Althea

*"I sent them to their deaths. Do you hate me? You should, and you are a fool since you don't."*

**Althea** is a major character in ***Immortal Genesis: Revolution***. She has the nicknames/titles "Iphiclus", "Incarnate of Control", "Cardinal of Darkness" and "Purple Devil"

## Appearance

Althea is an average height woman, being around 5 feet 8 inches tall.

Inside the game Immortal Genesis, she has long, straight white hair. She wears a white and black dress that reaches down to her knees, gold glasses and a black veil.

She used to have red curly hair and purple eyes before she was killed by pre-reset **Ita.**

She has a one-handed curved sword and fake devil horns.

In the real world, she has medium length brown hair. She was usually seen wearing flannel hoodies and jeans.

## Relationships

Althea is rivals with **Ita**, although she has chosen him as her successor as the Purple Devil (AKA the Crimson Devil as Ita named it).

Althea is in a relationship with **Vis** and used to be married to **Skylar**.

Althea is the mother of **Damya**.

Althea is acquaintances with **Keith, Bella** and **Bk**.

## Personality

Althea is a driven, dedicated and well put together woman. She is always 10 steps ahead and doesn't make a move unless she has completely thought it through. She is aggressive when making her goal a reality and uses anyone she can who would be a help to her. She has lived for over 40 years and throughout her entire life has manipulated, gas-lit and used everyone she has met to give her an advantage, and that has not stopped with Ita, who she only sees as a tool for her battle against the Author.

## Backstory

### Pre-reset

Althea grew up in a small town in Maine. She had two very close friends in her high-school years, Hera and Skylar. The three of them often were found playing video games together. A few weeks after they graduated, *Immortal Genesis* came out as a full-dive VRMMORPG. All three ended up joining, and in turn, became trapped in this new world.

Initially, the three were just as close in this new world as the last. However, soon after they left the first city they had been brought to, Hera ended up being killed by high level monsters. As Hera was dying, Skylar held Althea back from rushing in herself. This caused Althea to grow a hatred for them.

Over the next month, Althea ended up running into the Hero Party here and there, but that couldn't help her from falling more into her rage. After forming her guild (the Devil's Den), she decided the government of Genin, the capital city of the human kingdom, was inefficient and ended up overthrowing the local city council. She declared that the Devil's Den was the new government of Genin and took her place as it's new leader.

Althea formed a council of less than reputable guilds she called the "Syndicate". Although it didn't have a sole leading guild, soon after it was formed she attended a meeting where she executed the leader of one of the lesser preforming guilds and declared herself and her second-in-command Queen as the leaders of the alliance.

Outside of this, the Hero Party continued their adventures. Althea thought that their actions proved to be a hinderance. Supported by her further descent into rage, she was chosen by the Incarnate of Rage to be his patron, essentially losing control of her emotions for a few days. During this time, she set up and sent the Hero Party into a trap she thought would end in their deaths. However, the Incarnate of Hate ended up showing up and saving the party. When they returned to Genin they confronted Althea. This snap back to reality gave Althea control of herself once more, and she ended up apologizing,

After a few more months of almost no contact with the party, she ended up usurping the Incarnate of Rage by killing him and stealing his abilities.

After the Hero Party made it to the Moon Dragon kingdom, Althea reappeared and informed the party that their enemy, Eurythemis, was her mother. While in the Moon Dragon kingdom, she proposed to Skylar and he accepted. However, her allegiances were unknown to the party until during a fight against Eurythemis, Althea appeared and killed her herself. Shortly after, she killed the Cardinal of Darkness and took his place.

In between then and the Next Generation, Althea got married to Skylar. With Skylar's help, she created **Damya** and **Eurymede**, her daughters.

### Next Generation

Althea gained an image as a vengeful god, and the world proclaimed her the "Purple Devil". In response, she went into hiding and took a new name, "Iphiclus".

Twenty years after the fight against her mother, the Hero Party's children were teenagers. Skylar ended up having them send their children to the Olympus Training Guild, a dojo that Althea had set up under her new name in attempts to train them to fight who she saw as the world's next greatest threat: Ozymandias.

During their training, the group encountered a small guild who had been sent to find them. They attacked the party, but with the help from a newly formed kingdom called Athia, they escaped. The group's leader (who turned out to be Vis) had not ordered the attack, and came to the group to apologize. He returned to Olympus with them and alongside Iphiclus' assistant Yoshida (who was Kazuhi in disguise) helped train the group. During the training, Althea revealed herself to Vis, who at this point was the combination of the Incarnate of Control and Envy (becoming the Incarnate of Judgment).

Althea also revealed herself to her students. Eurymede, who was a part of her students, ran after finding out the person who she was training to kill was actually her mother.

The Hero Party found out about Althea's ruse and some came to collect their children, but before they could the group became entangled in a fight against Ozymandias and the Elven Kingdom.

After a short but brutal war, the Training Guild and Hero Party worked together and killed Ozymandias. In the wake of this, the Author became self aware and began a plan to reset the timeline. Althea had taken on a vow of pacifism after the war, and although she tried to help, the heroes lost to her in the end. And the timeline reset.

*However,*

Before everything was reset, Althea was killed by Ita, and just before everything was re-written saved her soul under the place where she had watched Hera die. Leaving it for Ita to find in the next timeline.

### Post-reset

Currently, Althea is a spirit possessing Ita. She also has a connection to Vis (who had been spared from the reset by the Author) but it is less strong. She has in the past been able to project a spirit form of her body, although it takes up a lot of strength and uses the assistance of special stones given out by the Church of the Siblings.

She guides Ita in their shared goal of killing the Author, but she has little to no care for his well-being.