Shrike

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## Affiliations

### Other Affiliations

* Zuurith's Arena (formerly)
* Zuurith (city)
* Trusk (friend)
* Vienne (friend)

## Appearances

### First appearance

Chapter 13, Page 35

> "A bounty hunter who formerly freelanced finding gladiators for Zuurith’s Arena."
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## Appearance

Shrike is an unadapted human with long blonde hair, pale skin, and pale green eyes. In her first appearance her hair is down, reaching the end of her back. She wears a royal blue dress made of a light fabric that comes with a golden sash around the waist. She also wears cornflower blue gloves, a three-beaded necklace, and matching earrings.

Her bounty hunting outfit is much more practical, retaining one of the same blue gloves but otherwise being completely different. She wears brown pants, a long-sleeved black turtleneck (underneath a purple waistcoat), and a half-sized blue shawl. This is complete by a gold, detachable, pointed shoulder pad and a satchel tied around her waist, as well as a cornflower blue bandana that doubles as a mask. In this outfit she also ties her hair back into a tight braid, leaving some untouched as a side-swept fringe.

Shrike appears to have a Stone rune tattooed on her left palm.

## Abilities

**Stone Mage:** Shrike is a stone mage with a channeling rune tattooed on her left palm. She uses this to manipulate her own projectiles, which makes the capture and restraint of targets much easier for herself and her crew.

**Sleeping powder:** created by a Ferin accomplice of hers, Shrike makes use of a potent sleeping power that smells "sharp and weird", like syrup. This is created from a purple flower Alinua is also seen using in chapter 7 to knock out Erin Ruunaser, and in a high enough dose it appears to leave the victim with a drowsy headache for hours afterwards. It is delivered via round projectiles.

###### Weapons:

* multiple chain whips
* sealing cuffs
* crossbow
* dagger (strapped to her thigh)

## History

Alongside Trusk, Shrike was a gladiator in Zuurith's Arena and a prisoner of Zuurith for unknown reasons. Since her release she has been working as a freelance bounty hunter, tracking down targets and selling them to The Arenamaster for her own profit. Thanks to the rambling of one of Dainix's guards it can be assumed she lives a comfortable life within the city.

After Tess, Alinua, and Falst were sighted trespassing on the prison, Strike decided to hunt them down and turn them in with her crew.  She disabled Tess' magic with a sealing cuff, but the other two helped her escape. She turned to Trusk for help tracking them down again, but Erin stopped her from arresting them with his status and magic.

Shrike was last seen pensively staring at the ruins of the prison in the wake of Tynan's defeat.

## References

1. ↑ Characters (comicaurora.com)
2. ↑ https://comicaurora.com/aurora/1-14-14/
3. ↑ https://comicaurora.com/aurora/1-14-4/
4. ↑ https://comicaurora.com/aurora/1-14-9/
5. ↑ https://comicaurora.com/aurora/1-7-28/
6. ↑ https://comicaurora.com/aurora/1-15-14/
7. ↑ https://comicaurora.com/aurora/1-13-4/
8. ↑ https://comicaurora.com/aurora/1-13-36/
9. ↑ https://comicaurora.com/aurora/1-14-7/
10. ↑ https://comicaurora.com/aurora/1-14-15/
11. ↑ https://comicaurora.com/aurora/1-15-3/
12. ↑ https://comicaurora.com/aurora/1-15-13/
13. ↑ https://comicaurora.com/aurora/1-18-25/