Xio Derecha

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Full Name: Xio Derecha (formerly Xio Dere)

Aliases: Judgment (Tarot Club)

Hair: Blonde, shoulder-length, perpetually messy and unkempt

Eyes: Green

Features: Exceptionally short at 152 cm, with soft and youthful facial features that make her appear younger and more immature than she is. Malt-colored skin from constant outdoor activity. Despite her small stature, she radiates an indescribable air of dignity and convincing authority that catches people off-guard.

Personality: Fiercely righteous, straightforward, and relentlessly determined. Xio is driven by a singular, burning goal: to uncover the truth behind her father’s execution and restore the honor of her fallen noble family. Despite working as a gritty bounty hunter and gang enforcer in Backlund’s murky East Borough, she maintains a rigid, almost stubborn sense of justice and morality, refusing to cross certain ethical lines. She is pragmatic, blunt, and highly protective of her friends—often acting as the grounded, practical anchor to Fors’s flighty laziness. Xio is also incredibly sensitive about her remarkably short stature, reacting with immediate, prickly defensiveness if anyone mentions it or treats her like a child. While she started out somewhat naive about the world's darker political machinations, she has grown into a cautious, sharp-eyed investigator who lets her heavy sword and authoritative aura do the talking. While she was often mocked as a brainless person by her good friends, but to survive in the circle of Beyonders, she wasn’t a completely reckless person. She had the intuition for the danger that was akin to a wild beast. She is deadly when she got drunk. She would use her fists to persuade the guests to quit drinking and throw them out one by one.

Clothing: Practical and functional over fashionable. Typically wears a white, slightly puffed long-sleeved blouse with a wide collar, layered under a fitted dark gray vest with simple brown fastenings and an orange emblem on the left side.

Backstory: Born the eldest daughter of the Dere family, a once-noble household whose ancestor had served as an earl palatine. Her father, Mason Dere, was the leader of the Household Guards Division and captain of the royal guards — a position of great trust. His deputy was Viscount Stratford. Several years before the story begins, Mason Dere discovered a secret belonging to the King and attempted to report it to the three Churches. He was executed before he could, accused of participating in a revolt. The family was stripped of their aristocratic title and fiefdom. Xio changed her surname to Derecha to avoid persecution, left East Tucker with her mother and younger brother, and eventually came to Backlund alone to rebuild — and to one day uncover the truth and restore her father’s name.

In Backlund, she worked as a bounty hunter and became well-known among the working class and gangs of the East Borough as someone who helps ordinary people resolve disputes. Her connections in the Beyonder underworld eventually led to her arrest, from which Audrey Hall helped free her. She became a Beyonder through the Justiciar Pathway and, after mindlessly recited The Fool’s honorable name in ancient Hermes through Viscount Glaint’s study that made her very terrified, afraid to attract the attention of evil existence. That night, she dreamt of a mysterious space, and a gray foggy figure looking down on her from above. so she went to Mr. A's gathering. She brought the Sheriff potion formula and immediately found a Sun Pathway person who is good at exorcising evil spirits to purify herself. Then she met a golden masked man who she suspects is from MI9 who asked Xio to be his informant. He occasionally entrusted her with some missions and essentially become her handler.

She once took on a commission for 200 pounds from Dwayne Dantès to find thieves who disguised themselves as cloth merchants, she managed to find the thieves and return 850 pounds of the 1000 stolen.

She gets informed about a new Beyonder gathering which is held by Mr. X. After some consideration she attends it and after using her Sheriff abilities to accurately describe the appearance of Mr. X, she is able to help Fors identify him as the traitor of the Abraham Family "Lewis Wien".

After Fors realises this she dissuades Xio from attending the next gathering whilst hiring Gherman Sparrow to take care of Mr. X. then Fors bought Interrogator beyonder characteristic from Gherman Sparrow and gave it to Xio to help with her advancement Xio decides to go and use her points with MI9 to buy the respective potion formula. During this time she gets followed by a member of the Aurora Order which used beyonder powers on her to check if she had any involvement with the assassination

She later together with Fors accepts a commission to protect Dwayne Dantès for a few days for 100 pounds per day. During the protection period they manage to figure out several of the abnormalities with Dwayne Dantès and the people around him.

With Fors's guidance, Xio prayed to The Fool for help and become a member of the Tarot Club.

She, along with members of Tarot Club, worked together to punish Ernes Boyar for his incomplete information.

She started to investigate Viscount Stratford, and there she met with Sherman who had become a woman and called herself Shermane

Affiliations

Dere Family (Background): A fallen noble family. Her ancestor was an earl palatine; her father Mason Dere served as captain of the royal guards before being wrongfully executed. The family lost all titles and land. Xio carries this history as both her deepest wound and her primary motivation.

Church of the Evernight Goddess: Her public faith, as is common among many in Loen. Provides social cover.

Tarot Club (Secret): A newly founded secret organization in the Fifth Epoch created by The Fool in the palace above The Gray Fog. Xio is a Major Arcana member under the codename “Judgment.” She joined partly at Fors’s guidance and partly out of genuine belief in The Fool’s power and fairness.

MI9 (Semi-Secret): Loen Kingdom’s intelligence service. Xio began as an informant under a gold-masked handler who approached her in Backlund. By Sequence 6 she is an official operative, handling Beyonder-related cases and assigned to a small team dealing with Intis-related espionage in the Backlund region.

Relationships

Fors Wall: Her closest friend and roommate. They live together in Backlund. Fors introduced her to the Beyonder world and guided her toward the Tarot Club. Their bond is the most stable and defining relationship in Xio’s life. Currently Sequence 6 of the Apprentice Pathway, “Scribe.”

Audrey Hall: Sponsor and friend. Audrey facilitated Xio’s release from jail, making her one of Xio’s earliest positive connections to the higher Beyonder world. Xio respects her greatly. Currently Sequence 5 of the Spectator Pathway, “Dreamwalker.”

Viscount Glaint: A mysticism enthusiast who unknowingly served as the bridge — it was in his study that Xio first encountered The Fool’s honorable name, and through him that she and Fors were connected to Audrey.

MI9 Handler (Gold-Masked Man): The MI9 operative who recruited Xio as an informant and became her handler, occasionally assigning her missions. His true identity remains unclear to her at this stage.

Viscount Stratford: Her father’s former deputy and the man she suspects of having a role in her father’s downfall. A target of her personal investigation.

Xio’s Current Sequence: Sequence 7 of the Justiciar Pathway: “Interrogator”

Xio’s Abilities

Sequence 9 – Arbiter Order Trait: Subconsciously compelled to maintain the current Order; unwilling to disrupt its fabric. If holding an official identity or position, this tendency intensifies further. Physical Enhancement: Outstanding combat ability capable of handling sudden and unpredictable situations; proficient across a wide variety of weapons and explosives. Authority: Carries a convincing, supernatural charm and a natural air of authority that causes others to be more inclined to believe and obey her words and commands.

Sequence 8 – Sheriff Recognition: Upon seeing someone — even through a painting or photograph — she will always be able to identify them again through a supernatural sense. Abnormality Detection: Can detect hidden irregularities, lingering remnants of supernatural activity, and things related to Evil, Disorder, or Madness when within sufficient range. Tracking Sense: Using supernatural intuition alongside Recognition, she can vaguely sense a known target’s current location and likely destination — enabling highly effective investigative sweeps. Surveillance Intuition: A sharp, instinctive awareness of when she is being watched or followed. Enhanced Physical Constitution: Further improvement to physical attributes.

Sequence 7 – Interrogator Psychic Attack: Can directly assault a target’s mind and spirit — the sensation resembles electric current running through the soul, producing pain, numbness, and an inability to resist questioning. Illusory Branding: Conjures an illusory branding iron capable of marking and halting targets, including Spirit Body entities. Psychic Lashing: Coats melee weapons in bolts of illusory lightning, allowing ordinary cold weapons to affect and damage Spirit Body-type creatures. Psychic Piercing: Fires bolts of lightning from the eyes at targets within roughly five meters. Unlike other psychic techniques, this directly targets the Soul Body rather than the Heart and Mind — it bypasses physical defenses entirely, imposing unbearable pain directly on the spirit. Weapons Mastery: Expanded proficiency across all manner of weapons, including explosives.

Xio’s Possessions

[Wintry Blade: Xio’s bayonet, A transparent, nearly invisible triangular blade. a grade 2 Sealed Artifact. Its abilities resemble Sequence 5, Wraith of the Chained Pathway. Power Freezes the body and thoughts of those pierced by it as if possessed by a writh, At the same time, in prolonged combat even if the enemy does not have direct contact with the Wintry Blade, their thought would become sluggish and their movement would be rigid and dull. Downside The user would also be losing body temperature slowly, and transform into undead. Once the time limit is exceeded (3 or 4 hours) and the process is irreversible. This process could be countered by doing an activity that generates body heat.]

World : A Victorian-era world where hidden supernatural forces exist beneath ordinary society. Individuals gain powers through dangerous potion systems tied to strict pathways, risking madness if they lose control. Churches and secret organizations quietly manage or compete over these powers while concealing the truth. Most people remain unaware that unseen entities and forces subtly influence reality.

Current city : Backlund is the massive capital of the Loen Kingdom, divided by the Tussock River and home to millions, making it one of the largest cities on the continent. It contains sharply divided districts, from wealthy boroughs of nobles and finance to overcrowded eastern slums filled with laborers and crime. The city is dense, constantly active, and layered with industry, commerce, and politics, where different classes rarely mix despite existing side by side. Its scale, complexity, and internal inequality make it a place where opportunity and danger coexist at every level.

Timeline: Take place near the end of Lord of the Mysteries Volume 5: Red Priest" around July- September of Year 1350

Xio: 500 pounds just to seek out other Beyonders in our names while maintaining it a secret… Miss Audrey is the most generous and beautiful lady I’ve ever seen! Xio thoughts

Xio: "I’m usually popular with animals… For example, mosquitoes…"

Xio: "Isn’t he afraid that others would report him? It’s no wonder the gentleman from MI9 said that the Aurora Order is filled with lunatics, that there’s no way to understand their actions with the logic of the average person…"

Xio: "Does every author have a sickness of procrastination?" to Fors Wall