Lissandra

Many believe **Lissandra**, the reclusive leader of the Frost Seekers, is a living saint whose disciples offer healing and wisdom to the great tribes. The truth is perhaps more evil, as she utilises her elemental magic to distort True Ice's power into her malicious desires, enslaving or impaling anybody who reveals her darkest secrets. Indeed, Ceyraholt's legacy may potentially be the beginning of the end for her. Responsible for the betrayal of the Three Sisters, Lissandra seeks to encase Ceyraholt... in ice.

Not to mention, she intends to join the forces of Hell if the demands become required.

## Biography

### Background

Long ago in the ancient Avarshi, three sisters sought to unite and bring peace to their homeland, as the actions of old magical creatures ravaged the mortal realm. Seeking to meddle with these magical powers, each of the sisters paid a terrible price, with Serylda losing her voice to the Aspect of Twilight, Clemirosa losing her hearing to the Void, and Lissandra losing her sight to the claws of the Polarizor. Realising they would have to work together to make any sort of progress, Lissandra and her sisters united on the battle, which made them nearly unstoppable. However, curiosity led the now blind Lissandra to instead explore the world of dreams, and the discovery she would make would severely threaten the alliance with her sisters.

### Driven to Madness

Lissandra had a vision of the Void and the coming of the Watchers, a race of cataclysmic beings that would surely destroy their world and everything she and her sisters had fought for. To prevent this, Lissandra made a pact with the Watchers kept secret from even her own sisters, stating that in exchange for great power and near-immortality, she would prepare Avarshi for the coming of the Void.

With the Void's power on her side, the three sisters and their closest followers became the Iceborn, and would have the ability to survive even the harshest cold of the Avarshi. This word was then immortalised to every person born in Avarshi in the present day.

However, Serylda and Clemirosa were displeased with what Lissandra had done, believing she was meddling with forces beyond her control. Lissandra tried to appeal to the Watchers for more time, but the Void didn't answer her requests, beginning their invasion in the far north to bring about the end of Ceyraholt.

With Lissandra's betrayal revealed to the entirety of Ceyraholt, she froze everyone in the area in a barrier of True Ice, including her sisters, her allies, and the Watchers themselves in an impenetrable prison. Lissandra hoped that her elemental magic would be enough to contain the Void's power, but she soon realised that it was not enough, as the glacial prison was slowly being corrupted from the inside. The prison of the Frozen Watchers was just a delay of the inevitable; Lissandra would have to watch over the prison for centuries to prevent another disaster.

Hoping to contain the damage, Lissandra gathered her remaining followers to honour herself and her fallen sisters, pledging to gather more True Ice and people descended from modesty to join their cause. Together, they formed the *Frost-Seekers*, and they sought to rewrite history to hide Lissandra's betrayal from future generations. However, with the emergence of the successors of Clemirosa and Serylda, the idealist Ashe and conqueror Sadie, Lissandra realises that her attempt to end her sisters' legacy has failed, and now seeks to lock away her secrets by pitting their two factions against one another.

## Personality

> "*Far in the north, the peaceful Frost Seekers protect Avarshi's ancient secrets. Or so the world believes... In truth, they all protect me, Lissandra. While others bicker, we prepare. When the time is right, we will strike. They cannot withstand us. They are only nevian. And when the war is over, the world, our world, will be reborn in **ice**.*"
>
> - Lissandra explains her ultimate dream.

A manipulative being from an ancient era, Lissandra is a cunning opportunist who uses patience and magical prowess to get what she wants. When she was approached by the exiled Rumble, Lissandra was able to cleverly manipulate the frost-troll by granting him the power to take over his tribe and declare himself king of all trolls, a crafty manoeuvre that granted her a powerful alliance. Viewing her actions as a necessary evil, Lissandra betrayed not only her own sisters to the Watchers but also the Watchers themselves, as she did not subscribe to their goals for the militarisation of Avarshi to conquer Nexonia Prime.

Lissandra has a commanding presence. She carries herself like a magnificent monolith, always towering over everyone else. Lissandra is a master manipulator who is cold, demanding, and a perfectionist who will go to any length to attain her objectives. She is a ruthless leader who does not handle defeat or failure well; if one of her minions fails her, she will certainly freeze him/her to death. She is also a patient individual, having watched the Frozen Abyss for nearly ten millennia, waiting for the inhabitants below to awaken.

Because of her disloyal behaviour, many Clemirosans and Winter's Claw members believe they cannot trust Lissandra, and she lives a lonely existence apart from her closest acolytes. Lissandra has acquired an unhealthy obsession with ice in her desire to keep the Watchers contained, attempting to blanket as much of her land as possible to keep them contained, and desiring more power for herself to be able to battle them alone.

## Abilities

Lissandra is one of the original iceborn, being immortal and resistant to the worst of the numbing frost. She is also capable of wielding True Ice without getting hurt owing to her True Iceborn physiology. She has formidable powers through Dark Ice, capable of launching devastating beams of ice, entrapping someone through solid blocks for her own pleasure and freezing someone to death, or shatter them once she froze her enemies that rendered them perfectly immobile.

### Powers

* **Iceborn Witch Physiology**: Lissandra has a radically superior and a different physiology from typical Iceborns. She possessed exceptional hearing and senses to compensate for the blindness she suffered from the Polirazor.
	+ **Dark Ice Magic**: Lissandra has twisted True Ice into her own form, known as Dark Ice. In contrast to the latter, Dark Ice is even more powerful and has been known to influence the user, which allowed Lissandra greater control over her own powers, but if anyone attempts to do the same, they will literally lose their sanity.
	+ **Superhuman Senses**: It is proven that Lissandra has magical awareness because, although being blind, she is capable of perfectly sensing her surroundings, deducing movements and the identity of anyone next to her without exerting too much effort. In fact, despite her blindness, she glances in the direction of her target, showing that she recognises it.
	+ **Psychic** : Lissandra possessed wicked telepathic abilities which allow her to mind-travel during her dreams to see things beyond her sight, enter others' dreams, and communicate with the Watchers.
	+ **Dream Manipulation**: Lissandra is capable of entering the dreams of other beings, manipulate those dreams in her desire and putting others back to sleep to make them suffer under vicious nightmares. She does it to the Watchers so they may not try to invade Ceyraholt again.

### Skills

* **Master Sorceress**: Lissandra is a very old and knowledgeable sorceress, performing powerful magic even before becoming the Ice Witch.

* **Master Manipulator**: Lissandra is fluent in manipulating her opponents to her clear advantage through acts of coercion, threatening to kill, or by sheer charisma.

* **Master Tactician**: As the leader of the Frost Seekers, Lissandra has proven herself as their ideal tactician, employing both military and underhanded tactics to the fullest potential.

## Trivia

### General

* Lissandra, along with Serylda and Clemirosa, were the Three Sisters of the ancient Iceborn, being the leader of the Frost Seekers faction. As you would expect, she was eliminated from the Frostguard.
* Of the Three Sisters, Lissandra is possibly the most worshipped due to the cult of the Three Sisters which she proliferated. The Ice Witch; however, is one of the most feared and hated figures in Avarshi.
* She can easily freeze someone to the state of being unconscious, or kill them through her choice.
* Lissandra is unaffected by cold-related attacks. Because Ashe's arrows are made of true ice, they just annoy her, while ordinary ice has no effect. This is not always the case, as Ashe nearly killed her with an arrow to the forehead if she had not used a magical shield.
* What she lacks in hand-to-hand combat skills are her expertise on magic.
* She rules the Frost Seekers and their kingdom is located in the Howling Abyss.
* Lissandra has killed all previous descendants of Ashe, starting with Clemirosa. She failed to kill her mother, Khalsa, fortunately.