The Righteous Devil form isn't merely a martial art, but a spiritual reckoning. When you draw on this art, you're pulling from that turmoil deep down, from all the sins you've ever committed, and all the sinners you've ever reckoned with. All that roiling guilt and anger and painful understanding refined and channeled into the flame of your soul, of your weapons.
It took me years to even begin to master it...and it almost destroyed me. Only one who can understand their own sins can channel what it means to be not only a Devil, but a Righteous one.
- Memoirs of Kalara Vadras, The Uncrucified, RY 800.
I was stumped a long time on this topic because there were just too many fun options to choose from! I explored a few of them in the sneak peek compilation I posted in the previous post.
Funny enough, Kalara only mastered 3 of the Charms (or magical abilities) pictured here, not including the one I chose for the final piece. I always intended for her to master the Righteous Devil style, if only because the later levels of this celestial martial art allowed for such epic imagery as wings of flame and the judgement of souls. Judgement, revenge, and redemption as themes play a big part in her arc as a character, which makes the style so fitting for her!
The final piece ended up being a bit of wish fulfillment for mastering the charm Garda Flies on Gilded Wings Attack, which is a Charm from the Righteous Devil path. Perhaps one day it will happen in her story? We shall see!
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