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"Now now, how would you like to end?" |
| “ | "A VeSSEL needs no will. Obey. Abandon thy will before the poWeR of the Keepers."
-Nerva to Yuwan |
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Nerva of Purgation is a Keeper and one of the main antagonists of Shadowverse. Her current Vessel is Lydia.
Nerva is a leader of the Portalcraft class. Her leader skin can be obtained by purchasing season 18 of the premium Battle Pass.
Personality
| “ | "But that's Nerva. Purgation's in her name, but she's hardly pure. She plots, she manipulates, and she loves it. That's what she is."
-Yuwan to Erika |
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Nerva's defining trait, according to Yuwan, is her sadism. She sees herself as greater than mortals, and even other Keepers, and thus believes she can do whatever she pleases, including toying with innocent people, manipulating them, and relishing their pain. She speaks to Yuwan purely to taunt and enrage him, and his powers sometimes cause him pain, which her other known former Vessel Maisha does not seem to experience. This arrogance does have some basis to it, as she calls Nexus "the weakest Keeper of all" and is able to cause considerable pain to the eight heroes with merely a look.
Like Nexus, she speaks in an archaic and Shakespearean way, but her text in the English localization also alternates between capital and lowercase letters (and in the German localization, numbers as well). This is perhaps an indication of her inhumanity; she is so far removed from mortals that she does not even speak in a way they can comprehend. She also tends to call people "fools" and "broken", especially her own failed vessels.
Nerva eventually develops an admiration for the potential of mortals, seeing that their emotions can lead them to transcend to best even a Keeper, so Nerva seeks to obtain those same emotions to transcend to something higher.