Pyrrha never knew her true family, and those who cared for her she never knew for long. Like her friends, or the elderly couple who cared for her - everyone close to her died mysteriously. As she was passed from one family to another, she learned well how to avoid conflict. Even when those around her turned their back on the "bringer of woe," all she would do is apologize.

Driven from the city, she was capture by slavers and sold to a nobleman's son named Jurgis. He took her in as a servant, but for the first time in her life she felt her mind and heart were at ease. It was no surprise that the two fell in love.

When the day came that Jurgis proposed to her, Pyrrha thought that she must be the happiest woman alive.

...but then it happened again. That very night, Jurgis was found dead, his corpse brutally disfigured.

Pyrrha was immediately imprisoned for the murder, and her tearful denials fell on deaf ears.

"Why does this keep happening to me?! It wasn't me. It wasn't me..."

And so it was that, when Tira appeared to seduce her, Pyrrha's heart was far too fragile to resist...



------Pyrrha Omega-------

Arrested for the murder of her master Jurgis, Pyrrha sat quietly on the cold stone prison. She assumed the approaching footsteps belonged to her executioner, but instead a girl named Tira appeared before her.

With skillful words, Tira wormed her way into Pyrrha's heart, when the young woman handed her a sword and shield, Pyrrha never thought to refuse her poisoned gift.

Then Tira pulled out a red metal fragment, and as soon as Pyrrha saw it, she felt something deep within begin to throb in unison with the fragment's pulsating glow. 

The two fragments of Soul Edge were resonating as one. Seventeen years ago, Pyrrha's mother Sophitia had embedded a shard of Soul Edge within her. Now in the presence of Tira's fragment, the dormant shard awakened. It set loose the dark emotions Pyrrha had sealed deep within her heart, and begin to gnaw away at her sanity.

An inhuman wail shattered the still night, making the violent birth of the being who would succeed-and perhaps even surpass-the Azure Nightmare. They would come to call her the "Crimson Despair"...