Narissa K'Ardas

**Narissa K'Ardas** is a Shiraxian female and the Chief of Security for Hexa's Empire. Wielding a Heskran Qar-scythe, Narissa imposes Hexa's tyrannical rule over the populace of Discrosa, Shadal, and Vidim.

## Appearance

As a Shiraxian, Narissa is very shark-like in appearance, having light grey, smooth skin that must frequently be hydrated to retain its color and regenerative properties. With angular fins on her forearms, legs, and spines along her back and neck, she retains her race's predatory features for underwater hunting. She has a spiky set of fins running from the back of her neck to her forehead, appearing much like a mohawk.

Her eyes are slitted and yellow and her muzzle is filled with long, razor sharp fangs that have been shown to be capable of biting through Korbon steel. She typically wears armor made of sleek, boiled leather fitted to allow freedom of movement. Along with this, she'll wear combat boots, leather gloves, and a Commandant's brown longcoat with the Discrosan sigil worn in the form of a shoulder patch on her right arm.

Narissa is extremely imposing in stature and form, standing at a staggering 6'7" and being well-built to wield her heavy and vicious weapon. A set of gills line her neck and are shown to open when she grows excited or angered.

## History

Born on Ileos during the second Pruton Revolution, Narissa was a pup in a clutch of seven eggs originally. As a Bull Shiraxian, Narissa and her siblings were hatched inside of her mother before being live-birthed though it is said Narissa ate her siblings in the womb before birth, as sometimes happens with the contentious Bull Shiraxians.

Much of Narissa's life remains unknown. She attended the Oscillion Academy on Karthira and achieved a grade average of 87.5, with specialties in security procedures and conceptual tactics. She enlisted in the Chindara Security force at the age of 17 and by age 19 was a Surveillance Officer with a sketchy record, being infamous for several botched missions where many suspects and criminals were either killed or severely injured.

At age 20 Narissa was removed from service and actively sought out ways to reap vengeance on the officers she felt slighted her, going as far as to torching their homes with incendiary weapons before fleeing across the Gate to the Reach. There she found work as a mercenary, bounty hunter, bouncer, and pirate raider.

On the Hub at age 22, she was active as an enforcer for a Shiraxian gang of Vox dealers known as the "Spearfins". She rose through the ranks of the group before violently killing their leader in a power struggle leading to the group's disbandment.

At age 26, Narissa was found on Jastos by the Witch-Queen, Hexa Jurusa, who was besieging a fort that the Shiraxian was helping to guard for a wealthy slaver. Impressed with the woman's ferocity in battle and brutal effectiveness at resisting her onslaught, the Heskran Queen offered Narissa a large sum of money and a place in her regime in exchange for helping to sack the fort. Hungry and tired of the protracted siege, Narissa agreed and, in the dead of night, slaughtered the slaver's guards and lowered the shields so that Hexa's forces could overwhelm them.

Serving initially as mere bodyguard and enforcer, Narissa rose to become the Chief of Security and Lord-Commandant of the royal guard for the Queen, becoming attached to her new ruler more than she had for any of her former employers, and often gives her counsel on military affairs. Likewise, Hexa trusts Narissa but feels her sadism and "playfulness" when dispatching her enemies is a weakness that will get her killed.

Narissa currently commands the *Subjugator*, a Rhylas-1B Destroyer when patrolling Discrosa's territories and has had a holding cell installed in her cabin, both for torturing and interrogating prisoners and, supposedly, for S&M use.