Ira (Somnovem)

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

Appearance
Ira's appearance, age, race, or gender prior to the flight of Cognouza into the Astral Plane and its subsequent transformation are unknown.

When Ira was encountered by the Mighty Nein in the warped and mutated flying city, he had apparently become part of the single organism. He 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
While it is unknown what the pre-Calamity Ira's personality was, he was almost completely mad at the time the Mighty Nein met him. His overpowering personality trait was anger and a desire for vengeance. Ira was highly suspicious of his fellow Somnovem, demanding over and over to know who had spoken to the party previously. He approved of the vengeance he 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."

Ira was the second of the Somnovem that the party encountered. He 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

Abilities

 * Telepathy

Quotations

 * "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!"
 * "To strike first is to survive, and to punish before you yourself can be hurt. All will eventually hurt you!"

Trivia

 * The name "Ira" likely is derived from the Latin word for anger and wrath, ira.