INTRODUCTION
PLACE: A country made up of 47 districts.
TIME: Medieval ages
YOUMA: A demon. Some have wings. With retractable claws and pointed teeth, and regeneration abilities. Can turn into any human shape, retaining their memories by eating their brains. They feed on the guts of humans. Emits youki, demonic aura.
CLAYMORE: It should be noted that the name 'Claymore' was originally coined by laymen - the organization and its warriors do not, in fact, have any official name. As such, few Claymores will ever refer to themselves as a 'Claymore'. Instead they refer to themselves by the term "warrior". A female half-human, half-youma warrior. They can regenerate and does not age. Identified by silver eyes and blond hair. Claymores also have an unique symbol each. They are often tall and have a great figure, but their abdomen area is greatly disfigured. Claymores wear a distinctive uniform consisting of a pale grey, close fitting shirt and pants. Over this they wear some pieces of armour: shin high, slightly high heeled metal boots (Sabatons); large wrist guards (Vambraces); large shoulder pieces (Spaulders); and a partial skirt (Fauld). Finally, they wear a short cape and a piece of fabric marked with the individual Claymore's specific certification symbol attached to their neck. They all carry a Claymore sword that also bears this specific symbol. Great speed, and strength. Each of them has a rank, the lower the better. Claymores need only consume a few bites of food every few days. Their eyes turn golden and cat-like, and their bodies contort when they release more youki to power up. If they lose control of their youki, they will turn into Awakened Beings, similar to intelligent but stronger youma.
ORGANISATION: A secret organization from an external land, doing research on this smaller country. Their excuse is to create claymores to kill youma. Consists only of men who dressed in black and never age.
HISTORY:
The great external lands are not in a state of peace. There are neverending battles going on between different countries and people, all for territorial reasons. About a hundred years ago, the war split into two sides, and began the battle for supremacy. One side are the dragon kins. They have extremely tough skin and are difficult to fight against. The other side, in order to fight against these enemies, tried to invent new weapons. Soon after, their research gave birth to—a human who can be turned into a monster. But because these weapons are too powerful, they often wiped out their own army. So the research has been left on a small island away from the greater land.
The organization had first brought people to these lands. Then, they introduced youmas that they created. Ever since a long time ago, everyone believed youmas have been eating humans. However, it was the organization who came up with this legend. As people who haven't seen youma slowly dies away, this legend slowly became the truth.
Initially, there were both male and female claymores. However, male claymores quickly exceeded their limits and awakened. This is because to them, awakening is much like pleasure. When a male claymore releases his youma power, he could not suppress the urge to awaken. The number 1 to 3 of this first generation, Isley, Rigardo and Dauf had all awakened. Rigardo fought with Isley but lost, and swore allegiance to him.
Then, the youngest number 1 Claymore ever, Riful, was only nine when she awakened. Along her to awaken was Agatha, number 2. Dauf turned traitor and joined Riful as her lover.
The organization first started to experiment with sisters to combat Isley and Riful. The sisters were Luciela and Rafaela. However, Luciela lost control once and escaped. The three number 1 awakened beings became known as the Abyssal Ones. Rafaela lost her eye and was kicked out of the organization.
In the history of the organization, the most powerful warrior was Teresa. She could take on the Abyssal Ones with only 10% of her youki released. However, she betrayed the organization to live with Clare, a girl whose life she saved. Numbers 2 to 5, Priscilla, Irene, Sophia and Noel were sent to kill Teresa. Teresa easily defeated them. However, by trickery, Priscilla was able to kill Teresa and killed her comrades. Clare was left alive, and she decided to become a claymore with Teresa inside her in order to kill Priscilla.
Clare joined six other warriors and went renegade. Former number 6, Miria, found out about the truth behind the organization and tried to topple it. On the way, Clare was reunited with her lover, Raki, whose life she had saved. Raki was now a Claymore. They even adopted a girl, Erica. However, the organization unleashed their Ultimate Weapon. They were half-awakened being, half-twins who have no thoughts and are controlled entirely by the mainland. Clare died fighting Priscilla instead of sticking to her original plan to fight together with Miria and the others. The coup failed disastrously with only Miria and Galatea surviving. Raki died together with Clare, leaving Erica. Unknown to everyone but Rubel, a spy against the organization, he made Erica become a claymore, but with Clare inside her.
By using twins to create half-human, half-youma warriors, the organization have achieved a complete congruity of youma energy, far better than using sisters. And through strict training, they established a soul link and succeeded in making the twins merge their spirits. Therefore, even if one of them performs a full release of youma energy, as long as she entrusts the other one with her spirit, she can awaken without losing her human heart. However, the twins have almost no intellect and identity because from infancy, they were taught nothing but how to align their spirits and destroy the enemy. It was said that the project only worked with identical twins, which Luciela and Rafaela were not. However, the Generation One twins, Alicia and Beth, went berserk and lost control. So, in search of the Ultimate Weapon, the organization is currently experimenting on different types of twins—conjoined, identical and fraternal, often kidnapping them when they were babies. However, the experiments were not very successful as many twins were too emotionally unstable to be of much use.
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1. Riful of the West
Riful of the West was the youngest ever to awaken. Together with Luciela-Rafaela and Alicia, they are considered to be Abyssal Ones. She constantly attempts to force strong Claymores to awaken, often through torture, in order to increase her companions. She finds the merged form of Rafaela and Luciela. She wishes to awaken the new being to fight against Priscilla. Alicia almost killed her, but Alicia awakened suddenly and went East, leaving Riful alive. Rafaela and Luciela both awake, and moved to the South. Thus, Riful desires to acquire new twins to aid her battle for supremacy among the Abyssal Ones.
1. Luciela of the South
The Organization used her and her sister, Rafaela in a "Soul Link" experiment. The experiment failed when Rafaela was unable to pull her sister back form her awakened state, causing Luciela to completely awaken.
1. Teresa of the Faint Smile
The most powerful Claymore of all time. She is much faster, stronger, and more agile than those below her, but her real strength is considered to be her "unparalleled ability to sense Youma aura." She can sense it to the point where she can accurately predict her opponent's moves in battle. She eventually meets Clare, who decides to start following Teresa after being abandoned by her village. Teresa is initially irritated, but soon grows fond of her. After leaving Clare in a village in an attempt to give her a normal life, bandits raid the village. Teresa kills all of them, which causes her to be hunted by the Organization for breaking the rule of never killing humans. She doesn't kill any of the Claymores after her because of her time with Clare, but she is slain by Priscilla offguard when Priscilla begs to be slain before awakening. Clare takes her severed head and convinces a member of the Organization to use it in place of a Yoma to turn her into a Claymore.
1. Alicia the Black
Alicia and Beth are the first generation of twins. However, they are not viable as Beth is too vulnerable. When Beth is impaled by one of the projectiles launched by the fused Rafaela and Luciela, and later killed by Priscilla, Alicia starts losing control and awakens, becoming a new Abyssal One, Alicia of the North.
2. Priscilla the One Horned Monster
The second most powerful Claymore in history, after Teresa. However, she was mentally traumatized and extremely unstable. She came into conflict with Isley and Rigardo, but defeated them both. So, Isley swore allegiance to Priscilla. She is especially attracted to Raki. Later, she was killed by Clare.
3. Dauf
Dauf is Riful's helper, he helps her torture captured Claymores to force them to awaken. Although he has tremendous strength and hard armour plating and form projectiles anywhere, he is unintelligent and bad at regenerating.
3. God Eye Galatea
She is a master of sensing Yoki. She can also control other people's actions by subtly manipulating their Yoki flows, and the strength obtained by releasing her Yoki is the highest among all forty-seven warriors of her time. Over time, Galatea becomes disgusted with the organization, and goes to live as a nun in Rabona. She is saved by Clare and Miria and joins them in the quest to topple the organization.
3. Gentle Sword Audrey
She became Riful's ally after Riful managed to persuade Audrey and Ray to renegade because they could never become number 1s.
5. Rafaela
Her sister Luciela lost control during an experiment, which caused her to awaken and leave to become the Abyssal One of the South. So, Rafaela finds and kills her sister, who just lost a battle with Isley. However, she unconsciously injected all her life force into Luciela's dead body, and the two have been merging for seven years. Riful, hoping to take advantage of the new being that will result from the awakening, forces them to awaken. The new being, an extremely large conjoined form fully awakens. It is constantly growing stronger, and it shows no emotion or hunger for humans. It launches a number of projectiles that transform into large awakened beings.
5. Strong Sword Ray
She is also Riful's ally. She acts as a thug, like Dauf, to torture and intimidate claymores to join Riful.
6. Phantom Miria
She can greatly, but briefly, increase her speed to confuse the opponent, without the use of youki. She is also very skilled at using teamwork and planning battle tactics. Miria was secretly investigating the Organization after she swore revenge against it.
47. Clare
Clare has ¼ Youma blood instead of the normal ½. So, she has little youki and is the lowest claymore. However, Clare shares Teresa's ability of heightened Yoki sensing to the point of being able to predict an opponent's moves. As Teresa is number 1, Clare became quite powerful, regardless of her being ¼ youma. Clare learns the quick sword technique from Irene, and also the Windcutter technique from Flora, a former number 8.
Raki
He was saved from two youmas by Clare. Raki also cares very deeply for Clare, and protects her without hesitation from anyone; even another Claymore. Raki met Priscilla while he got separated from Clare. He learnt swordsmanship from Isley. Raki was protective of Priscilla and often attempted to stop Clare from killing Priscilla. When Raki was injured by the profectiles fired from Luciela-Rafaela fused awakening, Priscilla escaped, leaving Raki vulnerable to being absorbed by them. Raki was thus taken back to the organization to be researched on. His infected parts are used to fuse with the twins to form the Ultimate Weapon.
Rubel
A handler of the Claymores. He was in charge of Rafaela, Clare, Serafiel and Erica. He is a spy from enemies of the Organization, who wishes to destroy it from the inside. He gives information to Miria and hides their existence to further stall research. He also gives information to Galatea, Miria, Ylene and Pearlyn to further stall research.
Ermita
A handler of Galatea, Ophelia, Miria, Pearlyn, Andromeda and Felicia. He is cold-blooded.
Rimuto
A high-leveled handler. He was in charge of Alicia, Beth and Merissa. He is usually in charge of number 1s.
Orsay
A handler. He was in charge of Teresa, Ylene and Joanne.
Man in Black with skull face
The person-in-charge of creating new weapons, including the Ultimate Weapon. He turned Raki into a claymore. He also created Ruby, Sapphire, Amy, Nancy, Janell and Jarell.