Iris

Iris is a young woman whose coppery red hair is gathered into two ponytails that spill past her shoulders. A black coat fastens high at her neck over a white top whose tall collar climbs to her chin, and the rest of her outfit runs to a long black dress, a broad laced corset wrapped at the waist, and boots.

Iris comes across as breezy and playful, keeping a light touch even when the stakes turn deadly, and she meets perilous assignments with eagerness rather than dread. Among the Shadow Warriors she is paired with the librarian Routine more than anyone, the two posing as close friends to trade intelligence in passing on the street. That friendship is pure cover, though; Iris privately finds Routine dreary and grumbles that she is stuck beside her for the Foundation Festival rather than a real friend.

Like her fellow Shadow Warriors, Iris is built for raw strength, swiftness, mana suppression, and combat against mages, leaning on heightened physical senses even though she cannot perceive mana itself; Gazelle reckoned he might survive Stark only with her at his side, and she has caught a poisoned arrow between her teeth. Punishing training has rendered her immune to poison, the deadliest doses costing her no more than a stomachache, and she shrugs off wounds that would drop others, staying fully alert through a point-blank jolt of electricity. In a fight she relies on concealed poisoned needles, hurling them at range or wielding them up close.