Rau Le Creuset (ラウ・ル・クルーゼ, Rau Ru Kurūze?) is a fictional character from the Mobile Suit Gundam SEED anime series. Le Creuset is the principal antagonist to the main characters in the series.

Ruthless, enigmatic and mysterious, Rau Le Creuset is an elite ZAFT commander, a skilled mobile suit pilot, and an adept tactician, whose abilities are greatly valued by the ZAFT leadership. He always appears in public with his unique mask covering his face. He becomes famous early in the war during the Battle of Yggdrasil, using his ZGMF-1017M GINN High Maneuver Type mobile suit to destroy thirty-seven Earth Alliance mobile armors and six warships. This feat earns him the Order of the Nebula, a decoration awarded to ZAFT's most outstanding soldiers. After the Battle of Endymion Crater on the Moon, Le Creuset becomes the commander of the newly constructed Nazca-class destroyer, Vesalius. Throughout the series, he takes part in various operations, but mostly stays behind on the Vesalius.

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