Eralda Blackdagger

==Description==
Eralda Blackdagger is a imperial officer, in charge of the notorious Wolf Company an elite unit working from the shadows to eliminate the enemies of the Empire of Lauria both on and off the battlefield.
She is easily identifiable by her arms. Her lost arms replaced by mechanical prothesis created by a mix of spareReplikant parts and modern engineering.
==Biography==
===Early Life===
Eralda Blackdagger, named Eralda Scribe at birth, is the eldest daughter of Jack Scribe and Rosa Scribe. She was born in the city of Kara's Vale shortly after the conclusion of the Laurian Wars. Her parents both worked as administrators in the cities' government and were allowed to continue their work, now under the supervision of the Empire of Lauria. Roughly two years after her own birth, Eralda's younger sister Anna Scribe was born. The two shared much of their childhood and grew to become almost inseparable. While Eralda's early life was comfortable, and she enjoyed a stable life at home, the situation in the city was deteriorating steadily.
The simmering discontent, present since the city was stormed by the laurian armies, steadily worsened. In the year 1534 a large and spontaneous citizen's protest formed against the laurian occupation. The protest quickly escalated into a riot. The citizens demanded the immediate retreat of all laurian officials and soldiers from the city. Instead of leaving the city, however, the soldiers assembled and brutally put down the riot. Though the garrison successfully broke up the riot and arrested the ringleaders, the citizen's anger only grew. Soon even the cities administrators including her parents began to plot a full-scale rebellion against their occupiers.
Eralda and her sisters were not told about such plans, deemed too young for the stresses of politics. They both received a high quality education, particularly focusing on reading, writing, speech craft, logistics, administration, and organisation.
===Death===
Finally, in 1544 AtS, when Eralda was sixteen years of age, the rebellion was launched. Kara's Vale joined many other cities, forming the Free Excarian League, starting the League Wars. This time, thanks to careful planning, the citizens were able to overwhelm the garrison and force them to flee the city. 
Though the city was jubilant, the celebrations were cut short as the Red Snouts, a warband of wolfman Beastfolk, seizing on the chaos caused by the League Wars descended from the White Capped Mountains and stormed the unprepared city.
The raiders ran rampant through the city, looting and torching large sections of the city. Eralda and Anna were hidden in a secret space in their wardrobe by their parents and while they tried to defend their home with whatever weapons they had at hand, both Rosa and Jack were murdered before their eyes. A particular keen eared raider heard the faint whimpering of the children and found them. She pulled Eralda from her hiding spot and, with her bare hands, ripped off both of her arms, throwing her to the ground to let her bleed out. She then turned to Anna. The still barely conscious Eralda was forced to helplessly watch the raider snap and pull off her beloved sister's head. Only then, mercifully, did Eralda loose consciousness.
===Rebirth===
She awoke again several days later. She was saved by a local priest who was able to stop her bleeding but was unable to save her parents or sister. In the days since the raid, the laurian army has moved in again. Themselves, catching the Red Snouts unprepared and defeated them in brutal urban combat through the city. While most of the raiders managed to flee back to the mountains, the soldiers killed or captured many of them, including many of their leaders.
It mattered little to Eralda. She wished she had died. And yet she was not permitted to die as she was cared for by both the priest and later laurian medics. As soon as she had recovered enough to not be in critical condition, she was taken by laurian soldiers and brought to Luria where she is to shine light on the treachery of her parents.
=== The Wolf Rises ===
In Luria she was placed under house arrest in a small mansion. For weeks, she was drilled on any detail about her parents, the uprising, Kara's Vale, the raid and a thousand other topics. All the while, she was being psychically investigated by a replikant Kariba called Sapphire. Still suffering from shock and loss, Eralda offered little resistance and fully complied with their investigation.
During this investigation, she was told that the only reason the Red Snouts were able to raid the city and kill her family was due to the uprising. This one sentence immediately burned itself into her mind. At once, she saw her parents and all the other supporters of the revolution as responsible for the raid, her suffering, and the death of her beloved sister.
Records from the investigation remember a distinct change in personality after this incident. Eralda became cold, focused, showing little emotion except for anger and disgust for the revolutionaries. Once the investigation concluded, Eralda, proclaiming her wish to right the wrong of her parents, requested to join the armed forces but was rejected due to her lack of arms. As thanks for her, collaboration, she was given a small house and a maid to care for her, and was set to live on a state pension.
Eralda refused to live a quiet life, however. Every day she would return to the recruitment centre demanding to be allowed to join the forces, but she was rejected each time. This went on for about a year, when one day, while she was causing a commotion at the gates to the recruitment centre, Captain-General Capucine de Loupe-Néri was inspecting its officers. Once she noticed the young girl and was explained the situation and informed of her persistence, Capucine arranged for a set of simple robotic arms, like those of the Automata to be created. Eralda was fitted with the mechanical arms and while clunky and difficult to control, it allowed her to finally join the armed forces.
Despite her handicap, she managed to excel in most mental tasks and managed to keep up physically with her comrades. This prompted one of her officers, Colonel Albert Drange, to recommend her to officer school and take her in as his protégé. He put her through a brutal training set, both physical and mental, and Eralda regularly went without sleep for several days. She was made to run until she collapsed. Lift until her arms literary came apart and had to be repaired. Sometimes he would deliberately hide or damage her arms and forced her into mock battles against other soldiers, able to use only her legs and teeth. While Albert's own journal noted that her mental state started to become more and more unhinged, she never complained and never failed to meet the expectations put on her.
As her capabilities grew, Albert began to employ Eralda as a spy and assassin. She covertly killed countless dissidents, rebels, criminals and sometimes even local officials that failed their duties. Though her identity was never revealed, the people came to call the assassin “Blackdagger”. A name she cheerfully embraced, abandoning her old family name.
In the year 1446 AtS she graduated as a lieutenant and was given command of a company. She became infamous for her hash treatment of her soldiers and the high rates of casualties. She was almost demoted and sent back to officer school, but Colonel Albert Drange intervened on her behalf. The harsh training, despite its losses, was not without its benefits. Her company was noted for its fanatic loyalty to the empire and their leader, their speed, intensity and brutality, often breaking through the enemies lines to cause havoc on their rear. For their brutality and aggression, the other soldiers gave her company the nickname “Wolf Company”.
=== Blackdagger, Angel of Death ===
Her achievements were recognized in many ceremonies, and she quickly became one of the most decorated officer in the laurian military. Her greatest recognition came in the year 1449. Empress Cassida of Luria, via Captain-General Capucine de Loupe-Néri was informed of Eralda, her achievements and fanatic loyalty. 
In a private ceremony, seen only by the Empress, the Captain-General and Eralda, she was promoted to Major and given full control of her company which would officially be renamed to Wolf Company. She herself would now only serve at the pleasure of the Empress. As part of this ceremony, she was given a new set of arms. Constructed largely from the arms of an Erie-model Replikants, they were faster, stronger, more accurate and more durable than her old set of arms. Though originally white, Eralda would later paint them blood-red. 
Eralda and her company were then tasked to act as the empire's secret police, finding and eliminating dissidents, rebels, monsters, and criminals. They implanted their members in the local governments of the empire and even within regular military units, looking for any sign of dissent or any hint of treachery. They came to be the Empress' first and most precise instrument of death. 
This task the Blackdagger and her Wolf Company have been fulfilling with near a near perfect record since.