Elizabeth Liones

"I... made a promise. Even if you were to die... Even if I'm the only one left... I will protect the people of the kingdom from the Holy Knights."

- Elizabeth, while entering Friesia's attack to protect a child, in Dedicated Resolution

Elizabeth Lyonesse (エリザベス・リオネス) is the third princess of Britannia, an adopted daughter of King Lyonesse, and is originally from the kingdom of Danafor. She is the main female protagonist and begins working as a waitress at Boar Hat bar when she joins Meliodas in his journey to find the Seven Deadly Sins.

Appearance
She has long silver hair and blue eyes. She wears a pair of blue ear rings with the symbol of the royal family of Britannia, the symbol compromising the sun, the moon and stars. In the oneshot, Elizabeth wore a black suit for wearing a rusted armor but when she join the Boar Hat, she start wearing a purple open shirt with a black ribbon on top and a dark mini skirt.

Her wanted poster's image is very accurate, since she had been in the kingdom very recently.

Personality
Elizabeth is very polite and caring, and though initially appearing to be fragile and frail, she is in fact very brave and courageous. Her selfless attitude and bravery are demonstrated when she willingly tries to rescue a child from Friesia's attack. On the other hand, she is a fairly gullible person and is always tricked by Meliodas's jokes.

History
Not much of Elizabeth's early life, and the circumstances surrounding her adoption by Britannia's king and Danafor's destruction have yet been revealed. As a child she often used to play with Gilthunder, Hauser, and her adopted sisters, Veronica and Margaret, the latter having given Elizabeth the an earring containing the symbol of the royal family.

After the Holy Knights staged the coup, she escaped from the castle and, clad in a rusting armor, began a journey to find the Seven Deadly Sins, the sole individuals she believed could match the Holy Knights' strength. By the time she had reached Caines Village, her armor, constant disappearing and appearing, and repeated, delirious-like muttering of "Seven Deadly Sins" had led the villagers to name her as the "mysterious Rust Knight".

Introduction Arc
Elizabeth is first seen when she enters the Boar Hat, exhausted, clad in rusting armor, and muttering, "the Seven Deadly Sins". The rumors surrounding her frightening all the customers into leaving, Meliodas confronts her, only for her to immediately fall unconscious due to her immense exhaustion; the fall removes her helm and reveals her to be female. Shortly after, Elizabeth awakes and is presented with some of Meliodas's terrible dishes, which bring her to the point of tears.

As she begins to reveal that she is searching for the Seven Deadly Sins, the knights of Beard of the Mountain Cat, including Alioni, arrive and demand that Meliodas come out and bring the Rust Knight with him, whom they believe to be one of the Seven Deadly Sins. While Meliodas and Hawk go out, the latter pretending to be the Rust Knight, Elizabeth escapes from the back door toward the woods. She is pursued by the knights, who are easily defeated thanks to Meliodas and Hawk. Elizabeth then continue her explanation, explaining to the two that her search for the Seven Deadly Sins was in order to defeat the Holy Knights, who, she informs them, had orchestrated a coup d'état few days ago, and have started forcing civilians to participate in military activities, and under whom, insubordination has become a deadly crime. Just then, the portion of the cliff they have been standing on is abruptly cut off by Twigo. Meliodas, however, saves everyone, including her and Hawk; noticing her earring, that has the symbol of the royal, leads the knight to discover Elizabeth's identity as the third princess of the kingdom. Twigo, planning to report her death as accidental, then attacks with a giant slash that cuts everything in its path. Meliodas, however, saves her, and then saves her from another of Twigo's attacks, after she, believing the young man to be a simple civilian, decides to surrender, not wanting to involve him, whose name she didn't know, in her matters and cause his death. Twigo walks closer to the two, and just become he deals the blow intended to kill them, Meliodas reveals his name, and true identity as one of the Deadly Sins Elizabeth has been searching for: the Dragon's Sin of Wrath. Easily defeating Twigo, he then offers for her to join him, which she happily accepts.

Sometime afterward, Elizabeth is officially hired as a waitress in Boar Hat, and is shown to be wearing the "uniform" Meliodas chose. She then questions the Deadly Sin as to why he was labelled as a criminal, and states that it must have been a misunderstanding, considering him having helped and rescued her. He initially jokes, saying that he stole panties of all the women in the kingdom and that he groped the breasts of over thousand women, but leaves the question unanswered and ambiguous. The topic is, however, forgotten, when they arrive at the village of Bernia, which is popular for its alcoholic drink. As they walk toward the village, Hawk, to his and Meliodas' surprise, discovers that the river, with which the popular ale was created, was completely dried up and the herbs, all wilted. Upon entering the town, they then see a huge crowd of many men; after Meliodas questions the crowd whether a festival was ongoing, the three discover that a Holy Knight had, the previous day, sealed the underground water source of the river in Bernia with his sword. Elizabeth wonders if the Holy Knight was Twigo, leading Meliodas to inform her that Twigo wasn't a Holy Knight, and that a real one was much stronger than him, to her shock. The villagers continue to unsuccessfully try and remove the sword, as a boy named Mead suddenly appears and starts boasting about a friend of his, who, he claims, is one of the Seven Deadly Sins, this claim catching Elizabeth Meliodas' attention. His claims only serve to anger and annoy the villagers, who begin blaming Mead for the crisis, with some of the children even throwing stones at the boy. Meliodas brings him to the Boar Hat, where Elizabeth, soon arriving after them, and having been told of Mead's angering of the Holy Knight, asks him as to the reason. Trying to have him answer, she explains that she had been adopted, and narrates a story of her past. Due to being adopted, she desired her father's attention, and once climbed a tree; this greatly frightened him, leading him to try and rescue her be injured in the process. Hearing that narration, Mead informs them the reason he had angered the Holy Knight into damming the water source. As the boy finishes, Elizabeth, along with everyone else, then watches the two knights inform the villagers that, if the sword is not pulled out by the end of that day, taxes will be multiplied by ten times.

After Meliodas easily pulls out the Holy Knight, Gilthunder's, sword, the villagers of Bernia have a party at the Boar Hat, where Elizabeth attempts her first time at being a waitress. Unfortunately, however, she makes several mistakes along the way, her faults making her run outside, crying. Outside, she finds Meliodas, who is trying to approximate the direction of the spear Gilthunder has just thrown, and manages to encourage her. Elizabeth then watches in shock, as Meliodas stops Gilthunder's spear, which was heading for Bernia, and throws it back. After acknowledging that they only could bring more danger to Bernia if they prolong their stay, the two decide to leave and continue journey.

Forest of White Dreams Arc
Informed of a forest that even Holy Knights avoid in Bernia, she, Meliodas and Hawk then enter said forest, the Forest of White Dreams, which, avoided by even by people habituated to travelling, is an ideal place to hide for one of the Deadly Sins. After walking in the forest for more than three hours without encountering even one creature, they suddenly find multiple copies of Hawk to have mysteriously appeared. Meliodas quickly defeats all of them, including the original, only to discover that now, similar and identical copies of Elizabeth have appeared, all of them saying that they will do anything to prove that they are the real one. Meliodas succeeds in tricking the copies, by telling them to jump as high as they could, which the original refuses to do, since her panties had been stolen by the Deadly Sin beforehand. The copies are revealed to actually be the Prankster Imps that reside in the forest, the creatures then unintentionally leading the three to another of the Seven Deadly Sins, Diane, and apologize for letting a "Holy Knight" come through, them having believed that Meliodas is a Holy Knight. The imps' apology instantly awakes Diane, who had been sleeping. Elizabeth watches as Diane immediately grabs Meliodas, only to start crying tears of joy when she realizes him to be her captain. The Serpent's Sin of Envy, then notices Elizabeth, and upon discovering that Meliodas has been traveling with her, throws a temper tantrum, calling Meliodas a "cheater" After the young man finally calms her down and explains to her the reason him and the princess are traveling together, the princess listens to Meliodas narrating the events that happened ten years ago, and is surprised when his narration reveals the Deadly Sins to have actually been framed, suspecting whether one of them might have been a traitor. Just as Diane decides to join Meliodas in finding the other five, Gilthunder abruptly arrives and lands on a lightning bolt, immobilizing all of them with his magic, and intending to kill Meliodas and Diane. She immediately recognizes the Holy Knight who has just arrived, explaining to Meliodas that he is a Holy Knight very close to her father, the king, and that he was a brother-figure to her, being very shocked when she discovers him to have been the one that sealed Bernia's water source. Though he unbinds her and, stating that whether she lives or not was insignificant, orders her to leave, she refuses to do so, stating that will not let him harm Meliodas and Diane, asking him to unbind them. Gilthunder then kicks Hawk out of the way, which leads Elizabeth to go after him. After Meliodas tricks the Holy Knight into revealing information about the whereabouts of Ban and King, and Diane flings him from the forest, Elizabeth is seen worrying about Meliodas' injury.

Meliodas then decides to have their next destination be Baste Dungeon, where the Fox's Sin of Greed, Ban, is currently imprisoned, as it is nearer to their current location. Elizabeth objects him, arguing that having his wound heal before heading there would be better; though he affirms that the wound was not major, she quickly discovers that he has collapsed.

Baste Dungeon Arc
Meliodas' wounds and unconsciousness leads her, Diane and Hawk to then travel to a town near Baste Dungeon, called Dalmary, and have the severely injured Sin of Wrath treated. There, a medical doctor, Dana, who has begun Meliodas' treatment, states that his patient being alive was a miracle in itself, his injuries being very grave. As Elizabeth worriedly takes care of him, Diane declares that she will head to the Baste Dungeon herself, with Elizabeth asking to accompany her. Diane, however, retorts back that she only be a hindrance, being a mere princess, and only knowing to be Meliodas' nurse.

In response to the retort, Elizabeth replies that she wants to be of use, and that Meliodas was taking on "more than he can handle" to find the Seven Deadly Sins for her. Her statement angering Diane, the Sin of Envy proceeds to narrate to Elizabeth and Hawk the events related to her and and her captain's first meeting, and to then state that he treated everyone in the same manner. As Diane continues, Elizabeth states her desire to possess the strength to fight the Holy Knights, protect people dear to her, and not be a hindrance. Just as the conversation ends, and the Deadly Sin almost leaves, a swarm of insects attack the town, the swarm's source, Friesia intending to use the insects' highly corrosive poison in destroying the entirety of Dalmary Town, along with Meliodas and Diane. Much to his surprise, his attempts are thwarted quite easily by Diane using her yet unnamed ability to raise the earth in the form of pillars, and crush all the insects.

The entire swarm of bugs annihilated, Elizabeth awes at Diane's power, with the latter jumping out of the town in one leap, and running toward the dungeon, after instructing Elizabeth to take care of Meliodas. Sometime afterward, her and Hawk watch a still-unconscious Meliodas, the latter commenting that his peaceful sleep and unconsciousness resembled death. Suddenly, an unseen voice commends Dana for his hard work, and thanks him for upholding his portion of "the deal". Immediately, and to both Elizabeth and Hawk's shock, Dana reveals that the medicine he had made Meliodas drink was, indeed, actually a deadly poison. The same voice states even "they" wouldn't come out unscathed from a full-scale battle against the Seven Deadly Sins, and that "they" have to take significant measures to fulfill the kingdom's goals. The voice is immediately shown to be Golgius, who suddenly appears out of nowhere, and states that he has come to take Elizabeth and Meliodas' sword, the princess trying to stop him as he grabs the damaged weapon. Soon, however, Meliodas is revealed to be alive, despite the deadly poison he had drunk earlier, but his eyes now mysteriously being colored jet black, with a strange mark on his forehead. This, and the similarly mysterious, and very powerful aura Meliodas has been releasing since his awakening, greatly scares Golgius, who, acknowledging that he will be defeated, escapes. Meliodas' eyes are then shown to have returned to normalcy, after which Elizabeth and Hawk to him as to where they were, and who Golgius was. Stopping Hawk from immediately leaving to chase the Holy Knight, Elizabeth questions Meliodas about his wound, which is revealed to have mysteriously healed completely. The three then leave to chase Golgius, and find him very soon. He, however, surrenders, explaining that he is a coward and doesn't like fighting; despite Golgius' claim, Meliodas notices the blades the Holy Knight had stealthily thrown at the moment he raised his hands to surrender, and blocks them. Elizabeth then watches, as Dana's demanding that Golgius return his daughter to him, and his subsequent death at the Holy Knight's hands. As she, worried about the doctor, runs toward him, Golgius appears above her and tries to Elizabeth, only for Meliodas to block his attack.

As Meliodas continues protecting her from Golgius' attacks, and the latter confirms Hawk's theory of his ability being teleportation, the Deadly Sin decides to escape, all the while moving Elizabeth out of Golgius' attacks' way. Him, Elizabeth and Hawk eventually enter an old building, where Elizabeth looks on as Golgius tries to kill Meliodas from behind, but falls for a trap that the Sin of Wrath had set up previously, having correctly deduced his opponent's real ability previously. After Golgius is defeated and sent flying into the street, the Holy Knight takes advantage of a small distraction and escapes on a horse. Just as Meliodas and Hawk then decide to head for the Baste Dungeon, Elizabeth walks toward the dying Dana. When she cries for him, he apologizes for trying to kill Meliodas, and laments his inability to rescue his daughter, Cenette, commenting that he reaped what he sowed, with his hand then falling, implying that he has died. Elizabeth, in sorrow, blames herself for his death, stating that if they hadn't come to the town, Dana wouldn't have been forced to poison Meliodas and wouldn't have died. She also adds that if she hadn't found Meliodas, Gilthunder wouldn't have given him a grave wound, and Golgius wouldn't have nearly killed him with with his scheme. In response to that, Meliodas tells that while he understands the events that occurred making her cry, questions whether her resolve to protect the kingdom's citizens from the Holy Knights so weak that it could be broken by "a tear or two", declaring that since he has resolved to do so and find the other Seven Deadly Sins, he would fulfill his promise with her even if she were to die. He proceeds to explain that all people eventually die, and manages to encourage her after explaining what being a knight meant.

Despite Hawk and Meliodas leaving Elizabeth in Dalmary while heading for the dungeon, citing the danger the Weird Fangs posed, she herself joins them, declaring that while she isn't a knight, she would keep fighting for the people of the kingdom even if Meliodas were to die. While walking, they encounter Diane, who seems to have no memories of defeating Friesia and heading for the dungeon. Diane now having joined them, Meliodas decides that rescuing Cenette, Dana's daughter, would be their primary priority, to Elizabeth's gladness. Suddenly, Diane attacks Meliodas, having previously fallen for Ruin's illusionary abilities. Meliodas, immediately realizing that Diane was under an illusion, flees while carrying Elizabeth, with Hawk running behind them, and upon finding two civilians, one of whom is a young boy, walking nearby, takes them along, since they will be dragged into the battle. As they three, and the two frightened civilians, who are revealed to be shepherds from Dalmary Town, hide, Meliodas also falls under Ruin's hypnosis when he tries to look at Diane, which makes him see Ruin in her place the same way she sees Ruin in his. Quickly noticing that Meliodas has also fallen for the trap, Elizabeth tries to escape with the shepherds and Hawk, stating that they would die if the two Deadly Sins fight each other seriously.

As the two Deadly Sins continue their battle, Elizabeth desperately yells for them to stop, which causes Diane to regain her senses and memories. The young shepherd, who had met Diane on her way to Baste, goes toward her, only for her to then be hypnotized again and continue fighting Meliodas. Seeing the civilians frightened, Elizabeth declares that she will put her life to protect them. Hearing that, Friesia, testing Elizabeth's declaration, uses her bugs to attack the young boy, and when she hesitates, taunts her. He, however, is surprised when Elizabeth willingly enters the tornado of insects, being injured in the process, and protects the boy. The child, however, replying that while her risking injury to protect a child was admirable, reality is harsh, reveals himself to be a disguised Ruin under an illusion. As Elizabeth asks him to undo the hypnosis, he pulls her with the hair and knees her in the chest, and hits her in the head with the top of his staff when she manages to get up. Telling Friesia that nothing was better than the face of a young girl writhing in pain, Ruin, in commendation for her bravery, explains to Elizabeth that the source of his illusions was his staff's bell, only to find it to have been removed by Elizabeth when she was hit with the top of the staff. He lashes out in anger, but before he can kill her, is stopped by Meliodas, who has regained his senses since the source of the hypnosis has been removed.

Meliodas, telling the unconscious Elizabeth that he has accepted her resolution, then fights Ruin, soon defeating him. Diane, having come to her senses as well, quickly defeats Friesia also, and initially deciding to take Elizabeth to Dalmary in order to treat her severe injuries, then takes her to the Baste Dungeon on her own request, with the princess sleeping in the giant's bag. After the dungeon is destroyed, and everyone, including Ban, Cenette and all the other villagers imprisoned there, return to Dalmary Town, she is questioned by Diane and Meliodas as to how she is feeling. Elizabeth, however, starts worrying and questions them about the well-being others, to which Hawk retorts that she should worry about herself before others. She then requests for Meliodas to join Cenette.

At night, during dinner, Elizabeth, bedridden due to her injuries, is formally introduced to Ban. As the party continues, Elizabeth wishes that the moment could last forever, stating that the events in Baste reminded her all the more about the Holy Knights' frightening abilities, and the fact that only the Seven Deadly Sins could match them. In response, Diane replies that while she doesn't know, and isn't interested in, humans and human kingdoms, she wouldn't mind fighting for the princess, since she was "really cool" that day, and did have powers: the power to move her and Meliodas' hearts. She also asks her whether she could henceforth address her as merely "Elizabeth", instead of "princess", and then tells the young lady to address her as just "Diane". Some time afterwards, She, along with the others, awes at the sky as the shooting stars pass, and is later shown to be sleeping.

Capital of the Dead Arc
Elizabeth and the others left Dalmary Town to travel on the road again to find the other Sins. When Elizabeth apologizes to Diane for making them wait when she needed to heal but Diane said she shouldn't worry too much. When Meliodas was about to say when they should be going a group of two apprentice Holy Knight who want to know where are they going and who are they because of Hawk mother and Diane being from the Giant Clan. Meliodas came out and told them that they are a traveling bar and that Diane and Elizabeth were they attrative waitress. The plan was working until Diane hugged Meliodas and call him captian because she was happy being called attrative.

When the apprentice Holy Knight was about to attack a Black Hound attack and killed them! Meliodas scared it away by using his power and they continued on they traveling. Meliodas told them that they are going to the Capital of the Dead to find King. When they got to a village next to the Capital of the Dead, they decided to find information to find King or how to get to the Capital. Elizabeth offers to help which Meliodas agree but told her not to pass herself too much. Elizabeth ask Meliodas what kind of person King is which Meliodas told her and that King and Ban were like an unlikely dynamic due. The rest realize that nobody was in the villagers and decided to go out and find Ban. When the Sins came back with Ban and a unknown girl named Ellen and her brother, they told Elizabeth and Hawk about King and the Capital which they left the village and went there. When they got there, Elizabeth ask if the memory of her mother might let them in but they told her that it have to be a speical memory which she never met her before. But then they are magical transport to the Capital of the Dead but then Ban left them and they saw King following him? Elizabeth ask Meliodas why King wanted to be here or why Ban ran away but before say anything a Holy Knight appear and told them she killed herself, Meliodas sense how dangerous she is and told Elizabeth and Hawk to get away which they did. While running away Elizabeth and Hawk met King and ask him to help the others because she knew that they needed they help but King said he couldn't help. Elizabeth couldn't stand this and decided to go and help them by using King spear while Hawk help her too. But the spear was too heavy and they kept on trying which touched King and deicded to go and help them and got the spear out by using his power. Elizabeth and Hawk ran back to the Sins to see how are they doing and when they got back they saw that King defeated Geera with ease and they were about to go back to the living world because the Capital was rejecting them. Once they back Elizabeth and the other saw that Geera was there but still in near death and Meliodas decided to do something to her.

When Meliodas told King that Elizabeth was the third princess, King was shocked and turn himself into his former self. King then introduces himself. Elizabeth then tells him that he can turn back, which King returns to his form and says that he is exhausted. King later told everyone about the Holy Knight and Elizabeth ask him if he knows what happen to her family but King doesn't know that.

Ongoing Arc
Meliodas went inside Elizabeth room to make sure she is alright. Elizabeth then talk about her sister and Gilthunder use to play together all the time and now upset because she is worry about them but Meliodas told her that he is sure that they are alright which made Elizabeth happy but then Meliodas that they sleep together which Elizabeth sweat drop. The next day Elizabeth, Meliodas and King went into a new town called Biron which is full of many merchants. While walking they saw the sins wanted poster but to they shock they found Elizabeth wanted poster. The town found out about Elizabeth and try to catch her but Meliodas grab Elizabeth and ran away.

Later they went into a tower and made a new plan. Meliodas told Elizabeth to still put and told Hawk to protect her while Meliodas and King went out to find informations. Later Elizabeth hear a town folk was being bully by a Holy Knights named Griamor and treated to kill him if they don't find Elizabeth but then Elizabeth went down and told him to stop and told Griamor why he is doing this and that he served the family for years but Griamor said he doesn't served him but was stop by a Holy Knights who is Elizabeth sister Veronica much to her shock.

Later Elizabeth was taken in by her sister Veronica to a inn called Ceramic Tear Inn where her sister scold her for leaving without telling her. Elizabeth told Veronica if she is here to capture her but told her she is here to save her and she can change the wanted poster if she come with her but Elizabeth got mad and told her if she knew what's going on the kingdom right now and to which she said she knows and that they are preparing for the Holy War. She tries to persuade Elizabeth to leave the Seven Deadly Sins, but Elizabeth immediately refuses, leading Veronica to tell her that Meliodas is a raging monster. Before leaving she gives Elizabeth a pendent, saying it was a gift from their father.

Later Meliodas and King made a plan to save Elizabeth and when Meliodas defeat Griamor they got Elizabeth and escape the inn. Elizabeth thanks Meliodas for saving her and apologizes for not remain hidden, but Meliodas is only glad and happy that she is okay. Abruptly, fireworks appear above the next town they are going to, and together, they held each other's hand tightly. When the Sins went to Byzel, Diane was upset because she can't go due to her being a giant. Elizabeth agree to stay with Diane which they both were happy to do. While walking inside the forsert to found ingredients, they found a mushroom creature called a Chicken-Matango which Diane hit and started to spores which shirnk both Diane and Elizabeth.

Later Diane used her clothes to enter the Byzel Fight Festival to suprised Meliodas while Elizabeth hid in her bosom.

Abilities/Equipment
Elizabeth, being an ordinary human, possesses no superhuman abilities or equipments. She has, however, been repeatedly shown to be quite courageous, said trait of hers being praised by the likes of Meliodas, Diane, and even a foe, Ruin.

Meliodas
Elizabeth appears to show great respect and trust for Meliodas, calling him with the honorific, "Lord", and also cares greatly about him and worries about his health and injuries continuously. She also doesn't care about him harassing her, such as being groped, to an extent.

Diane
Initially, Diane rather disliked Elizabeth despite the princess showing a great deal of respect for her, and addressing her with the honorific, "Lady". Elizabeth has once said that she envies Diane's abilities to fight, and tries to support her when the Deadly Sin battles Friesia. After she selflessly attempts to save a child even though she knew it could cost her life, Diane appears to start acknowledging her, resulting in them becoming closer companions.

Ban
Elizabeth and Ban seem to share a good relationship.

King
Elizabeth and King share a good friendship, with King respecting her for being a princess and worrying about her well-being, and Elizabeth responding by calling him with the honorifics of "Lord".

King Lyonesse
Elizabeth, though not being blood related to him, loves her and cares about her father very much. Her love is equally returned by him, which is seen when he risked his life to climb a tree in order to save Elizabeth, something which he had never done before.

Margaret
Elizabeth loves her adopted sister very much and admires her for her kindness and gentleness.

Veronica
Elizabeth and Veronica love each other, which the latter being very worried about the former when she escaped from the castle. However, Elizabeth is dismayed by Veronica's supporting the Holy Knights, and Veronica, by Elizabeth's supporting of the Seven Deadly Sins, whom she considers to be villains who are using Elizabeth.

Hawk
Elizabeth seems to love talking pig and adores Hawk as a pet. She appears to treasure Hawk very much as a companion and trusts in him.

Trivia

 * The names, Elizabeth, or Elisabeth, are the Greek transcriptions of the Hebrew name Elisheva, which means "God's promise", "oath of God", or "I am God’s daughter".