Lorenza Cyrus

Lorenza Cyrus (ロレンサ サイラス rorensa sairasu) is a darkened, cold woman that carries a terrible burden on her shoulders as she strives to fight her past, and reclaim her future. Born in an unremarkable region of fiore, her mother dying giving birth to her and her "Father" Desmond Cyrus a current high ranking rune knight at the time took her with her on his travels around the country. Desmond and a few close companions took the responsibility of training the young and aspiring Lorenza looking to prove herself to the world as one of its strongest, her pride obstructing her view as her traveling party started changing for the worse. Eventually she was around when Keiko Bakuchi another blind follower of Desmond, blinded by gratitude and false hope, and Lorenza blinded by pride and a desire for power. It all came to an extreme end when Lorenza accepted the task of forging Eclipse Keiko's sword, forged and enchanted by all her darkness, despair, pain, and rage against the world into it the process in which Lorenza used was an exceptionally dark technique one that fragmented Keiko's mind, and permanently scarred Lorenza with a scar that can never fade, nor be healed. Power has a habit of blinding those who search for it, Lorenza was no different but she learned quickly how power can self destruct on itself, her eyes, arms, and chest were heavily damaged during the ritual to forge Eclipse, but it also showed Lorenza the true nature of Desmond. Keiko's alter ego, born in the ritual went on a bloody rampage slaughtering people left and right, while Keiko mentally broken at the time would no doubt never recall the events that were unfolding ever again, Desmond who just sat back and watched, and finally Lorenza finally aware of the truth she was so blind to see, left and never went back vowing that day to bring Desmond to justice, and undo the damages she willingly caused to Keiko while she was blinded by her desire for power. It is said she is currently looking for allies to assist her in the long run.

Appearance
Lorenza Cyrus is an exceedingly tall and rather slim woman. She's got a strangely shaped black and white hair that is styled in a special way to sort of imitate a horned demon. Her eyes are pitch black and reflect no light, giving her a rather unsettling and disturbing gaze. Her more common attaire is that of a gray and black outfit thats durable but not restraining at all, it also comes with a black cloak that has no hood. She also has a whistle with her. When going into battle she wears a bulky armor and a disc-shaped hat that covers her eyes. She carries on her back her weapon of choice Ravager a battle axe she handcrafted and enchanted during free time she had, it can also change its form into a glaive should the need arrive. The armor she wears is also handcrafted being extremely durable and resistant to the elements, it unfortunately has a flaw in its design, it significantly reduces her movement and her field of vision. While the armor does its job in protecting her from damage, the reduction in speed and visibility do create opportunities a skilled opponent could exploit, and strike her in her blind spots. She also possesses some rather strange curses across particular parts of her body, her arms are covered in a strange curse, like darkness covering her hands all the way to her shoulders. A similar curse covers her chest and parts of her body as well, she wears gloves so that the curse can't affect others. The curse that was applied to her face and eyes are also similar except they only become noticable when Lorenza is under duress and become visible.

Personality
Lorenza Cyrus is an exceptionally cynical woman distrustful of others sincerity or their integrity due to the events she suffered through long ago. She has a hard time trusting others, due to her placing blind faith into someone who was supposed to protect her, only to end up permanently scarred for her blind trust and as a result she has a hard time accepting it when someone out of the kindness of their own heart wants to help her for no other reason then its the right thing to do. Despite her cynical attitude she is at the very least willing to try to work with people and put faith in them, to an extent of course. Its easy to see her as cold, stern, and rather menacing individual, but those that travel with her for long enough to see that there is a kindness to her, a gentle nature past her intimidating appearance. Shes an exceptionally prideful one at that too, she takes pride in what she has created and the principles she stands for firmly believing what she creates will never fail her a menacing smile she would wear as she described her carefully selected equipment and her own strength a firm believer in her own strength. She sees herself as a pillar of strength, a strong pillar meant to carry the burdens and struggles of those around her, one that stands to protect those who can't protect themselves, from those who seek to manipulate others. She has a particular fondness of nature's natural beauty and carefully crafted works that had a lot of blood, sweat, and tears put into them. She has a deep value of life, one that earnestly tries to protect it as much as she can to safeguard the lives of those who've yet to live a truly satisfying life, although she has contradicted herself when asked about her opinion on dark mages she revealed she'd see them punished for misusing the valuability of life, and would rob them of it so they can't hurt anyone else. There is only a few things Lorenza loaths to admit, accept, or take lying down when ever she is disrespected, being taunted, or on the verge of defeat her pride gets the better of her and she gets angry, her curse practically ripping apart her gloves and adding to her intimidating appearance with a rather disturbing facial expression that only seems to motivate her more to win, although if she is defeated she is willing to accept it begrudgingly. She also seems to have an interest in Keiko's wellbeing, partially due to her own responsibility in shaping Keiko's path herself, or out of a sense of loyalty to her first friend shes ever had. Its important to note that due to Desmond's ties with the Rune Knights which were genuine she has a deep distrust of both the rune knights and the magic council.

Equipment
Ravager-Lorenza's signature battle axe she painstakingly handcrafted to work well in her fighting style. Ravager is carefully tailored in the color of white and black, its design intricate and with purpose. When Lorenza finally finished forging the weapon, and enchanting it she made sure to include an ability to turn the battle axe from an axe to a glaive to extend its reach should the need arrive. Lorenza named the weapon after testing it extensively she found her curse had found its way into the making of the weapon, grinning as she held it up to the moon declaring its name to the very skies above, exclaiming that finally she had succeeded in making a weapon that could rival an eclipse. Ravager is a weapon breathing with power, its almost as if the weapon itself breaths strength, those who pick up the weapon can feel the power it possesses. This weapon is easily capable of slashing through most objects, even if her opponent blocks her initial strike using whatever weapon or through the use of magic, the resulting impact or ripple that would occur from the weapon still travels, usually traveling into the weapon thats used to block it harming the wielders arm in the process as they attempt to block the strike from Lorenza's strike. The enchantment of this weapon in short allows its swings to carry on even if the axe misses its target, in short it sends out ripples of air meant to tackle her opponents with various levels of strength, or even cut them from a distance. Whats more is her curse has a particularly nasty effect on those it cuts, its slightly weaker then what the curses covering her arms and body can do, but the effect Ravager's curse has on others is alone worthy of its name, it shows the worse case scenario of wherever her Ravager strikes. To put it to words if Ravager makes contact with her opponent, in both sight and sensation they and to an extent Lorenza would see and feel the worse of what Ravager could do to them, if it grazed their arms they would feel and see a nonexistent injury that would coincide with the weapons enchantment of impact, if the weapon was blocked with a punch of a mage who used magic to protect their hand then they would naturally feel their arm be practically ripped apart after what looks like a failed attempt to block one of Ravager's swings. Lorenza herself is immune to this curse, but is capable of seeing the effects of Ravagers curse on those it affects. The curse will fade away quickly only lasting for a few minutes, although the shock will remain, and the curse can be undone with holy magic to dispel the curse thats affecting her opponent, light or healing magic will also undo the affect as well.

Black Aegis-Lorenza's signature armor she adorns during travel and on occasion during combat. Its another of her handcrafted works designed to add to her intimidating aura and appearance she usually gives off while traveling. Its purpose is to protect her body from the elements she would come across in her travels, from the desert to a raging blizzard this Black Aegis can protect her from the harshest of climates with no real struggles. Its also quite durable made from extremely valuable metals Lorenza spent nearly a fortune securing them in order to make the armor and hat that goes along with it. The hat which is disk shaped can double as a throwable weapon whenever required capable of cutting objects along its thrown path. It is by no means invincible a skillful enough mage or a powerful enough strike can break through the armor and cause her damage. The armor itself also restricts her as well as it weighs her down restricting both her movement and her speed in exchange for defense.

Magic & Abilities
Immense Magical Powers- Lorenza has substantial capacity along with what can only be described as a near limitless pool of ethernano to call upon, its almost inhuman the capacity she possesses. She is also noted by rune knights that have scouted her to at least potentially be at guild ace level but this isn't entirely clear as of yet.
 * Second Origin Activation- when her already immense magical power isn't enough she can activate her Second Origin Allowing her to tap into more power. She obtained it when an unknown arc of time user helped her out by unlocking it, placing it under a pact that she can activate to access the power hidden away by it in her second origin.

Enhanced Speed & Strength- Lorenza is well known for her speed and mobility, her speed is very quick, capable of going from one side of town to the next side of town in a few minutes. Her speed is often augmented by magic allowing her to quickly cover a lot of ground with not much wasted effort. She is easily capable of creating slight afterimages to pull off sleights of hands during card games, or just in general to get a quick drop on her opponent. Her strength is also incredible as well capable of carrying great many tables and even a stone column with little effort. Her speed is noted to increase tremendously when she removes her armor as it weighs her down significantly being very tremendously heavy armor
 * Reduced Earth- is a basic high-speed movement technique, developed long before magic became commonplace; effectively, through the user slamming their foot upon earth ten times in a split second, they are capable of kicking off the ground in the blink of an eye and live up to the technique's name of "reduced earth" as the technique shrinks the distance between the user and their target in a split second.

Immense Endurance- Lorenza's endurance and defense are quite incredible assets all by themselves as well. She is known to be able to take quite a number of punches before going down. Her stamina too is hard to pinpoint an exact limit she just springs back up after a knockout and continues like it was just a mild inconvenience. While impressive it does not mean she is invincible and if she sustains too many injuries even with her immense will and stamina she would be hard pressed to get up. This being one of her stronger points she is quite hard to keep down even her willpower is insane capable of resisting even the most potent of illusions and poisons through force of will alone, her will to live being exceptionally strong as well.

Enhanced Reflexes- Lorenza can be known to be quite quick on her feet when the time is right, even going far and beyond human limitations dodging sword strikes within mere seconds before they make contact, even going as far as dodging multiple attacks at the same time with a level of precision that could only be described as insane. Her flexibility is also quite impressive and due to her training is quite capable of predicting strikes that come at her in seconds of them connecting.

Master Hand-To-Hand Combatant- Lorenza is quite dangerous in hand to hand combat, with her speed and strength she is well known for her mastery of hand to hand combat as well as her skilled nature with her weapons. If her opponent is not paying attention they could suffer sever damages to their being as a result. Her martial art is famous for its river like nature, and its hurricane like strength. She views her body as an extension of an overarching blade that lies within her, carving through her opponents defenses with quick blade like thrusts into her opponents guard.

Master Weapon User- Lorenza was trained quite intensely through her teenage life in the art of combat by Desmond a skilled rune knight who trained with her in the art of weapon fighting and martial arts. Often wielding Ravager her battle axe and glaive she is quite the force of nature.

Keen Intelligence- Lorenza possesses a keen strategic mind she can formulate great plans of action to defeat her opponents with quick efficiency. She uses her intellect well to see how things function how they work, and how they could break if she ever so needed to destroy things. Her strategies are intricate and often have multiple layers to them and utilizing them can be very effective in concept. Her intelligence is not to be underestimated not for a second.

Curse of Dismay- Lorenza for the longest time ever since a particular event in her past thats shes not too talkative about has been affected by a very surprising curse. She is unsure of what the name of this curse of hers is formally called but she refers to it as the Curse of Dismay a curse that can out of nowhere cause unexpected things to happen if Lorenza makes physical contact with another. This curse covers a large portion of her body and not all of it is visible by normal means, her arms, body, and eyes are where the largest concentrations of the curse can be visible without any control. She herself either due to being the curses host, or through some foreign means to her is immune to the curses effects but can see the effects that the curse can have on others. The effect of the curse is one of deception of the mind should an opponent grab Lorenza by the arm they will experience a sight and feeling their hand breaking or exploding as they become affected by the curse, of course their hand is in reality fine but her opponents mind for a time perceives it as truth until they or their allies prove the illusion false, or if they are unexposed to the curse directly for long enough. The effect of the curse and its duration depend on how long they are in contact with the curse, and how many areas of their body have been exposed to direct contact to the curse for example being punched multiple times across the body they would see and feel their body practically on the point of breaking for several long minutes due to repeated exposure. The curse itself can be dispersed with either light, holy, or healing magic on either Lorenza herself or on others but for Lorenza this is a temporary solution as the curse does return after a few moments. As the curse requires direct contact with the skin if Lorenza touched someone while gloved the curse would not work, and if someone hit her while they were protected by a sort of protective cloth or glove they too would be fine, up until Lorenza retaliates herself.

Darkness Magic- Darkness Magic is a Caster Magic which draws on the negative emotions of the user and manifest it in a physical form, the element of Darkness. While Darkness Magic is not inheritably evil in a sense, it does give off a feeling of despair to opponents that fight against a user of this magic due this magic releasing the malefic nature of the opponent out into the world. It is said that this magic was the one of the first attempt at creating a Black Art, though it was later used as a base for later Black Arts that came to exist. This Magic allows the user to utilize destructive abilities; it is triggered by going by the opposite of the 'magic = feelings' concept—by fuelling their magic with negative feelings, the user is capable of initiating the usual fusion of eternano and magical power, only manifesting magical power in a dark and malefic nature; this is known as Darkness Magic. With this type of magic, the user has absolute dominance over the element of shadows; and thus, darkness, night, and any dark-related elements. This Magic has a physical form used for destroying objects, blocking enemies' attacks and picking up objects; consistently, it is a pulsating crimson. When using it, the user more often than not shapes their attacks into the form of waves or arcs of shadows, which they can use in various ways. The shadows can be channeled to a variety of effects, both as an absence of light and a solid substance: one can also control and manipulate the beings that exist there, create and dispel shields and areas of total darkness, create a variety of constructs and weapons and, teleport themselves through massive distances via shadows; being able to take out multiple opponents with just one attack and capture people, sinking them into the depths of their shadow.


 * Dark Shield- Lorenza focusing on the incoming attack with her eye or from her palm, utilizing darkness magic can form a barrier or shield to redirect or block incoming attacks protecting herself as long as the attacks aren't powerful enough to overwhelm the shield she will usually be fine.


 * Dark Orbs- Lorenza creating orbs of darkness from her hands tosses them around the field causing them to hover around the field up until an opponent would get close enough to one of them, causing the orb to extend out a black spike trying to violently jab into Lorenza's opponents at a surprising speed. These orbs can also function as a sort of scouting role allowing her to see where her enemies were hiding in an area where her visibility might be cut off.


 * Dark Executioner- Lorenza holds out one of her hands while a dark colored sphere gathers in the palm of her hand. When fired, a powerful beam is expelled from her hand using piercing through whatever is in its way until it explodes violently.


 * Decree of The Abyss- Lorenza forming a sphere of darkness magic in her hands above her head, after gathering a sufficient amount of power is gathered, its released at the target in the form of a large beam that explodes upon contact, resulting in a large, destructive pillar formed of darkness magic.


 * Call of The Abyss- Lorenza slamming her hand onto the ground creates an arena of darkness covering the floor where she and her opponent are located, the radius that this reaches varies but Lorenza has claimed it could overtake the entire arena in the Grand Magical Games Tournament ground. With this in play she can go inside of the darkness and move around seemlessly around the battle ground in a rapid pace and manipulate the field as well with spires of darkness shooting out of the ground, or swamps of shadows to bog down her opponents by wrapping around their footing and pulling it into the darkness. This spell is vulnerable to its natural counter of Light Magic or Holy magic causing it to dispel.

Sound Magic- This magic allows the user to perceive, generate and manipulate any type of sound, attacking the opponents with sounds of various intensity. The way that Sound Magic is initiated is by the user projecting their magical energy outwards through their mouth with a yell or even a whisper, causing the magical energy to react with the ambient eternano within the atmosphere, triggering the usual fusion to manifest a spell—but in this case, it will produce the sound-manipulating effects that the user desires. With it, the user can create and modify sound waves to mimic, intensify, hush, and distort, as well warp, strengthen, echo, speed up, and slow down sound, using it as powerful physical force and high-speed movement. The user can create powerful sound waves from any part of their body or anywhere in the nearby surroundings, making it effective for mid-range to long-range combat. With it, the user is able to increase sounds, for example when they use their power, it allows them to increase the sound of their voice to be so powerful that it can create craters and move heavy objects.


 * Sounds of Madness- Lorenza using her sound magic she attacks her opponents sense of hearing with hypersonic sounds on a frequency thats normally too high to for human ears to be able to hear, but using her magic it becomes an assault of sound. This usually only lasts for a few moments and is not known to cause any sort of long term damage it just disrupts communication and clear thoughts for a few moments.


 * Sounds of Vertigo- Lorenza using sound magic assails the enemies sense of balance giving them vertigo knocking their sense of balance off to gain an advantage.


 * Blades of Sound Lorenza creates blades of sound and launches them at the speed of sound at her opponents aiming to cut at them in hope of gaining victory.

Sword Magic- The user starts by channeling Eternano directly into a specially constructed magic blade that causes a chain reaction to the sword, having the blade alter it's entire structure until it reaches an unstable form of metal and magic, allowing the person to manipulate it into a solid shape that can also engage the spell that the user sees fit to use. In some cases, when the person condenses the unstable structure, they often add their own elemental affinity magic, allowing for the user of elemental sword spells to be created through the effective means of the user. During the time after the sword spell is used, the Eternano is immediately ejected from the blade, allowing the unstability, the result from the Eternano, to cease and transform the blade back to it's normal shape. However, there are certain risks to using this magic as it takes much mental focus and incredible magic control in order to allow the blade to be altered in it's solid shape, and to be controlled in it's unstable form. When the user often attempts to make any spell, their hand is to remain on the hilt at all time, due to the fact that unless the Eternano is controlled and is kept at a steady flow into the blade, the blade will simply revert back to it's normal shape while the Eternano is simply ejected outward.
 * Sword Pressure- When performing the Sword Pressure technique, the user swings forward with their sword, swinging the blade so swiftly that it seems that the user is able to utilize air itself to slice enemies, focusing a current of wind to the point where it takes on a sharp edge, which the user launches at foes; sending it through the air towards the user's enemy. It is a powerful blade of pressure that appears as faint ripples of wind that is launched towards the foe at high speeds; this attack enables the user to assault things which are out of their sword's range, sending slashes which fly through the air itself; and can even remain floating in it until the right moment to slash. The person struck by the sword pressure is assaulted by countless invisible blades which happens so fast that they would normally be unable to properly react in time, carving up their body. Also, the strong wind power will blow away all incoming projectile weapons and will even make the opponent unable to stay on their feet; this technique possesses enough power to slice down many trees in a forest. This technique can deflect both physical and sound wave attacks and attack at the same time, making it both an offensive and defensive technique. These blades of wind possess incredible range and devastating power; and at its highest level of mastery, the sword pressure is capable of cutting through barriers of magical energy; and they can even remain floating within the air until the right minute to slash.
 * Ravaging Barrage- Lorenza using her Ravager weapon unleashes a brutal flurry of blows utilizing her axe that also launch air strikes from her weapon furthering her range with Ravager immensely while bashing through her enemies guard using her weapon, even skilled defensive mages had trouble withstanding the fierce barrage for more then a few moments.
 * Asura Ravager Mode- Seemingly growing more arms and her axe seeming to multiply as well Lorenza unleashes a fierce combo of blows with her weapons with fierce and precise slashes.
 * Mountain Cleaving Strike- Lorenza charges up her Ravager up intensely with magic causing her weapon to seeth a dark crimson color aura from every inch of the weapon with enough power to cleave through almost everything in its way in a straight line.

Weapon Magic- Alternatively referred to as Weapon-Make for its capabilities is an exceedingly basic form of Holder Magic that can be considered a variant of Metal-Make and/or Metal Magic and a type of Molding Magic and Summoning Magic not dissimilar from the likes of Smithing Magic which involves the creation of all forms of weapons, both short-range and long-range and armours in accordance to their imagination through the usage of eternano and magical energy as a fulcrum and hardening and forging it into any structure alloy-wise and form-wise, giving them almost unparalleled versatility in and out of combat, effectively generating tools out of thin air to use at any time.
 * Reinforce-is a Weapon Magic spell that enables the user to push an selected item to its utmost limits, surpassing all limitations in order to quadruple its effectiveness. When performing Reinforce, the user gathers and condenses their magical energy upon an object of their choosing, using them to stabilize the coordinates and structure of the eternano and magical energy, as well as the atoms of an affected item, within a narrow area, with the energies filling the openings of the inner structure, resulting in the item receiving a massive boost in its parameters all across the board; effectively, Reinforce allows the user to add something to an object that is already complete, making what is already seen as good great, in other words, the spell 'reinforces' the potential of the item of the user's choice. This spell can works on almost everything- it is capable of augmenting the sharpness of a blade, which could enable the weapon to slice through any magical barrier like a hot knife through butter, and enhance the defensive capabilities of shields and armour, allowing a wearer to shrug off high-tier magical spells and harsh physical blows as if they were simply a cool breeze. It can also be harnessed on other things, such as reinforcing the stability of a building or increasing the tastiness of a bacon, lettuce, and tomato sandwich. Interestingly, Reinforce has almost infinite uses- to create a weapon, all the user needs to do is apply the spell on anything from a paper poster to a an actual weapon, and they'll get stronger. If the user wants to bolster their speed or strength, they can reinforce their legs and muscles/hands respectively. To give the user sniper sight, all they have to do is reinforce their eyes, granting them the ability to see as far as ten kilometers away. In the case of a living being, Reinforce would function similarly to the buffing spells of Sky Dragon Slayer Magic, boosting their physical capabilities- however, as living things will resist invasion of the user's magical energy, reinforcing someone else can be taxing on the user's magical energy. By the very nature of Weapon Magic, by using Reinforce, the caster is capable of altering the composition of an already-created weapon into another type of the weapon summoned, such as changing a lance that changes the size of anything it comes into contact with into halberds, a guandao, bardiches, or even more esoteric forms such as a scythe. However, for all its power bestowed upon the user by harnessing its might, Reinforce is known to have quite a few limitations which prevent it from being overly "broken" in a video game term; for one, when harnessing Reinforce, the user cannot add more to something; for example, the spell cannot enhance the impact of a bomb by adding another bomb alongside it- but rather, it would increase the area-of-effect of the explosion magically; everything reinforced simply has the potential of an object quadrupled, but nothing physical is added.
 * Weapon Forge- Lorenza using weapon magic creates weapons from her ethernano to use in battle of various quality.

Trivia

 * Lorenza Cyrus's Appearance is based off of Ozen of Made in Abyss.