Morte

For information on the anime version of Morte, we recommend checking out the Sands of Destruction wiki entry here. This entry is for her game incarnation as the two vary greatly.

Morte is the main female protagonist of Sands of Destruction and the driving force behind the plot.

Appearance
Morte is a young woman with long reddish brown hair and green eyes. She wears a collared short pink dress with belt straps across the waist and below the bust, white thigh high heeled boots with pink accents decorated by blue bows down the side, and a big blue bow on her chest.

Morte is nearly always seen with her giant double sided blade weapon.

History
The game starts with Morte as a wanted terrorist known as the "Scarlet Plague". She invades the ship of Lupus Rex, attacking Rajiv and Naja, throwing bombs at their guards killing them and challenging the two of them to a duel to the death. Morte wins this encounter but compliments Naja stating if he wasn't holding back by protecting the arrogant Rajiv, he may have come out on top. Just as she's about to kill them both, posters begin falling from the sky. She picks it up, and gets highly excited. Apparently the Destruct Code, destroyer of worlds has been found.

She throws a smoke bomb down, leaving the two Ferals alive and escapes. Rajiv is furious and orders Naja to follow her, but Naja hesitates.

Later, Kyrie is captured by Rajiv and Naja, and thrown into a cell after accidentally destroying the village of Barni, and one of the beastlords; the benevolant Ursa Rex. Whilst in jail, he overhears the guards discussing Morte as the beastslayer, and questions who she is. They tell him of the stories about Morte's fearsome reputation, as Morte appears behind them sounding disappointed that her nickname of the Beastslayer is so basic. The guards freak out, running away as Morte busts Kyrie out by kicking the door off it's hinges.

To Kyrie's surprise, Morte seems really excited to meet him before immedietly asking him to destroy the world. Kyrie doesn't want to do this, and explains he doesn't even know how he activated his destruct powers in Barni, stating he panicked and it happened. Morte understands and attempts to terrify him, but it doesn't work. The guards return with backup, and Morte and Kyrie defeat them before Morte drags Kyrie to freedom despite his protests.

Eventually they are surrounded by guards when Morte's old friend Agan shows up and helps them fight their way out of being captured again. As they walk to Agan's boat, Rajiv attempts to stop them, but the three just ignore him, angering him more. Rajiv attacks, but is defeated by the group, and escapes.

Morte, upon getting onto Agan's ship gets a cold reception from Agan's men, apparently considering her hazardous due to her reputation and her obsession with destroying the world. As a result she decides to steal Agan's sand skiff(a type of sand boat) and escape into the sandsea with Kyrie. Agan is unsurprised but comments it took longer than he thought it would for her to do this.

Morte soon breaks the sand skiff having overstrained the engine. She and Kyrie talk for a little bit and she reveals that the world is so terrible right now with the Feral warlords enslaving humans that she can only see it's entire destruction as a way to improve it, believing if Kyrie is shown how awful the planet is he'll naturally want to destroy it too. Kyrie is concerned, but finds Morte fascinating to the point of becoming attracted to her, and promises he'll go with her wherever she wishes.

Morte spots a ship passing, and grabbing Kyrie forces her way onto it as a stowaway. She fights her way to the upperdeck, demanding she commandeer the ship for herself and meets the captain, the beastlord Felis Rex. He suggests they sit down and talk things through civilly, apparently impressed by her skill in combat, but Morte continues to make threats. In response, Felis requests his associate deal with her and Kyrie until Morte feels like being more reasonable. Taupy, a teddy bear like feral mercenary leaps down, and makes short work of Kyrie, holding him hostage, telling Morte to drop her weapon and back down from harming Felis Rex. Morte states she doesn't care what happens to Kyrie, but Taupy points out they'd already be fighting if that were true.

Needing Kyrie to destroy the world, Morte relents and listens to Felis Rex who offers her and Kyrie some work. Morte is incensed, stating she refuses to be his slave, to which he tells her she will be paid for her hard work and that he only has an interest in hiring talented people no matter what their backgrounds are. He requests they go run an errand for him to gather some Silvervine for him from Fallenmire, the town under Elephas Rex. Morte agrees to go, planning to take Kyrie and run, but Felis insists Taupy go along with them as insurance they'll get the job done. Morte, furious, begrudingly agrees to this and the three set off together...

Trivia

 * The Sands of Destruction anime showcases a more stable, less psychotic version of Morte who whilst still wanting to destroy the world, at least is nowhere near as blood thirsty or seemingly unhinged as she is in the game and manga.
 * Morte is the only member of the World Destruction Committee that genuinely wants to destroy the world.
 * Morte is originally from the sand tribe, and as such is not bothered by the heat of the desert.
 * Morte's name means death, which is what she's trying to bring to the planet.
 * Despite being the main female protagonist, she is also the first antagonist in the game, acting as the tutorial boss. The player plays as Naga with Rajiv controlled by the AI.