Valla (Diablo)

Valla is a Demon Hunter.
Valla prefers to work alone. Unlike many Demon Hunters, her eyes do not glow, as, in her words, "I live for more than just vengeance."[3] She prefers action to waiting.[4]
==Biography==
Early Life
The daughter of a sawyer,[3] Valla and her family resided in Westmarch,[5] in a village close to Tristram, located in a forest.[6]
The village was attacked and destroyed by demons. A demon nearly killed her, but its claw only cut her jaw rather than her neck. Of the whole family, only Valla and her younger sister, Halissa survived. Halissa, traumatized by the events, drowned after waking up from a nightmare, running off and slipping into a river, with Valla failing to pull her out.[7] Left alone, traumatized, she was found by a Demon Hunter named Josen, who took Valla under his wing as a Demon Hunter in training. He taught her to harness her anger and pain and to use both as a weapon against demons.[8]
The Demon Hunters
During her time with the Demon Hunters, Valla saw many towns fall. She was able to save who she could.[9] At some point, she started to see Hell in her dreams.[10]
The Shassar Sea
In 1270,[11] Valla and Josen were in the Shassar Sea. They had caught word of a demon nest having formed there, and had come to slay the demons.[8] Valla's traps caught a hero, which she realized was no demon.[12] The hero came to their aid.[13]
The Dreadlands
In their hunt for the demon Draxiel, Valla and Delios travelled deep into the southern Dreadlands. While Valla preferred to work alone, Josen insisted that the two work together. They came across the ruins of an unknown civilization. As they explored them, Valla's head throbbed, and she realized that the demon was infiltrating her thoughts. In her mind's eye its presence was black tendrils, probing, coaxing, provoking. Valla dwelled on every irritating habit, every negative quality, Delios possessed. Her agitation soon turned to anger, which turned to rage. Her rage became so great that she considered killing Delios himself. She tried following him, but found that he had disappeared. Valla realized that the demon had tricked her; the Delios she'd been following hadn't been real. She could hear the demon laughing.
What followed was a series of flashes for Valla, but she beheld Josen and the real Delios battling Draxiel (she managed to fire few crossbow bolts of her own). The ruins had been a test, and Josen told Valla that she had failed it.[3]
Hatred and Discipline
In 1285, Valla, Josen, and two other Demon Hunters came to the ruins of Holbrook. It had been destroyed by a demon which, Valla deduced, had emerged from the town's well. One of their own, Delios, had managed to wound it, but clearly he had failed to save the village. Josen guided her to the villagers' bodies and informed her that Delios had been seen one day ago outside Bramwell, where he killed fifteen innocents inside an opium den. Clearly, he had fallen to the demon's corruption. Valla conceded the point, but noted that the destruction of Holbrook itself had to be at the hands of a demon. Furthermore, she noted that of all the corpses present, none of them were children.
Josen declared that he would seek out Delios, while Valla declared that she would hunt the demon that had corrupted him. Josen told her that she was not ready, and that he would sent another hunter after it. Valla thus suggested that she go after Delios, but Josen still refused, telling her to stay in the village and search for survivors. Valla bristled at the insinuation that she "wasn't ready" for either task, but held her tongue. When Josen left, she got atop her own horse, intent on pursuing the demon. She chose to head for Havenwood, as it was the closest village, and it would make sense for the demon to travel there in its search of new prey. Camped a few miles the village, she reflected on her encounter in the Dreadlands. How where she had failed there, Delios had failed at Holbrook.
She reached Havenwood itself at midnight. Entering the village's inn, the innkeeper, while uneasy with her presence, told her that there had been no signs of trouble in the village. She passed a note for him to give to the village healer, that if there was any trouble, send for her. She took lodging, and wondered if she'd made a mistake. She wrote a letter to her sister before turning in.
The following morning, she was brought to the healer, Bellik. In his study was the body of Durgen, the town's blacksmith. Bellik told her that he'd come to him earlier, whispering "my boy did this to me," before succumbing to his injuries. Moments later, she heard a scream from outside, and headed out to see. In the pre-dawn light, she saw a boy with a smith's hammer, standing over the body of a female merchant, her skull reduced to mush. Valla, remembering how there'd been no children's bodies at Holbrook, realized what had happened—the demon hadn't done the killing. It had got the children to do its killing for it. And now, the same thing was happening here, as more children armed with weapons emerged. Valla told the adults to get inside cover.
Valla was able to incapacitate the children through sedative darts. She and Bellik put the children inside the stables, as the town only had a single jail cell. Many of the townsfolk directed their ire towards Valla, but they trusted Bellik, and followed his counsel. Inside the stable, Valla studied one of the children, Sahmantha Halstaff, who reminded her of Halissa, and brought back memories of the night demons had destroyed her home. Nevertheless, she realized that it was in this girl that the demon resided, and goaded it into revealing itself. She let the demon walk out into the town (still using Sahmantha's body) before it collapsed on the grass.
Valla noticed that the grass had signs of demonic contamination. A farmer told her that the town was located above the River Bohsum, and that there was a sinkhole half a day's journey away. Valla told Bellik to gather the villagers and stay together. To bind and lock away any children under sixteen years of age, and to fetch her horse so that she could kill the demon.
Valla descended into the sinkhole, and confronted the demon, which was revealed to be Valdraxxis, a lesser demon of terror. It tried to use the memories of her childhood against her, even taking the appearance of Halissa, and later, Valla herself. Overcoming its deceptions, she confronted Valdraxxis himself and destroyed him.
Awhile later, Valla was at the graves of her parents. Josen told her that the children were themselves again, without memory of their actions, though many were now orphans (having killed their parents while under Valdraxxis's influence). However, they would be offered homes. As for Delios, he simply replied that he'd been "taken care of."
The two moved on to whisperings they had heard, that in seven days time, a star would fall on Tristram in seven days time. The Demon Hunters intended to send their best to investigate. Valla took out the letter she'd written earlier and laid it atop one of the graves, reflecting that if Josen was correct in saying that everything in life was a test, that while she'd failed at the ruins, she'd succeeded against Valdraxxis. She declared her intention to go to Tristram (she was, after all, the "best" Demon Hunter in her mind) and that if Josen intended to stop her, he do so now. Josen made no move, and Valla disappeared from his sight.[7]
The End of Days
Valla participated in the Siege of Bastion's Keep, backed up by a Wizard.[14]
After slaying Diablo, Valla returned to the Demon Hunters and received the mantle of Ordermaster. She shared her knowledge and experience with neophyte Demon Hunters.[15]
Valla became one of the deadliest Demon Hunters in history but mysteriously disappeared one night, although her body has never been found. Some claim that she continues her fighting in another world. Her weapon, however, was left behind.[16]
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