And although she was angry at the man for the way he had treated her, she believed him. She had lost the book, but it's contents were etched into her memory. She was not afraid, but she could not allow it to destroy her precious lab. 'Stop!' 'If you wish to learn everything about the cursed sword and the spirit world, then follow the knight you know well.' With these words the man disappeared behind the curtain of flames. The flames spread with an unusual fervor, separating the two. 'The world no longer needs this.' The book burst into flames. 'This is a mistake from my past,' the man said. She dropped the book, and the man picked it up. Ivy was knocked back by the force of the blow. This slight distraction gave the man an opening. She had to concentrate harder than usual to control her sword. The man struck very precise strikes with his weapon, but Valentine was able to deflect them all in a flurry of clashing steel. The man drew a scythe, seemingly out of nowhere. In the following silence they both learned the answer to their respective questions. The man was tall, with dark skin, wearing a robe. 'Did you read the book?' The man asked in a quiet, cold voice. She closed her eyes in contemplation, but the sound of the door opening startled her. Over the course of a month, Ivy discovered every detail about the sword. This seemed almost too good to be true, but the precise nature of the text didn't seem to be fiction. It was a sword that restrained the power of the evil sword, and fought against it. As she deciphered the ancient text, she discovered the other sword. As far as she knew, this was the most detailed information ever gathered on the subject. When she returned home, she looked through the books she had bought. Both old and new books had been gathered to the one place. There, she bought some books about the secret arts. On the way home, she stopped into a certain academic English town. Once there, she would have access to her equipment.

She decided to return to her alchemy lab in order to investigate this. All that mattered was that Soul Edge be exterminated. In her mission, she often had slain the innocent, but that didn't matter.

She renamed her sword, which shared her fate, Valentine.īio: Soulcalibur IIIIvy was on a quest to destroy everything associated with Soul Edge. After month of soul searching, Ivy returned with a renewed drive to destroy Soul Edge and everything connected to it. Shaken by the horrible truth, Ivy sealed herself away in her laboratory.

She realized that Nightmare possessed Soul Edge and that her father was Cervantes, who had been manipulated by it's dark powers. Ivy discovered the truth on the day that Nightmare was defeated and Soul Edge was shattered. She agreed to help him in a ceremony to summon souls, oblivious to the fact that this was all part of the demonic blade's plan. She succeeded in creating a weapon suited for this purpose through ancient sorcery.īio: Soulcalibur IIWhen Ivy left on her journey, she crossed paths with Nightmare, who she had previously summoned to breath life into her blade. Ivy learned that Soul Edge was evil and vowed to destroy it. Ivy eventually learned about her fathers search for Soul Edge and began to follow in his footsteps in it's quest. Ivy had no interest in finding her biological parents. Soon after the fall of the Valentine family, Ivy learned from her mother, on her death bed, that she was adopted. The Count squandered the family fortune on the pursuit of alchemy.

However, her father, Count Valentine, died a madman, driven to insanity by his obsession with alchemy. Producer Hiroaki Yotoriyama felt that her fighting style wasn't perfectly expressed in Soulcalibur, and focused on Ivy from from the start of the project to make her more 'uniquely lethal'.īiography Bio: SoulcaliburIvy was raised with love in the home of the English nobles, the Valentines. With Soulcalibur II, the development team chose her as their favorite character from the previous title. Ivy is the oldest female character and well known for her revealing outfits and wide sex appeal. Isabella 'Ivy' Valentine (イザベラ・バレンタイン - アイヴィー, Izabera Barentain - Aivī) made her first appearance in Soulcalibur and has returned in all the sequels. Stopped aging at 32, 49 chronologically (SC5)Īdoptive parents / Earl and Countess Valentine, deceased

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