Sherra with her lesser mazoku sword.
Sherra (Japanese: シェーラ Romaji: shēra; she also appears as Sheraal in the Encyclopedia Slayers) is a general of Dynast Grausherra.
She appeared in two Slayers novels from the second story arc, and was killed in the second one by Lina Inverse.
Her sword is actually a lower ranking demon named Dulgofa that has the ability to turn normal humans into lesser demons. It also has the ability to project and deflect magical attacks.
As one of Dynast's strongest retainers, she seems to be very proud of her position. Thus she was quite upset when Lina made her realize that her name is merely derived from her creator's, without any additional thought behind it. She could not actually believe this to be true at first, but Dynast confirmed the fact to her some time before her second confrontation with the Slayers; the news shook her to the extent that Lina later wondered whether she was truly able to fight her and her allies with her full strength during that encounter.
While she initially pretends to be a clumsy and stupid damsel in distress, it is merely an act, a part that she plays perfectly. Though we cannot say how much of her plans were her own initiative instead of her master's, she took part in numerous plots of manipulation, enticing and corrupting many people by playing to their ambition, bitterness or grief.
Role in the Story[]
Sherra is the the overarching villain by proxy from novels nine to twelve, despite appearing only in the first and the last of them. She first pretends to be a human girl stalked by the Men in Black, to lure people to a legendary weapon (which was actually her demon sword Dugolfa) and turn them into half-mazoku under her command.
In the following novels, several antagonists make use of the sword in their plots to power or revenge, which they could have obtained only from Sherra herself. However, Lina's party always foils these attempts.
This keeps up until the twelfth novel, in which Sherra pretends to be a mercenary, rising in ranks in the army of the Kingdom of Dils. Fearing that she might corrupt King Wells, Lina and the others confront her and Sherra perishes with a smile on her face. Lina later speculates that she smiled because she managed to identify Luke as the host of a fragment of Ruby Eye Shabranigdu, as he could touch Dugolfa without harm, and transmitted this intel to Dynast prior to her death.
Trivia[]
- Her hair-style is very similar to the girl-type Ranma Saotome from Ranma 1/2. So much so in fact that, when discussing her design, Hajime Kanzaka told Rui Araizumi to feel free to use Ranma as reference.
