Tina

Biodata

Background / History

Early Life and Diplomatic Mission

Tina grew up sheltered by her father and family, becoming renowned for her beauty, learning, and gentle disposition. Her mother left when she was little. As the youngest daughter, Tina initially considered herself unsuited to ruling and took comfort in having older siblings 49 110 294 399 500.

With Goth threatened by the elves, she persuaded her father to let her travel to the Empire as an envoy seeking aid. An elven ambush and a storm diverted her to the Holy Seal Archipelago, where she met Kang De 288 551.

Holy Seal Archipelago

Tina used the Armor-Donning Ritual on Kang De to prevent their initial misunderstanding from escalating. Afterward, he could understand the local language. She followed the island’s animals to a hidden Hero Altar, witnessed his inheritance ritual, and recognized the inscription “Fire Thief,” although she did not understand its meaning 11 12 28 460.

Recognizing that Kang De could enchant materials despite the archipelago’s suppression of extraordinary power, Tina proposed recruiting him to repair the Penguin. She later invited him to the continent, explaining that news of the Veil would end the islands’ isolation and that his inherited ability gave him opportunities beyond them 26 65.

Tina also explained Goth’s war as a defense of its land and freedom. Kang De accepted her sincerity and agreed to help. Before reaching Glittering Sand, she planned to publicize the Veil invasion to create pressure for peace and imperial assistance 49 75.

Glittering Sand Betrayal

The Taidariel and Good families had been friends for generations, making Tina initially reluctant to believe that Viscount Samuel’s household posed a threat. When Kang De discovered poisoned wine and Samuel attacked, Kang De carried her out through a third-floor escape 88.

At Cleveland’s urging, Tina used Eternal Tranquility’s Protection to teleport away and seek her aunt’s help. She accepted the separation despite wanting to remain with Kang De and Cleveland, recognizing that hesitation would dishonor those who had already sacrificed themselves 91.

Returning with Hilmeria, Tina found the Good Family’s stronghold devastated, Knight Lost dead, and Kang De gone. The exhausted curse of Death Coil convinced her that she had lost him. She recovered his axe, broke Susanna’s arms, and strangled her, then resolved to expose the Good Family, gather allies, and erase the traitors’ legacy 110.

The Battle Axe Princess and Financial Scheme

Believing Kang De dead, Tina publicly identified him as her husband and wore black in mourning. She abandoned her journey to the imperial capital and instead recruited volunteers, addressed northern cities, negotiated with nobles and merchants, and assembled an army in less than two months 120 185 288.

Her campaign combined persuasive speeches with severe discipline. Reports credited her with publicly executing thirty-seven spies and criminals in one day after presenting evidence of their crimes. On the battlefield, she carried an axe and killed elves, earning the name Battle Axe Princess 120 289.

Tina financed the war through a fraudulent investment scheme derived from methods Kang De had casually described. Supporters’ money, personnel, and supplies became shares, while later participants’ fees sustained the arrangement. Powerful investors promoted her reputation, traded shares, and supplied military intelligence to prolong the venture 152 288 289.

Tina initially expected to die defending Goth alongside her family, leaving the scheme’s collapse behind her. Kang De’s survival and victory at Valentan overturned that expectation. Rather than simply rejoicing, she became distressed by the investors’ eventual losses and feared making him responsible for solving the disaster she had created 231 288 289.

Return to Danfeng Lucerne

Tina returned to Danfeng Lucerne secretly, unable to face the public’s uncomplicated admiration. Reknos welcomed her home and assured her that he supported her choice of partner 294.

When she recognized an impending attack as a trap for Kang De, Tina concealed the danger rather than summon him into another battle. Reknos later revealed that he had understood her decision. Kang De nevertheless arrived to help defend the capital 380.

After their reunion, Tina tried to return his recovered axe. Kang De instead gave it to her. They also confronted the imbalance between his extraordinary power and Goth’s dependence on him: he rejected the idea that his help entitled him to her, while she proposed building a genuine romantic bond 389 390.

Governing Goth

Tina increasingly opposed her father’s cautious approach to national recovery. She advocated controlling the newly discovered energy resource, rebuilding military strength, and improving productive capacity so that Goth could deter future wars rather than merely hope to avoid them 500.

During a confrontation over Goth’s response to foreign pressure, Tina sided with Kang De against Reknos. Her father relinquished his signet ring and instructed her to rule in his name. She subsequently faced political proceedings carrying an axe and used forceful suppression against unrest and conspirators 515 538.

Kang De later challenged her fear-driven willingness to do anything to keep him. He asked her to become an independent partner who loved Goth as well as him, shared his ideals, and could advise or oppose him when necessary. Tina accepted 551.

She remained at Maple Leaf Palace despite harassment from palace staff, insisting that Kang De’s influence needed representation in the capital. By the time of the Cathayan delegation’s arrival, she had taken charge of the Ministry of Unity 571 801.

Marriage Plans

In the White Mist World, Tina asked to meet Kang De’s parents. He proposed marrying after defeating Griffin and settling Goth’s affairs, but she declined to set a wedding date before victory over the Star Palace. Her priority was securing a future in which they could remain together 844.

Appearance

• Hair and eyes: Golden hair and clear blue eyes; her gaze is compared to a tranquil, gentle lake 298 423.
• Build: Tall and shapely, with a slender waist and a prominent bust 28 738 788.
• Mage attire: Wears a blue robe embroidered with gold, white boots, and carries a staff during the Glittering Sand crisis 88.
• Mourning dress: Adopts black clothing after believing Kang De dead 120.
• Signature contrast: Retains an elegant, gentle appearance even while carrying an axe into battle or political proceedings 289 538.

Personality

Tina initially combines extensive learning with careful manners. She refrains from touching Kang De’s unfamiliar possessions without permission and explicitly treats restraint of curiosity as good etiquette. Her early kindness also leaves her poorly prepared for deliberate betrayal 8 65 110.

Glittering Sand transforms her from a sheltered idealist into a suspicious, pragmatic leader. She turns historical knowledge into strategy and becomes willing to employ intimidation, deception, executions, and financial manipulation. Her renewed warmth around Kang De does not erase that capacity for ruthlessness 150 359 391 433.

Her decisiveness contrasts with deep insecurity in love. Tina blames herself for bringing Kang De into the continent’s violence and fears both his rejection and his eventual departure for another world. Later, she becomes openly affectionate and bold with him, while remaining anxious about losing their relationship 288 551 801 808.

Politically, Tina favors peace maintained through strength. Although deeply attached to Goth, she is willing to reconsider even its hostility toward the elves when she believes cooperation would support Kang De’s wider struggle 500 808.

Abilities & Skills

Magic

Tina is described by Cleveland as an excellent mage and assists Kang De in testing his emerging abilities 91.

• Water magic: Creates and maintains a floating water orb, then helps Kang De practice against spells 72.
• Ice manifestation: Condenses a cold blue light into an ice axe 515.
• Practical spell use: Uses magic to cool her flushed face 515.
• Mental connection: Kang De’s decomposition of a spell she is actively maintaining produces an intense sensation because her mental power remains connected to it 72.

Armor-Donning Ritual

Tina performs the ritual on Kang De during their first encounter, surrounding herself with starlight and reciting ancient incantations 28 460.

• Helps resolve their inability to communicate; Kang De subsequently understands the local language 12.
• Precedes his reception of an ancient hero’s inheritance at the Hero Altar 11 65.

Scholarship and Languages

Tina’s learning covers magic, historical relics, religious traditions, and enchanted equipment 12 26 399.

• Recognizes the Hero Altar’s “Fire Thief” inscription, but cannot readily decipher its extensive ancient script 11.
• Identifies Death Coil and understands the significance of its depleted curse 110.
• Helps translate and annotate Horus’s repair requirements for Goth’s specialists 432.
• Reads an elven account describing the use of Dragon Might against a swarm’s collective consciousness 460.
• Develops considerable proficiency in the Zhendan language 827.

Leadership and Political Strategy

Tina converts her reputation, speeches, and negotiations into a large volunteer force and sustained wartime support 120 185 288.

• Recruits, manages, trains, and disciplines followers 120.
• Obtains weapons, provisions, mercenaries, medicine, and intelligence through investor networks 288 289.
• Advocates keeping Kang De’s personal forces independent of Teldrassil to avoid divided loyalties 418.
• Plans resource development alongside defensive preparations and responses to foreign pressure 500.
• Detects and punishes palace staff responsible for sabotaging her meals 571.

Weapons Training

• Axe combat: Carries an axe in battle and is explicitly credited with killing elves with it 289.
• Firearms: Receives instruction from Kang De in using a gun before their separation at Glittering Sand 91.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Eternal Tranquility’s Protection — A sapphire pendant paired with another ornament. Its owners can sense one another’s locations, and it can teleport its wearer to the matching ornament’s owner. Tina uses it to escape Glittering Sand and reach Hilmeria 85 91 431.
• Matching ring — Presented to Kang De as part of the pendant’s paired set. The ornaments were jointly forged by Cathayan and Goth masters as treasures and tokens of cooperation 429 431.
• Kang De’s axe — Recovered from Knight Lost’s skull and kept after Tina believed Kang De dead. She later offers it back, but Kang De gives it to her 110 389.
• Mage’s staff — Carried with her blue-and-gold mage’s robe during the escape from Glimmering Sand Castle 88.
• Grand Duke’s signet ring — The ring of office Reknos leaves for her when delegating his ruling authority 515.
• Beauty-enhancing necklace — A captured elven accessory that Tina removes and gives to Kang De among the enchanted items offered to him 26.
• Tablet — Given to her by Kang De on the archipelago; its depictions of warfare and destruction later shape her understanding of his world 433.

Relationships

• Kang De — Her lover and intended husband. Tina initially calls herself his wife while believing him dead; their later relationship develops through explicit discussions of affection, obligation, independence, and marriage. No wedding has occurred by the supplied marriage discussion 120 288 390 551 844.
• Grand Duke Reknos-Teldrassil — Her affectionate father and eventual political opponent over Goth’s direction. Despite their disagreements, he supports her choice of partner and entrusts her with authority to rule in his name 294 500 515.
• Hilmeria / Sword Saint Cascading Snow — Her aunt, protector, confidante, and romantic adviser. Hilmeria safeguards her through battles and assassination attempts and repeatedly urges her to face Kang De rather than retreat into guilt 288 289 298.
• Stella — Her older sister. Tina notices Stella’s unusual behavior concerning Kang De and suspects romantic interest; Kang De instead interprets it as conflict over his reforms 571.
• Cleveland — Her loyal knight. He encourages her to escape Glittering Sand, seek Hilmeria, and become a stronger princess while he remains with Kang De 91.
• Leona — Her close friend and fellow romantic rival. Tina’s distrust after Hannah’s betrayal strains their friendship, but Leona persists in trying to help her escape the consequences of the financial scheme 150 152 801.
• A Xing — A rival for Kang De’s attention since the archipelago. Their competition includes jealousy, teasing, and interrupted intimacy, though Tina also recognizes the value of A Xing’s loyalty and protection 64 389 418 423.
• The Good Family — Former family friends whose betrayal destroys Tina’s trust and precipitates her transformation into the Battle Axe Princess 88 110.

Notable Quotes

“I don't know what happened, and I don't know what you've been through. If you don't want to talk about it, I won't ask.” 65

“Is this what growing up feels like?” 110

“If we marry, I'll be marrying you, not you joining the Taidariel Family. I don't like the term ‘Goth's prince consort.’” 418

“I told you, Goth would become your strength.” 457