A golem standing at five feet and seven inches, Innana sports a slim, flimsy-looking body with no significant muscles to speak of, hidden under hooded red robes and leather boots. His skin is a pale white, and feminine facial features work with long white hair to frame wide, deep green eyes. He carries with him an ancient steel staff, adorned at the top with a bizarre symbol with two curved protrusions running down opposite sides.

In the depths of the deserts of Iran, an ancient order sought to create a vessel for the revival of their ancient god. Created from hallowed clay, souls from fighters across the world, and a piece of metal that was said to be a fragment of a magical blade that was said to be a source of ki itself, the golem was to return an order to the world that had been lost with the fading of magic.

Well, Inanna certainly wasn't what they were expecting. The first thing he did when he rose from the arcane crucible was ask if they needed a light turned on in their occult basement. They’d strain their eyes if they worked in the dark like that, he explained to a crowd of confused hooded figures.

As Inanna began to experience the world around himself, his hobbies expanded to such awe-inspiring areas as singing, sewing, and occasionally cooking. His creators weren’t convinced that their little project had gone as intended, but decided to test his skills anyways. While he took fairly well to fighting with his staff, he had difficulty channeling his seemingly immense stores of ki. He was almost written off as a failure until one day of training; his opponent tried to land a finishing blow, only for a mysterious voice to leave Inanna's lips as his opponent ended up hitting himself in the head by way of two green portals.

Though it never spoke through him since then, he eventually began to hear it speak to him as he developed his arcane talents. While he enjoyed all of the positive reinforcement he was getting for once, Inanna eventually hit a brick wall. He simply wasn’t going to attune any further as a vessel in his current state. He eventually left his home, embarking on a worldwide search for either more souls or more shards similar to the one that served as his core. Mostly just the latter one though, he reasoned. His first stop was the tournament held in Rio. With so many strong fighters hanging around, someone had to know more about these things, right?

Trained in the style of his temple, Inanna uses momentum to make up for his lack of strength as he twirls and strikes his enemies with his staff to keep them at bay. Though it allows him to strike from a decent range, it isn’t anything special in terms of damage.

His real strength comes in the form of his ability to conjure magical portals around him. He can create up to two sets of two interlinked portals. Momentum of anything that goes through a portal will be carried through to the other side, and if a portal closes while something or someone is partway through it, they get spat out violently from whatever side contains most of the subject’s mass.

While Inanna’s portals give him the ability to move and attack all across the stage, he lacks strength and mobility outside of his gimmick. His best ways of dealing damage come from either gravity or the opponent’s own strength, meaning that those who can counteract such forces are that much better off. His portals also come with a fatal flaw; they work both ways, and leave him wide open to anyone smart enough to attack him through his own portal. Overall, he lacks the experience and drive to use his skills to their full potential.

Being designed as a vessel for another, Inanna is also more vulnerable to possession and similar shenanigans than most other beings.

Innana is capable of eating via breaking down food into the ki from whatever it was made from. He can even drink alcohol, though no one has ever dared to make him try it.

Vindani is a Naga, a mythological being whose lower body is a large snake's tail. In her true form (she's adept at disguises and shapeshifting and uses both in her line of work), she tends to 'stand' around 5'9, possessing olive toned skin and straightened black hair falling past her shoulders. Her eyes are a venomous, vibrant shade of green and the tail on her lower half has dark green scales with a cream underbelly. She has a wiry, wispy look to her that's almost seductive at times but still hides a fair bit of athleticism and power. When she's not disguised she wears the mage-like robes of a Collector, colored in the same tones as her tail with a sapphire gem set in the center and with her hood pulled up. The frayed ends aren't really there unless she's feeling particularly dramatic.

■Intelligent

■Calculating

■Seductive

■Ambitious

■Egotistical

■Obsessively Pursues Knowledge

Very little is known about Vindani's history, and she's not exactly forthcoming with her past to 'the inept simpletons who keep asking me about it'. What is known is that she is attached to a mysterious group of mythological creatures like herself who are clandestinely studying the world around them for some unknown purpose. Referring to her position as a 'Collector', Vindani is especially interested in the powers of Ki, and has become a more secretive Nomad to study and document the ki of other Nomads, taking a smug satisfaction in dismantling the tactics of her opponents to prove her own skill is superior.

While she can throw a punch and use her tail in a pinch, Vindani doesn't actually physically fight her opponents. Instead, she channels her ki into conjuring energy projections in the form of snakes that surround her and strike at her enemies in lieu of a physical attack. To that end, her fighting style, a unique design of her own, heavily relies on her unusual abilities and agility to avoid attacks and poke at her opponents, keeping herself in a dominant position and wearing them down until she can land a powerful finishing blow.

Vindani also has the ability to shapeshift into other humanoids, imitating their voice and appearance. She does not gain their abilities if they have any, however, and while disguised she can't use any of her normal abilities, so it's not a move she would readily use in a fight. Vindani is also accompanied by 'Acolyte Katsuko', a lazy kitsune disguised as a human who is a master of the ancient martial art of "running away and hiding". To say Vindani finds the fox girl annoying is putting it mildly.