Raven: Queen of Darkness
"Confirmed death of primary surveillance target 'Corvus.' 'Nightfall' has been completely taken over by an unidentified force overnight. Note: Evidence of intervention by an unregistered Arche ability user, aka the 'Ghost,' who has long been a surveillance target. Extreme caution is required."
- An excerpt from a classified report by the Colon Special Forces, Albion Headquarters
On the day gunshots rang out from the heart of the Nightfall Cartel, Eleanore, an orphan from the back alleys, erased herself. By personally taking out her godfather Corvus, the man who had given her the name Eleanore and taught her how survive in the shadows, she severed her past as a hunting hound.
She was an orphan from the back alleys who struggled to make ends meet. Then one day, she awakened her Arche ability that allowed her to perfectly assimilate into the shadows. Recognizing her potential, Corvus made her the sharpest weapon in Nightfall, the most powerful faction in the back alleys. However, Corvus' greed for power grew uncontrollably, eventually leading him to sell forbidden artifacts and even helpless orphans to the Vulgus as experimental subjects. As an orphan who knew the horrors of survival better than anyone, that was a line she would never cross.
Her response was both ruthless and swift. After executing Corvus, she immediately crushed and unified the fragmented cartels to establish a new, massive alliance called the Guild. That was the moment when Eleanore the hunting hound vanished and Raven the Queen of Darkness came to rule.
Opinions were divided in Albion's back alleys over this massive rebellion; a filthy traitor who repaid kindness with betrayal, or the Bloody Queen who brought strict order to a lawless land. However, these were merely epithets to Raven. For through Corvus she had not only learned the art of survival to perfection but had also engraved deep into her bones the worst possible way for a ruler to fall.
But even as she became the perfect Queen of Darkness, one question lingered in her mind. If she spent her entire life fearing the light and lurked only in the shadows, how would that be any different from being trapped in the refuge Corvus had created? That was the reason she stepped out of the shadows that had hidden her for her whole life, and, without the slightest hesitation, stood before the Albion Command that pursued her for years.
Exclusive Arche, Photonic Energy Control
Raven's special Arche ability to manipulate shadows makes her appear to rule the darkness, but the Magisters determined that her true ability was closer to manipulating photons, particles of light. However, her control over photons was strictly limited to photon annihilation.
In other words, she could create spaces devoid of light by annihilating photons, and it was believed that she converted the energy released during the photon annihilation into actual physical force. Since several aspects of this process defied the Magisters' current understanding of physics, they hoped to conduct further research on it, but Raven has refused, blocking their efforts.
"Remember this, Eleanore. The perfect hound never barks until it has its prey in its jaws."
"That's why you had no idea until the muzzle of this gun was pressed against your neck, Father."
- Final conversation between Corvus and Raven