Elizalina Adragna

**Elizalina Adragna**, also known as **Elizalina de Durandal**, was a legendary exorcist of the Vatican and the wielder of Durandal before Xenovia. She was the gene template for the artificial humans: Elyse and Lyanne Adragna.

## Appearance

Elizalina was described to the opposite of her clones: Strong, healthy, and lively. She had a youthful face, with slender limbs and fair skin, and blue eyes and wavy light-blonde hair.

## Personality

Elizalina was remembered as a very lively and energetic girl, whose life was so short yet filled with more adventures and terrors than men three times her age. She was kind to everyone and became an exorcist solely so that she could protect the innocents from harm, and spent most of her free time doing charity or helping those in need in Vatican City.

Despite her young age, she was very wise and "spoke with the voice of an old crone", having many years of experience as an exorcist under her belt that even her seniors couldn't question. According to many, for all of her wisdom, she was still very young and still dreamed of true love and romance.

After her encounter with the Void, however, her entire psyche was destroyed and she was a mere shadow of her former self. She became mad from gazing toward the unknown in the eyes. In a moment of clarity, she asked Enzo for the merciful release of death, as she knew even if she was to survive her injuries, she would still be mentally broken at the end of the day.

## History

Elizalina was born sometime in 19XX and was among the many orphans adopted by the Vatican to be trained to be exorcists for the Catholic Church. However, what many officials didn't know at the time was that she wasn't just an ordinary orphan, but rather one who descended from the legendary paladin Roland himself.

Shortly after becoming an official exorcist, she discovered the sealed Durandal located beneath St. Peter's Basilica and was chosen by the sword to become its newest wielder, the first since Roland's death. With the sword, she began to make a name for herself as the Holy Sword Princess, "Elizalina de Durandal", or "Elizalina of the Durandal".

When she was 23, she participated in a mission to retrieve the physical remnants one of the holy relics, the Holy Nails of St. Helena, as the original nails had been absorbed by the Sacred Gear system to create the Neo-Longinus Unknown Dictator, Alphecca Tyrant, and Sanguine Autarch.

However, unbeknownst to them, this was a trap laid down by the original Asmodeus in an attempt to kidnap Elizalina and use her as an incubator for his cambion offspring. Luckily, she was able to use Durandal's powers to protect herself from Asmodeus' manipulations, saving herself whereas her teammates had perished. Unfortunately, before he fled, Asmodeus cursed her into spending minutes in the Empty, where she met the Void itself, causing her to go mad with horror and lose all of their clarity.

After she was saved by the Vatican, she was kept inside a specialized ward in their specialized hospital so that healers could routinely try to salvage her mind with Healing Magic, though it had become quite clear since early on that she was far too broken to be healed.

On a visit to her in 19XX, Enzo Marchitelli was asked by a strangely sane Elizalina to mercy kill her and finally gave her peace through death, which he obliged despite his long-time crush on her. After her death, thanks to her righteous heart and the deeds she had done as an exorcist, she was given a place within the Third Heaven.

Not wanting to lose their precious Durandal, the higher-ups decided to have their agents secretly took sample of her DNAs so that they could create clones capable of wielding Durandal, however, all of their attempts ended up in disaster saved for two surviving clones: Elyse and Lyanne Adragna.

## Abilities

**Immense Strength**: Elizalina was one of the most powerful female exorcists of her time in spite of her young age, ranking among talented exorcists such as Griselda Quarta or Ewald Cristaldi who were legendary among exorcists. During her prime, she was known to be one of the few humans capable of fighting against pagan gods at their full power, as shown with her victory against the Persian god Mithras, thus making her one of the strongest humans in history.

**Master Swordsman**: Elizalina was known among the exorcists as the "Peerless Swordswoman" due to her mastery of the holy sword Durandal, one of the "true" holy swords created by Heaven, to the point her skills reached the territory of the gods. She could wield a sword with supernatural proficiency in speed, power, dexterity, and skill, allowing her to perform seemingly impossible feats with ease.

* **Natural Holy Swordsman**: Elizalina was one of the few people who were born with the holy attribute as their Origin, which gave her an affinity toward holy items and weapons, especially powerful holy swords such as Durandal.

## Trivia

* She was mentioned to be a Paladin, meaning that she had mastered all five Meisters.
* Despite being a high-ranked member of the Vatican, according to Enzo, she had confided in him multiple times that she wasn't a "true" believer in God and felt that she was a "wrong Christian" because of that.