Marielle

"You are right, everyone loves Akiba after all!"

- Maryele, Volume 2 Annex

Maryele is one of the players trapped in a the MMORPG Elder Tale. Her character is a Cleric and she is the leader of a guild named Crescent Moon Alliance.

Appearance
Maryele is well-known in Akiba for not only her sunny personality but also for her looks. A tall, slender, and rather voluptuous Elf, she has long, wavy green hair, hazel-colored eyes, and a largish mouth used to smiling. Like all Elves, she also sports pointy ears.

Personality
Maryele is an eccentric, energetic, and affectionate person with a playful Kansai accent. This bright personality manifests itself in her choice of clothes and the way she greets people -- which involves jumping on them and squeezing tightly.

She can also be overly-curious, mettlesome, and prone to quickly jumping to wrong conclusions; for example, when seeing Akatsuki, she immediately assumes her to be Shiroe's girlfriend, and when meeting Naotsugu, she believes that he is buff when in reality, he just wears big armor.

Despite these child-like tendencies, she is an experienced player, is well-versed in the game, and is popular among other players. Female guild leaders are actually quite rare in Elder Tale, so her position as one is a mark of status.

She also shows great concern for her guild members and the other people she keeps under her wing. Unlike some female players who tend to band together, she is open, caring, and helpful toward both her male and female friends

She is several years older than Shiroe, and despite her youthful behavior, both he and other players sometime call her, マリ姐, which is essentially, "elder sister Mari."

The Apocalypse
After being trapped in Elder Tale, Maryele forces herself to stay strong in order to help her guild members. She later learns that Shiroe, the strategist of the Debauchery Tea Party, a group famous for completing multiple raids in the past, is online and invites him over to her guild hall. They exchange information and Maryele later offers him and his friends, Naotsugu and Akatsuki, a place in her guild. However, the trio declines and leaves.

After some time, Maryele is contacted by one of her guild members, a Druid named Serara who is alone in Susukino and is being chased by members of the Brigandia guild.

The Battle of Loka
During The Battle of Loka, Maryele stays silent for the most part while Henrietta explains the large amount of PK'ing going around. Shiroe notices this causing her to reveal that she is going to travel to Susukino to retrieve Serara from her saviour. She then explains that since things are bad in Susukino, she and the highest level members will go to retrieve her and asks Shiroe to stay and take over the Crescent Moon Alliance while she's gone, however, Shiroe volunteers himself and his group to go instead, prompting her to accept.

The Depths of Palm
Maryele gave Shiroe a call and asks him for his current location. When he tells her that they are in The Depths of Palm, she finds herself shocked that they managed to get that far within the course of three days. While she expresses worry for Shiroe and his plan, she explains that she is in telepathy with Serara, and that she is being safely guarded by her savior.

Afterwards, Henrietta asks her how Shiroe plans to cross the channel, Maryele admits that she does not know but Henrietta assures her that Shiroe probably has a plan. This begs her to question why the Debauchery Tea Party's strategist wouldn't want to join the guild in which Maryele answers that she's sure he has his reasons.

The two are then greeted by Liliana who informs them that the other Guild Masters had arrived. She asks how many are there and is informed that only 60% of who were invited showed up while 10% hadn't replied, and 30% refused.

West Wind Brigade side-story
Maryele, again, calls a meeting between the smaller guilds, including the West Wind Brigade. Throughout the meeting, some of the female members of Soujiro's guild harass her by sending threatening notes telling her to stop seducing Soujiro (which she wasn't doing at all). After Soujiro declines to join an alliance, thinking that this was no different than what the larger guilds were doing, he hears from Maryele that Shiroe was on his way to save Serara and remembers how he had admired Shiroe.