Sepia

Zephia is devoted to aiding Sombron, putting his needs above all else, and willing to exert extreme measures when she feels it necessary. She is a mage dragon who lived over thousands of year. As the leader of the Four Hounds, commanded by Sombron’s child, she invades other nations to collect all the Emblem rings. This loyalty is born from her hope that Sombron, the father of many children by an unknown number of mothers, might also give her children of her own and relieve her loneliness. Her statements claiming the idea that the Four Hounds are a family are a twisted image of such a relationship, as she is alternately affectionate and cruel toward the other Hounds, rewarding them with what they desire when they do well, but is cold and merciless when they fail her. Similarly, Zephia has no love for the true Veyle, seeing her as a defect, but holds deep reverence for Veyle's darker personality, as she is very much like her father in this state. Only as she is dying does she realize that her unwillingness to seek connections with anyone other than Sombron (who had no intention of ever reciprocating her desires) blinded her to the truth that the other members of the Four Hounds already cared for her.