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| “ | I suppose the one piece of luck for you is that you do not have piles of money at your disposal. But even so, I still have enough reason to kill you. Let us begin again. Let us begin the gamble of the Leshy, the ruler of the forest!! | „ |
| ~ Saronia A. Irivika to Touma Kamijou. |
Saronia A. Irivika is a major antagonist in the light novel series A Certain Magical Index: New Testament, serving as the main antagonist of the Hawaii Invasion Arc.
A Russian magician who was originally part of the Russian Orthodox Church's forces, Saronia joins GREMLIN and aids Othinus in her schemes so she can get revenge on the nations and individuals who profited from World War 3 while Russia was torn apart.
She is voiced by Ayano Shibuya.
Appearance[]
Saronia is a young girl around the age of 14-15 years old with short blonde hair and blue eyes. She wears a green turtleneck and miniskirt, and a green hairband which is made out of tree branches. She also wears thigh high brown boots and carried a satchel with her.
Personality[]
While not much of her personality is displayed, it's clear that Saronia is a cruel and manipulative individual, which goes hand-in-hand with her power to control people's minds. She is shown to be willing to do anything to achieve her goals, such as taking children as hostages and eliminating anyone who stands in her way. She is also uncaring of the casualties that may occur from her plan to erupt the volcanoes on Hawaii.
Despite her magic requiring her to be outside, Saronia describes herself as an indoor person. She also apparently thinks herself as European and hates calling Russia part of Asia.
Biography[]
A Russian magician who was originally part of the Russian Orthodox Church's forces, Saronia had been deployed to Vladivostok to stop Academy City from landing but had little to do since the invasion was primarily carried out by supersonic bombers. She later disappeared in the confusion of the war's ending before defecting to GREMLIN with her goal of getting revenge on Academy City and America because of their actions during the post-war period. After World War III was over, she began taking control of several important people in the central government of the United States of America in order to further the plans of Gremlin and was later one of the pawns used by the organization in their attack on Hawaii together with Cendrillon.
Powers and Abilities[]
Powers[]
- Leshy: Saronia's main magic is based on the Leshy, a male woodland spirit of Slavic mythology. The Leshy is the ruler of the forest and the king of all animals that live there and a fairy who loves gambling. Saronia makes herself the Leshy of her surroundings, giving her an ability to rule over people who are designated as residents of the forest. At first, Leivinia Birdway gathered information indicating that Saronia needed to use Russian conifers for her magic. However, it is later revealed that this was just a lie. Saronia can actually use any plant in Hawaii for her magic, however, she requires the plant to be part of an enclave, a territory that is separate from a governing body, and is within the territory of another. This enclave is what establishes the Leshy's forest and sets Saronia as the Leshy/ruler, with all who dwell in it as the residents.
- Enclaves: Anyone within one of Saronia's enclaves is under her control. To create one, Saronia needs to set up an exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide on the area, one of the most basic things in the relations between animals and plants. To do this, Saronia normally needs to release Russian animals into the area she wants to turn into an enclave. The animals that create the cycle of oxygen and carbon dioxide within the Leshy’s forest become residents of the forest. And when these residents of the forest go elsewhere and exchange oxygen and carbon dioxide with the local plants, that becomes the Leshy’s enclave. It takes a few days to properly set up an enclave, which forces Saronia to set up small enclaves ahead of time to target people. Instead of slowly making an enclave out of the local plants she can skip those few days by bringing in a plant from the original forest to function as a core, though such a rushed enclave will be destroyed much more easily, as there's only one source for her magic.
- Group Psychology: Saronia's magic works by gathering the minds of small, simple creatures like insects and reptiles, allowing her to control the minds of a majority of the creatures in this area. These ‘forest residents’ are forcibly linked by something like group psychology and this allows her to focus their malice and hostility on one point. Because of this, she can externally interfere with and distort the mind that is normally inside a person using a "majority rule", as through her magic inside the enclave there is no difference between the weight of a human's mind and a beetle's mind.
- Mind Control: Saronia can take control of people by making them touch a plant of the enclave, which will make them symbolically a resident of her forest and allow her to control them as marionettes as long as they are touching that part of the tree. Since she'll lose control if they let go, Saronia first order is likely to "hold onto the portion no matter what", or even order them to swallow it. She can force the people she's controlling to go past their human limits, ignoring pain and injuries. This part of the spell appears to require a fully developed enclave to work, as both Touma and Birdway commented on the fact Saronia wasn't controlling them.
- Punishment: A spell developed by Saronia to obtain immediate power even on recent or rushed enclaves. Anyone who obstructs the development of the plants will receive punishment. That obstruction can be stepping on a seed, being hit by a seed thrown by Saronia or getting in the way of pollen as it flows through the air. The punishment takes the form of the paralysis of the body part who has caused the obstruction. For example, when hit by pollen, Touma's left arm became unusable as all strength left his arm, and he similarly lost any feeling on his left side when it was hit again by the pollen released by Saronia. Saronia then commented that Touma had been lucky, as if he had inhaled the pollen he would have undergone multiple organ failure. Additionally, since the magic affects the mind and not the physical body, Imagine Breaker can't negate this spell by touching the affected body part.
Abilities[]
- Expert Martial Artist: As part of her countermeasures against Touma Kamijou, Saronia is highly skilled in martial arts, having trained herself extensively to be able to fight him, specifically focusing in training her legs to kick her opponents. While Touma admitted she was well-trained, Saronia still chose to fight him only after he had been affected by her magic, and Touma managed to defeat her without much trouble once he destroyed her enclave and recovered from being paralyzed.
