Cinq Flèches Group (Goldsmiths (S)

The Goldsmiths are a branch of the Goldschmidt family. The family crest of five arrows (Cinq Flèches) and the names of the five brothers are modeled after Mayer Amschel Rothschild's family.

• Diva (ディーヴァ Dīva) (M)

Voiced by: Akiko Yajima (Japanese), Elin Carlson (English) - Age 173 (appearance age 16): Saya's twin sister and main antagonist; she's the greatest sworn enemy of the Red Shield. She proves this point with her incredible reflexes and strength since her debut appearance in episode 24 - she casually throws Saya through a brick wall with seeming ease; the speed at which she avoided a blow from Haji while playing with Saya with the broken tip of a sword; breaking down a heavy steel door with a single thrust of her arm; dodging through a rain of bullets; killing several sailors aboard a U.S. nuclear aircraft carrier when she woke up at the very end of episode 19. Not only that - post episode 33, she is able to switch her appearance between the female Diva and the male Riku within the blink of an eye, much like Amshel did with Liza back in Russia.

Confined by the original Joel just after her birth, she spent her first decades of life locked in a tower in the outskirts of his estate. As she was just a guinea pig to Joel she had no name, until she was found by Saya, who named her Diva because of her voice. Diva has been found out to be the one who killed the original Joel in the late 1800's after she was released by Saya in hope that she will sing for Joel at his birthday party. The "Delta 67" substance used in the researches involving Chiroptera is obtained from her body, and the top echelons of the Cinq Flèches Group include some of her faithful chevaliers. Just like Saya's blood is a threat to her and her minions' existence, her blood can also destroy Saya and her chevaliers.

Her air-headed demeanor (much like a spoiled, naive child) probably is fruit of her secluded childhood. She casually makes comments in a child-like, innocent way. For example, she comments on how Riku "tasted good"; she giggled when Solomon's offer for Saya to join their ranks was crudely refused, teasing "Solomon got rejected!"; she was determined to kill Saya by her own hands, and even has the latter held within her own grasp; then casually loses interest in the bloodbath after Haji comes to Saya's rescue, saying to Solomon, "Let's go. I want to change into a new dress."

She drank much of Riku's blood when she first met him, forcing Saya to turn him into a chevalier to save his life. She later develops an interest in him and rapes him, a sign that can represent that she is a paedophile, but wasn't shown clearly in the anime. The scene shows of her in a cargo silo of a ship with Riku, after stunning Kai. She corners Riku and undressed her gown. Diva started to smooch over the panicked, but dazed Riku. In the end, Riku was found a lifeless corpse in front of the despair and heart-broken Saya and Kai. It's not sure whether Diva had sex with the boy or she sucked his blood dry. One year after the attack on Red Shield HQ she entered into show business as a singer sponsored by the Cinq Flèches Group, as part of Amshel's master plan. As it turns out, Diva actually used Riku in order to become pregnant. Now she seems to treasure her babies more than her Chevaliers and has expressed a noticeable disinterest in them as of late. While it is clear as to why Saya hates her so much, we only learn that Diva's hatred of Saya much later and comes from a strong envious feeling of Saya's privileged life. From the Metropolitan Opera House, a broadcast of Diva's singing triggered the transformation of many people across the world into Chiroptera. However, she is interrupted by Saya, and a fight between the two sisters ended when Diva and Saya pierced each other by swords coated with their respective bloods. Although her blood had no effect on Saya, Saya's blood causes her to crystallize after Nathan has brought her two cocoons to her side, revealing that Diva's blood lost its potency, having been passed on to her children. Throughout the entire series, Diva has been portrayed as a ruthless sadistic entity, willing to sacrifice even her own Chevaliers without so much as blinking; it is at her death when she shows the true side of herself - Upon her death, Diva tries to reach for her newborn babies. Just as Nathan comments, "All she wanted was to have a family."

• Amshel (アンシェル Ansheru) (M)

Voiced by: Jouji Nakata (Japanese), Wally Wingert (English)
1st Brother, French/Jewish - Amshel Goldsmith, London stockbroker. (appearance age 44) He tried to bring Saya to their side at first, killing Liza and assuming her form to reveal Saya her true nature. But he later proposed Saya's extermination when she decided to continue fighting. He is the oldest and the most powerful of Diva's Chevaliers, and used to work with the original Joel Goldshmidt. For some reason he has kept secrets from the others, including the creation of the Schiff. He does admit to experimenting with Diva's pregnancy for a while, hinting at attempts by her own Chevaliers and humans with no success at all. Apparently he does not share the same love for Diva or Saya nurtured by the other chevaliers, and is merely interested in learning about them. After a fight with Hagi above New York City, he was impaled on the Chrysler Building and was presumed dead when a lightning strike surged through his body. He survived however, in a half human-half Chiropteran form. He was finally killed by Hagi stabbing him with Saya's bloodied sword.

• Solomon (ソロモン Soromon) (M, S)

Voiced by: Koji Tsujitani (Japanese), Dave Wittenberg (English)
Age 110: (appearance age 28): 4th Brother, French/German - Solomon Goldsmith (S), CEO of Cinq Flèches Group, and Amshel's younger brother from Amshel's original human family. Although he agrees that Saya is now a threat to him and his partners, he harbors strong feelings for her, and always tries to protect her, despite his brothers' intentions to destroy her. He is introduced first as a delightful young man while dancing with Saya at her school in Vietnam, but it is quickly revealed that he is a Chevalier. After saving Saya from James, he has revealed that he wishes to protect Saya because he is in love with her. After that, he appeared at Nathan's mansion wearing a black suit. He told Diva when they first met he was wearing white. But now he wears black to symbolize that he no longer wishes to be Diva's chevalier. He told Diva he loved Saya. Since then, Diva has practically disowned him as a Chevalier of hers and tells him he may go wherever he wishes and do whatever he wishes. She also tells him he may take Saya's hand and have her bear his children. After he saved Saya from Amshel at the US Airbase, he sank into depression when Saya rejected him. He then launched a surprise attack on Diva, which failed utterly. During his captivity after attacking Diva, James taunts him with comments such as, "Momma's Favorite" and "Pretty Boy" and promises to kill Saya. Later, after being freed from captivity by Nathan, he rushes to save Saya once more from James, but during the battle was cut accidentally by Saya's sword coated in her blood. He proclaimed his allegiance to Saya as her Chevalier, but then crystallized in Amshel's arms shortly afterwards. He was the only chevalier to fight with his brothers (James and Amshel).

• Carl (カール Kāru) (M) (Karl)

Voiced by: Nozomu Sasaki (Japanese), Quinton Flynn (English)
5th Brother, Vietnamese - Carl Fei-Ong, school governing board chairman and CEO of Vietnamese branch of Cinq Flèches Group. Disguised as his alter ego "The Phantom", Carl was secretly kidnapping girls that looked like Saya in his anguish to meet her someday so they can finish their fight. Apparently, what Carl desired the most was Diva's love, but did not get it. So he went after Saya, believing that both he and Saya were soulmates, and thus, should stay together. According to Amshel, he was only chosen to be a Chevalier to be used as a guinea pig for his experiments. His body suffered lots of modifications, including a spiked arm implanted in his body to replace the one destroyed by Saya in one of his fights. His final meeting with Saya was during the UK arc. Determined to die with her, his plan was to restrain her and drink all of her blood, killing both in the process as her blood is poison to him. Saya then realises that she has so much to live for so she stabs him through herself, thereby coating her sword in her blood and causing him to crystallize.

• James (ジェイムズ Jeimuzu) (M)

Voiced by: Toru Okawa (Japanese), David Rasner (English)
6th Brother, American - James Ironside, Naval co-Captain on board a US aircraft carrier, he is the Cinq Flèches' contact with the US military, and later was appointed by Amshel as leader of the Corpse Corps. Of all the Chevaliers, he is the one who cared most about Diva, always carrying a picture of her with him and calling her Mama. He barely survived his battle against Saya's group on Christina Island after he tried to lure them into a trap, saved by having most of his body replaced by Schiff parts. Once Diva realizes that most of his body has been replaced with Schiff parts, she disapproves of it, and begins to avoid him. Towards the end of the series, James begins to lose his sanity due to his crumbling relationship with Diva, and he takes out his rage on the Schiff, who are inferior organisms to him. Ironically enough, in his final battle against Saya, James begins to succumb to the Thorn before being killed by Saya. He is able to harden his skin harder then steel to use it as armor.

• Nathan (ネイサン Neisan) (M)

Voiced by: Keiji Fujiwara (Japanese), Wally Wingert (English)
7th Brother, American - Nathan Mahler, a producer at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City, and the only Chevalier to stand up to Amshel. It is not evident from the English translations, but in the Japanese version of the anime, Nathan sometimes speaks in a manner usually employed by the feminine gender (by using kashira and wa). Despite being one of Diva's Chevaliers, Nathan seems more interested in Hagi and James, though his loyalty and love for Diva is still unquestioned. In episode 49 he says that Amshel never understood Diva and that the only thing Diva actually wanted was to have a family like Saya. He plans not only to destroy Saya, but to do it in a "stage" prepared only for the occasion. Despite this he seems to be one of the more cool headed Chevaliers, stopping Amshel and Solomon from fighting while at his home. He also seems to be aware of Amshel's ulterior motives, saying that he won't be bothered much as long as no harm comes to Diva. He also suggested offhandedly that similar events took place for Saya & Diva's mother. Nathan was devastated at Diva's death and asked that Saya kill him, changing into his Chiropteran form and allowing Saya to slice through him with her sword. Strangely, he was seen in the last episode after his death among a group of journalists. There are some speculations that Nathan actually was a Chevalier of a previous queen, and that Saya's blood did not kill him. His statement about Saya's and Diva's mother seem to indicate this. If that was the case, he most likely chose to end his acting as a Diva's Chevalier in a quite theatrical way, waiting for the next generation of chiropteran queens... How he could have tricked Diva in making her believe he was made chevalier by her blood is never told.

• Vin Argiano (I) or Van Argeno (M) (ヴァン・アルジャーノ Van Arujāno)

Voiced by: Junichi Suwabe (Japanese), Crispin Freeman (English)
Head scientist studying Chiroptera for the Goldsmiths. He was in charge of the current development of Delta 67, and likes small round candies--seemingly always unwrapping and eating one. He at first worked under Solomon, but convinced Amshel to change his position to working directly under him. He currently acts as CEO of Cinq Flèches America. Van is one of the few humans who sided with the Chevaliers despite knowing their true nature and their plans. He was abandoned by Grant at the Opera House to Chiropteran, though he survived by David's help. He was later made to face charges. The name Argiano is probably named after the Italian Vintage Argiano.

• Archer

Voiced by: Kouji Yusa
Argiano's seemingly loyal assistant who has been making appearances since Episode 7. He was attacked by the White House politician Bread after she turned into a Chiropteran in the Metropolitan Opera House. He somehow managed to survive the incident and was appointed as a member of the committee investigating the corruption between Grant and Cinq Flèches. His name was finally revealed to be Archer, a government investigator who infiltrated Cinq Flèches.

• Grigori

Voiced by: Kaori Nazuka (Japanese), Liz Sroka (English)
2nd Brother, Russian - Also known as Grigori Efimovich Rasputin, who is the same monk involved in the historical downfall of Romanov dynasty of Russia. He was killed in 1916 in a long and drawn out assassination attempt that, among other things, saw him poisoned, stabbed, shot, and thrown into a freezing river. In this fictional account, he survived the assassination attempt and took refuge in a village near his hometown. He took the physical form of a young girl who recently died named Sonya, until he was discovered and killed by Saya in the past.

• Martin Bormann - 3rd Brother, German - Martin Bormann appeared briefly in an old photograph from 1943 in Episode 12 and in the Blood+ manga. In real life, Bormann served as head of the Nazi Party Chancellary and as Adolf Hitler's private secretary. He is regarded as one of the elites in the Third Reich. He is presumed to have been killed sometime between late April and early May 1945 during the apocalyptic Battle of Berlin. It is said that as he tried to break through the encircled city, he was shot and killed by soldiers of the Red Army. In this fictional account, he was killed by Solomon (Episode 12 and Episode 37 Solomon's conversation) in Germany under Amshel's order around the same time of his presumed historical death. Why he became a chevalier is never revealed.