Beraneya

**Beraneya**, also known as **Ayaka Kabashima** and by her codename "The Fair Lady," was the Eighth of the Eleven Armiya Harbingers, and a supporting antagonist of Stella's Wondrous Adventure. from Hayakawa Arc to Shandian Arc.

She is the first Harbinger to appear in the storyline when she ambushes and fights Masanori Koshikawa to steal his Gnosis. Her attack leaves a lasting impression on Stella, who greatly distrusts the Armiya and their intentions after witnessing said event.

Five hundred years ago, before she became a Harbinger, Ayaka was an ordinary young woman from Hayakawa who studied at Ostium Instituto. When her lover Kousei died during the cataclysm, Ayaka was consumed by anguish and hatred and used the art of liquid fire to transform her body into that of living flame, thereafter becoming known as the Crimson Witch of Flame.

## Appearance

Beraneya is a tall woman with pale skin, platinum-blonde hair, and light gray eyes. Some of her hair is tied into two rose-shaped buns at the back of her head. She wears a black earring on her left ear and a black mask that covers her right eye. She is seen with what appears to be a Catalyst hovering behind her right shoulder.

She wears white high-collared tank top with four black diamond patterns on her breast, and navy blue side-sliting skirt with golden curved patterns that exposes her navel, She also wears silver coat with black fur.

## Personality

As one of the enigmatic Soldat Harbingers, Beraneya has a degree of mystery to her. Not much is known about her life prior to the Cataclysm, but she did have a lover. Later on, as the Crimson Witch of Flame, she goes off on a self-sacrificial journey to fight monsters.

Later, when she finally faces off against the Stella Ellison and Ithar, she calls Ithar a "rodent ruler" and takes his Gnosis. When the Stella encounters her in Ainkimash, Beraneya taunts them about their aforementioned failure to protect Ithar. In Shandian, she confidently accepts Stella's challenge to a duel before the throne, where the loser is executed. Beraneya's confidence was ultimately her undoing, as she lost to Stella and was executed by the Leiting as per the rules of the duel. Beraneya loses her composure then: she attempts to stop Leiting using her status as a diplomat, then with threats, and finally making a last-ditch attempt to lunge at Leiting.

## Abilities

**Semi-Immortality**: Beraneya possibly incapable of dying from old age.

**Delusion**: Before she could be fully devoured by her own flames, Shutnik found her and decided to make her an ally. She was given a Cryo Delusion to suppress her flames and became known as Beraneya, the Eighth of the Eleven Armiya Harbingers. In the process, she willingly cast aside and forgot her past, possibly with the help of her Delusion.

* **Cryokinesis:** As a Cryo Delusion user, Beraneya can manipulate ice, such as lowering the temperature of the surrounding air until solid ice forms or by freezing nearby water sources. They could release and channel this ice in the form of ice beams that freeze whatever it comes into contact with, or extremely rigid and durable ice walls and domes that can be used offensively and defensively. There's also the capacity to use ice in order to freeze one's opponents to death by trapping in ice that slowly kills their cells or shattering them to pieces once frozen.

**Pyrokinesis**: Beraneya can manipulate flames and replicates it with her movements, techniques and abilities. Most, if not all, known techniques and forms involve extremely powerful singular strikes which 'burn' his opponents, with most attacks being initiated from a high stance.

* **Crimson Witch of Flames**: The cataclysm struck while she was in Ostium. When she returned, she learned that her lover had died in battle against the demons. In her grief and rage, she decided to use "her life's flame" to cleanse "the world's crookedness," becoming the Crimson Witch of Flame. She was rumored to have abandoned her mortal body and instead let liquid fire flow through herself with an art that is now lost to history, burning her own face and scarring her body in the process. Although she only burned demons, she became feared by the people.
	+ **Thermal Resistance**: After using **Crimson Witch of Flames**, Beraneya's own body was set on fire and nearby objects started to burn away, yet despite all the damage that she took from this process she was still able to survive the intense heat.

## Etymology

* The name **Beraneya** (Russian: барыня) means "lady".

## Battles

* Beraneya vs Masanori Koshikawa
* Beraneya vs Stella Ellison