Iris,

The bane of the heroine.

She who travels beyond the pale. Learns much and returns with a boon.

A message of incredible truth. Her insights are definitive: this is who we are.

Her words are not so much a prophesy as a perspicacious warning.

Ofttimes, especially if the community is labouring under a siege mentality, it is not what the community wishes to hear and so she pays with her life.

Other times, she is scourged and then banished.

Pity.