Shildina

Shildina (シルディナ) is the younger sister of Sadeena, former Miko Priestess of Q'ten Lo, and a current resident of Rock Valley.

Appearance
Shildina closely resembles her sister sharing long black hair, icy blue eyes, and Caucasian colored skin. Different from Sadeena though Shildina prefers baggy orange clothing over the skimpy tank top loincloth combination of her sister.

Shildina's therianthrope form can best be summarized as 'an Orca with legs' with her body expanding to fill out the baggy clothing.

Personality
Shildina is somewhat air-headed, easily losing track of where she is going when she spots something that catches her eye and giving away important things like the card containing a piece of her soul to a complete stranger simply because he was nice to her. Similar to her sister she also has a love of alcohol and fell head over heels for Naofumi for this reason, but also has a gambling problem.

Despite this, however, she has an extremely serious side built up from the constant abuse she suffered from her family trying to make her into what they consider a worthy successor to Sadeena. Initially, Shildina resents her sister greatly blaming her for abandoning her post and allowing many of the countries' problems to get worst, but over the course of their battle, the two reconcile and are at least at the level they can be called friends. It does help that before and after their Battle Sadeena did work to eliminate the root of the countries problems that Shildina was largely ignorant to.

Innate Abilities

 * Therianthrope form - Shildina is capable of assuming the form of a humanoid Orca possessing dramatically superior physical abilities compared to her human form as well as heightened magical abilities.
 * Echolocation - Shildina is able to use a variant of Echolocation in her Orca form to give her superior sensory capabilities.

Modern Magic
Shildina has amazing abilities and an affinity with wind and water magic.

Way of the Dragon Vein
She's able to use the power of the dragon vein to nullify Sadeena's attempts to interfere with her magic casting ability during their fight.

Oracle
As an oracle Shildina is able to extract a fragment of the soul or memories from items left behind by great warriors and seal them into cards. This way, when Shildina releases the fragment sealed on the card she's able to use to certain extend the abilities of these warriors. It is unknown if she retains her oracle abilities after the damage done to her soul has been repaired.


 * Double Casting - Shildina is able to cast co-operative magic by working in combination with the soul fragments that she's stored in her cards.
 * Weapon Recreation - Shildina was able to create a replica of the Seven Star Hammer using a soul fragment of a past Hammer Hero.

Background
Shildina was born as part of the special lineage of the Sakamata related to the cult of the Water Dragon and the Heavenly Emperor, as well as the executioners of the government. She had a harsh childhood, being conceived only to replace her genius sister, who escaped from the country, and was forced to grow in an accelerated way, both physically and mentally, in order to carry the responsibilities that her elder sister left behind.

Though Shildina's childhood was harsh she was not without friends, growing up she was very close to the head advisor to the royal family Makina and Q'ten Lo's Child emperor Ruftmilia. Though she was not aware of it, Makina also conspired to take over her body once hers had worn out sufficiently and towards this end had a hole bore into Shildina's soul under the premise of Shildina's oracle training.

Volume 14
As Naofumi Iwatani's invasion of Q'ten Lo started to near completion Shildina was deployed to assassinate Raphtalia. Unfortunately for her superiors plot Shildina got lost on her way to the parade Raphtalia was to lead and ended up missing it, instead Naofumi, S'yne Lokk, and Erhard's Master ended up picking her up as they went out drinking.

Naofumi ended up playing cards with Shildina and impressing her immeasurably when he eats a Lukor fruit whole causing her to gain a crush on him. When they ended up having to part ways after Naofumi drunk the Master under the table she gives him one of her cards containing a piece of her soul that was removed as part of her oracle training.

Realizing that she couldn't track down the resistance nor could her forces defeat theirs in a straight-up fight Shildina instead sent a challenge to their forces: her vs Sadeena. At first, the resistance ignored preferring to continue to steamroll the enemy into submission, but then she puts on a show of force with cooperative class magic forcing their hand.

The battle between the sisters pushes Shildina to her limit as she continuously tries to prove that she has surpassed her sister, going to far as to use a card containing Sadeena's soul fragment from her time as a Miko and when that fails utilizes a cursed weapon and card containing a soul fragment of a past Seven Star Hero. Possessed by a malevolent force Shildina is forced to attack Naofumi's group who neutralizes the malevolent entity using Soul Eater weapons.

Once the malevolent entity is defeated the Hammer Hero fragment takes control of Shildina's body and uses her to wipe out the majority of the leaders of Q'ten Lo's corrupt government including Makina who is eliminated with the help of the holy heroes soul eater weapons. Afterwards, the Hammer Hero, a former empress of Q'ten Lo, challenges Raphtalia to a sparring match in which she thoroughly schools Raphtalia in the use of illusion magic and Raphtalia exorcises her ancestor from Shildina's body.

Shildina is taken to a hospital to recover and after a few days is visited by Naofumi, Ruftmilia, and Sadeena, who drags her off so that they can teach their parents a lesson.

Relationships

 * Family
 * Sadeena: Shildina bared a strong resentment against her sister since she was conceived only to replace her as the new Miko Priest and was constantly compared to her as inferior and unfit to keep her legacy. She also thought that her sister was responsible of much of the suffering of the country since she irresponsibly left her obligations behind and let the situation deteriorate faster. Nevertheless, after the two met and fight at the end of the War of Rebellion, she left behind all the negative feelings she had for her sister, and shortly later she was saved by her and Naofumi's allies. During the aftermath of the war, she's taken care of by Sadeena and the two start to form a genuine bond as sisters.


 * Heroes
 * Naofumi Iwatani: She met Naofumi accidentally while trying to obtain information about Raphtalia and presents herself as Zodia, a simple civilian. At the same way that her sister, she gets impressed by Naofumi's inability to get drunk and takes a liking to him, even gifting the hero with a card that contained a piece of her soul.


 * Companions
 * Ruftmilia: She seemed to be truly loyal to the young emperor and cared for him. After the war, the two realized that they were used and decide to start again under the lead of Naofumi.


 * Others
 * Makina: Makina fooled Shildina making her believe that she was the only person that really cares for her in order to make the Miko priestess her peon. Shildina tried to protect her even at the end of the war, but after she was no longer useful Makina mocked her for her innocence and attempted to possess her body.
 * Ancient Heavenly Emperor: Years prior the Rebellion war, Shildina was able to seal on her cards a soul fragment of a great and powerful female monarch of Q'ten Lo; nevertheless, she feared her because the first time she tried to use her powers the soul fragment almost took over her body and kill Makina and all the high officers of the government.

Trivia

 * Shildina has a terrible sense of direction since she tends to space out and get impressed by the simplest things.