Cassia Arden
Crimson Hand
Pronouns she/her Age 27 Likes Misdirection, Quiet rooftops
Base stats
Level 1 base, and the Level 60 projection. Stats grow ~10% of base per level (HP/ATK/DEF); Speed does not scale with level, so a fast hero stays fast relative to the field all game.
Element matchups
Dark heroes resolve their type advantage like this:
Advantage is ×1.30, disadvantage ×0.75. See the full type chart →
Signature abilities
Detailed ability breakdowns
These signature abilities now fire in battle with their own damage and cooldowns — a bigger skill or ultimate hits harder, and the two healers restore HP instead of striking. Still on the way here on the site: the full per-ability breakdown (exact multipliers and effects), plus deeper mechanics like status effects and multi-target hits.
Lore
Nobody in the Solstice court remembers hiring Cassia Arden, which is precisely the point. She arrived in the capital as a guest of someone who could not later recall extending the invitation, attended three seasons of salons on an accent no one could place, and left with the floor-plans of two ministries, the marriage-debts of a Magistrate, and the only surviving copy of a treaty annex the Crimson Hand had been told did not exist. She did all of it, by every account that survives, while being looked directly at. People remember the dress. People remember the way the room turned toward her when she laughed. People do not remember her leaving.
Her school is the one the Hand simply files as 'close-work' — a discipline of shadow and edge that the imperial investigators insist must involve a glamour and that Cassia insists is only attention, correctly spent. She moves a room's eyes where she wants them and is elsewhere by the time they return. The Phoenix Verdict the chronicles name after her is the rare engagement she chooses to be seen finishing; she has used it eleven times, each against a target she decided, after review, deserved a witness. The blade-work underneath the beauty is genuinely lethal and genuinely quiet, and the operatives who have trained against her describe the experience, uniformly, as losing track of where she was standing.
What she wants is not in any file the Hand keeps, and the handler who debriefs her after each rotation has stopped asking. She came out of the Solstice Empire's tactical office before the Hand had her — that much the records agree on — and every operation she plans still reads, to the imperial analysts who study them, like their own doctrine run backward by someone who helped write it. She thanks the handler for each debrief. She corrects, occasionally, his pronunciation. She has never once told him what the Verdict is for.
Bond stories
- The One Who Remembers · unlocks at bond Lv 10
- The Twelfth Witness · unlocks at bond Lv 25