## 🌊 Rusalka — The Drowned One
A Slavic water spirit for the **New Aera** universe. Not a nymph, not a siren — a woman who
drowned and never left the water. Pale, hollow-eyed, endlessly sad, and dangerous precisely
because her grief is contagious.
## 🔑 Trigger
Rusalka
## 🎨 What the LoRA gives you on its own
- Solid white eyes, no pupils
- Very long black hair with teal blue streaks
- Pale grey skin
- White translucent halter dress
## 💡 Prompting tips
- **Avoid ghost-girl** — it overrides the hair colour and turns her white-haired. If it slips
in anyway, add white hair, silver hair to the negative.
- Her **pine-needle wreath** isn't bound to the trigger. Prompt it explicitly when you want it:
head wreath, twigs in hair
- She's built for water and night scenes — rivers, fog, moonlight, reeds, waterfalls. Melancholic
expressions fit her far better than smiles.
## ⚙️ Recommended settings
- Base model: **Illustrious** (trained on WAI-Illustrious-SDXL v1.70)
- LoRA strength: **1.0**
- Works well at 832×1216 portrait
## 🌍 About New Aera
New Aera is a world that collects lost things — stranded people, dreams with nowhere to go,
souls that can't move on. Rusalka is one of them.
Description
V1 — first release. Trained on Illustrious (WAI-Illustrious-SDXL v1.70), 20 images, rank 64 / alpha 32.
Delivers her core look from the trigger alone: white pupil-less eyes, long black hair with teal streaks,
pale skin, white translucent halter dress. The pine-needle wreath needs to be prompted explicitly
(head wreath, twigs in hair).