Arnice (Nights of Azure)

Arnice is the protagonist of Nights of Azure games.

Arnice is a Holy Knight serving Curia.

Appearance
Arnice has long silver hair reaching down to her waist, and has amber-colored eyes. She wears a set of golden rimmed goggles on her head. Being a half-demon, she ages slower than normal humans.

She wears a bright crimson open-side shirt with white, red and gold accents, and white collar folded upwards, revealing her red necktie. She wears a dark-brown leather glove on her left hand, and a large brown and golden gauntlet upon her right arm, with a red sleeve folded at the end, almost reaching her shoulder.

Her lower half consists of dark brown miniskirt, with her shirt overlapping in the front, and has loosened x-shaped leather straps wrapped over her waist. She has tattered ornamental skirts fluttering behind her with two leather straps attached on either side forming a golden star ornament at their intersection. She wears a pair of white high-heeled boots that end a several inches above her knee.

In the Dream World, Arnice wears a white-colored hairband, robe, underwear and high-heeled sandals.

Her overall physical appearance also changes for a short period of time, depending on her transformations.

After she became a pure-blood demon, Arnice's skintone turned pale, and has her left eye turned light blue and right eye turned red. She wears a set of blue rimmed goggles on her head.

Her overall attire has changed, containing aspects of her Nightmare Form. She wears a blue open-side shirt with white, red and black accents, and white collar folded upwards, revealing her blue necktie. She wears an black demonic-armored glove on her left hand, and a large black demonic-armored gauntlet upon her right arm, with a blue sleeve folded at the end, almost reaching her shoulder.

Her lower half consists of torn tights under her black and torn miniskirt, with her shirt overlapping in the front, and has loosened x-shaped leather and chain straps wrapped over her waist. She has torn and tattered ornamental skirts fluttering behind her with two leather straps attached on either side forming a golden star ornament at their intersection. She wears a pair of black demonic-armored high-heeled boots that end a several inches above her knee.

Personality
Arnice is kind and caring person, especially towards Lilysse. She is seen as a calm and serious at most times. During various requests, Arnice has shown to enjoy helping people during the day.

Whenever she's in the Dream World, she becomes a lot more honest with her feelings than usual. This usually leads to her embarrassing herself.

Her overall personality also changes for a short period of time, depending on her transformations.

Due to her memory loss in the sequel, Arnice lost all traces of her humanity and she become a rampaging demon with no control of her emotions. Arnice regained her memories, as well as her emotions after her second battle against Aluche Anatoria.

Abilities
During the fight against the Blueblood Dragon, Arnice obtains the Demon Sword, Jorth, along with the ability to transform into one of five demon forms.

Her new sword, Jorth, can be powered up by Blue Blood to unlock new skills for Arnice, as well as assume other weapons.

Transformations

 * Demon Form - Arnice's default transformation if the transformation factor value for other forms are not high enough. This form is great at crowd control and remaining on the offensive.
 * Rabbit Form - This form focuses on agility and speed, enhances the target lock and allows Arnice to deliver multi-hit, lightning-fast attacks.
 * Phantom Form - This form gives her access to significant SP restoration rate, continuous Servan summoning, and other support skills.
 * Armor Form - This form focuses on both offense and defense, but her attack speed and movement speed go down drastically.
 * Nightmare Form - Her most powerful transformation, available only after beating the game once.

Weapons

 * Sword - Arnice's well-balanced default weapon.
 * Dual Dagger - A pair of daggers that allow Arnice to attack rapidly, interrupting enemy attacks.
 * Blitz Shooter - Arnice can attack from a distance with this weapon, as well as heal allies, but it consumes her spiritual power with every shot.
 * Warhammer - Enables Arnice to release shockwaves, along with severely damage enemies with high defense and strong against sword attacks.
 * Blood Sword - The ultimate form of Jorth, it can heal Arnice with strong attacks are used, depending on how much Blue Blood it absorbs.

Trivia

 * Arnice's name in Hebrew means "mountain of strength".
 * In Dead or Alive 5 Last Round Gust collaboration, if the player chooses Phase 4 - the option to pick Arnice's costume will be available under Costume 33.