Themis

## Background Story

Themis is the merciless adjudicator for the Church of Dawnwatchers. She judges the heretics who had fallen into the darkness with her blade. Her burning desire for revenge is what drives her to swing her sharpened blade. All these years, she has been looking for the vicious murderer who killed her entire family.

As the youngest daughter of a noble family in the Empire, Themis knew from a young age that her marriage was always going to be a political tool for the family. Thankfully, Themis was not too resistant about this. After all, her parents told her that her marriage partner was perfect, as if he were Prince Charming who directly stepped out from a fairy tale. Themis was unaware of the complex benefits behind this marriage transaction. What she had hoped for was just a romantic love story.

However, the young girl's dreams were very quickly shattered. THe night before her wedding, he father suddenly announced that the wedding had been cancelled. This was because the other party's family had committed the crimes of heresy and treason. In the Empire, this was a heinous crime that could never be forgiven. This meant that Themis's fiance and his family would be put to death.

Themis pleaded with her father to lend them a helping hand but was met with his harsh refusal. At that time, she did not know that her father was the mastermind behind this political tragedy and her family would soon pay the price for it.

Everything was ruined during that one nightmarish night.

That night, the sleeping Themis was awoken by a bloodcurdling scream. Her parents suddenly rushed into her room, grabbed her, and hid her in a hidden floor of the attic. Her mother kept kissing her while crying. It was the first time she felt so uneasy.

Her father instructed her to only turn on the switch in the morning after the first ray of sunshine had shone into the hidden floor. Before that, she was not allowed to make a sound. Themis nodded obediently. Her father grabbed her mother's hand and took a deep breath before walking out.

Themis curled up within the hidden floor as she listened closely to the commotion outside. She could vaguely make out that an intense fight was transpiring. This was accompanied by pitiful screams that made her feel scared. The screams became more and more frequent and this intensified the fear in Themis.

Suddenly, it turned silent outside and nothing else could be heard.

Tears streamed down Themis's cheeks as she opened the hidden floor. She ran out while shouting for her parents, but could not find any signs of them in the building toward the garden.

The moment she opened the door, her mind went blank. The garden had been destroyed and blood was splattered everywhere. A young boy stood in the middle of the garden, a giant hand with eyes floating behind hhim.

As the boy turned and looked toward Themis, she felt that this boy looked familiar. The boy looked completely shocked and seemed to be saying something. However, she longer knew what happened as her vision went black and she collapsed...

...

It was not until the following morning that Themis was rescued by the knights of the Church of the Dawnwatchers who had rushed over. She then learned that it was a miscreant named Franz who had murdered her entire family. She was the sole survivor.

Hearing the name, Themis was stunned. This was the name that belonged to her supposedly deceased fiance.

From that day onward, Themis never smiled any more.

She applied to join the Imperial Inquisition of the Church of the Dawnwatchers and became the youngest adjudicator. She polished her martial arts day and night, in the hope that she would be able to personally seek revenge for her parents one day.

This was the oath Themis swore to the Creator upon her life.

## Hero Skills

 Phantom Blade Flurry
 Sunder (Passive)
 Relentless Pursuit (Passive)

## Hero Lines

* *Let the hunt begin!*

* *I trust only the sword in my hand!*

* *Heretics shall face their ends on the day of judgement.*

* *My blade yearns to smite evil.*

* *No quarter for the evil!*