Maria's Social Links

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Mother Superior Sylvania Nikolaev

The Mother Superior of the Sunlike Palms Church, but most importantly the director of the Black Scriptures. She answers to the authority of the Vatican. She once had an impressive record as a Knight and Executor, but had effectively retired after suffering from a debilitating leg injury forever requiring a brace for the rest of her life. Her work as a researcher was more widely known within the Church’s circles helping the organization to better equip their members against their heretical enemies. But also widely criticized for her foray into the forbidden and ruthless experiments, despite being sanctioned by the Vatican. Having made several enemies and allies within the Church, Nikolaev has always stayed on her toes in the Church Militancy’s and the Inquisition’s bureaucracy for some time until recently allowed to focus on operations in Endymion. Ultimately, she saw Maria as an interesting figure in her plans to keep the Black Scriptures afloat.



Father Giorgio “Jorge” Fallaci

A former Templar Knight of renown within the Church, now on retirement from combat duty. He has been stationed here in the Sunlake Palms Church with Sister Louise to provide assistance in their research and administration. Like Louise, Jorge is also Maria's combat instructor. He has shown a rare show of kindness inside the Cathedral than most other members of the Church especially in Endymion. Most people tend to see him as a kind-hearted man of the cloth with a hint of goofiness. However, most outside of the Church don't realize the amount of blood that are on his hands. Perhaps that is why he decided to retire other than facing a rare condition requiring him to put down the gun and live the rest of his life preaching and blessing believers instead.

He was best known for effective combat knowledge rarely shown even in the ranks of the Knights and was respected as an instructor. Even with some basic knowledge in exorcism which is already impressive on top of everything else he’s capable of. But there are some rumors within the Militancy circulating about him of having inhuman cursed lineage. This may explain why he was stationed within the Black Scriptures to not only serve as a combat instructor, but he fit in well as a possible “freak” himself. Jorge was supposed to be Andraste’s recipient, but to save Maria’s life, he was able to somehow convince Sylvania to allow her to have it instead. It was reflective of the amount of respect he had within the Black Scriptures.

In many ways he is like Maria’s father figure now that her original family have passed on after the events of the Eternal Divide. For the next five years as he trained her how to fight, he tried to discourage her from pursuing her feelings for revenge against demons in fears that her hatred may lead her into a dark path. While his tutelage was to some degree “effective”, Jorge acknowledges that he has failed in his original goal to get her to live a normal life without having to be a part of the Militancy and hoped that someone else could’ve saved her instead for her sake.



Sister Diana Garin

A former Knight of the Crescent Night Maidens who is now a member of the Black Scriptures. Anyone can notice her overwhelming tall and built stature which seemed to be the testament to her toughness. She has been recently transferred to replace Sister Louise Faulkner to head and manage the remaining combat units of the Church, but most importantly their Knights. She had a rather impressive record given her young age of twenty-six in the tough wastelands of Siberia and the busy cities of China. She worked a couple of times with the Mother Superior countless times and it’s to little surprise that she now works here in Endymion.



Sister Louise Faulkner (Yagyu?)

The “head administrator” of the Church in Sunlake Palms. While she was able to keep the Church going for some time through needed paperwork and communicating with proper authorities, Louise has proven to be of little help in doing physical work of managing the facility due to her clumsy nature. Of course, when it comes to religious services, they are left to the jurisdiction of the male clergy. Despite her disheveled and reserved appearance, there may be something sinister that she maybe hiding. Not many know this fact, but she has been Maria's combat instructor during the Forgotten's Assimilation Process. Faulkner was one of the Church’s most renown swordswomen of her generation and was commonly in the front lines leading the charge against the demons and heretics of her time. Lately due to the events of the Eternal Divide, she has lost her enchanted weapon and is no longer a viable single unit against supernatural forces. This grudgingly forced her in a supporting role as an instructor for future Executors and Knights. She was also one of the people that saved Maria from the demons, but could not save her family.

As Maria’s instructor, she was significant in that she taught Maria to become fiercely loyal to the Church and most importantly, to the Government and the Queen. Nowadays she only allows Maria to train on her own since she has gotten busier with managing the Church. But at best, she manages the Cathedral as a public face while Sylvania lingers through the shadows to deal with the more troublesome elements within their organization. Rumor has it that Louise is related to the Yagyu family of the famous Yagyu Shinkage Ryu of Japanese Kenjutsu. While possessing Asian features and a style that is very reminiscent to the Art especially with the warfare form of Yagyu Shingan Ryu, it is still unknown to everyone except by the archivists whether she has any connections to the Yagyu family.

Faulkner is a no-nonsense kind of woman who doesn’t let up on her strictness and ruthlessness to get her students to reach a level of competency that she is at least remotely satisfied with to her high standards. But ends up being mostly a slob and ditz outside of work, thus requiring Maria to clean up after her at times to her chagrin. Lately she has been called back from the Vatican to begin providing her services to Germany and eventually Spain.



Sister Abigail

One of the Sisters from the Sunlake Palms Church, especially the ones trained by Father Jorge. In fact, she idolized him like many others within the establishment. She has been designated as an Exorcist under the Father’s tutelage and is one of the personnel that works in managing the Church’s affairs regarding community service. She seems to have a kind of hatred for Maria. The Cadet is commonly looked down on for having a demon, not an angel, as part of the Demon Weapon. But that doesn’t seem to be the case with Abigail as she appeared to loathe her for other reasons.



Gregory Schultz

A trainee Executor who is still in the process of becoming a full fledged Executor, an acolyte. But due to working hard and presenting results to his superiors, he was allowed to hold the Black Keys like Maria does. However, they lack the kind of power the Cadet has due to lacking supernatural potential like her. He has a kind of respect for Maria as she surpassed him in regards to combat, but also a faint kind of jealousy for being chosen to represent the Church. Despite this, he is able to maintain focus regarding any given missions and requests from his superiors.