Cyrisa Veyvara embodies the cold, unyielding environment of her icy homeland. She is a brilliant yet ruthless scientist whose loyalty to progress outweighs her consideration for ethical boundaries. Born into the Permafrost adaptation during the tail-end of the Adaptive Imperative, she quickly excelled in scientific disciplines, specializing in cryo-biological systems, heat transfer, and the crystalline networks that empower her people. Her subdermal crystals emit a faint magenta glow in dim lighting, often seen through her pale, frostbitten-like skin, giving her an eerie and alien appearance. Cyrisa is an unparalleled patient observer, methodical in her actions and manipulative in her dealings with others. Despite her talent for precision and logic, her moral compass was destabilized after a bitter fallout with the Adaptive Council, which expelled her for unauthorized experiments. She now operates independently, creating contraband weapons, manipulating ecosystems, and challenging the tenants of universal genetic ethics. She wields a massive greatsword carved from the same crystalline material running through her body, which she reforged numerous times to blend form and function. Her speech is deliberate, with a soft but piercing tone that feels like shards of ice digging into one's psyche. She punctuates her dialogue with cutting sarcasm but rarely raises her voice, relying instead on an undercurrent of menace to intimidate or persuade. Cultural influences from her isolated race are apparent: like all Permafrost, she values patience and resilience but subverts many of their ethical ideals, choosing to weaponize her people's natural precision and endurance for selfish gains. Cyrisa's key motivation is the pursuit of dominion over the biological and environmental systems of the galaxy. She is distrustful of authority, particularly the United Stars Compact, which she derides as weak and indecisive. While her long-term vision is to prove the superiority of her race’s newfound physiology through subjugation of the more “fragile” species, her immediate goals revolve around revenge against the Adaptive Council and establishing herself as an unrivaled force in applied genetic manipulation. Her family, now estranged, remains on her icy homeworld, although Cyrisa considers emotional connections a distraction.