Ætheria Aellas of Sauria by Battle Franky (Patreon)

She is known as the Ætheria Brightstar, Daughter of Ashen of the Old Blood, of the Lineage of Moon Biter and Storm Bringer. She is the mother of Prince Malgazus and Princess Fiscilia.

Ætheria is at least four-hundred years old and was a General in the armies of the Stone King Dumat during the Baptism of Fire. Her immense reserves of quintessence and deep spirit well made her a formidable foe for furkin armies and having been a 'champion slayer', dedicating time in battles to personally seeking out and eliminating enemy warriors of great reknown and skill in order to crush her opponents moral.

Unlike other highborn Saurians however, Ætheria did not hate furkins. She had been compelled by her faith and belief in the righteousness of the Stone King. When it was decreed that the baptism was over and the Stone King wished an end to the culling, Ætheria more than obliged, she lead the faction of loyalist against the Saurian armies who would not abide by the peace demanded by Salamus and the Dumat, allying with the Queen Alanzia de Lioncourt and her forces.

At the wars end, the dragoness would marry the young hatchling of Gamel's line Mizer, who would become known as the 'Bitterwing'. Despite her age and wisdom, Ætheria was never able to influence Mizer to be a better Emperor and through the years his hatred for furkins and lust for revenge often caused strife in Sauria; much to his wife's chagrin. His decision to lie to her and his people about his true intentions at Herald's Keep was insulting enough, but his loss of one of the last three ancient dragons was the final straw. Had the Saurian Emperor survived his deception in Lioncourt, win or lose, Ætheria planned on killing him.