Iris Heights

New Pathfinder character...

So, to put some context behind this picture, this is Iris Heights, however, she is usually addressed as the "Dark Lady". She is an Obsidian Servant (Anti Paladin) who is the "adopted" of the Great Lord Morgan. She is sixteen years old and she is the twelfth member of the Hand's of Dusk, Morgan's inner circle of ruling Anti Paladins. In the Dominion in which her father rules, she is like royalty and many people see her as pampered and spoiled, and in which many cases they are right. She has the favour of the King and she is not afraid to use it to advance her own position.

The story behind Iris is that she is the daughter of Shaelyn Sage. When she was a year old she was kidnapped during a catastrophic event in Central City while her mother tried to defend Heights Facility against a crazed scientist she had made as an enemy. She was kidnapped by Morgan and he fled with her to the area he would make his new dominion in, the resting place of Shaelyn's village. Shaelyn was enraged by this breech of trust for her and Morgan had worked together in the past, although reluctantly. At the time of their temporary alliance, she made him swear that in return for the blade he wanted, in which she possessed, he would never harm her family. Since then Shaelyn has tried many times to rescue her daughter, but has failed. 

Morgan raised Iris in an environment of evil and cruelty, hardening her heart and destroying the innocence she possessed as a child. He taught her many lessons in pain, including flaying the skin from her right forearm, and instilled her with a dark power. Through her construed world-view, Iris believes her father has made her tolerant to pain and stronger with his cruelty. Her father also told her about her parents, in which she reacted rather negatively. As a child she had hoped to be saved, but when Morgan told Iris the stories of her mother's adventures and her wrong-doings, Iris began to believe that every person who pretended to be good was a liar because of the severity of the acts her mother had committed in the name of good. She believes that every person has an inherent evil nature and by hiding it, they are lying about who they are. Above everything, Iris hates liars.  

Iris' only goals now are to help her father rule the world and to be his second in command. Something close to that of an Empress while Morgan is Emperor (though not in a sexual relationship.) She cares little of the family she felt left her behind except for her mother's adoptive son, Mephiston, who Shaelyn took in when her friend, his father, died. She wants to destroy Mephiston for stealing what she believes was her place in her mother's heart and wants to make sure his line is eradicated because of it. 

So in short, Iris is a twisted, prideful, and wrathful young woman. 


Shaelyn Sage:   Morgan:  Iris: