Pendragon

**Pendragon** (ペンドラゴン, *Pendoragon*?) was an powerful level-100 female player of YGGDRASIL as well the-then World Champion of Midgard. Considered one of the strongest of players in the game, she serves as the first and only guild master of the Knights of the Round Table, a guild that welcomed literally anything into its rank as long it followed the guild's core main tenets. Been playing YGGDRASIL since the Beta stages and well into its official release, she is seen as one of the more popular players among the World Champions, having been the World Champion of Midgard since the earliest years of the game.

In in the game world as Pendragon, in the World of 2138, it was revealed through Arthur Jackson that she was the powerful **Catherine Evergarden** (キャサリン・エヴァーガーデン, *Kyasarin Evāgāden*?), the female Yakuza Lord of North America, as well an veteran of World War III in service to the United States Marine Corps with cybernetic implants.

However throughout the New World, Pendragon having appeared roughly over 600 years ago is greatly infamously known as the **God of Fire** (火の神, *Hinokami*?), one of the New World's legendary Six Great Gods and a central deity of the Slane Theocracy and most mainland religious organizations (including among those of the Temple of the Four Gods, a variation of the Six Great Gods in the Roble Holy Kingdom). She has since her death left behind a assortment of magical artefacts taken by multiple countries (e.g. the Round Table held by the Holy Kingdom).

## Biography

### Background

#### Early Life

Pendragon, or by her birth name Catherine Evergarden was born in the year 2081, roughly nine years before the ten-year long Resource War between the People's Republic of China and the United States where the main Theater was located in Alaska. Having been born in central Alaska at the time, whereas her family the Evergarden family, a military family in service to the U.S. military. At the time she was an military brat before having graduated her education to eventually join the United States Marine Corps at the age of seventeen.

## Appearance

Pendragon was described by Lionheart as an gorgeous young woman where she tried her best to make her avatar look exactly like she does in real life, flowing crimson red hair with brown eyes, she had a slender almost hour-glass figure and a lean figure with some muscular definition.

## Personality

Pendragon was a highly respected player within the game, due to her virtuous nature to protect players who had unfairly been discriminated against due to their choices in the game itself. In Midgard, she's one of the most well known players as an defender of Heteromorphic Races and her reputation extended after becoming Midgard's World Champion. She's a head-strong player who will do anything to protect, valuing honour and integrity in her own words and never backing down from any threat hat stands before her. She's shown as a compassionate being who treats everyone with respect no matter their racial traits or even alignment, being respectful to both ally and foe.

## Abilities & Powers

### Real World

Born into a military family and eventually trained into the United States Marine Corps during the end of the Resource War and participated in World War III, Catharine possess immense amounts of military and combat skills and prowess more so then most in 2138. Throughout the first year of the war, her quick response times and skilful handling of firearm, tactical ingenuity and combat prowess would lead her an hand-picked position within the Naval Special Warfare Development Group, transitioning from Marines to Naval. As an skilled commando during the early years of the war, she would then be hand picked to partake in Project Talos, an specialised secret military project in creating super soldiers. While would not become as heavily cybernetically fortified as Igor Florida, her corresponding cybernetics would lead her to become of the U.S. best SEAL commando. She has also had her aging come to near-halting point, despite she is in her late-50s, still has a youthful figure of someone in her mid to late twenties, thanks to some genetic modifications to allow her to possess the integral military cybernetics. She is also one of the few people in the world fully capable of operating outside in the toxic-filled environment due to her EC-10 lung system allowing her to easily breath in the toxic air and expel the toxic air and only purely intake oxygen.

Catharine's various cybernetics would greatly augment her physical abilities, especially for stealth-based operations and close-quarters combat. Trained in a rigorous training regime more brutal then those of SEAL Six, she as been able to achieve near superhuman levels of speed and reaction timing. In stealth operations, many both friend and foe alike gave her the nickname **"Ghost"** (幽霊, *Yūrei*?) as she would make no sound before assassinating enemy targets swiftly and efficiently. Extremely agile and flexible, she can quickly go to point A to B quietly, using her martial arts skill to quickly take down foes to proceed forward with the operations. Her martial arts especially in taijutsu and Tantojutsu had made her an lethal foe to encounter, easily shown taking down multiple targets in quick succession. According to enemy intelligence, her threat level is extremely high and an target of assassination due to her cybernetic augmentations and training.

### YGGDRASIL

Pendragon was one of the Knights of the Round Table strongest player among all of the 150 knights and even among the Founding Knights. According to Uther Pendragon, she held the highest amount of HP, attacks, defenses and resistance, enabling her to rise as one of the strongest players after becoming World Champion. According to Lionheart, if given enough time she would've rose to become an World Enemy. Due to her classes involving both combat and supporting her allies, she's one of the most important figures in the Founding Knights due to prior, in the Knights of Midgard more often supported her allies with buffs, to which Uther Pendragon became as she look towards a more combat role. She's also seen as one of guild's strategist and is able to plan ahead of time for any dungeon fights, raids and even guild wars that often occurs against their guild base.

#### Active

* **World Break**: A world champion skill that is said to be a more powerful version of the 10th tier spell 'Reality Slash'.
* **Dimensional Gap**
* **Dimensional Slash**

### Real World

#### YGGDRASIL

**Guildmaster's Robes**: *Divine*-class Item that was created by the Founding Knights alongside Ascalon, the Guildmaster's Robes is one of the Round Table's strongest and iconic equipment that serves as the "Unity and pride" of the Knights of the Round Table.

**Ascalon**: The Guild Weapon that carries the very heart of the Knights of the Round Table, serving as their strongest weapon behind Caliburn. While never used in battle due to its destruction means the end of the guild, it is used in many of their ceremonies and activities.

**Caliburn**: One of the 20 *World*-class Items, Caliburn is one of Pendragon's most infamous weapon, having pulled the sword from the Barnstokkr tree. It serves as her might, an holy weapon capable of causing near-fatal damage to all undead and evil beings, highest protection from despair and evil.

## Trivia & Notes

* Physically represented by Erza Scarlet.
* Pendragon, Igor and Lionheart are the author's three characters that has insight more so in the world of 2138 and its history.