Bashara

Female wizard with affinity for mind control magic.

Able to conjure with a broad array of elemental magic among: ??fire, electric, void, acid and ??

### First appearance

Jim first encounters Liara as she is stationed as a guard for the Puma Gang. Her role was to prevent ??stronger groups?? from entering and letting ??weaker ones?? to go through. She claims not to know that defenseless travelers she let through where ultimately killed and looted.

She engages Jim while disguised as a Narwall guard and attempts to kill Jim, as he sees through her illusion magic and proven to be a far to strong enemy to simply capture.

### Background

Favorite of the The Spinx, she is send out to seek out the "true mayor of Windfall", to ultimate kill him.

### Along the story

Not aware of her alliance with The Spinx, Jim befriends her and seeks her aid on many occasion as she uses her mental manipulation every other moment to keep her true intentions hidden, further her data gathering and in general bend situations in her favour.

She has low affection or even disdain for the The Sphinx and has an agenda of her own. She expresses discomfort for The Spinx when she checks in with her to give her report on "nothing special Jim".

Jim finds out about her mental manipulation powers as he gains sufficient mental resistance to overcome the obfuscating nature of the the ability, that makes it impossible to even know you are being manipulated, while you are under its effect. After finding out Jim sees her as untrustworthy and Badgelor goes as far as wanting to kill her out right. However she is required by Jim to open the dungeon under Windfall Castle. That has an arcane lock, that no one else in the team has sufficient skill to work around.

Her defiance for the Sphinx mission is proven as she on her own accord instead of laying low and leaving the dungeon she entered with Jim to give her new findings that Jim is far superiorly powerful as previously thought; to The Spinx, she takes it upon herself to kill Jim. Also upon finding the frozen / in stasis Grepthar, she expresses the wish to also kill him when she is done with Jim.

She took her reasoning to the grave as Grepthar was actually revived just before she started her fight with Jim. As the fight between her and Jim comes to a climax, the now combat ready Grepthar simply decimated Liara with a simple gesture.

To the eye of The Spinx, Liara is considered missing as she misses her regular report windows and she vouches to find her favourite back. This event is closely followed by The Dark Overlord coming back to The Sphinx.

### Powers

#### Lightning attack

Long range attack doing lightning damage and causes paralysis on the target.

#### Element trapping rings

Create rings of various elements that can be looped around the target cutting of their

Specialisation in illusion and mental magic

#### Illusion magic: disguise

Can turn themselves and others in to any other person to an degree.

Appearance appears flawlessly changed and voice tone changes with it.

Lore checks will be fed false data matching the target, unless lore is of a higher degree which pierces lore check obfuscation. Causing the false data from being incomplete or outright failing and revealing the true values.

The success of the illusion is dependent on the targets accepting the presented reality, deviating from expected behavior's increases the chance from the target finding out.

#### Mental magic: manipulation

Make the target susceptible to the will of the caster.

An intention is imposed will cause the target to feel an urge towards fulfilling the intention. It battles against the targets mental will and mental protection.

Side effect is that memories of the target are altered to support their own decision to go along with the imposed will. And are prone to accepting any other conclusion for "things not adding up" then the manipulation of the caster.

The targets resistance by mental protection and battling the targets will power, increases the mana cost and required concentration from the caster of the spell that must be actively held.

Any conclusions the target has come to as part of the false memories linger. Even if the target concludes that things "do not add up".

All false memories and effects are lifted when the target fully dispels the mental manipulation by gaining a high enough level of mental protection.

### Affiliations

Contracted by Dirge for the Puma gang.

Under direct order of The Spinx.