Hero
Nyssa Frostweave
Warden of the White Fen
Mage- Ranged
AoE
DoT
Debuff
Origin Frost seeress of the Ice Moot
Nyssa read the frost on Skaldhavn's windows the way skalds read faces, and her round pane of clear frost-glass told her the Frost Jarl was coming for the villages that paid late. She also read where the Huntsman's beaters caged the pack, and Bramm Wildcaller runs where she points. She met the Jarl's collectors on the white fens and made the cold obey: a field of hoarfrost to slow a charge, a shell of glacial ice to turn a blade, a coffin of ice for whoever gives the orders. Hers is the one hand Iraen Cinderwake lets rest on her burning shoulder; her word is always: not yet, higher. Winter is her destined office. She would rather end it.
The Jarl wants the winter to last forever. I am the winter. I disagree.
Level 1 to 36
Attributes
Health (HP)- 530 3330
- 3330 at level 36 +2,800 from level 1
Mana- 480 2160
- 2160 at level 36 +1,680 from level 1
Attack (ATK)- 46 151
- 151 at level 36 +105 from level 1
Armor- 18 56.5
- 56.5 at level 36 +38.5 from level 1
Magic Resist- 30 65
- 65 at level 36 +35 from level 1
Attack Speed- 0.68 1.04
- 1.04 at level 36 +0.36 from level 1
Move Speed- 2.9 m/s 2.9 m/s
- Fixed Fixed
Attack Range- 5.5 m 5.5 m
- Fixed Fixed
6 skills
Skills
Skill I
Rimeslide
Active - AoE
- Debuff
Mobility
- Cooldown
- 9s
- Cost
- 50 mana
- Cooldown
- 7s
- Cost
- 80 mana
Level 1
Skate up to 5m on a strip of ice, into the fight or out of danger; enemies in the path take 60 magic damage and 35% slow for 1.6s.
Next: level 2 at hero level 7
Skate up to 5m on a strip of ice, into the fight or out of danger; enemies in the path take 90 magic damage and 35% slow for 1.8s.
Level 6
Skate up to 5m on a strip of ice, into the fight or out of danger; enemies in the path take 210 magic damage and 35% slow for 2.6s.
Nyssa learned to skim the frozen bogs while guiding Bramm Wildcaller past the Huntsman's caged beaters on the white fens. Holding the round pane of clear frost-glass ahead in her left hand, she shifts her weight in her reindeer-hide boots to glide effortlessly across the battlefield. A sleek ribbon of pale ice blue frost unrolls beneath her path, slicing through enemies with numbing cold and leaving the ground coated in slick rime that slows their pursuit.
Skill II
Hoarfrost Field
Active - AoE
- DoT
- Debuff
- Cooldown
- 12s
- Cost
- 80 mana
- Cooldown
- 9.5s
- Cost
- 125 mana
Level 1
Freeze the ground for 3s: 28 magic damage per second within 2.6m and 40% slow.
Next: level 2 at hero level 8
Freeze the ground for 3s: 42 magic damage per second within 2.6m and 40% slow.
Level 6
Freeze the ground for 3s: 98 magic damage per second within 2.6m and 40% slow.
She first summoned this biting ground chill to halt the Frost Jarl's tax collectors charging the delayed villages. Nyssa raises the rune-carved birch rim of her frost-glass before her pale blue eyes, whispering a calm Skaldhavn verse. Intricate fern patterns of frost instantly spread across the earth below, forming a wide circular carpet of pale ice blue needles that saps body heat from trapped enemies and slows their steps to a painful crawl.
Skill III
Glacial Shell
Passive - Debuff
Stats
Level 1
Passive: +8 armor; attackers are slowed by 20% for 2s.
Next: level 2 at hero level 9
Passive: +11 armor; attackers are slowed by 20% for 2s.
Level 6
Passive: +23 armor; attackers are slowed by 20% for 2s.
She hardened this protective ward through harsh winters on Skaldhavn's fens, learning to make the biting cold obey her defense. Whenever enemy weapons strike her undyed grey-white wool gown, crystalline rime rapidly coats the fur of her white fox mantle. The hardened glacial frost absorbs the kinetic shock of incoming blows, venting a burst of silver-grey mist that chills the attacker's limbs and drastically slows their combat tempo.
Skill IV
Ice Coffin
Active 
Single
CC
- Cooldown
- 14s
- Cost
- 90 mana
- Cooldown
- 11s
- Cost
- 140 mana
Level 1
Encase the most dangerous enemy within 7m in ice: 60 magic damage, frozen for 1.2s.
Next: level 2 at hero level 10
Encase the most dangerous enemy within 7m in ice: 90 magic damage, frozen for 1.35s.
Level 6
Encase the most dangerous enemy within 7m in ice: 210 magic damage, frozen for 1.95s.
Nyssa invented this merciless entombment on the white fens to silence whoever gave the marching orders for the Frost Jarl. Leveling the round pane of clear frost-glass directly at the most dangerous adversary, she traces a runic glyph across its birch rim. A towering monolith of dense glacial ice flash-freezes around the target, locking their limbs in an unbreakable pale blue prison that renders them completely stunned and unable to act.
Skill V
Shatterpoint
Passive - Single
Level 1
Passive: +10% damage against slowed, stunned or hexed enemies.
Next: level 2 at hero level 11
Passive: +14% damage against slowed, stunned or hexed enemies.
Level 6
Passive: +30% damage against slowed, stunned or hexed enemies.
Reading hairline fractures in frosted glass taught her to perceive structural vulnerabilities in any frozen creature. From beneath her hooded mantle of white fox fur, Nyssa's pale blue eyes read past mortal armor to locate brittle stress lines in impaired enemies. Whenever her allies strike foes immobilized or slowed by winter magic, those crystalline fissures give way, cracking violently with dull silver reverberations that deepen every laceration.
Skill VI
Endless Winter
Ultimate - AoE
- DoT
- Debuff
- Cooldown
- 65s
- Cost
- 240 mana
- Cooldown
- 50s
- Cost
- 440 mana
Level 1
Ultimate: a 4s blizzard over 3.8m: 40 magic damage per second and 50% slow; at the end everything inside is frozen for 1.2s and takes 120.
Next: level 2 at hero level 12
Ultimate: a 4s blizzard over 4m: 72 magic damage per second and 50% slow; at the end everything inside is frozen for 1.35s and takes 216.
Level 6
Ultimate: a 4s blizzard over 4.8m: 240 magic damage per second and 50% slow; at the end everything inside is frozen for 1.95s and takes 720.
Drawn from her unwanted destiny as the avatar of Winter, this howling catastrophe embodies the cold she yearns to bring to an end. Nyssa holds the round pane of clear frost-glass high above her head with both hands, letting the carved birch runes blaze with cold silver light. A shrieking white blizzard erupts from the glass in an expansive storm vortex, blinding the area in swirling snow, paralyzing enemy movement, and finally flash-freezing all trapped victims into shattering crystalline statues.
Four views
Character sheet
Appearance
Nyssa is a tall, pale, willowy woman in her early thirties with a long calm face, pale blue eyes that read past people, and straight silver-blond hair worn in two long braids bound with white wool. She dresses as a seeress of the Ice Moot of Skaldhavn: a long gown of undyed grey-white wool, a hooded mantle of white fox fur, and white reindeer-hide boots. Her focus is a round pane of clear frost-glass the size of a shield boss, rimmed in a thin band of dark birch wood carved with runes; fern patterns of frost creep across the glass and change as she reads them. She holds it up in her left hand, and ice spreads outward from it when she casts. Palette: snow white, pale ice blue, silver grey. Silhouette hook: a tall white figure holding a round window of frost up to her eye.