Urbosa

Urbosa is a character in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. She is the Champion of the Gerudo and the pilot of the Divine Beast Vah Naboris Urbosa as a champion is also one of Link's allies, and wears the same blue scarf as Mipha, Daruk, Revali, Link and Zelda marking her affiliation to Zelda's group.Urbosa is also able to unleash powerful lightning bolts.

History
For the moment Urbosa's role in the Zelda series is only composed of informations with an unconfirmed timeline placement and should stay this way until we have a definitive answer, so please don't add any information regarding the timeline placement without OFFICIAL confirmation, thanks.

100 years before The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Urbosa lived in Gerudo Town as most of the members of her race and was chosen amongst the Gerudo by King Rhoam Bosphoramus Hyrule and princess Zelda to become the gerudo champion and the pilot of Vah Naboris in hope of destroying Ganon when he would return.She then helped Zelda's group to improve their efficiency for this task and was caught off guard by Ganon emerging from Hyrule Castle and was sent by the Princess to her Divine beast to start the counter attack only to be killed by Thunderblight Ganon who was waiting for her. Urbosa's spirit was then trapped within Vah Naboris while Thunderblight Ganon took it over.

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
During Breath of the Wild, Urbosa's spirit was freed by Link a century after her demise when Thunderblight Ganon perished at the hands of the hero, she then blessed Link with the use of Urbosa's Fury to help him defeating his foes more easily.She then conduct Vah Naboris to its firing position revealing Ganon as one of her own people, Ganondorf and the origin of the name of Vah Naboris, The name of the ancient Sage of spirit, Nabooru. She then waited for the battle between Link and Ganon. When Link finally faced the monster, she along with the other Champions fired a large laser beam in order to weaken Ganon allowing Link to destroy the physical form of the beast.

Trivia

 * Urbosa was the very first character whose name was finalized during the development of Breath of the Wild.