Joan of Arc

## Jeanne d'Arc

Maiden of Orléans, Maiden of Lorraine, Holy Maiden of Salvation, Crimson Saint, Maiden of Heaven's Will, Holy Maiden Savior, Holy Saint of France (Titles)

## Biographical Information

### Place of Birth

Domrémy-la-Pucelle
Duchy of Bar, Kingdom of France

### Place of Death

Vieux-Marché (Old Marketplace)
Rouen, Normandy

### Residence

Silver City
First Heaven, Heaven

## Relationships

### Relatives

{Adam} & {Eve} (Progenitors)
{First Men} (Ancestors)
{Jacques d'Arc} (Father)
{Isabelle Romée} (Mother)
{Pierre d'Arc}, {Jéan d'Arc}, {Jacquemin d'Arc}, {Catherine d'Arc} (Siblings)

## Characteristics

### Species

Angel (Reincarnated Angel, Elohim)
Former Human (Prophet)

## Personal Information

### Divine Domain

Martyrs, Captives, Prisoners, Soldiers, Military Personnel, People Ridiculed for Their Piety, France, WAVES, Women's Army Corps

### Affiliation

The Presence
Four Great Seraphs
Elohim (The Council)
Heavenly Host, Second Heaven
Three Factions (Heaven)
The Vatican (Catholic Church)
Abrahamic Institutions (Christian Faction)
Team Reminders of Heaven's Wrath (Knight)

### Ranking

Martyr, Catholic Saint
High-Class Angel

* Domination-Ranked Angel
* Reincarnated Angel (Elohim)

## Portrayal

### Depictions

Maaya Sakamoto (Japanese VA)
Erika Harlacher (English VA)

**Jeanne d'Arc**, also called **Joan of Arc** and the **Maid of Orléans**, is the famous heroine of France who fought in the Hundred Years' War. She is known for her role in the Siege of Orléans and the coronation of Charles VII of France. However, she was captured, convicted as a heretic, and burnt at the stake in 1431, at the age of 19.

Over 400 years after her death, she was canonized as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church. She is one of the patron saints of France, with patronage over martyrs, prisoners, military personnel, and people ridiculed for their piety. For her heroic deeds, she is considered a historical symbol of French patriotism and feminism.

In the Azazel Cup, Jeanne participates as the sole [Knight] of Team Reminders of Heaven's Wrath.

## History

### Early Years

#### Childhood

Jeanne d'Arc was born on January 6th, 1412 in the village of Domrémy to Jacques d'Arc and Isabelle Romée, two peasant farmers. She had a total of four siblings, three brothers named Pierre, Jéan, and Jacquemin, and a younger sister named Catherine.

She was born during the Hundred Years' War, a conflict between the kingdoms of England and France that had begun in 1337. As nearly all the fighting had taken place in France, the kingdom's economy was devastated and the smallfolk's cries could be heard from even the heavens, Jeanne's family was no exception. Fortunately, her family owned about 20 ha of land, in addition to Jacques's minor position as a village official, collecting taxes and heading the local watch, they didn't have to starve often.

During Jeanne's youth, Domrémy was a village on the border of eastern France, whose precise feudal relation was unclear, and much of it lay in the Duchy of Bar. Though surrounded by pro-Burgundian lands, its people were loyal to the Armagnac cause. By 1419, the war had begun to affect the area, resulting in instances when the village's cattle were stolen in 1425 or the town being burned in 1428.

#### Heavenly Visions

When Jeanne was thirteen, around 1425, she was first visited by Michael, Metatron, and Sandalphon while she was in her father's garden. In this first encounter, Michael explained Jeanne's true destiny as a Prophet and introduced himself as her guardian angel.

Throughout her remaining years in Domrémy, she was revisited by Michael many times to be trained in using her celestial powers. She also had visions of many heavenly figures, from entities such as Gabriel and Raphael, to biblical figures such as the Virgin Mary, to saints such as Saint Margaret the Virgin and Saint Catherine of Alexandria.

#### Destined Heroine

It was around this period that Jeanne's visions told her that she must leave Domrémy to help the Dauphin Charles. At the beginning of 1428, the English had been besieging Orléans and had nearly isolated it from the rest of Charles' territory. The fate of Orléans was critical to the survival of the Armagnac kingdom because its strategic position along the Loire made it the last obstacle to an assault on the rest of Charles' territory.

In May 1428, Jeanne and her step-cousin Gabriel Laxart traveled to the nearby town of Vaucouleurs, where she petitioned the garrison commander, Robert de Baudricourt, for an armed escort to take her to the Armagnac court at Chinon, but she was laughed out of the place. Baudricourt's sarcastic refusal did not deter Jeanne, however, as she returned the following January and was once more refused, but she gained the support of two of Baudricourt's soldiers, Jean de Metz and Bertrand de Poulengy, after she saved from a monster attack.

Baudricourt agreed to a third meeting with Jeanne in February, around the time the English captured an Armagnac relief convoy for Orléans at the Battle of the Herrings. Metz and Poulengy's enthusiastic support for her, as well as her personal conversations with Baudricourt, convinced him to allow her to go to Chinon for an audience with the Dauphin. Jeanne was then given a small escort of six soldiers, and she chose to cut her hair short and wear men's clothes.

### Chinon

#### Meeting Charles VII

Jeanne's initial meeting with Charles VII took place at the Royal Court in Chinon in late February of 1429, when she was seventeen. Jeanne then told him that she had come to raise the Siege of Orléans and to lead him to Reims for his coronation. They then had a private exchange that made a strong impression on Charles, but his council didn't trust her and required more assurance.

They sent her to Poitiers to be examined by a council of theologians to verify her morality and ensure her orthodoxy. The council, after being given a stern talking from angels sent by Michael, declared her a good person and a good Catholic, despite her being illiterate and didn't even know how to read the Bible. While the council wanted to tell everyone her status as a Holy Maiden immediately, Jeanne told them not to, wanting to prove her worthy by her own merits, not because of her faith. As such, the theologians only told Charles and his council that sending her to Orléans could be useful to the king and would test if her inspiration was of divine origin.

Afterward, Jeanne was sent on to Tours, where she was physically examined by women directed by Charles' mother-in-law Yolande of Aragon, who verified her virginity. After her examinations, the Dauphin commissioned plate armor for her and she received a banner of her own design, one made of white silk with the figure of Christ holding the world and on each side of Him was an angel. She was also given Épée de Clovis, the holy sword formerly wielded by Charles Martel, that was sealed underneath the altar in the church at Sainte-Catherine-de-Fierbois.

#### Arrival at Chinon

Before Jeanne's arrival at Chinon, the Armagnac strategic situation was bad but not hopeless. The Armagnac forces were prepared to survive a prolonged Siege at Orléans. The Burgundians had recently withdrawn from the siege due to disagreements about territory, and the English were unsure about continuing it. Despite this, however, the Armagnac leadership's morale was despairing.

The effect of Jeanne's presence on Armagnac morale was immediate. She effectively turned the longstanding Anglo-French conflict into a religious war, inspiring devotion and the hope of divine assistance. Before she had joined the siege, Jeanne had dictated a letter to the Duke of Bedford warning him that she was a messenger sent by Heaven to drive him out of France, but he refused and even laughed at her request. In the last week of April, Jeanne set out from Blois as part of an army ladened with supplies for the relief of Orléans.

### Military Campaigns

#### Siege of Orléans

Jeanne arrived at Orléans on April 29th 1429, meeting the commander Jean de Dunois, acting head of the ducal family of Orléans on behalf of his captive half-brother. Because Orléans was not completely cut off, Dunois was able to get her into the city, where she was greeted with great enthusiasm. She was initially treated as a figurehead, waving her banner to increase morale, and was not given any formal command and was excluded from military councils. However, she quickly gained the faith of the Armagnac troops, who believed she could bring them to victory. Over time, some of the Armagnac commanders would accept the advice she gave them.

On May 4th, the Armagnacs went on the offensive, attacking the outlying fortress of Saint Loup. While Jeanne was not informed of the attack, once she learned of it, she immediately rode out with her banner to the site just as the Armagnac soldiers were retreating after a failed assault. Her appearance rallied the soldiers, who launched another assault and took the fortress. On May 5th, no combat occured as it was Ascension Thursday, and instead, Jeanne told a scribe to record a letter to the English, warning them to leave France, and sent it using a crossbow.

The Armagnacs resumed their offensive on May 6th. They captured Saint-Jean-le-Blanc, which the English had deserted. Although the Armagnac commanders wanted to stop, Jeanne encouraged them to launch an assault against an English fortress built around a monastery called "Les Augustins". It was successfully captured, which made the Armagnac commanders want to consolidate their gains, but Jeanne again argued for immediate offensive action. On the morning of May 7th, the Armagnacs attacked the main English stronghold, "Les Tourelles". Jeanne was wounded by an arrow between the neck and shoulder while holding her banner in the trench outside the wall on the south bank of the river, but later returned to encourage the final assault that took the fortress. The English retreated from Orléans on May 8th, ending the siege.

At Chinon, Joan had declared that she was a Holy Maiden, revealing her mission from Heaven. Prominent clergies such as Jacques Gelu, Archbishop of Embrun, and the theologian Jean Gerson wrote treatises in support of Jeanne immediately following this event. In contrast, the English saw the ability of this peasant girl to defeat their armies as proof she was possessed by the Devil, branding her as a heretic and a witch.

#### Loire Campaign

After the victory at Orléans, Jeanne insisted that the Armagnac forces should advance without delay toward Reims to coronate the Dauphin. Charles VII was persuaded and allowed her to accompany the army under the command of John II, Duke of Alençon, who collaboratively worked with Jeanne and regularly heeded her advice. Before advancing toward Reims, the Armagnacs needed to clear the way between Chinon and Orléans by recapturing the bridge-towns along the Loire: Jargeau, Meung-sur-Loire, and Beaugency.

Political debates about strategy, as well as the need to recruit additional soldiers, delayed the start of the campaign to clear the Loire towns. The Armagnac forces arrived at Jargeau on June 11th, and forced the English to withdraw into the town's walls. Jeanne sent a message to the English to surrender, but they refused, and she advocated for a direct assault on the city walls, which was done the next day. By the end of the day, the town was taken. The Armagnac took few prisoners and many of the English who surrendered were executed. The Armagnac army advanced on Meung-sur-Loire. On June 15th, they took control of the town's bridge, and the English garrison withdrew to a castle on the Loire's north bank. Most of the army continued on the south bank of the Loire to besiege the castle at Beaugency.

In the meantime, the English army from Paris under the command of Sir John Fastolf had linked up with the garrison in Meung and traveled along the north bank of the Loire to relieve Beaugency. Unaware of the approach of Fastolf's army, the English garrison at Beaugency surrendered on June 8th, and the main English army retreated toward Paris. Jeanne then urged the Armagnacs to pursue, and the two armies clashed southwest of the village of Patay later that day.

At the Battle of Patay, the English had prepared their forces to receive the Armagnac attack and ambush it with hidden archers. Instead, the Armagnac vanguard detected the archers and scattered them. A rout ensued that decimated the English army. Fastolf escaped with a small band of soldiers, but many of the English leaders were captured. Although Jeanne arrived at the battlefield too late to participate in the decisive action, courtesy of an attack from a group of English faeries, her encouragement to pursue the English had made the victory possible.

#### March to Reims, Siege of Paris

After the destruction of the English army at Patay, some Armagnac leaders argued for an invasion of English-held Normandy, but Jeanne remained insistent that Charles must be crowned. The Dauphin agreed, and the army left Gien on June 29th to march on Reims. The advance was nearly unopposed. The Burgundian-held city of Auxerre surrendered on July 3rd after three days of negotiations. Other towns in the army's path returned to Armagnac allegiance without resistance. Troyes, which had a small garrison of English and Burgundian troops, was the only one to put up opposition.

After four days of negotiation, Jeanne directed the placement of artillery at points around the city and ordered the soldiers to fill the town's moat with wood. Fearing an assault, Troyes negotiated terms of surrender. Reims opened its gates on July 16th, 1429. Charles, Joan and the army entered in the evening, and Charles's consecration took place the following morning. Jeanne was accorded a place of honor at the ceremony, announcing that the will of Heaven had been fulfilled.

After the consecration, the royal court negotiated a truce of fifteen days with the Duke of Burgundy, who promised he would try to arrange the transfer of Paris to the Armagnacs while continuing negotiations for a more definitive peace. At the end of the truce, the Duke of Burgundy reneged on his promise. Jeanne and the Duke of Alençon favored a quick march on Paris, but the divisions in Charles's court and continued peace negotiations with Burgundy led to a slow advance.

As the Armagnac army approached Paris, many of the towns along the way surrendered without a fight. On August 15th, the English forces under the Duke of Bedford confronted them near Montépilloy in a fortified position that the Armagnac commanders thought were too strong to assault. Jeanne personally rode out in front of the English positions in an attempt to provoke them to attack. They refused, resulting in a standoff. The English retreated the following day. The Armagnacs continued their advance and launched an assault on Paris on September 8th.

During the fighting, Jeanne was wounded in the leg by a cursed bolt from one of the English witches. She remained in a trench beneath Paris's walls until her magical resistance fully broke the curse and healed her wound. The following morning the assault on Paris was broken off. The Armagnacs had suffered 1,500 casualties. In September, Charles disbanded the army, and Jeanne was not allowed to work with the Duke of Alençon again.

#### Campaign against Perrinet Gressard

In October, Jeanne was sent as part of a force to attack the territory of Perrinet Gressart, a mercenary who had served the Burgundians and English. The army then besieged Saint-Pierre-le-Moûtier, which fell after Jeanne encouraged a direct assault on November 4th. The army then made an unsuccessful attempt to take La-Charité-sur-Loire in November and December. At the end of December, Joan returned to court, where she learned that she and her family had been ennobled by Charles as a reward for her services to him and the kingdom.

### Capture

Before the attack on Paris, Charles had negotiated a four-month truce with the Burgundians, which was extended until Easter 1430. During this truce, there was little for Jeanne to do. In March, the Duke of Burgundy began to reclaim towns that had been ceded to him by treaty but had not submitted to him. Many of these towns were in areas which the Armagnacs had recaptured over the previous few months. Compiègne was one of the towns that refused to submit, and it prepared for a siege. Jeanne set out with a company of volunteers to relieve the town.

In April, Jeanne arrived at the town of Melun, which had expelled its Burgundian garrison. As Jeanne advanced, her modest force became larger as other commanders joined her. Jeanne's troops advanced to Lagny-sur-Marne and won a battle against an Anglo-Burgundian force commanded by the mercenary Franquet d'Arras. He was captured, and Jeanne consented to have him executed instead of ransomed. Jeanne's forces finally arrived at Compiègne on May 14th. After a number of defensive forays against the Burgundian besiegers, Jeanne was forced to disband the majority of her force because it had become too difficult for the surrounding countryside to support. Jeanne and about 400 of her remaining soldiers entered the city.

On May 23rd 1430, Jeanne accompanied an Armagnac force which sortied from Compiègne in an attempt to attack the Burgundian camp at Margny, northeast of the city. It was defeated and Jeanne was captured. She agreed to surrender to a pro-Burgundian nobleman named Lyonnel de Wandomme, a member of Jean de Luxembourg's contingent. Luxembourg quickly moved her to his castle at Beaulieu-les-Fontaines near Noyes. After her first attempt to escape, she was transferred to Beaurevoir Castle. She made another attempt to escape while there, jumping from a tower and landing in a dry moat. In November, she was taken to the Burgundian town of Arras.

The English negotiated with their Burgundian allies to pay Jeanne's ransom and transfer her to their custody. Bishop Pierre Cauchon of Beauvais, a partisan supporter of the Duke of Burgundy and the English crown, played a prominent part in these negotiations. The final agreement called for the English to pay the sum of 10,000 livres tournois to obtain her from Luxembourg. After the English paid the ransom, they moved Jeanne to Rouen, which served as their main headquarters in France.

### Trial of Jeanne d'Arc

Jeanne was put on trial for heresy on January 9th 1431 at Rouen. Jeanne's captors downplayed the secular aspects of her trial by submitting her judgment to an ecclesiastical court, but the trial was politically motivated. Both the English and Burgundians rejoiced that Jeanne had been removed as a military threat, fearing her because her presence had undermined their morale. In addition, she posed a political threat. Jeanne testified that her voices had instructed her to defeat the English and crown Charles, and her success was argued to be evidence Jeanne was acting on Heaven's behalf. If unchallenged, her testimony would invalidate the English claim to the rule of France and undermine the University of Paris, which supported the dual monarchy ruled by an English king.

The verdict was a foregone conclusion. Jeanne's guilt could be used to compromise Charles's claims to legitimacy by showing that he had been consecrated by the act of a heretic. Cauchon served as the ordinary judge of the trial. The English subsidized the trial's cost, including payment to Cauchon and Jean Le Maître, who represented the Inquisitor of France, for their participation. Over two thirds of the clergy involved with the trial were associated with the University of Paris, and most were pro-Burgundian and pro-English.

Cauchon attempted to follow the correct inquisitorial procedure, but the trial had many irregularities. Jeanne should have been in the hands of the church during the trial and guarded by women. Instead, she was imprisoned by the English and guarded by ordinary soldiers under the service of the Duke of Bedford. Contrary to canon law, Cauchon had not established Jeanne's infamy before proceeding with the trial process. Jeanne was not read the charges against her until well after her interrogations began. The interrogation procedures were below inquisitorial standards, subjecting Jeanne to lengthy interrogations without legal counsel. There is evidence that the trial records were falsified.

During the trial, Jeanne showed remarkable control. She was able to induce her interrogators to ask questions sequentially rather than simultaneously, refer back to their records when appropriate, and end the sessions when she requested. Witnesses at the trial were impressed by her prudence when answering the questions posed to her.

For example, in one exchange she was asked if she knew she was in God's grace. The question was meant as a scholarly trap, as church doctrine held that nobody could be certain of being in God's grace. If she answered positively, she would have been charged with heresy; if negatively, she would have confessed her own guilt. Jeanne avoided the trap by stating that if she was not in God's grace, she hoped God would put her there, and if she were in God's grace then she hoped she would remain so.

To convince her to submit, Jeanne was shown the instruments of torture. When Jeanne refused to be intimidated, Cauchon met with about a dozen assessors to vote whether she should be tortured, and the majority decided against it.

In early May, Cauchon asked the University of Paris to deliberate on twelve articles summarizing the accusation of heresy. It approved the charges. On May 23rd, Jeanne was formally admonished by the court. The next day, Jeanne was taken out to the churchyard of the abbey of Saint-Ouen for public condemnation. As Cauchon began to read Jeanne's sentence, she agreed to submit and signed an abjuration.

### Execution

Public heresy was a capital crime, in which an unrepentant or relapsed heretic could be given over to the judgment of the secular courts and punished by death. Having signed the abjuration, Jeanne could not be put to death as an unrepentant heretic, but she could be put to death if she was convicted of relapsing into heresy again.

As part of her abjuration, Jeanne was required to renounce wearing men's clothes. She exchanged her clothes for a woman's dress and allowed her head to be shaved. But she was kept in English custody instead of being transferred to an ecclesiastical prison, and she was returned to her cell and kept in chains. Witnesses at the rehabilitation trial stated that Jeanne was subjected to mistreatment and rape attempts, including one by an English noble, and that guards placed men's clothes in her cell, forcing her to wear them. Cauchon was notified that Jeanne had resumed wearing male clothing. He sent clerics to admonish her to remain in submission, but the English prevented them from visiting her.

On May 28th, Cauchon personally went to Jeanne's cell, along with a number of other clerics. According to the trial record, Jeanne said that she had gone back to wearing men's clothes because it was more fitting that she dress like a man while being held with male guards, and the judges had broken their promise to let her go to mass and to release her from her chains. She stated that if they fulfilled their promises and placed her in a decent prison, she would be obedient.

When Cauchon asked about her visions, Jeanne stated that they had blamed her for adjusting out of fear, but she would not deny them again. As Jeanne's abjuration had required her to deny her voices, this was sufficient to convict her of relapsing into heresy and to condemn her to death. The next day, forty-two assessors were summoned to decide Jeanne's fate. Two recommended that she be abandoned to the secular courts immediately. The rest recommended that the abjuration be read to her again and explained. In the end, all voted unanimously that Jeanne was a relapsed heretic, and she was to be abandoned to the secular power, the English, for punishment.

On May 30th 1431, Jeanne was executed at the age of about nineteen years old. In the morning, she was allowed to receive the sacraments despite having been excommunicated. Afterwards, she was directly taken to Rouen's old marketplace, where she was publicly read her sentence of condemnation. At this point, she should have been turned over to the appropriate authority, the bailiff of Rouen, for secular sentencing but she was not.

Instead, she was delivered directly to the English and tied to a tall plastered pillar for execution by burning. Jeanne requested to view a cross as she died, and she was given one fashioned from a stick by an English soldier, which she kissed and placed next to her chest. A processional crucifix was fetched from the church of Saint-Sauveur. She embraced it before her hands were bound, and it was held before her eyes during her execution. After her death, her remains were cast into the Seine River.

### Aftermath

Jeanne's execution did not change the military situation. Her triumphs had raised Armagnac morale, and the English were not able to regain their momentum. Charles retained legitimacy as the king of France, despite a rival coronation held for the ten-year-old Henry VI of England at Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris on December 16th, 1431.

In 1435, the Burgundians agreed to abandon their alliance with England by signing the Treaty of Arras. The war ended twenty-two years after Jeanne's death with a French victory at the Battle of Castillon in 1453, which led to the expulsion of the English from all of France except for Calais.

#### Rehabilitation Trial

Jeanne's execution had created a political liability for Charles, implying that his consecration as the king of France had been achieved through the actions of a heretic. On February 15th 1450, a few months after he regained Rouen, Charles had ordered Guillaume Bouillé, a theologian and former rector of the University of Paris, to open an inquest. In a brief investigation, Bouillé interviewed seven witnesses of Jeanne's trial and concluded that the judgment of Jeanne as a heretic was arbitrary. She had been a prisoner of war treated as a political prisoner, and was put to death without basis. Bouillé's report could not officially overturn the verdict but it opened the way for the later retrial.

In 1452, a second inquest into Jeanne's trial was opened by Cardinal Guillaume d'Estouteville, papal legate and relative of Charles, and Jean Bréhal, who had recently been appointed Inquisitor of France. Around twenty witnesses were interviewed by Bréhal, and the inquest was guided by twenty-seven articles describing how Jeanne's trial had been biased. Immediately after the inquest was completed, Guillaume d'Estouteville went to Orléans on June 9th and granted an indulgence to those who participated in the May 8th procession and ceremonies in Jeanne's honor that commemorated the lifting of the siege.

The inquest still lacked the authority to change the judgment of Jeanne's trial, but for the next two years d'Estouteville and Bréhal continued to work on the case. Bréhal forwarded a petition from Jeanne's mother, Isabelle, and Joan's two brothers Jean and Pierre, to Pope Nicholas V in 1454. Bréhal submitted a summary of his findings to theologians and lawyers in France and Italy, as well as a professor at the University of Vienna, most of whom gave opinions favorable to Jeanne.

In early 1455, Pope Nicholas V died, and Callixtus III became pope. After a stern talking from Michael, as well as a glimpse into the damnation of those who had orchestrated Jeanne's death in Hell, Callixtus granted permission for a rehabilitation trial and appointed three commissioners to oversee the affair: Jean Juvénal des Ursins, archbishop of Reims; Guillaume Chartier, bishop of Paris; and Richard Olivier de Longueil, bishop of Coutances. In turn, they chose Bréhal to serve as Inquisitor.

The trial began on November 7th 1455 at Notre Dame Cathedral when Jeanne's mother publicly delivered a formal request for her daughter's rehabilitation. During the course of the rehabilitation trial, the depositions of about 115 witnesses were processed. The trial came to an end on July 7th 1456 at Rouen Cathedral. The court declared that the original trial was unjust and deceitful; Jeanne's abjuration, execution and their consequences were declared nullified. To emphasize the court's decision, one of the copies of the Articles of Accusation was formally torn up. The court decreed that a cross should be erected on the site of where Jeanne was burned.

## Appearance

Jeanne is one of the most beautiful Elohim, described as the epitome of feminine beauty by those who had met her. Unlike other reincarnated angels, she doesn't have the precise and molded beauty like Irina's, or the kind of cuteness that makes one's heart flutter by just being nearby like Lint's. Instead, she possesses a wondrous beauty that scarcely felt real, on-par with that of the original angels themselves.

Like other angels, she possesses a total of eight large and feathered wings growing out from her lower back. The wings themselves are pure-white for the most parts, though they faded into a bright crimson at the tips, making them look like they have just been dipped in fresh blood. She also has a gold aureola floating behind her, intricately engraved with important events from her human life, as well as a crown-like golden halo above her head, attached to it is a white veil embroidered with white lilies.

### Alternate Forms

Like other reincarnated angels, Jeanne possesses a secondary form unlike the uniformed true form the pure angels possess. In her secondary form, she is a colossal entity formed of white holy flames, dressed in a gleaming suit of silver armor. She has two pairs of floating gauntlets by her side acting as her arms, two of which hold giant swords made of crystallized holy fire while the remaining gauntlets are placed before her chest in a praying position. Growing from her back are giant church bells in the shape of white lilies, whose ringing noise can create shockwaves capable of obliterating entire skyscrapers. Feathered wings grow from her lower back, with golden eyes scattered across her pristine white wings.

## Personality

Although Jeanne is described as a taciturn and cool girl when acting as a military commander, her natural self is a plain and quiet girl who was forced to grow up fastly for the sake of others. She puts order first, and will wield a sword for the sake of the rules, but she fundamentally believes that lawfully right does not always mean morally right.

Because of her early involvement in the war and the burden put on her by her status as a Prophet, she developed a generally cynical outlook on life and accepted the world as a cruel place where only those who are strong truly have the chances to survive. As the war continued, Jeanne became noticeably more emotionally withdrawn and serious, but she was still devoted to the cause and cared deeply for her comrades, especially for Bertrand de Poulengy and Gilles de Rais who she viewed as her brother figures.

Despite this, however, Jeanne doesn't have a single regret regarding her life on Earth. She does not wish revenge or wish to be saved and it was enough for her to know the life that she lived alone. She does not believe that the Presence had forsaken her in her last moment, but rather, He has never forsaken a single person but there was just nothing He could have done. For her, praying and giving offerings are acts not for oneself but for the Lord, and she believes prayers will heal His lament and sorrow. She seeks peace and refuge in the Lord. The moment her prayer begins, she becomes separated from the world - Removed from the past, the future, and reality itself. She is there not for any particular purpose but simply to offer a prayer to the Lord. To her, every second of prayer is as important as every breath she takes, and there won't be a day passed where she does not pray.

At her core, she is a kind and caring person who greatly cares about the happiness, satisfaction, and safety of others. Befitting a legendary saint and a former Prophet, she is fiercely protective of humanity and is willing to risk it all for their protection and growth. According to Michael, her true loyalty lay in the Presence and His greatest creations, and the faith between her and him is solely based on his position as the [Guardian of Mankind].

On the battlefield, she is an inspiring leader, capable of using her natural charisma to lead her allies and soldiers into battle by using their faith, their family, and their patriotism as motivation for their fight. According to Odin, although she's a Catholic French, he couldn't help but notice how she perfectly embodies the virtue of a valkyrie. Despite her position as a commander and wielding Épée de Clovis, the Holy Sword of St. Catherine of Alexandria, she had never used it in the war, vowing to never shed blood of another human being, enemy or otherwise.

For supernatural creatures, however, she had fed the sword with their blood for the entire duration of the war, from monsters preying upon the innocents to daimons tormenting the soldiers in their sleep. To them, she was a cold, merciless, and ruthless warrior of the Christian Faction. She herself admitted that, while she would never spill *human* blood nor would she condone it, killing non-humans is fair game.

## Powers & Abilities

### Power-Ranking

* **CDI System** - Class VI (Reincarnated Angel)
* **P.O.W.E.R.S. System**
	+ **Physicality**: 7 - Legendary
	+ **Occult**: 7 - Legendary
	+ **Weaponry**: 7 - Legendary
	+ **Expertise**: 6 - Superb
	+ **Range**: 6 - Superb
	+ **Strategy**: 5 - Remarkable
		- **Total**: 215 TP
		- **Level 7 "Apex Threat"**

## Equipment

**Épée de Clovis**: Jeanne's holy sword and weapon of choice. It was once wielded by Charles Martel to fend off the invading forces of Umayyad Caliphate in the Battle of Tours, and before that, used to decapitate St. Catherine of Alexandria under Emperor Maximian's commands. It has the power to draw out sin and make those who bear witness to them face their own evil, wreathing them in purifying flame until they are nothing but ashes.

**Banner of d'Arc(War Flag of the Holy Maiden)** (Formerly): In history, Jeanne was known for waving her banner on the battlefield, inspiring and uplifting soldiers who had believed a Holy Maiden walked among them, and thus, motivating them into continually protecting her as she ran ahead in battle as the vanguard. However, when she was captured, the banner was destroyed so the English couldn't get a hold of them.

## Trivia

* Jeanne likes to have a plate of quiche and a nice glass of Beaujolais after a long day at work.
* Jeanne was often compared to biblical heroines such as Esther, Judith, and Deborah.
* Jeanne is the patron saint of martyrs, captives, prisoners, soldiers, military personnel, and people ridiculed for their piety.
	+ She is also the patron saint of WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) and Women's Army Corps.
	+ She is most well-known for being one of the patron saints of France, alongside St. Denis, St. Martin of Tours, St. Louis IX, St. Radegund, St. Remigius, St. Petronilla, St. Michael the Archangel, St. Theresa of Lisieux, and the Virgin Mary (as "Our Lady of the Assumption").
* According to legends, during her audience with Charles VII, Jeanne was able to instantly recognize the man they introduced was not the king, but rather a servant while the real one was standing beside him disguised as his aide. According to her, it wasn't divine intuition, but simply because: "*When someone is that self-absorbed, you’re going to notice whether you want to or not.*"
* Among the revisionist theories made about her by modern authors, the witch-cult theory made by Margaret Murray was the one Jeanne despised the most, as it portrayed her and her comrade Gilles de Rais as pagans who were fighting to oppose Christianity's influence in France - Something she considers to be a grave insult toward her faith.
	+ According to Catherine, had she not been restrained by other saints, Murray would be smote the moment her theory was published.