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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 a ninja named Taki after her quest in destroying Soul Edge. Three years later, she heard her sister had gone to another journey to destroy Soul Edge in Soulcalibur. Four years afterwards, she visited her sister's home to find that Sophitia's children Patroklos and Pyrrha were fighting for a shard of Soul Edge that Sophitia's husband, Rothion had found and that Sophitia was very panicked by the incident. She quickly went to the Eurydice Shrine in anger and cursed Hephaestus for making her sister endangered. She stole Sophitia's holy Omega sword after seeing it reacted with the shard and determined to take a journey to destroy Soul Edge in place of her sister as she already had a family by then.
She 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, she reasoned he carried the Holy Stone to fought some evil there which she thought is Soul Edge and decided to follow him.
In Soulcalibur: Broken Destiny's Gauntlet storyline, a non-canon side story set during the events of Soulcalibur IV, the plot revolves around Cassandra and her ally Hilde, who search for ingredients to develop a potion to cure Hilde's father. To this end force the protagonist to assist them, and later recruit another person, Dampierre, after Hilde is briefly kidnapped.
Cassandra does not make appearance in Soulcalibur V, although she does mentioned in the official artbook of the game, which states that in the conclusion of Soulcalibur IV, she arrived at the Ostrheinsburg Castle to find her sister had pledged her service to Soul Edge to save her daughter Pyrrha. Sophitia managed to render Cassandra unconscious with a single strike. When she awakened, she found that the entire castle had begun to disintegrate to the Astral Chaos. She found her sister's unconscious body at one room, but as she approached her, she was sucked to the Astral Chaos as the castle returned back to normal.
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