Mercedes Archer

“Discipline is as much facing the enemy within as the enemy before you; for without critical judgement, the weapon you wield delivers – and let us not be coy here – naught but murder. And its first victim is the moral probity of your cause.”
-Mercedes Archer
== History ==
Mercedes Archer was born in a nameless, long-dead northern town in New Arendur, where violence was a way of life and all able-bodied men and women bore arms against monsters and demihuman marauders. When she was fourteen, by then already a fierce warrior, the town came under attack by a necromancer, Archer's parents were killed, and she herself was only saved by the intervention of a Hexenjäger Lansknecht and a Null-Magic Golem. Archer stubbornly followed the Lansknecht, who, unable to get rid of her and cognizant of her unbending warrior spirit, took her on as a squire. 
Under his tutelage, Archer became known as a prodigy swordsman, and was eventually deemed a Blademaster by the acclamation of three other Blademasters: two Hexenjägers, Jakob Siekert and Thomas Salzwedel, and a visitor from Ragnarok, Vilhelms Eglītis. It seemed that Archer herself was destined to become a Hexenjäger herself, but fate intervened when her master was killed by a lich - the necromancer he had seemingly killed had merely been laying low and regaining his power. Grasping her master's otataral blade, Archer slew the lich, then found his phylactery and destroyed it. 
First Captain of the Arendurian Army. Accompanied General Phineas Conrad to the Commemoration of the Battle of Forester's Town. After General Conrad's injury, she was subordinated to Archdeacon Gwendolyn Emerson, serving as her Equerry. 
Captain Archer was once the squire to a Hexenjäger Lansknecht, and considered a prodigy swordsman. She accompanied him on a a witch-hunt. He died, and she avenged his death. Her prowess was noted by the Church, and she was recruited into the Army, and fast-tracked to become First Captain.
== Personality ==
Identity entirely bound up in her talent. 
== The Great Awakening ==
Fights in the Arendurian Great Crusade. Refuses to serve in Isaac Icarus' government, disappearing instead. Believed to be searching for Scaevola. 
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