Raine Illus

Artemis Illus (sister)

Sapphire Illus-Beloved (daughter) (Inactive)

Andromeda Illus (daughter)

Prof. Maron Beloved (Co-Parent of Sapphire)

Post Story-----Selene - Granddaughter

Saturn - Grandson

James - Nephew

Emily - Niece

### Occupation

Mayor of Grandbluff City, President of the Northwood Union (formerly), Headmaster and Professor of Science and Engineering at Northwood University

## Physical description

### Eye color

Purple, Black Sclera

**Biography**

Raine is a Proximite woman who was born in the Proximite Empire in the Arctic. When she was 10, her family was forced to flee the Proximite Empire's authoritarian regime, as her parents were vocal critics of the Proximite Empires' Triumvirate of Elders. Had they not fled, they would likely have been executed.

After stealing a ship, her parents set sail to the south, although they were caught in a hurricane and the ship was destroyed off the coast of Northwood, months after they left the Arctic. This resulted in the tragic death of Raine's parents. Raine was stranded alone on the continent of Glaciara for a decade before she made contact with others. In the time that she was stranded alone, she built a large city and began to create a nation where everyone could live happily. Most of her reason for this was to keep herself sane in the wilderness, but she also wanted to create a nation that would be the antithesis of the Proximite Empire. She wanted to make a place that would bring hope, as opposed to the misery that the Proximite Empire brought to her life.

Raine is a staunch believer in equality for all, and in the fact that food, water, and shelter are all inalienable rights. To this end, she formed her first nation, the Northwood Union, as a sort of commune with access to communal farms and resource stockpiles. She will go out of her way to try to make friends with travellers who stop by, although if threatened she will not hesitate to show the hunting instincts that she has gained from years of wilderness survival.

Raine is the current mayor of Barley City, as well as the owner and CEO of General Illus Brewing Company LLC, a major liquor and beer company based out of Scholar's Rock and the surrounding area. This company produces Northwood Pale Ale, Gen. Illus Black Label Bourbon, and Windy Peak Hard Cider, among other things.

Raine believes in leadership by the people, and thus made sure that her nation was a direct democracy, with an election every two years to select a new president to lead the nation on the international level.

Her major achievements include the execution of a Fallen Empire insurgent that attempted to bomb Thaustein, the passing of the Pathfinder Act, and the founding of Northwood University. Raine recieved a doctorate in Earth Science from Northwood University in 482.

Raine was also the chairwoman of the Northwood Disaster Response Corps. and N.D.R.C. Hazardous Materials Containment Division. While working on N.D.R.C. HazMat cases, she wears a lead-lined yellow hazmat suit with a built-in gas mask to protect her from the environment.

Her weapon of choice is either her hunting rifle or her sword, *Due Process*. She is trained in Yel'Rekk, a traditional Proximite fighting style, which blends dance and combat together into a whirlwind of fluid dodges and precise strikes. (Etymology: Yel (Proximite for War) + Rekk (Proximite for Grace) Lit: Graceful War. Pronounced Yell-wreck)

Raine is canonically Asexual and demi-Homoromantic.

Raine's combat theme is "I'm my own master now" from Metal Gear Rising:Revengeance.

Raine suffers from PTSD due to a variety of events (Five Minute war, fleeing the Proximite Empire's totalitarian regime, getting shipwrecked as a child) This mostly manifests as nightmares, chronic insomnia, and very infrequent panic attacks. She has an extreme reaction to the flag of the Proximite Empire, as seeing it causes her to shut down and spiral into a severe panic attack. After the Synthesis Arc, this has gotten far worse, and led to her partially losing the will to live. Recently, she also has panic attacks when she sees blood.

Raine participated in the final battle of the Synthesis Arc, where she killed Phoebe Rekavor in combat, after she committed treason and joined the opposing army. She has since fallen into a deep depression because of this, and has returned to Northwood. After accidentally being infected by an unknown parasitic lifeform, she returned to scholar's rock seeking medical attention. She currently has Early-Stage Sculk infection. Due to the infection, she can no longer control her ice magic.

Her "robotic arm" is not actually a machine and is some form of magic prosthetic that channels her magic into her weapons, supercooling the blade of her sword. (Fire Aspect II)

In her rage after the kidnapping of Maron Cogton, Raine visited the Acolytes of Hostina, where she froze a patch of ground nearby, and condensed ice from the air to form massive ice spikes around her. This is the most powerful outburst of her ice magic so far, and it was entirely involuntary as an instinctive reaction to her emotional state.

She is the director of Green Division, a para-military secret agency operating independently to ensure peace through any means necessary.

Raine uses clockwork hot air balloons to deliver messages. She also has one with a little clockwork automaton named Dr. Spring, a little brass man with a top hat and fancy mustache. These balloons navigate using magnets, and always return to Northwood. Dr. Spring is powered by a magic-based energy source, which allows him to have a small degree of autonomy, more similar to a very primitive AI than a simple clockwork machine.

## Future

After the server ended, Raine went on to live a long and fulfilling life. She was elected president again when she was in her 60s, and she invented many new technologies during her lifetime. She refined her geothermal generators to produce electricity, and sparked a new technological boom that saw Northwood become an industrial powerhouse. She retired after her second presidential term, and became a science fiction writer. She died due to old age at age 80, surrounded by friends and family, and was buried in the Northwood National Graveyard, near other heroes of the Northwood Union.

She is the namesake for the Illus Space Center, and for Northwood's first re-usable spacecraft, the NWSF Raine (Circa 560 4E)

## Possible Alternate Timelines

-Ashes Timeline: In one possible future, the Northwood volcano erupts, forcing Raine and her family into underground shelters. In this timeline, Raine and her family survive the volcanic winter via cryogenic freezing, and wake up four thousand years in the future, after the old world has crumbled into dust, and blown away like ashes in the wind. Raine becomes the site administrator of Northwood Extinction Shelter Delta, later renamed New Northwood, located in a cavern hundreds of meters underground. The outside world being mostly uninhabited after four millennia, she is left with nothing but the people she cares about in an unfamiliar and dangerous new world. This is *not* the Prime Timeline. (Raine and Northwood in this timeline are Apocalypse!Raine and the United Cities of Northwood, as opposed to Prime!Raine and the Northwood Union.)

-PogSMP timeline (PRIME): The Raine Illus of Soulrite continued to be president into her second term, after which she left politics. She lives in New Breezeview with her daughter Andromeda and her grandchildren.

Raine Illus also had a counterpart on the alien planet V-192, which was destroyed in a catacalysmic event that sent a fragment to Aersi, a "limbo" of sorts where forgotten worlds end up. Her V-192 counterpart survived the catacalysm, and joined the UAS Stellar Navy, gaining command of a Daybreak Class Stealth Cruiser, and participating in an interstellar war. Her daughter, Andromeda, was one of the casualties of the Catacalysm, although she survived by being transported to Aersi.

-PogSMP Timeline (Fallen North): In this timeline, Raine, as president of the Northwood Federal Republic, failed to stop the Sculk queen, and fell to the infection. Subsequently, the Quarantine of Northwood failed as the NDRC was unable to contain the Sculk Queen, regardless of the more advanced technology they possessed in this timeline. While the use of nuclear weapons and directed Magic weapons did slow down the Sculk's advance, this universe's version of Soulrite fell to the infection.

In this timeline, Raine was the director of the NDRC and subsequently the Northwood Department of Dimensional Research. This universe had technology comparable to earth in the 1990's, although this was not enough to contain the Sculk. Multiple thermonuclear missiles were launched following the outbreak, severely damaging the planet's ecosystem and plunging it into a nuclear winter that only infected lifeforms could survive. Space-time near this universe is unstable, allowing travel to it via wormhole "dungeon warps" located in Aersi. This world is considered lost, and is extremely dangerous. So far no notable incursions have happened from it into Aersi beyond a small "upside down"-esque anomaly located deep underground. While the Sculk Queen of this world is still actively malicious, she seems to be more mischievous than her Prime Timeline counterpart, and enjoys toying with her prey before assimilating them.

## Image Gallery

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## Quotes

"Allow me to introduce myself. I am President Raine Illus, of the Northwood Union. It is nice to meet you!" -meeting new people.

"I have a very bad feeling about this place" -discovering the first Nether Portal.

"Our steam engines will revolutionize industry, just as our telegraph will revolutionize international communication." -discussing her inventions.

"Bush Gang" -To Phoebe regarding a dead bush, while on a quest to The Great Rift

"So, my Pub now has what everyone wants. a \*full liquor bar\*!" -About the Leaden Zeppelin Pub's Full Liquor Bar

"She will doom us all!" - in reaction to former Empress Tatiana's threat to blow up most major nations

"Jarka Banik, you are under arrest for Assault, Kidnapping, Unlawful Imprisonment, and terror activities. Stand down or die." -Confronting Jarka before Maron was captured by Jarka.

"Never Again" - Immediately after finding out that Maron had been kidnapped.

"This doesn't feel like victory..." -after the Synthesis Arc

"Phoebe, I'm sorry.... it shouldn't have ended like this... I-I never wanted this... god, what have I done?" -after killing Phoebe in battle.

Raine is played by Android\_Sierra.

Any resemblance to persons living or dead is entirely coincidental and unintentional.