Cassandra Alexandra
| Cassandra Alexandra | |
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| Soul character | |
Cassandra in Soulcalibur IV
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| First game | Soulcalibur II (2002) |
| Designed by | Aya Takemura (Soulcalibur II-IV), Takuji Kawano (Soulcalibur II-IV) |
| Voiced by (English) | Debbie Rogers (Soulcalibur II) |
| Voiced by (Japanese) | Reiko Takagi |
| Fictional profile | |
| Birthplace | Athens, Greece |
| Nationality | Greek |
| Fighting style | Athenian |
| Weapon | Digamma Sword & Nemea Shield (xiphos and aspis) |
Cassandra Alexandra (Japanese: カサンドラ・アレクサンドル Hepburn: Kasandora Arekusandoru) is a fictional character in the Soul series of video games. Created by Namco's Project Soul division, she first appeared in Soulcalibur II and its subsequent sequels, and later appearing in various merchandise and promotional material related to the series. She is voiced by Debbie Rogers in the English version of Soulcalibur II, and Reiko Takagi in Japanese.
Cassandra has been heavily compared to her older sister Sophitia in terms of fighting style, though with acknowledgment that they were two different characters. Some sources have noted a fan following for the character, while others have praised her as highly attractive.
Cassandra is the younger sister of series character Sophitia who was first mentioned in Soul Edge, having witnessed her sister's unconscious body being carried by female ninja Taki after her quest in destroying the cursed sword, Soul Edge. Three years later, she heard her sister had gone to another journey to destroy Soul Edge in Soulcalibur. Four years afterwards, Cassandra visited her sister's home to find that Sophitia's children Patroklos and Pyrrha were fighting for a fragment of Soul Edge that Sophitia's husband, Rothion had found and that Sophitia was very panicked by the incident. She grabbed the fragment and quickly went to the Eurydice Shrine in anger to curse Hephaestus for making her sister endangered. Cassandra stole Sophitia's holy Omega sword after seeing it reacted with the fragment and determined to take a journey to destroy Soul Edge in place of her sister as she already had a family by then. Cassandra continued her quest in Soulcalibur III, briefly going back to Greece to request Rothion to forge her new weapons after the Omega sword had broken following a skirmish at a corrupted city. He told her that Sophitia had gone to destroy Soul Edge on her own, so Cassandra quickly went to search and join her sister after receiving the weapons. She visited the city that she went earlier, where she met a man named Raphael who stole her fragment of Soul Edge and before departing, he told that while she has the power to dispel evil, she was not as strong as the "Holy Stone". After hearing rumors in the city whose townspeople had regained their sanity about a man with a large mass of crystal on his way to Ostrheinsburg, Cassandra reasoned he carried the Holy Stone to fought some evil there which she thought is Soul Edge and decided to follow him.
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