Pandora Izayoi

> I’m not the average Priestess.
>
> Pandora

Pandora Izayoi is one of the protagonists and member of the titular party, Memento Mori. She is the twin sister of the Half-Elf Archer, Caelum Izayoi, and Embla's magic mentor. She calls herself a Priestess of Odin yet often acts unbecoming of someone of her stature.

## Profile

* Volume I
* Volume II

*She is the Twin of the Archer.*
*Despite her occupation and appearance, she is known to have a morbid sense of humor and questionable morals.*

*In the tournament to decide the future of all adventurers, she finds herself in a match she was not supposed to be.*
*In the face of adversity against a rival whose magic equals or possibly surpasses hers, will she find the strength to push through and help the Frigid Illusion in her fight against the Fleeting Light of Setsuna.*

## Appearance

Pandora is described to look almost exactly like Cal due to the fact that they're twins. Pandora is a petite half-elf, half-human woman with rich blonde hair and honey-almond eyes. Her eyes are noted to be much duller than Cal's which are more akin to a honey-gold. She is the shortest member of the group. As a half-elf, Pandora has elongated, sharp ears which signify her elven heritage.

Due to her being a priestess, Pandora wears priestess uniform, consisting of a white robe over a black garb. Her robe and garb are decorated with golden outlines. She wears black skintight leggings underneath and has plain leather boots. Pandora, unlike the others, carries a small pack filled solely with mana restoration potions. She wields a staff made of hawthorn wood with a violet jewel located at the tip.

## Personality

Pandora is a bubbly, rather outgoing and outspoken person amongst her group. One of her most defining traits so far is how emotive she is. Pandora has no problem showing her emotions and expressing them. Her happy attitude attracts people to her and she is known to be the easiest person to talk to. Pandora possesses a natural charisma thanks to her upbeat and bubbly attitude. Due to her emotive personality, Pandora is also rather sensitive and will cry at any given moment as seen when she cried at Embla's appearance at the end of their first quest.

However, her rather immature persona can be a deceiving front for what she has hidden underneath. She has no qualms using the funds gathered by the Temple of Odin in order to get what she wants. Pandora can also be rather sadistic from time to time. She appears to have no qualms about scaring people to the point of fearing for their lives such as planting a magical bomb inside someone's chest. Pandora also has an uncanny ability to read people rather well, allowing her to discern their emotions and some of their intentions. When Yuki and Red were missing, she was able to correctly guess what they were doing based on how they acted when they returned to the tavern.

Pandora is shown to be rather perverted. Whenever Red and Yuki are missing, she is often heard making snide comments of them doing the "freaky-deaky". She even suggested that Yuki and Red were having comfort sex after Mizore appeared, causing Yuki's spirits to fall into the dumps. Her insistence of this has shown more truth than fiction as Red and Yuki do appear closer than they look.

Pandora is weak to alcohol as she gets easily intoxicated. When she is intoxicated, Pandora has the habit of making outlandish claims. Yet, she claims that her outlandish claims have more truth than fiction. Her intoxication doesn't seem to interfere with her ability to read people as she is capable of making the same observations when she's sane.

One of her most defining traits is her obsessive crush on the Grandmaster of the Knights of Midgard. She is stated to be obsessed with both him and his wife. Embla speculates that Pandora owns all the merchandise associated with the Grandmaster.

When it comes to magic, Pandora is a perfectionist. She is fierce and adamant in perfecting magic skills before it can be considered average. When teaching Embla, Pandora is a strict yet fair teacher, taking her time to demonstrate and explain concepts to her. Embla notes that Pandora is a genius at magic. Her talent in magic is something Pandora takes extreme pride in.

## History

Pandora Izayoi grew up in an unnamed village in Midgard alongside her twin brother, Caelum Izayoi. When they were young, Cal and Pandora got into an argument, resulting in her storming off. She got lost in the woods but managed to find their special spot. Scared and alone, Pandora hid there for a period of time. Eventually, Cal found her huddled inside their tree house and returned with her hours later. At some point, Pandora and Cal moved to the city of Yggdrasil and joined the party, Memento Mori.

## Powers and Abilities

**Immense Magical Power:** As the Priestess of the party, Pandora is the most magically inclined person within the entire group. She possesses large reserves of mana even greater than Shirayuki's. Her magical skill is higher than the rest of the party's, being able to use Level 3 Complex Casting. Complex Casting is a measure of how skilled a mage or priest is in controlling their mana, allowing them to cast multiple spells at once or modify an existing spell by infusing it with a different affinity. Pandora's level of Complex Casting reaches that of Triangle Casting as seen so far. Her skill is first seen in the Battle of the Unnamed Fortress where she unleashed Triangle Magic in order to wipe out an entire group of bandits. In addition, Pandora displays skill in utilizing multiple elemental affinities as if they were her primary affinity.

* **Fire Affinity Magic:** Fire Magic is the ability to use magic to generate and control fire. Pandora's skill with this is quite high despite it not being her original affinity.
	+ **Fireball:** The most basic fire skill. The user creates a ball of flames and fires it at their opponents.
	+ **Blazing Gale:** A dual cast skill. Originally a Fire Vortex. This skill is infused with Wind Element to create a far more vicious vortex. The heat of this vortex is said to inflict burns on the target without the use of fire.
* **Ice Affinity Magic:** Ice Magic allows the user to create and manipulate ice and cold. Pandora has shown to be able to use it on multiple occasions. She has also been seen combining it with other affinities to create stronger ice skills.
	+ **Icicle Raid:** An Ice Skill that lets the user create multiple ice spears and fire them in rapid succession.
	+ **Icicle Ballista:** Though unnamed, Icicle Ballista is a Dual Casting Skill that allows the user to fire a spike of ice infused with lightning. The icicle then explodes after a few seconds.
* **Lightning Affinity Magic:** Lightning Affinity Magic is magic involving the control and generation of lightning and electrical energy. Pandora has displayed great skill with this affinity, being able to use Dual and Triangle Level Casting Skills with it on multiple occasions.
	+ **Sparks:** A basic lightning skill. The user creates a small ball of electricity and fires it as a lightning bolt.
		- **Dual Sparks:** A Dual Casting Skill. Pandora creates two Sparks spells and fires them at once.
	+ **Thunder Blast:** A mid level lightning skill. It requires the user to pool electrical energy using their mana and unleash it as a single ruinous bolt of lightning. This skill is powerful enough to reduce an entire human sized entity into charcoal.
* **Light Affinity Magic:** Light Affinity Magic is magic involving the manipulation and control of light. It is seen as a holy form of magic due to its wide applications. It is hinted that this is Pandora's affinity on one occasion.
	+ **Light Binding:** A Light Skill that allows the user to create chains or thread made of pure light. It is capable of binding a grown man.
	+ **Light Platform:** A Light Skill that allows users to create platforms made of light.
* **Earth Affinity Magic:** Earth Magic is magic involving the manipulation and control of earthen elements and the terrain around them.
	+ **Earth Wall:** The user taps their staff or slams their palm on the ground to produce a wall of earth that can block physical and magical attacks.
* **Dark Element Magic:** As evidenced in her match against her brother, Pandora is skilled in using Dark Element Magic
* **Healing Magic:** Healing Magic is a form of magic that allows the user to restore and treat wounds. As a Priestess, Pandora has shown great skill even with the most basic healing skill.
	+ **Healing Hands:** A basic healing skill. It allows the user to restore wounds. In Pandora's hands, she displayed great skill with it, being able to save Embla and moderately heal her internal mana burns over a course of a week.
* **Barrier Magic:** Barrier Magic allows the user to generate barriers for defensive purposes. Sometimes, these barriers can be used for other purposes or infuse them with elements.
	+ **Unnamed Barrier Skill:** Pandora is capable of using a barrier skill strong enough to block a full power blast from a Gusisnautar. However, the skill drains a lot of her mana, leaving her defenseless.
* **Scrying Magic:** Also known as Information Gathering Magic. Scrying Magic is a form of magic that discerns information from their surroundings. Mages and Priests usually use it to aid their parties in finding their destination.
	+ **Clairvoyance:** The most basic Scrying Skill. It allows the user to generate a path of light based on information that the user knows.
* **Spatial Magic:** Spatial Magic is a high level displacement magic skill. Pandora is currently the only person in the story capable of utilizing it.
	+ **Teleportation:** A basic spatial magic skill. It allows the user to traverse entire distances without crossing the space in between.

**Prana Control:** While she heavily relies on magic, Pandora is shown to know how to manipulate her Prana. However, her exact skill in unarmed combat is unknown as she has yet to display any skill. Cal, however, notes that she has a considerable amount of physical strength.

* **Enhancement Skills:** Enhancement Skills are a series of skills that involve boosting the body's physical abilities.
	+ **Enhance Parameter:** Enhance Parameter is a basic Enhancement Skill. The user floods their body with their prana, enhancing their entire body ranging from physical strength, speed, and durability.

**Staff Wielder:** While she is exclusively a long ranged fighter, Pandora has shown some level of skill with the staff. She is capable of using it as a close combat tool. During her battle with Mary, Pandora uses it to counterattack against the mage's mana infused close-range attacks. She also uses it against Cal and has shown the ability to keep up with Cal in a close-ranged fight with her staff.

### Bursts

* **Mana Ballista:** Mana Ballista is a Burst Skill that utilizes two or more elements. It is classified as a Dual Cast. The Burst involves manipulating the shape of an element into a lance and infusing it with another element. When fired, the lance flies at high speeds and explodes upon impact. It is a stronger version of Icicle Ballista.
* **Triple Complex Casting: Elemental Maelstrom:** A Triangle Casting Burst. Pandora creates three magic circles and unleashes lightning, fire, and ice. She then fuses the three magical skills together, modifying its properties to generate a storm comprising of fire tornados infused with lightning and a hailstorm of ice spikes infused with lightning.
* **Valkyrie Spear:** Valkyrie Spear is a Light Element Burst Skill. It creates several spears made of golden light that relentlessly seeks their opponents in combat.
* **Moonshadow Beam:** Moonshadow Beam is a Dark Element Burst. It condenses a high amount of Dark Element Mana into an incredibly dense ball of energy that has high penetrating power. It is capable of shaking the entire arena barrier upon impact.
* **Outset Light:** Outset Light is a Light Element Burst. Similar to Moonshadow Beam, the Burst condenses an immense amount of Light Element Mana into a ball. The ball turns black at the core while retaining a golden corona around it. The beam has a high penetrating power similar to its counterpart. Unlike Moonshadow Beam, Outset Light has explosive properties.
* **Trick Star:** Trick Star is a Burst Skill. It allows the user to swap spaces with the user and another object or between two objects. This is a high cost Burst. Due to this, Pandora uses this strategically and conservatively. Due to its nigh-instantaneous nature, Pandora can easily avoid her opponent's attacks. She also uses this to teleport targets to a space within her range as she was able to transport Mary into an "empty" space between her Mana Ballista and Mary's Moving Star, allowing her to win the battle. It is noted that swapping targets with an empty space consumes far more mana than an ordinary Trick Star.

## References

1. ↑ Vol I, Chapter VIII
2. ↑ Vol II, Chapter II
3. ↑ Vol II, Chapter XXIII