Anna belongs to a long line of Angra Mainyu High Priestess, and a vessel for the Dark God Ahriman. Like all Ahriman vessels, Anna is born from a virgin birth. The spirit sage, Zarathustra, carried the seeds of both Ahriman and Ahura Mazda. He then impregnates Anna's mother, who is the former High Priestess, with the seed of Ahriman to continue the sacred bloodline.
Each high priestess has their own distinctive personality and abilities. For Anna, she was uniquely a fighter-type priestess, a very rare trait among the bloodline. She was born with extremely good physical strength and agility. She is a master of most melee weapons, and specialises in fist fighting. Due to the Angra Mainyu clan consist of mostly scholarly Magi, she has to find training elsewhere. Due to the clan's proximity with the Babylon empire, Anna often train with the Babylon's royal army and their finest generals. She often offer her services in battles by the army of king nebuchadnezzar as a battle magus. Anna's personality is often rash as she charges into battle without care of defense. She maximises her training on power of her strikes without bothering about accuracy.
As a priestess, Anna also possess innate great magical abilities. However due to her style of fighting, she rarely cultivates any advance techniques. Her most used magic are for fortification and buffs for her physical attacks. Due to this combination, Anna is often thought as a one-man army. The sheer power combination as both magus and warrior is the first among the history of both the angra mainyu and ahura mazda clans, making her very formidable and unrivalled among all generations of Priestesses. It is also possible that she has become the most powerful person of that time.
As the vessel of Ahriman, Anna possess the Ahriman avatar ability which is unique for all High Priestess. The special ability of Anna turns out to be able to manipulate time. The use of the avatar ability, however, will eat into her life force. When she was 5 years old, Anna can already stop time at a radius of half meter for 5 seconds. Her powers grew gradually as Anna's mother slowly passes the power of Ahriman to her, which happens until Anna's maturity age. By 15 years old, she is fully mature and become the vessel of Ahriman. By that time, her time manipulation ability grew so gigantic that she could stop the time for legions of army. Her time manipulation ability eventually become the basis for setting up the time-warp portal to transport Houri into the future.
By the time she was 25, the spirit sage Zarathustra visited her again, this time bearing the seeds for the next Ahriman vessel. After impregnation, Anna's mother relinquished her status as High Priestess and passes the position to Anna, and so Anna now commands the whole Angra Mainyu clan. 9 months after that, Houri was born.
The rules and traditions of the Angra Mainyu clan are often passed down from each generation High Priestesses with the help of the spirit sage as well. However, each generation High Priestess is free to follow a different path to suit the situation of that era. Anna place more importance to maintain non-interference with the politics of kingdoms and empires, a policy which started from her grandmother, as she felt the power of the gods are too great and will cause great destruction if used in war. However, the downside is she have to bring the clan to even greater seclusion to minimise their influence on the world, and the side effect is that their presence becomes lost to the greater community. This eventually became the Achilles heel for the clan as not many people knew the Angra Mainyu, they began to fear the unknown.
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