Aquarius Maria

Maria (マリア, Maria), known as Aquarius Maria (アクエリアス・マリア, Akueriasu Maria) is the Aquarius Gold Signer of the 18th century in Southern Walls.

Southern Walls Manga : Chapter Water Armor
In the Southern Walls Manga, she is briefly shown as a child socializing with her friends, before she is pulled into a dark alley and elder males try to beat her up before she is rescued by Andromeda Vera, the Andromeda Bronze Signer of her era.

Childhood
Her childhood was spent in India, meditating and isolated from other people.

Later Years
She entered Sanctuary easily passing the tests and claiming the Aquarius Armor much to the shock of her fellow Gold Trainees. Gradually, isolating herself into her temple she became one of the hot topics of Sanctuary regarded as a enigma and as a total mystery. Throughout the rest of her training, she became a powerful person and later rose to defend her weakened master for the first time when a normal civilian (who later turned out to be Lamia Corona) tried to kill her master in front of her temple. That battle ended in the first-hand display of her enormous potential as a Gold Saint and her protective nature. Among the Gold Saints, she is ranked as the fourth most powerful outranking even Aries in that regard.

Current Era
In the current era, Aquarius Maria is one of the 12 exalted Gold Signers, the purest of the Signers and the most holiest of them considered to be as powerful as Deities. Her skill-set displays her considerable power and her personality reflects that. In the current era, in her specific timeline she is known as the "Greatest Aquarius Signer", a testament to her glorious legend. When all of the 18 Century Signers are revived except for Aquarius Maria (much to the shock of her fellow 18 Century Signers and Hades; the one who revived Maria), they learn that Aquarius Maria chose to not be revived believing her revival would cause more harm than good. Later, Helena Valkyrie informs them of Maria`s legend and tales of her might which both impress and sadden her fellow teammates at the same time.

Conception
Maria was originally intended to become the Andromeda Saint in the main timeline and ascend to the rank of Aquarius Saint but this was changed after the author and co-authors decided that would be too much work for them to handle.