Inquisitor Cornelius

Inquisitor Cornelius is an arrogant Inquisitor serving Emperor Dominius. He rules over Astakampos on Duros.

Appearance
Cornelius and typically wears a maroon purple jacket, a ponytail, a jabot, peruke, and a silver raven mask. Under his mask his nose is quite pointy with shrewd features. He also has a cane and two spectral, mechanical hands on either side of him.

Personality
Cornelius is a rather arrogant and condescending individual, but he's also honest and nicer to his Sterrens than most Inquisitors. Cornelius also likes wine and sporting events, and speaks in a condescending manner.

He has a sadistic side, as he takes much pleasure in watching people fight and kill each other as entertainment. He has demonstrated a distinct lack of respect, pity and compassion when it comes to people he deems to be of lower status, such as criminals and commoners. This callousness even extends to senior citizens, as he was looking forward to seeing an imprisoned old man be killed for sport.

Laughter Style
 Gna gna gna 

Overview
Cornelius doesn't train his body very much, so he can't take many strong hits. But the reason he doesn't need to train is because his golden hands are so powerful.

Golden Hands
Cornelius always has large, golden hands around him that block him from most attacks. They also serve as his main offensive weapon by punching and grabbing opponents. Whether these hands are the result of a Devil Fruit power or something else altogether is unknown.

Helios
Cornelius doesn't particularly like Helios since he sees the young man as incompetent and thinks that he dresses poorly.

Inquisitor Maximus
He and Maximus seem to be frenemies, joking and insulting each other, although Maximus seems to take more pleasure in making Cornelius uncomfortable.

Devil's Luck Pirates
Cornelius hated Ragnar for being a demon and Duros for attacking him and killing him. He seems to tolerate William and didn't find out about the rest of the Crew.

Lyssa
Lyssa held a grudge against Cornelius for an unknown reason, presumably due to their differing views on the Sterrenkind as well as Cornelius' general demeanor. As no direct interaction between the two has been observed, the exact source of Lyssa's resentment remains unknown.

Sterrenkind
Cornelius doesn't torture his Sterrens, although the reason for this is that he views them as too far beneath him.

History
Next to nothing is known of Cornelius' personal history prior to the story. At some point before the Devil's Luck Pirates' arrival on Duros he attained the office of Inquisitor.

Later in his life, he started a tournament in the Colosseum where at the end of the tournament, The Beast always kills the contestant and throws their body to the spike pits. One day, as he attends a ball in Astakampos' Great Hall, Inquisitor Maximus introduces him to two strange nobles called Lord Valerian and Ragnelius III. While Cornelius doesn't particularly care for them, during their conversation Ragnelius claims that he is the strongest noble and that he can kick Cornelius' prisoner's ass. Amused by this, Cornelius lets him fight in the Colosseum. Unbeknownst to Ragnelius and his friends, every contestant will always be killed by The Beast in the end. On the tournament day, Ragnelius really proves his word by "killing" the prisoner Aurelius. However, when the noble is about to fight The Beast, he suddenly also transforms into a Beast, surprising everyone. Cornelius then stops the fight and decides to fight Ragnelius himself instead so he can capture him. Ragnelius' friend Duros jumps down from the crowd and joins him to fight Cornelius. At the start of the fight, Ragnelius tries to clash with Cornelius, but is blocked by his golden hands. As Cornelius grapples Ragnelius, a shot from a Marksman stuns him and leaves him vulnerable to an attack from Ragnelius' friend, who ends up killing him, raising his body up into the air with his sword. His body is then thrown into the spike pits in the Colosseum and left there.

As the Devil's Luck Pirates shed their aliases and escape the Colosseum they meet back up with Lyssa, having fulfilled their objective of rescuing Aurelius, Lyssa's grandfather. After learning about everything that happened at the Colosseum, Lyssa claims that Cornelius got what he deserved, implying that he was an amoral and cruel man.

Major Battles

 * Inquisitor Cornelius vs Ragnar, Duros and Verona - Lost

Trivia

 * Cornelius is the first Inquisitor named and shown in the story.
 * It's interesting that Cornelius believes the name Magnus to be worse than Ragnelius, even though the name Cornelius is derived from the Latin word cornu meaning "Horn" while the word magnus means "Great".