Maria, who was accidentally made into an immortal soldier of heaven at the young age of 7 over 1,000 years ago.
She hides her skeleton under layers and layers of intricately knit wools and can float/control wool as if it were her flesh. (skeleton knights are gifted a “second flesh” by paloma to represent their status but also serve as a means for the knights to use as weaponry. Paloma attuned Maria to wool, seeing that she was a child, in a cruel attempt to hinder her abilities. It backfired somewhat and now Maria is her #1 murder bitch.)
Maria is the leader of the Skeletal Knights and is extremely skilled with her use of wool as well as her attunement with light/thought, gifted to her by a different god. (typically knights earn a second attunement from one of the 3 other gods.) She is able to read active thought and sense emotion. She cannot dive into the brain and memories of someone’s mind. She CAN trick the mind and produce visual illusion however. These skills are also extremely refined.
Maria was one of the two first characters I designed for the skeleton world (the other being Taxer, design pending, post pending) and is vital to the how the plot develops. The circumstances of her enlistment were accidental and especially traumatizing to a child. She’s a unique case compared to other knights as her brain was never able to fully mature before transforming meaning she is more susceptible to her emotions and has a stunted understanding of the full range of human emotion. She is dedicated to her personal goals above all else, and aspires for nothing but the completion of said goals.
