as a name, the katakana used doesn't exactly match that used for "patchouli" nor "knowledge", being spelled Pa-chu-ri-i No-ledge (パチーレッジ) rather than Pa-cho-ri Naw-ledge (パチリ・ーレッジ). In the data files for Hopeless Masquerade, her first name was romanised as "Pachouly".

Her nickname is "Patche" (パチェ) (pronounced "pa-chae", with the "e" as in "hey"), the official nickname that Remilia Scarlet uses for her.

Design

Shown in various works, her hair and eyes are purple, and has many ribbons tied to her hair and other parts of her clothing. She wears pink pajama-like clothing and a night-cap with a gold crescent moon on it, which ZUN says is her daily wear. Apparently, her dress looks like it has stripes of purple and violet. But according to ZUN, it's in fact not a stripe. This was confirmed in a talk of him and Twilight Frontier. In this talk, it says that even though they had acknowledged it by a material handed by ZUN, she ended up having a striped pattern in Immaterial and Missing Power for some reason. A conversation quoted from the talk: ZUN "Patchouli doesn't have any stripes." Twilight Frontier staff "Everybody thinks Patchouli has stripes except ZUN-san."[8]

Her alternative outfit in Immaterial and Missing Power and Scarlet Weather Rhapsody is mostly lavender while her hair is a darker shade of violet.

Story

Games

Embodiment of Scarlet Devil
Patchouli's sprite in EoSD
Patchouli's sprite in EoSD extra stage

In Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, Patchouli attempts to stop the player from going further into the Scarlet Devil Mansion, but has trouble as her anemia is preventing her from casting spells properly. Later on, when Flandre Scarlet gets out of the basement while Remilia Scarlet is away, she casts a rain spell around the mansion to prevent her from leaving. When the player returns, she challenges them again, this time with more powerful magic as she happens to be feeling better.

Perfect Cherry Blossom

Patchouli appears in one of Sakuya's endings in Perfect Cherry Blossom, where she shows Remilia how she created a clay model diorama of cherry blossoms.

Imperishable Night

Patchouli appears in Sakuya and Remilia's good ending in Imperishable Night to explain how one would build a vehicle capable of taking them to the moon.

Phantasmagoria of Flower View

Patchouli appears in Sakuya's ending of Phantasmagoria of Flower View to make a few comments on the potential poison in the flowers Sakuya gathered to make tea with.

Subterranean Animism

In Subterranean Animism, Patchouli noticed abnormalities underground, and had Marisa go investigate with the help of Yukari Yakumo preparing Marisa's options.

Spin-offs

Immaterial and Missing Power

In Immaterial and Missing Power, Patchouli decides to investigate the strange events herself after shooing Marisa Kirisame out of the library. Before leaving, she puts Sakuya Izayoi in charge of keeping an eye on things. As soon as she leaves, she runs into Alice Margatroid, who's also investigating, and defeats her. From there, she makes her way to the Netherworld, where after beating Youmu Konpaku, she interrogates Yuyuko Saigyouji. Unfortunately, the ghost doesn't know anything either, but implies that Yukari Yakumo might. After fighting her at the Hakurei Shrine for a bit, Suika Ibuki finally decides to make herself known.

Shoot the Bullet
Patchouli's sprite in StB

In Shoot the Bullet, Aya Shameimaru encountered Patchouli on stage 5 and took photos of her danmaku.

Scarlet Weather Rhapsody

In Scarlet Weather Rhapsody, Patchouli decided to find what cause of the weather disaster was.

Touhou Hisoutensoku

Patchouli appears in the beginning of Hong Meiling's story mode in Touhou Hisoutensoku when Meiling runs in and claims there is an earthquake. They fight, and while Patchouli is defeated, she gets Meiling to leave her in peace. She is also a selectable character to play with, although she's got no scenario.

Hopeless Masquerade
Patchouli in HM

Patchouli made a background cameo appearance in Hopeless Masquerade on the Hakurei Shrine stage. She is seen sitting on a chair with Remilia Scarlet under a tree, reading a book.

Literature

Patchouli's appearance in Oriental Sacred Place chapter 15
Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red

Patchouli appears in an article where she decides to organize a setsubun festival at the Scarlet Devil Mansion, though summer is already approaching. She claims that the word "setsubun" originally means "interval between seasons", so there should be no problem having it at that time rather than between winter and spring, when it's usually held. However, it being an outside-world holiday, Patchouli is unclear on a lot of the details. Aya Shameimaru interviews her afterwards, and she says that she's generally happy with how it turned out, though she did need to forbid the Fairy Maids from throwing beans around in her library. They also discuss the oni, and their inherent weaknesses.

Silent Sinner in Blue

Patchouli is the main force behind the research and design of the rocket that Remilia Scarlet, Reimu Hakurei, Marisa Kirisame, and Sakuya Izayoi use to reach the Moon. However, she cannot create the rocket fuel, so she decides to get Reimu to help by using her powers. She also remains behind as the navigator as the rocket travels to the Moon.

Strange and Bright Nature Deity

Patchouli appears in a couple of chapters of Strange and Bright Nature Deity in the Scarlet Devil Mansion arc, where she enjoys a few meals with Sakuya and Remilia as the new year comes.

Oriental Sacred Place

Patchouli also appears in chapter 15 in Oriental Sacred Place, stumbling around her library for research materials. She leaves herself and goes to the shrine to recover some stolen books. The book in question had its seal unlocked, but no one knows by whom. In the meantime, the Three Fairies of Light sneak in and grab a few books and take them back home, later discovering that they're unable to read them at all.

In Fighting Games

In the fighting games by Twilight Frontier, she was a magic-oriented shot-type character. In Scarlet Weather Rhapsody and afterwards, among the characters, she has the shortest spiritual power recovery delay after using shots or skills, and thus, as a sluggish character, her speciality in using shooting skills is pushed all the more.[clarification needed]

Her movements are fundamentally dull. She possesses rotational ability among the top three in free-orbit-type flight, and even though this means that she has fast initial velocity like Yuyuko Saigyouji, this does not mean that she has transgressive reach of Iku Nagae's striking attacks, so comparatively her mobility is fairy low.

With regular shots, homing bullets, and time-delayed installation-type shots that go from rapid-firing in a straight line to making shots that spread over a wide range, she has a full set of moves. (However, strangely enough, she is only missing a laser). Her spell cards start with the truly invincible full-screen attack Sun Sign "Royal Flare", so in this aspect she also has a full set of various shots.

Aside from her spell cards, her shot-skills have also been set to have fire, water, wood, metal, and earth attributes. Each of the commands, "236", "214", "623", "421" and "22", have been assigned to a particular attribute. This guarantees that she is able to use any one of the five attributes at any given instance, regardless of how one re-writes her skills. The attributes themselves do not affect gameplay except in one of her spell cards.

Her spell card Fire Water Wood Metal Earth Sign "Philosopher's Stone" makes five gems appear around her governing the five colours (just like in the extra stage of Embodiment of Scarlet Devil). When Patchouli uses shot attack skills for each attribute, the jewel for the corresponding attribute breaks and becomes a homing-shot attack. Since the broken jewels need some time in order to reappear, it is not possible to put Philosopher's Stone to practical use by rapidly using attacks of the same attribute.

Although she is a character specialising in shots, her strike-type skills are also quite wild. These skills are also mostly making lights of magic from the front of her hand, striking the opponent with the soul of wind etc., so it doesn't look like they change much from her shot-type skills, but some of them are skills to hit the opponent at close range with the book that she has. Her close-A does striking with the book, like a quip in a comedy act, and 6A makes a stance to the extent of bending backwards, striking down with the book. Upon a hit, the opponent is sent all the way to the wall. Other than that, 3A has a kneeling posture of sliding with both feet with both arms horizontal, and upon repeating it, one is able to slip-slide forward in an amazing manner.

Gallery

Relationships

Residents of the Scarlet Devil Mansion

Patchouli Knowledge is Remilia Scarlet's old friend.[9] In Perfect Cherry Blossom, they called each other "Remi" (レミィ) and "Patche" (パチェ) respectively. The two have been depicted having tea and casual conversations together in Silent Sinner in Blue and Oriental Sacred Place, where Patchouli offhandedly commented that they're both creatures of the night. As stated in Perfect Memento in Strict Sense, Patchouli's role at the mansion is to solve problems and to cause them. Patchouli will often volunteer her services when she sees Remilia in need of them.[10][11]

Patchouli is unlikely to be formally employed by Remilia. Sakuya Izayoi referred to Patchouli as "The Mistress's magician friend" while talking to Rinnosuke Morichika about her.[12], as opposed to any sort of employee title. She is referred to as Remilia's friend in other materials, as well.

The head maid Sakuya Izayoi is occasionally seen serving Patchouli. Patchouli tends to be rather sarcastic and condescending with her and Hong Meiling, but seems to appreciate her, as she always remembers to thank Sakuya for tea or for completion of other jobs. With Meiling however, she tends to tell her to read books as to improve her brain. Koakuma is an employee of Scarlet Devil Mansion seen working in the library; any dialogue interactions between the two are unknown.

Not much is known about the relationship between Patchouli and Flandre Scarlet. Patchouli is aware of Flandre's existence and the need to keep her confined to the mansion, as Remilia noted Patchouli was probably causing a rainstorm around the mansion to keep Flandre from getting out.

Marisa Kirisame

Marisa Kirisame is a thief who steals books from the library of the Scarlet Devil Mansion. She states that she's only borrowing but Patchouli reacts by telling Marisa in Oriental Sacred Place that she has no intention to lend Marisa books in a rather serious tone.[13] However, she's one of three people who assists Marisa during Subterranean Animism's events, showing some sort of affinity despite Patchouli having her own agenda. Marisa has copied Patchouli's regular danmaku attack and named it Love Sign "Non-directional Laser", used as her normal B-type bomb in Perfect Cherry Blossom and as a spell card in Imperishable Night and other games.

Skills

Skills
Name Translated Comments Games Usage
Total: 17
サマーレッド Summer Red IaMP
SWR
236A/B
Default 236B/C
ウィンターエレメント Winter Element IaMP
SWR
236C
Default 22B/C
スプリングウィンド Spring Wind IaMP
SWR
623A/B
Default 623B/C
オータムエッジ Autumn Edge IaMP
SWR
214A/B
Default 214B/C
ドヨースピア Doyou Spear IaMP
SWR
421A/B/C
Default 421B/C
サマーフレイム Summer Flame SWR Alternate 236B/C
コンデンスドバブル Condensed Bubble SWR Alternate 22B/C
フラッシュオブスプリング Flash of Spring SWR Alternate 623B/C
オータムブレード Autumn Blade SWR Alternate 214B/C
エメラルドシティ Emerald City SWR Alternate 421B/C
「エブリアングルショット」 "Every Angle Shot" Used remotely by Marisa. 5 different shots in one. SA Shot
「ファイブシーズン」 "Five Seasons" Used remotely by Marisa SA Bomb
ワイプモイスチャー Wipe Moisture Soku Alternate 236B/C
スタティックグリーン Static Green Soku Alternate 623B/C
フォールスラッシャー Fall Slasher Soku Alternate 214B/C
ダイアモンドハードネス Diamond Hardness Soku Alternate 421B/C
スティッキーバブル Sticky Bubbles Soku Alternate 22B/C

Spell Cards

Spell Cards
Name Translated Comments Games Stage
Total: 38
火符「アグニシャイン」 Fire Sign "Agni Shine" EoSD
GoM
St. 4: E/N
水符「プリンセスウンディネ」 Water Sign "Princess Undine" EoSD
Soku
GoM
St. 4: E/N
Story
木符「シルフィホルン」 Wood Sign "Sylphy Horn" EoSD
GoM
St. 4: E/N
土符「レイジィトリリトン」 Earth Sign "Lazy Trilithon" EoSD
GoM
St. 4: E/N
金符「メタルファティーグ」 Metal Sign "Metal Fatigue" EoSD
GoM
St. 4: N
火符「アグニシャイン上級」 Fire Sign "Agni Shine High Level" EoSD St. 4: N/H/L
木符「シルフィホルン上級」 Wood Sign "Sylphy Horn High Level" EoSD St. 4: N/H/L
土符「レイジィトリリトン上級」 Earth Sign "Lazy Trilithon High Level" EoSD St. 4: N/H/L
火符「アグニレイディアンス」 Fire Sign "Agni Radiance" EoSD St. 4: H/L
水符「ベリーインレイク」 Water Sign "Bury In Lake" EoSD St. 4: H/L
木符「グリーンストーム」 Wood Sign "Green Storm" EoSD St. 4: H/L
土符「トリリトンシェイク」 Earth Sign "Trilithon Shake" EoSD St. 4: H/L
金符「シルバードラゴン」 Metal Sign "Silver Dragon" EoSD St. 4: H/L
火&土符「ラーヴァクロムレク」 Fire & Earth Sign "Lava Cromlech" EoSD
GoM
St. 4: E/N/H/L
木&火符「フォレストブレイズ」 Wood & Fire Sign "Forest Blaze" EoSD
GoM
St. 4: E/N/H/L
水&木符「ウォーターエルフ」 Water & Wood Sign "Water Elf" EoSD
GoM
St. 4: E/N/H/L
金&水符「マーキュリポイズン」 Metal & Water Sign "Mercury Poison" EoSD St. 4: N/H/L
土&金符「エメラルドメガリス」 Earth & Metal Sign "Emerald Megalith" EoSD
GoM
St. 4: E/N/H/L
月符「サイレントセレナ」 Moon Sign "Silent Selene" EoSD
IaMP
SWR
GoM
St. Ex
Use
Use
日符「ロイヤルフレア」 Sun Sign "Royal Flare" EoSD
IaMP
SWR
GoM
St. Ex
Use
Use
火水木金土符「賢者の石」 Fire Water Wood Metal Earth Sign "Philosopher's Stone" Five Elements: Fire, Water, Wood, Metal, Earth. This is sometimes used in English TLs. EoSD
IaMP
SWR
GoM
St. Ex
Use
Use
火金符「セントエルモピラー」 Fire Metal Sign "Saint Elmo's Pillar" IaMP
SWR
Use
Use
土水符「ノエキアンデリュージュ」 Earth Water Sign "Noachian Deluge" IaMP
SWR
Use
Use
金木符「エレメンタルハーベスタ」 Metal Wood Sign "Elemental Harvester" IaMP
SWR
Use
Use
符の壱「セントエルモエクスプロージョン」 Sign I "St. Elmo's Explosion" IaMP Story
符の弐「デリュージュフォーティデイ」 Sign II "Deluge Forty Days" IaMP Story
金土符「ジンジャガスト」 Metal Earth Sign "Ginger Gust" IaMP Story
日&水符「ハイドロジェナスプロミネンス」 Sun & Water Sign "Hydrogenous Prominence" StB St. 5
水&火符「フロギスティックレイン」 Water Fire Sign "Phlogistic Rain" StB St. 5
月木符「サテライトヒマワリ」 Moon Wood Sign "Satellite Himawari" Note: StB and GoM use "&". StB
SWR
GoM
St. 5
Use
日月符「ロイヤルダイヤモンドリング」 Sun Moon Sign "Royal Diamond Ring" Note: StB uses "&". StB
Soku
St. 5
Use
水符「ジェリフィッシュプリンセス」 Water Sign "Jellyfish Princess" SWR
SWR
Use
Story
日木符「フォトシンセシス」 Sun Wood Sign "Photosynthesis" SWR Use
火符「アキバサマー」 Fire Sign "Akiba Summer" SWR Story
月金符「サンシャインリフレクター」 Moon Metal Sign "Sunshine Reflector" SWR Story
火水符「フロギスティックピラー」 Fire Water Sign "Phlogistic Pillar" Soku Use
土金符「エメラルドメガロポリス」 Earth Metal Sign "Emerald Megalopolis" Soku Use
火符「リングオブアグニ」 Fire Sign "Ring of Agni" Soku Story

Additional Information

  • Patchouli often refers to the science and technology of the outside world as magic. This is actually not ignorance, but more due to her personal beliefs, as she tells Marisa Kirisame in her Touhou Hisoutensoku victory quote that science and magic are the same.
  • In Immaterial and Missing Power, Patchouli refers to intruders/thieves (e.g., Marisa Kirisame) as "rats" and guards (e.g., Sakuya Izayoi and Hong Meiling) as "cats". She rates the catness/effectiveness of a guard on a scale of 1 to 96, because that's the highest number under 100 that is divisible by both 2 and 3. After defeating Sakuya in Immaterial and Missing Power, she gave her a rating of 24. As for Hong Meiling, Patchouli compares that cat to a sieve in her Immaterial and Missing Power victory quote.
  • The crescent on Patchouli's hat could be the crescent in the Sanskrit "Hum", part of the Mantra "Om mani padme hum". In Buddhism, it stands for knowledge and purity and is associated with the color white—all the 7 colors combined.
  • As of Double Spoiler, Patchouli has had appearances in 9 of the 13 Windows games (counting Touhou Hisoutensoku as a standalone). This makes her the third most featured character, behind Reimu Hakurei and Marisa.
  • In Touhou Hisoutensoku, one of Patchouli's alternate colors resembles Hina Kagiyama's outfit.
  • The books in Patchouli's spell card, Fire Water Wood Metal Earth Sign "Philosopher's Stone", are arranged in a similar way to the Five Magic Stones.
  • It's suggested in Immaterial and Missing Power that Patchouli drinks coffee occasionally when she's studying, unlike the other resident of Scarlet Devil Mansion who almost always drink tea.
  • In Patchouli's theme Locked Girl ~ The Girl's Secret Room when the melody is made into morse code "・-・・ --- ・・・- ・" it spells "love". There's also a song by ShibayanRecords called "・-・・ --- ・・・- ・" that's a cover of the very song.[14]
  • Unofficially, Patchouli Knowledge's library was often called "Voile" based on its stage theme. However, due to an official list of errata published for Eastern and Little Nature Deity correcting the name of Patchouli's library from "Voile, the Magic Library" (ヴワル図書館) to "a library inside the Scarlet Devil Mansion" (紅魔館内の図書館),[15] the name "Voile" is not considered canon.
    • Due to this, in the Japanese community, the term has become a common litmus test for detecting "secondaries".

Fandom

Official Profiles

Patchouli Knowledge  ○知識と日陰の少女

  パチュリー・ノーレッジ

  能力:火+水+木+金+土+日+月を操る程度の能力


  4面ボスです。お嬢様のお友達で大体100年は魔女をしています。
  1週間少女です。

  もともと病弱で肉弾戦が苦手ですが、圧倒的多彩な魔法攻撃でそれをカバーしてます。パチュリーのリボンは御札ではなく、魔法力を高めるためのアクセサリです。

   本物の魔女なので、魔法力は恐ろしいものがあります。ただ、生まれつきの喘息のためスペルが唱えきれません。ビタミンAも足りてないようです。
   もしかしたら、窓の無い図書室が埃っぽいのかも知れません。いや普通に考えたら埃っぽいです。でも彼女は、本の近くにいるものこそが自分だと思っているため、本のそばから離れることが出来ません。
  100年くらい。

  カードアタック 全21種。

The Girl of Knowledge and Shadow

Patchouli Knowledge

Ability: Manipulating fire, water, wood, metal, earth, sun, and moon

The 4th stage boss. She is the friend of the young mistress and is a witch who has lived for 100 years. The "One-week Girl".

Her weak constitution makes her poor at physical combat, but she makes up for for that with her various and powerful magical attacks. Patchouli's ribbon is not a holy charm, but rather an accessory that boosts magic power.

Since she's a genuine witch, her magical power is terrifying. However, because of the asthma she was born with, she often cannot finish reciting the spells. She also seems to have a vitamin A deficiency.

Maybe her windowless library room is dusty. No, obviously, it's very dusty. But, since she spends all her time near books she considers them a part of herself, and cannot stand to be separated from them. This is how she has spent about a hundred years.

Total of twenty-one card attacks.

Immaterial and Missing Power - 上海アリス通信
Patchouli Knowledge  ○動かない大図書館

  パチュリー・ノーレッジ

  種族:魔女
  住処:紅魔館
  能力:魔法(主に精霊魔法)を扱う程度の能力

   紅魔館に住み着く魔女。この家の主人とは異なり、日光には弱くないが余り出歩かない。生活している図書館も日光が届かない所にある。こ<れは本が傷まない様にする為の配慮であるが、空気は良くない為、健康に良くない。

   性格も積極的な方ではなく、常に我が道を行く。ただ、好奇心は高く知識に関しては積極的に取り入れる。全て本に依る物だが間違いも多い。

   器用さは持ち合わせているが、いかんせん非力な上に体術の心得は全くない。直接殴ったり蹴ったりは殆どしない。その代わり強力で多彩な魔法を会得している。殴るくらいなら魔法を使った方が楽である。曜日にあわせて魔法を使い分けるのが密かな趣味であるが、誰もその事には気が付かない。

The Unmoving Great Library, Patchouli Knowledge

Species: Witch
Residence: Scarlet Devil Mansion
Ability: Handling magic (mainly elemental magic)

A witch who has settled down in the Scarlet Devil Mansion. Unlike the mistress of the house, she is not weak against sunlight; however, she does not go out much. She spends her days in a library where the sunlight cannot reach. This is so that the books won't be damaged, but the unhealthy atmosphere is bad for her health.

She doesn't have a very proactive personality, but rather always walks her own path. However, she is always interested where knowledge is concerned and will proactively go and try to acquire it. She does everything by the book, but still makes a lot of mistakes.

Although she is quite skillful, her complete lack of physical fighting ability can't be helped. She pretty much never attempts to directly punch or kick her opponent. She makes up for this with her knowledge of a great variety of powerful magic. She's more at ease using magic than trying to attack physically. Dividing the magic she uses according to the days of the week is a secret hobby of hers, but no one has realized this.

Patchouli Knowledge  ○動かない大図書館

  パチュリー・ノーレッジ


  種族:魔女

  職業:魔女

  住家:紅魔館

  能力:魔法(主に精霊魔法)を扱う程度の能力

  性格:口数も少なめで暗い。

      暗いといっても、ただ愛想が悪いだけで思考は暗くない。

The Unmoving Great Library

Patchouli Knowledge


Race: Witch.

Occupation: Witch.

Place of residence: Scarlet Devil Manor.

Ability: Handling magic (mainly elemental magic).

Personality: Dark and taciturn.

Dark just means she doesn't interact well with others - it's not a reflection of her outlook.

Subterranean Animism - キャラ設定.txt
 ○動かない大図書館

  パチュリー・ノーレッジ
  Patchouli Knowledge

  種族:魔法使い
  能力:魔法を使う程度の能力

  紅魔館に住んでいる魔法使い。

  間欠泉から大量の地霊達が湧いている事に気付いた。
  よく調べてみるとその地霊達とは、見た目は幽霊とそっくりだがちょっと違う怨霊だったのである。
  怨霊は幽霊と違い世の中を怨んでいる霊である。人間や妖精、妖怪達に害をなす者であった。

  自分はじっくり怨霊が載っている本を探したいのだが、まず誰かに間欠泉の調査をさせなければ危ない。
  困ったパチュリーは紫に相談した。紫も驚いた様子で、人間達を地底に向かわす策を考え出したのである。

The Great Unmoving Library

Patchouli Knowledge

Species: magician
Ability: Using magic

A magician that lives in the Scarlet Devil Manor.

She noticed that the great number of earth spirits has come from the geyser. Upon careful inspection, on the outside, the earth spirits look like phantoms in every aspect. However, in fact, they are vengeful spirits that are slightly different from other spirits. They are different from phantoms in that they still bore a grudge against the world. They were a threat to humans, youkai, and fairies alike.

She wanted to find the book that records the detailed content of vengeful spirits first, but it would have been quite dangerous if there were no one to check the geyser first. Troubled, Patchouli went to see Yukari. Yukari, who was also surprised by the incident, came up with a plan to make the humans go explore the underground.

Touhou Bougetsushou official website
Patchouli パチュリー・ノーレッジ (ぱちゅりーのーれっじ)
魔法使い/魔法(主に属性)を使う程度の能力

レミリアの古くからの友人で、紅魔館の地下にある大図書
館に住み着いている。多くの魔法を得意とするだけでなく、
また日々魔法を生み出している。ただし体が弱く、喘息の
為スペルの詠唱には難儀している。
彼女の場合は「魔法使い」という種族であり、魔理沙のよう
に後から魔法を学んだ"魔法使い"とは根本的に異なる存
在である。

Patchouli Knowledge

Magician/Ability to use magic (primary attribute)

Remilia's old friend, she had settled down in a large library in the Scarlet Devil Mansion's basement. She not only produces a lot of magic, but she produces magic every day. However, her body is weak, so she often struggles to recite spells because of her asthma.
Her race is "magician", but her existence is fundamentally different from Marisa, who is a "witch" who later learned magic.

Official Sources

Official sources

References

  1. ZUN's E-mails
  2. Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red/Patchouli
  3. Immaterial and Missing Power - Ending 8
  4. Embodiment of Scarlet Devil omake.txt
  5. 5.0 5.1 Perfect Memento in Strict Sense: Patchouli Knowledge
  6. Immaterial and Missing Power/Story/Patchouli's Script
  7. Immaterial and Missing Power Shanghai Alice Correspondence
  8. パチュリー・ノーレッジ 【ピクシブ百科事典】 her article on pixiv Encyclopedia.
  9. Relationship flowcharts in Silent Sinner in Blue say Patchouli is an "old friend" of Remilia's
  10. Embodiment of Scarlet Devil: Extra Story: Patchouli caused a localised rainstorm to keep Flandre confined to the mansion.
  11. Imperishable Night Ending 3: Patchouli helps Remilia in planning a trip to the moon.
  12. Curiosities of Lotus Asia Chapter 18 "The Mistress's magician friend said 'I have enough of the ingredients,'"
  13. Oriental Sacred Place Chapter 15
  14. VGMdb ShibayanRecords, Magico Catastrofe, Track 08.
  15. Ichijinsha Webpage - the list of errata (Eastern and Little Nature Deity)