Shiara na Ifaril
Spoiler: Design Theory
Shiara should have a lithe, athletic body type. Get a ballerina for her body model. She's a Kinetic Revelation. Unlike most characters, she'll need a more dynamic hair model, with use of magic causing it to do all sorts of visually fun things like glow, or burst into flame.
She'll need a second model for her fire mode, which should be somewhat vague in form and look like living fire rather than just a 3D model with fire effects slapped on top of it.
Vocals: whoever it is, will need some range. A young voice trying very hard to sound older and wiser than she is, but not quite selling it. So... either a very good actress, or a very bad one that just so happens to be good at delivering lines.
Music: I have no idea. Shiara's standard music should be something soft but fun... perhaps take the first 20 seconds of Lieberman's version of Killing Me Softly and extend it into a full song.
Peter Gundry's "Last of Her Kind" could work if the violin is relegated to a background instrument instead of being so upfront. A drum would help, too.
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Her transformed state should have a similar tune, but faster and more violent.
Spoiler: Basic Info
Class: Fire Dancer / Inferno Incarnate
"She's more dangerous than she looks. Trust me." / "World's Cutest Conflagration."
5'4'' (162cm), Soft amber eyes, red-orange hair / Vaguely humanoid fire
Hobbies: Dancing, Music, reading waaay too much romantic literature, pining for unattainable women.
STATS: (Note, stats increase with levels, so what will be listed is a grading scale of A-F suggesting what you can expect of this character compared to equivalent levels).
Strength: D / D
Agility: A / S
Vitality: C / S
Intelligence: B / A
Perception: C / B
Willpower: B / S
Elements: Fire, Fire, More Fire
Combat Style: Functions as a "rogue" with environmental stealth and sneak attacks with her fire bolts. / All shall be ash before her.
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Shiara's defining ability is her transformation ability, which grants her significantly enhanced abilities by effectively merging her mind and body into a singular hyper-powered form. This form grants numerous advantages, but will drain her health and mana as long as she's in it. Best saved for boss-crushing.
Shiara has a general stat advantage over almost all other party members- her core weakness is that there is an exceedingly limited amount of equipment she can use. She has no armor, and with exception to her dagger, no weapons or accessories. She can use sarite, but only a limited amount of fire oriented options.
Spoiler: Combat Features
BASE ABILITIES: These are natural traits available to Shiara.
Fire Bolt- Shiara has a single-target fire spell that she can use at will without costing mana.
Immune to Fire- Shiara has blanket immunity to any harmful effect which has heat or flame as part of its element. She can still benefit from positive spells with that descriptor. She still takes damage from any physical harm included- such as with a burning arrow or inhaling toxic smoke.
Internal Furnace- Shiara's body is a (super)natural furnace, making her resistant to cold, immune to all natural diseases, and most unnatural ones.
Emergency Morph- If Shiara suffers from any form of mind control, poison, or life-threatening injury, her body will enter elemental mode in order to save her without her awareness or control.
Transformation- When Shiara enters her elemental mode she gains immunity to all physical damage, chemicals, and any mind-altering effects. Outside effects (say, blindness by being in a fog or smoke filled area rather than eye damage) are unaffected.
In her transformed state, she losed the 'internal furnace' trait and can now has a vulnerability to cold, ice, and water attacks.
Meldcast Effect: Burn- Any spell with this effect deals 50% of its damage again next round.
WEAPON TYPE:
Ecrosian Dagger- The only weapon Shiara can use. It's a reasonably high stat item for the early game, but becomes obsolete fast. Not that Shiara should be in melee combat.
ARMOR TYPE:
None- Shiara can't wear armor, and in fact has a limited number of clothes she can use without destroying them when she transforms.
MAGIC STYLES:
FIRE: Yeah. Just "fire". Lots and lots of burning. Her transformed state greatly increases damage output.
Firebolt - Free cost quick attack that counts as ranged for attack accuracy.
Explosion - Fire damage explosion, quick and cheap for the damage, also causes stun and daze status effects.
Flametouch - This spell lets her deal fire damage (as 'bolt') every time she strikes or is struck in melee.
Fireflash - Does fire damage and blinds target. Must be healed to recover sight
Bloodboil - Does serious heat damage and can cause mental status damage like confusion and rage
Manaburn - Causes target to lose a great deal of magic as it converts to flame and vents
Flamethrower - Short-ranged stream of fire
Nova - A spherical explosion with herself in the center
Ignition - Target bursts into flames that cause continuous damage, lowers stats, and reduce fire resistance. All effects grow slowly over time.
Flame Dance - Shiara wraps herself in flame, and actually does a dance performance that can affect the minds of men (and gay women). Those entranced will do nothing but watch her unless attacked. This mind effect relies on agility
Heatwave - Forces the elemental field to shift toward fire, causing the temperature to match those of the worst deserts. Greatly lowers vitality for everyone who isn't fire resistant, especially those in heavy armor.
Hotplate - Causes targeted metal armor or weapon to get incredibly hot. Victim will attempt to drop or otherwise escape the object. For every turn they're in contact with the heated metal, deals damage that increases over time.
Immolation - Killing move. Deals high damage to target, and if the target is killed, causes an equal damage explosion.
Dragon Breath - Generates a cone of flame that slowly reduces in potency and increaces in width/height as it gets further from Shiara