Beatrix Highborn

Beatrix Highborn is a Light Faction swordswoman whose allegiance gradually shifts from the Dawnblade Clan to Raze Cromwell's coalition. She begins as one of Raze's first lethal Pagna opponents, becomes Hannah's protective teacher, rejects her clan's orders after the Golden Globe chooses her, and avenges Ricar during the war against Alter. Her later history cannot be reduced to a simple alias change: a spirit called the Bloody Woman—also rendered the blooded woman—enters her body, appears to merge with her, and ultimately claims control under the name B. The narration leaves open whether Beatrix survives within that shared body.

Biography

The dimension encounter and defeat by Neverfall

Beatrix first meets Raze inside a beast dimension claimed by the Light Faction. Seeing an unfamiliar boy and demanding his clan, she treats his inability to answer as evidence that he is an intruder and attacks with enough force to nearly kill him. The encounter establishes both her institutional confidence and the narrowness of her assumptions: she understands the portal as faction territory, while Raze does not yet understand Pagna at all. Dame's intervention lets Raze escape and turns Beatrix into his first measure of what a trained warrior can do. (Chapters 15–21)

The Light and Demonic Factions later use Dame and Beatrix as representatives in a dispute over the portal. Beatrix is considered one of the Light Faction's strongest initial-stage fighters and is too technically polished for Dame to land the clean blow his enchanted gauntlets require. Raze secretly supports Dame with defensive magic, however, and Dame's concealed projectile Qi changes the contest. Beatrix loses despite superior conventional skill, and the loss becomes a political humiliation for Dawnblade rather than proof that she lacks discipline or talent. (Chapters 101–115)

Beatrix subsequently enters the dimension herself and kills its boss, closing the portal that had sustained the faction dispute. The act demonstrates that her defeat did not end her standing as a dangerous independent combatant, but it also removes the route through which she, Dame, and Raze first collided. For a long interval she remains more consequence than companion in Raze's story: the Dawnblade Clan retaliates over its losses, while Raze and Dame repeatedly use their survival against her as a benchmark for later enemies. (Chapters 178–276)

Hannah's teacher amid a compromised tournament

By the next faction tournament, Beatrix is the previous champion and the teacher of Hannah, whom she treats more like a younger sister than a formal disciple. Dawnblade's recent losses place extra pressure on both of them, but Beatrix answers Hannah's prayer for luck by emphasizing work and gives her the Elders' pendant without knowing the full danger surrounding faction gifts. Her instinct is protective rather than politically calculating: as Hannah becomes the Light Faction's last contestant, Beatrix focuses on the burden borne by her student. (Chapters 610–653)

The tournament crisis forces Beatrix to look beyond the performance of her own faction. She and Ricar enter the arena to contain the hybrid threat and to keep Hannah safe, then remain below the structure while Ricar manipulates its control artifact. When Raze's possessed body and Murkel threaten everyone present, Beatrix questions what action best serves the Light Faction instead of blindly celebrating either side's destruction. Her choices still operate within the institution, but her loyalty is increasingly directed toward identifiable people and public safety rather than the prestige of Dawnblade. (Chapters 662–755)

That distinction matters because the tournament exposes how readily clan leaders and Alter-linked actors use students and rules for concealed purposes. Beatrix leaves the crisis alive, with her bond to Hannah intact, yet the faction she represents no longer supplies a complete moral answer. Her later break is therefore not a sudden conversion caused by Raze; it grows from seeing formal authority endanger the same people the Light Faction claims to protect. (Chapters 669–755)

The Golden Globe and Ricar's last stand

Beatrix joins the Dawnblade expedition for the Golden Globe as an honorary Elder under Ricar's command. Although success could repair the clan's status, she openly questions whether the mission serves the Light Faction or Alter. The Globe's trial examines the candidates' memories and selects Beatrix, embarrassing her but also identifying her as the candidate without the darker motive revealed in the others. Faced with Ricar's order to carry the artifact home and the threat posed by divine warrior Mosak, she must decide what the selection actually obliges her to do. (Chapters 928–1039)

She decides that delivering the Globe to her superiors would not best protect Pagna. Beatrix gives it to Raze and refuses to reverse that choice when Impress brands her a traitor. Ricar disagrees with the breach of procedure but defends her right to a proper judgment, then spends his last strength protecting her and affirming that she should follow her own justice. The Globe is ultimately stolen despite their sacrifices, leaving Beatrix with grief, guilt, and a personal enemy in Impress rather than a triumphant new allegiance. (Chapters 1040–1063)

Unable to return comfortably to Dawnblade, Beatrix remains in Flendon among Raze's allies. She asks him for a Dark Magus weapon because his enchantments caused her earlier defeat and because she needs comparable power for the coming conflict. Raze warns her of the curse before she accepts Beatrix's Phasing Sword, making the bargain a deliberate choice rather than an accidental corruption. Her move into the coalition is thus grounded in Ricar's trust, her own judgment, and the need to confront Impress, not in uncritical devotion to Raze. (Chapters 1072–1116)

Revenge, blood power, and the claimed merger

During the war, Beatrix confronts Impress with Ricar's terrain-changing artifact and Raze's cursed sword. Their shared Dawnblade training produces an evenly matched exchange, but the phasing curse steadily ages Beatrix whenever she relies on it. Refusing to abandon her chance to avenge Ricar, she continues until a foreign presence begins burning through her blood and demanding her body. Beatrix resists because she wants the killing blow herself; the struggle ends with red and blonde hair, mismatched eyes, and a new surge of blood-based strength. (Chapters 1231–1253)

The narration at that moment says the Bloody Woman failed to take over and that her energy and consciousness combined with Beatrix into a new person. This new state overwhelms Impress, tests and destroys the sword sustaining her regeneration, and executes her. When the red coloring recedes, Beatrix still speaks in her own internal voice, thanks Raze, and tries to convince remaining Dawnblade warriors to stop fighting. Those actions preserve her goals and moral frame, even though the text has already declared that neither prior identity remains unchanged. (Chapters 1252–1254)

Beatrix later gives Raze her own interpretation: she says she and the Bloody Woman are mixed, that her personality and consciousness remain more on the Beatrix side, and that she prefers to keep the name Beatrix even though she believes neither former self exists separately. She has the spirit's memories from its time with Raze but not a clear account of the Divine Realm. Confused by the resulting impulses and alienated from Pagna, she chooses to accompany Raze to Alterian to investigate what the merged existence wants and to continue helping his journey. (Chapters 1274–1277)

Alterian missions and B's takeover

In Alterian, Beatrix is assigned to work with Alen's team because Raze judges that her Light Faction morality and sense of justice fit theirs. She proposes infiltrating a suspicious institution alone, uses the phasing sword to bypass defenses, and holds her own against Yellum's light attacks. Her old embarrassment, protective manner, and battlefield discipline are still recognizable in these scenes, while the faint red in her hair signals that the Bloody Woman's power has not vanished. The sword remains useful, but repeated activation retains its aging cost. (Chapters 1545–1562)

Against enemies she cannot otherwise overcome, Beatrix develops a meditative method of emptying her mind so the hidden entity can surface. The later narration revises the apparent finality of the earlier merger: it says the Bloody Woman had remained inside her and, after a prior temporary release against Cerebus fighters, seizes the body again. The spirit's thoughts explicitly distinguish itself from Beatrix, describe the body as a vessel, and reject impersonation because their personalities are too different. This makes the earlier claim of complete fusion an in-world understanding, not settled omniscient continuity. (Chapters 1606–1620)

The controlling spirit calls herself B and tells Liam and Dame that she may hold the body forever. B fights with cruelty Beatrix would not display, uses blood power to consume or destroy energy-bodied enemies, and retains Beatrix's sword skills, phasing weapon, and access to other practiced techniques. Raze does not initially realize the change, while companions who knew Beatrix recognize it from speech and conduct. Nothing in the remaining corpus shows Beatrix retaking control or confirms that her consciousness has been erased, so both survival and permanence remain unresolved. (Chapters 1620–1661)

B nevertheless continues Beatrix's place in Raze's coalition during the assault on Noble Land. She infiltrates through walls, warns the group when trackers expose her, creates platforms during the battle with Idore, and ultimately throws the phasing sword to Raze so he can bypass the Grand Magus's spatial defense. The narration sometimes still labels the body Beatrix, while dialogue and internal thought label the speaker B; Raze's later use of Beatrix's signature parry proves that her learned style remains available, not which consciousness is present. (Chapters 1692–1774)

Appearance and personality

Beatrix initially has bright blonde hair and wears the white clothing of the Dawnblade Clan. She is a highly regarded young warrior, roughly a head taller than Hannah, and can appear severe when faction boundaries are crossed. Outside battle, however, she is easily embarrassed and capable of affectionate gestures, such as rubbing Hannah's head and giving her the Elders' pendant. Her early certainty in rules matures into a personal sense of justice that can oppose her own clan. (Chapters 15, 610, 1037–1050)

The blood merger visibly alters the body. During the first struggle, the ends of Beatrix's hair turn red, its length increases, her nails change, and her eyes become different colors; afterward most changes recede but a red tint remains. When the Bloody Woman takes control more fully, the hair becomes predominantly red and a constant blood aura surrounds the hands. B's mocking, predatory speech and enjoyment of savage killing sharply contrast with Beatrix's restraint and embarrassment, which is how Liam and Dame determine that the active speaker is not the woman they knew. (Chapters 1252–1274, 1606–1620)

Magic, cultivation, and abilities

Dawnblade swordsmanship and Qi

Beatrix is trained in the Dawnblade Clan's precise sword arts and reaches a level that makes her a tournament champion and one of the strongest initial-stage warriors of her generation. Her style controls refined Qi through fast thrusts, blocks, and flowing parries; against Impress, two Dawnblade specialists mirror one another until overlapping Qi surrounds their exchange. Raze later reproduces the distinctive circular defensive parry that Beatrix specialized in, confirming that the form is learned technique rather than a product of the Bloody Woman. (Chapters 104–115, 610, 1231, 1774)

Her training is most effective in close duels and anti-warrior combat, where timing and technical polish let her challenge opponents with equal or greater raw output. Enchanted projectile Qi lets Dame defeat her before she can adapt, divine-level enemies can overpower her, and suppression fields disperse gathered Qi. After the merger she retains the old forms while adding red or blood-inflected force, but the corpus does not isolate how much later physical performance comes from cultivation, the spirit, or the shared body. (Chapters 111–115, 1039–1050, 1231–1254)

Blood Qi and the Bloody Woman

The blood power originates from a spirit that had inhabited or accompanied Raze before being forced out and entering Beatrix. It manifests as red aura, greater speed and strength, control over beads or streams of blood, and violent attacks capable of repeatedly destroying bodies. Later B can consume or suppress unusual energy-bodied foes through blood techniques and operate beyond normal Pagna limits. The text connects this exception to divine-origin power, but does not provide a complete cultivation method or a reliable taxonomy for every effect. (Chapters 1252–1274, 1606–1620)

Its central limitation is identity control. Beatrix initially contests the intruder through will, later believes their consciousnesses have merged, and eventually empties her mind so the entity can surface in desperate battles. That voluntary opening becomes the route through which the Bloody Woman says she has taken permanent control. Because no later scene enters Beatrix's mind, it remains unknown whether she is dormant, still mixed with B, or gone; later strength cannot safely be attributed to Beatrix alone. (Chapters 1252, 1274–1275, 1606–1620)

Cursed phasing and auxiliary artifact use

Raze's cursed sword extends a phasing effect from the weapon across the wielder's body, allowing physical attacks or magical beams to pass through and permitting movement through solid barriers. It requires precise timing and Qi activation, making it valuable for infiltration, evasion, and bypassing defenses rather than automatically winning a fight. Beatrix uses it against Impress and Yellum; B later passes through Noble Land's walls, and Raze uses the same effect to cross Idore's spatial barrier. (Chapters 1116, 1231–1252, 1562, 1708–1759)

The curse accelerates Beatrix's aging with repeated use. Against Impress she realizes that continued phasing will slow and age her to death, so the item forces a choice between taking a hit and consuming more of her remaining life. B grows more practiced with it, but the corpus never states that the blood power removes the curse. Beatrix also uses Ricar's terrain artifact to raise walls and platforms through Qi, and B later maintains elevated platforms in the final war, though the exact continuity and mechanics of that auxiliary ability are not fully explained. (Chapters 1116, 1231–1252, 1753–1759)

Power progression

Relationships

• Raze Cromwell: Beatrix begins as one of Raze's first Pagna enemies and nearly kills him. She later entrusts him with the Golden Globe, accepts a cursed sword he creates, and follows his coalition to Alterian. Raze treats the post-merger person by her chosen name, while B later continues assisting him; neither his acceptance nor the shared alliance resolves which consciousness occupies the body. (Chapters 15–21, 1037–1116, 1274–1277, 1692–1759)

• Hannah: Hannah is Beatrix's direct disciple and is treated like a younger sister. Beatrix encourages work over luck, gives her the Elders' pendant, and enters the tournament crisis partly to protect her. Their bond supplies one of the clearest examples of Beatrix's gentler conduct before the identity conflict. (Chapters 610–669)

• Ricar: Ricar is an elder, teacher figure, and moral catalyst. Although he initially opposes Beatrix's handling of the Globe, he defends her right to choose and dies protecting her, telling her to follow her own justice. Grief and guilt over his death drive her rejection of Dawnblade authority and her killing of Impress. (Chapters 928–1063, 1231–1254)

• Impress: Impress treats Beatrix's independent decision as treason and kills Ricar during the struggle over the Globe. Beatrix makes avenging him a personal objective, accepts Raze's cursed weapon for that purpose, destroys the artifact sustaining Impress's regeneration, and executes her. The victory coincides with the first apparent merger with the Bloody Woman. (Chapters 1044–1116, 1231–1254)

• The Bloody Woman / B: The Bloody Woman first exists as a distinct spirit associated with Raze, then invades Beatrix's body. The story successively describes a failed takeover and full merger, Beatrix's self-reported mixed identity, and a later separate entity claiming control as B. These accounts cannot be flattened without contradiction; B is therefore best treated as the last active identity in Beatrix's body, with their ultimate relationship unresolved. (Chapters 1252–1275, 1606–1620)

Items

• Beatrix's Phasing Sword: Raze crafts this light-blue, rune-covered cursed sword after Beatrix asks for a Dark Magus weapon. It can phase the wielder through matter and attacks, but repeated use ages Beatrix and can make continued combat suicidal. Beatrix uses it against Impress and during Alterian infiltration; B retains it in the final war and throws it to Raze, who uses it to breach Idore's spatial barrier. Its custody after that battle is not established. (Chapters 1116, 1231–1252, 1562, 1708–1759)