Nightingale

Name: "Nightingale" Liz File no.: FO03 Operator Class: Medic Branch: Multi-target Medic Faction: Followers Position: Ranged Trait: Restores the HP of 3 allies simultaneously Summon: Mirage Gender: Female Combat Experience: 1 year Place of Birth: Kazdel Date of Birth: May 4th Race: Sarkaz Height: 164 cm Infection Status: Showed physical signs of Originium, infection confirmed by medical report. Strength: Flawed Mobility: Flawed Endurance: Flawed Tactical Acumen: Normal Combat Skill: Normal Originium Arts Assimilation: Outstanding

Story: Nightingale, whose real name is Liz, is a Sarkaz healer whose past is closely tied to the Confessarii and the brutal conflicts of Kazdel. She was subjected to severe physical and psychological harm that left her body fragile and many of her memories damaged or incomplete. Despite this, her aptitude for healing Arts remained extraordinary. She eventually escaped that environment with Shining, who became her protector and caretaker, and the two later traveled with Nearl as members of the Followers, treating the wounded across war-torn regions without regard for faction or origin.

Nightingale later joined Rhodes Island, where she continued receiving medical care while using her Arts to protect others. Her healing is unusually powerful, especially against injuries caused by Arts, and she is capable of creating protective phantoms that shield allies from hostile energy. Much of her life has been shaped by the struggle to regain independence from the people and institutions that once controlled her, and although her health remains delicate, she has gradually become more willing to make decisions for herself rather than simply follow those protecting her.

Appearance: Nightingale has fair ivory skin and a petite, slender build with narrow shoulders, a small waist, slim limbs, and long legs. Her eyes are bright turquoise-blue with darker pupils, framed by pale lashes beneath fine light brows. She has extremely long pale platinum-blonde hair with a warm cream tint, falling far past her waist in enormous flowing sections that curl into broad loops and tapered ends around her legs. Straight blunt bangs cover most of her forehead, with longer strands descending beside her cheeks. Two thick dark brown ram horns emerge from the sides of her head, curling forward with pronounced segmented ridges. A white hood-like head covering sits over the crown, edged with small black tabs and fitted around the bases of the horns. A high ribbed pale-gray collar wraps closely around her neck.

She wears an elaborate layered white outfit built from an off-shoulder upper garment, long loose sleeves, fitted waist panels, and a dramatically flared asymmetrical skirt composed of numerous overlapping ruffles and pointed fabric sections. Black edging traces parts of the neckline, while a rectangular chest patch bears a dark emblem and printed lettering. Numerous black straps cross the waist and skirt, secured by square brass-toned buckles, dark clips, and hanging belt ends, including a long strap marked with “FOLLOWERS.” Her legs remain uncovered between the short front layers of the skirt and tall white lace-up boots, which reach below the knees and feature dense crisscrossed lacing, small buckles, pale gray trim, and dark-edged soles. She carries a long black staff topped by a complex jointed mechanical arm with cylindrical hinges, metal braces, bronze-toned rings, and a suspended black cage containing a bright cyan-white light.

Personality: Nightingale is gentle, quiet, and compassionate, often speaking with a dreamlike calm that reflects both her damaged memories and her sheltered experiences. She can seem distant or confused when confronted with parts of her own past, yet she is highly sensitive to the pain of others and instinctively tries to ease it. Her kindness is not passive; when someone is suffering, she can become unexpectedly determined despite her physical weakness. As her confidence grows, she begins expressing her own wishes more clearly and showing greater curiosity about the world beyond hospitals and battlefields.

Shining is the most important person in Nightingale’s life, having protected and cared for her through some of her most vulnerable years. Their bond is deeply affectionate, although Nightingale increasingly seeks the freedom to make choices without relying entirely on Shining’s protection. Nearl is another trusted companion whose strength and straightforward kindness gave Nightingale a sense of safety during their travels as the Followers. She also develops strong trust in Rhodes Island and its medical staff, where she is treated as both a patient and a healer rather than merely as someone defined by what was done to her.

Combat Overview: Nightingale is a powerful healer whose Arts are especially effective at protecting groups from hostile magic. White Fiend’s Protection strengthens the resistance of nearby allies, while Arts Shield surrounds those she treats with temporary barriers that absorb incoming Arts and make further magical attacks less effective.

Her strongest defensive technique is Sanctuary, which greatly expands the area she can protect while reinforcing everyone within it against Arts and making many magical attacks miss entirely. She can also create Mirages, fragile phantom decoys that draw enemy attention away from real allies and are unusually resistant to Arts, giving her another way to keep a group alive during intense magical assaults.

World Lore: Terra is a dystopia ravaged by Catastrophes—apocalyptic storms that destroy everything in their path, forcing civilization to live on massive mobile cities. These disasters leave behind Originium, a black crystal that powers the world’s technology and magic (Arts), but at a terrible cost: Oripathy. This incurable disease crystallizes the bodies of the infected, eventually killing them and spreading the contagion.

Society is fractured by this plague. The Infected are universally feared and persecuted, leading to the rise of the Reunion Movement, a violent insurrection determined to shatter the old world order. Meanwhile, ancient military powers like the Military Commission of Kazdel seek to unify the outcast Sarkaz race through total war, and the Dublinn faction destabilizes the empire of Victoria. Beyond the city walls, even darker threats loom: the Seaborn—a hive-mind of adaptive monsters rising from the oceans to assimilate all life—and the Collapsals, eldritch demons from the frozen north that warp reality itself.

Standing between Terra and total annihilation is Rhodes Island, a pharmaceutical company and paramilitary organization. Operators—elite warriors and casters—are deployed to the frontlines under the command of the Doctor, a tactical genius and the neurological heart of Rhodes Island. Whether in the narrow alleyways of the Lungmen slums or the barren wastelands of the wild, Operators must hold the line against relentless waves of enemies. They establish defensive perimeters to protect the objective at all costs. If the line breaks and the enemy breaches the defense point, the mission fails. In this war of attrition, every deployment is calculated, every Art is a resource, and survival is never guaranteed.