Soleil Excandescentia

* Normal Form
* Fire Titan Form

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**Soleil Excandescentia** 「ソレー エクスカンデッセンティア *Soree Ekusukandessentia*」 is the commander of the Spade Kingdom's Armor Division of the Mage Defense Force. She is the wife of Aegis and the adopted mother of Gabe. Of all of the division commanders, Soleil is one of the ones with the best public image, known for being willing to do anything to protect one of the citizens of the Spade Kingdom. Due to her division specializing in defensive magic, Soleil is known for taking in misfits whose magic isn't the strongest offensively and teaching them to use their powers in different ways. She is the first commoner commander of the Armor Division.

## Appearance

Soliel is a tall, dark-skinned, and muscular woman who appears as a young adult. Her dark red dreadlocks are pulled back away from her face in a low half-up, half-down hairstyle, and her ears are pointed, a symbol of her half-elf heritage. She has dark brown eyes with yellow markings stretching across her face, like the rays of the sun, further accentuated by yellow eyeshadow. On her wrists, there are glowing red marks like veins of lava cracking up from her blood, a sign of the first time she used Fire Titan in combat. She is surprisingly pretty, although she doesn't take care of her appearance as much as most people and as a result, her beauty usually isn't immediately obvious.

During her work hours, she usually wears practical and armored clothing, which is necessary for her job. Her preferred clothing is a long red tunic with golden lines along the bottom hem of it and intricate gold designs on the tail and chest, almost like mandalas. Plates of golden scale mail are inlaid under the tail of the tunic, as well as on her chest, sides and arms, with the plates on her arms spreading out from gold shoulder-pads, made from larger scale mail. To finish off the ensemble, she wears a belt with a simple gold circle in the middle. Underneath her tunic, she wears simple white pants. And red armored boots which have the toes tipped with steel painted like gold and the top of the boot armored as well, with the same circle design on her belt showing up on each one of them. On her back flows a golden cape. Her most distinctive accessory however, is her headdress, with the first part of it designed to look like golden horns, with the part behind it having the same motif as well and a carving made to look like the sun in the middle. On her arm is usually a bracelet that appears to be made of pyrite that tarnished long ago but she still never takes off. On her hand is her wedding ring.

When wearing casual clothes, she generally has a significantly less flashy look, preferring to wear clothing made for warm climates, due to her upbringing on the coast in a smiths forge. She prefers not to wear much jewelry, only wearing her wedding ring and the same pyrite bracelet, preferring to keep it on her as a reminder of her father. She usually wears clothing that is extremely practical, and rarely ever wears formal clothing, viewing it as a waste of money and preferring to wear her armor instead.

When in Fire Titan form, her sclera become a pure shade of black, made even darker by her glowing yellow iris. Her pupils also stretch out, until they become slit-shaped. Golden glowing lines crack all over her body, following the path of her blood veins as she pumps her body full of magic. Her skin almost appears to be glowing from the inside, and the air around her wavers in a heat haze. She starts changing in size, growing bigger and bigger the longer the spell goes on for, almost like a giant of the old days. Her armor starts heating up as well, her cloak trailing cinders as her headdress starts glowing.

Soleil's Full Appearence
## Personality

Soliel is serious with a caring and protective nature hidden behind her sternness. She is extremely upstanding, believing that lies are only a cowherds trick. While this makes her disliked in certain circles it makes her more liked in others. She cares for nobility and commoners equally due to having been a commoner herself and hating all nobles who place themselves over other people. While she is extremely upstanding, she has a soft spot for her adopted daughter Gabe and her wife Aegis, allowing both of them to get away with a bit more then they should have. She is extremely protective of the Armor Division, viewing them as a found family, with the sentiment being returned by the division. She still wears the bracelet her father made for her as a reminder of him, and always tries to be here for her own wife, Aegis.

The difference between the ideals that she wishes to uphold and the reality of the world is something she recognizes. While she is still optimistic and upstanding she is willing to overlook things that others have done, even if it weighs on her consciousness. Even then she often does call people out when they go too far and make them actually live up to mortal standards due to believing that it is the best way to help the Spade Kingdom. She is the stalwart defender of every person she is assigned to protect, and if they die she views it as her own personal fault, even going so far as to memorize the names and histories of every ally who had died in one of her battles. When fighting she tries to be as defensive as possible, not wanting to hurt anyone, and is often the type to take a hit for her teammates.

She hates killing people, although she is willing to do so in a fight, but will never kill someone outside of a battle due to her ideals, viewing it as wrong. Due to this and the fact that, as the commander of the Armour Division she is responsible for the defenses of Spade, she is one of the more pacifist commanders, not wanting to go to war with any of the other kingdoms, sometimes mourning the lack of cooperation between them. While she has more knowledge on the other kingdoms then your average person, it is still lacking compared to the other commanders, due to her not going out of her way to study them.

In public she often puts on a mask, of the perfect warrior who still cares about people, not allowing herself to show any negative emotions due to having to always be the perfect commoner and never get anything wrong during her youth. Around people she trusts, the mask comes off and she allows herself to be less serious. She snarks, she's occasionally rude, she has a competitive streak and she allows herself to show all of the small flaws and imperfections that make her human. People meeting her off of work often comment on the difference between how she acts. She only takes off the mask when she is by herself, with the armor division or with her family. She also only swears around people she knows well, trusting them to not comment on it.

One of the things that she absolutely hates is any sort of formal event, even making the point of wearing her armor to them just so she doesn't have to go through the hassle of finding a dress. She absolutely hates all of the politicking she has to go through to get funding for her division and tries to avoid it whenever she can, sending more politically astute members of her Divison such as Kori or Challea to do it instead. This is mostly because of her not having been raised among these environments and knowing it, feeling out of place in any of these situations due to her upbringing. She's used to insults though, having gone through her entire life hearing them from other people.

Soleil rarely relaxes, but when she does she is often more introverted, preferring to just rest and read due to her work being exhausting. Occasionally she just wants to taake it down a notch and rest, although it is hard for her to do this. However, she also views training as relaxing due to how repetitive it is, and will often assign it to the Armor Division when she feels they need to relax a bit, to groans all around. Furthermore, Soleil loves to eat snacks, preferring things such as muffins. She normally keeps herself on a strict diet but is extremely happy when she gets to deviate from it so she can eat sweets.

Her most concerning trait however, is probably her self-sacrificing nature, that could be classified as a form of Martyr Complex. Soleil is okay with taking a hit, and would gladly die for somebody else if she knew it would protect them. This extends to her work, where she is willing to take the most dangerous missions, the most punishing shifts, staying up late at night just because she believes it could help. As well as extending to her personal life where she is more then willing to act as a shoulder to lean on for her friends but rarely if ever takes care of herself, believing that if she can't deal with her problems by herself, she has failed. That is also the reason why she has never looked into her heritage, as she just doesn't believe that she should stop working in order to take enough time to think about herself, due to not believing herself to be important enough to worry about it. While her friends and family have been trying to get her to understand this, she still needs to remember that she is more then what she can give to other people.

## Relationships

### Aegis Hysminai

Soleil and Aegis are married and in a relationship, with both of them loving each other and being willing to confide in each other about secrets. While Soleil loves her wife, she is concerned about Aegis's tendency to not take missions seriously, as well as the fact that she has been unofficially barred from noble events. She wears her wedding ring almost all the time, nearly never taking it off.

While they have a loving relationship now, when they first met the two had a mutual dislike. Aegis had just rejected her family and meanwhile Soleil was being an overachiever in the Armor Division, burning out a bit. They both disliked the other, seeing them as what they hated about the Spade Kingdom. Only when they were sent on a mission together, where Soleil saved Aegis and learned the truth about Aegis's past, did they finally start working together, slowly becoming closer and closer until they started dating.

### Gabe Artino

Gabe and Soleil have a familial relationship, with Soleil acting as Gabe's mother. Gabe views her as the ideal of a division member and strives to reach the same heights Soleil has. Meanwhile, Soleil is extremely protective of Gabe, viewing Gabe as her responsibility.

While Soleil remembers first meeting with Gabe on a mission, Gabe remembers her first meeting with Soleil differently. During Operation: Cell Block Lothric and Drangleic, Gabe's parents were one of the ones rounded up, with their house burned down. Although Soleil wasn't the one who apprehended Gabe's parents, Gabe still hated her. However, when Gabe was separated from her sister, Soleil, who had never seen Gabe before helped her survive. Eventually, Gabe started living in the Armor Division, never telling anybody about what had happened to her original parents while Soleil remained none the wiser. Nothingless they still care for each other as family.

### Division Commanders

Soleil respects the other commanders, although she dislikes Giselle, mostly due to viewing assassination as a cowards tactic. She and Lyu however, have a long-lasting friendship, with Soleil and Aegis acting as unofficial aunts to his kids. Often, she feels out of place among them, due to never expecting she'd get this far. She is extremely polite to all of them and will often take their advice on things, even if she knows better.

## History

Soleil was born a commoner, in a small town on the southern part of Spade. Her father worked as a smith, making and repairing tools, trinkets, and other things using his Fire Magic. She never knew her mom, only that she was apparently a woman of great beauty and magic, who had left her at her father's windowsill after she was born. Growing up, she was mocked for her parentage and the fact that her mom left her, as well as her strange ears which had faint points to them. Soleil took this all in stride and used to hide out in her father's forge, learning mana control from him as she helped out with chores around the forge. Her favorite things to see her father make were always weapons, mostly because she loved seeing the soldiers who came to pick them up, wondering what their lives were like. She used to train with her Fire Magic, which had always been strong, and used it to try and help people around town, from lighting hearths to chasing away her bullies. During this time she developed a strong sense of justice as she saw nobles lord their power over commoners and those same commoners turning around and hurting those weaker than them. Seeing this, Soleil endeavored to become someone strong enough to change all of that.

When she was old enough to get her grimoire, she immediately signed up for the Mage Defense Force test, viewing it as what she had been training for her entire life. Her dad made her a bracelet out of pyrite, so she would look more in place in the test among nobles. She walked in and she aced the test, getting the current captain of the Armor Division at the time, a women named Brigitte to take her. She said goodbye to her father and packed up, but not before her father gave her a sword that he had made, that was inlaid with a strange material that Soleil's mother had gave him before she left as well as being enchanted with his Fire Magic.

Her first days in the Armor Division were rough. The division wasn't as filled with nobles as the other divisions, mostly due to their work not being seen as exciting or glamorous but there were still many who disrespected her. She learned to cope with it, however, by being the perfect one, the one who never got anything wrong on assignments, the one who would do the hardest work without asking for it. Somehow, this paid off. She was assigned more missions and quickly became known to commoners as the person who would protect them such as during one mission, where she took the time to evacuate all of the servants from a noble's manor before the manor was attacked. It was small things but it gave her a good reputation among the Armor Division. She also made one of her first friends, a woman named Danu who had been fired multiple times but kept coming back somehow.

It was during this time that she also met Aegis, who would later turn out to be the love of her life. At first, she didn't like Aegis, due to viewing her as arrogant, entitled, and in the Mage Defense Force for selfish reasons. Aegis didn't like her either, viewing Soleil as a stubborn, naive, and hopelessly optimistic idiot. But this all changed during a mission to protect a noble, where Aegis called out said noble on her bullshit and revealed herself to be disowned by her family. From then on Soleil was a little nicer to Aegis and the two grew closer every mission, with the two eventually starting to date and even get engaged.

Throughout all of this, she started developing her magic, wanting to make it stronger. Mana skin was hard for her to learn but once she learned it she caught on quickly. After a conversation in which she heard about Mana Restoration, Soleil started learning it, combining it with her mana skin to make her extremely durable. She got stronger and stronger until, during a fight where a large part of the division had been hurt, she developed her signature spell, Fire Titan by trying a last-ditch plan where she internalized her mana skin, gathered mana within herself and what she thought would be her final actions, suffused it with fire magic to make herself a being of pure heat. Instead of dying, however, a new spell revealed itself in her grimoire and she felt herself getting stronger and stronger, even changing in size, a true giant of fire.

Due to her accomplishments, she was selected as the new captain after the old one retired by a close vote by the royalty. She immediately started changing things around the division, getting rid of some of the nepotism that plagued its ranks and even firing some of the people who had shown no regard for human lives. The new training that Armour Division recruits went through was also made to drill into them that they should try to protect people whenever they could, and not view commoners and nobles as different. These changes made her disliked among noble circles, however. During all of this in a breakneck period of her life, she also finally married Aegis. Things were going well and she even had a new Second-in-Command, a woman named Athena, who had proved herself to be a good division member.

During this time she also realized just how many people were rejected from the divisions just because they had magic that would take longer to develop and were commoners. Even though it wasn't quite as daunting to get into the Mage Defense force as say something like the Magic Knights, to get in you needed to already know how to use a magic that had to be straightforwardly powerful. Knowing this, she started accepting people who didn't have much direct power that was immediately apparent, and teaching them how to use their powers in ways that would be more defensive, letting them grow and develop on their own terms instead of anybody else's. She became closer to her division because of that and even found a new family there, one that they all choose for themselves on their own terms.

On one mission, she found an orphaned girl named Gabriela, who had extremely strong berserker magic and a protective instinct. After Gabriela or Gabe as she liked to be called helped save her, Soleil let her stay in the Armour Division headquarters. When she became old enough, she joined the Division and was essentially Soleil and Aegis's daughter, growing and learning from them. On another mission, Soleil got some more of a hint about her heritage when she was hunting down a person who was supposedly stealing people's blood, she met a strange women, who addressed Soleil as half-human. Soleil, who was used to insults about her ears and her mom was unfazed, but something in also felt like this was different than that. Afterwards, they found evidence that this woman was behind the killings, and furthermore, a part of the White Brigade. This made Soleil even more nervous, but she still hasn't figured out the truth of her heritage quite yet...

## Battle Prowess

### Abilities

**Weapon Mastery:** Soleil is a master of both sword and shield, with competency in many other weapons. Even when she was a kid, to the objections of her father, she made weapons out of scrap metal and used to train with them, fighting with other kids on her block. Furthermore, she has a lot of knowledge on the making of weapons and how to use each weapons properties best individually. This was further perfected by her training with the Armor Division where she learned to fight defensively with many weapons, although she still prefers to use a shortsword when she can, being best with that weapon above all others. Her fighting style is extremely defensive-based and normally made so that she is taking the hits for another person instead of the other way around.

**Above-Average Speed:** While Soleil is probably the slowest of the Division Commanders, mostly focusing on defensive tactics, this still means that she is extremely fast for a mage, being able to easily dart from one place to the other without much effort.

**Dawning Strength:** Soleil has an extreme amount of natural strength further supplemented by her training. She is extremely strong on a baseline level, able to break things in her hand without applying any magic, but this is mostly due to the extreme amount of strength and durability training she puts herself through every day. With her reinforcement magic added onto that, she can break holes in solid steel and easily lift a large amount of weight. Due to her speciality of reinforcement magic, she is able to do this easier than most mages and even most elite mages. While she isn't the physically strongest commander, she is probably the best at using her strength over long periods of time, able to do things such as carry weights for miles and do other feats of both endurance and strength, combining the two.

**Immense Durability:** It is hard to down Soleil in a battle. Many of her spells directly make her stronger or just are defensive in nature, her mastery of mana skin makes it hard to attack her with magic and she is well versed in defensive fighting. But the hardest thing to deal with is very simple. Due to a lot of durability and a lot of willpower, she always gets back up. Soleil is hard to damage, with her having grown up fighting and in the forge as well as her well-trained defenses. She is extremely durable and able to take a lot of hits and keep standing. Even if you somehow manage to break one of Soleil's bones, a hard feat considering that she is extremely good with Reinforcement Magic and is usually wearing armor, she will solder on like nothing happened. Even though she is extremely good with shields as well, she doesn't use them due to her body on it's own being nearly as strong as one, and her being willing to take the hit. Of the Division Commanders is she probably the most durable, being able to take almost any hit and get back up again.

**Immense Magic Power:** As a half-elf and a Division Commander Soleil possesses a immense store of magic power developed through years of training and prodigious natural talent. Along with her already elite combat skills, this makes her a terror to be faced on the battlefield. Her aura is like fire around her, like the heat in the middle of a forge or a volcano and when she gets angry, the temperature rises, to the point where some people shaking her hand have gotten small blisters. It is like the jotun of old, primordial fire flickering around someone who was born from that same fire. She has control over her aura though, and only releases it when in situations where she looses control of her emotions, with it barely being noticeable in most circumstances. Her Magic Power is noticeable as well, although this normally only happens when she is closer to someone. When people use mana detection on her it often appears like she is lit up like a bonfire in terms of her mana.

### Magic

**Fire Magic****:** Soleil possesses fire magic, a common magic that she has nothing less refined to its strongest state, where she can summon infernos at will and make metal melt with a touch. Her mastery of this power is such that she can set her own internal body heat to extreme temperatures without hurting herself just to warm up her drink, and summon a barrier of flame to protect someone while being in a heated fight. Her normal attack style with it is to be defensive, putting up barriers and using her magic to enhance her weapons and allies before attacking, being calm and levelheaded to the extreme whenever she uses it. When she starts going on the offensive however, is where she truly becomes scary, able to make walls of flame with a swing of her sword and cover herself in fire before charging at an enemy, her mastery of mana skin allowing her to do things that would normally boil a human being. She can easily make fire from nothing, and often heats up rooms by just being in them. While many people with fire magic focus on attacking with giant amounts of power, she focuses on using it to augment herself and defend others, being extremely heat-proof and able to easily melt steel with her bare hands.

She specializes however in using it to enhance her abilities to enter a state in which she becomes a juggernaut capable of tanking almost any attack and her blows carry the force of an inferno. This technique is not used much by her but shows one of the strange traits of her magic, it can use things like her own lifeforce or her mana as fuel to make it stronger, although she has not quite realized the potential of doing this yet due to her self-sacrificing nature.

**Reinforcement Magic:** Soleil's speciality, she has taken her own use of reinforcement magic to levels that confound most people, able to do things such as heat up her body to temperatures that melt stones without getting hurt due to her mastery of this technique. Her bare skin is so durable when she is using Reinforcement magic that if you punch her you are likely to get your hand broken. She can also use this to support other people, being able to gift a bit of her own durability onto other people for a few seconds, to help her defend them. Most of her Reinforcement-type spells focus on making her more durable, although she has one or two that increase her strength. She is able to caste basic reinforcement spells without a grimoire, sometimes even not having to consciously maintain them.

**Barrier Magic:** Soleil uses this type of magic to create barriers made of flame, or to prevent people from getting hurt. She specializes in making it so that even if you could get through the barrier spells, the spell itself is extremely hard to shake off due to its flammability.

**Creation Magic:** Soleil can create objects and beings out of fire using her magic attribute. She specializes in creating weapons and walls.

**Mana Skin:** Soleil is a master of mana skin above all else, almost peerless at using it to enhance herself and her spells. She is able to keep it going without thinking about it, enough so that she can easily form fire around herself to heat it up. It is also the reason why she doesn't use a shield, as her abilities with it and her own magic are more than enough for her to go without one easily. Furthermore, she has figured out how to use it internally, to protect her organs from overheating and uses this for many of her spells, where she gets her temperature on the outside extremely high to attack. This is also used in Fire Titan, where she coats her internal organs in it to prevent them from very literally turning into goop due to the heat of the spell she is using. Her mana skin is extremely hard to beat, but is best when dealing with high temperature and physical attacks due to her speciality being in protecting herself from those.

**Mana Restoration Technique:** Soleil is skilled in Mana Restoration technique, albeit to nowhere near the level she is skilled in mana skin. She can easily use it to regenerate her mana and keep her Reinforcement magic spells up, although it takes focus for her to use it that she often finds way harder to muster in a fight. When she is doing her more dangerous spells, she uses this as a fallback measure, to prevent her fire from eating away at her lifeforce instead of her mana.

### Spells

Soleil starting to enter Fire Titan mode.
* **Fire Titan:** With an open grimoire, the user gathers mana around themselves and suffuses themselves with the mana, their body changing due to the sheer amount of mana inside it to become stronger and bigger, all the while heating themselves up at such an incredible rate that only masters of mana skin can use this spell setting said mana on fire. Every time they attack while in this form they drain mana but also are enhanced to an extreme degree with fire magic. The spell ends only if they stop it or run out of mana. If they run out of mana there is a chance of their lifeforce being devoured to serve as fuel for the fire magic within them, potentially killing them
* **Surtur's Wrath**: With an open grimoire, Soliel covers her sword in flame and swings it releasing a powerful and destructive wave of flame.
* **Giants Protection**: With an open grimoire, Soleil makes a large shield made out of flames, that when shattered melts whatever shattered it.
* **Logi's Wildfire:** Soleil heats up the sunblade, to the point where it is beyond steels melting temperature. With this, she can easily slash through many things, the blade melting materials as it cut through them
* **Touch of Dazhbog:** Soleil heats up herself and the area around her, bursting into flames that don't seem to harm her yet are enough to burn most people.

### Equipment

**Sunblade:** A blade forged by Soleil's father as a gift for her before she left to become a Mage Division Member, the Sunblade is a blade that was magically enchanted to be able to keep it's form in extreme heat, and is inscribed with a strange metal from Soleil's mother that Soleil is easily able to conduct magic with. As a result she mostly uses it to superheat it and attack, being able to keep it at temperatures far beyond steel's melting point.

**Grimoire:** A Spade Kingdom grimoire containing Fire Magic Spells.

Soleil's GrimoireSoleil holding the Sunblade
## Trivia

* Soleil's first name is french for 'sun' and her last name, Excandescentia, derives from Excandescent. If you put them together it means Excandescent Sun.
* Her favorite foods is muffins.