Forward General Ibex

Lightning

Ibex is a Forward General of the Iron Cities, and was specifically appointed to the territory of Jeridor in the newly established capital of New Ancor. She is a stern, harsh, ambitious woman that believes the successful occupation of Jeridor will prime her for further promotion, establishing herself as an equal among the High Generals.

## Appearance

Slender yet muscular woman with black hair and tan skin. While her left eye is normal and Grey, her right pupil is a horizontal black line that stretches completely across an amber sclera. Her body is covered in scars from self inflicted wounds due to her extreme use of her art.

## History

Ibex was one of the top soldiers in High General Sarrow's personal core, the Black Crows, before she was promoted to the position of Forward General in preparation for the invasion of Koskain. Her promotion was proposed by Sarrow himself specifically for the territory of Jeridor, as he thought her tenacity and perfectionism would prove advantageous in the region as it was predicted to be the most difficult of the three regions to remain under control due to its size and harsh geography.

Ibex doesn't understand why the citizens of Jeridor are resisting Iron Cities occupation, and believes that she is bringing industry and prosperity to a decrepit region full of people with limiting ideologies that hold them back.

At some point in the war she takes control of Rayyan's Machina?

## Abilities

### Lead Art

A metallurgic art developed from the addition of the dark affinity, the lead art is not often seen in practice as it is known to damage the practitioner as well as the target. The lead art produces a dark, metallic material that is able to rub off onto the target and enter the bloodstream. The metal has toxic/corruptiveproperties and if it is ingested or introduced to the bloodstream it can cause sickness and migraines. Being a sacrificial art, the practitioner is able to hurt themselves with the lead art in order to activate its other properties. The art feeds off of pain and damage to oneself, and it elevates the corruptive properties of the metal to allow the practitioner to almost establish a connection into their opponents mind. This 'connection' allows them to influence their opponents decisions to a degree, basically the practitioners is able to assert a certain amount of control over the target through the corruption of the targets mind. The magnitude of what the practitioner is able to accomplish relies not only on the amount of lead present in the subject, whether dissolved in the blood or impaled through them, but also on the amount of lead present within the practitioner themselves. This peculiar properties results in many of the more drastic practitioners of the lead art being covered in scars from self-inflicted wounds, as they are willing to push themselves to the limits for more strength. It is unknown if every practitioner's lead art corrupts in the same fashion, but when Ibex uses this art on her opponents, the influence sounds like a crazed person speaking inside the targets head, compelling them to do Ibex's bidding. The intrusive thoughts start as a frantic whisper, but as Ibex puts more metal in both her and her opponents body, the voice inside her opponent's head will begin wailing and screaming inside their head to do whatever action Ibex had programmed. Ibex is also able to use her lead art to take control of a machina (how?).

### Copper Art

A metallurgic art developed from the addition of the lighting affinity, the copper art produces a metallic material that works as an extremely good energy emitter, making it ideal for spatial techniques or long range surveillance. Ibex employs the art as a modification to her lead, in order to strengthen the connection of her lead techniques as well as be able to better compel people from a farther distance. This typically takes the appearance of copper braces or brackets spaced evenly along the lead steaks that she produces.

### Techniques

Using her lead and copper arts, Ibex can inflict “minor corruptions” with lead that basically make the opponent believe they’re more fatigued than they are and stuff like that, or “major corruptions” where she can compel them to act according to her will and not their own. You can still fight against it but the more metal she has in you/her the harder it is. The copper-banded lead allows for her to assume a greater amount of control with less metal, as well as control from a farther distance