Shamal

Shamal
Shamal in her Ground Force uniform
Character profile
Other names	Knight of the Lake Healing Hand of the Wind
Age	uncertain, at least several centuries
Gender	Female
Species	Wolkenritter
Homeworld	Old Belka
Date of birth	Ancient Belkan Era
Family	Yagami family
Background
Affiliation	Medical Centre (pre-StrikerS et seq.) Riot Force 6 (StrikerS) Special Duty Section 6 (Force)
Occupation	Medical Master
Qualification	Medical Master C-III (pre-StrikerS)
Magic
Color	Celadon
System	Ancient Belka
Rank	AA+ (Synthetic)
Device	Klarwind
Production
Japanese name	シャマル (Shamaru)
First app.	A's manga (prologue)
Voiced by	Ryōka Yuzuki
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Shamal (シャマル Shamaru) is a knight introduced in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's. She is one of the Wolkenritter, a creation of the Book of Darkness.

Name

Her name is presumably a reference to the Maserati Shamal, which is interestingly named after shamal, the Arabic name for a type of northwestern wind in Iraq and neighboring countries. Like all Wolkenritter, she does not have a family name.

As a Wolkenritter, Shamal is titled as the "Knight of the Lake" (湖の騎士 Mizu'umi no Kishi). Additionally, she is called by the Will of the Book of Darkness as the "Healing Hand of the Wind" (風の癒し手 Kaze no Iyashite).

Appearance

Shamal is visually the oldest of the Wolkenritter, appearing to be approximately 22 years old over all the series. Like other Wolkenritter, she does not have an official born year or age.

Personality

Shamal is typically soft-spoken, kind and polite. She helps around the house, and can be sensitive to criticism, especially with regards to her cooking. Shamal tends to worry about the welfare of Hayate Yagami and the other Wolkenritter, and can occasionally be prone to crying under emotional strain. She is quite close with Hayate, and like Vita, does not address her as "Mistress" but instead affectionately calling her Hayate-chan.

In A's

Shamal enters A's helping push Hayate's wheelchair on their walk home from the library. That night, she goes out to help the other Wolkenritter, telling Hayate that the supermarket does not have their brand of soy sauce. As Nanoha Takamachi is about to fire her Starlight Breaker to destroy the Vita's force field, Shamal uses Mirror of Travels to access her Linker Core from afar, but eventually the Starlight Breaker is fired and the force field is destroyed.

Shamal tends to act as the housekeeper and medic for the Wolkenritter. She is often the one who makes excuses to Hayate for why she and the others are absent, having volunteered for it so that the others will not have to bear the burden of deceiving her.

Just before the Book of Darkness is completed, Nanoha, Fate Testarossa, Arisa Bunnings and Suzuka Tsukimura visit Hayate for Christmas while Shamal and the other Wolkenritter are seeing her. Shamal puts up a communications barrier to prevent Nanoha and Fate from contacting the Bureau, and the two groups confront each other on the hospital roof. Two masked men, actually the Liese twins in disguise, attack and absorb the Wolkenritter's Linker Cores, killing them and causing the Book of Darkness to awake.

After Hayate regains control of the Book of Darkness, renaming it Reinforce, she restores Shamal and the other Wolkenritter to life. Shamal begins to apologize, but Hayate tells her she is merely relieved to see her and the others alive. Shamal then heals Nanoha and Fate's wounds, and after the combined efforts of the Bureau group and the Wolkenritter weaken the corrupted Defense Program, she locates with Mirror of Travels the core of the Defense Program, and transports it together with Yuuno Scrya and Alph to outer space so that Arthra can destroy it.

Between A's and StrikerS

A's manga (ch.6-7), A's Sound Stage 03, A's epilogue, StrikerS manga (ch.1-7) and StrikerS Sound Stage M expand on what happens to the characters between A's and its sequel, StrikerS.

Shamal officially joins the Administrative Bureau in May 0066 alongside other Wolkenritter.

The first part of StrikerS manga (ch.1-3) occurs in April 0071, nominally six years after A's and four years before StrikerS anime series. In it, Shamal is working under the Bureau's Main Office, presumably a Medical Master (医務官 Imu Kan) of its Medical Centre based on her uniform. She and her family are planning to relocate from Earth to Midchilda before Hayate's graduation from junior high school. In A's epilogue, she also sends a package to Gil Graham with a picture of the family.

In StrikerS

Shamal, now possessing Medical Master C-III qualification, is seconded from the Main Office's Medical Centre to Riot Force 6 as the Chief Medical Master of Long Arch, working under Hayate. She also helps in other regards, e.g. she takes command during the Hotel Augusta attack, identifying the enemy positions and issuing orders.

When Jail Scaglietti's allies attacks the TSAB Public Press Conference, Shamal and Zafira guard the Long Arch and face Otto and Deed, who defeat them and knock them unconscious. Shamal is briefly hospitalized as a result, but Zafira protects her from most of the damage. During the time between attacks, Shamal notices that the Wolkenritter's connection with Hayate is weakening, effectively making them more human. She says that she is content with living her last life with Hayate, but notes that she still worries about Vita and the other knights.

During the final battle, Shamal and Zafira manage to locate and capture Otto.

After the dissolution of Riot Force 6 in 0076, Shamal resumes her duty in the Medical Centre.

In ViVid

Shamal only makes minor appearances in ViVid, along the rest of the Yagami family at home or at the Intermiddle Championship stadiums.

In Force

Shamal in her Sailing Force uniform in Force

Shamal is now seconded to Special Duty Section 6 as the chief of its Medical Squad.

In Force (ch.9), she helps to first-aide the officers affected by Thoma Avenir's Divide Zero "Eclipse" on Wolfram. Later in Force (ch.15), she appears unarmed in front of Isis Egret and Thoma Avenir to offer aid to the unconscious and Reacted Lily-Strosek. Since then she is responsible for the follow up of their Eclipse virus.

Alternate continuities

Portable

Shamal appears as a playable character in both Battle of Aces and Gears of Destiny.

Movie

Shamal's Knight Clothing in Reflection

Shamal appears in The MOVIE 2nd A's and Reflection.

During the events in Reflection (summer of 0067), Shamal is serving as a doctor in the Bureau's Medical Department.

Brave Duel

Shamal Yagami (八神シャマル Yagami Shamaru) is a shop assistant of Yagamido, along Signum Yagami and Reinforce Eins Yagami.

Powers

Shamal's Armed Device is a set of four rings, named Klarwind, which she can use to detect enemies, create portals and bind targets. She has the ability to magically heal injuries and is skilled at creating defenses for various purposes. Furthermore, she can create cartridges with Klarwind.

Knight Clothing

Shamal's Knight Clothing consists of a white and green dress, a light green waist-attached cape with metal plates on the side. She further wears a light green jacket and gems attached to black boots. Like other knights' Clothing, it has been designed for her by Hayate.

Spells

Spell	System	Category	Type	Rank
Calming Heal	Ancient Belka	Support	Increase	AA
Commandment Chain	Ancient Belka	Capture	Bind
Commandment Rope	Ancient Belka	Capture	Bind
Communication Jamming	Ancient Belka	Support	Decline
Dimensional Transfer	Midchilda Ancient Belka	Support	Transport
Gefängnis der Magie	Ancient Belka	Force field	Area
Healing Wind	Ancient Belka	Support	Increase
Investigation Spell	Ancient Belka	Support	Other support
Klargeheul	Ancient Belka	Support	Decline
Mirror of Prospection	Ancient Belka	Support	Other support
Mirror of Travels	Ancient Belka	Support	Transport
Physical Heal	Midchilda Ancient Belka	Support	Increase
Steel Yoke	Ancient Belka	Capture	Cage	AA
Thunder of Destruction	Ancient Belka	Attack	Area-of-effect
Wind Shield	Ancient Belka	Defense	Shield

In the games

Spells in The Battle of Aces
		Cross Range	Long Range	Long Range (Charged)
▢	Attack/Basic	[unnamed]	Wind Shackle
△	Block/Def.	Pendelschlag	Wind Shield
◯	Catch/Trans.	Surging Storm	Mirror of Travels
L	FDB	Linker Core Extraction	---
R	Guard	Panzerschild		---

Spells in The Gears of Destiny
		Cross Range	Long Range	Long Range (Charged)
▢	Attack/Basic	[unnamed]	Wind Shackle
△	Block/High	Pendelschlag	Wind Shield	Swirling Storm
◯	Catch/Trans.	Surging Storm	Mirror of Travels
△△	EX Attack	[unnamed]	---
L	FDB	Linker Core Extraction	---
R	Guard	Panzerschild		---

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