Iris Midgar/Chronology

Early Childhood
From an early age, Iris has shown a tremendous talent for the sword, even being able to defeat her instructors on the first try, which surprised her and her little sister, Alexia. Upon reaching adolescence, Iris who became the Student Council President had already graduated from the Midgar Royal Spellsword Academy two years ago and then she achieved a strong reputation among the Dark Knights of the Midgar Kingdom Knight Order, being acclaimed and recognized among the Midgar citizens.

But soon after, when she tried to help the people of her kingdom in her own way, her superiors told her to stop as the situations were something a person in her position should not be involved in. Being told that a situation wasn't important for her involvement has since caused her to start feeling powerless and fueled an Inferiority Complex within her.

Acclaim to Fame
Supposedly when she was just a student of Midgar Academy, Iris entered the Bushin Festival tournament and single-handedly defeated Viscount Grease, and soon gained fame and popularity among the masses for her strength. Iris later watched Alexia practicing her swordsmanship and complimented her sister when saying she liked it. However, Alexia wrongly interpreted the meaning causing a rift between them.

Kidnapping of the Princess
After learning her sister's disappearance, Iris desperately ordered the knights to find her. Iris then met with Zenon Griffey to report about the "interrogation" on Cid Kagenō, who was suspected of kidnapping Alexia. Zenon reported that the interrogation lasted for five days to come with nothing by the lack of a confession. Iris looked at the window, crying for her sister's return, but ordered the knights resume their interrogation. She later got into a fierce confrontation from Claire Kagenō whose Cid's elder sister suddenly barged in to confront Iris to her brother's innocents until Zenon escort her out of the room. After a careful consideration, Iris then decided to release the student on under surveillance.

Late one night, the kingdom capital is under massive panic and Iris and her men head into the city to stop the chaos, eventually encountering a giant monster. Despite easily slashing it many times over, the monster regenerates, and before Iris could resume attacking, Alpha stopped her and ended the monster's rampage. Iris witnessed a huge explosion and headed to the source, where at the location, she happily and finally found Alexia.

The next morning, the incident has been resolved on the surface with Zenon Griffey who is a respected man in Midgar Kingdom becoming the suspect of this incident and the mastermind of Alexia's kidnapping, which soured his reputation and tarnished the Royal Bushin method.

Learning that the warehouse which holding most classified documents and objects to be confiscated from the destroyed facility by the Knight Order have been burned down, Iris is preparing to dispatch a special brigade and she held a private meeting with Glen and Marco Granger, who asked them to join the Crimson Order upon learning the existence of secret organizations such as the Cult of Diablos and Shadow Garden.

Iris decided to form this new order with them, because she couldn't trust the Knight Order after discovering that Zenon was a member of the Cult and a warehouse arson incident recently. They both agreed to help the princess investigate the organization, becoming the first members of the Crimson Order.

Midgar Academy Terrorist Attack
Days later after her sister kidnapping incident, Iris and Alexia along with her two personal subordinate, Glen and Marco Granger went to the Midgar Academy to meet Sherry Barnett and showing an artifact they found in the Cult's hidden facility, which they can't decipher it and asks for Sherry, who is the most brilliant mind in the kingdom, if she can decipher it.

Her father, Lutheran Barnett encourages Sherry to do the job, which she accepts and Iris decides to assign the Crimson Order to keep watch on them. Lutheran hears that's the new knight order that Iris formed and Iris confirms, and that it's a small order, but it made by people she trusts. Lutheran went to question her about Iris distrust about the Knight Order, which she gave silent answer. Lutheran allowed it under the condition that he takes only two guards to secure Sherry in her lab, so Princess Iris chose her most trusted men: Glen and Marco Granger. Alexia also wishes to help her for investigate Shadow and Iris accepts.

After Alexia escape from her attacker due to Shadow saved her, she tells Iris that the killer was impersonating Shadow Garden. Alexia adds that Shadow is fighting the Cult, and Iris hopes that they will learn something more when the artifact gets deciphered. Alexia then asks her who she thinks is the real enemy, Shadow Garden or the Cult. Iris states its both and that she won't allow anyone to wreck havoc in the kingdom.

In the anime, Iris was alerted by Alexia who was going to resume her studies following their conversation a week ago about something has happening in the Academy and make preparation to deploy the Knight Order. When arrive, Iris notice that the Academy has already taken over by the terrorist group calling themselves Shadow Garden and hostage all the students in the auditorium hall. As the Knight Order were kept at bay due to their sealed magic and snipers at vantage points, Iris attempted to intercede and meet with her Crimson Order subordinates inside. However, she was rebuffed by the senior authorities attempting to keep the situation stable for the time being, with one of the knights exclaiming that Iris would be of no use without her magic if she entered. Offended by the thought, Iris still had to respect the chain of command and withheld her frustration, waiting until the magic-sealing bubble lifted and the knights could swarm in.

Once on academy grounds, Iris met with Princess Rose Oriana to learn that there were two groups calling themselves Shadow Garden, with one responsible for the attack and the other for freeing the students. However, all Alexia called about was that Shadow Garden was involved and thus deemed them responsible, listing their crimes in the Wanted posters and seeking to apprehend Shadow.

Sanctuary Infiltration
Hearing the news about the Sanctuary being obliterated, Iris approach her father, King Klaus Midgar, as she wanted to use the kingdom's authority to investigate the Holy Church. Even after hearing reports of suspicions of collusion between the Holy Church of Divine Teachings and the Cult of Diablos, Klaus did not try to deal with it on the pretext that it was not a certainty with the facts at present and had no crucial evidence to justify a long term investigation.

Furthermore with the approaching of Bushin Festival event along with many honored guests from abroad to whom he must presently play host, Klaus think that this is certainly not a time where he can afford to present himself being antagonistic toward the Church for causing any undue turmoil. Also, Klaus wants to avoid upsetting his allies in Oriana Kingdom and receiving a visit from their king, Raphael Oriana. Iris is determined to get results and prove that she has power to stand up against the Divine Teachings, which Klaus often finds it tiresome to remind Iris of his words and also holds high expectations of her.

After that, Iris want to hear every detail from Alexia Midgar who went to Lindwurm to attend as a guest in the Goddess's Trial event. After hearing every detail from her sister report about Alexia wants to investigate the Divine Teachings because there must be a big organization that are be able to keep the Sanctuary a secret from the public, Iris also had suggested the same thing to their father, Klaus Midgar to use the kingdom's authority to investigate the Holy Church. But, the King told both princess to not do anything. However, Iris feels that if she wins the Bushin Festival again, she will have more backing and support of the people, and their father will have to listen to her.

Bushin Festival Tournament
There has been a great deal of criticism on the Royal Bushin method because of its questionable credibility, particularly from the propagators of the method, Zenon Griffey whose reputation has now been tarnished by his actions and as a result, his scandals have disgrace the Royal Bushin method.

Fearing for the kingdom's future, Iris plans to enter the tournament to participated and became a recurring champion in winning the Bushin Festival, in order to regain the good name of the kingdom's fighting technique that she had been trying so hard to contribute and restore public faith in her kingdom's knights order and the royal family, hoping that her victory would assuring her kingdom's confidence, in both her strength and their security as the public would raising support upon her victory.

Later, Iris had a meeting with Duke Perv Asshat and King Raphael Oriana to discuss the security plan for the Bushin Festival, but Perv doesn't feel it needs more security. When Iris states that his condition looks good because the report about him being attacked by his fiancee Rose Oriana is different from the report she received, Perv agrees as he says that the news story was a little exaggerated and guesses that Midgar worries that easily because of Alexia's kidnapping. Perv then heard that Iris personally went looking for her and he intends to follow the same and have Oriana solve their family problems themselves. Perv then adds that every business will be taken care of by himself for the negotiation, rebuilding princess order and appearing in the Bushin Festival. Even Perv sympathizes with Princess Iris' worry and he eases her concern that Oriana Kingdom will not do anything that troubles her.

On the day when the quarterfinals round were to be held, Iris is in the VIP seat when she meets Cid Kagenō and she wants him to sit here because she was the one who gave Claire Kagenō the ticket for him and apologizes for what happened to him due to Zenon's actions. Iris asked about Cid's friendship with her sister Alexia and then discussed about the battle between Annerose Nichtsehen and Jimina Sennen in terms of their fighting capabilities, even Iris heard that there was news about the first champion of the Bushin Festival, Beatrix who was nicknamed the Goddess of War was in the capital after haven't showed her face in public for over a decade before Iris sees Cid leave his seat to go to the toilet.

As the match is about to start soon, Iris meets Perv who sat on Cid's chair with suspicious feeling towards him, then discusses and asks about Rose's predicament but Perv calmly expresses confidence that he will come back to her once she calms down. She explains that her king will be attending the festival tomorrow on the grounds of not feeling well and apologizes that the security has been in vain, Iris explains that her father, king Klaus Midgar will also be watching from tomorrow.

Iris then sees Annerose coming out in the arena. Perv heard that she is in the middle of a training pilgrimage, and would love to invite her to work for his kingdom. Iris also states that a warrior of her caliber would be in use for her kingdom as well. Perv asks her what she thinks of Annerose opponent, Jimina Sennen. Iris states she sees him for the first time, but he doesn't look very strong. However, she isn't sure of Annerose's win as Jimina is a little unnerving and there is no uncertainty in his eyes, which isn't typical for a weak fighter as she had a feeling that Jimina will possibly win the match. When the match is started, Iris and Perv watch their fight to see the match outcome.

The victory of the match was won by Jimina and Perv complimented Iris's observation that even she herself was surprised that someone as strong as him was unnoticed for that long. Perv states the tomorrow's next round would be Iris versus Jimina and wonders if she is confident that she can beat him. Iris states she can't match his beauty of swordplay, but she believes that if Jimina's abilities were only like that, then she would be no match for him. However there's a good chance that he's hiding something, which is why he's been disguising his stance and techniques throughout the tournament. Iris then leaves Perv to take his fight and he wins it. After that, Iris saw Beatrix who was watching and then left and Iris chased after Beatrix to be able to invite her to watch tomorrow's semifinal match.

On the last day of the Bushin Festival, Iris meets Cid Kagenō again in the VIP seating and sits next to him, guessing he is there to support his sister and explaining that she is waiting for his duel. Moments later, Iris heard a commotion that a a woman with a sword was trespassing and wanted to stop it. Iris then see its Beatrix and explains she invited her. Realizing who Beatrix is as she made an unexpected visit and surprised spectators who knew her at the VIP seating, everyone get excited and gather around her.

Beatrix came to this country originally to looking for someone, namely her niece who bore a resemblance to her and asked them if they had seen anyone who looked like her, but no one has seen her. They also asked her if any competitor caught her eye and Beatrix stated its Cid. People were surprised that Cid isn't really that good and his sister is so much better, even Iris doubt her claim and some people started to question whether this woman was really the real Beatrix.

At that time, King Klaus Midgar came to the stadium arena to attend the Bushin Festival tournament and met King Raphael Oriana who was accompanied by the Chancellor, Duke Perv Asshat and entered the VIP seating then headed to the area that has two seats which provided to watch the match. When Perv goes into the VIP seating as he passes by an unknown woman, which she states that he and the king stink. Perv gets angry and orders to take her out, but Iris stops him and explains that the woman is her guest and introducing her as Beatrix the War Goddess, which Perv then realizes who she is. As Beatrix apologizes to him and Perv does the same also telling her to watch the match, so she could enjoy the festival.

When Claire Kagenō wins her match, Iris prepares for her battle against Jimina Sennen because Iris carries not only the burden of the royal family on her shoulders but also of the entire kingdom as well, both the kingdoms name and pride, even many people believe that Princess Iris will win easily in this match.

Just as the time for the semifinal match had started when she finally met Jimina in the arena, Iris charged in first and attempted to take him down before he could strike, but stopped herself out of an instinctive warning Mundane posed. Iris began to hallucinate herself suffering gruesome deaths and eventually came to realize that Mundane was responsible, having thrown feints at her that told her exactly what each possible motion could result in. Iris came to the horrific discovery that Mundane might possibly be the strongest Dark Knight in the world, but her pride and stubbornness refused to let her back down and she tried to once more attack Mundane. One strike later, Iris fell and was defeated.

Novel/Manga
Finally once victorious, and due to the murder of Oriana's king Raphael Oriana, Mundane revealed his identity as Shadow, which dumbfounded Iris and all the spectators, before he easily defeated Perv's guards. An enticed Beatrix decided to fight him and was evenly matched at first, only to be easily outmatched after Shadow decided to get a little serious, and Iris joined their battle soon after with the intention of stopping Shadow by working with Beatrix to finish him off.

However, the plan didn't work out, as Iris was not even a hinderance and Beatrix was bested by Shadow's counterattack. The wounded Iris asked why he didn't just kill them and Shadow replied that he only kills his enemies, departing while reminding her that she shouldn't lose sight of her true enemies. Immediately afterwards, Shadow disappears in a halo of light, leaving a clear sky in his wake.

Anime
After Mundane revealed himself to be Shadow, an enraged Iris stood and allied with Beatrix in the fight to suppress Shadow, even going so far as to take hold of the legendary mythril sword. Shadow chided Iris for the "crutch" while he outmatched and outpaced Iris and Beatrix, including using Crowbars as temporary fighting weapons. As their battle wandered the capital, Iris and Beatrix eventually clashed with Shadow at the central clocktower, where Iris planned to distract Shadow with a grapple long enough for Beatrix to deliver a decisive strike, but Shadow defeated the two of them with instant counters and melee might.

Despite her injuries, Iris still stood up readied to continue fighting alongside Beatrix, even calling Shadow out for "fleeing" before her opponent cackled like mad at the thought. The offended Shadow unleashed a massive whirlpool of enraged magic out of his body, encompassing the whole capital with the size of its range, and the witnessing Iris stopped cold in her tracks with fear. When the enormous magic attack turned out to be a bluff that Shadow used to escape after the blinding flash of light, Iris was in shock and disbelief as Shadow had vanished, breaking down in tears as she was forced to face the reality that she lost to Shadow, and to feel truly powerless for the first time.

The Academy Disappearances
Iris alongside the Crimson Order investigated the student disappearances and the autopsy of the deceased head librarian. Alexia tried give her testimony and evidence but was too late as Iris believed in Hubb's over hers. Alexia tried to reach out to her sister only for her to be written off and threatened by her if she got in the way before leaving.