X-Laws

The X-Laws are a paramilitary organization found in Shaman King, founded by Luchist Lasso, their purpose is to eradicate all evil and suffering. In the current Shaman Fight, they aim to defeat Hao, whom they view as the ultimate evil.

Organizational Structure
The X-Laws are currently led by the Iron Maiden Jeanne, whose ideals and strength instill an almost-religious sense of reverence into them. However, their de facto leader is Jeanne's second-in-command, Marco. The X-Laws obey him without question and his authority to act is overruled only by Jeanne herself.

In the manga, the members are grouped into units of three, which are also fully functional combat squads. In the Shaman Fight, the X-Laws have fielded three such teams in the Shaman Fight. Of the three, X-I is the most successful, advancing to the semi-finals before dropping out.

The division of the X-Laws into teams exists only in the manga. In the anime, the X-Laws work as a collective group rather than splitting up into distinct teams of three. Irregardless, both incarnations are equally united in their loyalty to Jeanne and hatred of Hao.

Ideologies
The X-Laws aim to eradicate all human evil and suffering through any means necessary, and view Hao as the embodiment of this evil. Therefore, their ultimate goal is to kill him, a cause to which they are fanatically devoted to. As a result, the X-Laws often tend to use extreme methods to achieve their goals, even sacrificing their lives to do so, reasoning that the ends justify their means. Many X-Law members are ex-military personnel, and as such are highly trained and disciplined. Furthermore, almost all have suffered some loss at the hands of Hao, and as such are fanatically opposed to him. As a paramilitary organization, the X-Laws also keep a large storehouse of weapons and equipment, which they see as essential for the inevitable (as they believe) upcoming war that they will wage with Hao.

Abilities and Powers

 * See More: Archangels

As one of the three leading factions in the Shaman Tournament, all the members of the X-Laws wield considerable power. In general, their members use firearms as mediums to summon their spirits, which are pseudo-mechanical angelic entities called Archangels. Archangels are Seirei-class spirits with the ability to shatter other spirits, and are named after angels in the Judeo-Christian religion.

Iron Maiden Jeanne

 * See More: Iron Maiden Jeanne


 * Spirit: Shamash
 * Furyoku: 500,000
 * The leader of the X-laws

Marco - 2nd in command of the X-laws

 * See More: Marco


 * Spirit: Michael
 * Furyoku: 12,000
 * Origin: Sicily,Italy
 * The defacto leader of the group, whose authority is overruled only by Jeanne herself. He helped found the X-Laws with the shaman Luchist, who would later fall under the influence of Hao Asakura. Marco was born November 17, 1973.
 * Marco is extremely loyal to Jeanne, and will stop at nothing to achieve what he believes will bring about Jeanne's ideals of a world free of corruption and evil. Like Jeanne, he tends to see issues in black and white; either something is good or evil. Those who join the X-Laws are considered good and those who do not are automatically evil and with Hao Asakura.
 * Because of his utter and complete devotion to Jeanne, he is the most devastated when Jeanne's attempt to destroy Hao by opening the Gate of Babylon fails. However, while the other X-Laws go to challenge Hao and avenge Jeanne's defeat, dying in the process, Marco becomes the only survivor (not counting Lyserg Diethel, who leaves the group to help Yoh Asakura).
 * As Yoh Asakura prepares to defeat Hao, Marco chooses to follow Jeanne's lead and places his faith in Yoh in hopes that Yoh will achieve what the X-Laws failed to do.
 * The manga reveals details from his past left unsaid in the anime. Marco was originally an entrepreneur who worked with cars and a close friend of Luchist, the leader of the X-Laws at the time. Marco's company was on the verge of creating a new sports car, but gave up when Hao apparently destroyed his house and killed his entire family. Marco was driven to attempt suicide, but eventually chose the path of revenge.

Later, near the last 3 chapters, Marco is killed by Luchist.

Lyserg Diethel

 * See More: Lyserg Diethel


 * Spirit(s): Morphine & Zelel
 * Furyoku: 170,000
 * Origin: London,England
 * The newest member of the group. In the manga, Zeruel did not replace his first spirit (Morphine in the Japanese versions, Morphea in the English-language manga, Chloe in the English-language anime); however, in the anime, Lyserg abandoned his original spirit in favor of the more powerful Archangel. Notably, Zel'el is the only archangel not named after a real archangel.

Team X-II
A trio composed of John Denbat, Porf Griffith, and Larch Diarc. They are killed in the anime with most of the other X-Laws during their final assault on Hao. In the manga, they die after the loss of Team X-III. After losing faith in Marco, they decide to kill Hao by attacking his headquarters. Their spirits are burned by Hao, which forbids them from ever entering Heaven or Hell.

"I am in a bad mood...Your friends... Saw something forbidden. Your soul will be consumed with you... In every way! You won`t be going to Heaven or Hell!" -Hao to Denbat, before killing him

John Denbat

 * See More: John Denbat


 * Spirit: Raphael
 * Origin: England
 * A former member of the SAS. In the manga, Denbat, as Team X-II's attempt to kill Hao fails, curses Hao for killing his comrades when he realizes that Porf and Larch are dead. Hao questions why Denbat chooses to stand against him instead of stopping if Denbat was aware that he, Porf and Larch would likely die in the process. Denbat, aware of the possible consequences, had prepared a test satellite in space wired to his Archangel with a laser known as XDI. Denbat fires the laser from Orbit at Hao; the blast is deflected around them and Denbat meets his unfortunate end at Hao's hand.

Porf Griffith

 * Spirit: Sariel
 * Origin: United States
 * A former Delta Force member and a sniper. In the manga, he is killed by Hao after being distracted by Hao's crying.

Larch Diarc

 * Spirit: Uriel
 * Origin: United States
 * A former Delta Force member. In the manga, he hears through a radio transmission of Pofe being killed by Hao. He attempts to run, but is killed by Hao.

Team X-III
A trio containing Benstar (Bunstar), Cebin (Kevin) Mendel, and Miine (Meene). In the anime, they are killed during the X-Laws' final assault on Hao. In the manga, Team X-III is killed early on by Hao in the Shaman Fight, when he challenges the entire group to attack him. Their souls and their spirits are consumed by the Spirit of Fire in chapter 140.

However, with their deaths, Hao goes on to reveals his medium, the air itself, to the X-Laws, who had intended to go so far as to sacrifice their own lives as to discover the secret because they knew that regardless of what they did, their fight with Hao would kill them.

Chris Venstar

 * See More: Chris Venstar


 * Spirit: Metatron
 * Furyoku: 10,500
 * Origin: United States
 * A soldier who served in the Gulf War. In the manga, he is impaled by the Spirit of Fire after Kevin and Mina are killed. After the Shaman Fight announcer tells Venstar that the shield being used in the tournament is the strongest in the world, Buestar reveals his weapon, Grenade X, and detonates it in an attempt to destroy Hao by sacrificing his own life in the process and assured that Jeanne would not be injured in the process. Grenade X consumes all the oxygen in the ring at once, possibly being a Napalm Grenade, but does not destroy Hao or the Spirit of Fire because Hao was able to use his powers as an onmyoji to change the Spirit of Fire into water.

He was born on May 6, 1961

Cebin Mendel

 * See More: Cebin Mendel


 * Also known as Kevin Mendel


 * Spirit: Remiel
 * Furyoku: 9,700
 * Origin: Austria
 * A former member of the Cobra Unit who seeks revenge on Hao. He wears a mask to cover his disfigured face, caused by Hao burning with the Spirit of Fire ten years prior to the Shaman Fight. In the manga, he is killed shortly after Mina.
 * His hobby was singing in a chorus, his favourite food was Sachertorte.

He was born on September 18, 1971.

Meene Montgomery

 * See More: Meene Montgomery


 * Spirit: Gabriel
 * Furyoku: 8,300
 * Origin: Canada
 * A former member of the Canadian Special Forces and the only female member of the group, other then Iron Maiden Jeanne. In the anime, she is shown to be more sensitive that she appears and returns Morphine to a disillusioned Lyserg in hopes that he will leave that group and not be destroyed as the rest of the surviving X-Laws attempt to defeat Hao.

In the manga, she is the first member of Team X-III to be killed by Hao. She was born on January 26, 1981.

Luchist Lasso

 * See More: Luchist


 * Founder of X-Laws and ex-member
 * Spirit: Lucifer
 * Origin Sicily, Italy
 * The founder of the X-Laws, Luchist was the one who found the orphaned Jeanne and was likely the one who granted her shamanic powers. He uses Sword No-000, which signifies that Lucifer is created before the other angels and is the most powerful.

Hans Reiheit

 * Exiled member of the X-Laws
 * Spirit: Azazel
 * Origin: Austria
 * The most dangerous member of the group because of his spirit, the angel Azazel. Azazel has a reiyouku level of 470,000, which is higher than the Spirit of Fire's reiyoku level of 300,000. The reason he is not able to defeat Hao is because, although his angel is more powerful than the Spirit of Fire, Reiheit only had enough furyoku to Oversoul him for three seconds. Hao Asakura, by contrast, has enough furyoku to form the Spirit of Fire for four times.

Gate of Babylon
The events concerning the Gate of Babylon occur in the anime only.

The ultimate purpose of the X-Laws is the opening of the Gate of Babylon, which is supposedly able to seal away the great shaman Hao. Midway through the series, the Gate of Babylon was introduced to the protagonists, who were puzzled by its meaning.

When the gate is opened, anything and everything within a sizable radius is completely consumed by the Gate, which is actually a gigantic portal. Once through, the trapped will be forced to wander the bizarre environment for eternity. At first, the entire X-Laws, Jeanne, and the protagonists were engulfed by the portal and trapped. However, Hao simply breaks out of the powerful prison as if it were wet tissue paper, as right before he was trapped the Spirit of Fire devoured Shamash, gaining its significant powers.

The prison then proceeds to crumble as Hao breaks out, releasing all the trapped occupants and rendering Jeanne powerless.

Trivia

 * The X in there name is greek numeroligy and reffers to the ten commantmends of god.
 * A running gag in the manga is that the members will often do an X sign with there bodies and yelling out: "X!" while being talked about, or having strong emotions.