Raynesia

Raynesia El-Arte Cowen (also spelled "Lenessia Erharte Cowen", "Reinesia Cowen", or "Rayneshia Corwen") is a member of the Cowen family &mdash; the most prestigious dukedom in the Eastal League of Free Cities and second-most prestigious aristocratic family in all of Yamato.

She is the granddaughter of Sergiad, the Duke of Maihama, and the second child of Phenel and Saraliya. Her older sister is Risselthea and her younger brother is Iselus.

After the events of the Return of the Goblin King, she becomes the Ambassadress of the Eastal League of Free Cities to Akiba. During her time there, she assists in Operation Capture as an external support member of the Akiba Raid Party.

Appearance
Raynesia is a beautiful young girl who is well-known for her beauty with knee-length light blue hair that has a braid on the left side with bangs swept to the right side and dark blue eyes.

Her attire is left up to Elissa (Raynesia's personal maid), since Raynesia herself prefers to wear comfortable pajamas which are unacceptable for social events.

Personality
Raynesia is a laid-back, gloomy and lazy girl to the core who prefers to do nothing but eat, daydream and nap for the entire day. Nonetheless, being raised in a royal family, she knows how to act properly in society and to control herself in front of others—however, it is likely because of this that she is so apathetic towards her surroundings. Raynesia proves to be very judgmental of herself, calling herself "lazy, cowardly, and irresponsible," and thinks to herself that she isn't as smart as she would like to be.

Whenever she daydreams in the public, due to her beauty, people misinterpret her behavior as being concerned about the future, and thus she has the nickname "cultured lady with a sense of sorrow." She only acts as herself in front of Krusty, who she realizes can see right through her facade, and Elissa, who has been serving her for a long time.

Given all of her shortcomings, she can be quite bold and straight to the point when a problem must be solved. For instance, when an army of 20,000 Goblins began invading cities, she voluntarily traveled to Akiba to ask for aid from Adventurers while most nobles were still bickering among themselves about how best to exploit the Round Table Alliance to their advantage. When Malves pays an unexpected visit, she manages to rein in her emotions even when he treats her as nothing but decoration, pervertedly smells her hair, and rags on her for losing his letter (which he never really sent).

Because young noblewomen, especially one from such an influential family like the Cowen clan, were highly scrutinized, girls were strictly educated on how to act like proper noblewomen from a young age. Raynesia was no exception, and Elissa suspects that it is for this reason that she has few friends her own age. On top of that, she had practically given up on making friends, so she adamantly insisted that the tea parties she went to with the Adventurer girls were too much work.

Before the Catastrophe
Female nobles don't have any real authority and instead exist for political marriages, which is why she is so lazy and unmotivated, since she knows that she will never be in a position to do anything worthwhile and her only role is to just look pretty and perfect. However, because of the May Revolution, those pre-established societal rules are challenged by the Adventurers.

Conference of the Lords arc
Raynesia and Elissa appear before Sergiad when the spies in Akiba return.

Raynesia, Fevel, and Apret are debutantes when representatives of the Round Table Alliance arrive at the Ancient Court of Eternal Ice to attend the annual Conference of the Lords. Finding his opportunity to worm his way out of stifling conversations with the Earthling nobles, Krusty quickly becomes her acquaintance, to her mild displeasure. However, seeing how free he was to do whatever he wanted, unlike her, she came to admire both him and the Adventurers.

Return of the Goblin King arc
Raynesia was told by her father to stay at the Ancient Court of Eternal Ice with her Grandfather due to the invasion of Goblins and Sahuagin as a result of the Return of the Goblin King event. However, because the nobles took too long over bickering on how to use the Adventurers to their advantage, she defies her father's commands and goes to personally plead for the Adventurer's assistance against the goblin hordes. Her outlook on social classes was completely turned upside-down as she witnessed how well-educated the Adventurers were in comparison to the military officers and nobility of the People of the Earth. Her impassioned speech to the crowds convinces Krusty and the other Adventurers to lend their aid.

Libra Festival arc
Because she acted entirely on her own without the authority of the Nobles, she was forced to shoulder all the responsibility, and had to go to Akiba to become the Earthling ambassador to the Adventurers. Ironically, Krusty tells her that since Adventurers don't care about politics, she gets to just laze around all day long, exactly what she wanted much to her happiness.

When she shortly realizes that she's now swamped with requests between the Guilds and Earthlings and now barely even has time for herself. She feels that she got conned by Krusty as a result.

Fallen Guardian arc
Raynesia finds herself swamped by those joining in on her "tea party," Adventurers that were assigned to protect her while several of the Round Table Alliance's guild masters were away on various missions. Marielle in particular takes great joy in dressing her up, while Raynesia admires the stoic Rieze.

However, learning about the murderer makes her tense, and even more so when she learns from Kunie clan member Kinjyo that this murderer is actually one of the Royal Guard. Although she contemplates turning off the magic circuit that allowed the Mobile Armor to operate, she falters upon learning that it would also end the Guard system and cut off Akiba's protection from monsters for at least 10 years. Unsure of what to do, she can only sit by as Akatsuki, who had overheard her conversation, goes to fight him. In the meantime, she is accompanied by Rieze, from whom she realizes that even after all this time, she really didn't now how Adventurers lived or thought.

Upon the death of both the ninja and Soujiro Seta, however, both Akatsuki and Raynesia are berated for their naivete and unwillingness to work with others.

Rieze and Henrietta work together to come up with a strategy to defeat the rogue Guard, and Raynesia is the one visiting Kinjo this time, to ask him to turn off the magic circuit allowing for the operation of the Royal Guard. He repeats the downfalls of turning it off, all which she knew and was prepared for. Even though she was still afraid and wanted to just run away, she determines to herself that would go through with the plan.

Noosphere arc
For her younger brother Iselus' eighth birthday party, Raynesia travels from Akiba to Maihama, where Isaac and Calasin already were to train the Glass Greaves. Rieze accompanies her as a bodyguard, and indeed, some Westelande assassins appear to kill Iselus. However, Isaac, with his new danger-detecting earring, sensed the malintent of the Earthlings and challenged them to a fight.

Not long after defeating them, though, many Earthlings begin collapsing around them as a result of the Eternal Moths. Although Raynesia and Iselus are not affected, their grandfather, Serjiad, was, and they gather beside him in worry. By the time he wakes up, they already moved him into a bed so that he could rest, and Raynesia herself irately wonders where Krusty had disappeared to, vowing to find him and bring him back herself if she had to.

Collapse of the Round Table arc
Right around the time that the Round Table Alliance is under pressure due to Eins' arrangement with the House of Saiguu to establish a duchy in Eastal territory, Raynesia finds herself in a pickle. Raynesia's mother, Saraliya, approaches her with the news that she has received a marriage proposal from Touri Saiguu. Because of the incident during the Goblin King invasion in which she was swept away by Shiroe and Krusty (older, handsome Adventurer men) combined with her elder sister Risselthea's elopement years back, Raynesia finds herself under great pressure to accept the marriage proposal for the sake of her personal and family's reputation, as well as for Akiba's sake.

Log Horizon: West Wind Brigade
Raynesia makes a cameo in chapter 29, laying over a table as Elissa spreads a blanket over her.

Log Horizon: New Adventure Land
Raynesia makes an appearance in the SNG and has several different forms that can be acquired. Because she doesn't have a normal class that Adventurers have in the light novel, she is a Bard in all her appearances in the game.

Trivia

 * Even though Raynesia is shown to be pretty, it tends to irk her because she is aware of her position, which essentially required her to look pretty and nothing else.
 * Her middle name, El-Arte, may actually be a designation of her standing in the family, since the rest of her family also has -Arte in their middle names, but with different prefixes.
 * Despite Raynesia's low sense of self-worth due to her gender, her mother is in fact quite influential in politics and runs Maihama's intelligence agency.
 * Raynesia shares her Japanese voice actress, Mariya Ise, with her younger brother.