Celivia

Celivia is a young warrior and a secondary character in the first book.

MAJOR SPOILERS FOR THE FIRST BOOK FOLLOW

Appearance and Personality
Celivia is a tall woman with pale skin and murky brown eyes. She's noted by both men and women to be curvaceous and attractive. Her hair is extremely pale blond and usually tied up behind her head with a band or hair pin, but seems to extend to her back. She wears combat robes with a belt, shapeless enough that they hide her form.

Several characters think of Celivia as "knife-like" and she displays a fitting intensity. Though capable of relaxing and reasonably friendly to most, she seems incredibly driven. When a female friend is assaulted, Celivia says that she is incapable of providing comfort, but tortures her assaulter to death. Veron notes that she has an educated way of speaking and she strikes many characters as refined, despite her ruthlessness. Based on her history, Celivia is bisexual.

Of course, all of this is dodging the fact that Celivia is actually a mansthein who had gone through a special transformation to appear human. In her true form, she has gray skin, silver hair, and red eyes. In addition, she has seinan-style claws and a long tail that ends in a blade. Despite her deception, her personality does not appear to have been a lie.

History
Celivia was born somewhere on Orphos, implied to be within mansthein breeding pits, which led her to early pain and bitterness. At some point early in her life she was selected by Zeitai Teirsan to take part in his training program, where she excelled. During that time, she bonded with many of the other women in training and became convinced that the mansthein empire could be changed from within. Unable to earn more authority with strength alone, she undertook an extremely dangerous assignment that took her to the Chorhan Expanse...

Relationships
Tani: The two of them grew closer during their time traveling together, with Celivia providing as much support as she could after Tani's trauma. However, when the truth about Celivia was revealed, Tani vowed revenge and considered Celivia's desire to make amends to be condescension.

Slaten: She seems to see a kindred spirit in Slaten and they get along well, both talking and training. Though Slaten was more willing to forgive her betrayal, the two cannot find a way to compromise and fight on opposite sides despite their agreement.

Reina: Celivia has a deep, old relationship with the Bersk mansthein, but other than that they trained in the same program, the details of it are unknown. The relationship was serious enough that Reina left her post to help Celivia.

Abilities
Combat: Celivia is an extremely dangerous warrior who fights with a bladed whip and two "duusha horn knives." Her whip is lethal, but noted to be exhausting to use and ineffective in some circumstances. These disadvantages are balanced by her sein ability to redirect the whip to strike a second time in midair. In her true form, Celivia can also strike with her tail, claws, and teeth.

Languages: Celivia speaks fluent Futhik and Coran.

Spycraft: In preparation for her assignment, Celivia went through special training to blend in with humans and gather information about them. She performed all her tasks to Teirsan's satisfaction.

Leadership: Celivia is refused a promotion due to lack of leadership experience or the ability to inspire others, as she's spent too long as a solo warrior.

Voidwalking: Though she failed out of the program before becoming a Voidwalker, Celivia went far enough to be able to utilize voidlinks safely.

Sein
Most details of Celivia's sein are unknown, as she may have been lying about details while in hiding. Her sein is noted as being poisoned or damaged in some way, but this was due to her human rebirth. Even with this disadvantage, her sein is aggressive and potentially lethal.