Sring Venka

Sring Venka is one of Rin's classmates at Sinegard Academy.

Early Life
Venka shared the same tutor as Chen Kitay and Yin Nezha. She has had martial arts training: she trained in the Gentle Fist style since she was a toddler. Despite her family's wishes for her to marry rich, Venka decided she wanted to join the military and took the Keju.

At Sinegard Academy
Venka and Nezha were popular students at Sinegard Academy, and was a contender to go into the finals during the first years' tournament. She actively snubbed Rin and mocked her, to stay in Nezha's favour. She was defeated by Rin in the semifinals. She pledged Combat, along with Nezha, to study with Master Jun.

During the Third Poppy War
She was assigned to the Sixth Division at Golyn Niis. However, during the Federation's ambush, Venka was not killed like the other division soldiers, but kept in a "relaxation house" and gangraped by Mugenese soldiers before being left for dead. She was violently abused and both of her arms became physically disabled as a result.

When Rin and the Cike arrived at Golyn Niis, Venka made Rin swear that she would burn and destroy the Mugenese.

During the Civil War
Despite being a top student at Sinegard, because of her experiences at Golyn Niis, Venka is treated as "damaged goods" by her family and the Dragon Army. She is denied admittance as a soldier until Rin recruits her to the Cike. She had spent her time retraining her skill with the crossbow, a task made difficult by the injuries she sustained in both arms at Golyn Niis, and assisted Rin in battling the wind god Feylen.

Personality
At times she may be rather hard to communicate with, brutally honest to the point of cruelty and unable to abide what she perceives as weakness, but she proves herself not only a ferocious warrior skilled with the crossbow, but a loyal ally and friend to Rin as well.

Physical Description
Venka is described as an "archetypical Sinegardian beauty": pale and slender. She has a typical Sinegardian accent, having grown up in the capital.