Bartra Liones

Bartra Liones is the former eleventh king of the kingdom of Liones, currently held captive by the Holy Knights after the their coup d'état. His current status is unknown, but has been confirmed to be alive.

Appearance
Bartra Liones has long white hair and groomed beard. He adorns a typical king's cloak accessorized with fur on the shoulders and hemline. He also wears a pair of armlets and a few rings. In a flashback, he wore full body armor with a unique helmet which did not cover his entire face.

Personality
Bartra is a caring, respectable person who strongly cares about his daughters. He was willing to risk his life and climb a tree, something which he had never done before, in order to rescue his daughter. He is also peaceful, having ordered the Holy Knights to lay down their arms, as an attempt to avoid the predicted, and apparently inevitable, Holy War.

Like his daughter Elizabeth, he has faith in the Seven Deadly Sins, making them knights and giving them the valuable sacred treasures, despite them being wanted criminals.

Several years ago
Many years ago, he had have adopted Elizabeth. One day, a young Elizabeth tried to get his attention and climbed a tree. Fearing for her safety, Bartra started climbing the tree to rescue her, even though he had never climbed a tree before. However, he couldn't climb it, fell down and was injured. At some point of time, Bartra, who was leading a campaign against Barbarians, soon met an injured young boy being chased by savages and saved him after having his archers rain death upon the boy's pursuers. Bartra took him in, taught him everything what is to be human and named him "Threader", earning the young man's devotion and loyalty to King Liones.

Introduction arc
The king, although capable of realizing that the predicted Holy War was inevitable, ordered the Holy Knights to lay down their swords in a attempt to avoid the war. The Holy Knights, believing the protection of the kingdom to be their duty, and that the Holy War was unavoidable, successfully orchestrated a coup d'etat, captured the king, and took control over the kingdom of Liones in order to prepare for it.

Kingdom Infiltration arc
When a masked lady Holy Knight brought Elizabeth to the king's guarded room, Bartra expressed joy to seeing his beloved adopted daughter again. Suddenly, Threader came to his chambers, demanding an audience with him after killing several Holy Knights who stood in his way. As Threader went up to the main door, Threader slice the door to open it, but the door remain unscathed and end up being slice instead. The Masked Holy Knight revealed that the Royal Bedroom is protected by Perfect Cube which wouldn't allow anyone who use force and that said force bound at him. Bartra told Threader that he shouldn't worried about him and no need to be rush, but Threader continued to slice the door as he was touch by the king kindness toward Threader. The Masked Holy Knight later left the room to go aid Hendricksen and Gilthunder in their battle against Meliodas, leaving Bartra and Elizabeth alone.

Abilities/Equipment
Nothing is known about his abilities or equipments as of yet. In the flashback, Bartra wore full body armor with a unique helmet appearing as the bull's horn and wields a sword. He also has a huge armored warhorse.

Abilities

 * Vision: A power that allows King Liones to see into the future - through the usage of the power, he was able to learn that the Holy War was avoidable.

Elizabeth
Considering how he risked his life to save his daughter from a tree without hesitation, and how his daughter cares about him, it can be assumed that they have a good father-daughter relationship. It was then proved that King Liones indeed loved Elizabeth and embrace her when he found out she was alive and happy to hold her again.

Veronica Liones
Bartra always scold Veronica whenever she act like a tomboy and for playing swords with the boys.

Threader
When Bartra first met Threader as a child, Bartra gladly took Threader under his wing and took him back to Liones to become a Holy Knight due to Threader's great power in spite of his young age. Bartra cares greatly for Threader, viewing him as a dear friend of his.

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