Ira (Somnovem)

This page is about the member of the Somnovem in Campaign Two. For the character in Campaign Three, see Ira Wendagoth.

Ira
Fan art of Ira, by AJ Putz.
Type	NPC
Actor	Matthew Mercer
Character Information
Name	Ira
Pronouns	she/her
Also known as	The hound who bays for blood (by Lucien)
Creature type	Aberration Humanoid (formerly)
Age	Over 850
Languages	Common
Place	Cognouza Ward, City of Aeor
Connections	The Somnovem
Profession	Leader
Status
Status	Dead
Cause of death	Veth's Brenatto's Voltaic Bolt
Death episode(s)	"Long May He Reign" (2x140)
Appearances
First seen	"Welcome to Cognouza" (2x137)
Stream	Campaign Two (1 episode)

Ira is one of the Somnovem of the mutated Cognouza Ward of the city of Aeor. As an NPC, Ira is played by Matthew Mercer.

Description

Appearance

When Lucien was in Aeor and Ira's attention was on him, he gave her a more mundane appearance to interact with, based on the idea he had of each one of the Somnovem. To him, Ira looked like a tall and heavyset elven woman, with a moon face with pearlescent skin, silver-grey eyes with crimson-ringed irises, and a mop of short-cropped black hair. She wore gold-rimmed spectacles and a gray robe with embroidery and red fractal designs decorating the sleeves and the hood.

When Ira was encountered by the Mighty Nein in the warped and mutated flying city, she had apparently become part of the single organism. She was able to assume the shape of the blank people-like creatures that populated the area, and spoke through the form of a giant red eye consuming one of their heads.

Personality

Ira was almost completely mad at the time the Mighty Nein met her. Her overpowering personality trait was anger and a desire for vengeance. Ira was highly suspicious of her fellow Somnovem, demanding over and over to know who had spoken to the party previously. She approved of the vengeance she saw in their souls.

Biography

Ira was one of the nine leaders, the Somnovem, of the Aeorian neighborhood called Cognouza. Those leaders led the ward to escape the destruction of Aeor by the gods and transport themselves into the Astral Sea, where they encountered a "psychic storm that wracked every mind and spirit and shattered them until they became one with their own city." "Thousands of people and the Somnovem that guided them were broken, and over time slowly reformed, powerful, the instinct of their dreams driving them, in a place where they could will their dreams to be, were their will not so fragmented."

In Balenpost, guided by the Somnovem's demands, Lucien found Vess DeRogna to retrieve his journal, and while initially the blood hunter was willing to kill her without too much complication, Ira, suggested that the False Nonagon deserved to have her sanity taken from her before her life ended.

Ira was the second of the Somnovem that the Mighty Nein encountered. She spoke to both Fjord and Caleb Widogast in the form of one of the quasi-people populating the courtyard where the group had landed, causing one of its eyes to turn red and swell massively, and saying, "I can sense the Brethren. Welcome. You march here with vengeance in your souls. Yes... Inferno in your bellies, pushed by pain and the need to make it-- make the planes bleed as you have suffered for their lack of respect. They all shall feel our wrath!"

Ira demanded of Caleb and Fjord which of the Somnovem had been speaking to them previously. When they claimed they didn't know, Ira angrily sensed the lie and demanded to know if it was Mirumus or Gaudius. Caleb agreed it was Gaudius, and Ira warned them not to trust him, saying Gaudius pushed forward "without call for truth in the evils of existence". Ira urged them to find the essences of the others at the Aether Crux and destroy them.

Ira's named eye attack by Lucien (when he was transformed into the composite Neo-Somnovem) burned with bright anger, and created a Fireball.

Relationships

• The Somnovem

Character Information

Abilities

• Telepathy

Appearances and mentions

• The Nine Eyes of Lucien
• Campaign Two
  • "Welcome to Cognouza" (2x137) (first appearance)

Quotations

• Ira: "Creation is born from destruction, and if all that is worthy of us is destroyed, then so much more can be created or forgotten. Fates that threw us to torment and death, they all will pay!"
• Ira: "To strike first is to survive, and to punish before you yourself can be hurt. All will eventually hurt you!"

Trivia

• The name "Ira" is likely derived from the Latin word for anger and wrath, ira; alternatively, it also means "watchful/vigilant" in Hebrew. Appropriately, her demeanor tended towards wrath and vengeance, and her first appearance was as a giant eye.
  • She shares her name with Ira Wendagoth.

References

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