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Once upon a time there was a little girl whose alternate personality was a witch. This witch, Bernkastel, enjoyed watching people suffer through multiple doomed timelines and murder plots, but eventually abandoned the game halfway through because she was bored, leaving to travel between universes in what was called the Sea of Fragments. Listless and only interested in her personal enjoyment, the witch met another witch called Featherine, the Witch of Theatergoing. During this time, Bernkastel met a little witch named Lambda, and together with Featherine challenged her to a duel. But Featherine left after she made a mistake, leaving Bernkastel to suffer the consequences -- a Logic Error, a culmination of fear and panic and terror that strips away at people's personalities and souls.
After 1000 years of being in the Logic Error, a miracle occurred -- Bernkastel escaped, winning her title as the Witch of Miracles from that event. But not without harm: she couldn't remember how to make friends, leaving only the cruelest and most vindictive/malicious parts of her personality behind. She transformed from a bored witch to a simply awful one. Around this time, Bern was invited to observe a game -- Beatrice's eternal Rokkenjima game board. Bored of just watching, Bernkastel cheats, helping Battler regain his resolve in the second episode and bringing in a piece of her own to interfere in both the meta world (the world of witches) and the game board -- Ange. But she shows how awful she is when she just laughs about Ange falling apart into meat at the end of the fourth episode. Who cares! Just another game piece. It's like nothing affects her.
In fact, she's really using everyone because she doesn't want to see Beato win at this game; Bernkastel enjoys torturing people, and leaving the two of them broken is more interesting than someone winning properly. So she cheats again bringing in an extra game piece: Erika the detective, a pawn to threaten Battler's superiority and trap him in his own Logic Error. Bernkastel is a master manipulator and a subtle con artist: she likes being in charge of situations and sitting on top watching when things go wrong. She laughs at other people's pain, even the people she "loves"-- because she doesn't really remember how to make friends, or even what to do with them. She tries to kill Lambda repeatedly over the course of the series (or at least threatens to and maims her a bit), and banishes Erika to the abyss for ultimately failing her in the end (though Battler does get trapped in a Logic Error, that was fun). Friendship, to her, means beating them up and shoving them down the metaphorical stairs. No matter how much people extend the offer, she doesn't really seem to understand it -- or maybe she does understand, and just doesn't know how to reciprocate.
After Bernkastel wins control of the game board (cheater!!), she attempts to rip it apart at the seams -- she brings in a mystery detective, Willard H. Wright, and Lion Ushiromiya, to solve the mystery of who Beatrice is. Bernkastel just loves tearing things to pieces: even though she solves it, she still wants to dismember the story permanently, forcing Ange and Lion to watch the "real truth" before she kills Ange (again) and makes Lion realize that they will never have a happy ending. Because Bern just enjoys making people miserable like that, ripping people apart with her scythe and watching them cry and bleed. Lion eventually gets away with Lambda and Will's help, but Bern isn't quite done.
In the end, Bernkastel isn't satisfied making them miserable -- she wants to erase the game board forever, because she's a sore angry loser with a big grudge and a lot of hatred. She attempts to expose the Single Truth of Rokkenjima to the mass public in a press conference along with Featherine's help, and almost gets away with it...if the Ushiromiya family didn't band together with Lambda and thoroughly beat Bernkastel into the ground, taking back their story from the public eye and never letting what actually happened out of the metaphorical box. Bernkastel gets taken home by Featherine like a misbehaving pet cat, supposedly never to see the story of Beatrice or Battler again.
tl;dr Aloof witch gets trapped in hell to become a terrifying witch who enjoys tearing Beatrice and Battler to pieces around her because she's a sore loser and hates being bored. Then she gets what's coming to her, after ensuring the ending of the story won't be happy.
After 1000 years of being in the Logic Error, a miracle occurred -- Bernkastel escaped, winning her title as the Witch of Miracles from that event. But not without harm: she couldn't remember how to make friends, leaving only the cruelest and most vindictive/malicious parts of her personality behind. She transformed from a bored witch to a simply awful one. Around this time, Bern was invited to observe a game -- Beatrice's eternal Rokkenjima game board. Bored of just watching, Bernkastel cheats, helping Battler regain his resolve in the second episode and bringing in a piece of her own to interfere in both the meta world (the world of witches) and the game board -- Ange. But she shows how awful she is when she just laughs about Ange falling apart into meat at the end of the fourth episode. Who cares! Just another game piece. It's like nothing affects her.
In fact, she's really using everyone because she doesn't want to see Beato win at this game; Bernkastel enjoys torturing people, and leaving the two of them broken is more interesting than someone winning properly. So she cheats again bringing in an extra game piece: Erika the detective, a pawn to threaten Battler's superiority and trap him in his own Logic Error. Bernkastel is a master manipulator and a subtle con artist: she likes being in charge of situations and sitting on top watching when things go wrong. She laughs at other people's pain, even the people she "loves"-- because she doesn't really remember how to make friends, or even what to do with them. She tries to kill Lambda repeatedly over the course of the series (or at least threatens to and maims her a bit), and banishes Erika to the abyss for ultimately failing her in the end (though Battler does get trapped in a Logic Error, that was fun). Friendship, to her, means beating them up and shoving them down the metaphorical stairs. No matter how much people extend the offer, she doesn't really seem to understand it -- or maybe she does understand, and just doesn't know how to reciprocate.
After Bernkastel wins control of the game board (cheater!!), she attempts to rip it apart at the seams -- she brings in a mystery detective, Willard H. Wright, and Lion Ushiromiya, to solve the mystery of who Beatrice is. Bernkastel just loves tearing things to pieces: even though she solves it, she still wants to dismember the story permanently, forcing Ange and Lion to watch the "real truth" before she kills Ange (again) and makes Lion realize that they will never have a happy ending. Because Bern just enjoys making people miserable like that, ripping people apart with her scythe and watching them cry and bleed. Lion eventually gets away with Lambda and Will's help, but Bern isn't quite done.
In the end, Bernkastel isn't satisfied making them miserable -- she wants to erase the game board forever, because she's a sore angry loser with a big grudge and a lot of hatred. She attempts to expose the Single Truth of Rokkenjima to the mass public in a press conference along with Featherine's help, and almost gets away with it...if the Ushiromiya family didn't band together with Lambda and thoroughly beat Bernkastel into the ground, taking back their story from the public eye and never letting what actually happened out of the metaphorical box. Bernkastel gets taken home by Featherine like a misbehaving pet cat, supposedly never to see the story of Beatrice or Battler again.
tl;dr Aloof witch gets trapped in hell to become a terrifying witch who enjoys tearing Beatrice and Battler to pieces around her because she's a sore loser and hates being bored. Then she gets what's coming to her, after ensuring the ending of the story won't be happy.