Patchouli Knowledge

"Patchouli" redirects here. For the Suguri-inspired fangame, see Patchouli (Game).

パチュリー・ノーレッジ pat͡ɕɯ̹ɾiː nɔ̹ːɾe̞d̚d͡ʑi (♫) Patchouli Knowledge
Patchouli Knowledge in Scarlet Weather Rhapsody The Unmoving Great Library More Character Titles
Nickname	Pache (パチェ)
Species	Magician (Witch)
Abilities	Manipulation of fire, water, wood, metal, earth, sun and moon
Age	About 100 years
Occupation	Librarian, scholar
Location	Scarlet Devil Mansion
Music Themes
ラクトガール　～ 少女密室 (Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, Immaterial and Missing Power, Scarlet Weather Rhapsody) ヴワル魔法図書館 (Immaterial and Missing Power, Touhou Hisoutensoku)
Appearances
Official Games
Embodiment of Scarlet Devil (Stage 4 Boss, Extra Midboss) Perfect Cherry Blossom (Ending No. 8) Immaterial and Missing Power (Playable Character, Possible Opponent) Imperishable Night (Referenced by Sakuya in Stage 3, Ending No. 3) Phantasmagoria of Flower View (Ending No. 3) Shoot the Bullet (Stage 5-2, 5-4, 5-6, 5-8 Boss) Scarlet Weather Rhapsody (Playable Character, Possible Opponent) Subterranean Animism (Playable Partner) Touhou Hisoutensoku standalone (Playable Character, Possible Opponent) Hopeless Masquerade (Background Character) Unconnected Marketeers (Sakuya Good and Alternate Endings)
Print Works
Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red Strange and Bright Nature Deity (Secondary Character) Silent Sinner in Blue (Secondary Character) Wild and Horned Hermit (Chapter 2 cameo, 3 cameo, 16 cameo, 19 cameo) Oriental Sacred Place (Chapter 15) Forbidden Scrollery (Chapter 3 and 28 cameo, vol.2 4koma cameo) Strange Creators of Outer World Vol. 2 (Profile Section, Cross Review Section) Foul Detective Satori (Chapters 1-4.5, 11, 12 cameo, 23 cameo)

"Let's see... How to take out the black thing in front of me without having to do anything..."
— Patchouli Knowledge to Marisa Kirisame (Embodiment of Scarlet Devil Stage 4)

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. However, her great abilities are offset by her poor health caused by long-time recluse and asthma.

General Information

Patchouli is 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, Scarlet Weather Rhapsody and in Touhou Hisoutensoku as an expansion character. She is 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 who 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. She stays confined to the library of the Scarlet Devil Mansion because the books and her hair are damaged by sunlight. 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 Suika Ibuki's party at the shrine was enjoyable for her. 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), though it seemed to have been something prepared by Marisa. It 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

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

Patchouli manipulates the five Chinese elements, making 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". In the Japanese language, the weekdays are 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 this ordering is based on the planetary hours, there is no direct relationship between the weekdays and Wu Xing. The ordering of Patchouli's elements follows the weekday sequence but places the Wu Xing phases first and "Sun" and "Moon" last.

Element	Weekday	Description
Fire (火)	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 (水)	Wednesday (水曜日)	Silence and purification. Water assists wood and inhibits fire. Water nourishes wood, but it quenches fire.
Wood (木)	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 (金)	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 (土)	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 (月)	Monday (月曜日)	Passivity and defense.

Elemental magic (属性魔法) (also spiritual magic (精霊魔法)) borrows the powers of spirits that exist in nature. 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 elemental magic, the interactions of Wu Xing would imply that she can somehow effectively use her own magic and 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. 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 a 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. 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. 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 in the library of the Scarlet Devil Mansion which are mostly used for magic. Some of these books appear to act "independently" and can shoot danmaku, as shown in Stage 4 and the Extra stage of Embodiment of Scarlet Devil. She also has waterproof books that Marisa finds interest in reading in the bath.

Official Profiles

Official Profiles

Embodiment of Scarlet Devil - おまけ.txt

○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 Shade 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. As a genuine witch, she possesses terrifying sorcerous powers. However, due to her natural asthma, she has difficulty reciting her incantations to the end. She also seems to have a vitamin A deficiency. Maybe her windowless library room is dusty. No, obviously, it's very dusty. But with all the time she spends near her books, she feels that they're a part of her and cannot stand to be separated from them. She's lived this way for a hundred years or so. Total of twenty-one card attacks.

Immaterial and Missing Power - 上海アリス通信.txt

○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.

Scarlet Weather Rhapsody - Official website

○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: The ability to work magic (primarily elemental magic). Personality: Gloomy and taciturn. Gloomy just means she isn't very sociable. Her spirits aren't so gloomy.

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。

Great Unmoving Library Patchouli Knowledge Species: magician Ability: The ability to use magic. A magician living in Scarlet Devil Manor. She noticed a great number of earth spirits welling up from the geyser. On close inspection, these earth spirits looked just like phantoms, but they were actually vengeful spirits, a slightly different variety. Unlike phantoms, vengeful spirits bear grudges against the world. They were a threat to humans, youkai, and fairies alike. Although she wanted to take her time to look for a book on vengeful spirits, it would have been quite dangerous if no one were to check on the geyser. Frustrated, Patchouli went to consult Yukari. Yukari, who was also surprised by the state of affairs, devised a plan to get the humans to explore the underworld.

Touhou Bougetsushou -Official website

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) An old friend of Remilia's who has settled down into the great library in the cellars of Scarlet Devil Mansion. She has mastered many magics and is inventing new ones every day. However, her body is frail, and due to asthma, she often has difficulty chanting her spells. As a member of the race called "magician", her nature is fundamentally different from that of magicians like Marisa who studied magic later in life.

ZUN's comment from Dai Touhouten plaque

何で霊夢は最初に図書館に入ったのか判りませんが、図書館に棲み着いている本の虫の魔女です。当初、僕は服に縦縞の柄を入れたつもりではなかったのですが、二次創作では縦縞の服が主流になっています。多分、よそ行きと普段着で使い分けているんでしょう(笑) 紅魔郷にいおける彼女の立ち位置は、作品内で明確ではなかった気がしますが、実際に紅い霧で幻想郷を覆った実行犯は色んな魔法を得意とする彼女だったんでしょうね。

Although it's a mystery why Reimu chose to break into the library first, she's a bookworm witch living in that library. I never thought about adding vertical stripes to her clothes, but in the majority of fanwork, her dress was in vertical striped patterns. I guess she had two sets of clothes, one for outdoor and one for home (lol) I feel like I didn't make her stance in EoSD very clear. Actually, she might've been the perpetrator who released the red mist that covered Gensokyo, as she's adept in many kinds of magic.

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

With the exception of her story cards Sign I "St. Elmo's Explosion" and Sign II "Forty-Day Deluge" in Immaterial and Missing Power, whose prefixes are patterned in the style of other cards in that game, all of Patchouli's spell names are prefixed with one or more of the kanji for the seven elements she manipulates. The longest of these is Fire Water Wood Metal Earth Sign "Philosopher's Stone" (火水木金土符「賢者の石」, Ka-sui-moku-kin-do-fu "Kenja no Ishi"). Except in the fighting games, all other card with multiple elements have the kanji for those elements separated by an ampersand in the prefix.

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

Character Design

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 reference to her learned, scholarly nature, 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 the data files for Hopeless Masquerade, her first name was romanised as "Pachouly".

A canon nickname used for her by Remilia Scarlet is "Pache" (パチェ) but "Patchy" is more commonly used in the English-speaking community.

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. Her dress in some appearances looks like it has stripes of purple and violet but according to ZUN, they are not stripes. In the Immaterial and Missing Power OST booklet, a comment from Iruka Unabara notes that ZUN's design draft didn't have stripes but they somehow ended up in the final design anyways. A comment from (presumably) Alphes remarks "Everybody thinks Patchouli has stripes except ZUN-san."

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

Main article: Subterranean Animism Marisa and Patchouli's Scenario

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

Unconnected Marketeers

She mentions that she is interested in the ability cards and also shows up one of Sakuya's endings. One of her abilities is also seen in an ability card.

Spin-offs

Immaterial and Missing Power

Main article: Immaterial and Missing Power Patchouli's Scenario

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

Main article: Patchouli Arc

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

Touhou Hisoutensoku

Main article: Touhou Hisoutensoku Meiling Arc

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 has 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 of 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.

Foul Detective Satori

As a member of the scarlet mist incident, she was the first victim of Mizuchi Miyadeguchi who got put in a coma. She was initially convinced that Sakuya Izayoi poisoned her. However, after an investigation by Satori Komeiji and Rin Kaenbyou, they discovered that this was the work of Mizuchi.

Later on, she guessed what Satori was thinking using natural methods.

Relationships

Residents of the Scarlet Devil Mansion

Patchouli Knowledge is Remilia Scarlet's old friend. In Perfect Cherry Blossom, they called each other "Remi" (レミィ) and "Pache" (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.

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 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 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. 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", it is used as her normal B-type bomb in Perfect Cherry Blossom, as a spell card in Imperishable Night and in other games.

Gallery

Artworks

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  Patchouli art from Embodiment of Scarlet Devil

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  Patchouli art from Immaterial and Missing Power

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  Patchouli second art from Immaterial and Missing Power

Sprites

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  Patchouli's different color palettes from Touhou Hisoutensoku. The 2nd one corresponds to her second color palette in Scarlet Weather Rhapsody, while the 3rd one corresponds to her Immaterial and Missing Power palette.

Illustrations

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  Illustration of Patchouli in Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red

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  Another illustration of Patchouli from Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red

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  Another illustration of Patchouli in Sakuya's article from Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red

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  Another illustration of Patchouli in Meiling's article from Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red

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  Patchouli in Cage in Lunatic Runagate

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  Patchouli in Cage in Lunatic Runagate

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  Patchouli from Who's Who of Humans & Youkai - Dusk Edition

Screenshots

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  Patchouli in Silent Sinner in Blue

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  Patchouli in Foul Detective Satori

Others

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  Patchouli's sigil from Grimoire of Marisa

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  Patchouli's sigil from Touhou Hisoutensoku

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 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 residents of Scarlet Devil Mansion who almost always drink tea.
• Unofficially, Patchouli Knowledge's library has often been called "Voile" based on its stage theme. However, based on an erratum 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), the name "Voile" is not considered canon.
• Shibata Masahiro's manga series "Sarai" seems to be a big inspiration for many of the characters from EoSD. Sarai is a manga about superpowered maids fighting youkai and monsters in a dystopian future. The series was published from 1997 to 2007 in Japan only.
  • Patchouli shares the same name with Patchouli Seal from Sarai.

Fandom

Main article: Fandom: Patchouli Knowledge

Official Sources

Official sources

• 2002/08/11 Embodiment of Scarlet Devil - Stage 4 dialogue; Extra Stage; おまけ.txt (official profile)
• 2003/08/27 Perfect Cherry Blossom - Sakuya's good ending
• 2004/08/15 Imperishable Night - Scarlet Team's good ending
• 2004/12/30 Immaterial and Missing Power - Patchouli's scenario
• 2005/08/11 Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red - Article and Interview: Patchouli
• 2005/08/14 Phantasmagoria of Flower View - Sakuya's ending
• 2005/12/30 Shoot the Bullet - Stage 5 Spell Cards
• 2006/12/27 Perfect Memento in Strict Sense - Unmoving Great Library: Patchouli Knowledge
• 2007/06/08 ~ 2009/04/09 Silent Sinner in Blue
• 2007/12/26 ~ 2008/01/26 Strange and Bright Nature Deity - Chapters 15-16
• 2008/05/25 Scarlet Weather Rhapsody - Patchouli's scenario
• 2008/08/16 Subterranean Animism - Marisa and Patchouli Scenario; Marisa and Patchouli Extra Stage
• 2009/03/21 Inaba of the Moon and Inaba of the Earth - Chapter 22
• 2009/07/28 The Grimoire of Marisa - Patchouli Knowledge's Spell Cards
• 2009/08/15 Touhou Hisoutensoku - Meiling scenario first stage
• 2010/09/25, 2010/11/25 Wild and Horned Hermit - Chapter 2 (cameo), Chapter 3 (cameo)
• 2011/08/26 Oriental Sacred Place - Chapter 15

See Also

• Patchouli in Touhou Hisoutensoku wiki