Talk:Vira Hermes/@comment-26012925-20170916154406/@comment-24758512-20170916235756

Personally, yes, in my opnion is Vira is the most realistic master manipulator... And the most brilliant and magnificent mastermind for the story but Ara Astaroth is even more intelligent than her, almost 5% or 10%.

My list in LOTM: Sword of Kings is

1 - Ara Astaroth/Vira - both incredible attractive and insane women!

2 - Scathach (used too much brainwash to achieve her goals but her perfomance as a global manipulator is the most shocking trace of a mastermind's game in CIS Universe)

3 - Isaac Westcott (I think controlling people in order to do your bidding is much more difficult as you don't know how your victims will do and Isaac Westcott did all his dirty work with his own hands and this is incredible for a villain instead of being seated in his throne watching his plan grow fruits. But as I said before, controlling people to do your bidding is VERY difficult, making manipulators like this more intelligent)

4 - The Fallen's Essence (like Scathach used TOO MUCH brainwash and even used magic to brainwash people to do his biddings unlike Vira who broke their sanity via torture and forced them to serve her making her more realistic. Yet, the Fallen's Essence is the best example of Warmonger manipulator to our story, controlling every single event of Prime Earth from 2010 to 2037. One of his most favorite plans that I had pleasure in creating is selling drones from corrupt corporations under his control and turning them against KnightWalker Alliance, ending the war while thousands of sock puppets around the world to hide his hands in the war)

5 -  B1-Killer Kampfdroide Unit-CM 130 (50% manipulative using both allies and enemies in his own game and 50% genius for creating the most insane technologies of CIS' universe)

6 - Eckidina KnightWalker (we are talking about the spoiled clone of Eckidina that we hate so much. Man, just read Rise of Blue Haired Heroine again! She did a great job in Part 1 as an manipulative rival of Uryuu who has just acting through the situations while Eckidina created the whole scenary! The original Eckidina's manipulation and games started on the very beginning when this spoiled Eckidina was born.... Like the Man Behind the Man)