Executioner Miralda

Lore

Miralda is King Allant's executioner. She wears a hood, Binded Cross Armor, and wields a guillotine axe. She can be found by obtaining pure black or white world tendency and entering the execution grounds on the left side near the beginning of the first area of the Boletarian Palace.

The bloodthirsty executioner is the only named NPC to be immediately hostile to the player in pure black world tendency AND pure white world tendency. Before the scourge, she was known throughout Boletaria for her lunacy and beautiful voice. She appears fully covered head to toe with scrap of black leather and wields an axe especially designed to decapitate foes in one strike. She commands the black phantoms of those poor souls she has executed and they protect the execution grounds. She is quite powerful, defeating and imprisoning the witch Yuria, and may have killed Vallarfax as a set of brushwood armor is found at the base of her tower.

Theories

Miralda's Name

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"Mira" means "she stares at intently or aims," or "she admires." "Alda" is Icelandic and refers either to a wave (as in the sea) or a smooth edge. So "Miralda" could mean "one who aims a smooth edge," the guillotine.

It may instead refer to a Cuban tale from the 1800s, "The Justice of Tacon" in which a noble bribed soldiers to abduct a beautiful, poor, virgin maiden; Miralda, under false pretenses. The noble has been long suspected of abducting young woman to deflower and then kill them. When the vile act is discovered by General Tacon he passes judgment that now that Miralda's reputation is ruined the noble must marry her. Under protects, he marries Miralda and then afterward is immediately executed by the General's men so that his wealth and estate transfer to Miralda. The tale was later adapted into a play by an American writer who inserted the character Cecil, an old woman who went stark-raving mad when her daughter was abducted (the noble was suspected) several years prior. Now she wanders the market murmuring about vengeance against the nobleman.

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Binded Cross Armor
Armor crafted from cloth and leather.
The leather straps are wrapped around.
In Boletaria, they were worn by executioners, especially Executioner Miralda, who was known for her lunacy and beautiful voice.

Guillotine Axe
An axe which is used for beheadings which has seen a lot of wear and tear.
It's fat-handled, short and heavy, but can sever the cervical vertebra in a single blow.
It is disdained as a beheader's weapon especially in Boletaria.

Yuria Dialogue
Once, I lusted after the power offered by Demon souls.
I ventured through the fissure into Boletaria, but became trapped in the Nexus.
Then, the King's executioner, Miralda, chained me up inside that tower.
My thirst for Demon souls is no more.
On the contrary, I find such power dangerous.

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