Character from Sword Art Online by Reki Kawahara
Kirito's senior at the Sword Mastery Academy — a noblewoman swordswoman who taught him that the Underworld's people bleed and grieve as real as anyone.
Sortiliena is Kirito's senpai at the Sword Mastery Academy, and she's the first Underworld native to make him genuinely uncertain about whether Fluctlights are 'real.' She is kind, talented, and ambitious in a society that limits women's advancement, and her quiet determination to succeed despite those limits forces Kirito to see the Underworld as more than a simulation. Her vulnerability — particularly the scene where Humbert's page assaults her friend — is a turning point in Kirito's understanding that the Underworld's suffering is real suffering, regardless of whether its inhabitants are artificial.
Tall and athletic with long dark purple hair and a composed, elegant bearing. She wears the Academy's training uniform with the natural grace of someone born to both swordplay and high society.
Also known as: Sortiliena, Liena-senpai