Uranus

Uranus is the presiding god of the Guild, the administrative body that governs Orario and manages the Dungeon.

He is revered as the “Founding God of the City” who first granted divine blessings to humanity and created the basis of modern Orario.

He is one of the very first deities to descend to the Lower World when the age of the gods began, a thousand years before the main story.

At that time, he constructed a fortress city that became the prototype of Orario and organized the Guild’s predecessor before rebuilding it into its current form.

From that point on, he has followed a strict principle of “reigning but not ruling.”

Instead of involving himself in day‑to‑day politics, he remains in the underground sanctuary beneath Guild Headquarters, offering unending prayers to suppress large‑scale monster migrations and prevent the Dungeon’s denizens from overrunning the surface with his overwhelming divine authority.

Uranus is also the first god to recognize and actively advocate for coexistence between humans and the sentient monsters known as Xenos.

About fifteen years before the main story, he began secretly protecting the Xenos and sending them to deal with problems originating in the Dungeon.

In the anime adaptation, Uranus is voiced by Toru Okawa.

In the mobile game *Memoria Freese*, he is voiced by Naoki Kusumi.

Uranus takes the form of an extremely tall, elderly god standing over two meters in height.

He is almost always expressionless, giving an impression of remote dignity and weighty solemnity.

Despite his immense power and status as a great god, he keeps no visible personal grandeur around him, choosing instead the dim, austere “Chamber of Prayer” beneath the Guild.

His presence there, combined with the “Underground Altar” that shelters him, reinforces his role as a silent anchor that stabilizes the Dungeon.

To demonstrate neutrality toward all familias, Uranus refuses to grant divine blessings to Guild members.

He avoids overt favoritism and interference, preferring to nudge events from behind the scenes rather than issue direct commands.

His demeanor is usually calm, detached, and difficult to read, often leaving even long‑time subordinates guessing at his true intentions.

Nonetheless, he is capable of genuine surprise—such as when he learns of Bell Cranel’s connection to Zeus—and even rare, quiet amusement when his long‑laid expectations are fulfilled.

As a great god and founding deity, Uranus possesses extraordinary divine power.

His continuous prayer in the Underground Altar exerts a suppressive effect on the Dungeon, preventing massive monster outbreaks and curbing large‑scale incursions to the surface.

Thanks to his divine status and the protective environment of the Underground Altar, he is one of the few beings capable of resisting Freya’s charm.

However, he would be vulnerable if her charm were used directly inside the altar, where his defenses are focused on prayer rather than mental resistance.

His unique position as the god of prayer over the Dungeon allows him to sense its “movements” and anomalies.

He can detect irregularities such as the birth of a Juggernaut far more quickly than ordinary gods or mortals.

Although Uranus no longer commands a large familia, his influence remains vast through the Guild and his authority over Dungeon policy.

His direct personal combat force is limited, but the weight of his decisions can mobilize entire factions or reshape the development of Orario.

In the distant past, Uranus had at least one known follower: Daedalus, the creator of Babel Tower, Daedalus Street, and the man‑made labyrinth Knossos.

Daedalus was part of Uranus’s familia before the current age.

In the thousand years between the gods’ descent and fifteen years before the story begins, Orario was dominated by the Zeus Familia and Hera Familia.

After both familias fell from power, Uranus’s immediately movable private force shrank drastically, leaving Fels as essentially his only direct operative.

Fels, an eight‑hundred‑year‑old immortal mage, acts as Uranus’s right hand, agent, and information broker.

Their relationship is long‑standing and familiar enough that Fels can openly question Uranus’s decisions, sometimes even calling them “diabolical” when they seem too coldly calculated.

Uranus also maintains wary, complex relationships with other gods such as Hermes, Loki, Freya, Hestia, Dionysus, Ganesha, Hephaistos, and others.

Some gods suspect he is hiding something—especially regarding the Xenos—but most accept his overarching role as the stabilizing pillar of Orario.

At some point, a god who bears a grudge against Uranus implies that he has entered into a secret pact of some kind.

This hidden agreement is suggested to be connected to the coming of a “new age,” implying Uranus is preparing for a significant, possibly world‑shaping change.

As the Guild’s chief god, Uranus sits at the top of Orario’s institutional hierarchy.

The Guild manages city administration, regulates adventurers, and oversees Dungeon exploration, all under his divine mandate.

He does not personally grant blessings to Guild staff, preserving the Guild’s neutrality toward all familias.

Operational authority is delegated to human officials such as Royman Mardeel and other executives, while his own presence remains largely ceremonial and strategic.

From his subterranean Chamber of Prayer beneath Guild Headquarters, Uranus continuously maintains his ritual to restrain the Dungeon.

This setup turns the Guild building itself into a de facto holy site and the last line of defense against a full‑scale monster calamity.

Although he rarely issues direct orders, when he does, his decrees carry absolute weight.

He can assign compulsory missions to familias, redirect Guild resources, and authorize large‑scale projects such as the “Shaft Plan,” reshaping Orario’s entire relationship with the Dungeon.

Uranus is one of the few who know that Bell Cranel is the adopted grandson of Zeus.

He learns this from Hermes during the Xenos incident, who describes Bell as Zeus’s “parting gift,” and the revelation shocks even Uranus, breaking his usual impassive demeanor.

Because of his link to the Dungeon through prayer, Uranus is able to sense irregularities and crises before others.

For example, five years before the current timeline, he detected the appearance of a Juggernaut, a catastrophic irregular monster, very quickly.

He also keeps the existence of the Xenos hidden from most of Orario.

Only a handful of gods and certain trusted individuals are aware of them, and this secrecy is one of the main reasons Loki and Dionysus grow suspicious of his conduct.

Beyond these known secrets, Uranus seems to carry a broader, long‑term vision for the Dungeon and the world.

His decisions often make the most sense when viewed as preparations for inevitable future “trials” rather than responses to immediate problems.

Around fifteen years before the main story, Uranus discovered the existence of the Xenos, intelligent monsters capable of speech and reason.

He came to desire coexistence between them and humanity rather than their extermination.

To that end, he secretly began to shelter the Xenos, establishing a hidden village for them around the 20th floor of the Dungeon.

He entrusted Fels with direct protection and guidance of the Xenos, while using them to tackle dangerous Dungeon anomalies that ordinary adventurers could not handle.

When Bell Cranel and his companions bring Wiene—a young Xenos girl—to the surface, Uranus notices this immediately.

Recognizing the potential for disaster, he has Fels monitor the Hestia Familia closely.

After Wiene appears publicly in the city and causes a panic, Uranus issues a compulsory mission to the Hestia Familia.

He orders Bell and his group to escort Wiene to the Xenos’ hidden village on the 20th floor, while he himself meets with Hestia to explain the existence and nature of the Xenos.

During the ensuing chaos, the Ikeros Familia slaughters Ranye and other Xenos, driving the survivors into a vengeance‑fueled rampage that devastates the 18th floor settlement of Rivira.

Uranus responds by commanding the Ganesha Familia to intervene and forms a joint force that includes Fels and Bell Cranel to quell the Xenos’ rampage and rescue Wiene.

However, the situation escalates further when Royman’s separate authorization of Loki Familia’s actions in Daedalus Street coincides with Xenos sightings on the surface, plunging the entire city into turmoil.

Uranus is forced to juggle the need to protect his secret, prevent a full‑scale war, and keep Orario from collapsing into chaos.

After the surface incident is finally contained, Hestia confronts Uranus and learns the truth of his long‑term protection of the Xenos.

Through negotiations with Loki, Uranus secures an agreement for Loki Familia and the Xenos to cooperate in an offensive against Knossos, sending Fels and the Xenos as part of the effort.

Following the first assault on Knossos, the remnants of the Evilus faction—including Jura—engineer another catastrophic irregularity.

Their schemes result in the birth of a new Juggernaut, which triggers a severe crisis in the lower levels of the Dungeon.

When Bell Cranel and Ryuu Lion are cast down to the 37th floor during this event, Uranus intervenes indirectly.

He dispatches the Xenos to rescue the isolated pair, leveraging his secret assets while still avoiding overt intervention that would reveal too much to other gods and factions.

Throughout these incidents, Uranus monitors the Dungeon’s condition via his prayer and information filtered through Fels.

His responses aim to contain threats while nudging key individuals—such as Bell and the Xenos—through crucible‑like trials that shape the future he anticipates.

During the “Goddess Festival,” Freya unleashes her charm across the entire city of Orario, effectively seizing mental control over its populace and many deities’ followers.

Uranus is one of the very few beings who remain unaffected, protected by his divine status and the Underground Altar.

Freya refrains from forcibly charming Uranus because disrupting his prayers could critically destabilize the Dungeon.

Instead, she confronts him and extracts a promise: he will not interfere if the Freya Familia dedicates its full power to Dungeon exploration.

From Uranus’s perspective, this is an acceptable compromise.

Freya’s charm alters public perception, but inflicts no direct material damage on the city, and a fully committed Freya Familia pushing Dungeon conquest forward is strategically beneficial to his goals.

Most of his subordinates, including Royman and Fels, fall under Freya’s charm, leaving Uranus effectively unable to act through normal channels.

When Hestia later visits him seeking aid against Freya, he initially refuses, explaining he cannot move openly in the current situation.

However, Hestia secretly prepares a method to undo the charm, and Uranus quietly puts his faith in Hermes noticing the anomaly and taking action.

He instructs Fels to reassign winter firewood distribution duties from the Ganesha Familia to the Hermes Familia, using Freya’s “perception revision” effect to mask the oddity and give Hermes an opening.

Once Hestia successfully uses her own divine authority to break Freya’s charm over the city, Uranus is visibly pleased.

Fels, who has lived for eight centuries, is astonished to see Uranus smile—an extremely rare event that underscores how significant this outcome is to the great god.

After the floating “Academia” city returns to port near Orario, Royman proposes a major engineering project: the “Shaft Plan.”

The idea is to construct large‑scale vertical transit routes within the Dungeon, allowing for faster, more organized movement between floors.

Despite recognizing the risks, Uranus grants divine approval for the plan, making what Fels considers a perilous choice.

Uranus, however, explicitly states that he has chosen to look beyond the likely obstacles and focus on the “trials” that await, implying he expects something significant to happen and wants Orario prepared.

As Fels feared, Royman soon abuses Uranus’s authority as a shield to strong‑arm the Academia.

He orders a forced requisition of orichalcum, the hardest known metal, from the Academia’s students, triggering outrage among them and sparking a “Student Uprising.”

When Fels demands to know how Uranus plans to take responsibility, Uranus simply leaves the matter in Royman’s hands, treating it almost like a test or natural consequence.

Fels can only call this a “monstrous” or “heartless” act, highlighting the daunting gap between mortal sentiments and the god’s long‑range perspective.

Later, a representative competition—the “Orario Games” or “City Tournament Festival”—is held between Orario and the Academia.

During this event, Uranus personally attends the negotiations with the Academia, where the forced orichalcum requisition is rescinded.

In exchange, the Academia demands to participate in the Shaft Plan itself.

Uranus accepts this condition without hesitation, and Fels speculates that this was Uranus’s true aim all along, remarking that the final outcome is essentially a complete victory for Uranus.

While the festival plays out on the surface, Loki Familia leads a coalition of familias on a grand expedition into the Dungeon.

Uranus supports them by distributing “Eye Crystals” that transmit visual information, allowing him and others to remotely track the expedition’s progress.

Together with Fels, Uranus closely monitors the advancing party and analyzes the 60th floor, which has been turned into a quasi‑demonic realm by the “Corrupted Spirit.”

He focuses on gathering data and understanding the nature of this new threat, treating it as another step in the unfolding “trial” the Dungeon presents.

When the coalition is devastated and reduced to a handful of survivors, including Raul Nord, who begin retreating toward the surface, Uranus steps in more decisively.

He deploys the Ganesha Familia to the 30th floor to rescue the beleaguered group, preventing a complete annihilation that would cripple Orario’s top fighting forces.

Uranus later joins other major gods—Loki, Freya, Hephaistos, Hestia, Hermes, and Baldr—whose followers are involved in the rescue efforts.

Through the Eye Crystals, they all watch over the subsequent mission organized to save Loki Familia’s stranded members trapped on the 60th floor.

Throughout the series, Uranus’s actions draw the attention, suspicion, or cooperation of various gods.

Loki and Dionysus, in particular, are wary of his secrecy and sense that he is hiding critical information about the Dungeon and the Xenos.

With Hermes, Uranus maintains a pragmatic relationship.

He trusts Hermes enough to maneuver subtle tasks his way, as seen when he reassigns the firewood distribution and relies on Hermes to notice Freya’s mental takeover.

Freya sees Uranus as a key obstacle and linchpin in Orario’s stability.

Rather than destroy or manipulate him directly, she negotiates terms that align her Familia’s ambitions with his goal of aggressive Dungeon conquest.

Hestia, once she learns the truth about the Xenos and Bell’s deeper connections, becomes a crucial partner in Uranus’s long‑term strategy.

While he does not openly ally with her, he entrusts her familia with burdens that shape Bell and the Xenos as central figures in the coming era.

With Ganesha, Hephaistos, and others, Uranus often interacts through the Guild and large‑scale operations.

They respect his authority as Orario’s founding god even as they pursue their own agendas.

Uranus’s legacy spans the entire history of Orario and its relationship with the Dungeon.

He built the original fortress city, reorganized the Guild, and established the modern system of adventurers and familias.

By choosing to “reign but not rule,” he set the tone for a city where gods and mortals share responsibility, each undergoing trials in the Dungeon.

His constant prayer is the invisible force that holds back total catastrophe, even as he deliberately allows hardships to shape individuals and institutions.

His secret protection of the Xenos and his willingness to upset the status quo show that he is not a static guardian.

Instead, Uranus is steering Orario toward a new era in which the boundaries between human, god, and monster may be redefined.

Every major crisis—from the Juggernaut incidents to the Corrupted Spirit and the political upheavals around the Academia—fits within the pattern of “trials” he anticipates.

In this sense, Uranus stands not only as Orario’s founder and shield, but also as the silent architect of its future.