Soraya Zoen

**Soraya Zoen** is a witch of Witch Union and former member of the Witch Cooperation Association.

## Appearance

Soraya has short brown curly hair and a pair of slender eyes. The freckles on top of her nose added a unique youthful vigor to her.

The manhua adaption shows her wearing a shawl and beret, similar to a French artist.

## Personality

An artist by nature, Soraya loves her work. However, due to her enormous magic capacity, she still has plenty of magic power left after work so she writes **Soraya's Works** all over the bicycle tyres she coats; as it gets cut up for use.

## Background

She was born into a merchant family in the King's City of Graycastle.

## Chronology

Soraya was among the few who successfully returned to the camp after the Witch Cooperation Association's failed journey to the Holy Mountain. When Scroll suggested Leaf lead the remnant members of the Association, the latter refused and explained she would try her luck in Border Town. If she doesn't return, Scroll should guide the rest to the south or across straits.

The awaiting group was greeted by Nightingale and Lightning and brought to the castle where a feast was arranged for them. After that, Scroll showed her abilities and was given room on the second floor. At night the witches gathered in Wendy's room and discussed their past and future, also wondering the reason behind Roland's kindness. Next morning she signed a contract with him.

After that, Soraya, Scroll and Leaf told Roland about the fight with demons. She painted one of them and a town in the red mist.

She was tasked with painting faces of people for ID cards. To prevent scaring them, she worked in a single-access room in the hall, seeing their faces through a small window.

To vary leisure when there were not much to do, Roland asked her to paint Gwent cards.

She created a 'masterpiece' in the castle bathroom: she coated the entire room with grass on the ground, blue sky and clouds as ceiling, and a far off valley on the walls.

## Powers & Abilities

### Magic

Her ability belongs to the summoning type.

#### **Awakening & Adulthood**

**Photographic Painting:** She is able to paint everything she saw or imagined. Her paintings are very durable and won't get destroyed with normal means. Soraya uses color cards to help bring the memory of what she needs to paint to her mind's eye.

#### **Branch Ability**

**'Magic Pen':** It allows her to to paint without pigment or paper, and her painting would be exactly like a photo. This ability also allowed her to create a rubber coating like substance that Roland put to use in various projects making her one of the more busy witches.

#### **Evolution**

**3-dimensional texture-painting**: After going in a balloon ride she attempted to create an illusion of three dimensions on the coating itself and the result was that she can now create paintings bear a texture and depending on what exactly she paints, it behaves as entirely different substances (Ex: clouds texture behaves similar to a rubbery spider web, and metal texture is as brittle as glass) though apparently vegetation has similarities to the touch.

Lastly the coating can be as thick as she desires, but limited by what her available magic power allows. For example, painting and coating the balloon for a hot air balloon severely exhausts her.

**Makeshift "Leather Armor"**
Despite not being true leather, this material is actually light and stronger than normal leather. It can protect the wearer from Stabs from daggers, and some arrows. However, this armor was shown to be imperfect as Nightingale was barraged by massive arrows from the Church's army and was injured despite wearing the armor. The armor seems to be worn by witches only, as soldiers from Roland's army wasn't seen donning this armor.

## Trivia

* She is the second witch to evolve in the Witch Union.
* As a tradition among artists, she engraved her name as a signature on her work. Initially, she would sign at the lower right corner of the coating, but when she found out that after the coating was cut, her name would only appear in the inner tube, she decided to sign everywhere. By doing so, no matter how the cutting was, people could always see "Soraya's work". When Roland noticed it, he praised her as a watermark inventor.
* Of the former Association, only she, Echo and Nightingale have family names.

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 98
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Chapter 98
3. ↑ Chapter 86
4. ↑ Chapters 97-100
5. ↑ Chapter 104
6. ↑ Chapter 193
7. ↑ Chapter 181
8. ↑ Chapter 515