Lady Etessa

Lady Etessa is an Epic Force character in RAID: Shadow Legends. Lady Etessa's role is Attack. Faction: Sacred Order.

On the combined RAID: Shadow Legends tier list Lady Etessa is D tier, 883rd of the 1029 characters ranked, from where 3 community tier lists put Lady Etessa.

Other Force characters in RAID: Shadow Legends: Abbess, Achak the Wendarin, Acolyte, Admonitor, Alaric the Hooded, Alaz the Sunbearer and 273 more.

A single-target attacker with some team-up damage. Whiplash has a 75% Stun chance, and Fiend Purge brings two random allies into the attack, with everyone dealing 20% more if the target is under Stun, Freeze, Fear or another control debuff. The basic can Block Buffs 40% of the time.

The warband that would become known as the Purifiers was founded by a young noblewoman of Kaerok, Lady Etessa. Her father, Lord Miguel Etessa, had been a leader of a mercenary force that achieved success fighting for various Banner Lords. Miguel was a dedicated servant of Lumaya, and his victories were many. He was ennobled as a knight of Kaerok, settled down, raised a family, and funded a shrine to Lumaya.

His daughter, Etessa, had too much of her father's spirit to accept a life of privilege and peace. She used the family's wealth to buy a fine crossbow, then put out a call for warriors who sought glorious adventure in Lumaya's name. Miguel was troubled, but recalled his own younger days, and knew he could not deny Etessa's nature. He only made her promise that she would not fight for wealth, but to protect the common people and keep the Light of Lumaya.

Etessa and her small band became roving adventurers who sought out and combatted the forces of Darkness throughout Kaerok. Accounts of monsters prowling the woods, of fell sorcerers demanding fealty from isolated villages, of unnaturally long-lived counts or of Demonspawn mounting incursions into settled lands all drew their attention. At times they also brought groups of mercenaries to heel, ending warbands that became too greedy or had turned to looting and crime between jobs.

Such days were carefree and easy for Etessa. She proved a natural leader, and while her disparate force of rogues were not all kind-hearted heroes of the people, she kept their activities honest and ensured they didn't abuse their power. To those who wanted to receive payment for their actions, she gave coin out of her own personal wealth, though most were as ideologically committed to combating evil as she was.

Slowly, that changed. As Etessa's fame grew, more swore themselves to her, including less scrupulous volunteers. Factions started to form within the group, with some of the newcomers secretly claiming that Etessa was nothing but a spoiled noble's daughter, living out her violent fantasies. Even worse, many Banner Lords began to take notice. While Etessa had only ever acted for good, her force had grown to be the largest of its kind in the region, and having a rogue group of warriors roaming free within Kaerok's borders was the last thing the nobility wanted.

The situation was a recipe for disaster. One Banner Lord, Sir Kerin, mustered a host and rode out to track Etessa down. Kerin's force cornered Etessa's, and Kerin demanded she surrender herself to answer for her vigilantism. As she stepped forth, however, a rider appeared among Sir Kerin's forces. It proved to be none other than Deacon Armstrong, the firebrand preacher of the Sacred Order, renowned throughout Anhelt. Armstrong loudly declared that by decree of the Abbess, he had sought out Etessa and was offering both her and her warriors formal membership. From now on they would not be hardscrabble rogues, but warriors with holy purpose, answerable to the Order.

Those in her war party with wavering loyalties or who had only ever been in it for the money abandoned Etessa. For her own part, she felt a renewed sense of purpose, a belief that now she truly was on a worthy path. It was from that point that her band were known as the Purifiers, famous for purging Anhelt of evil and undesirables. They have hounded the forces of Darkness relentlessly, and everything from petty criminals and runtling Skinwalkers, to vampires and Demonspawn, have learned to fear the news that Lady Etessa and her holy warriors have picked up their trail.

Lady Etessa can be summoned from Ancient Shard, Sacred Shard and Primal Shard as a Epic champion.