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New hero idea: Nyx, a girl with special abilities and a unique connection to Taka's former life. Using the powers the Moon has granted her, she gains powers that improve her crystal power and movement speed. Nyx is a jungle mage that stuns and deals burst damage to heroes while also healing herself. She excels at fighting on the edge and then locking down enemies that try to flee.

The wind gently pushed the grass under the watchful eye of the full moon. It's gaze piercing a silent assassin who stalked its prey under the shelter of great oak trees. Water swirled in graceful circles above dark scarlet fox ears in the clearing as the assassin watched carefully, searching its victim for a weakness. A girl, about 14, with her back to him and her amber hair billowing in the wind. Tattoos curled down the girls arms in a wave-like pattern, pulsing different shades of blue. A fly landed on one of the assassins white fox ears, and it twitched. The girls hands went ridged and the water above her grew sharp and frozen. She can find someone with just the slightest movement? Who is this girl? The assasin stood completely still as did the girl. Another fly buzzed on the assasin's ear and it flicked it away by impulse. A second later, razor sharp ice shards were hurldeling through the air at the white eared fox. He flipped over them just in time to have them scrape his cheek. Blood started to trickle down the assassins face. He looked up to the girl facing him, arms moving gently like the pushing and pulling of the tides by the moon.

"Why have you come?" She said as her sea green eyes gazed curiously, like a cat toying with a mouse, at the assassins.

"You have been warned before not to wander in the Tangled woods. I am the silent assassin, the Shiro Kage who guards this forest. I will kill to keep to these woods peaceful."

"I must warn you, no assassin has ever been able to kill me." With a flick of her finger the ice shards embedded in the oak trees melted away and returned to their master as crystal clear water. Then the girl lowered herself into a defensive position, her arms outstretched in front of her, the water snaking down her arm defending her. Cocky, just like me. She reminds me of me when I was younger.

"Then I will be the first." The assassin smiled. "Let's get started." The Shiro Kage sprinted toward the girl, thin bone blades protruding from his arm as his bushy white tail streamed behind him. The girl flipped over him, her scarlet tail flowing behind her. She landed effortlessly. She uses techniques of the place I destroyed! Anger started to build in the forest guardian. He attacked again only to see her dodge again. This time the girl managed to slash the assassins arm with her sharp water. The assassins rage grew so big he was pulsing dark waves of Ki. He yelled out in fury so loud that all the birds in the Tangled Wood were startled and flew away into the night. The girl was also taken aback. Seeing this moment of weakness, the assassin cut through the girl, all of his anger poured into his blades. By instinct, she moved just in time that his blades hit her side. She gasped in pain, as a blood started to well, staining her slashed black clothes. Quickly she guided the water to her wound and let it lie there, slowly healing her as it pulsed different shades of blue. The assassin walked up to her, showing mercy.

"This is your final warning. Leave the woods." She looked up with tear filled eyes, her ears dropping and tail curled around her. That wasn't even a real fight. She has much to learn about the life of a rogue.

"I-I have no where to go..." She was on the brink of sobbing. "I didn't harm anything or anyone! Please let me stay!" The assassin sighed deeply pondering the idea of just leaving her. He would have at one point. But he was the Shiro Kage, guardian of the Tangled Woods, bringer of justice. He couldn't live with himself if he left her. Once already had he strayed from the path of good, when he killed his mentor and ran errands for House Kamuha.

"Fine. Come with me." The assassin started walking into the woods.

"Thanks." She hobbled to her feet, struggling to follow. "What's your name?"

"Taka. Yours?" She's pretty cheerful all of a sudden, didn't I just stab her? She must be alone in the world.

"Nyx." The moon became covered by the trees and it grew dark. Nyx looked frightened. Taka awkwardly offered a hand to her. She accepted gratefully and grew more comfortable in the darkness of the Tangled Wood. They walked together, sharing the girls weight.

"Why are you here in the Tangled Wood?" Taka asked as he helped Nyx traverse the overgrown forest floor.

"I come from a house of assassins. They did evil things there, things I could never bring myself to do. A year ago I managed to escape my home and ever since, my mother has sent assassins after me because of my gift, or maybe it's because I am the only daughter of her house. Usually every month or so they would find me, and I could escape from them. But this month no one came."

The moon child looked up at the silent assassin with a weak smile."I think I might finally be free of House Kamuha."

To be continued...

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Nyx: Ranged-Jungler-Mage
Heroic perk and Abilities

Heroic perk: Instinct
Nyx was born with the ability to bend water to her will, and very rare gift in her land. Instead of energy, her abilities require certain amounts of water to activate. She gains 5% max water every 1.5 second outside of combat(2 seconds within combat) with a max of 100% water. With every ability, she gets 20% the water used back. Nyx gains a stack of Instinct every 6 seconds maxing out at 6 stacks, falling off after 2.6 seconds without basic attacking or using an ability. With more stacks stored, the less time it takes for a stack(6-5-4-3-2-1). 1 stack equals +.1 movement speed and +5% attack speed.

Ability A: Icy waterfall
Nyx shots razor sharp ice shards in a small cone in a target direction, stunning any enemies for .8 seconds that are hit by the shards. This ability requires a minimum of 30% water to activate and can deal more damage with more water stored. Overdrive creates a longer cone. This ability grants 1 stack of Instinct.

Ability B: Healing waters
Nyx guides her water to her wounds and gets a burst of health and movement speed based on her crystal power. This ability requires 45% water to activate. The ability grants 1 stack of Instinct. Overdrive increases amount of health gained.

Ultimate: Full Moon
Nyx's powers are their strongest so she gains 150% of her crystal power, basic attacks that slow enemies slightly, and a barrier of health based on her crystal power before using her ult. This empowered state last for 2.6 seconds. This ability requires 85% water and grants 3 stacks of Instinct.
Hope you liked Nyx! Feel free to give feedback and comment! SEMC is allowed to use and change Nyx and is encouraged to!:3

What an epic hero man
I think the 1st idea for her ult is a little op
I preferred the 2nd idea

Wait you cant block it with reflex :o THIS IS EVEN MORE INSANE THIS PHINN ULT

Well it is kinda op, but she is freezing the blood in the target hero's body, you can't block that. Or the ult could be like Koshka's, it has an image of a Moon above Nyx before she uses it, allowing them to maybe block it.

The hero idea is nice but needs work!

Firstly...you use the name of a warcraft 3 nerubian assassin! I dont know if you know this....the name is from dota!
Second your hero A is bassicaly the same ability of that hero Archmage if not mistaken...in warcraft 3!
Thirdly your ultimate is not viable...too problematic to implement into the game i think!

What i think is ok is her perk but it seems a bit of a cross between takas perk and some others!
The idea with the water is nice and the overall idea of a hero fighting from the edges pf fight having the ability to destroy fleeing enemies is ok, it is like a ranged fortresss foghting from outside but it needs work...

Thanks for the feedback! I will try and change the abilities. Also I do not play WoW so I really don't know who those characters are:p, but I am not in anyway trying copy it. I got the name Nyx from my first game of D&D(that was my characters name since I thought it was cool). It's probably my favorite fantasy name. I could use more ideas for Nyx's kit too, cause I feel its a little all over the place. The perk is supposed to be like Taka's, not exactly but similar, because Nyx comes from House Kamuha and they received similar training techniques. Also with her ult, I was inspired for it after watching Avatar- The Last Airbender, the episode( if you have watched this TV show) where Katara discovers she can bend blood.

K I'll check it out:3