Indirah Alnazar

"Virtues. Those are the things the Devil could never understand." - **Indirah**'s narration about the Devil in *XIX: The Sun*

## Biographical Information

### Alias(es)

Blanca
Iya (by Izaiah)
Dia (by Sapphire)
Older Alnazar (by Blackquill)

### Occupation

Astraean Archmage
Third-year student in Belvoire Academia of the Arcane
Elemental House Cardinal

## Relationships

### Family

Cygnus Alnazar (father)
Agatha Alnazar (mother)
Izaiah Alnazar (younger brother)
Kieran Xalvador ✝ (adoptive father)
Faeryn Melendez-Xalvador ✝ (adoptive mother)
Kellan Xalvador (younger adoptive brother)

### Friend(s)

Kellan Xalvador
Everlee Melendez
Sapphire Chauvera
Lucio Damaris
Xylon Lozano
Artemus Blackquill

### Mage

Kellan Xalvador
Kieran & Faeryn Xalvador (formerly)

### Enemies

The Devil
Lucio Damaris  (formerly)

## Arcane Information

### Keywords

UPRIGHT: Willpower, concentration, manifestation determined, dexterity, resourceful
REVERSED: Manipulation, deceit, wasted talent, illusion

## Physical Information

### Eye Color

Amaranth
Green (plausible natural eye color)

### Paraphernalia(s)

Tarot deck
Ruby necklace

### Weapon of Choice

Wand
Tarot cards

## Production Information

### Inspiration(s)

Kath Aguinaldo
Hermione Granger

Indirah's signature

**Indirah Alnazar** (Hindi**: इंदिरा अलनाज़ारी**) is a main character of The Arcana. She also goes by "**Blanca**", the snake familiar of **Kieran and Faeryn Xalvador** who then passed onto Kellan. She is the firstborn daughter of **Cygnus** and **Agatha Alnazar**, and her younger brother, Izaiah, was born just 13 months after her. Indirah attends Belvoire Academia of the Arcane as a third-year student alongside Lucio Damaris, both of which are upperclassmen to Kellan, Xylon Lozano, Sapphire Chauvera and her brother. She's sorted into House Aqua as its *Cardinal*. Indirah's Patron Arcana is the Magician.

**Kath Aguinaldo**, one of the writers, serves as an inspiration for Indirah.

## THE M**Λ**GICI**Λ**N **Λ**RC

#### **EARLY LIFE**

Indirah was born to her non-blood parents on July 9 to **Cygnus** and **Agatha Alnazar**, making her a Cancer. 13 months after her birth, her mother gives birth to a baby boy- Izaiah.

#### **THE KIDNAPPING**

When Indirah was only 6, her parents were kidnapped by Warlocks and she tried to bring them back. Indirah fails to save her parents, although she manages to escape her captors and goes back to her house, but Izaiah is nowhere to be found- making her think her brother is dead. At some point, **Kieran** and **Faeryn Xalvador** find Indirah and takes her in, technically adopting her and converting her into their familiar.

#### **THE CRIMSON PLAGUE**

When Kieran and Faeryn get infected by the plague themselves as well as their son Kellan, resulting their deaths, she was taken care of Mythos for a brief time, like Kellan himself.

## PERSON**Λ**LITY

Like most Cancerians, Indirah is full of love, and for her, the most important thing is family, as she demonstrates multiple times in the story. She's persistent and very loyal to her loved ones- Indirah is sensitive and sentimental, but is able to build a protective wall to those she doesn't trust as much. Whenever she's provoked, she immediately activates her defense system to fight back.

She's an obvious intellectual who adapts well to new or difficult situations and is able to think creatively. For this, she also is skillful, and has the ability to concentrate even at most depressing and dangerous situations. Despite all of this, Indirah is the most manipulative and would do anything to get what she wanted.

## PHYSIC**Λ**L **Λ**PPE**Λ**R**Λ**NCE

Indirah has long black hair with pink streaks that reach her lower back. Prior to her conversion as a familiar her eyes' natural color is unknown, although because Izaiah's eyes are green, she probably also has green eyes. Her eye color turned to amaranth after she was converted. She wears a gold choker and a ruby necklace around her neck. Indirah's canon height is 5'3".

#### **FAMILIAR FORM**

As the snake familiar, she has a pinkish-white underbelly and blush-colored scales, and Indirah's necklace becomes a circlet that she'd wear on her head. Her eyes are still colored hot pink.

#### **CASUAL**

She wears a light pink dress with a skirt that reaches her thighs, and she adds a pink hoodie with gold linings. Her boots are as the same color as her dress, and the apricot tarot deck pouch is attached to her pink belt. She wears her hair in a high bun, with her hoodie often covering it.

#### **COMBAT**

Her combat outfit consists of a pink and purple wrap-dress with transparent purple sleeves, and her stockings are of the same color. Her boots are colored dark purple. Indirah wears a light orange leather shoulder guard strapped across her torso with gold and hot pink designs, matched with a wrist and hand guard. Around her waist is a belt attached with a golden-yellow satchel carrying the journal and cards.

#### **WAND**

Indirah's wand is 9 and a half inches long, made of willow wood which possesses both ruby and water lily cores as her birthday is in July.

## POWERS & **Λ**BILITIES

* **Spell Casting**- Indirah has the ability to cast spells with the use of her wand, since she's not a Pure-Blood mage.
	+ **Element Manipulating**- She can manipulate the elements, fire ("Pyro"), water ("Aquam"), air ("Aura"), earth ("Tellus"), ice and snow ("Cryo"), and electricity ("Electro"), with only a wave of her wand.
* **Arcana Summoning**- Being taught by Kellan's parents and the Magician himself, Indirah can summon any of the **Major Arcana** (except **the Tower** and **the Fool**, as the Tower will only teleport her to its realm since the Tower isn't in any form of an animal, and the Fool is Kellan), whoever that may be, if she needs genuine help. This can come in three forms:
	+ **Figure Showing**- An Arcana will physically come to her in what animal they're depicted as in their cards.
	+ **Via Cards**- Indirah can hear the Arcana "speaking" to her using their "voices" even if they're not explicitly saying words; they create various sounds in order to communicate with her whenever she uses the tarot cards.
* **Shapeshifting**- One of her earliest abilities shown is shapeshifting, as she's converted into a familiar since she was only 6 years old. Indirah can turn into her human and snake form whenever she likes.
* **Advanced Magical Abilities and Extensive Knowledge**- Being an archmage, Indirah can conjure any magic she wants whenever she wants; she already knows a lot of spells that aids her in many situations whenever she needs it. Like Sapphire, she's one of the smartest characters in the franchise, magic-wise. Indirah is canonically smarter than any average mage in Astraea as she started going to Belvoire at 14 rather than the usual 17.
	+ **Studious Nature**- Indirah has no doubt the most studious person among them all as she's willing to help her friends expand their magical wisdom better, and with her as their guide. She's also mentioned repeatedly that she likes to read.

## RECCURING/RUNNING G**Λ**GS

* **"Fuck You, Goatman"**- In *Chapter XV: The Devil*, Lucio says "Fuck you, Goatman" in his narration. Indirah does the same in her point of view, in *Chapter XVII: The Star*.
	+ **Goatman**- In a similar note, the Devil's nickname in the franchise is "Goatman", as mentioned by a few characters in chapters.
* **"Choo-Choo Pickle Pie"**- Izaiah saying "choo-choo pickle pie to his sister when he needed help prior to the events of the story when Indirah left him became the story's mock tagline. The help phrase was seen again in *Chapter XVII: The Star*, when Izaiah was taken hostage by the Devil.
* **You're a Wizard, Iya**- Indirah somehow always takes the tarot deck from Kellan without him noticing it.

## G**Λ**LLERY

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## TRIVI**Λ**S

* Even though Indirah isn't in any means of Indian descent, her name means "beauty" and "splendid" in Hindi and Sanskrit. Sapphire's nickname to her, "Dia", means "divine" in Hindi, which matches her name to reading divination through tarot cards. It also matches her Patron Arcana being the Magician (I).
	+ As a snake familiar, "Blanca" means "white and pure" in Italian, Old French, and Old German. Although she isn't white in color, her underbelly *does* look white, except that it's actually very light pink and grey.

* The character Indirah would be a polar opposite to is her own brother, Izaiah. Being a Cancer, her ruling planet is the moon, and Izaiah's is the sun. While her zodiac sign's element is water, Izaiah's element is fire.
* Indirah's eyes changed colors after her conversion to being a familiar to Kellan's parents, and it was never mentioned what her natural eye color was. Since Izaiah is a Non-Blood and has green eyes, it's most likely that her eyes would be green like her brother's.
* Her necklace pendant is pure ruby, which is the July birthstone. July is the month she's born in.
* Indirah was supposed to get infected by the Crimson Plague long before Kellan did in the story. She was then going to be cured by Sapphire's father, **Dr. Sigmund Chauvera** but retain her eyes being reddish-pink. This was scrapped for unknown reasons, and the writers planned to give the prompt to Sapphire instead, though this wasn't made in the final cut either.
	+ Indirah contracting the plague and retaining the pink on her eyes though would be the eventual reason why the writers planned to make the mages' eyes with unnatural colors.
* She would be **Kath Aguinaldo**'s first character to be considered a nerd in-universe, since she's been labeled as a nerd in the story multiple times over.
* Indirah was described to have been in her snake form in only the first chapters of the story, as she doesn't have a reason to transform into a snake in Astraea.
	+ This was changed in the revisited and edited version in February 2023, though, as she had been mentioned to be in her snake form in *I: The Magician*, *XI: Justice*, and *XXI: The World*.
* The color of her casual dress is the same color as her underbelly as a snake familiar.