Theresia van Astrea

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Theresia van Astrea was Wilhelm van Astrea's wife and the previous generation's Sword Saint who fought and single handedly brought an end to the Demi-Human War roughly 40 years before the start of the main story. Though a minor character overall, she is pivotal to the character arcs of her relatives and later serves as a secondary antagonist in Arc 5. After dying during the Great Conquest 14 years before the story began, Wilhelm vowed to avenge her by killing the White Whale, which he does in Arc 3. Unbeknownst to everyone, though, the Witch of Vainglory was involved in her death. Following her death, the Witch Cult reanimated her as a corpse soldier and she was controlled like a puppet during the events of Arc 5. In the end, her grandson, Reinhard, put her out of her misery, an act that completely shattered his relationship with Wilhelm. She was tall and had long red hair with flowers attached to it, tying it in two ponytails, while a big part of her hair stayed loose. She had blue eyes and a white complexion. When operating as a knight of the Royal Guard, she used to wear a short white dress with armor and a white cloak over it, with a pair of dark purple gloves and tights of the same color. In her uniform, she used to wear high white boots and tied her hair in a high ponytail. In her free time, she wore a long green and white off-the-shoulder dress with shoulder straps decorated with flowers. Her common outfit had white trimmings and pink patches on the dress in a form of bows, with one of then being on her chest. Theresia also used to wear small red shoes. Theresia was described as an open-minded, sociable person who had a fatal flaw of shoving aside her own personal feelings while only focusing on those of others. Despite her immense talent and lineage, she never wanted to be a swordsman or take up the mantle of the "Sword Saint" due to a lack of interest and, more over, fear of her own power, which easily stripped the lives from others regardless of her will. However, certain circumstances forced her to resign to her fate in order to end the civil war and protect the loved ones she had left. This eventually led Wilhelm to "take" the sword from her and free her from a life of bondage by duty. Theresia was an avid flower lover and could be found viewing them in ruins, where she and Wilhelm routinely met in her spare time.