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, 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.{{ref|ch=1|p=30}] 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 began to reveal that she was 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, Elizabeth escapes from the back door toward the woods. She is pursued by the knights, but successfully escapes thanks to Meliodas and Hawk. Elizabeth then continues, telling the two that she was searching for the Deadly Sins in order to defeat the Holy Knights, who, a few days ago, had orchestrated a coup d'état, and had started forcing civilians to participate in military activities, and under whom, insubordination was a deadly crime. Just then, suddenly, the portion of the cliff they are standing on is cut off by Twigo. Meliodas saves everyone, which then leads Twigo to discover Elizabeth's true identity as the princess of the kingdom. She is saved by Meliodas again from Twigo's attack, and she, in order to protect the former, who she thought was only a simple civilian, decided to surrender. Just as Twigo is about to kill both of them, Meliodas reveals his true identity as finishing blow, Meliodas unveils his identity as one of the Seven Deadly Sins and easily defeats Twigo. Afterwards, she happily accepts his offer of joining him.

Later, Elizabeth is officially hired as a waitress in Boar Hat, and is shown to be wearing the "uniform" that Meliodas chose. She then asks the Deadly Sin as to why he was labelled as a criminal, and that it must have been a misunderstanding. 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. They soon arrive at the village of Bernia, which was famous for their alcoholic drinks. As they enter the village, Hawk discovers that the river was completely dried up and the herbs, all wilted. They then see many men crowded, and when Meliodas asks whether there was a festival going on, they discover that a Holy Knight had sealed the underground water source of the river in in Bernia with his sword. While the villagers were unsuccessfully trying to pull out the sword, a boy named Mead started boasting that his friend was one of the Seven Deadly Sins and that the sword was "nothing", which only served to anger and annoy the villagers, who started blaming Mead for the crisis. Mead is brought to the Boar Hat, where Elizabeth, trying to ask him as to why he angered the Holy Knight, tells him a story of her past: since she was adopted, she had once climbed a tree to get her father, King Lyonesse's attention, the action greatly frightening, causing him to try and save her, only to fall down himself and get injured in the process. After hearing that, Mead informs them the reason, and then watches, along with Elizabeth and the others, as two knights inform the villagers that if they don't pull out the sword by that day, their taxes will be multiplied by ten times.

After Meliodas easily pulls out Gilthunder's sword, the villagers of Bernia have a party at the Boar Hat, where Elizabeth attempts her first time of being a waitress. Unfortunately, however, she made many mistakes and caused several problems, which causes her to run out crying. Outside the Boar Hat, she encounters Meliodas, who manages to encourage Elizabeth before stopping Gilthunder's spear which was heading for Bernia, and throwing it back. After acknowledging that they could bring more danger to Bernia if they stay there, they decide to leave and continue their journey.

Forest of White Dreams Arc
She, Meliodas and Hawk then enter the Forest of White Dreams, which is avoided by even the Holy Knights and is a very nice place to hide for one of the Deadly Sins. Suddenly, multiple copies of Hawk appear out of thin air. Meliodas quickly defeats all of them, including the original, only to discover that now there were copies of Elizabeth, who say that they will do anything to prove that they're real. Meliodas manages to trick the fakes, by telling them to jump as high as they could, which the original refuses to do, since her panties had been stolen by Meliodas beforehand. The copies are revealed to be Prankster Imps, who then unintentionally lead them to Diane, and apologize for letting a "Holy Knight" come through, since they believe that Meliodas is a Holy Knight. That causes Diane, who was sleeping to wake up and grab Meliodas, only to start crying tears of joy when she realizes that it is her captain. The Serpent's Sin then notices Elizabeth, and upon finding that Meliodas is traveling with her, throws a tantrum, while calling him a "cheater." After Meliodas finally calms her down and explains to her why he and Elizabeth are traveling together, the princess listens to Meliodas narrating the events that happened ten years ago, and is shown to be surprised when it is revealed that the Deadly Sins were framed, and wonders whether there might have been a traitor. Just as Diane decides to join Meliodas in finding the other five, Gilthunder arrives and binds all of them, intending to kill Meliodas and Diane. She immediately recognizes Gilthunder, and says that he is a knight very close to her father and that he was a brother-figure to her, and is very shocked when she discovers that he was the one that sealed Bernia's water source. Though he unbinds her and orders her to leave, she refuses to do so, and tells him to unbind Meliodas and Diane. 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 throws him away from the forest, she is seen worrying about Meliodas' injury.

As Meliodas decides to go to Baste Dungeon first, as it is nearer to their location, she objects, saying that it'd be better if his would was healed first. He then affirms that the wound was "nothing"; however, she quickly finds that he has collapsed.

Baste Dungeon Arc
Since Meliodas had collapsed from his injuries, she, Diane and Hawk take him to Dr. Dana, a doctor in Dalmary Town, which is near Baste Dungeon, who says that Meliodas being alive was a miracle in itself, since his injuries were very grave. Elizabeth is later seen worriedly taking care of him, and when Diane declares that she will head to the Baste Dungeon herself, Elizabeth tries to accompany her, which makes Diane retort that Elizabeth would just be a hindrance, since she was only a princess and the only thing she could do was to be Meliodas' nurse.

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, which causes Diane to be angered, and tell them as to how she and her captain first met, and that Meliodas was always like that. As the Sin of Envy continues, Elizabeth states her desire to have strength to fight the Holy Knights, protect people dear to her, and not be a hindrance to her and Meliodas. Just as Diane is about to leave, the Holy Knight Friesia attacks the town by using his bugs to spray poison, but is quickly defeated by the former.

After all the bugs are annihilated, Elizabeth is then seen awing that Diane's power, just as Diane leaves for the dugneon. Later, as Dr. Dana reveals that the medicine he had given to Meliodas was actually a poison, much to Elizabeth's shock, Golgius appears out of nowhere, saying that if the Weird Fangs, even they won't come out unscathed. Golgius then says that he has come to take Elizabeth and Meliodas' sword, and grabs the object, with the princess trying to stop him. However, the Deadly Sin is revealed to be still alive, but with jet black eyes and a strange mark on his forehead, which greatly scares the Holy Knight, and causes him to escape. After Elizabeth and Hawk then explain to Meliodas as to where they were, and who Golgius was, the princess notices that Meliodas' wound has mysteriously healed. The three then decide to chase after the Holy Knight, and due to Hawk's sense of smell, soon find the him. However, the Holy Knight surrenders, telling them that he is a coward and doesn't like fighting; however, Meliodas notices the blades he stealthily threw at Elizabeth and blocks them. She then worriedly runs towards Dr. Dana, who, after having demanded that Golgius return his daughter, had just been fatally stabbed from the back. Just then, Golgius tries to kill Elizabeth, only for Meliodas to block his attack.

As Meliodas, Hawk and Elizabeth then run, she is repeatedly attacked by Golgius, with the Deadly Sin moving Elizabeth out of the way every time. The three 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. After Golgius is defeated, and he is sent flying into the street, the Holy Knight takes advantage of a small distraction and escapes on a horse. Just as Meliodas and the two decide to follow him, Elizabeth finds the wounded Dana; he tells her that he poisoned Meliodas because he he had only wanted to save his daughter, who was kidnapped by Golgius to force him into doing so and seemingly dies. Elizabeth blames herself, saying that if she had never requested Meliodas to help her find the other Seven Deadly Sins, Dana would still be alive, and Meliodas would never have been wounded by Gilthunder and nearly killed by Golgius. However, Meliodas, in return, says that he understand her blaming herself, but also questions her if her desire to protect the kingdom and its people is weak enough to be broken by a "tear or two". He also says that he would fulfill his promise with her even if she were to die, going on to explain that all people eventually die, and manages to encourage her after explaining what being a knight meant.

As Hawk and Meliodas leave for Baste Dungeon, they decide to leave Elizabeth due to the danger of the Holy Knights. However, she herself joins them, while saying that although 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. Just as the four, including Diane, decide to make saving Cenette, Dr. Dana's daughter, their first priority, Diane, having been hypnotized and fallen for the Holy Knight, Ruin's illusion, attacks Meliodas, thinking he is the Holy Knight, shocking Hawk and Elizabeth. Meliodas, having quickly noticed her being under an illusion, flees while carrying Elizabeth, and after finding two shepherds going back to Dalmary Town from the pasture, take them along and hide them, since they would also be dragged into the fight. However, Meliodas also falls for Ruin's illusion, and, now thinking that Diane is Ruin, starts attacking her back. Quickly noticing that Meliodas has also fallen for the trap, Elizabeth, tries to escape with the shepherds and Hawk, saying that they would die if the two Deadly Sins fight each other seriously.

The two Deadly Sins continue their battle, which eventually causes Elizabeth to desperately yell that they stop. That makes Diane temporarily regain her senses and recognize the young shepherd she had met on her way to the dungeon, before being hypnotized once again. Upon seeing the two shepherds being scared due to this, Elizabeth tells them that she would put her life on the line to protect them, an action that causes Friesia to test the sincerity of her words and attack the younger civilian with his bugs. Though initially hesitating, and being mocked by Friesia, she bravely enters the Holy Knight's tornado of bugs to save the child, at the cost of numerous bloody wounds, surprising him. Just then, the child transforms into the Ruin, revealing himself to have hidden himself with an illusion and to have been the the person who has hypnotized Diane and Meliodas. Elizabeth asks Ruin to undo his illusion, only for her to be severely injured by him. He, as commendation for her bravery, then explains that the bell of his staff to be the origin of his hypnotizing abilities, but finds the bell to be missing, which leads Elizabeth to reveal that she had removed it. He tries to kill her, but is stopped by an angry Meliodas, since Ruin's illusion abilities' origin has been removed.

Meliodas, telling the unconscious Elizabeth that he accepted her resolution, then fights Ruin, soon defeating him. Diane, having come to her senses as well, quickly defeats Friesia also. The Sin of Envy initially decides to take her to the village because of her severe injuries, but takes the princess, along with herself, to the Baste Dungeon, with the former sleeping in the latter'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 tells Diane that the events that happened in Baste Dungeon have reminded her of the strength of the Holy Knights and that only the Seven Deadly Sins could defeat them. Diane responds, telling Elizabeth that although she isn't interested in humans' countries, she wouldn't mind fighting for the princess, and that she did have the power to move the hearts of herself and Meliodas. She also asks Elizabeth whether she can address her as just "Elizabeth", and allows her to address herself as just "Diane". Some time after, She, along with the others, is shown to be awing at the sky as shooting stars pass by, and is later seen 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.

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 name Elizabeth is the Greek transcription of the Hebrew name Elisheva, which means God's promise, oath of God, or I am God’s daughter.