Irid

**Irid,** also known as "Lady Irid", is one of the playable characters in Scarlet Shadow, and one of the protagonists as well. She trained Lux to use Magic and recruited him to stop Ether Animus.

She is a Keruby, a powerful race that is particularly gifted in magic. This race is easily distinguished by the wings they carry on their backs, and from which angels are based, and the pointed ears, similar to those of elves.

At the beginning of Scarlet Shadow, Irid doesn't physically aid Lux, but offers him support while investigating on her own. Later, in a certain part of the story, she joins Lux's party.

## Story

### Before Scarlet Shadow

Most of Irid's story is unknown. All we know about her are the brief dreams she has in the Soul Temple. The player knows that she's a member of a powerful species, the Kerubies.

She seems to know a lot of powerful beings, like Luka, the guardian of the Multiversum. In a dream she has in the Soul Temple seems that she's related to an obscure character.

## Profile

### Appearance

Despite being a powerful creature and her age being unknown, *Irid* looks like a 30 year old woman. She has violet, long hair and eyes of the same color. Her peculiarities are her pointed ears and white wings, both of which are typical of Kerubies. However, despite having wings, they can't be used to fly for long periods, but they allow to make jumps much more smoothly. She almost always wears golden prism-shaped earrings and a white and golden headgear.

### Personality

Despite being the one who recruited Lux to destroy the Ether Animus, *Irid* doesn't seem too concerned about Lux's mission. She's the one who often encourages Lux to have fun, when instead the young human seems to think only about achieving his goal. He also behaves rather motherly with Lux, advising him to go to sleep to stay healthy, and often provoking the boy's anger, since he feels like he's being treated like a "little dog". In general, Irid always maintains a rather playful attitude, which at times may even seem naive, but in reality, she knows how to make rather mischievous jokes, for example when she notices the feelings that Lumi has for Lux and teases her. Although Lux often points to her as a listless person, underestimating Irid would be a very serious mistake. In fact, Irid is a very smart person, who always has a plan available and leaves nothing to chance. At times, she almost seems to be a manipulator even with her own allies.

### Abilities

Since Irid is a Keruby, her strong point is magic, and she uses an advanced form of magic, Rainbows and Color Manipulation, which is an advanced manipulation of light. She can use it in a very versatile way, healing allies and buffing them, or doing damage to enemies. She's also quite good at hand-to-hand combat and uses spears, and she combines her magic and her physical abilities in order to create lethal combos.

However, Irid uses her magical powers a lot out of the battle: She can create illusions that can even fight alongside Lux (even if the 2 spirits summoned by her are the characters with the lowest statistics in the game), can communicate through telepathy, and can also teleport, or teleport other characters from one place to another.