Name:Alecto, the Knight of Sin
Age: Over a century old.
Role&Kingdom:Black Knight, currently posing as stable hand in Hiertania
Skill and/or Weapon: Alecto's abilities are but pale shades of what her parents had, but the fact she can combine both of them is what makes her outstanding. While not the best sword of a kingdom, Alecto is good at fighting in armor and with knightly weapons, and can keep at bay all but the most outstanding fighters, thanks to a rigorous training. And although her skills with the arcane are but a fraction of what her mother, the Witch of the Black Woods is capable of, Alecto nevertheless is skilled in divination, enchanting and cursing, herbalism (she even knows the recipe of the youth potion) and she even has tried to conjure the elements for her aid. However, she is unable to manipulate the weather, reanimate the dead or summon spirits. She is also somewhat apt at passing herself as a commoner beneath notice, thanks to a basic knowledge of chores.
Personality: Alecto is a person consumed in loathing and rage. She is disappointed and disgusted with the world at large. She also despises herself and her own accursed existence, and yet at the same time, she considers herself the center of her particular universe. A comprehensive nihilist with occasional suicidal tendences, Alecto has always starved for affection her entire life. She wishes to be something important, the center of attention of something, but it doesn't matter what. She just wants to leave a legacy in the world by exerting petty revenges by proxy to what she considers the most despised existence, her own mother Lucrecia.
Alecto has a soft spot for people considered expendable and resent their own fates for it, and she loves to whisper in their ear and act as their sycophant as they keep descending further and further in their own ambitions. Deep down, she is also jealous of the status quo of her half relatives, and she wishes the Crown of Hiertania to crumble, so she can finally act as the older sister she think she deserves to be.
Biography:Long time ago, the Witch of the Black Wood, Lucrecia, was besieged by a mob who threatened to kill her. Not wanting to abuse her magic on the ignorant plebeians out of moral concern, she offered carnal pleasure to a wandering black knight mercenary who was passing by. In return for her lust and affection, the Knight drove off the mob and the Witch retained her home.
However, there were unintended consequences. Alecto was conceived and born of such an union. At first, the child brought no small joy to Lucrecia, that welcomed, perhaps, that she would have someone to pass on her legacy, just as her mother had done before her. However, as time passed by, the young Alecto grew sick of her small world, and desired to meet her father. Lucrecia was reluctant, but she eventually conceded.
Her father wasn't all what she thought to be. He despised magic, and had no paternal love for the teenager witch, but he nevertheless craved for her own arcane power, and as such emotionally exploited the youth to the most. In order to increase her survivality at his side, he trained her in the ways of the sword, and before she became twenty, blood of men had already stained her sword countless times.
However, it was to be expected that her father would perish before her, and that her magic prowess brought the wrong kind of attention. In his last throes, the man spat the truth to Alecto full of resent, and died cursing the existence of the young witch. That broke Alecto inside, and her mind was stained with resent and rage. She sought to ravage the world, plunder everything and make the lands burn just to stave off the deep sorrow she felt.
For a time, this was the case, as she reinvented herself as the Knight of Sin, a dangerous brigand that pillaged several kingdoms alongside a band of marauders. Yet, when words of her mother's engagement to a prince came to her ears, Alecto plotted another kind of revenge. Her mother was now vulnerable, as she had loved ones. She, who had never come to her rescue would see how the royal family fall in disgrace. And perhaps, even perhaps, die at her sword for giving birth to her.
She didn't really need to plot that much, the opportunity presented herself in the form of the ambitious second prince... she just needed to keep whispering in his ear.
Appearance: Alecto has seemed to have inherited her own mother's striking black raven hair and fine facial structure, although her eyes seem to be a different shade of brown. When she decides to reveal herself, she wears a dreadful black armor inscribed in protective runes, as well as a sword. She otherwise dresses like a servant.
Extra: Jelly Half sister.
