Seihwa Velvetfang, splash art

Hero

Seihwa Velvetfang

The Sweet Poison

  • Assassin
  • Melee
  • AoE
  • Debuff

Origin Court poisoner of the Ministry of Tribute

Seihwa mixed remedies for the Ministry of Tribute in Hwaryun-of-Lamps, and poisoned the tea of magistrates whose quotas killed more than illness. She poured the tea at the hearing that named Iraen Cinderwake's fire treason and said nothing; Iraen calls it betrayal, and its chair died that month. The magistrate who locked Taruvai's grain in famine drank her tea too, so Dorgai Chainmaw's hook takes any officer who reaches for her. When heaven's Apothecary brewed plagues for the cure trade, she emptied her stills into the ministers' wells, all but one small lacquered gourd. Foes walk smiling toward her silk wings, and every spell drinks their life. Medicine is her destined office; the Apothecary has never given away a cure.

Every cure is a poison measured with caution. I measure mine to kill gods.

Seihwa Velvetfang
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Level 1 to 36

Attributes

Health (HP)
580 3590
3590 at level 36 +3,010 from level 1
Mana
300 1350
1350 at level 36 +1,050 from level 1
Attack (ATK)
66 269
269 at level 36 +203 from level 1
Armor
22 64
64 at level 36 +42 from level 1
Magic Resist
28 59.5
59.5 at level 36 +31.5 from level 1
Attack Speed
0.86 1.31
1.31 at level 36 +0.45 from level 1
Move Speed
3.5 m/s 3.5 m/s
Fixed Fixed
Attack Range
1.1 m 1.1 m
Fixed Fixed

6 skills

Skills

Skill I

Beckoning Kiss

Active
  • Single
  • CC
Cooldown
12s
Cost
60 mana
Cooldown
9.5s
Cost
90 mana

Level 1

Blow a kiss at the enemy backline within 8m: 70 magic damage and it walks toward Seihwa, charmed, for 1s.

Next: level 2 at hero level 7

Blow a kiss at the enemy backline within 8m: 105 magic damage and it walks toward Seihwa, charmed, for 1.1s.

Level 6

Blow a kiss at the enemy backline within 8m: 245 magic damage and it walks toward Seihwa, charmed, for 1.5s.

Seihwa perfected this greeting while serving tea to greedy magistrates in Hwaryun-of-Lamps. She touches two fingers to her rouged lips and blows a soft breath across the battlefield, scattering a drift of lacquer-red mist and plum-colored petals toward the distant lines. As the scented haze strikes her mark, the victim drops their guard in dazed longing and walks helplessly toward her trailing sleeves.

Skill II

Silkwing Dash

Active
  • Single
  • Debuff
  • Mobility
Cooldown
8s
Cost
45 mana
Cooldown
6.25s
Cost
70 mana

Level 1

Dash up to 6m at the target on silk wings; enemies in the path take 40 magic damage and 25% slow for 1.5s.

Next: level 2 at hero level 8

Dash up to 6m at the target on silk wings; enemies in the path take 60 magic damage and 25% slow for 1.5s.

Level 6

Dash up to 6m at the target on silk wings; enemies in the path take 140 magic damage and 25% slow for 1.5s.

She fashioned her wings when fleeing the Ministry of Tribute after emptying their poisonous stills into the court wells. Leaping forward, Seihwa spreads the twin panels of translucent rose silk over their slender black lacquered ribs, gliding low across the ranks in a streak of plum light. The trailing silk cuts through enemies in her path, chilling their limbs with lingering rose fumes that leave them staggering in her wake.

Skill III

Heartsblood

Passive
  • Stats

Level 1

Passive: +10% spell vamp and +6% skill damage.

Next: level 2 at hero level 9

Passive: +13% spell vamp and +9% skill damage.

Level 6

Passive: +25% spell vamp and +21% skill damage.

While brewing tonics for the starving folk of Taruvai, Seihwa discovered how to draw vigor from the very venoms she distilled. Whenever her arts strike home, the red lacquered gourd at her sash pulses with a warm crimson glow, feeding dark vitality back into her veins. Her sleepy dark eyes brighten with predatory grace, and faint plum vapors swirl around her fingers to sharpen every subsequent incantation.

Skill IV

Thornlash

Active
  • AoE
  • Debuff
Cooldown
7s
Cost
55 mana
Cooldown
5.5s
Cost
85 mana

Level 1

Lash a 4m cone with venomed thorns: 90 magic damage and -10 magic resist for 3s.

Next: level 2 at hero level 10

Lash a 4m cone with venomed thorns: 135 magic damage and -13 magic resist for 3s.

Level 6

Lash a 4m cone with venomed thorns: 315 magic damage and -25 magic resist for 3s.

She braided her thorn lash from green-black silk cord after watching Heaven's Apothecary turn healing draughts into cruel taxes. Uncoiling the cord from her right hip, she snaps her wrist forward in a wide sweeping arc. A fan-shaped spray of rose thorns glistens with purple venom as it cuts through the air, stripping away arcane wards and stinging flesh in a shower of plum embers.

Skill V

Bitter Nectar

Active
  • Debuff
Cooldown
12s
Cost
45 mana
Cooldown
9.5s
Cost
70 mana

Level 1

Taint the weakest enemy within 6m: it takes 12% more damage for 4s.

Next: level 2 at hero level 11

Taint the weakest enemy within 6m: it takes 15% more damage for 4s.

Level 6

Taint the weakest enemy within 6m: it takes 27% more damage for 4s.

Seihwa concocted this deadly draught to punish the hoarder magistrate who starved the valleys while protected behind iron gates. Pulling the gold stopper from her red lacquered gourd, she points a porcelain finger toward the most wounded foe. A glistening bead of black-violet nectar arcs through the air and splashes against their chest, dissolving into a sickly rose stain that leaves their flesh soft, vulnerable, and burning under all incoming blows.

Skill VI

Last Embrace

Ultimate
  • AoE
  • CC
  • Mobility
Cooldown
50s
Cost
160 mana
Cooldown
37.5s
Cost
310 mana

Level 1

Ultimate: blink up to 10m into the enemy: everyone within 3m of the landing takes 220 magic damage and is charmed for 1s.

Next: level 2 at hero level 12

Ultimate: blink up to 10m into the enemy: everyone within 3.2m of the landing takes 396 magic damage and is charmed for 1.1s.

Level 6

Ultimate: blink up to 10m into the enemy: everyone within 4m of the landing takes 1320 magic damage and is charmed for 1.5s.

She swore her destined oath of Medicine not to preserve corrupt rulers, but to grant the realm an exquisite end to tyranny. Seihwa vanishes in a swirl of plum silk and reappears instantly amidst the enemy lines, her translucent rose wings snapping wide on black lacquered ribs. A blooming shockwave of lacquer-red mist and toxic blossoms erupts around her feet, crushing nearby foes with sudden agony and freezing them in bewitched, adoring stillness.

Four views

Character sheet

Seihwa Velvetfang from the front, both sides and the back
Seihwa Velvetfang, character sheet. Select the image to open it full screen.

Appearance

Seihwa is a slender, graceful woman of about thirty with porcelain skin, a delicate oval face, sleepy smiling dark eyes, rouged lips and black hair piled high with jade pins. She wears the court dress of a Hwaryun physician: layered silk robes of deep rose and plum, a gold peony-embroidered skirt and long trailing sleeves. On her back are her silk wings: two long panels of translucent rose silk stretched over slender black lacquered ribs from her shoulder blades, folded like a cape at rest and spread wide when she dashes. At her sash hangs one small red lacquered gourd with a gold stopper. Her weapon is a thorn lash: a long braided whip of green-black silk cord studded along its length with real rose thorns dipped in purple venom, coiled at her right hip. Palette: rose, plum, lacquer red. Silhouette hook: a court lady with rose silk wings spread and a thorned whip trailing.