Angela

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

Human childhood

Angela grew up in a castle with her parents. As illness spread through the household, servants began treating her as a devil, and she was confined to her room. She initially blamed herself, believing that better manners and obedience might persuade her parents to visit again 261 262.

Her father accused her of causing a curse. Her mother, Christie, hid her in a clothes trunk and was fatally wounded while protecting her. Before they parted, Christie made Angela promise to stay alive. Angela subsequently found the castle sealed, its inhabitants dead, and her father hanging in his study 262.

Trapped for months, Angela survived first on spoiled provisions and stagnant water, then on the bodies of the dead. Hunger, cold, and disease progressively damaged her body and fragmented her memories. When soldiers finally appeared, she fled from them in terror 262 263.

Life on Earth and meeting Li Lin

Angela eventually became a member of the Vampire Species, though the circumstances of that transformation are not established in the supplied account. Her early vampire life included a prolonged, blood-fueled maturation sleep that left her far stronger upon awakening 103.

Over thousands of years, she explored Earth’s dangerous and inaccessible places, largely untroubled by radiation, pressure, or thin air. Eventually, ordinary life ceased to interest her 405.

Angela first approached Li Lin as prey. He responded with a hurried spell that linked part of her soul to his despite her magical resistance. Fascinated by his unfamiliar magic and descriptions of another world, she chose to accompany him there 4 405.

The other Angela

A golden-haired Angela exists within her inner world and identifies herself as Angela from her human life. She protects Angela’s soul, spirit, and thoughts, and has access to what the outward Angela knows 264.

This other self later argues that Li Lin has given them the acceptance they always wanted: he neither fears nor rejects them, despite knowing their cruelty 405.

Appearance

• Usual form: A small, apparently innocent girl with pale skin, long white or silver hair, and scarlet eyes. Her youthful appearance conceals her actual age and strength 13 30 149.
• Clothing: Commonly wears a black dress and small black leather boots; also adopts elaborate finery and, in an older form, fitted black leather clothing 30 37 218.
• Older form: Can assume the appearance of a beautiful sixteen-year-old by drawing heavily on her vampire servants’ blood 142.
• Wings: Can unfold large, pitch-black batlike wings used for flight, defense, and attack 284 319 418.
• Human appearance: Childhood memories show pale blue eyes, while her preserved human self has golden hair 262 264.
• After Mount Celestia’s death: Becomes taller, with rosy, lustrous skin, flowing white hair, and restored crimson eyes 431.

Personality

Angela is proud, domineering, and intensely sadistic. She routinely treats humans as toys, takes pleasure in breaking their resistance, and regards weakness as justification for domination. Her hatred is rooted in the suffering and rejection of her past; she explicitly supports Li Lin’s revenge because it fulfills her own desire for retaliation against humanity 18 76 226 281.

Her innocent behavior is often calculated. She can present herself as helpless or charming while concealing her intentions, particularly when dealing with people who underestimate her appearance 9 10 37.

Despite her violent temper, Angela is not habitually reckless. Beneath her arrogance lies a calm, experienced combatant who changes tactics when necessary and studies unfamiliar threats. Even against dragons, her actions are more cautious than her boasts suggest 230 258 407.

Her attachment to Li Lin exposes a more vulnerable side. She seeks comfort in his presence and is uncertain whether her feelings resemble those of a daughter, a lover, or both. Although she accommodates his wishes, she does not regard affection as a reason to abandon her fundamental beliefs 190 385 405.

Abilities & Skills

Power of Origin: Life and Death

Angela’s fundamental power governs life and death. She states that she cannot perish while both continue to exist, and her later actions demonstrate the conversion of death into renewed life 350 431.

• Life-force absorption: Killing can transfer a victim’s vitality to her, replenishing expended strength 426.
• Sustained combat: Does not require meditation, rest, or sleep to recover during battle when she can continue drawing strength from victims 426.
• Planar-scale conversion: Gains Mount Celestia’s life force by bringing death to the entire plane 431.
• Survival beyond declared death: Survives the God of Justice’s attempt to impose her death through fate and emerges after his domain collapses 385.
• Limits: Immortality does not prevent injury, exhaustion, suppression, or displacement between planes 343 376 385 430.

Vampire Physiology and Blood

Angela possesses immense physical strength, rapid movement, magical resistance, and control over her outward form 40 142 405.

• Can normally go ten days to half a month without blood; injury or heavy expenditure increases her need to feed 34.
• Can remove visible bite marks after feeding 34.
• Uses blood drawn from Mina and Fina to sustain an older appearance, leaving them exhausted 142 218.
• Offers True Ancestor blood as a means of freeing the sisters from her control 126.
• Begins healing a mortally wounded elf girl by placing a blood-red hand over her wound 203.
• Can form blood spears capable of impaling Henderson 194.

Speed, Strength, and Close Combat

Angela favors direct attacks intended to kill in a single blow. Her apparently small body can deliver crushing impacts, and her combat instincts reflect thousands of years of experience 40 385.

• Matches Anna’s extraordinary speed and changes to a conservative offense when speed alone cannot secure victory 230.
• Evades coordinated attacks by the Seven Ring Spirit Envoys, including Yi Aier’s magic cannon 319.
• Disarms and pins an angel before she can recover from planar transfer 255.
• Uses her wings as shields, crushing weapons, and blood-draining surfaces 418 425.
• Limit: Cannot outrun the angels’ arrows of light during her attempt to reach the Goddess of Theft’s soul 430.

Unsystematic Magic

Angela’s magic operates differently from Li Lin’s calculated spellcasting. It can reach an effect without the intermediate procedures his system requires, but Angela cannot explain it through precise categories or reproducible formulas 259.

• Produces a violent magical vortex that disrupts approaching spells and threatens the operation of Li Lin’s airship 259.
• Uses an unexplained power to propel the Shell through storm and fog without sailors 164.
• Splits the sea with her fan and destroys two Kudel warships 296.
• Forces her way through the Eternal Library’s magic-draining defense and takes hold of it 308.
• Limit: Lacks Li Lin’s precision and cannot reproduce his techniques for extracting magical energy from crystals and gems through magic circles 343.

Mental Domination and Perception

Angela can seize control of minds through her gaze, with effects extending to the target’s mind and soul rather than following conventional enchantment procedures 37 259.

• Reduces a templar to an obedient puppet through eye contact 37.
• Breaks a Mind Flayer’s psychic barrier and incapacitates it, ending its manipulation of Mina 126.
• Detects approaching danger, tracks individuals by scent, and senses concentrations of magical power 30 63 343.
• Maintains a spiritual connection with Li Lin, allowing him to locate her 111.
• Limit: Their connection becomes too weak for communication when she is expelled to Earth 343.

Necromancy and Undead Command

Angela commands undead forces and releases resentful spirits through her fan 181 230 377.

• Uses ghosts to kill four mages after surviving their simultaneous Sunbursts 181.
• Summons undead to protect her during her battle with Anna 230.
• Raises slain people as zombies and controls their movements 419.
• Directs battlefield advances and resumes command of the Scourge Legion after returning from Earth 284 377.
• Can deploy enormous skeletal soldiers, though she recognizes their limited endurance under powerful holy light 407.

Transformation, Flight, and Infiltration

Angela can change her physical state and conceal herself from observers 63 149 194.

• Mist form: Passes through walls and infiltrates buildings 63 343.
• Bat swarm: Escapes her first documented battle with Henderson among a swarm of bats 194.
• Concealment: Moves through guards’ fields of vision without being noticed 149.
• Flight: Uses her black wings for rapid aerial movement 285.
• Illusion-breaking: Shatters Suoxiate’s Infinite Corridor with an eruption of scarlet power 319.

Resistance and Vulnerabilities

• Ordinary holy attacks are frequently ineffective: Angela survives four Sunbursts unharmed, blocks sacred weapons with her wings, and withstands angels’ holy light and Smite Evil 181 418 426.
• Sacred healing causes her pain during the early journey with Mina and Fina 9.
• The God of Justice’s domain prevents her from replenishing strength and initially redirects her attacks through fate 385.
• Mount Celestia’s divine environment weakens her; the concentrated power of the entire plane severely burns and deforms her body 426 430.
• Planar defenses inflict lasting wounds on her wings during her return from Earth 376.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Blue velvet folding fan — Her customary weapon, capable of parrying swords and releasing ghosts. It transforms into a giant black scythe surrounded by the resentment of the undead 40 181 319.
  • The scythe’s shaft can lengthen and bend like a whip 319.
  • Its blade cuts apart Nia’s Stasis Spell 319.
  • Angela can throw it and recall it in a ghostlike form 319.
• Great Book of Law — Held by Angela during the confrontation in Mount Celestia. Li Lin identifies it as essential to defeating the God of Justice 405 430.

Relationships

• Li Lin — Master, magically linked companion, and intimate partner. Their relationship begins with her predatory attack and develops into trust and attachment; she values his acceptance while retaining her independence of conviction 4 190 385 405.
• Christie — Mother. Protects Angela from her father and makes her promise to survive, a promise Angela clings to throughout her confinement 262 263.
• Her father — Accuses Angela of causing a curse and attacks Christie. Angela later discovers him dead by hanging 262.
• Mina and Fina — Twin vampire servants. Mina resents Angela’s control, while Fina defends Angela and Li Lin for saving them. Angela offers both independence at the price of permanent separation, but they are later still serving her 26 126 142.
• Nia — Fellow companion and collaborator. Helps stage the Black Forest castle and later coordinates the Seven Ring Spirit Envoys’ rehearsal against Angela 218 319.
• Anna / Antanaxisi — Rival whose initial clash with Angela ends without a victor after damaging the castle. Li Lin orders them to get along 229 230.
• Serat Henderson — Recurring paladin enemy. Survives severe wounds in their first battle and confronts her again during the Federation campaign 194 284 285.
• Catherine — A follower of Li Lin who acknowledges learning from Angela. Angela praises her promise and urges her to demonstrate her growing power 376.
• The Professor — Earth-based wielder of creation-and-destruction Origin power. Blocks Angela’s attack, studies her power, and receives limited guidance from her while she seeks a route back to Li Lin 343 353.
• God of Justice — Divine enemy who attempts to destroy her through fate. Angela survives and breaks apart his domain 385.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Early Travels and the Sisters

Angela accompanies Li Lin’s expedition with five paladins and the twin priestesses Mina and Fina. Mina’s unexplained hostility complicates Angela’s innocent disguise, while Fina’s sacred healing reveals an incompatibility with her nature 9.

After the sisters are left dying, Angela takes them as servants. She later trains Mina in physical combat and assists Li Lin’s investigations through infiltration, surveillance, and intimidation 26 30 63 66.

Conspiracies and the Underdark

Angela uncovers a half-elf’s involvement in a plot to provoke urban unrest. Her intervention helps prevent the ensuing riot, after which she explains to Li Lin that his revenge serves the hatred she has carried from her own past 63 76.

In the Underdark, she subdues several Dark Elf matrons while eliminating potential threats to Li Lin. She later defeats the Mind Flayer manipulating Mina and confronts the resentment underlying the sisters’ relationship with her 103 126.

Imperial Warfare and Diplomacy

Angela becomes a major commander in Li Lin’s campaigns. She receives orders to assemble at least thirty thousand Ghouls for the assault on Casablanca City, opens a breach for undead forces during the Federation invasion, and continues eliminating resistance afterward 230 284 288.

Her duties also include diplomacy. As the Magic Empire’s envoy, she breaks Kudel’s naval blockade and offers protection to the Sea-Encircled Country in exchange for compensation. Her reports subsequently inform Li Lin’s decision to support Princess Shirley against the king 296 304.

Before the later war, Li Lin arranges a rehearsal against the Seven Ring Spirit Envoys to test her ability to support the empire. He stops the battle before either side releases its finishing attacks 319.

Expulsion to Earth and Return

While investigating an unnaturally empty town, Angela encounters a trap that expels her to Earth. Separated from effective communication with Li Lin, she follows a concentration of magic to the Professor’s hidden research facility 342 343.

She eventually follows a destructive beam through a planar rift, enduring the plane’s defensive pressure and the beam’s own energy. She returns injured but rejoins Li Lin and resumes command of the undead army, launching an invasion of Lalia 376 377.

The God of Justice and Mount Celestia

Angela survives a direct confrontation with the God of Justice, overcoming his attempt to impose her death and emerging amid the ruins of his domain 385.

During the final campaign, she massacres defenders and blocks Mount Celestia’s angel legions at the planar passage. Their repeated attacks fail to exhaust her because their deaths replenish her strength 419 425 426 427.

Inside Mount Celestia, Angela fails to save the Goddess of Theft’s soul and suffers devastating damage from the plane’s holy power. She ultimately brings death to the plane itself, absorbs its life force, and emerges restored through her authority over life and death 430 431.

Notable Quotes

“My Power of Origin is life and death... Granting death to existing life and awaiting the birth of new life—that is my Power of Origin... As long as life and death exist in this world, I shall never perish.” 350

“Power has more than one form, you foolish idiot.” 385

“You think this will make me submit? You think this can kill me?!” 431

Trivia

• Angela’s hatred of spiders began when she awoke from her long maturation sleep to find one spinning a web on her face 103.
• Despite her infiltration abilities and capacity for flight, she has a poor sense of direction and refuses to ask humans for help rather than admit it 111 149.
• Claims to have sunk the Titanic because humans called it unsinkable 164.
• Avoids airplanes because she considers them narrow “tin coffins” 248.
• Enjoys singing an old, legendlike ballad rather than contemporary popular music 13.
• Initially avoids displaying certain powerful undead because she considers them ugly, not because she intends to hide her strength from Li Lin 407.