Liliana Richards

* Bio

> The youngest princess of the Empire of Nero-Eula's Imperial Family, she faithfully serves the Imperial Army's 91st Frontline Division as a member of it's frontline staffing.
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**Liliana Richards** (リリアナ・リチャーズ, *Ririana Richāzu*?) is the main character of *Legacy of Dawn*.

She is the Commander of the Imperial Army's 91st Frontline Division and the current successor to the Supreme Guardian as the rulers of Entropy, one of the last bastions of Humanity's resistance against the S.T.Y.X organization. She is aided in her endeavors by her assistants Sirius, Stella, Helios and Selene, who despise Humanity for accepting the machinations of the S.T.Y.X organization.

The famed **Lily-faced Queen** (百合面の女王, *Yuri-men no joō*?) who once led the Trailblazer organization into battle against the demons of the old world before the destruction of the old world; she was the only survivor from the final battle who never regained her full memories of the incident and remains unaware of the extent of S.T.Y.X's interventions done in order to contain the fallout from the final battle.

## Profile

### Introduction

The famed **Lily-faced Queen** (百合面の女王, *Yuri-men no joō*?) who once led the Trailblazer organization into battle against the demons of the old world before the destruction of the old world; she was the only survivor from the final battle who never regained her full memories of the incident and remains unaware of the extent of S.T.Y.X's interventions done in order to contain the fallout from the final battle.

Once a gentle girl who danced amongst the flowers, prayed faithfully to the Gods, and remained as pure as the very flowers in which she danced. Her innocence was stolen from her by the starvation of her own nation's people, the despair and war that cloaked her nation, and having to sacrifice her own love for her people in order to harden herself. Now, she stands alone as the lonesome Queen who guards her nation but stands not with her people but at a distance from them.

### Personality

Stoic and seemingly apathetic, the youngest princess of the Empire of the Stars's Imperial Family seems to occupy herself with whatever she finds interesting. To others, who find this trait of discarding uninteresting things quite wasteful, the individual in question sees it as an unfalliable truth. The meaning of anything's "worth" to her is unconsequential, for despite certain items holding worth in a person's eyes, they may not hold worth in another person's eyes. Reserved about herself, Liliana is prone to speaking little and despises small talk due to her highly extensive and overall reaching schedule that delegates her every task during the day.

The non-stopping frontline commander of the Imperial Army's 91st Frontline Division who has not stopped working since she was appointed to the position as a young child of 10 years; to her the concept of "overtime" has not existed for several hundreds of years to the point where she wasn't even aware that it existed, leading to her becoming insulted when she was encouraged to take a break. Going along with her non-stopping work attitude, she has knowledge of events leading up to the Great Eruption as Entropy City originated from this time and survives as the last remaining city of Humanity from the last months of the old world after the events of the cataclysm.

Plagued by trauma from the events of the cataclysm, Liliana finds it incredibly difficult to open up to others and avoids the subject when possible, as it brings back painful memories. The depths of the corruption during the cataclysm forced Liliana to create an artificial puppet body in which she could place her physical body into, the subject of her artificial body is something that she refrains from discussing due to the emotional turmoil that it caused her. She is also prone to panic attacks and breakdowns, and especially hates being pushed or shoved around. Even just trying to touch her might cause extreme fear and discomfort, as shown when one of her researcher friends attempted to playfully touch her at their first meeting in person. This shock directly caused a flare-up of the corruption sitting dormant in her bloodstream, causing her to be bedridden the next day.

### Appearance

Resembling a puppet depicting a young petite woman with doll joints with long brown hair and purple eyes. Her clothing consists of a frilled white dress covered by a frilled black coat which exposes her shoulders with a lock and chain pinned around her torso; her upper body attire consists of a beret with a blue flower and a black and blue ribbon beneath it along with a blue choker which has a small key. Her footwear of choice are a pair of black boots with heels with a blue bow pinned on the rear part of her boots.

Due to residing inside an artificial puppet body, her facial expressions are fairly basic in nature thus making it significantly harder to distinguish her normal facial expressions from her other irritated facial expression. She has resting RBF (Resting Bitch Face) when materialized in her real body inside of her mindscape, making it difficult to tell what mood she is in.

## Story

### History

Born into the Richards Dynasty of the Nero-Eula Empire as the youngest of twenty children of the Emperor and Empress; Liliana grew up in a position of wealth, incredibly high politicial, social, and economocial power and was noted to be an anspiring academic as a young girl. Since she was born sickly than any of her other siblings, she was considered to be less capable of taking care of herself (notes from Liliana to Iwasaki Mei seemingly suggest otherwise), and was often protected by her older siblings in diplomatic proceedings. By the age of 10, she was a feverent researcher and was often called upon to deal with disputes between the arrogant Divine and the cold, apathetic Tengu who regarded Humanity with a callous set of eyes. Kasumi was a playmate of Liliana and often brought her handmade gifts in recognition of her younger friend's prestige and power.

### Early War Exposure

Strange things began occuring in the spring and shared fall period of the Ice Lotus Festival, as the Shogunate experienced unprecedented military losses that hadn't occured since the reign of Empress Sayo I in 409 AG. Liliana who worried for her friend traveled to the base of the Shogunate and offered her assistance but was rejected by the brass of the Shogunate's military. As a result, the now 15-year-old general-in-training was sent to the front lines due to the murders and assassinations of many higher-ranking military commanders/generals. In 789 AG, the hubris-ridden Queen Hazuki declared her superiority over the Shogunate's first Empress Sayo and insulted by the grave transgression towards their greatest Empress, the young General Yazuki was sent out to slay the children of the Queen in cold blood. However, Yazuki spared only the youngest daughter and child of the Queen out of a small amount of mercy, taking her on as the first of her many adjutants. In the midst of this panic and bloodshed, Liliana was also sent to the frontlines and during one of her many routine battles, was injured so badly that she was forced to place her physical body into an artificially made puppet body to recover.

This event was one of many that led up to her actions during the cataclysm, as Liliana had fallen into a coma after being forced to place her physical body into an artificially made puppet body to faciliate her recovery process more rapidly. In the aftermath, the forces that had managed to overwhelm the youngest Imperial Princess flooded the land and triggered the response of the entire nation, that of a burning fury. During her recovery period, Liliana's subordinates managed to push the forces back to the borders of the Empire and much later on, when she rejoined the battle six months after having finally recovered from her injuries back to inside the borders of the neutral demilitarized zone between the Shaftlands and the Empire.

## Powers and Abilities

### Unarmed Combat

* **Flowing Hand-to-Hand Combatant**: Deceptive and much like either the forceful waves of a waterfall or a calm, gentle and flowing stream or gully of water, Liliana has a gentle and lilting combat style that engages enemies and entraps them before deploying a far more powerful attack in order to finish off her enemies.

### Puppetry

* **Peak Puppet Physicality**: Due to residing inside of a artificial puppet body built with combat solely in mind and meant to contain solely Liliana's own physical body and soul, it is at the peak of artificial puppet body physicality and revolutionary engineering techniques. It is strong enough to survive being thrown into a volcano and can escape from the lava and magma completely unscathed. Elemental energy in compressed or other forms is also incapable of even scratching Liliana due to the chemical component makeup of her puppet body.

### Magic

**Electromagnetism**: In simple terms, Electromagnetism is the physical interaction among electric charges, magnetic moments, and the electromagnetic field. This field can be static, slowly changing or forming waves depending on the waves of activity. The waves are classified as light and follow the law of optics.

## Equipment

**Centurion** (センチュリオン, *Senchurion, lit. "Spear of Dawn"*?): Holy spear of Entropy City

## Trivia

* Given that she directly governs the criminal underground, Liliana's Entropy City is well-known as the bastion of Humanity's resistance from the old world, and she is highly respected by those living in her city.
	+ Amongst the people of the criminal underground she is only known as **Her Ladyship, the Administrator** as a sign of respect for her future authority. Even people who used to live in the criminal underground call her by that title to show their continuing respect for Liliana. Directly addressing Liliana without any honorifics is enough to earn the wrath of the criminal underground.
* Liliana is the first warrior mentor of the Katsuzuka Shrine and the first of the Richards Dynasty to be encountered in the storyline (*Legacy of Dawn*) itself who fights with a naginata — she like many members of the Richards Dynasty, quite capable of fighting with other weapons and is quite proficent with usage of a bow ("Summit Draco").
* She wields the power of Electromagnetism and is the first character introduced in the main storyline who wields this specific power.
* Amongst her people Liliana is known by these alias(s) and title(s):
	+ The Czarina's Heiress (by Imperial Court)
	+ Lady Princess of Eternity (by admirers and worshippers)
	+ Almighty Paramount Lord Devata (by common people)
	+ Czarina Aranyani Elizabeta (by worshippers, common people, nobility and Imperial Court)
	+ Her Ladyship, the Administrator (by criminal underground)