Jelena

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

House Belerys and Tyria

Jelena descended from House Belerys, a dragonlord house that had ranked far above House Targaryen before the Doom. By the time she pledged herself to Liu Qian, her house was nearly extinct and scarcely remembered outside the Valyrian ruins 21.

In Tyria, she commanded warriors sent to collect ghost grass for a potion. Although an exceptional fighter, she initially possessed no magic power of her own. Activating her magical weapons and armor aggravated the Blood Magic curse within her 13 22.

Meeting Liu Qian

Jelena first intervened against the Purple-feathered Monster Bird with a flaming arrow that pierced its eye. She initially regarded Liu Qian as a threat, but Janice explained that he had saved her. When the wounded beast rose again, Jelena seized her sister and fled into the forest 10.

Liu Qian later found her defending Janice, Tyria’s soldiers, and their ghost-grass carts from Scaleclaw Monsters. After he helped defeat them, Jelena supplied him with a robe, explained the blood-magic origins of Valyria’s chimeras, and allowed him to accompany the expedition to Tyria. She warned that the city’s blood warlock demanded outsiders be brought back to work, and that many died there 12 13.

Tyria’s Fall and the Pact

When a Scaleclaw army attacked Tyria, Jelena fought alongside Teres at the failing city gate. She later defended Janice on the Wizard Tower’s steps, suffering exhaustion, blood loss, and wounds through the gaps in her armor. Liu Qian rescued both sisters in his golden dragon form 15 18 24.

After the battle, repeated activation of her magical equipment caused her curse to spiral out of control. Scales spread over her skin, and she begged Janice to kill her before she became a slaughtering monster. Liu Qian offered the Dragonblood Pact as a cure, with eternal service and a shared fate as its price. Jelena accepted on the condition that he protect Janice 20 21.

As a new Flame Knight, Jelena helped raise Tyria’s fallen warriors as Dragon Spirit Guardians. She initially recoiled at turning her comrades into obedient puppets, agreeing only after Janice argued that they might someday regain consciousness. Jelena insisted that the magic should be dispelled if restoration proved impossible 22.

Escape from Valyria

Jelena helped investigate the Wizard Tower and advised Liu Qian on evacuating Tyria’s 317 survivors. Because the city’s curse killed residents who left the affected land, she proposed refuge in Oros and identified abandoned ships in a nearby harbor 22 23 24.

During the voyage, Teres emerged from hiding and took Janice hostage, demanding the Dragon Eggs. Jelena defended Liu Qian’s rescue of Tyria’s people and challenged Teres over his role in the Blood Warlock’s sacrifices. When Janice stabbed Teres in the thigh, Jelena used Shadow Transformation to decapitate him and free her sister 26 27.

After Liu Qian fell into the sea with catastrophic injuries, Jelena ordered the Guardians into the water to find him. She and Janice tended his wounds, and she later gave him a complete account of the voyage and presented Teres’s recovered Valyrian steel sword 29 30.

Stepstones Campaign

Jelena handled fleet preparations at Volantis, reporting the purchase of 30 merchant ships—11 flatboats, five Swan Ships, and 14 Great Ships—for nearly 250,000 Glowcoins. In the fleet’s first pirate encounter, she led the encirclement and boarded a galley ahead of her Guardians, breaking its crew’s resistance 33.

At Torturer’s Deep, she led the Guardians onto the fjord’s shore walkway and cleared Crab Claw’s ambushers with her flaming sword. After the stronghold fell, she eliminated remaining resistance and helped Janice secure it 37 38.

Liu Qian subsequently placed her in charge of strengthening the island’s defenses and guarding it during his offensive against Kago. After the battle at Tidal Reef, she and Janice restored all 73 fallen Dragon Spirit Guardians 43 44 47.

Appearance

Jelena has a powerful, athletic figure, violet eyes, and long hair described as molten silver; in the glare of dragonfire, the hair spilling from her armor appears silver-gold 10 18 20.

• Eyes: Sharp and hawk-like, usually conveying calm or cold composure 10.
• Armor: Fitted reddish-copper or scarlet plate engraved with spiral patterns, ancient pictographs, and magical runes 10 14 18.
• Helmet: A red-bronze helmet with a nasal guard and cheek plates that conceals most of her face 10.
• Weapon harness: A broad black leather belt carries her sword and quiver; a dagger sheath is strapped to her left calf 10.

Personality

Jelena is intensely protective of Janice. She repeatedly places herself between her sister and danger, from fighting several Scaleclaws one-handed to shielding Janice from the blast of Liu Qian’s dragonfire with her own body and armor 12 18.

Her disciplined battlefield composure contrasts with her initial suspicion of Liu Qian and pride in Valyrian ancestry. His ability to transform into a dragon challenged her belief that such power belonged to Valyrians. After he rebuked her interrogation, she apologized and acknowledged that Valyria’s confidence in controlling magic had helped bring about its ruin 13 20.

She values her comrades as people rather than expendable soldiers, making their resurrection without humanity deeply distressing to her. Her loyalty to Liu Qian, however, is also magically enforced: when Teres suggested that Liu Qian caused Tyria’s destruction, the pact overwhelmed her momentary doubt with instinctive allegiance 22 27.

Jelena remains practical about warfare. She recognizes that Crab Claw’s overconfidence enabled their victory and that Torturer’s Deep’s terrain would have made a cautious defense extremely difficult to overcome 43.

Abilities & Skills

Swordsmanship

Jelena’s swordsmanship emphasizes precise cuts at joints and vulnerabilities rather than brute force 12.

• Holds multiple Scaleclaws at bay while protecting Janice with her free hand 12.
• Uses rapid, controlled thrusts and cuts to clear crowded enemy positions 37.
• Teaches refined sword techniques to Liu Qian and agrees to train Janice 30 34.
• Combines her experience with pact-enhanced strength and speed to overwhelm groups of pirates 33.

Archery and Blood Magic Weapons

Jelena can fire flaming arrows from an enormous bow and activate the magic in her runic equipment 10 18 19.

• Her opening shot disables one of the Monster Bird’s heads 10 13.
• Explains that Dragonbone Bow arrows carry Blood Magic capable of burning a target from within 19.
• Before the pact, she needed more than half a month between shots; frequent artifact activation worsened her curse 19 20 22.
• After gaining personal magic, her Valyrian equipment no longer turns against her unless she completely exhausts her reserves 22.

Shadow Transformation

Jelena uses Shadow Transformation for a sudden, extremely rapid attack 27.

• Appears as a streak of silver lightning while closing on Teres and severing his head 27.
• The supplied account does not explain the technique’s mechanics or establish whether she possessed it before the pact.

Dragon Spirit Guardians

The Dragonblood Pact grants Jelena the spell needed to raise the dead as obedient Dragon Spirit Guardians 22.

• Heals fatal wounds and animates fallen bodies through magic binding a broken soul fragment 22.
• Does not restore the dead person’s humanity or complete consciousness 22.
• Requires another spell and considerable magic expenditure when a Guardian is killed again 38.
• Supports up to 400 Guardians after her connection with Liu Qian strengthens 38.
• Helps Janice revive 73 fallen Guardians after Tidal Reef 47.

Command and Logistics

Jelena commands soldiers, Guardians, and fleet operations 13 33 43.

• Directs battlefield cleanup and recovery of Tyria’s fallen warriors 13.
• Organizes ship purchases, supply transfers, encirclement, and boarding actions 31 33.
• Oversees reef-blocking iron chains and reconstruction of Crackwater Channel’s chain gate into a fortified stone archway 43.
• Guards Torturer’s Deep while Liu Qian’s forces take the offensive 44.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Valyrian steel sword — A rune-marked blade capable of cutting through Scaleclaw armor and channeling crimson flames 12 18 26 37.
• Runic Valyrian steel armor — Reddish-copper plate that resists monster claws and fangs, though joints and neck openings remain vulnerable. Activating its magic originally accelerated her curse 18 20 33.
• Large bow and black arrows — Her first appearance features a rugged five-foot bow and a quiver containing seven or eight black arrows. Her use of the Dragonbone Bow is later explicitly discussed 10 19 22.
• Dagger — Carried in a leather sheath on the outside of her left calf 10.

Relationships

• Janice Belerys — Younger sister and foremost personal concern. Jelena makes Janice’s protection a condition of her pact and later agrees to teach her to fight 21 30.
• Liu Qian — Initially a distrusted outsider, later her rescuer, liege, and combat student. Their Dragonblood Pact binds her life and loyalty to his; he can replenish her depleted magic through touch 13 21 30 34 38.
• Teres — Hostile fellow Tyria warrior. They fight together during the city’s fall, but his desertion and subsequent hostage-taking culminate in Jelena killing him 14 24 27.
• Osarion — Tyria’s ruling Blood Warlock, whose authority she initially respects. She is horrified when Liu Qian reveals his attempt to seize Liu Qian’s body and the circumstances of his death 13 20.
• Dragon Spirit Guardians — Troops under her command, initially raised from fallen comrades. She remains troubled by their lost humanity and hopes their consciousness might eventually be restored 22 38.