Ovelia

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Ovelia Baskerville (奥维莉娅) 206
Forms of Address	Miss Baskerville; Miss Ovelia; Lady Ovelia 92 94 101
Gender	Female 91
Age	Eighteen during the Baskerville investigation; still under twenty during the later winter visit 94 627
Affiliation	Baskerville Family; Empire 171 207
Occupation / Role	Head of the Baskerville Family; lord of the Delicat District, also called Delicate 207 210
Education	Studied for a time at the Royal Academy of Medicine 91
Family Position	Her father’s only heir; later identified as the family’s sole surviving blood descendant 91 712
Companion	Little Black, the Three-Headed Hound and guardian of the Baskerville House 101 172
Status	Alive; awaiting reforms that would end her position as territorial ruler 712
First Appearance	Chapter 91 in the supplied material 91

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Emerald Heart recovered	96	Uses blood from her finger to open a concealed family cache. Takes custody of the silver necklace containing the red gemstone.
Three-Headed Hound summoning awakened	100 101	Cuts her palm and grips the Emerald Heart. Summons a gigantic hound that kills her great-grandfather, then assumes a friendly puppy form after sniffing her.

Background / History

Upbringing and inheritance

Ovelia grew up confident in her noble birth, intelligence, and family legacy. She studied at the Royal Academy of Medicine and knew Li Wei by reputation before meeting him. Following her social debut, she attracted numerous suitors but encouraged none of them 91.

The Baskervilles descended from a female knight nicknamed “Arthur’s Hound.” Their records showed a roughly thousand-year tradition of female leadership, interrupted by three recent male heads. Ovelia was the first girl born after that interruption 92 93.

Her father’s disappearance left her responsible for the family. The circumstances were urgent enough that the customary succession formalities before the ancestor were simplified; she was already acting as family head during Li Wei’s investigation 93 94.

The Baskerville curse investigation

Ovelia initially blamed the Wolf King for her father’s disappearance and demanded that it be killed publicly to demonstrate the family’s strength. Chief Macmillan feared that she would pursue it herself and asked Li Wei to watch over her 91.

Her cooperation gave Li Wei access to the family’s crests, archives, accounts, cemetery, and sealed rooms. When he uncovered two small skeletons beneath a wolf statue, he tentatively identified them as her grandfather’s sister and her father’s sister. Ovelia promised them proper burials and ordered those present to keep the discovery secret 92 93 94.

Despite warnings that an abandoned storeroom was cursed, she ordered it opened. Li Wei discovered a concealed study beyond its wall, where they subsequently found the Emerald Heart 95 96.

After helping defend the manor against a coordinated wolf attack, Ovelia was abducted by a giant werewolf. In captivity, she recognized her great-grandfather, who admitted murdering his sister and poisoning his mother to seize the family leadership. He took the Emerald Heart and threatened to devour her, claiming that her death would end the curse 98 99.

Ovelia escaped her bindings and stabbed him, but his transformation allowed him to survive. He then ordered her transformed father to attack her. Li Wei intervened, killed the smaller wolf, and eventually returned the necklace to Ovelia. Her blood activated it, summoning the hound that killed and devoured her great-grandfather 99 100 101.

The great-grandfather’s diary revealed that he had spread the curse story to control his descendants and had attacked family members on their thirty-eighth birthdays. Ovelia continued investigating the Luddites’ involvement and paid Li Wei £10,000 after tax for resolving the case 101 102.

Steel City and royal recognition

Ovelia visited Fog City with Little Black and later traveled with Li Wei on the Orient Express. During the journey, she questioned whether the family should retain its female-only inheritance customs, fearing that passing over a future son could recreate the resentment behind its earlier violence 151 153.

In Steel City, she offered to help retake the Central Data Tower. The Queen had authorized her family to use its supernatural strength when the Empire faced a threat. Ovelia also recognized that helping the governor could build useful political connections 171.

Little Black destroyed two construction mechs at the tower entrance and carried Ovelia, Li Wei, and Kia inside. Ovelia fought the rioters with hidden knives while Kia reversed the sabotaged calculations. Ovelia and the hound became a public sensation afterward; she angrily rejected researchers’ proposals to examine, breed, or draw blood from him 172 173 175.

At the New Year’s investiture, the Queen praised Ovelia’s courage in Steel City and formally recognized her as head of the Baskerville Family and lord of Delicat 207.

The monastery expedition

A map recovered from a Luddite headquarters led Ovelia to send investigators into the mountains. When they disappeared, she visited the site herself. The immense, apparently abandoned structure resembled a monastery rather than a castle, and both Ovelia and Little Black sensed danger. She withdrew and sought help from Li Wei and Annie 209 210.

Ovelia insisted on accompanying the expedition because she had sent the missing team and wanted to recover their belongings for their families. She refused her guards’ request to retreat even after the group encountered a monster 210 212.

Inside the monastery, she identified murals depicting King Solomon’s fall. When Li Wei suggested that the Luddites might intend to awaken Solomon and transform Delicate’s inhabitants into monsters, she vowed to stop them 217.

The original investigators were never found and were presumed dead. Ovelia permitted Annie to return with a research team but declined Solomon’s relics, considering them inauspicious 226.

Later investigations and political uncertainty

Ovelia became increasingly concerned that the Queen’s centralization policies would end Baskerville rule over Delicate. Family pressure to marry complicated that prospect: marriage and children could bind her more tightly to the house’s political interests. Li Wei promised to support her if she needed him, sealing the assurance with a pinky swear 437.

She began learning investigative work through operations with local police and instruction from an experienced officer. During a late-night radio-station raid, she deliberately withheld the reason for the arrest, correcting an earlier mistake in which she had revealed too much to a suspect 445.

Later, she requested Li Wei’s help after the Delicate Central Bank’s vault was emptied. She also raised suspicions about Baron Payne, the family’s grain-export agent: investigators looking into him either found nothing or died in supposed accidents 630 633.

By the later discussion of imperial reforms, Ovelia actively welcomed the prospect of losing her territorial office. As the family’s sole surviving blood descendant, she saw little future in preserving its political arrangements and hoped to move to Fog City, open a café, and retire from lordship 712.

Appearance

• Hair: Blonde, with golden curls 91 151.
• Eyes: Clear blue 101.
• Clothing: Wears riding clothes, everyday dresses, and the elaborate fashionable attire of a wealthy young noblewoman 91 153 163.
• Usual companion: Frequently carries Little Black in his harmless-looking puppy form 151 153 206.

Personality

Ovelia is proud, commanding, and protective of the Baskerville name. Servants fear her displeasure, and her orders carry enough authority to overcome both household superstition and police reluctance. Her initial response to the Wolf King is openly defiant rather than cautious 91 94 95.

Her courage does not mean she is immune to fear. She remains cold and composed while confronting her monstrous great-grandfather, but the summoned hound’s violence leaves her struggling not to collapse in terror. She nevertheless acts decisively when escape or cooperation offers a chance to survive 99 100 101.

She is notably warmer and more deferential toward Li Wei than toward others. His investigative ability wins her respect, while his presence makes her nervous and distracts her for hours as she watches him work. Later, she envies Katie’s freedom to accompany him and imagines a quieter future that includes occasional investigations 91 94 437 445 630.

Her aristocratic upbringing can limit her understanding of ordinary people. On the Orient Express, she struggles to believe that someone would kill for what she regards as a small amount of money. In governing Delicate, however, she increasingly focuses on farmers’ needs and learns to persuade through visible results rather than commands alone 157 210 630.

Leadership also exposes her to uncomfortable moral questions. Although she condemns her ancestors’ murders, she briefly describes their handling of succession as the “best of a bad lot” for preventing family division, while still finding it horrible. Li Wei encourages her to question whether those inherited customs remain necessary 153.

Abilities & Skills

Speed and knife combat

Ovelia possesses exceptional speed and dexterity. Li Wei believes an unexpected slash from her could strike before he could react with [Shifting Positions], unless [Death’s Eye] was already active 96.

• Conceals daggers in her sleeves and produces them rapidly 100.
• Frees herself from restraints and immediately stabs her great-grandfather in the neck 99.
• Saves a policeman from a wolf with a thrown knife 98.
• Kills charging rioters with knives to their throats 173.
• Her knife attack cannot stop her great-grandfather’s werewolf transformation 99.

Hunting and firearms

Ovelia is familiar with hunting and fights with a hunting gun during the manor’s defense 96 98.

• Combines shooting and knife throwing against the attacking wolves 98.
• Remains composed enough after the battle to order a watch and disposal of the corpses 98.

Emerald Heart and Little Black

The Emerald Heart is the Baskerville family’s secret treasure. Her great-grandfather describes it as usable only by the family head; Ovelia activates it by bringing her blood into contact with its gemstone 99 100.

• Summons the enormous Three-Headed Hound from black mist 101.
• Commands Little Black to change from puppy form into his combat form 172 439.
• Uses him as a mount and carries other passengers on his back 172 173.
• Directs him to track and capture a suspect by scent 445.
• Coordinates his role as a distraction and shield while she and Li Wei attack 173.
• Restrains his violence against human opponents to avoid presenting him publicly as a man-eating monster 173.

Investigation and police work

Ovelia develops practical investigative skills through repeated police operations, learns from her mistakes, and hires an older officer to teach her 445.

• Pursues Luddite connections through the former gravekeeper’s family 102.
• Supplies testimony gathered from captured Luddites and helps collect witnesses’ statements 218 222.
• Withholds information during an arrest to prevent a suspect from tailoring his account 445.
• Recognizes the suspicious pattern of failed investigations and accidental deaths surrounding Baron Payne 633.

Governance and Reforms

Initiative	Actions and results
Agricultural mechanization	Purchases discounted machinery from Steel City. The Baskerville estate completes its harvest in under half a month, after which she rents the machines to local farmers 210.
Demonstration-led adoption	Counters fears that machinery will poison the soil by showing its effectiveness on her own land. Machinery later becomes widely used throughout Delicate 210 630.
Suppression of Luddite resistance	Conducts a district-wide sweep after the family investigation. By the mechanized autumn harvest, almost all local Luddites are dead and surviving members avoid interference 209 210.
Radio development	Recognizes radio’s potential to explain reforms to people who do not read newspapers. Requests Li Wei’s help planning programming rather than using the station solely for official instruction 164 630.
Winter farming	Has workers build a plastic-covered hoop-house at her manor, intending to demonstrate winter cultivation and improve food supplies 630.
Grain oversight	Resists Baron Payne’s proposal to expand export quotas because she understands its political risks. Investigates whether he has secretly sold grain and created a shortfall 633.

Equipment / Items

• Emerald Heart — Old silver necklace with a fluid-looking red gemstone; recovered from the concealed study and used to summon Little Black 96 100 101.
• Personal Baskerville crest — Received at her coming-of-age ceremony, with her name engraved on the reverse; used to authenticate her grandfather’s recovered crest 92.
• Concealed daggers and throwing knives — Carried on her person, including in her sleeves 99 100 173.
• Hunting gun — Used during the wolf attack on the manor 98.

Relationships

• Li Wei — Detective, trusted adviser, and investigative partner. Saves her life, helps shape her reforms, and promises support amid political uncertainty. Her growing attraction is shown repeatedly, but no formal romantic relationship is established in the supplied material 94 101 164 437 630.
• Little Black — Supernatural companion and Baskerville guardian. Ovelia treats him affectionately, rides him, directs him in combat and arrests, and rejects attempts to exploit him for research 153 172 175 445.
• Sir Baskerville, her father — His disappearance initiates her involvement in the curse investigation. Later appears as a werewolf controlled by her great-grandfather and is killed during Li Wei’s intervention 91 99 100.
• Old Sir Baskerville, her great-grandfather — Former family head who abducts her and intends to sacrifice her. She rejects his excuses for murder; her summoned hound kills him 99 100 101.
• Chief Macmillan — Loyal local police chief who worries about her safety, follows her orders, and later brings the bank robbery to her attention 91 94 630.
• Queen Victoria — Recognizes her titles and permits public use of Little Black in the Empire’s defense. The Queen’s centralization program also threatens Ovelia’s territorial authority 171 207 437 712.
• Katie — Shares tea and recreation with Ovelia and tells her about adventures with Li Wei. Ovelia envies her freedom to travel as his assistant 218 437 445 627.
• Annie Branson — Scholar invited to investigate the monastery; Ovelia later permits her academic team to study the site 209 226.
• Kia Tester — Collaborator in the Central Data Tower operation. Ovelia initially doubts her, then witnesses her technical expertise 172 173.
• William Crent — Childhood acquaintance whose family had been friendly with hers. His financial support for Luddites leaves her with complicated feelings 218.
• Baron Payne — Long-serving family agent responsible for grain exports. Ovelia becomes suspicious of his proposals and the deaths of people investigating him 633.
• Ellie Payne — Baron Payne’s second daughter and the sister closest to Ovelia in age; the two get along best 633.

Notable Quotes

“Let everyone know that the Baskerville Family cannot be brought down!” 91

“I was the one who sent those people to investigate. At the very least, I need to learn what happened to them. If possible, I also want to bring their belongings back to their families.” 210

“Those vile cultists will never get away with their scheme!” 217