Noro

Noro (ノロ, Noro) was a direct subordinate of the One-Eyed King and one of Aogiri Tree's leaders.

In the past, he was a Ghoul known as Noroi (ノロイ, Noroi), and the Ghoul entrusted with raising Eto.

Appearance
Noro was an eerie giant of a ghoul with long black hair tied up in a ponytail. Noro wore a white mask featuring huge black lips, a huge mouth with equally massive teeth and tiny slits for nostrils. Their fingernails are black, much like those of a pre-timeskip Kaneki. After the timeskip, Noro's hair has grown as they are seen with a much thicker ponytail.

After his death, Noro was revealed to actually be a mummified being underneath his coat and mask.

As Noroi, he was a powerfully-built man with a serene expression. He wore a hooded robe similar to what he later wore as a member of Aogiri.

Personality and Traits
An intimidating giant in eerie silence, he seemed to communicate only through actions, not words. He'd also carried around a clock when being fought by Tsukiyama, Yomo, and Uta. Tsukiyama speculated that he is under a curfew much like a child. Noro never displayed any signs of pain or resistance when attacked and seriously injured and merely heals his wounds without any problem.

The CCG has noted Noro's actions being unpredictable, as he sometimes ignore them and other times are ferociously aggressive. Such behavior is demonstrated in the 11th Ward Battle where he decimates the squad that discovers the wounded Ayato Kirishima but ignores Juuzou when he finds Yamori's body and later assaults the Itou and Quinx Squads during the Rosewald Investigation.

From the perspective of an average ghoul, he ate an absurd amount of meat.

Past
Many years before the series, Noroi was a Ghoul living in the 24th Ward. He was contacted by Kuzen, who was fleeing from the organization V and given responsibility for raising the infant One-Eyed Ghoul, Eto.

It is unclear what happened to him in the following years, that would result in his transformation into Noro.

Aogiri Arc
Noro attended the meeting where Kaneki was brought before Tatara. At the end of the meeting, Tatara left the 11th Ward Base's affairs to Noro. Tatara predicted that the doves would come soon and ordered Noro to follow their plan. Then, Tatara left with Eto to meet comrades that were waiting for them.

At the beginning of CCG's attack on the Aogiri hideout, Noro was waiting until his clock showed 12:00 midnight. They then started to act.

After the fight between Ayato Kirishima and Kaneki, Noro came to pick up "the half-killed" Ayato, killing the CCG squad that had discovered the pair in the process. They clashed with Renji Yomo, Shuu Tsukiyama and Uta, displaying his absurd regeneration ability. When the alarm of his clock rang at 2:00 am, they casually picked up Ayato and left. Afterwards, they went to the roof to pick up Yamori. They left without fighting Juuzou Suzuya after they had realized that Yamori was dead.

Anteiku Raid
They appear alongside Tatara on the streets when they confront Amon, Takizawa and a couple of other CCG investigators. Using his ghoul abilities, one of Noro's kagune takes a bite of Takizawa's arm.

In the √ A anime, Noro also encounters Hide and is later shown to have inflicted a lethal injury to him.

Tsukiyama Family Extermination Operation


Noro is seen with Eto overlooking the raid on the Tsukiyama Estate, and later appears within the Lunar Eclipse building, confronted by the Itou Squad and Quinx Squad, minus Sasaki. They almost immediately attacks after the investigators organized a formation, cutting Nezu in half and devouring Umeno who was on back support. His next attacks on Saiko and Urie are repelled, and is pinned down by Mutsuki and Shirazu's kagune, before being cut it half by Saiko's. Noro however stood back up, demonstrating his extraordinary regeneration, and broke Kuramoto's rib cage with one strike from his kagune.

After being struck by the explosive power of the Nutcracker quinque, Noro is blown into four separate pieces and had his head stabbed through by Michibata. However, the ghoul's lower half comes back to life with four kagune tentacles that resembles Eto's, piercing through every remaining and able investigators' bodies on scene aside from Saiko and Shirazu. Moments later they continues to fight with the uninjured duo and appears to have created a large mouth with his kagune, ready to swallow Shirazu.

At the same time the events on the rooftop take place, Noro continues fighting with Shirazu, having incapacitated every other investigator in the room, aside from Saiko who is still recovering from the use of her kagune. Shirazu keeps straining himself and bombards him with continuous projectiles from his own kagune, giving it his all to try and defeat Noro. Despite Shirazu's best efforts, Noro regenerates from the damage once more and impales him in midair. However Shirazu uses his remaining strength to shout out at Urie to deliver the final blow using the distraction he provided. As Urie brings out his kagune and begins running towards Noro, he realizes that it's the end for him. He tells Eto, even though she's not present, that he will "see her on the other side" as Urie delivers the final blow to him. His mummified head is later seen laying on the floor next to his mask.

Eto
As Noroi, he was entrusted with raising her and seems to have been a loving caretaker. At some point during their life together, it appears something happened that resulted in his transformation into Noro. He remained at her side, as a loyal subordinate.

Yoshimura
In the past, the two seem to have known and trusted each other. Kuzen trusted him enough to leave his infant daughter in Noroi's care.

Power and Abilities
Out of all Ghouls acknowledged by the CCG, Noro is considered as one of the strongest ghoul excluding Owl and Shachi.

Noro has displayed abnormally high levels of regeneration even by ghoul standards, being able to heal any severed body parts through immediate reattachment, even when it's his torso cut in half. Noro has a very thick kagune with razor sharp teeth, resembling a mouth, and it appears that it can consume food through them. Noro can also create two tentacles which were shown to be able to pierce through the CCG's computer system quite easily. Isolated, his lower half is capable of creating four thick tentacles itself, resembling Eto's kagune with its wrinkly texture and additional mouths unlike his commonly seen lamprey-like kagune.

Noro also possesses very high pain tolerance, durability, stamina, speed and endurance even by Ghoul standards, as evidenced by the fact that they were repeatedly peppered with ammunition, repeatedly stabbed by Shuu, impaled from back to front by Uta, and had his head kicked off without showing any sign of being affected. Noro is also able to turn his head 180 degrees, like an owl.

Trivia

 * In Tokyo Ghoul Trump, Noro is featured as the "Queen of Spades".
 * The Noro was spirit medium priestess that communicate with ancestors and the Gods from indigenous belief system originated from Ryukyu Islands. At one time, they were considered Queen-Priestesses with considerable political and spiritual power within the community.
 * He seems to have a slight fear of buzz cutters, as shown in a Omake.
 * His original name, "Noroi", literally means Curse.
 * It's possible Noro went through the same process Kanae did when Eto tortured her. Noro and Kanae display similar feats of regeneration, and their kagune are similar in both appearance and function.
 * An interesting thing to note is that Kanae wore a smiling mask similar to Noro's after her torture, albeit hers bears several eyes.