Zara Nyx is my original character: a 34-year-old Polish witch of the Wrocław coven, with jet-black hair shot through with crimson streaks, blood-red eyes, pale skin, a raw amber pendant at her throat, heavy silver rings and black nails. She never smiles with teeth, and I would not ask.
This is my second public Krea 2 character LoRA, after <a href="https://civarchive.com/models/3005329" rel="ugc">Shawy</a>. The trigger is <code>zaranyx</code>. Unlike Shawy's, it does not carry her alone: it needs the house style sentence and one short line for her hair and eyes, both below. Her last story: <a href="https://civarchive.com/articles/36642" rel="ugc">Nothing Inside</a>. Her WWII series starts with <a href="https://civarchive.com/articles/28992/nachthexen" rel="ugc">Nachthexen</a>.
HOW TO USE
<ol>
<li>Load it in ComfyUI with <code>LoraLoaderModelOnly</code> at strength 0.8.</li>
<li>Open the prompt with <code>A painterly anime illustration in a soft cel-shaded semi-realistic register.</code> Without it, short prompts drift toward photoreal.</li>
<li>Then the trigger with her hair and eyes: <code>zaranyx, an adult woman of 34, with long wavy jet-black hair shot through with crimson streaks and deep blood-red eyes,</code>. This line is a requirement, not a tip. With the trigger alone her eyes flip between red and brown from seed to seed.</li>
<li>Always add <code>a wire-wrapped raw amber pendant at her throat</code>. The pendant was captioned in training, so without the phrase she has no pendant.</li>
<li>The rest is normal Krea 2 prose: scene, outfit, pose, light.</li>
</ol>
Minimal prompt, tested at 0.8 (896x1152, seed 4444444). It is the first showcase image:
<pre><code>A painterly anime illustration in a soft cel-shaded semi-realistic register. zaranyx, an adult woman of 34, with long wavy jet-black hair shot through with crimson streaks and deep blood-red eyes, walks toward the viewer down a wet cobbled Wrocław street at night in a long black wool coat, a wire-wrapped raw amber pendant at her throat, full body seen from a low angle at knee height, gas lamps reflecting in the puddles, rain in the light.</code></pre>
IF SOMETHING DRIFTS
Eyes go brown, or glow in cold light. The hair and eye line is missing or reworded. Paste it as written. With it, the irises stayed red with no glow in all seven test scenes, cold dawn light included.
She goes photoreal. The house sentence is missing. Short prompts need it most.
Water drops on her skin. On nude frames add <code>her skin smooth, dry and matte</code>. Without it she gets water drops and a wet shine.
<ul>
<li>No pendant: the phrase is missing. It does not come by itself.</li>
<li>Lying full-figure frames: name the frame edge her head is at and the frame edge her feet are at. Then the whole figure lands.</li>
</ul>
RECOMMENDED SETTINGS
<ul>
<li>Checkpoint: <a href="https://civarchive.com/models/958009?modelVersionId=3139241" rel="ugc">RedCraft 3.0 (Krea 2)</a>. The only one I tested.</li>
<li>8 steps, CFG 1, sampler euler, scheduler simple.</li>
<li>About 1 MP, 896x1152 portrait.</li>
<li>Strength 0.8. It is the only strength I tested.</li>
<li>Other checkpoints and other UIs are untested. If you try it on plain Krea 2 Turbo or somewhere else, tell me how it went.</li>
</ul>
TESTED SCENES
Before release I ran the house sentence plus the hair and eye line at 0.8 in seven scenes. In all of them her irises stayed red with no glow, her hair stayed black with crimson streaks, and her skin stayed matte:
<ul>
<li>seated, nude</li>
<li>lying nude, full figure</li>
<li>lingerie, at a vanity</li>
<li>dressed, on a rainy street</li>
<li>a WWII greatcoat on a snowy airfield at dawn</li>
<li>a noir tenement room by candlelight</li>
<li>the doorway of a 1944 village schoolhouse</li>
</ul>
With the trigger alone, no house sentence and no hair and eye line, she is weaker: eye colour flips between red and brown across seeds, eyes and pendant can glow in cold light, and short prompts drift toward photoreal.
Without the trigger the LoRA stays out of the way: a control prompt for a blonde woman came out unchanged, with no pendant, with the LoRA loaded at 0.8. The trigger also did not show up as text on signs.
LIMITS
<ul>
<li>Not tested: two characters in one image, crowds, strengths other than 0.8.</li>
<li>Explicit frames are not a target, and are not tested.</li>
<li>Pose details are sometimes ignored. In testing, "propped on one elbow" and "glancing back over her shoulder" did not land.</li>
</ul>
MAKER'S NOTE
Trained on Krea 2 Raw with ai-toolkit (arch krea2), rank 32, batch 1, lr 1e-4, 1024 px, 32 images. The file is step 1250 of a 2500-step run, about 39 epochs. The dataset is synthetic: every image rendered on Krea 2 from her written description, in my house style. 19 dressed, 7 lingerie, 6 nude.
v1 was never released. Every image in its dataset drew her pendant as a glowing cut gem, but hers is raw amber. LoRA learned the gem faithfully and ignored any pendant wording, and its red eyes glowed in dim and cold light. v2 is the same 32 images, with the pendant repainted to rough wire-wrapped raw amber on the 29 frames where it shows and captioned, and the irises darkened about 30%. Most of the work on v2 was making a jewel look less expensive.
I picked step 1250 over the final 2500. From step 1500 on, other women in the frame start getting a necklace too, her hair drifts to dark red all over, and by 2250 the glow is back. Same over-training curve as v1.
Zara is my own character. Use the LoRA for your own non-commercial work, and credit this page when you share it.

Unseen Art Zara Nyx (Krea 2)

v2, step 1250. v1 was never released: its dataset drew her raw amber pendant as a glowing cut gem, v1 learned the gem, and its red eyes glowed in dim and cold light. v2 trains on the same 32 images with the pendant repainted to raw amber and captioned, and the irises darkened about 30%.
I picked step 1250 over the final 2500. From 1500 on, other women start getting a necklace too and the hair drifts to dark red all over. By 2250 the glow is back.
Strength 0.8, the only strength I tested. Open with the house sentence and her hair and eye line from the model page; the trigger alone is not enough.
Always add <code>a wire-wrapped raw amber pendant at her throat</code>. Without it she has no pendant.
Tested only on RedCraft (Krea 2), 8 steps, CFG 1, in ComfyUI.

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