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Quinella (クィネラ, Kwinera?), also known as the self-proclaimed Administrator (アドミニストレータ, Adominisutorēta?), was the main antagonist of the first half of the Alicization Arc. She was the actual ruler of the Human Empire in Underworld as the highest minister of the Axiom Church.
Appearance[]
Quinella was an extremely beautiful woman with long silver hair, eyelashes and eyebrows, which may appear blue or white depending on the surrounding lighting. Her eyes were silver in color, seemingly reflecting the seven prismatic colors. She was voluptuous and donned light clothes, which were hemmed with «Stacia Window»-silver threads, and had an unreservedly open neckline.
Background[]
Quinella was born three hundred and fifty years before Kirito entered Underworld for the second time as the product of a political marriage between strong noble families at that time. Her father was the lord in charge of the town of Centoria, granting him the right to bestow Sacred Tasks. To maintain power in the family, the lord created a new Sacred Task named Sacred Arts Research to grant to his daughter.[3]
Chronology[]
Alicization Arc[]
History[]
Quinella discovered new Sacred Arts that the other Underworld Residents had not known. By studying the meanings of the words used in the commands, she was able to form the first offensive command, the «Thermal Arrow». With it, she discovered that killing any other living being would increase the person's stats, which led to her sneaking out of home every night to hunt nearby animals and thus improving her stats at an incredible rate.
Quinella assuming control of all Underworld.
Taking advantage of her knowledge, Quinella made people believe that she was gifted by gods, and took the opportunity to start creating the Central Cathedral, and with it, the Axiom Church. She created the Feudal System in Underworld by making the lords into nobles, thus creating a structure to control the entire Underworld. The restriction imposed by the Axiom Church on lowering the life stats of living beings was created by Quinella to prevent other humans from elevating their authority levels in the same way she did.
As Quinella's power grew, so did the tower in the Cathedral. From a certain point of time, she no longer showed herself to those of the world and immersed herself purely in the analysis of the Sacred Arts to transcend the ultimate limit set upon her, «Life». She became anxious because, despite all her power, her life continued to drop and there was nothing she could do about it, until one day, when she was on the brink of death, she managed to find a command that allowed her to see the list of all commands accessible in Underworld, at the bottom of which was one that raised her System Control Authority level to the maximum and granted herself the authorities that were reserved only for the Cardinal System, including terrain manipulation, item generation and even the manipulation of the durability of dynamic units, including humans.
Quinella immediately used her new powers to completely restore her own Life, halt its natural degeneration and recovered her former appearance from her years as a youth. However, Quinella was not yet satisfied. She could not permit the existence of one that had an authority level equal to hers - the Cardinal System. While recklessly trying to decipher the complex syntax of supervisor-level commands via a reference list created for Rath employees, she devised an extensive complicated command in hopes of stealing the powers of the Cardinal System. However, a single yet enormous error with reciting the command led to her burning the core principles of the Cardinal System onto her own Fluctlight.
Awakening only after an entire day of sleep after reciting the command, Quinella no longer aged or required eating or drinking; instead, however, she inherited a single desire from the Cardinal System — to regulate the world. This desire went beyond the Cardinal System's original purpose: Quinella desired to keep the Human Empire the same for eternity. To achieve this goal, she needed to take control of the most unpredictable factor of the world — the residents.
Quinella took various actions to restrain the lives of the residents. Firstly, she proclaimed a single edict to split the Human Empire into four empires and made the four great nobles of the age into the emperors of the new empires. She then used her supervisor powers to instantly create the «Immortal Wall» that separated the empires, thus creating a physical barrier that restricted the movement of the residents. She also created various other barriers in the more remote regions of the Human Empire where pioneers had founded new villages. These included physical barriers such as the Gigas Cedar, and psychological barriers such as the «Bells of Time Telling», which could only be heard within a certain range within a town or village.
However, Quinella actually inherited two instructions from the Cardinal System. While the main process was in charge of regulating the world, a separate sub-process was in charge of performing error corrections on the main process. The main process was in control of Quinella's body for most of the time; however, whenever Quinella's consciousness slackened, the sub-process was able to float up to the surface of the thought process. The sub-process deemed the main process, Quinella, to be conducting a great error, as the Cardinal System was not supposed to directly affect humans. Therefore, she tried to cause Quinella's death multiple times, but failed due to Quinella reassuming control of her body.
Having realized that the sub-process had become a threat to her, Quinella sought for a way to keep it locked in within herself. Noticing that the sub-process could only take control of her body during times of emotional distress, Quinella decided to freeze her emotions to stay in control of her body at all times. By that point, she had been abducting Underworld residents who questioned the Taboo Index and the Axiom Church and using these captives as test subjects for experimenting with Fluctlight-altering commands called the «Synthesis Ritual». Through these inhumane experiments, she was able to test which part of the Fluctlight should be altered to change a person's memory, thought patterns, emotions etc. Having tested this ritual long enough, Quinella applied the ritual on herself and was successful in freezing most of the emotions that were the cause of her unrest: fear, anger, etc.
Approaching 150 years of age, Quinella noticed an anomaly within herself. Various incidents, from briefly losing her consciousness even outside of sleep to not being able to recall recent memories and even having trouble recalling the Sacred Art commands that she should have memorized perfectly, had been happening recurrently to her. Upon examining her own Fluctlight, Quinella was shocked to find out that the memory capacity of her Fluctlight had reached its limit without her knowledge. Because of this newfound limit on her existence which could not be controlled like Life, Quinella sought for a way to overcome it. In order to accomplish this, she devised a devious scheme for overcoming the memory limit on her Fluctlight by hijacking the Fluctlight of another person who had plenty of memory capacity to spare and using said victim's Fluctlight to store a backup of her compressed memories, before manipulating her own memories to free up more space on her own Fluctlight.
At the time, a 10-year old nun had been studying Sacred Arts on the lower levels of the Central Cathedral due to her above average System Control Authority. Quinella selected this nun to be the vessel for her backup memories, so she invited the nun to the top floor of the Cathedral. There, Quinella successfully overwrote the nun's Fluctlight with Quinella's own thought processes and memories. However, an unforeseen issue arose. After the Synthesis Ritual, which was used to copy Quinella's soul onto the nun's Fluctlight, was completed and the two females awoke at the same time, they came to the realization that they were identical beings, which caused both of their Fluctlights to start breaking down due to the shock caused by the realization.
However, the nun's Fluctlight was the first to break down, allowing Cardinal, the sub-process which was transferred to the nun's body in the process of the ritual, to take control of the nun's body. At that point, they recognized each other as the Administrator within Quinella's original body and the Cardinal's sub-process within the girl's body and this allowed their Fluctlights to stop breaking down.
Quinella's battle against Cardinal.
At that moment, Cardinal seized the initiative and used high-level Sacred Arts against Quinella. The first attack landed magnificently at its target and a magnificent death match of immense lightning and whirlwinds, infernos and ice daggers unfolded. As both Quinella's and Cardinal's paces were exactly the same, Cardinal was winning the battle due to being the one who attacked first. As the battle was coming to its end, Quinella realized a decisive difference between her and Cardinal. She immediately chanted a command to turn one of the high-priority objects within the room into a weapon and then a command that prevented use of system commands within the room. Although Cardinal managed to generate a staff with the same priority as Quinella's sword, Cardinal was put at a disadvantage due to controlling a body that differed in size from the body she used to be contained in before. After two or three blows, Cardinal had to fall back. Quinella gave chase, however, Cardinal chanted the art that allowed her to retreat into the Great Library Room and lock the doors afterwards. As unlocking the door from the outside required a tedious ritual, Quinella was distracted long enough for Cardinal to finish chanting a command that destroyed the door just as it was unlocked.
Afterwards, Quinella had to resort to deleting her most recent peripheral memories to ensure she had at least a minimum of free memory capacity and began spending most of the day lying in bed with her eyes shut to minimize the amount of new memories recorded. Quinella also ensured guaranteed protection for herself by using the Synthesis Ritual on her former test subjects, people arrested for breaking the Taboo Index and, later, the winners of the Four Empires Unity Tournament, turning them into absolutely loyal Integrity Knights. From then on, having delegated most of her duties to her subordinates, Quinella would only rise from her bed at scheduled times to check on the management of the world.
Alicization Dividing[]
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Alicization Uniting[]
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At the end of a gruelling battle with Alice, Eugeo, and Kirito, Quinella suffered fatal injuries, and thus decided to preserve herself by leaving to the real world earlier than planned. With awkward steps, she reached the hidden console for communicating with the real world. After Quinella operated the keyboard to begin the procedure, a pillar of light appeared from beneath her feet and her body began rising. Just as she was about to finish her farewell to Kirito, she was shocked by the sudden intervention of Chudelkin, who set his body ablaze to reach her. With Quinella embraced by Chudelkin, the two were soon engulfed by the flame and perished.
Non-canon Chronology[]
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Alicization Lycoris[]
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After Eugeo was brought to her residence on the top floor of the Central Cathedral in the 5th month of the 380th year of the Human Empire Calendar (HEC), Quinella awoke from her slumber and scrutinized him, quickly labeling the boy pitiful for having no one who loved him according to her standards. When Eugeo protested he was loved by several, she asserted he still resented how no one gave their love exclusively to him. To support her claim, the woman showed him a vision of Alice Zuberg seemingly preferring to secretly spend more time with Kirito than him during their childhood. Seeing the boy was successfully being swayed by her words, Quinella promised to give her love to just him and let him claim everything he had ever wanted if only he loved her alone in return. Once Eugeo submitted and came into her embrace, she had him cast a Sacred Art to remove his fluctlight's core protection and enable her to synthesize him into an Integrity Knight.
Having ordered the newly designated Eugeo Synthesis Thirty-Two to handle rebels ascending the Central Cathedral, Quinella assumed the boy had succeeded in his task when he later returned from the 99th floor. Although she assured him she would reward him with her exclusive love, the woman expressed concern the Piety Module seemed unstable since she had lazily inserted it in a convenient gap in his memories. Therefore, she removed the module in preparation to redo the Synthesis Ritual and ordered him to cast the core protection removal command once more. At that moment, though, Eugeo then attempted to stab her with a metal dagger but was repulsed by an automatic barrier. Realizing he must have received it from Cardinal, Quinella explained she had taken the precaution of rendering herself invulnerable from all metallic weapons but promised to forgive his transgression if he submitted himself to her again. Incensed when the swordsman rebuffed her offer and denounced her attitude that love was just a transactional tool of control, the Supreme Priest decided to punish him with a quick death. To her shock when Eugeo resumed his attack with the Blue Rose Sword, the blade actually began penetrating the barrier, forcing her to dodge and repel him with an aerial Sacred Art.
Before the battle could continue, Chudelkin retreated into the top floor with Alice Synthesis Thirty and Kirito following close behind. Interested to see that Alice had broken the Seal of the Right Eye due to Kirito's apparent influence, Quinella decided to deploy the Sword Golem against them. In order to distract the interlopers long enough for her to cast the Perfect Weapon Control to activate her prototype weapon, she commanded the Prime Senator to subdue the trio for analysis, incentivizing him with a false promise in Stacia's name to offer him her body for one night if he succeeded. Unconcerned when Kirito fatally stabbed Chudelkin with a long-distance sword skill while the latter was distracted, the woman callously tossed the dying man aside to directly address the rebels, being particularly interested in Kirito, who she determined was from the Real World. Quinella dismissed Alice's indignation over her manipulation of the Integrity Knights but acknowledged Kirito's assertion that the Supreme Priest's machinations had left the Human Empire unprepared for the Dark Territory's impeding invasion, whose destructiveness would result in Underworld being reset by its creators. Nevertheless, she refused to submit herself to anyone else or lose her control over Underworld. To illustrate her conviction, the woman unveiled the Sword Golem and unleashed it on the three, ordering the automaton to kill Alice.
To Quinella's mild delight halfway through the fight, Cardinal entered the top floor and incapacitated the Sword Golem while the automaton was occupied by Charlotte's self-sacrificial charge. Excited she had finally lured her enemy into the open, the woman disconnected the top floor's address to prevent the quartet from escaping. When Cardinal retorted the Supreme Priest was also trapped with them and outnumbered, Quinella revealed the swords constituting the recovering Sword Golem were actually 300 transformed people, massively empowered by the Integrity Knights' removed memories of their loved ones. As these swords were still technically living human beings, Cardinal could no longer act to harm them because of her restriction against killing humans, and the other three lacked the strength to handle the golem on their own. Although the Supreme Priest accepted Cardinal's consequent concession of defeat, she reluctantly agreed to at least spare the others for a little while in exchange for the girl's willing submission to her execution.
Before Quinella could proceed, however, Alice, Eugeo and Kirito intervened and convinced Cardinal to enable their own plan to overcome the Sword Golem, which involved merging Eugeo with the Blue Rose Sword. Startled at what they were attempting, the woman assaulted the boy with thermal Sacred Arts, but Alice's and Cardinal's defense enabled the blue-clad swordsman to finish combining with his blade, which then destroyed the golem before preparing to launch itself at Quinella. Further incensed when Kirito seized the altered Blue Rose Sword midflight and insisted they face her together, the Administrator summoned Silvery Eternity and engaged the boy in a one-on-one duel, cursing his defiance and denouncement of her rule. To her shock, both of the black-clad swordsman's weapons were revealed to not be made of metal, allowing the two swords to damage the Supreme Priest to the point she considered escaping ahead of schedule. Nevertheless, the woman was forced by Kirito to simultaneously lunge at each other, which resulted in the Blue Rose Sword shattering Silvery Eternity and leaving her open to being impaled by the Night Sky Sword.
At that same moment, though, Quinella received a memory of the Night Sky Sword's origin: namely, the Gigas Cedar's resource absorption. Even as she disbelievingly protested her imminent death, the Administrator quickly devised a scheme based on that memory to resurrect herself. Almost immediately after her Life expired, the woman's fallen body was transmuted via her own Incarnation into a small flower bud that went unnoticed by everyone. A short while following this, the flower bud sprouted into a massive indestructible tree that quickly enveloped the upper levels of the Central Cathedral.
Stats[]
Project Alicization[]
| Stat | Value | Time |
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| Unit ID | CD1-1089[4] | Permanent |
| Durability | 4239[4] | Seventy years after Quinella became Administrator |
| Object Control Authority | 63[4] | Seventy years after Quinella became Administrator |
| System Control Authority | 72[4] | Seventy years after Quinella became Administrator |
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Trivia[]
- Quinella's background story is similar to Alice's. Like Quinella, Alice was very talented in the Sacred Arts. One of Alice's most well-known abilities was to predict a storm one week in advance at a rather young age, while Quinella was also able to predict the weather in advance, though only 3 days in advance. A notable difference between the two is that Quinella was born in a noble family in the capital, while Alice was born in a family of villagers in one of the most remote villages in the Human Empire.
- In the alternate timeline story If You Wish It, Quinella awakened her platinum silver dragon, Yukiori.
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