High Priestess

The High Priestess is the main antagonist of Season 2 of Radiant Force. She is the leader of The Coven, and the Stygian army as a whole.

## Appearance

The High Priestess disguises herself in meetings as a hooded, secretive figure. When in private, she dresses in low cut plunge dresses with a stylish bun.

In her transformed state, she possesses black sclerae, and red irises, with deathly pale skin and hair.

## Personality

The High Priestess is a charismatic, but ultimately fickle individual. Initially a disinterested socialite who wishes to maintain her hedonistic lifestyle, she hides her greed and ambition to maintain her status and power, where she treats the common masses as her pawns.

She was impressed by the likes of Ethan Cross, willing to ally and fall in love with him in their shared mutual interest of ruling the common masses.

During the final battle, The High Priestess is not above sacrificing the lives of her own soldiers and using them as fuel and shields to power her own ego. She knows that by absorbing the Stygians, they would suffer, and that the girls could not bring themselves to kill them, which in theory, would allow her to continue her final plans unimpeded.

## Background

A wealthy socialite, she enjoyed the privileges of wealth blessed unto her at birth. However, when Ethan Cross unleashed the Dark Force onto Lumina City, mass panic occurred.

Fearing that she would lose her benefits just as everyone else now that her money had the potential to become useless in the post-apocalyptic world, she had decided to gain power and ambition so that she could use her image as a leader and have an army of cultlike followers to serve her while she could resume her lap of luxury, substituting wealth for power and influence.

Crafting her image as an anarchist witch over the powers of darkness, she became the leader of the Stygians, giving them direction and turning them into her personal army to rule over Lumina City as a failed state akin to 21st Century Somalia - where the strongest rule with might and evil is where people would do as they please.

The addiction to power then fuelled her megalomania. Deciding that a cult was not enough, she decided to absorb every Stygian Seed, in the pursuit of more. This turned the Stygian Army against her, as they aided the Radiant Force. Unable to control her powers, she grew insane, tainting her mental faculties with her darkness before she was defeated by the Radiant Force as they purified the darkness in her body with strategy and the Aurum Gem, expelling all the Stygian Seeds she absorbed, rendering her alive but comatose, her body now in suspended animation to study.

## Abilities

Regeneration:

Absorption: In the final battle, her innate understanding of the Stygian powers, allow her to absorb nearly every single Stygian Seed, allowing her to transform and giving her immense power output.

Darkness Powers:

## Notes

I wanted to contrast a personal tendency to create sympathetic villains, hence making her an easy target of a scheming, power hungry villain wanting to cross great lengths to achieve and maintain great power. I don't have any personal commentary on the rich based on wealth alone, though I do hate the self-righteous types who think they know better than the common man.

She also serves as a commentary on self-serving scum who exploit beneficial causes and betray their constituents.

## Trivia

* Her appearance borrows from Mother Miranda from Resident Evil: Village
* Her appearance also borrows from the demon Lilith from Black Clover.