Flauros is based off of the demon Flauros.Gaap is based off of the 33rd demon of the Lesser Key of Solomon, Gaap.Furfur and Zepar are based off of Furfur, the 34th demon, and Zepar, the 16th demon, respectively.Ronove is based off of Marquis Ronove, the 27th demon.Several demons within Umineko no Naku Koro ni are based off of these 72 demons. The 72 Pillars of Hell mentioned in Umineko no Naku Koro ni is likely a reference to the 72 demons in the Lesser Key of Solomon.Main article: Demonology in Umineko no Naku Koro ni
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Sayo Yasuda's nickname "Yasu" is likely a reference to Yasuhiko "Yasu" Mano from the the 1983 game The Portopia Serial Murder Case.Lucia Academy may be named in reference to Saint Lucia, an island visited by Agatha Christie while on holiday. Battler Ushiromiya's name may be a reference to Superintendent Battle, a recurring character created by Agatha Christie.Owen, an alias for the main antagonist of And Then There Were None. Owen, a 495-year-old witch", a reference to U.N. In Requiem of the Golden Witch, Gaap refers to herself as "U.N.In Requiem of the Golden Witch, Ten Little Indians is directly referenced.The way that the "truth" of Umineko no Naku Koro ni is revealed through message bottles mirrors how the truth of And Then There Were None is revealed in the epilogue.Both Umineko no Naku Koro ni and And Then There Were None feature a prophetic passage that ensuing murders line up with ( the witch's epitaph in Umineko no Naku Koro ni and Ten Little Indians in And Then There Were None).The setting of an island cut off from the rest of the world due to a storm occurs in both Umineko no Naku Koro ni and And Then There Were None.Much of Umineko no Naku Koro ni draws inspiration from Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None.Wright references the solution to the Sherlock Holmes story " The Adventure of Silver Blaze." In Requiem of the Golden Witch, Willard H.In End of the Golden Witch, the authors Yukito Ayatsuji and Ellery Queen are directly referenced.In End of the Golden Witch, both Soji Shimada's The Tokyo Zodiac Murders and Ango Sakaguchi's Furenzoku satsujin jiken are directly referenced.Lion Ushiromiya and Willard call each other "Watson" and "Holmes", direct references to the famous Sherlock Holmes franchise.One of Willard's weapons, Van Dine's Commandments, is taken from Willard Huntington Wright's Twenty Rules for Writing Detective Stories.Wright is likely based off of Willard Huntington Wright. One of Dlanor's weapons, Knox's Decalogue, is taken from Ronald Knox's The Ten Commandments of Detective Fiction."Dlanor" is "Ronald" spelled backwards.Knox is directly related to detective fiction author Ronald A. The Seven Stakes of Purgatory are likely based off of the Seven Deadly Sins as they appear in Purgatorio.Virgilia is likely based off of Virgil.Clair Vaux Bernardus is likely based off of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux."Beatrice" is pronounced in the Italian fashion as "Be-a-tri-ce" (Be-a-to-ri-che in Japanese phonetics) rather than the English way, as "Be-a-triss".Beatrice Portinari is referred to as Dante's "ideal woman", similar to how Umineko's Beatrice is referred to as Battler's "ideal woman".Both the original incarnation of Beatrice, Kinzo Ushiromiya's lover Beatrice Castiglioni, and Beatrice Portinari are Italian.Umineko's Beatrice is frequently called "Bice", as is Beatrice Portinari.Beatrice is likely based off of Beatrice Portinari.Umineko no Naku Koro ni contains many references of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy.