Valla Volten

Valla Volten is the last living member of the extinct Thunderbird Giant Clan and a member of the experimental prisoner testing group in the Nation of Glory. Formerly a traitor to the group on behalf of the Nine Circles of Hell, she has since defected and joined the party for good. Despite being a party member, she is played by the Dungeon Master, Wyatt Moore.

## Valla Volten

### Relatives

Unnamed Father (Deceased)Unnamed Mother (Deceased)Unnamed Brother (Deceased)

### Affiliation

Nine Circles of Hell (Former)Five Stages of Grief (Current)

## Physical description

### History:

#### Past:

Sometime a couple hundred years before the point of the main story, Valla lived in an unknown village, somewhere within modern Glory territory. She and her brother, Jaegar, had two loving parents and their family was respected by the village. Her father was the chief of the giant clan than resided there and Valla was next in line because she inherited the powers of her clan, specifically electricity manipulation and the ability to turn into a thunderbird. Valla was happy to recieve these responsibilities and to take over for her father after she came of age, but her story took a much darker path one day when the Holy Knights of Glory came for currently unknown reasons. That day, Valla and her father had been at the clan shrine, only to come home and find the corpses of everyone in town strewn throughout the ground. Running home, they found her family, dead, having been brutally slain by the knights.

Her father took her and tried to run, but the Holy Knights found them, led by a mysterious figure in gold armor. Her father, the village protector, tried to fight them off by turning into a thunderbird, but he was quickly killed as well as the man in gold armor moved at the speed of light, stabbing through him in the blink of an eye. They turned their attention to Valla, but were stopped as Thorkill, another member of the Giant Clan, tried to stop them, but was stabbed through the head, though he luckily survived with minor brain damage. Witnessing all the death and destruction, her emotions took hold of her and she blacked out, only to find out that she had killed the entire squad of Holy Knights in her anger, including the man in gold.

There is a gray area in her history but we know that at some point in the future, Valla and Thorkill made their way into the mountains, where they found a colony of various races living together in harmony, giants included. This colony was led by Baldur. They settled down there, but Valla was never content, feeling immense hatred towards the Kingdom of Glory for the deaths of everyone she loved. This hatred was put to bad use after she met Chrona, a member of the infamous assassin group based in Hell, the Nine Circles. Chrona had a plan to kill the gods and, by extension, destroy the nation of Glory and the entirety of Sinall. Valla, consumed with hatred, wanted to take part in this plan for the purposes of watching the people who hurt her burn. Lives no longer mattered to her, not even her own, and it was for that reason that Chrona gave her a pendant with the ability to shrink her down to the size of a normal human. The plan was for her to go undercover within Glory, find and retrieve the Chrono Crystal, the power source protecting the entire nation, and bring it back to Chrona, who would use it to fuel her superweapon. Soon after, she turned herself in to the Holy Knights for her prior murder of the knights who killed her family, getting her tossed into prison.

#### Joining the Five Stages:

Luckily for Valla, Glory had an idea in mind to create a task force of prisoners led by a designated Holy Knight. This group would go on missions on behalf of Glory, the prisoners would be compensated for their efforts, but the nation had no intention of actually letting them free. This is why they used individuals of underrepresented races as their testing group. Valla was the only "human", as far as they knew, so she had a feeling that she, out of any of them, may be able to gain her freedom and join the ranks of the knights in order to retrieve the crystal. She and the rest of the chosen prisoners were assigned to new recruit Luxian Acima, who was immediately weary and untrustworthy of Valla due crime she had committed. She also began a rivalry of sorts with Cisrael, the angel of the group who worshipped the god of Order, the god whose people killed her family. She was rude and cold towards the group, but followed orders when given because she didn't want to risk being accused of insubordination. There were very few times where she ever considered straying from her mission, though she was surprised by some of the actions of her captain, a man devoted to protecting others at any cost to himself, even going out of his way to bargain for the freedom of his squad members, which he succeeded in doing. She saw him as naive for seeing the world the way that he did, and generally looked down on the rest of the group as well for one reason or another. She also held a slight grudge to Lance Hoderian for his striking likeness to the knight who killed her family.

As a member of Luxian's squad, she helped in the conquering of Vestoria and the defeat of king Du Vanglant. Along the way, she formed a friendship with Frolly, the other spell-caster in the group and the one closest aligned to her way of seeing things. He was obsessed with using necromancy to bring his family back from the dead, but despite her longing for the same thing, she saw it as an impossibility, and knew that his magic probably wasn't going to work. During the tournament in the nation of Liebe, she faced Beelzebub in combat, losing to him as he gained a weapon that gave him partial control over lightning and allowed him to overpower her. It was soon after this that she, Luxian, and Beelzebub had to save Frolly from himself after he made a deal with V to increase his power through the use of a cult worshipping the god of Death. This was one of the first times she showed genuine concern for one of her teammates, even if she didn't want to admit it. After this, she assisted the rest of Luxian's squad in the fight against the Gilren Family, and killed V alongside them as well. During the final battle against V, a Knight of Liebe named Kaizel was killed in battle, and Frolly, as per his dying request, used necromancy to bring him back as a personal soldier. This is considered to be a violation of foreign policy, and for a prisoner such as Frolly, might be far more than just a violation.

#### The Chrono Crystal:

Upon getting home, she set the plan into motion. She messaged Chrona, telling her to place a mind control spell on Grace, the Grandmaster of Glory, for a few minutes on her command and to be ready to teleport Valla back to base once she was finished. In an act of betrayal, she informed the Holy Knights of Frolly's actions, getting him taken by the Grandmaster and her knights. She brought Frolly to the location of the Chrono Crystal where she, alongside Maverick, tortured Frolly to get him to admit his crime. At that point, Luxian and the rest of the squad arrived, informed by Valla herself, whose plan was to cause enough discord between everyone to steal the crystal. Then, when things really heated up and Luxian came close to challenging the Grandmaster (now under the control of Chrona who is making her ramp up the torture) to protect Frolly who he felt had done nothing wrong, she had Chrona use Grace to torture Frolly into unconsciousness, causing him to lose control of his necromancy and go on the attack. In the confusion, she snatched the crystal and disappeared just as Chrona's control over Grace slipped. With that, she was back at base, having completed her mission, but with second thoughts as to the result of her efforts.

Upon making it back, she gave the crystal to Chrona and stayed there for a couple of days before Luxian's squad, Frolly included, arrived. Thorkill had been the one to lead them there, knowing that they were friends of Valla from the party's accurate description of her. Luxian questioned her at Chrona's castle, asking her why she betrayed the Glory and why she stole the crystal after having already been granted her freedom. She explained her betrayal to him, as well as what Chrona planned on using the crystal for, however she did not explain her past to them or the reasoning for her actions. She did however tell them her intent to see Glory burn for "what they have taken from me" and scolded Luxian for his blind loyalty to them. Luxian, not understanding her motive, yelled at her for being a heartless traitor who would see innocent lives destroyed for her own gain. Valla, frustrated with him, fired a blast of lightning that luckily missed him just as Chrona and Baldur arrived. The two overpower the party, sending them out of the castle, where they met an old man who showed Luxian Valla's past, committing him to saving her from herself before Chrona succeeded in her plan. Using Beelzebub to lure Valla outside, Luxian and the rest of the group get a chance to talk with her again, but this time Luxian explains that he understands what she's gone through now and that he doesn't plan on holding her pain against her or villainizing her for it. He does, however, state that if she goes through with this, then she'd be dooming many people to the same loss that she experienced, and then killing those people as well. In his eyes, if she didn't understand that, then that would make her a villain. Valla, finally accepting the faults in Chrona's plan and the extreme atrocities that will be committed if it succeeds, apologizes to everyone, especially Frolly, before asking them to help her stop Chrona, to which they agree. However, Chrona was listening the whole time and comes down to taunt the party before blowing up the entire village with a swipe of her hand, killing everyone there except for Baldur, Thorkill, and the party. The battle commences. During the battle, Valla, pushed to her limit and desperate to atone for her sins, finally unlocks her clan's ability, turning into a thunderbird and attacking Chrona, dealing significant damage before Cisrael finally finishes her off for good. After the conclusion of the battle, she says goodbye to Thorkill before leaving with the party, choosing to make a new life for herself protecting people, rather than wishing to do them harm.