Hero Alcyone Huo
Descendant of a cadet branch of the imperial Wu lineage, Vermilia has displayed extraordinary percipience and keenness of mind since a young age, earning acknowledgment and recognition from the Empress herself, who took her into the palace to be brought up in the peril-fraught position of a personal aide, eventually presiding over the entirety of the Empress' close guard and their covert operations. Discerning the traitorous from the loyal with implacable efficiency while detached from notions of good or evil and amenable to every discrete tactic and ruthless means, the veiled hand of the throne's true identity was known to none, yet her reputation instills fear in all. Vermilia's favored weapon is a ring-pommeled longblade, which she uses to cut a bloody swathe through enemy lines, complemented by a wrist-mounted mechanical bow ideal for executing stragglers from afar. Whether ripping through foes as a crimson gale or rending them apart with bolts like rain, her inimitable skill in both offense and defense would daunt the esteem of the very gods and spirits themselves.
