Aria

Aria is a playable Hero in DragonSword: Awakening and one of the founding members of the mercenary band that Lute falls in with at the start of the main story. She is the band's firepower specialist, deploying bombs to stack the Fire and Airborne Status Ailments while her teammates handle frontline pressure.

At a Glance

Field	Detail
Role	Firepower specialist (ranged combat)
Faction	Mercenary band (Johnny's group)
Travelling with	Lute, Johnny, and Castella
Signature gear	Bombs
Status Ailments	Fire and Airborne
Combat style	Ranged area-of-effect with explosive setup
First revealed	Lute & Castella & Aria Tag Combo Preview, 2026

Role in the Mercenary Band

Hound13's public framing of the band positions Aria as the loud, fire-loving member of a small group built around different combat layers. In the Tag Combo Preview, the band's structured switch goes assault vanguard Castella, then Lute with Stun and Knockdown, then Aria stacking Fire and Airborne with her bombs, and finally back to Castella to keep the chain rolling. Her place in the rotation is the firepower beat: setting the field on fire and lifting enemies off the ground so other Heroes can land their finishers cleanly.

Combat

Aria's kit centres on bombs. Mechanically that translates into two simultaneous Status Ailments: Fire damage that ticks while the target is alight, and Airborne, which lifts targets off the ground and into the kind of aerial juggle window the rest of the combat system is built around.

Because every bomb she places is doing two jobs at once, Aria's role in a combo is unusual. Most Heroes apply a single ailment and then rely on others to layer on top; Aria layers her own. Once Fire is ticking and Airborne has popped the target up, she can either push her own Active Skills further, or hand off to a teammate via Switching Signals to land a Signal Skill while the target is still in the air.

Combat Loop Snapshot

Combo Step	Aria's Tools	Outcome
Apply	Bombs, ranged ordnance	Fire and Airborne stack on the target simultaneously.
Extend	Active Skills while Fire continues to tick	Combo window stays open; airborne target is locked into the juggle.
Finish	Signal Skill from Aria or a teammate via Switching Signals	Biggest single-hit payoff against an airborne, burning target.

Position in the Roster

Aria is one of the nineteen playable Heroes available from the start under the Buy-to-Play Model of the Steam release. She is unlocked through story progression and in-game activities rather than through any extra purchase.

Compared with the other named members of her own mercenary band, Aria sits at the ranged-pressure end of the line:

Hero	Role in the Band	Status Ailments	Combat Niche
Castella	Assault vanguard	Break, Stun	Frontline frame-shaker.
Lute	Greatsword all-rounder	Stun, Knockdown	Versatile melee with Goddess-power healing.
Aria	Firepower specialist	Fire, Airborne	Ranged bomber, juggle setup.

Story Role

The shape of Aria's personal arc inside the main story has not been spelled out in pre-launch material. What is confirmed is that she is part of the mercenary band that Lute falls in with on the road to Orbis, alongside Johnny and Castella, and that the band itself is one of the threads through which the modern cast is drawn into the reawakened Dragon threat.

What Is Not Yet Public

Aria's individual backstory and how she joined the mercenary band.
Her dedicated solo Hero Trailer; she has appeared in the Tag Combo Preview but has not yet had a solo reveal.
Her individual Signal Skill name and animation.
Whether her bombs operate on a per-charge inventory, a cooldown, or another resource model.
Aria's signature mount and whether she participates in Dragon Riding.

Heroes - the full roster of nineteen playable Heroes.
Status Ailments - the combat layer Aria stacks Fire and Airborne into.
Lute - Aria's bandmate and the protagonist of the main story.
Active Skills and Signal Skills - the combo layers Aria's ailments feed into.

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