Albert Simon

Albert Simon is the primary antagonist in Shadow Hearts, and appears also in Shadow Hearts: Covenant as a spirit within Yuri's soul. He is also retroactively revealed to be the plot instigator of the events of Koudelka.

During the first game he posed as the legendary magician Roger Bacon, who had been his mentor. In the second game, he explains his plot to destroy the world was an attempt (albeit misguided) to stop the group known as Sapientes Gladio, and helps Yuri in his cause to stop them.