流亡法皇：安娜斯塔西娅

来源：http://mmh7.ubi.com/en/blog/post/view/the-exiled-hierophant-anastasya

Well met, friends.

很高兴再次见面，朋友们。

It’s been a long time since I gave you details about the members of Ivan’s council. I already told you about the Angel Murazel and the Wizard Tanis. It’s now time for me to tell you about Anastasya, whom Ivan often calls “Aunt” (much to her annoyance). She and I have known each other for ages, and I would trust her with my life. In fact, I already have, a long, long time ago…

从我上次与你们分享有关伊凡的议会成员们的消息以来，已经有很长一段时间了。我已经告诉你们关于天使缪拉泽尔和法师塔妮丝的故事。现在，是时候讲讲安娜斯塔西娅，也就是被伊凡称为“姑妈”（安娜本身倒是对此感到很困扰）的人。她和我已经相识许多年了，我全身心的相信她。事实上，我早已信任她许多许多年了...

Anastasya was born centuries ago, a few years before the Second Eclipse. She was the youngest daughter of Duke Slava and Duchess Cate of Griffin. Charming, happy, trusting... She would have been all these things had it not been for a single accursed moment: the assassination of her father by her own hand. In spite of the intervention of her mentor (and lover), the now-infamous Archangel Uriel, pledging the crime was not of her own willing, she was delivered to the Holy Inquisition to be questioned. Her older brother Anton, all too aware of what the Inquisition would do to her to obtain a confession, chose to kill her instead.

安娜斯塔西娅出生于百年以前，就在第二次月蚀前没几年。她是狮鹫公国的斯拉瓦公爵和凯特女公爵最年轻的女儿。迷人，幸福，总是信赖别人...如果不是那被诅咒的时刻，由她亲手刺杀了自己的父亲，她很可能会永远保持这个样子。尽管她的导师与爱人，日后臭名昭著的大天使乌列从中调停，保证说此罪行并非出于她本意，但她还是被押往神圣审判庭接受质询。她的哥哥安东深知审判庭会不惜一切使她认罪，于是选择提前结束她的生命。

But as you already guess, death was not the end of her, only a new beginning. Her body was smuggled away and resurrected by her great-aunt Sveltana, a Necromancer of the Seven Cities. Now part of the Undead, Anastasya decided to investigate the circumstances of her father’s death, an event she only possessed confused memories of.

但是正如你所猜想的，死亡并非她的终结，那只不过是新的开始。她的姑奶奶，七城联盟的亡灵巫师斯维尔塔娜偷运走了她的尸体并将其复活。如今，作为亡灵生物的一员，安娜斯塔西娅决心调查自己父亲死亡的真相，那件连她自己也只有一些迷惑印象的事情。

She eventually discovered that the puppet master was none other than Uriel himself, who had been scheming to rekindle the fires of the Elder Wars, by accusing the Faceless of the foul deed. Enraged by what she had discovered, Anastasya decided to repay him in kind, using the same artefact he had used against her, this time to take control of his mind. Unable to control his body and defend himself, Uriel was gruesomely ripped to shreds by Demons. Anastasya and her siblings later made sure Uriel’s machinations became widely known to the populace of the Empire, leading what would be called the Charter of the Griffin, the separation of the Church and the State. But that’s another story.

她最终发现，一切背后的傀儡师不是别人，正是乌列本人，他意图通过把一切归罪于无面者的愚行，从而重燃长老战争的烽火。安娜斯塔西娅对自己所发现的真相所激怒，决心以彼之道还治彼身，利用当初用来对付自己的神器转而控制乌列的意志。在失去了对身体的控制权后，无力抵抗的乌列被恶魔们残忍地撕成碎块。安娜斯塔西娅和她的兄弟们之后向全帝国公开了乌列的伎俩，从而导致了后来称为狮鹫宪章的政治改革，将帝国政教分离。但那都是另一个故事了。

In time, Anastasya drank the venom of the Mother Namtaru, an avatar of the Spider Goddess, becoming a Vampire. But contrary to most Necromancers, she refused to shun her ability to feel emotions. After succeeding Sveltana as House Eterna’s Hierophant, she married Lord Vein, a Vampire knight with a troubled past. Together they adopted a living daughter, Zakera, a spirited girl whom Vein had rescued from a massacre perpetrated by his former brother-in-arms, now nemesis – the Nethermancer, Sandro.

之后，安娜斯塔西娅喝下了娜姆塔茹蛛母，蜘蛛女神化身的毒液，变成了一名吸血鬼。但和其他亡灵巫师不同，她拒绝封闭自己的感情。在继承了斯维尔塔娜的永恒学派法皇之位后，她嫁给了凡恩领主，一个有着一段痛苦过去的吸血鬼骑士。他们一起收养了一个非亡灵女儿，紮库菈，一个元气满满的小姑娘。这个女孩正是当初凡恩从其以前的手足，却成为如今天敌的虚空法师桑德罗所犯下的一场大屠杀中救出来的。

When Sandro tried to erase the Mother Namtaru from existence, Anastasya, due to her connection to the mystical creature, fell ill and almost died. Fortunately, Vein and Zakera were able to thwart Sandro’s plans. The Nethermancer escaped, but Anastasya recovered.

当桑德罗试图抹去娜姆塔茹蛛母的存在时，安娜斯塔西娅由于自身与这神秘生物的联系，开始变得虚弱甚至一度濒临死亡。幸运的是，凡恩和紮库菈成功阻止桑德罗的计划。虚空法师虽然逃脱了，但是安娜斯塔西娅却成功地康复了。

Anastasya still looks like a 17 year-old teenager, but her eyes are old and cold, and she talks with the cynical wisdom and grim acceptance that comes from surviving untold trials and tragedies. The once naive and hopeful girl is now a harsh and sarcastic woman, although she still displays, from time to time, a bit of that youthful enthusiasm and curiosity that she once possessed in spades. Believed dead (again) during the Purge of the Necromancers that ripped the Seven Cities apart a few decades ago, Anastasya returned from her self-imposed exile to assist Ivan, her brother Anton’s descendant, in his struggle. She realizes she is now playing the role Sveltana once fulfilled for Slava – the irony is not lost on her.

安娜斯塔西娅始终保持着17岁的容颜，但是她的眼睛却显得古老而冰冷，她的言语充满讽刺的睿智与冷酷的赞同，这一切都来自于她曾熬过的那些无法言说的考验与悲剧。那个增加天真充满梦想的女孩如今已是冷酷尖刻的女人了。不过她仍然时不时的表现出一点点年轻时的热情与好奇心，那些她曾经拥有的感情。自从数十年前那场分裂七城联盟的亡灵巫师大清洗之后的相当长的一段时间内，她都被认为已经再次死亡了，但是现在安娜斯塔西娅已经从她自愿接受的流亡生涯中归来，以协助自己哥哥的后人，在伊凡的困境中提供帮助。她认识到她实际上正扮演着当年斯维尔塔娜相对于斯拉瓦的那个角色，这让她自己都觉得很讽刺。