Valentina Feuerdrache

> Everything’s going to be okay. I’m home, Em. I’m home. And I’m never going to leave you ever again.
>
> Valentina

**Valentina Feuerdrache** is the older sister of Embla Feuerdrache. She is the goal of Embla's journey in Volumes I and II of Memento Mori. Throughout the story, it is revealed that Valentina is the Valkyria of Midgard and the strongest woman within Midgard's Military Forces. Seven years before the start of the series, Valentina vanished to go on a mission. The details of this mission are hazy at best but it is revealed that she only accepted due to the fact that Kvasir, one of Midgard's high ranking politcial officials, threatened her younger sister's life.

She is currently in Midgard but has not revealed herself to her younger sister. Her alias when interacting with Embla is Askr.

In the chapter, *Reunion*, Valentina and Embla reuinited for the first time in seven years.

## Profile

*She is the Valkyria. An angel of death who roams the chaos of battle, finding the unfortunate to reap during combat.*
*The Valkyria is loved and adored by all yet she only shows affection and happiness to the one she swore to protect.*

## Appearance

During her first appearance, Valentina is described to wear a long hooded cloak the covers most of her body. Without her cloak on, Valentina wears the standard uniform of the Knights of Midgard. She wears a black and white military court uniform with black pants. She has gold pins on her cuffs. On her head, Valentina wears a small horn hairpin on the right side. When her hair is tied, she wears a black hair tie with the ᚱ rune on the tie.

Embla describes her as having snow-white hair. She is also stated to have a tender and soft gaze on her face. Her eyes are stated to be a shade of blue as deep as the sky. When she uses her Arts, Valentina's eyes turn gold, which Embla describes as the purest shade and likens it to staring at molten gold inside a crucible.

## Personality

Valentina is a laid-back, nonchalant individual on first glance. She loves to shirk her duties, refusing to fill out forms and paperwork. This can be evidenced by her taking any opportunity possible to not due clerical work, despite it being her job as one of Midgard's top 2 military officials. Koji describes her as annoying after she returned when he gave Embla her letter.

However, despite this, Valentina is shown to be a diligent and dedicated individual. She takes her work seriously, effortlessly delegating and leading teams in investigations. She is thorough, leaving no stone unturned in any endeavor she undertakes. While it might not seem like it, Valentina is a perfectionist at heart and will not accept her work to be any less than satsifactory in her eyes. Like Koji, Valentina can be tactful when necessary, showing the proper respect and decorum in front of the three Sages that visited Yggdrasil.

Valentina is shown to love her younger sister immensely, being the only family she has left in the world. Her love is so great that she was willing to undertake an extremely dangerous mission just to make sure her sister wasn't hurt. As a result, she bears an undying animosity to those who would even dare of thinking to harm Embla. Due to her abruptly leaving Embla for seven years, Valentina fears her sister's reaction to her return and has taken multiple opportunities to hide from her. She expresses guilt and sadness, feeling fear that Embla would hate her but is willing to accept and bear her sister's hatred all the same. It is only when Embla was in danger that she decided to reveal herself.

## History

Valentina Feuerdrache is the older sister of Embla Feuerdrache. The two were born in Midgard. At some point through unknown circumstances, both Embla and Valentina lost their parents, forcing her to step up as the head and breadwinner of the family. She began learning under Lilim and unlocked her Arts at a young age. According to Embla, Valentina was initially an adventurer alongside a Dragonkin named Kojiro Komatsu. Eventually, the two rose up and joined the Knights of Midgard, breaking all the records and becoming the youngest Einherjar and Valkyria in the history of Midgard

During a routine assignment, Valentina and Koji discovered the existence of Draugr. With this information being made known to the government, Kvasir threatened Embla's life, forcing Valentina to go on a seven year assignment to investigate similar instances of this creature across Yggdrasil.

## Powers and Abilities

**Immense Magical Power:** As the Valkyria of Midgard, Valentina is implied to have immense mana reserves and magical prowess. The full extent of her magical powers have yet to be known but it is implied to be on par with Kojiro's. She has shown only one instance of utilizing magic.

* **Summoning Magic:** Summoning Magic refers to a series of skills that allows the user to use mana to transport objects from long distances to their location without traversing the space in between.
	+ **Summon: Ragnarok Blossom:** Valentina summons her weapon, Ragnarok Blossom, to her by uttering a chant.

**Immense Prana Control:** Valentina has immense control over her body's ability to produce prana as well as perfect control over how to use it. She is seen manipulating it to enhance her body slightly to boost her already impressive physical strength. Her prana is enough to cause immense gale force winds and crack the floor underneath her.

**Master Combatant:** Valentina is extremely skilled at combat, having displayed immense skill in unarmed and armed combat. She is shown to be a genius at swordplay and knows how to utilize a lance. Valentina boasts considerably massive physical strength, durability and speed. Even without prana enhancing her blows, just a simple thrust of her lance was capable of generating enough force to rupture the floor beneath them and send Sigrun flying through the air. In addition, she has exceptional speed and reflexes, being able to effortlessly keep up with Sigrun, an opponent that even Kaguya had a hard time defending against with her Arts, Setsuna.

* **Ouroboros:** Ouroboros is sword style and series of skills utilized by Lilim and Valentina. It is rooted in the concept "Strike to Kill" and emphasizes speed and agility, as well as strength when striking.
	+ **Ouroboros: Encircling:** A martial skill revolving around the use of a sword. The user swings their sword, creating a ring of air that travels at high speeds and can destroy their surroundings.
	+ **Ouroboros MayaUnending Illusion:** The penultimate technique of Ouroboros. It is utilized by Lilim and Valentina. It is known as “The Infinite Strike” due to its seeming capability to produce an unlimited number of slashes in a single stroke of the sword. The speed and strength of the attack are so immense that it slices apart air and light, giving the illusion that the user has split open reality itself.

## Arts

**Origin:** Origin is the Arts of Valentina and Embla. So far, it has displayed the ability to utilize creative powers to create barriers and weapons according to the user's wishes. In addition, it has been used to be able to regenerate and heal others as seen when Valentina repaired Embla's shoulder to the best of her knowledge. Its creative powers appear to be limited by the user's knowledge of certain topics as seen when Embla's arm, while healed, had a limited range of motion, forcing her to wait for a Bishop. In addition, the user can command a highly destructive form of energy that is capable of destroying and erasing whatever it hits. This energy is fired in a beam from focus objects such as Ragnarok Blossom.

* **Liberated Blood Lily:** An Arts Skill. The user compresses destructive red and black energy into a small point at the tip of their weapon or within their hand. The condensing of such an immense amount of energy creates a horrid screeching sound and tremendous winds capable of lifting pebbles off the ground. The orb is said to resemble a small red star and is so luminous that it can darken the sky and outshine the sun itself. The user then fires the energy in the form of a beam. In Valentina's hands, the beam is capable of puncturing a gravity well such as Hati's Black Hole and dispersing it.

## Trivia

* Valentina's real life birthday is on October 10th.
* Valentina is talented in sewing and making plushies. She created Embla's stuffed wolf toy.

## References

1. ↑ Vol II, Chapter XLI
2. ↑ Vol II, Chapter XXII
3. ↑ Interlude, Chapter II
4. ↑ Vol II, Chapter XL
5. ↑ Vol II, Chapter XL
6. ↑ Vol II, Chapter XL