Nausicaä

The Princess of the Valley of Wind. She is clever resourceful and a skilled swordswoman. She is a windrider who can read and utilize the wind well and flies a Mehve a glider with an engine. She has an empathetic ability and can even communicate with insects from the Sea of Corruption. As a next chieftain of the Valley she joins Kushanas army but the gruesome reality of the war devastates her. She desperately tries to stop mass killing and suffering and her quest for the truth leads her to the most unimaginable places and to the biggest secret of the world. Source: nausicca.net