Iris – The Earthbound Illusionist
She touches the ground and secrets bloom. Illusions root in silence, and memories crawl beneath her skin.
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Element: Earth (Soil)
Core Power: Shadow Bind & Light Refraction
Duration of Earth Control: 35 seconds
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Primary Abilities:
• Shadow Bind:
Manipulates shadows to immobilize targets or cloak her presence. When blended with soil, shadows gain weight, binding enemies or dragging them into disarray.
Effect: Immobilization, stealth disruption, silent control.
• Light Refraction:
Bends light to create illusions, distort environments, or mask herself from sight. Skilled at disorienting enemies and creating openings for escape or attack.
Effect: Invisibility, mirage-style deception, false terrain generation.
• Soil Manipulation (Timed Power):
For up to 35 seconds, Iris can control the earth beneath her—raising barriers, shifting terrain, or forming traps.
Cost: Physically draining when used with illusion or memory tracing; requires precision and mental calm.
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Unique Traits:
• Echo Tracing:
By touch or focused energy, Iris can read the past of a place or person. She perceives emotional echoes, trauma, and hidden truths.
Effect: Retrospective vision, emotional tracking, secret uncovering.
• Memory Fixation:
Iris is especially drawn to Aira's fragmented past. The mystery consumes her—she returns to certain memories over and over, looking for answers or meaning.
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Post-Evolution (Rebirth):
• Memory Looping:
Iris can trap targets in continuous illusions drawn from their own memories—reliving pain or desire until they break.
• Earth Phantoms:
She creates sentient illusion-clones formed from soil and shadow. These phantoms mimic enemy tactics and speak in familiar voices.
• Dreamroot Terrain:
With time, Iris can overwrite entire battlefields with emotionally reactive terrain—where soil shifts based on fear, love, or grief.
Note: Her illusions become harder to distinguish from reality, even for allies. She begins to question what's real herself.
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Role & Combat Designation:
• Class: Scout / Illusionist / Assassin
• Combat Style: Ghostlike. Iris uses deception, terrain, and emotional manipulation to isolate targets or avoid confrontation entirely. She eliminates before being seen.
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Synergies:
• Aira: Their touch amplifies illusion and memory recall—together, they create dreamlike realities or living nightmares.
• Nova: Nova's light shards scatter through Iris's illusions, creating fractal copies or mirrored movement.
• Elara: Their combined presence can seduce and trap enemies in layered psychic illusions.
• Weak Synergy – Selene: Their methods clash—Selene acts directly, while Iris operates from the shadows. Trust is hard-won.
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Personality:
• Silent & Obsessed: Iris speaks rarely but watches everything. Her obsession with Aira's past runs deeper than she'll admit.
• Controlled & Possessive: She appears detached but holds secrets tightly. Jealous, but never loud about it.
• Buried Emotion: She's calm on the surface, but guilt, longing, and fixation pulse beneath like roots waiting to rise.
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Status:
• Active & Controlled: Iris is always observing, rarely engaging unless necessary. Her power is quiet but lethal, buried until it blooms.
• Earth's Whisper: When she bends the soil, it remembers everything. Each step she takes rewrites the battlefield beneath her.
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Iris – The Earthbound Illusionist.
She thrives in the shadows, a master of the earth and memory. Her silence hides obsessions, and her illusions are rooted in deeper truths.