Antenora (アンテノーラ)[1] is one of the main villains of Wild Arms 2, acting as the strategist and assassin of Odessa's Cocytus. Born as Eliza Victoria, she was once part of a family with ties to the Slayheim Royal Family. During the Slayheim Liberation War, the Victoria family was executed for these associations.
She managed to survive, however, and has since hated Vinsfeld Rhadamanthus with a passion. Deeming herself unable to kill him herself, however, she instead opted to join him in his crusade for world domination, and did everything in her power to make Vinsfeld fall in love with her.
When ARMS fought and killed her, she declared a completion to the revenge she had planned for so long: by having the ARMS kill her, Vinsfeld was robbed of the one thing he wanted the most. Perhaps due to her true "allegiance", Antenora hates needless killing. She wields deadly threads in battle, attaching them to her enemies and firing powerful energy along them. It is suggested that these threads have some kind of fortune-telling power as well, as Vinsfeld mentions her using them to get information.
"Antenora" is a literary allusion in the narrative poem The Divine Comedy to a part of Hell named after Antenor,[2] a figure in Greek myth who helped betray and destroy his people from the inside by allowing the Trojan horse through the city's gates[3], providing a parallel to Antenora's machinations of being a veritable "honey pot" for Vinsfeld with her successful seduction of him leading directly to his doom.
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