Character Bio: Scarlet Knightwalker (contains spoilers)
WARNING: The following contains spoilers, so if you DON’T want to know, STOP READING RIGHT NOW!!!
Scarlet Knightwalker is a mysterious woman who for reasons not yet know to our protagonists is adamant that Shi-ria be sent back home to her planet of Thalia and not get involved with people, or matters from Earth. While on the surface, one could assume she simply wishes for Shi-ria to be returned to her home, since she was brought to Earth against her will by a rival sorceress named Zolida, the truth is more complicated that that. In order to understand her motivations, one need to look back, or should I say ‘forward’ at the personal history of Scarlet Knightwalker.
In her youth, Scarlet Knightwalker was a bounty hunter with a strong sense of morals and honour. She made a living capturing dangerous criminals and bringing them to justice. She would never take a job for a shady employer, especially if said employer wanted her to kill her intended target. Whenever she arrested a criminal, she’d make sure they were safely handed over to the authorities to be punished for their crimes. She’d even risk her own life to protect said criminals until they were brought to justice. She was very brave and had a no nonsense attitude about her work. She would never hesitate to do the right thing or help those in danger.
What sets Scarlet Knightwalker apart from the others is that she’s not from this time, she’s actually from the future. [Before I go on, I should AGAIN specify the following contains spoilers, so if you don’t want to know what going to happen, then why did you ignore the warning at the top of the blog?] At some point in her past (or the future, from the perspective of the other characters) Shi-ria met (or should I say ‘will meet’) a teenage girl whom she would take as an apprentice. Eventually Shi-ria would die along with Noonien and Tokijin. The Order of the Cross, believing that all those, aside from members of their order, who have a ‘mystical force’ are servants of the devil, would be responsible for their deaths. This event will cause Shi-ria’s apprentice to turn evil and want revenge against the Order. This would also cause Mystic and Valerie Rose to turn against the Order and destroy them in retaliation. This would also cause Rose and Mystic to believe that all religion is evil and embark on a mission to destroy all religion and anyone who would try and stop them, even the various governments of the world. Eventually Mystic, Valerie Rose and Shi-ria’s apprentice would team up with others to take over the Earth and rule it like a totalitarian dictatorship. Like any dictatorship, they would round up, imprison and even execute those deemed ‘enemies of the people’. Some of those people would include friends and family of Scarlet Knightwalker.
Scarlet Knightwalker would end up going back in time in order to prevent all of this from happening. In the process of altering history, Knightwalker ended up being mortally wounded. This is why her outfit completely covers her from head to toe, save for a narrow slit around her eyes. It provides to dual benefit of hiding the various scars all over her body, as well as hide her face and to ensure no one accidentally recognizes her. Knightwalker’s injuries also left her crippled and near death. She was saved from this by a kind wizard and his student, a young mage named Zolida. They took Knightwalker into a pocket dimension and healed her. With time, Knightwalker was able to regain her mobility and ability to fight. This wizard then gave her magic staves which enabled her to use magic. Since Scarlet Knightwalker had no mystical force of her own. Thus her magic staves allowed her to use magic and give her an advantage both against other mages as well as overcome her crippling injuries. This caused some resentment from Zolida, who was already an apprentice to this wizard and became jealous of Knightwalker getting what Zolida perceived to be preferential treatment from their master. Zolida also grew jealous of the fact that she spend years learning magic only for her master to seemingly just give away magic powers to Knightwalker. Meanwhile, Scarlet Knightwalker vowed to ensure the future she came from would never come to pass. This is why Knightwalker has been covertly watching Shi-ria, and has been working behind the scenes to prevent Shi-ria from coming to Earth in the first place. Meanwhile Zolida, believing that Knightwalker can’t/shouldn’t fight fate, has been spending the years trying to undo all of Knightwalker’s efforts to alter history. Both for the above mentioned reason as well as simple jealousy.