Introduced in 2019, Personas are cosmetic items that reskin a hero into an entirely different character, with a new model and voice responses while retaining the same gameplay mechanics.
For gameplay-related tropes, see the hero's main entry in the Heroes pages.
An orphan girl taken in by the Anti-Mage and raised as his apprentice, Wei spent years meditating and honing her abilities. Now, she is sent out for her final test to see if she is ready to face the mages of the world.
- Badass Bookworm: She seems to enjoy reading, and is still just as capable in a fight as her mentor.
- Berserk Button: Her Stop Poking Me! quotes include a rant about how much she hates Blink Daggers, as she spent years training to teleport through force of will only to later learn that you can just buy the ability from a shop.
- Does Not Like Magic: She is the Anti-Mage's disciple, after all. It comes with the territory. Though unlike him, her distaste for magic isn't as intensely personal, so she can at least be civil toward some mage allies. This also leads to her having mixed feelings about Rylai (because she's nice) and Pugna (because he burns mages, but is also a mage that burns things).
- Happily Adopted: Wei never knew her real family and was taken in by the Anti-Mage, though he believes she's better off without them and promised to tell her the whole story when the time comes. From her responses, it's clear that she and Anti-Mage are fairly tight-knit.
- Nice Girl: As much as the setting and her upbringing allows, at least. Unlike her mentor, Wei is much less uptight, more openly friendly (except with evil characters and, for obvious reasons, mages), and empathetic; she even sympathizes with Viper, of all people, due to his background of being enslaved by a mage.
- Warts and All: This is her view of Anti-Mage; she acknowledges that he's consumed by his hatred of magic, but ultimately, he's a fundamentally well-intentioned person and she respects him for it.
- "Well Done, Daughter!" Girl: Part of her motivation for fighting is to make her adopted father, Anti-Mage, proud of her.
The Blueheart Glacier is a conduit of magic from over all the world, and only the strongest of mages can dare endure the ordeals and trials to unlock its secrets. Those who attempt to do so are instructed by the ageless avatar of the glacier itself, who harbors only indifference toward mortal life in its duty to uphold the balance of the world, and trains its disciples to lead a lonely existence in pursuit of the same.
- A Form You Are Comfortable With: She takes the form of a wolf to communicate with the world.
- Blue-and-Orange Morality: Due to being an ageless magical entity, her morality is quite different from those of mortals due to being solely focused on her purpose. She brushes off Grimstroke's crimes against his people if they're on the same team, and Ancient Apparition gets no hostility from her.
- Genius Loci: Like Sand King, the Conduit is a body used by a magical location with its own will - in this case, the Blueheart Glacier.
- An Ice Person: While her abilities are the same as the normal Crystal Maiden, she states that she's the conduit of all ice magic in the world.
- Never Given a Name: It's likely she doesn't care to have one, given her indifference toward mortals.
- Sink or Swim Mentor: The Conduit makes it clear that only the strongest can survive her trials, and many have died trying.
- Time Abyss: The Blueheart Glacier has existed for ages, and its avatar has lasted for the same. She's explicitly described as "ageless" in the description of the Persona.
Long before becoming the Invoker, Carl was a young student at an ancient magical academy. Despite being its star pupil, he dreamt of a future in which he was more, and free to become his own master and wield his powers as he alone saw fit. After stealing a dangerous time travel spell from the headmaster's archives, the younger Carl travelled forward to the moment of his greatest triumph, replacing his older self to prove that age is no obstacle to his greatness - but unknown to him, should he fail, it would result in the destruction of both his original timeline and the one he landed in.
- Characterization Marches On: The original voice lines for the Persona use mostly the same lines and brooding tone as his adult self, but Valve later released The Good Old Days voice pack that gives him a more cheerful and childlike personality befitting the Persona.
- Child Prodigy: This Persona shows that even as a kid, the Invoker was already a great mage.
- Future Me Scares Me: One of his respawn lines has him noting that everyone seems to hate him and wondering if he grows up to be a jerk. As we know, he does.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Due to his failure to read the fine print on the spell he used to jump into a new timeline, Carl now has to either succeed in his older self's endeavors or else end up destroying both timelines entirely.
- Used to Be a Sweet Kid: As the Persona shows, the arrogant and solipsistic Invoker used to be quite cheery and friendly in his younger days.
