Yorna Mishigure (ヨルナ・ミシグレ) is the Seventh ranking Divine General of the Sacred Vollachia Empire and the former ruler of the Demon City of Chaosflame. She plays a major supporting role in Arc 7 and Arc 8.
Originally born as Iris, a village girl and former lover of Eugard Vollachia, she was killed during a conflict involving the Stargazers, and her story with Eugard was immortalized in the story called Iris and the King of Thorns. She was cursed to reincarnate with her memories for the next 300 years by Eugard himself after he’d lost his mind in his grief. One of those lives included the woman named Sandra Benedict, who gave birth to Prisca Benedict.
Appearance[]
Yorna Mishigure is a beautiful and tall fox woman with a thin and alluring physique. Perhaps her most striking facial feature is her slit blue eyes that give off a languid yet sharp look that can captivate anyone with whom she crosses sight. Her hair is neatly arranged, primarily white in color but slowly shifts to orange towards its tips. Furthermore, Yorna adorns her head in a variety of animal bones, horns, teeth, scales and other ornaments, making her appearance majestic and somewhat mythical. At the very top of her head, a pair of sharp orange fox ears can easily be spotted even from afar, making her demi-human blood rather obvious.
Adorning herself in a richly-colored kimono that vaguely exposes her thin white shoulders, Yorna gives off an incredibly languid and relaxed air. Her attire consists of a primarily blue kimono with a floral pattern, that has its sleeve edges and its collar's colors in bright green. She keeps it all together with a green belt that has a black floral pattern adorning it. Coincidentally, her nine white and orange fox tails match her attire more than perfectly. In addition, Yorna can usually be seen smoking from her purple and golden kiseru, which she can also cast magic with.
Personality[]
Yorna can best be described as problematic and hard to deal with, having even been described by Zikr Osman as someone with a desire for destruction and according to Kafma Irulux, she represents a danger to the emperor. Despite bearing the rank of "Seventh", she frequently starts revolts which have forced Vincent to dispatch the Imperial Army and the Divine Generals more than once, though he considers her too necessary for Chaosflame, to have her be executed for treason, effectively making her some sort of a trouble-child of the Nine Divine Generals. Furthermore, Yorna is infatuated with the emperor of Vollachia (not Vincent directly), though according to Vincent, not even he knows what exactly is her goal, and only guesses she wishes to be the emperor's favorite mistress and bask in money and status.[1]
When conversing and interacting with others, however, Yorna tends to act in an extremely relaxed and almost spoiled manner, appearing somewhat arrogant which can be seen with her often taking her time to answer even to the very emperor of the Vollachian Empire. Furthermore, her words are often provoking or teasing, which often tends to anger people with shorter tempers, such as the aforementioned Second-Class General Kafma Irulux. She tends to spin the situation into a conflict for her own amusement, with Subaru noting she's a far more vicious and terrible person than he had imagined her from hearing everything Vincent and Zikr had to say about her. In some ways, she's remarkably similar to Priscilla Barielle, but with next to no verbal abuse and a much more languid tone.
Yorna also has a very soft spot for children and demi-humans, and she is willing to go to extreme lengths in order to protect them. During the fake "Great Disaster" in Chaosflame, she went directly against Vincent's orders to flee the city and put her all on the line in order to protect it and ensure a safe haven for those persecuted by the Empire for their blood lineage.
History[]
Around 300 years before the present era, a village girl named Iris (アイリス, Airisu) met and sheltered Eugard Vollachia, an emperor of Vollachia who was ousted from his throne. The two fell in love and Iris sheltered and supported Eugard's path to return to his position. However, when they were to meet one day, they were betrayed and Iris was killed by the wolf human and mole human races. After the emperor lost Iris, he descended into madness. He resultingly chose to eradicate all wolf humans and mole humans who remained in the Empire. However, his madness was not quelled, and Eugard chose to cast a curse on Iris, using the slain wolf and mole humans as the core for it. This curse, the Soul Marriage Curse, brought her back to life at the cost of experiencing endless reincarnation.
At an unknown point in time, Iris began to desire a fervent wish. The genesis of this wish is related to the existence of the Stargazers, which she believes is one of the Vollachia Empire's evil practices.[2] She also learned how to use the ancient Soul Marriage Technique.
Many years later, Iris would again be reincarnated as a human with the name Sandra Benedict (サンドラ・ベネディクト, Sandora Benedikuto). As Sandra, she would have a child with the seventy-sixth emperor of Vollachia, Drizen Vollachia. Their child was named Prisca Benedict. However, Sandra perished to give birth to Prisca, and she reincarnated into a fox human under a new name: Yorna Mishigure. She became the Demon City of Chaosflame's “Mistress” because of her lineage and lived through the Imperial Selection Ceremony as Yorna, not knowing that her child had been spared and took the name Priscilla. Some time after Vincent Vollachia was coronated as the seventy-seventh emperor of Vollachia, Yorna was appointed as the Imperial Army's Seventh ranked Divine General once the Nine Divine General system was reestablished.
Around two to three months before the main story, Yorna launched a rebellion against the Empire upon discovering that Tanza's older sister, Zoey, was murdered for sport by soldiers stationed at a fortress close to Chaosflame. After Tanza's audience with her, Yorna began by attacking the fortress and killing most of the soldiers there; however, a few soldiers escaped. Soon, she was confronted by Madelyn Eschart, but their battle came to a standstill. Ending their battle, Yorna told Madelyn of the soldiers who left the fortress, asking that they be sent to her in return for stopping her rebellion.
Some time after Madelyn relayed her message, Yorna came face to face with Cecilus Segmunt and Arakiya when the Imperial Army's generals assaulted Chaosflame. Despite the power that the Blue Lightning and the Spirit Eater both had as two of the strongest combatants in the Empire, they were unable to defeat Yorna due to her usage of Soul Marriage. In the end, Yorna's demands were met and the emperor himself personally ordered the escaped soldiers to be sent to Chaosflame, ending the rebellion.
Abilities[]
Soul Marriage Technique (魂婚術, Konkon-jutsu): Soul Marriage is a long-lost secret technique of the old world that has been forgotten by most people. By dividing her own Od and bestowing it onto someone of her choosing, Yorna imbues them with power more or less reflective of her own, and she greatly boosts their healing capabilities to the point someone acting under her Soul Marriage can receive multiple fatal wounds and be healed completely in a few short moments. However, in order for Soul Marriage to work, Yorna must not only love the receiver of this ability, but she must also be loved by that person in return. If this condition isn't met, Soul Marriage will not work. Furthermore, Yorna can apply this concept to inanimate objects such as her golden kiseru, the Crimson Lapis Castle and the Demon City of Chaosflame itself. This allows her to freely manipulate Soul Marriage imbued objects such as causing remote explosions throughout the Castle by seemingly lifting her finger, or manipulating the roof's tiles to form steps in thin air which she can use to freely jump around on. During the Destruction of Chaosflame, Yorna cast Soul Marriage upon most of, if not, all the residents of the city as well as the buildings themselves, allowing her to attack the shadows by manipulating nearby buildings and throwing them at the incoming tendrils. Similarly, she could cause things affected by the Soul Marriage Technique to explode, as she demonstrated when when she not only blew up the Crimson Lapis Castle but also Chaosflame itself to repel the shadow.
Curse (呪い, Noroi): Yorna is afflicted by the Soul Marriage Curse, a curse cast onto her by Eugard Vollachia.
- Soul Marriage Curse (魂婚呪, Konkon Noroi): The Soul Marriage Curse, also called the Binding of Thorns (茨の縛め, Ibara no Imashime) by Priscilla Barielle, is a curse that drags a lost soul back without handing it over to Od Lagna.[3] It was cast onto Yorna by Eugard Vollachia. Because Yorna's soul cannot go to Od Lagna upon death, it instead fails to receive the proper treatment of a soul after its death, goes into the earth, and repetitively reincarnates her into another vessel.[4][5] It is unknown if the curse has any relation with the Soul Marriage Technique.
Equipment:
- Golden Kiseru: Yorna can usually be seen walking around with her golden kiseru, taking in rainbow puffs of smoke at her own leisure. When in battle, though, she can be seen frequently using it as a weapon. With the application of her Soul Marriage technique, Yorna can transform the rainbow smoke into some sort of a shield, capable of withstanding Olbart's numerous precise and strong kicks. When colliding with the aged shinobi's deadly kunai, it easily shattered the weapon without suffering a single dent or scratch, despite it serving as everything but a weapon. Furthermore, the kiseru's smoke can be observed having other magical-like properties, such as when Yorna used it to rebuild a large hole created by Al during their escape from the initial encounter with the Divine General.[6]
- Numerous Beloved Articles: Yorna wears various accessories, jewelries, and even articles of clothing that were made by those who love her. Imbued with her Soul Marriage Technique, the various objects can receive any fatal or severely injuring attacks meant for Yorna, though at the cost of the articles themselves.
Trivia[]
- Before Yorna was introduced and revealed to be Iris, the story of Iris and the King of Thorns was first mentioned by Sirius in Arc 5.
References[]
- ↑ "She won't divulge the details, but I'm fairly certain that's how she sees it. What she wants is the top of the Empire… to be the favorite mistress of the Emperor of Vollachia. It doesn’t have to be me." Arc 7 Chapter 39; Section 3
- ↑ Yorna could not help but feel some bitterness inside as the word “Stargazer” echoed, spoken by his mouth in such a confident tone. The existence of the Stargazer was one of Vollachia's evil practices. At least, that was the only way Yorna could describe it. The genesis of Yorna’s strong, fervent wish was not unrelated to the Stargazers. Re:Zero Light Novel Volume 30, Chapter 1, Section 4.
- ↑ Indifferent to those doubts of Emilia’s, Priscilla spoke of the curse’s details. That was――, “――The secret art of dragging a lost soul back, without handing it over to Od Lagna.” Re:Zero Light Novel Volume 32, Chapter 2, Section 4.
- ↑ “If the soul does not return to Od Lagna, it will return to the earth, and without receiving the proper treatment, it will enter its next vessel. ――You could call it resurrection, or even reincarnation.” Re:Zero Light Novel Volume 32, Chapter 2, Section 4.
- ↑ “So long as the curse is not undone, so long as the Binding of Thorns that entangles them is not undone, the departed soul shall continue to rise again. Again and again it will repeat itself, pilling up the lives and deaths over and over again.” Re:Zero Light Novel Volume 32, Chapter 2, Section 4.
- ↑ "As the fluttering tobacco smoke reached the large hole, it created a surprising change. As if it were merely an illusion, the broken wall was slowly being repaired. The wood used in the damaged area of the collapsed wall of the Red Lapis Castle wriggled, and the wall was mended like the wounds of a living creature healing. Although it was a building repair, it was a strange and unearthly thing that gave the impression of a living being rather than inorganic matter." Arc 7 Chapter 39; Section 1
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