Irina Clockworker

"*HER is a pathogen. And that pathogen is ‘programmed’ to destroy everything related to the gods. They themselves, and—the world that they made. …Though it seems Pale has forgotten that, now that he’s a demon. But I haven’t. I must pass down ‘punishment’. For that…is the mission given to an HER.*"
―Irina

**Irina Clockworker**, also known as **the unknown mage**, **Julia Abelard**, **First Santa Claus** and **Red Cat Sorceress** was a powerful sorceress from the Magic Kingdom Levianta. After being murdered and revived following the Levianta Catastrophe, the mage inhabited the body of a stuffed red cat and began collecting the vessels of sin. Over the centuries, she orchestrated numerous incidents for her own designs while avoiding her fellow sorcerer, Gallerian Clockworker.

## History

### Early Life

"*Thank you, Gallerian. You’re safe. I won’t let you die - I’ll protect you.*"
―irina’s last words[src]
Irina was born in BT 004, the twelfth Ghoul Child created by Pale Noël. Due to having no Malice, she was disposed of in a nearby river. At some point in time, her soul fused with that of the late Aron Merry-Go-Round. This caused her to develop two separate personalities: one meek and mild-mannered, the other malicious. She was later rescued and taken in as the daughter of the artisan Clockworker and the younger sister of Meta Clockworker, living in Lighwatch as an apprentice craftsman. During this time, she learned the tune of the Clockwork Lullaby. After the inheritor Gallerian Chirclatia met Meta, the jealous girl befriended the man when he moved in with them and became her sister's fiancé. When rumors began sprouting that Gallerian had met with the god Held residing in Elphegort, he made it clear to his future family he had never even left Levianta during his entire life.

In EC 013, both Gallerian and Irina were selected as potential candidates for Project 'Ma' after being surveyed for their viability. With the deaths of the participants considered as an accident and a suicide, Gallerian approached Irina and pleaded they stop fighting, offering her the position of Ma. As Irina embraced him in gratitude, Gallerian stabbed Irina in the back and broke down crying as she died.

After Irina's death at Gallerian's hands, Behemo began impersonating Irina in order to convince Meta to place the woman's corpse in the forbidden ark Sin. Following the resulting explosion caused by Sin, Irina was revived; although now she had no physical body. There Irina was approached by the severely burnt Pale with a red stuffed cat under his arm.

Brought into Pale's underground laboratory Lunaca Labora, Irina had her consciousness transferred into the stuffed red cat, and learned that Pale's specialty was in variable shape memory substances and the application of forbidden transference techniques. Pale left soon after and commanded her to continue the experiment. A few months later, in EC 014, Irina saw seven lights fall in the southern night sky, learning they were the vessels of sin Seth was experimenting to create.

In time, Irina realized her purpose in swearing vengeance against Gallerian, whom she perceived as the cause of the destruction of her homeland, her sister, herself, and the twins of God. Irina thus set herself on a new goal to acquire the vessels of malice to turn people into artificial HERs like how Pale made her, possessing magically potent bodies to make up for her feline body's lack of ability.

### The Vessel of Lust

"*I shall try to increase my circle of friends.*"
―Irina regarding her plan to create more HERs
Referring to herself as "the unknown mage", Irina traveled in search of the vessels of sin, creating a vast information network with subordinates within various governments and earning the support of a group within Behemoth's Levia sect among other organizations. Throughout her journey, she occasionally visited the Tree of Held in his forest; she also discovered Gallerian had been cursed by the twin gods, Levia-Behemo and planned to eventually strengten his curse. Around EC 135, Irina located the sword holding the Demon of Lust in an Asmodean village and destroyed the town.

While there, she discovered Haru Netsuma had strong magical power and possessed the girl's body as her new medium; as the mage attempted to kill Haru's sister, Hakua, the woman's consciousness relapsed and compelled her not to. After collecting the vessel of sin and committing havoc to pass the time the mage realized she could use the Demon of Lust's contractor to spawn more natural born HERs into the world. In December of EC 135 I.R. chose Marquis Claster Glassred to be the demon's contractor due to his great influence.

Arranging to meet the Duke at his mansion, the mage traveled there on the intended date only to find that the household had been massacred, the murderer preparing to commit suicide. Speaking with her, the mage learned that she had been forced to act out against her friend and had wanted to obtain love. She then offered jer the vessel of Lust and instructed her to make a contract with the demon by impaling herself on it. As the woman heard the voice of the demon, she explained it meant she had the right to contract with it and watched as the woman stabbed herself with the sword.

The mage introduced herself and agreed to let her keep the sword to gain more power. Later learning the woman had been witnessed by someone else, the mage taught her how to perform the amplification ritual to invoke the sword's memory manipulation power on either sex within the area. Gumina then hastily performed the ritual, wiping both her own and the target's memories regarding her. Leaving the amnesic young woman to his own devices, the mage used her connections to set her up as the new Lady of Asmodean while tasking one of her subordinates, Tette Cetera, with handling the aftermath of the incident.

In early January of EC 136, she learned how Glassred had invited a man into her home; when the man later rejected the lady and departed from town, the mage approached her without her medium and urged her to stop the man, learning some of Gumina's memories had returned. She then insisted she fly after the mab, as in her current form she was incapable of magic, and watched her subsequently take flight. She then retrieved Haru's body and followed after her to the forest, finding that she had seduced the woman but was spotted by a terrified bystander.

Incensed, she berated Gumina for being seen and then watched as she tried and failed to use her magic to seduce the boy; deciding to go back and discuss future plans, the mage had them both, as well as the man, return to the mansion. There, she explained to the lady the specifics of her contract and, over the next several days, used her information network in order to locate the boy, Karchess Crim from the peasant village of Abito. In February of EC 136, she discussed this information with Glassred and they agreed to pursue the girl together, the mage leaving Haru's body in the man's care.

During the carriage ride to Abito, the mage watched as Glassred fell asleep and awakened from a nightmare. The two then talked for some time, including the mage assuring Glassred she was the only one who could hear her speak and explaining she had come as a cat for convenience. The two then talked about Abito and Karchess, the mage telling the lady about her connections, before Gumina got to bragging about her repeated sexual activities with the man and briefly wondered what to do about his suspicious parents. The carriage then arrived in Abito and, as Gumina met with the long winded village chief, the mage went on ahead into the village.

After traversing the village, the mage found and tailed Karchess and watched him pray to the forest at the edge of Abito, realizing Karchess belonged to the Held sect and suspecting Held was disrupting the lady's spell. She was then shocked when Karchess spotted her, the boy shortly after revealing that he could understand I.R.'s speech as they bickered about the mage being Glassred's "minion". Gumina then arrived and the mage watched as, despite the Lust spell not working, Karchess expressed a natural infatuation for the "cool" and demonic lady.

She then sent Gumina back to the mansion and stayed behind, inconspicuously leading Karchess there herself under the cover of night as she questioned him. During this time the mage learned Karchess harbored the Demon of Sloth, Adam Moonlit, inside him, hence his ability to understand the cat and be unaffected by Glassred's brainwashing. Once the mage delivered Karchess to Lady Glassesd, she regained control of Haru's body.

Later that night, the mage joined the men in the basement and oversaw Gumina and the other harem men perform the amplification ritual again, stopping Karchess as he continuously messed up the chant. Following the ritual, the mage confirmed it had successfully erased everyone's memory of her coming in contact with Karchess and the man and warned Glassred not to be in the public eye too often. She then watched as Glassesd left with Karchess, dryly refusing when she offered for her to join them.

### Glassred Event

Afterward, the mage decided to capture Adam in a proper vessel of sin for her own uses, theorizing the demons and human souls could be made to dwell in objects other than their own with a large amount of magic. She then prepared to make a magic doll in Adam's image to goad the Demon of Sloth into it, gathering the necessary supplies and created a mold for the doll around March. While she was preparing the material for the doll, the mage was visited by Glassred, come to introduce her new husband Luke Eve, the dancer of Lisa-A.

The two bickered before Glassred began needling the mage to tell her about her project, leading to her kicking her out. Once alone, the tired mage finished filling in the mold for the doll and mused about Karchess being ignorant of the "demon" inside of him, and then considered a man's great potential as a new medium. A few days after Mirk Adi came as Glassred's fourth husband, the mage spotted Duke Illote Venomania and others at the mention entrance and, without her medium, went to the basement to alert Gumina to her visitors.

Three days later, in March, the mage took her doll mold to the Gine Workshop and used the kiln to craft the puppet in Adam's image. That night, she began heading back to the Glassred Mansion and passed the Venomania manor, where she saw to her consternation that Gumina had decided to use the Demon of Lust's power to forcibly steal Cherubim from his home and kill everyone else inside. After the mage returned to the mansion, she prepared the ritual when Gumina returned with both Cherubim and his bodyguard Carter Shields, letting her wipe the potential witness' memories of what transpired at the mansion.

Sometime after, the mage heard Tette Cetera's report that King Martius Marlon likely possessed the Golden Key and would be visiting Asmodean as part of his wife's homecoming. She then returned to the mansion to see that the lady had added Haru Netsuma to her harem, and was quickly smothered in the hysterical man's embrace as she expressed her joy "Hakua" was alive. The mage insisted Gumina get rid of him and, when asked why, had Haru entrusted to a man while she discussed Haru and Hakua's relation in private.

As she got to explaining that she had attacked the boys' village to acquire a vessel of sin, she suddenly recalled the Golden Key and urged Glassred to seduce Martius, tempting him with the thought of obtaining all seven vessels of sin. Met with Gumina's lack of ambition, she then pointed out the possibility that she would one day be caught without more vessels of sin and she reluctantly agreed to go along with the plan.

The two were then interrupted by a man, who reported that Haru was given a room right next door to the mage; the mage bemoaned the decision before departing. As Haru continually attempted to meet with "Hakua", the mage felt Hakua's consciousness resurge more and more and kept a wide berth from the harem boy, on one occasion avoiding her by staying only in her cat form.

After Gumina successfully abducted Martius, the mage approached her the next day in her girl body and demanded the Golden Key. She became incensed to learn that Martius had no knowledge of the Vessels of Sin, and that there was no key in his personal affects. During their partnership, the mage revealed to Gumina her relation to the famed craftsman, Clockworker.

### Journey to Mystica

"*...Okay, I guess. Now then, shall you show me what you got, Lady?*"
―The mage when the Lady's "victims" were discovered
In early April of EC 136, the mage received a lead from Tette that one of the vessels of sin, a spoon, was located in her father's tomb in the Misty Mountains. Learning she needed Gumina's power to unlock the tomb, the mage returned to the Glassred mansion and recruited the lady for the trip. Charging Karchess with watching after Hakua, the sorceress hid in Gumina's coat and took her to Mystica.

After Gumina found a guide, Lilien Turner, to lead him to the Misty Mountains, the mage climbed upon the lady's shoulder and continued their journey through the ruins until they arrived at the altar, speaking with her over his revelation that a man in the harem and Lilien were friends. The two then entered the tomb, where they discovered a stone coffin filled with treasure; as Glassred retracted the spoon from among the riches, the mage recognized it as one of her father's magical tools and announced it wasn't a vessel of sin, replacing it in the coffin soon after.

After she angrily cursed Tette Cetera for the false lead the two left the tomb and the mage learned that Glassred planned to stay with Marquis Ferdinand while in Mystica, despite the fact that the marquis was investigating the disappearances. Arriving at the mansion, the sorceress attached herself to Ferdinand's wife. While Gumina was out the next day, the mage discovered the marquis' secret collection of Prince Maylo's possessions and showed them to the lady later that night.

As Gumina became infatuated with Maylo's portrait, she explored the mansion and discovered that Glassred had murdered the marquis, as well as the whole household. Several days later, she detached herself from her medium, touring the halls, and saw a visitor discover the bodies. Brushing it off as the Lady's fight, she continued onward until she sensed the lady's demon transformation and began traveling back.

She later found Glassrsd in the halls and, confirming their battle was finished, left the mansion on her right shoulder. As they discussed the result of her battle, the mage found them a carriage and reminded Glassred to "reward" Tette for her false information. After they returned to the mansion, the mage discovered Karchess playing with her host body, Hakua, as if it were a doll. The mage took the opportunity to gift the boy with the "Clockworker's Doll" instead, to play with until he was ready to move Adam into it.

### The End of Glassred

As time went on, the mage's information network began to stagnate from a combination of Tette Cetera being added to the harem and her other subordinates losing their nerve with Martius's disappearance. When one day Luke Eve's dead body was discovered by a man, the mage took the corpse outside the mansion. Later on, the mage had Anlike Sweets examine all the men in the harem, learning that Maylo, Karchess, and another man had all impregnated Glassred. She also learned a man had the unique prophetic dream ability and decided to make him into a new host body.

After Lady Glassred informed the mage that she'd received a visit from Gallerian Clockworker, the mage clarified that she may be able to use the lust spell to brainwash him as well. Nevertheless, the mage decided that the lady would soon come to ruin and planned to escape with the vessels. Taking a man as her medium, she broke into her storage and took the Clockworker's Doll, as well as the vessel of Lust, before she was interrupted by Glassred

After explaining her intentions and seeing the lady held her no ill will, the mage was prepared to leave before she clarified she would not let her take a man. After being threatened with a confrontation, the mage reluctantly conceded to letting him keep the man a little longer. With a few parting words to Glassred, she departed from the mansion with Hakua, the Clockworker's Doll, and the Venom Sword.

After the Lady's death, the mage returned to the ruins of the Levia-Behemo Temple and mused over her recent successes. Realizing she had yet to name the sword, the sorceress felt its purple aura and decided to name it the "Venom Sword" after the duke from the harem, Cherubim Venomania. Afterward, she continued to pursue a man to act as her new medium but was later thwarted when Gallerian swapped minds with the man instead.

### Search for the Glass Vessel

"*If a sorcerer's name gets too well known they get too relied on too much, and it becomes a great deal of trouble. So in my case, I change my name periodically.*"
―The unknown mage and Duke Muzuri
Around the turn of the second century EC, while continuing to search for vessels of sin, the unknown mage learned of the village of Gula, which had been practically wiped out by a disease after the villagers ate a baemu pig containing a red wine glass. Discovering that the sole survivor satiated his appetite for ten years, she determined it was the effects of the Demon of Gluttony's magic.

With Hakua's resurging consciousness becoming an increasing problem, Irina staged a public battle between her and one of her subordinates, Aybee Cee, burning his arm and then possessing him before killing Hakua. Using the man for a new body, Irina pretended to be a benevolent mage. Around that time, she met a thief and became well acquainted with him and the Association organization he worked with. Unable to use her magic with a male body, the sorceress began searching for a new one to replace it.

The unknown mage was, however, able to control Aybee's son, Ron Grapple, using Aybee's magic abilities as an inheritor of the Demon of Gluttony. She thus influenced Ron, who was a servant of the Conchita Family, to accept the baemu with the vessel of Gluttony inside it as a gift for the celebration of the birth of the Conchita daughter Banica in November of EC 296, presumably to curse the household with the Gula disease.

Soon after, the unknown mage passed by the town of Gasto, and, approached by the Conchita family's doctor, agreed to help the family with its plight. She held an audience with the family head, Duke Muzuri Conchita, explaining how the wine glass was the source of the disease. Taking the wine glass, she suggested that although the disease would remain they might be able to survive if they satiated their appetite for ten years as the man in Gula did. Not long after, the amused mage departed with the wine glass.

### Evil Food Eater Marlon

"*It seems the bastard has started meddling with one of my pawns. If I can I’d like to take him back.*"
―Irina interrogating Held
In EC 306, the unknown mage influenced Ron again, this time to hire the twin servants Arte and Pollo to the Conchita Mansion, after orchestrating Carlos Marlon's possession by the Demon of Gluttony. At some point, the unknown mage met the old thief's pupil Romantic, the newest incarnation of Adam Moonlit within the Clockworker's Doll; detecting his innate magic, he initially sought to have him as a replacement body before finding that he apparently had no magical talent, and instead had him perform multiple jobs for her. The unknown mage was also at some point employed by Lord Somi Hedgehog of Castle Hedgehog in Lioness while looking for the Marlon Spoon.

While serving him, she became fascinated by the lord's sadism and began studying his methods of torture, with it being rumored that she was making him torture and then kill his political prisoners. During her service, the unknown mage was briefly captured by Marlon and the wine glass was taken from her.

With the glass ending up at the Marlon mansion and Carlos forging a contracting with its demon in EC 324, the unknown mage hired several burglars to steal it, with each going missing. Romantic having since become an infamous thief that had performed jobs for her in the past, she hired him to steal the wine glass from Carlos for a considerable sum. Romantic later reported of her failure to take the glass in the castle's dungeon, explaining that undead soldiers and a pair of malicious twins protected the estate. The two were overheard by the captured Duchess Banica Conchita, and the unknown mage soon arranged for her to infiltrate the mansion in exchange for her freedom.

Having previously killed the famed cook Jose Crim, the unknown mage used the Venom Sword to change Banica's appearance so that she could impersonate Jose and be hired on as Carlos's cook, telling her that the change wasn't permanent. Not long after, "Jose" successfully infiltrated the mansion, although sometime later the unknown mage lost contact with her. Meanwhile, the mage sent Romantic to steal the Twin Blades of Levianta from the Behemoth Church in Lucifenia, only for Romantic to be captured by Galleria , who'd allegedly been given the blades.

Seeking to take back Romantic, the mage traveled to Elphegort and visited Held again. After greeting him and catching him up on her new identity, she started vandalizing the tree's bark with her cat claws, demanding to know Gallerian's whereabouts in order to find her "pawn." Held refused, and the two talked back and forth as the mage continued scratching his face. As she did, she also questioned why Held hadn't told Gallerian of her existence, although ultimately receiving no clear answer.

She then returned to her questioning of where Gallerian was, to no avail; after "torturing" Held for several minutes, she gave up and left with her medium. In August of EC 325, Romantic escaped from Gallerian and took the wine glass with him, with it presumably passing back into the mage's hands. The mage later, however, lost possession of the Venom Sword and the Glass.

### Daughter of Fog

"*My stepfather had been consumed by his hatred for him. Was that a result of his personality, or instigation from that old woman who had been by his side at the time–the unknown mage? I still don't know, even now.*"
―Yvette in a letter to Yukina Freezis
By the mid fifth century EC, Irina took an old woman as her medium. In EC 468, she slaughtered a boy's entire family and took the child as her own. As the child possessed Malice, the mage raised him to be a prototype assassin under the prefix "N" and assigned him multiple jobs. After assigning him to kill the Beelzenian fugitive Mariam Avadonia, the mage lost contact with the child.

The mage later tracked the lost Venom Sword to the orphaned Zenon Venomania in Elphegort, a descendant of Lady Glassred. In EC 473, she met the boy and used fire magic to steal the sword from him, leaving him unconscious by the side of the road. She later planned to test the Venom Sword's potency using Zenon, who had by then become a soldier for the Asmodean Emperor under the name "Gast Glass". In EC 477, she arranged for the Head of Intelligence Phutapie to research the boy's past and took a witness from Gast's hometown; the three of them then met with Gast's superior, General Shalgham.

After sharing Phutapie's findings on Gast, the mage allowed the witness to confirm the information and that the general's foster daughter, Yvette, shared a great likeness with Gast's dead sister, Sarah. With Shalgham, the mage planned for Gast to be influenced by Yvette disguised as Sarah, as well as the Venom Sword, into rebelling against his superiors, Shalgham himself seeking a reason to have Gast legally executed.

At the Misty Mountains, Gast was influenced by the sword to kill the general and the mage determined the vessel was still potent. On the night before Gast's planned death, the mage witnessed as Yvette rebelled and killed Shalgham with the vessel of Wrath, the Golden Key, before escaping. Alone, the mage greeted Gast and taunted him before attacking him with fire magic as she once had before, taking the Venom Sword from his unconscious body.

### Dark Conspiracy

"*One day during that period, that mage visited my castle. She offered me her aid towards my ambitions–to make Marlon prosper.*"
―Prim Marlon
In the early EC 480s, while traversing the Blood Pool region of Marlon, the mage came in contact with Queen Prim Marlon and learned that she was a fellow HER, immediately making a partnership with the queen. Knowing Prim's past history with Anne, she offered the queen the Venom Sword to seduce Anne with in order to prove herself as a real mage.

Many months later in EC 482, after the pregnant Prim had returned from her trip to Lucifenia, the mage returned to the castle and offered to be her partner, on the conditions that the queen help her collect the other vessels of sin and give her a child for magical experimentation. Prim gave the mage her own child by Anne after the baby was born, risking a scandal by the girl's blonde hair, and the mage named the child "Kyle".

Over the years, the mage served as Prim's court mage, finishing Prim's magical training she begun with Gallerian and letting her use the vessels of sin she acquired for her own purposes. She also experimented on Kyle for her magical research as well as training the child to become her spy and assassin and reinforcing the boy's loyalty to his mother. She also during this time cast a spell to mask Prim's aging appearance. During this time, the mage obtained Prim's permission to develop the Special Maneuvers Task Force, training multiple women as elite spies and agents.

In EC 487, the mage approached the temporary home of Mariam Avadonia, accompanied by multiple spies from the task force; although hoping to obtain Zita C. Beelzenia, a member of the Beelzenian Imperial Family that Mariam had kidnapped and raised, and the reincarnation of Gretel Twiright, she and her forces were quickly defeated by the knight. With the help of Duke Sfarz, the queen and sorceress collected the Marlon Spoon and Glass of Marlon. Once they acquired the vessel of Pride, the mage separated the mirror into four smaller hand mirrors.

### Twiright Prank

"*You're really something too, tricking that pitiful man and having him possessed by a demon.*"
―Kyle to the mage
Around EC 489, the mage set up shop in a Lucifenian market, selling toys in glass bottles. That year, she encountered Anne and her daughter Princess Riliane, who purchased a toy before leaving. The following year, Prim asked the mage to assassinate Queen Anne and her children, Princess Riliane and Prince Alexiel. Given free range in the task, she used the Glass of Marlon to cause a Gula epidemic in the Beelzenian Empire, goading Queen Anne into pressing her invasion of the weakened state where she was seemingly infected and killed by the plague the following year. The mage afterwards agreed to kill Anne's twin heirs with the help of Prim's brother, Presi Rogzé.

Around December of EC 491, she placed the Demon of Gluttony inside the Mirror of Lucifenia and made it difficult for anyone but Presi to exorcise the demon. The mage also gave Kyle one of the four mirrors and tasked him with infiltrating the royal palace and spy on events that transpired for her, planning to trick Presi and have the Demon possess him. She then met with Presi at the royal palace and gave him a letter from Prim telling him to cooperate with her. Believing their plan was to have Riliane become possessed by the Demon of Pride and elevate both his and Prim's designs, Presi agreed to the arrangement.

Afterwards, the mage showed him the hand mirror and brushed off his skepticism that it was a vessel of sin. As the two talked, the mage learned that Gallerian was at the palace and, with Presi's suggestion, planned to have Riliane and Alexiel possessed at the nearby beach where they often escaped to play. Placing the mirror in a black box and burying it in the sand where they would play, she hid in the Lost Woods and watched as the twins played. Once they found the mirror, she summoned the Demon of Gluttony from the vessel and it possessed Alexiel.

A few days later, the mage met with Presi in the palace after he attempted to make the prince Anne's heir, weathering his attempts to blame the situation on her and brushing off his suspicion that Alexiel wasn't really possessed by a Demon of "Pride". Noting it wouldn't be easy to keep his possession secret, the mage warned Presi to watch out for Gallerian and the Three Heroes before disappearing. The mage later met with Kyle on a hill in the outskirts of Lucifenia, hearing her report that, after Presi became possessed by the demon, Leonhart Phutapie had helped Gallerian defeat him; she also learned that Gallerian had exorcised the demon from Alexiel, although it was ultimately pointless without the rest of the four mirrors.

While she thought, she decided to use the same method she had used on Anne to kill King Arth and break up the Three Heroes. Afterwards she instructed Kyle to remember everything she was taught while she waited in the Lucifenian Royal Palace, and to replant the demon on Alexiel. Soon after, she revived the demon in the Glass and conjured another strain of the Gula disease to infect Arth. Also during this time, Irina learned that Gallerian had been unaware of Prim's HER nature and unable to cure her, and as a result grew curious of his brother-in-law.

### Unraveling Conspiracy

In EC 494, after Duke Sfarz was killed by his daughter, Mikina, via the Marlon Spoon, Prim forced the aristocrat to replace her father in their conspiracy and follow the mage's instructions. After Arth's death in January of EC 499, the mage agreed to Prim's new ambition to overthrow the Kingdom of Lucifenia and install her son, Queen Germaine, as a great ruler. With Kyle successfully transplanting the Demon of Pride to Prince Alexiel, the mage maintained contact with Mikina through a Very Amazing Green Onion and gave her the Venom Sword; she instructed Mikina to give it to her husband Keel, leading Germaine's possession by the demon.

Once Germaine's sweetheart, Clarith, was discovered to be Gallerian's apprentice, the mage had Kyle learn the girl's location from Mikina and assure she was killed during the White Hunting. Later on, with the success of the Lucifenian Revolution, all of the Three Heroes save for Gallerian were killed and Marlon successfully occupied Lucifenia; the mage meanwhile omitted to Prim that Prince Alexiel had fled to a monastery and taken up the name "Allen" after escaping execution. The mage then extracted the Demon of Lust from Germaine, only for Queen to have her possessed by the Demon of Pride instead.

In EC 502, the mage discovered the fugitive Gallerian and his apprentice, Lemy, infiltrating the Marlon castle; ambushing them, he greatly weakened Gallerian. When Germaine asked to use the Special Maneuvers Task Force for her Sorcerer Hunt later that year, the mage was allowed to choose its head, selecting Kyle to spearhead the inquisition. In EC 505, the mage had Mikina visit the monastery in Lucifenia over the next few months to spy on Allen, considering the child as her next body since he had been demonically possessed. The mage later gave Kyle the Glass of Marlon to use as part of Germaine's planned invasion of Beelzenia.

Over a month later, when Germaine was freed of demonic possession and both Lemy and the red-haired queen began heading for Marlon, Prim fled to Castle Hedgehog and tasked the mahe with halting Germaine's advance. Using a man's body as her medium, the mage was declared dead while she continued her service to Prim. The mage then contracted Captain Yarera and Zusco of the Yarera pirates to abduct Germaine for a substantial reward. Once they set out, the mage magically grew a Ziz Tiama to an enormous size and sent the massive octopus after Germaine's voyaging ship.

When the attack failed, the mage traveled to Bariti and learned Germaine's friends were staying at the Freezis Mansion in Marlon. Arriving at the estate, she impersonated Gallerian to all of the Freezis Family before encountering Lemy. She went to Column Forest with Lemy to speak with her privately, only to drop the charade and attack her. As Yukina and Ney Avadonia arrived to intervene, the mage did battle with all three and attempted to steal Lemy's body; at that moment, Galleriam fought back and got rid of Irina's hold of him.

### Cutting Losses

"*...Has Mama been taken over by the unknown mage?*"
"*Basically, yeah.*"
―Yukina and Ney, regarding Mikina
In her cat body, Irina headed after Gallerian, Lemy, Ney, and Yukina when she was found and taken in by Mikina. She subsequently wandered the mansion with Mikina following behind. Shortly after Germaine, Keel, Yukina, Gallerian, and Lemy left for Lioness a few days later, the mahe took Mikina as her medium. Donning the Almoga Mobarez mask from Keel's storehouse, she pursued the group and, following Prim's death and Kyle's capture, invaded Lioness Castle using the Marlon Spoon. She soon approached the room where Kyle and the vessels were being kept and, after knocking out everyone inside, murdered Kyle before taking the vessels and fleeing.

Over a week and a half later, the mage met with Michaela in the Lucifenian monastery under the guise of being Mikina. Four days later, she set out into the coastline near the monastery, hiding her cat body nearby in a beachside shed. While walking along the beach that night, Ney confronted her after having been sent by Gallerian and Lemy. As she bantered back and forth with Ney, the mage noticed Yukina watching the two of them and, briefly, pretended to be a frightened Mikina.

Ney quickly explained to Yukina the true nature of the mage's possessions and the mage watched as the woman located her cat body using an inscription mark in her sword. As Ney made it to the shed, the mahe fled from her hiding place in her cat body and returned to Mikina's shoulder. She then threatened the furious Yukina and Ney with the Marlon Spoon, before noting how quickly Neu had recovered from her injuries. Surmising Ney was a descendant of Carlos Marlon, she resolved to take the woman's body.

Once she was confronted again by Yukina, the mage began to tell the girl about Mikina's involvement in her conspiracy; as Mikina's consciousness resurged and begged her to stop, the mage regained her control and instead forced her host to tell Yukina the truth, herself. She also blasted Ney across the beach when she tried to intervene. Once Mikina finished her story, the mage regained control invoked the power of the Marlon Spoon enveloping Yukina with its flames; she was suddenly attacked from behind by Allen, interrupting her spell.

After struggling with the priest, she furiously tried to attack again, only for the attack to suddenly be cancelled; realizing that the Demon of Gluttony, which had absorbed Kyle, was interfering, the mage was forced to ditch her medium when Ney attacked, barely scratching her opponent with her claws. She sprinted away, only for Ney to skewer her with her thrown rapier. Collapsing in the sand, she played dead and allowed the group think she'd been defeated. Later, the mage patched up her feline body and escaped.

### The Intervening Centuries

"*Not bad... I want that body.*"
―Irina regarding Ney
In EC 508, Abyss traveled to Holy Levianta and collaborated with Mikhail Asayev, who possessed the Twin Blades of Levianta. She then had Mikhail possessed by the Demon of Envy, influencing the creation of Neo Apocalypse and its subsequent terrorism. While causing the Four Horsemen Incident, she encountered and battled Ney; after defeating her, the mage took possession of her body. Although losing the twin blades to Chartette Langley, she eventually reclaimed the Glass of Marlon from Gallerian.

Around EC 540, the sorceress travelled to Jakoku and established the Crimson Robed Masses as a mage order to serve her. Allying herself with Princess Jahime Hatsune, the mage took part in the Jakoku Civil War. In EC 549, she located Chartette and dueled her outside of Enbizaka. After murdering Chartette, she looked up at Sickle, who was observing the fight, before leaving. Following the Hatsune faction's defeat, the mage was hunted by Jahime and fled the country.

After she returned to Evillious and obtained Grim the End, the mage learned that it was inhabited by Pale Noël. From him, Irina learned that Gallerian Chirclatia had been cursed by both the twin gods and herself during the Levianta Catastrophe. She also during this time experimented with Adam Moonlit's spirit to remake him into the "Master of the Court," capable of conjuring the Court mental space; she planned to use Adam's ability to her advantage once the world ended.

### Père Noël

"*Do your chore without complaining! Or should I turn you to ashes instead?*"
"*Understood.*"
"*Finish before my daughter comes home.*"
"*Roger... Then please excuse me, First―Er―President.*"
―Julia Abelard and Gatt Coulomb
Later on, Irina forged her identity as "Julia Abelard" and amassed a large fortune, eventually buying a title of nobility in Lucifenia before running for a position on the senate. In her new identity, Julia encountered Mayrana Blossom in Beelzenia and took her on as an apprentice, teaching her magic, her history with Gallerian and the vessels of sin, and how to craft the Rogzé Family variant of Gift.

Julia later formed the criminal organization Père Noël, taking on the codename of "First Santa Claus"; Mayrana immediately joined as "Fourth Shadow", tasked with acting as a shadow leader for Julia. Planning to eventually become the Lucifenian Republic's President, Julia began performing good works and promoting her public image, such as in giving gifts to Lucifenian orphans during December.

In EC 593, Julia traveled to the Felix Mansion in Toragay, Elphegort with the Clockworker's Doll, garbed in a cloak. Finding Dr. Marx's wife and newborn child both dead inside, Julia swapped out the baby with the Doll and activated its hypnosis to replace the real Kasper Felix before leaving. Later on, Julia and her apprentice discovered Gallerian and his disciple, Lemy, were posing as Freezis Foundation's CEO Shaw Freezis' dead great-grandchildren: Hans and Heiden Lorre.

During her schemes, Santa and Shadow met the young woman Yuzette Ora and was convinced that she would be a useful ally. After proving their power as actual mages, Julia convinced Yuzette to run away from home and join her criminal organization. Testing Yuzette for magic ability, Julia explained to her all about her ambitions in Père Noël and the history of magic. Finding that Yuzette had no magical abilities, Julia expelled her from her tutelage.

After Yuzette took up residence as a fortune teller in Rollam, however, Julia approached her again with the Venom Sword and offered for her to make a contract with the Demon of Lust, to give her the ability to change someone's face. With this ability, Yuzette was given the code name "Seventh Magician" and the side job of changing clients' faces for a price. When Santa later came in contact with the fugitive Kaidor Blankenheim desiring to forge a new identity, she directed him to Seventh Magician's location in Rollam in exchange for the location of the Blankenheims' Golden Key.

She eventually recruited a new member as "Fifth Pierrot", tasked with assassinations, and Lieutenant General Gatt Coulomb as "Sixth Venom", tasked with cleaning up their activities and acting as her personal aide. Sometime later, she discovered a young girl named Lemy at an orphanage in Rolled and subsequently adopted him, further improving her public image. In EC 606 she took her daughter to an circus and was shocked to see the singer there, Gumi Chan.

When Julia realized how obsessive and unnerving Mayrana was being in her attempts to imitate her, she ordered Fourth Shadow to take up residence in Calgaround,Merrigod Plateau, far away in Elphegort; there Shadow became the elected mayor there, making it a second base of operations to direct the other members. After the death of Fifth Pierrot, Santa placed Gatt in charge of the organization's assassination missions. In EC 608, she sent Fourth Shadow in her place with a vessel of sin to recruit the financially troubled Marquis Margarita Blankenheim as "Second Dealer," a black market dealer for Père Noël, and Mayrana directed her in Toragay in Julia's stead.

Around the same time, Margarita's husband, Kasper Blankenheim, was recruited into the organization as "Third Sleep Prince". Meanwhile, Julia entered the ballot for president and began campaigning in Lucifenia. In December of EC 608, with the upcoming presidential elections, Julia decided to remove any loose ends that could jeopardize her election, sending Sixth Venom to assassinate Seventh Magician and retrieve the Venom Sword from her; when Seventh Magician escaped, Sixth Venom continued to track her.

### Toragay Epidemic

"*Mayrana and those two did a lot of unauthorized things over in Elphegort. Who ordered you to "kill Gallerian Clockworker"?... Margarita, Kaspar, and even Mayrana―I've lost very useful pawns thanks to them.*"
―First Santa Claus lectures Sixth Venom
In the year EC 609, First Santa Claus had Shadow enact an operation: Transform the Gift poison into an airborne epidemic and then have Second Dealer monopolize a cure developed by Third Sleep Prince for the organization's profit. Later that year, Julia was elected president and gave her inauguration speech with her daughter Renin in attendance. Afterwards she attended a party to celebrate her election at the Lucifenian Palace and began dealing with the nation's daily domestic and foreign affairs while continuing to lead Père Noël.

Later on, around mid-August, Julia ordered Mayrana to attack Aceid Deputy Mayor Banner and she fulfilled the mission as "First Santa Claus" on August 15. Santa later learned that Sleep Prince unexpectedly murdered Dealer while experimenting with the poison on August 30, prompting the World Police to investigate. Julia once again contacted Kaidor, who was now posing as Freezis Foundation executive Bruno Marlon; she recruited him as a mole and ordered the high-ranking aide to halt the police investigation before Père Noël's involvement was discovered.

Around the same time, Julia had Mayrana move the organization's underground market to her mansion in Calgaround and retrieve Margarita's vessel of sin. As the event continued, Julia learned of Gallerian and Lemy's continued involvement in the case under their false aliases and ordered Bruno to dispose of "Hans" and "Heiden" in exchange for becoming Kaspar's replacement as Second Dealer.

That October, Julia learned that Renin had killed Gumi Chan's manager Ton Corpa and was fleeing to Calgaround with Gumi Chan, quickly reaching Mayrana's mansion before the children arrived. Praising her adopted daughter for her deeds, Julia revealed her control over Père Noël and offered Renin a job as the new Fifth Pierrot, convincing him that the organization was a force for good. Once Renin accepted, she tasked her with the assassination of Seventh Magician in spite of Gatt's protests.

Following the World Police's quarantine of Toragay, Julia learned of Kasper and Mayor Julia's "disappearances" and left cleaning up the ruined operation to the surviving Sixth Venom. In the meantime, she oversaw Renin's continued search for Seventh Magician over November as the girl murdered prostitutes nightly.

On November 26, Julia spent the morning reading in the newspapers of the cure for Gift and Bruno becoming a vice president of the Freezis Foundation; soon after, Gatt arrived and reported his success handling the matter with Calgaround's mayor, as well as that he had failed to collect the Clockworker's Doll and assassinate Gallerian. Infuriated to hear he had tried to kill Gallerian, Julia scolded Gatt over how she had lost so many of her pawns due to him, Kasper, and Mayrana, as well as making clear that no one was to kill Gallerian but her. She later ordered him to weed her garden as his punishment. After Gatt stepped out, Julia returned to her own affairs.

### Duel of Merrigod Plateau

"*I'll be waiting at Merrigod Plateau.*"
―Irina in her letter to Gallerian[src]
In April of EC 610, Julia learned that Renin had assassinated Seventh Magician but that the brothel owner, claiming to be Third Sleep Prince, wished to meet with her. Meeting the man, Gallerian Clockworker, Julia listened to her story that "Kasper" had allegedly gained control of Gallerian's body and was impressed by her apparent ability to hypnotize one of her staff, Gallerian's apprentice Lemy. She subsequently introduced the two into Père Noël as Seventh Magician and Eighth Sniper.

Three months later, Julia met with their new Second Dealer, Bruno, who gave Renin her next assassination job to kill the Vice President of the Freezis Foundation, Nob Nicole. During the meeting, Bruno remarked on Renin's willingness to kill and Julia grew incensed at his implication she had brainwashed the girl. On May 23, Julia attended a meeting with the leaders of the Freezis Foundation and the rest of the Lucifenian parliament in Lucifenian, the intended site of Nob's assassination.

After the meeting, everyone but Julia, Nob, and Bruno retired to eat, leaving Nob open for assassination. Before he could be assassinated by Renin, however, two World Police investigators burst into the room. They quickly began grilling Bruno and revealed their knowledge of his former identity Kaidor Blankenheim; during this, Julia subtly signaled to Renin to assassinate Bruno, to no avail. After Kaidor's arrest, Julia sent Renin away from their mansion during the night while she was put under suspicion and media attention.

During the subsequent morning, Julia breakfasted with Renin and learned from the girl that Seventh Magician was a traitor planning to flee. In response she sent Gatt with Renin to apprehend him, although they were too late to prevent him escaping. Later, Julia ordered Gatt to assassinate Kaidor while he was in custody, with the death reported in the newspaper on September 19. Despite his death, Julia continued to face intense suspicion and was forced to announce her resignation as president. Over the next three months, Renin continued to kill Julia's political opponents.

During the winter of EC 610, Julia learns that Renin had been shot by Lemy and held a funeral for her daughter, burying her while she slowly regenerated from her injuries. Having learned that Magician was actually Gallerian, she sent her brother-in-law a letter challenging him to come find her at Merrigod Plateau in Elphegort. She then left the Glass of Marlon at Renin's grave and a spare set of clothes in anticipation of her recovery and emergence from the earth.

At Merrigod, Irina waited for Gallerian's arrival with all of her available vessels of sin, including the Clockworker's Doll. When her opponents finally arrived, she began to duel with Gallerian and Lemy. Not long after, Renin arrived to the duel and Julia explained to the shocked Gallerian how contractors couldn't be killed by ordinary means, mocking him for not knowing this earlier and having survived the other contractors on luck alone. She then continued the duel with Renin by her side.

After several hours of stalemate, Julia watched as Lemy shot Renin with Grim the End transformed into a bullet, killing the girl; horrified, she stopped the duel and cried over her dead body, before being defeated herself. To spare her human body, Irina released her control over Ney and, in her cat form, prepared to erase "Gallerian's" false memories using the black box that Pale prepared in her cat body. Irina then self-destructed and brought herself as well as everyone surrounding her, into Behemo's inner psychological world. With Adam Moonlit's spirit, Irina waited at the top of a representation of the Levia-Behemo Temple for Levia, Behemo, and Lemy.

After revealing to Behemo about Gallerian's curse and explaining the mechanics of the world they were now inhabiting, Irina unveils Adam as the "Master of the Court" and transforms the dimension into the Court. She then declares her intention to destroy everything and conclude her duel with Levia and Behemo. As she prepared to duel, however, the group was interrupted by Carlos Marlon arriving with Worldeater. With this new participant to the duel, Irina joined the clash between herself, Levia, Behemo, Lemy, and Carlos. In the process she, Levia and Adam destroyed one another mentally, strengthening the affects of Gallerian's curse.

### Miniature Garden Girl

*Main Article: Master of the Court*

Gallerian decided to expel Irina's curse, putting it inside the empty Clockworker's Doll in EC 978. Gallerian then gave the Doll to Elluka Marlon, telling her it was her deceased daughter Nemesis. Convinced, Elluka took the Doll in as her "daughter" and began collecting the vessels of sin to save her.

Following Elluka's death in the Leviantan Civil War, the Doll was transferred to Evil's Theater by Gallerian, where she was reinvigorated by Gear's sacrifice. Taking up the role of "Master of the Court", the Doll sentenced intruders to death with the hopes of achieving utopia and reuniting with Elluka. The Doll later became pregnant and gave birth to the twins Hänsel and Gretel before being killed in the world's destruction in EC 999.

### World's End

Following the world's end, Irina regained all her previous memories; meeting with Elluka, Nemesis and Bruno Octo, the four of them decided to collaborate to save the world by invoking the Court ending, planning to do so by having Hänsel and Gretel enact a Re\_birthday. In order to facilitate this, Irina began utilizing the rebuilt Evil's Theater as her body, housing the other inhabitants.

When Alexiel came to the theater to confront him, only to be possessed by Gallerian, Irina instructed Hänsel to initiate the Re\_birthday and tried to prevent Gallerian from leaving, only for Gallerian to escape before the reformatting began. Irina's body then transformed into a Black Box and she, along with everyone inside her, was reformatted. As part of the Court ending, Irina traveled to a repeat of the Third Period, once again becoming Aron Merry-Go-Round.

### Legacy

"*…That unknown mage has popped up several times, historically. There’s the one involved with the Glassred Event, the owner of the Heartbeat Clocktower, and the one who worked behind the scenes before and after the Lucifenian Revolution—*"
―Elluka to Gallerian regarding Irina
Irina went down in history as the Red Cat Sorceress, her actions as as the unknown mage during the Glassrsd Event, Marlon disappearance, and Lucifenian Revolution being attributed to her.

## Personality and Traits

"*...Want to be burned to ashes, do you?*"
―Irina spouting her favorite curse
Irina was a cruel woman, responsible for countless atrocities. Because she had been born with Hereditary Evil Raiser Syndrome, Irina found amusement in observing the unhappiness of other people, as well gleeful when she caused conflict and sometimes excited by grand acts of violence. Treating people as pawns, Irina had no scruple against any evil act, including torture, experimentation on young children, deception, kidnapping, and murder. As a HER, she also felt compelled to make more of her kind through the vessels of Sin and felt kinship with other HERs such as Prim, her sister, or Renin. Her condition also made her dead-set on obtaining vengeance against Gallerian Clockworker, no matter how long it took or how unreasonable it was.

Despite this, Irina at birth was not aware of her true nature and originally acted as a normal girl, even feeling guilt for her actions, although she scorned this past nature later on. Irina also retained the capacity for friendships and even motherly love, harboring a desire deep down to have a family and children; she always, however, denied these feelings in herself and only ruminated on them late in her life. She similarly believed Glassrsd should treat her harem respectfully, although paradoxically she had no scruple against helping her brainwash more men. Following her experiences as the Master of the Court, Irina gave up her goal of destroying the gods by world's end and formed a plan to revive the world.

Irina as a schemer was calm, collected, and extremely ambitious. She typically did not become too involved in conflicts herself after sowing the seeds of it, and instead preferred to orchestrate events in the control of large organizations. Like her creator, Irina also had an interest in science and was often conducting research and experiments to better understand magic, demons, and the vessels of sin themselves. This competency in her work led to her become outraged when her partners and pawns failed her expectations, although she'd quickly adapt and even see the benefits of the resulting situations.

Occasionally dry and sarcastic, Irina had a habit of threatening to burn her subordinates to ashes when they got on her nerves, although rarely did she punish them with death. Although briefly grieved over the loss of her human body, after becoming a cat Irina began mimicking felines perfectly; fittingly, her favorite drink was milk. As part of mimicry, she maintained to others the façade of being a sorceress that simply doted upon a red cat familiar. Irina could become attached to her host bodies if they were especially useful for her, such as setting Ney free rather than let her be destroyed in the duel.

## Skills and Abilities

"*Although she has not received any magical training, the results of an examination of all inhabitants by the Royal Research Institute confirms she holds a high density M factor.*"
―Excerpt from seventh Project 'Ma' report
Despite never receiving any magical training, Irina was a powerful self-taught sorceress who was ranked second only to Gallerian Chirclatia when surveyed for Project 'Ma'. Among her plethora of spells, Irina was able to teleport, unlock doors, levitate, sing spell songs, control animals, and grow the ziz tiama to enormous size. Her favorite spell was to cast powerful fire magic, which was even capable of severely burning someone without killing them; this was due to her being an inheritor of Salem Dunbar. Irina was also knowledgeable about the vessels of sin and could freely use their abilities, as well as move the demons among them as she pleased. She was unable to perform her magic in just her cat body, although she could when using a medium, depending on the capabilities of the host.

As a cat, Irina's particular ability was to be able to steal and control someone else's body as an extension of herself, while maintaining complete control of her actual cat body. As such, she could use her host's unique magical abilities as well as her own, although due to being a woman she was unable to perform magic at all with a male host. Irina similarly could probe through the memories and knowledge of those she controlled. Although Irina could suppress her host's consciousness, even allowing her to leave it "asleep" on the rare cases she left it behind, the host could wrestle back control if strongly enough provoked.

Irina as a stuffed cat could not be killed by damage to the cat body or aging; similarly, her mediums didn't age either and appeared invincible in combat, similarly not bleeding when damaged; this allowed her to exist for over a millennia. As a cat, she could communicate with those possessed by Demons of Sin but sounded like just an ordinary cat to others. Irina was also a skilled artisan, having created the Clockworker's Doll, and was knowledgeable about her family's works.

Outside of physical skills, Irina was a master manipulator to get people to do as she wanted. Likewise, she was extremely skilled in espionage and information gathering, creating vast information networks and maintaining contacts among the criminal underground, corporate elite, and even royalty across the centuries, putting herself in positions of powerful political influence. She similarly was skilled in training elite agents for assassination. Due to her experience with killing, Irina was also adept at analyzing crime scenes.

## Character Connections

Pale Noël: A scientist who aided Irina. Initially working with him under Project 'Ma' and approached by him after the Levianta Catastrophe, Irina acted on his advice towards killing the other candidates to become queen and was again aided by him when nearing death, the two thus having a tentative relationship as partners. Later, she expressed an interest in the scientist's other experiments to spread evil in the world, in particular the Venom Sword.

Meta Clockworker: Irina's sister. Irina loved Meta and felt dejected after he was cured of HER and fell in love with Gallerian, feeling jealous that the strange man had taken her sister from her. Despite in part trying to kill Gallerian to get her sister back, their relationship was shattered after her revival, and Irina displayed little regret over her loss of reason and eventual death.

Gallerian Clockworker: Irina's brother-in-law. Although growing to become jealous of Gallerian during his engagement to Meta, Irina felt sorry for him. After her revival in the Levianta Catastrophe, however, she became obsessed with achieving revenge for Gallerian's perceived role and sought to destroy everything in the sorcerer's life to achieve that aim, only referring to their past relationship with mockery from then on.

Lemy: The apprentice of Irina's enemy. Irina saw Lemy with hostility as an extension of her hate for Gallerian and fought with him, although displayed inattention to the latter and Gallerian's relationship, such as referring to her with honorifics that Gallerian didn't use.

Gumina Glassrsd: Irina's partner. Impressed by her single-handed massacre, Irina selected the lady for use of a vessel of sin and the two developed a mutual partnership. She was occasionally frustrated by her inexperience with his own abilities and concerned over her dangerously careless acquisition of men. Despite this, Irina was also amused by Glassred's consistently lustful behavior, and over time she grew an unacknowledged fondness for her.

Romantic: A thief under Irina's employ. Irina knew Romantic's mentor and was appreciative of the boy's skills in infiltration as well as seeing him useful due to the dregs of Sloth in his body, hiring him on two missions to retrieve the Seven Deadly Sin Vessels. This appreciation for Romantic's skills was deep enough to last even after her first failure to retrieve the Glass of Marlon.

Prim Marlon: Irina's partner. Irina viewed Prim as a means to orchestrate political chaos during the Story of Evil. She maintained a confidential relationship with her, but had no scruple to go against Prim's wishes and manipulate the queen when it proved useful to her end goals. Despite this, she regarded Prim fondly in later centuries as one of her most useful pawns and an HER like her.

Kyle Phutapie: Irina's test subject. Irina viewed Kyle as a means to further her own ends.

Renin Abelard: Irina's adopted daughter. Initially showing interest in Renin because of her status as a reincarnation of Rin, Irina adopted and cared for the girl as Julia Abelard. Over the course of their relationship she came to develop strong maternal feelings towards Renin and genuinely loved the girl, although not above using her as a means to further her own ends provided that she stayed alive. She additionally encouraged jer true nature as an HER and took offense when others suggested that she brainwashed her into being a killer.

Ney Avadonia: A body Irina inhabited. She originally knew Ney as an enemy and fought with her; later she saw use in possessing her to become Julia Abelard. Despite having no scruple against using Ney for many centuries, she grew sentimental towards the woman's body and took steps to ensure that it wouldn't be destroyed when she was done using it.

Held: A god in Irina's acquaintance. Despite Held being her enemy as Gallerian's ally, Irina visited him through the centuries and, due to his stationary nature as a tree, felt free to speak with him as she pleased. She nonetheless had no scruple against damaging his physical form to get what she wanted from him, only hesitant to destroy his body from the fear he would do the same to her in his last moments.

Mayrana Blossom: Irina's apprentice. Although finding her to be a useful pawn, Irina gradually became unnerved by Mayrana's obsession with her and constant imitation of her. She similarly was enraged to see how Mayrana's obsession led to the failure of some of her schemes in Père Noël.

Aron Merry-Go-Round: Irina's past self. Irina retained part of Aron's personality, including his strong desire for children.

Master of the Court: One of Irina's reincarnations. As Gallerian sought to be a pure being, he got rid of Irina by placing her soul into the Clockworker's Doll.

## Trivia

### Conceptualization and Origin

* Irina's name is Slavic, meaning "peace"; Levianta, her native country, is inspired by Russia.
* Julia's surname, Abelard, is the surname of famous French philosopher Peter Abelard; Lucifenia, the country Julia became president of, is inspired by France.

### Curiosities

* Her E factor of 666 may be a reference to the Number of the Beast; said number is regarded as a satanic number of evil by biblical scholars.
* During the second verse of the Ma Survival PV, Irina's portion is juxtaposed with the terms for Sorrow and Anger in the Eight Evil Thoughts, which later evolved into the Seven Deadly Sins.
* In the Fifth Pierrot PV, First Santa Claus is labeled as an older woman but the statement is crossed out and replaced with the term "sexy beauty" instead.
* Irina's role in Père Noël follows the twisted "Christmas" theme that surrounds the organization, leading the group as "Santa" and wearing Santa Claus' characteristic red clothes.
* According to Gallerian, Irina desired to collect the vessels of sin so that they could grant her a wish.
* While using an old woman as her medium, Irina refers to the youthful-looking Gallerian as her "older sister", much to Kyle's confusion.

## Appearances

* Ma Survival
* Recollective Musicbox
* The Song I Heard Somewhere
* Neolion of the Inverted Gravestone
* A Hero's Armor is Always Silver
* Fifth Pierrot
* Ending Boy Hänsel
* The Daughter of Evil: Praeludium of Yellow
* The Daughter of Evil: Praefacio of Red
* Deadly Sins of Evil: The Lunacy of Lady Glassred
* Deadly Sins of Evil: Evil Food Eater Marlon
* Deadly Sins of Evil: Gift from the Prince who Brought Sleep
* Deadly Sins of Evil: Fifth Pierrot
* Deadly Sins of Evil: Master of the Heavenly Yard
* Original Sin Story: Punishment
* Twiright Prank (story)
* The Daughter of Fog
* Gloom of Held
* Heavenly Yard (story)
* Original Sin Story: To
* The Lunacy of Lady Glassred (manga)
* Fifth Pierrot (manga short)
* Evils Kingdom
* Judgment of Corruption ~A Court of Greed~
* Evils Court
* Original Sin Story -Act 2-
* Original Sin Story: Complete Edition
* Lucifenia Trinity
* Master of the Heavenly Yard (album)
* Clockwork Lullaby (album)
* Evils Extra