Yerin Arelius

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**Yerin** is the companion of Wei Shi Lindon and the apprentice of the Sage of The Endless Sword. Yerin and Lindon are adopted disciples of the Arelius Family under the order of Eithan Arelius. On top of that she has also joined the Skysworn. Recently, the Sage of Red Faith is obsessed with Yerin and her Blood Shadow, Ruby. She is a Monarch who ascended beyond Cradle and joined the Reaper Division of the Abidan.

## Appearance

When first we meet her, Yerin is thin and scruffy. She looks like she has spent the past while camped out in the woods. She cuts her own hair with sword madra in a perfectly straight line to minimize its interference in combat. Initially, she wears a tattered black sacred artist's robe with a thick red cord tied around her waist. Her skin is covered in thin white, regular scars from practicing the Endless Sword technique.

* When she adopts her master's Remnant at the end of book 1, Unsouled, she gains Goldsign blade-arms.
* After ascending to Underlady in book 6 Underlord, all her scars are gone

### Appearance as a Herald

* Art in character box -- Yerin, end of Wintersteel, by felcandy, with permission. Instagram
* After becoming a Herald and fusing with her Blood Shadow Ruby, her appearance changes again. Now her eyes, her goldsigns, and one lock of her hair are crimson. See the end of book 8, Wintersteel.

## Personality

Yerin is / was dedicated to her beloved master, the Sage of the Endless Sword. Now that he’s dead, she clings to his teachings and his memory. Also, after her master was murdered in Sacred Valley she’s been suspicious of supposedly kindly strangers. However, once she gives her trust, she is totally loyal, especially to Lindon. She is an intense person, brave but not showy, without an ounce of self-pity. Her words are few but honest; her speech is habitually pithy and straightforward, but not mean-spirited. She doesn’t know when she was born. She cannot read or write, but she is intelligent and frequently comes up with dry-as-dust analogies, metaphors and similes. She despises her Blood Shadow — a piece of the the Bleeding Phoenix — as it has murdered many innocent people, including her entire family. She fears being alone. She lost her entire family at about age 7 (see Skysworn). She lost her master at about age 16 or 17. She doesn’t want to lose anyone else that she calls friend or family. She values her relationships with Lindon, Akura Mercy, Ziel, Little Blue, Orthos the Sacred Beast, and Eithan Arelius.

## Biography

Yerin was known to be a genius in her hometown before everyone died to a Blood Shadow from the Dreadgod that passed overhead, the Bleeding Phoenix. Afterward, she held the bloody thing down and stopped it from attempting to kill the Sage of the Endless Sword. Although he was completely safe, he was impressed by her willpower and natural talent, and chose to take her on as his disciple, which caused his marriage plans to be thrown off. He challenged Yerin and she gamely took on many injuries and scars as he took her around the continent for training. He took her to the Frozen Blade School, to learn from his fiancée Min Shuei, also a Sage herself. From there, he took Yerin to Sacred Valley for training and to gain knowledge of how to free her of the Blood Shadow. After his assassination at the hands of the Heaven's Glory sect, she was driven out of the temple they were using as a base. She met Wei Shi Lindon, avenged her master, and adopted his Remnant, thus advancing from Jade to Lowgold. The rest is history. . .

## Powers and Techniques

Yerin is a top-notch sacred artist on the Path of Endless Sword who is consistently able to defeat opponents of a higher level of advancement, or multiple opponents of her level. After she merges with her Blood Shadow Ruby and advances to Herald, she is on a second Path, and can employ a massive bloody Netherclaw.

### **Notable** **Opponents and Duels**

While a Lowgold in *Soulsmith*, Yerin was able to defeat 3 other Lowgolds who tried to attack Lindon. In *Blackflame*, Yerin as a new Highgold was able to give Jai Long, a Truegold, fear for his own safety until he decided to escape. As a Truegold in *Underlord*, Yerin (along with her newly advanced Blood Shadow clone) was able to simultaneously fight both Kiro and Meira, Underlord-level opponents, at the same time. The outcome was that Kiro was heavily wounded and the underlords had to escape.

Yerin fought several notable duels in the 18th Uncrowned King Tournament. After advancing to Overlady/Herald in *Wintersteel*, she defeats Sopharanatoth with ease, winning the Uncrowned tournament and gaining Penance. She then shortly thereafter uses it to kill Seshethkunaaz, the Monarch of Gold dragons.

### **Innate Abilities**

**Steelborn Iron Body** **(**link**)**: Yerin's special Iron Body grants her superhuman strength dramatically beyond that of a normal Iron Body.

**Sword Sage's Remnant**: Yerin is bonded to the Sage of the Endless Sword's remnant. This grants her multiple other retractable limbs that end in swords, as well as access to some of the Sage's memories. Additionally, it has helped her touch the Sword Icon, connecting her to the Way, and greatly honing her spiritual sense.

**Blood Shadow (Ruby)**: In *Underlord*, Yerin gains the ability to release her Blood Shadow, who is able to fight as an independent copy of her with all of her skills and abilities. She is well coordinated with her Blood Shadow. Yerin's control over her Blood Shadow and her resistance to it as a young child made her unique enough for the Sword Sage to choose her as an apprentice. During the Uncrowned tournament, her Blood Shadow has become its own sentient entity with feelings and desires and even took up the name Ruby. The Sage of Redmoon Hall, whose path she adopted to control the Blood Shadow, implies that she has made progress farther than even himself with Blood Shadows. After failing to grasp the Sword Icon completely and advance to Sage, Yerin and Ruby form a contract to merge into one entity before their final round against Soparanatoth. This advances Yerin to Herald, though called a pseudo-Herald by Akura Charity, as she has not yet reached the Archlord. Merging with Ruby is a significant turning point for Yerin as she no longer seeks to become the next Sage of the Endless Sword.

**Diamond Veins Elixir**: In *Uncrowned*, Yerin received the Diamond Veins Elixir from the Arelius family. This significantly strengthened her madra channels so she is able to use stronger techniques, and use them more often.

**The Moonlight Bridge**: A divine treasure that Yerin absorbed into her spirit that allows her to teleport anywhere in the world at will. The greater the distance she teleports the longer the Moonlight Bridge takes to recover. Three days if she teleports all the way around the world.

**Spiritual Perception**: Yerin has a well developed spiritual perception. The range of her sense is immense and when she focused her senses it felt like an attack to weak sacred artists.

**Herald Characteristics**: Herald and Monarch bodies have a number of useful abilities. They can shift between physical and madra forms and they can regrow their body with madra.

**Dross**: Yerin received a copy of Dross. This copy has changed colour to become red without knowing why he was red. Like the original Dross, Yerin's Dross can simulate battle plans, combat solutions and enhance her mind. Dross can enhance Yerin's memories and provide her with commentary. Dross can give projections about what techniques would do to Yerin so she knows that to dodge.

### **Path of the Endless Sword**

Yerin was taught the Path of the Endless Sword (link) by the Sage of the Endless Sword. Yerin's path is now a mix of sword, blood and hunger madra. Blood madra makes her techniques more damaging to the living and less effective on non-living things.

* **Flowing Sword** (Enforcer): Sword aura is collected from the surrounding area with every movement of the sword. This technique strengthens Yerin's strikes as the fight progresses.
* **Rippling Sword** (Striker): Sends out a wave of sword madra and aura from her sword and sword arms goldsign.
* **Endless Sword** (Ruler): Waves of sword aura emanate from Yerin, cutting anyone and anything caught nearby. Any bladed edge caught in this technique will emit sword aura of its own, setting up a potentially deadly chain reaction. In *Ghostwater*, Yerin learns to control this better.
* **Hidden Sword** (Forger): Forges a sword that is invisible edge on. More advance uses include running on multiple forged swords. Yerin can forge sword madra, although she does not use it in combat. Her master could also embed this technique with will as a Sage that allowed it to attack independently.
* **Final Sword** (Forger, Striker?): Forges madra onto her sword shaped like a massive sword to best incorporate the Sword Icon, and explodes on impact. Harder for Yerin to use with her new blood / sword madra, but she compensates with raw power. Uses soulfire to empower and keep solid.
* **Phoenix Song**: A hunger technique Yerin designed with the help from Red Faith. This technique creates a faint reddish haze around Yerin and produces a sound like the song of the Bleeding Phoenix. The technique relies on Yerin wanting to kill her opponents. Yerin's technique does not just eat the madra of her targets instead it creates 'chains' of silver red madra that bind the targets. Yerin then absorbs memories, willpower, mental strength, physical strength, madra and pieces of their lifeline. The bound targets are then under Yerin's command. As described by Dross [You take what you can, and the rest is captured.]
* **Reaper's Sword**: Yerin designed this technique to allow her to use authority in her attacks without having to advance to Monarch. She copies and adapts Eithan's scythe swing to work with her sword. When she uses this technique the colours around her flicker and are drained away. The Reaper's Sword technique has a great weight of authority feeling like a decree of absolute death. This technique can leave an 'infection' of deadly authority on what it cuts. Using this technique makes Yerin arrogant because of Ozriel’s own personality and how the technique is modelled on him.
* **Death Icon**: Yerin manifests the Death Icon which has the form of a giant black scythe that mimics the movements of her sword. The Death Icon allows Yerin to command people to die and Yerin can use her authority over death to make her techniques more lethal.

## Weapons

Sword Sage's Blade - After retrieving master's sword, Yerin uses it for a long period of time throughout the series. The wintersteel blade can cause frost to form through contact. The sword's binding produces a burst of icy white light that creates a white haze of freezing cold and sharp points that resonate with sword aura. This binding also slows down cycling and makes it harder to move. Destroyed.

Netherclaw - A black sword that Yerin obtained in the Uncrowned King Tournament for Ruby. The sword has a binding with a Forger technique that forms a claw of blood and sword madra bigger than a person. The claw gets increasingly solid as Yerin advances and puts her willpower behind the technique. The technique holds the will of the murderer who left the sword behind. Destroyed.

Phoenix Blade - A sword made by Lindon for Yerin. Lindon uses the Sword Sage's blade and Netherclaw to form a sword and adds the binding from the Bleeding Phoenix. The Phoenix Blade has a white core of wintersteel with black metal of Netherclaw around it. The edge of the blade is bright, bloody crimson and the entire sword radiates endless scarlet light. The sword's guard is a pair of swept-back phoenix wings. The binding does "a lot" but has not been demonstrated.