Arknights: A Long Song of Blood and Strangers

Terra Year 920, Awakening.

The red-haired young man Scathflaith wandered the land of Terra, his body coursing with the scorching flames of an Efreet and the shadows of a nightmare. With blood and fire sharing the same source, he wielded flames capable of incinerating all things, as well as the uncanny Originium Arts to draw out fear and shape it into weapons.

Ten years of trials had set his path to the heavens.

Amid the frost of the northern plains and the whispers of demons, he faced the meaning of his own existence. Wielding the long saber Rafska and guided by the will of the "Path to Heaven," sworn to protect, he tore apart the demons corrupting him and miraculously seized some of their power to twist the rules. This battle forged his inhuman strength and the aloofness of his heart.

Terra Year 1086, the Red Blade Arrives at Babel.

The ideals of Babel and Theresa resonated with the "Path to Heaven" he sought to protect. He joined them, becoming one of the most fearsome blades in the fight against Kazdel's civil war. Wherever his red hair and flaming horns appeared, fire consumed the battlefield and shadows of fear followed. His name gradually became legend.

Terra Year 1094, the Darkest Hour.

After eight years of war, he had witnessed Babel's glory and struggles. But the assassination of Empress Theresa became a wound in his life that would never heal. He saw it with his own eyes, and directed his boundless hatred solely at the Doctor, the heart of the decision-making process.

The king fell, the tower collapsed, and the Red Blade walked alone.

Theresa's death severed his ties to Babel. Unable to bear living alongside his enemy, he resolutely left. The once formidable blade of Babel became a lone mercenary,

walking alone across this land and following his own "Path to Heaven."