Liliana Masquerade (リリアナ・マスカレード) is a bard who is currently associated with Kiritaka Muse.
Appearance[]
Liliana is a petite, brown skinned girl with bright yellow hair tied in two tails and big round eyes of the same color. She is mentioned to have lively features and wears revealing clothes, an orange cape, and decorates her hair and body with ornaments that use nuts and animal bones.
Personality[]
Contrary to how she is when she performs, Liliana is shown to be an eccentric person that's constantly excited and her words and actions are mentioned to deviate from the norm. She is interested in famous people, possibly due to her work, and tends to follow new trends. Liliana mentioned herself to be light headed, and not being made for the mental work. However, she still believes that once she's singing, everyone should be enthusiastic about her, and put all their focus on Liliana.
She has a habit of saying “Please listen” before singing, and if she is about to sing a song she has came up with on the spot, she exclaims “Inspiration has flashed”.
History[]
Liliana was born in a family of poets. She and her parents were extremely poor, and her parents barely cared about her. She always dreamed of becoming a traveling bard with freedom and independence.
At the age of thirteen, she decided to run away from home. Her parents barely cared about her leaving, with her father stating that it would result into them having more food, and her mother saying that they could get another kid. As she ran away, she could barely get by, and she ended up falling sick after eating bad food. Eventually, she found her talent as a bard with the assistance of her Divine Protection, and she started performing for the public, becoming known as the Songstress. At some point after this, Kiritaka Muse noticed her and became an avid fan of hers.
Between Arc 2 and Arc 3, she visited Roswaal Manor and played for the Emilia Camp.
Abilities[]
Divine Protection (加護 Kago): Liliana has the Divine Protection of Telepathy (伝心の加護 Denshin no Kago), which enables her to tell other people her thoughts telepathically. While it's normally used to tell close friends certain thoughts, she can combine it with her singing to increase the strength and effect range.
- Bard Domain (歌人領域): According to Liliana in the web novel, the Bard Domain is a place where people's consciousness resides once they are caught within Liliana's singing effect. She used it during the battle against Sirius, to save everyone who was caught by her Soulwashing. However, it's also stated that it is impossible to enter the Bard Domain if she has too many worries or is not concentrating, yet it appeared to be powerful enough to cleanse the Authority of Wrath's effects. The explanation of the Bard Domain was removed in Volume 19, but its effects are still performed when Liliana uses her Divine Protection of Telepathy to take advantage of Sirius's Authority.
Equipment: Liliana performs using a musical instrument known as a lyulyre, which is a cross between a guitar and a ukulele in appearance.
Trivia[]
- Liliana is the first and only character so far that has narrated a part of the main story for an extended period of time, narrating in a total of five web novel chapters and two Light Novel chapters. Alongside Felt and Alec Hoshin's narrations in side content, she is one of only three characters who have narrated their own perspectives.
- Liliana has her own named chapter in Arc 5 in both the web novel and light novels.
- She is scheduled to make another appearance in the main story, though she likely won't be as active as she was in Arc 5.
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