Ilke

Ilke is the deuteragonist of the Norwegian book series Phenomena by Ruben Eliassen.
== Early childhood to the beginning of adventure. ==
Born a cold winter day Ilke and her twin brother Alk were smuggled out of the slave camp by her parents, and taken in by Sha-ra. Their parents made a deal with the wizard that he'd raise them in freedom. On their way there Ilke was taken by the winter spirit Hisj who blew part of his powers into the infant, turning her blue and making her a "frost child", a person with mighty frost powers that are sensitive to heat. So Sha-ra gave her a special amulet, looking like an ice crystal with a flame in the middle in a silver frame looking like dragon wings which makes the wearer survive at any temperature. Despite knowing she'd grow up safe with the wizard, Hisj would constantly want her back to groom her into her underling, ignoring that she'd not be able to survive together with him, causing long winters in Aldra to tempt her to go out to him. Growing up Ilke would want to explore the outside, often pretending to catch snowflakes with her tongue during winter time. Hisj eventually stopped causing these winters when Sha-ra once a year would go out and tell about her wanting to go out and how she was going. Eventually Hisj would leave the twins alone, allowing her to finally go out, often to either spar or explore with Arol and Alk. 
Ilke would spend long to train using her powers properly, she once almost fataly injuired Alk when she was consentrating to freeze a bucket of water when he suddenly dropped a book, making her lose focus and send a frost wave towards him. She would feel terrible about this, until Alk threw a pillow at her when they went to bed that evening, and it ended up a pillow fight so intense Sha-ra believed they pulled stones out from the wall to throw at each other. The next day, she and Alk would join Arol to get water from the well. Ilke took a peek down the well and noticed how hollow the well was and the echo was slightly off. That evening she'd return with rope to climb down the well. She was interrupted by Alk, who despite his fear of heights insisted he'd go first to make sure it's safe. After a while Ilke followed after, and they found a huge iron door with some writing on it as well as two openings, big enough for a hand. Curious the twins placed their hands inside, but were locked in. Despite studying it the script did the twins have much trouble opening the door due to much of the script being faded over time. But after much puzzling they managed to turn the iron bars inside the holes and were let free. The door opened to a grand throne room that hadn't been used in a long time. In a hurry the twins ran to Sha-ra, who already knew of the room and showed them a safer path. There he revealed to them that the two of them are the chosen children of the prophecy he's guarding, the "Phenomena". Chosen to banish Tarkan, the idea of evil that awakens in the minds of adults, and to free their people, the elves, from centuries of enslavement. They just had to wait until they were ready. 
In their 10th summer the twins and Arol made a raft to float around the nearby lake, but when they returned the next morning it was surrounded by other children that also wanted to play with it. Ilke was initialy sceptical, and them to her due her blue skin. But eventually the children just played and had a good time. But the raft loosened with a small girl on it. Calmly Ilke froze the lake so the raft stopped and the other children gould get her to safty. What the children didn't know was that an adult heard the ruckus, and came running. The man yells at the other children for playing with filthy elves, as mortoks they aren't allowed to do that. Mortoks being the tribe that enslaved the elves all those years ago. That night Sha-ra knows, it's time. Time to leave and start fulfilling the prophecy.
== Appearance ==
How Ilke is drawn varies between mediums. Drawn by the author she usually has a green and dark teal costume, light blue skin and white or light blue hair. In the board gameInformation about the boardgame. illustrated by Franz Vohwinkel her hair is more brushed back, and while her costume is more similar is it brown and blue. In the German illustrationsThe defunct German website. by Eva Schöffmann-Davidov and Bente Schlick she has dark blue hair and wastly different clothing although not much is shown, her tattoo is on the opposite side and more extravagant. Although here she shows the amulet, something she was told by Sha-ra to hide. She also looks like Kristin Stewart, famous for portraying Bella Swan in the Twilight movies, on the 7th. As the movie rights had been bought by then it might have been an attempt at fancasting. In the spin-off illustrated by Øystein Runde she mostly looks the same although the tattoo doesn't reach her ears, there's a dot under her eye possibly a nod to the German design, she wears a shoulder guard, and appears to be waring a tunic under a simple jacket with folded up sleeves, and the amulet is exposed and looks more similar to the German design than what was described in the book. Her belt and most of the colors are the same as the original drawing. In the posibly cancelled Milkroom Studios comic, is she drawn much more adult as it's based on the pilot script, where she looks more like a mix of Princess Leia and Beauty, this has later been removed from their website and there's few traces it ever existed, although it appears to have been illustrated by FritzCasas. Lastly Olve Askim who drew the cower of the 7th bookHe talks about the design process here. Although very briefly., here the under part of the costume is blue, with a lighter teal west. Many fans like to use the palette under the ice to give her a more icy look.
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