Ixa

***Prime Possessor***

## Appearance

For her towering reputation, Ixa is a surprisingly slight spy/headhunter-type character. The techno-mask with the big eye and cross arrangement is a standard-issue thing for her country. She has a kind of priestly/shaman-type attire, but still distinctly military with buttons and claps and etc. Her hair is in a bun in back, and has two braids in front with gold I-shaped ornaments on the ends. Ixa's scepter allows her to steal information and technological secrets from computerized objects.

## Background

A shadow in the night, a hushed whisper behind closed and locked doors, Ixa is the shrewd and ruthless boogieman of the Iris Dominion's spy network. Hacker and hunter extraordinaire, no secrets are beyond her grasp, and if you witness the eye on her mask, odds are the next thing you'll see is a black bag over your head. Assets come in all types, after all. She is a global operator, both everywhere and nowhere while she steals all the information she finds. Looking to steal technology in order to infuriate Etwal, she takes interest in the Allied Provinces since they’re the newest nation and there fate is yet to be determined. She is also impressed at how the Allied Provinces took land from the Empyre.

Sarcastic when she deigns to speak to her soldiers. Ixa is the celebrity thief in the shadows that no one acknowledges really exists.

Near the end of the Five Nations War, Ixa cooperates with Etwal to defeat and capture Ainer. However, after a prolonged battle with him, Ixa's robots are defeated. Once Ainer and his tentative ally Diane barely manage to defeat Etwal's EXCEL-GAN too, Ixa realizes that Ainer is just an unremarkable person. Far more impressed with Etwal's talent when seen first-hand, she proceeds to betray and incapacitate him before he was able to finish off a barely conscious Ainer. She then disappears with Etwal's body.

## Robots and Abilities

Ixa is the pilot of the IZA-100 and the ESPER-IZA.

Ixa’s IZA-100 is a spider-like machine that produces jamming spores that scramble enemy circuitry. She disables foes and her other robots pick them off easily. When merged with an ESPER-100, ESPER-200, or ESPER-600, it becomes the ESPER-IZA, resembling a butterfly and gaining amazing movement abilities.

Her Commander Ability is "**Ambuscade**", which gives her robots Reroll 1 if they target a robot with full integrity and energy output. This allows Ixa players to land more hits on untouched enemy robots. The ability lends itself more to a bursty-assassination type play-style as once a robot is hit, the commander ability will not apply to that target. It is suggested that when using this commander, players should pick off targets one at a time and focus their fire on a single unit.

## Team Building with Ixa

Ixa is one of eight Commanders who came with a pre-built team in the AEGIS Core Box.

This team primarily focuses on dropping the enemy's Evasion with IZA and ESPER-IZA's attacks, followed by delivering fatal blows with robots like the GHILI and AKTEL. It is overall a fragile composition, however.

## Trivia

* Ixa was the very first commander to be created for the game, along with Ainer.
* She is the shortest in stature of the eight original commanders, aside from Poppet, who is a child.
* Original concepts had Ixa be more of a frail "techno cleric," even having characters like L'arachel from *Fire Emblem: Sacred Stones* be direct references for her. The final art added a deal of muscle and monk-like attitude to Ixa, however. This version of the character is extremely adept at hand-to-hand combat.
* Ixa's original ability was called "Arrest Mandate", and it allowed you to choose a robot at the start of the game, and all robots that targeted that one got Reroll 1. This ability was easy to forget for new players and was also mostly irrelevant after the target robot was destroyed. Her Ambuscade ability was the final Commander Ability to be designed among the eight original Commanders, even though she was the oldest character.