Olivia

Olivia is the royal princess of the Malicious Order, and the former employer of the Malice Party.

## Characteristics

Olivia is a somewhat stern employer, although she softened over time, especially after she was deposed as leader during arc 5. She is passionate about her work and is hardworking, as shown during arc 3 when she spent the entire interlude tirelessly searching for solutions for how to handle and sequester the artifacts. but is also prone to frustration. She is staunchly against using the artifacts, implied to be because of the traumatic experience she had during the Grainsboro Fire.

Olivia is close friends with Ezra, and used to be close to Belaros until they had a falling out. She was formerly friends with Ham until he betrayed her in the middle of arc 3; the two have tried to reconcile their relationship since then.

## Biography

Olivia is Liam's daughter, and was raised to be the future monarch of the Malicious Order. At some point in the past she was given the responsibility of holding the Sword of Malus, and trained to be able to claim it.

She had her sword stolen by an unnamed assailant in 1834, directly causing the Grainsboro Fire after the thief was unable to properly handle the artifact. She again had the sword stolen in Port Kadileo by Jerry, where it was used to assassinate Roselyn.

Olivia gave the Malice Party most of their early missions. She had them bring the Kinesis Gauntlets to the Brightcoast Monastery in arc 1 so that someone could claim them, preventing the unbalancing of the artifacts from destroying the world. After no high level monks were found that could claim the artifacts, she encouraged Ham and Jeremy to train with the gauntlets to reduce the power discrepancy between them and Sloknek's Lead Treads, hoping that would help re-balance the two elements. She sent Ezekiel and his team to seek out a way of resurrecting Roselyn, and when he fell, had the Malice Party investigate during arc 2. After the Grainsboro Catacombs were finally excavated after the earthquakes had buried it, she ventured into it to find Sloknek along with the rest of the party.

Belaros and Olivia had a falling out during arc 3, due to Belaros realizing Olivia had caused the Grainsboro Fire and due to Thanatos desecrating the Grainsboro Catacombs. After the recovery of the Lead Treads, Olivia ordered Jeremy and Ham to give up their Kinesis Gauntlets to re-balance the two artifacts. Jeremy obliged, but Ham declined, and fled the scene. This was especially concerning for Olivia because of Ham's previous over-use of the artifact earlier in the arc, and Olivia responded by evacuating the entire Grainsboro public into the catacombs in the hopes they would survive a potential apocalypse level event that Ham would cause. This never came to pass, but Olivia's subsequent covering-up of this by blaming the situation on the Grainsboro University was what tipped Belaros off to Olivia's previous involvement in the Grainsboro Fire.

With a warrant out for Ham's arrest, Olivia focused on new solutions to dealing with the artifacts. She sent out the Malice Party to determine the status of the Staff of Flow and if Josephine was the mastermind behind the artifacts being targeted. She correctly anticipated her capture and interrogation during arc 4, and prepared for it by having Aveeno hide the artifacts and arranging for the Sword of Malus to be teleported to Aveeno's hiding place at her command. Unfortunately, this would end up being yet another mistake, as Aveeno's would accidentally hand the artifacts directly to Julian (2).

Olivia was tortured by Victoria and her team, during which time one of her arms was cut off and the account of the Malice Party's adventure would be released. She would be pardoned by Liam, but was unable to be released because Victoria was keeping her captive in her own territory during the contest over the Malicious Order throne. After a particularly good contest round for Liam's side, enough territory was reclaimed for their side that Olivia could be released, but Ezra was forced to sacrifice her own freedom to make this happen.

Olivia later learned that Liam had known about the entire artifact catastrophe from the start of the Malice Party's adventure. He had been watching Olivia to see if she would go to him for help, or if she could take care of the situation on her own, or if she would keep it a secret and fail at handling the problem. This, and the revelation that Liam will no longer be making her monarch or allow her to mend her reputation by competing in the contest, completely destroys Olivia, and she is generally downcast and depressed from this point onwards.