Sopharanatoth

Sopharanatoth (Sophara)
General information
Path	Flowing Flame
Rank	Underlord
Faction	Seshethkunaaz’s Dragon Faction
First Appearance	Ghostwater
Species	Gold Dragon
Family
Home	Eastern Ashwind Continent

Relationships

Sopharanatoth / Sophara is a gold dragon, loyal to Seshethkunaaz her great-grandfather, the dragon-boy Monarch. Her aunt is the Monarch’s right-hand claw, a Herald named Xorrus. Her younger sister Ekerinatoh, aka Ekeri, died in the Ghostwater pocket world. Sophara hates Wei Shi Lindon Arelius and hunts for “that Blackflame boy” with murderous intent.

Description

Half dragon, half human, striving to be fully human, like her king.

As the Ninecloud Soul announced Sopharanatoth, leader of the gold dragon team, her golden eyes focused on Lindon. Her human form was mostly complete, but patches of gold scales dotted the pale skin of her cheeks and the backs of her hands. Her nails resembled claws, and her thin golden tail whipped the air behind her. Her face was sculpted into a fine image of human beauty, and her clothes were ornate layers of red and purple, but she stared into Lindon with such fury that he could feel it in his spirit. (Uncrowned, ch 9)

Level / Path

Flowing Flame Path. It uses flowing flame madra, perhaps aspects of fire and water.

She was Underlord at the beginning of the Uncrowned King Tournament (UKT). During the UKT, Monarch Reigan Shen made a deal with her divine ancestor, Seshethkunaaz. In return for the dragon king’s supoort, Shen gave Sophara a rare bottled elixir to speed her advancement. Gate of Heaven Elixir.

The Gate of Heaven elixir was extremely volatile and difficult to refine, even for the world’s greatest refiners. The ingredients and conditions for its creation were closely guarded secrets, and Sophara had heard that it even required attention from Sages. Now she was seeing it with her own eyes: an elixir that smoothed the road from Underlord to Archlord. She had already been on the verge of becoming an Overlady. Now she could advance whenever she wanted. (Uncrowned, ch 18)

Later in the tournament, she was stuffed with even more elixirs, in hopes that the weapon Penance did not fall into the hands of an enemy.

The gold dragons had gone overboard in preparing Sophara for the tournament. Too far. It was as though they’d crammed every enhancement they could think of into one body. Mercy didn’t know how Sophara could possibly control so much power. There had to be drawbacks. And if the dragon won Penance, she would use it on Akura Malice immediately. Her great-grandfather would make sure. (Wintersteel ch 4)

Her Weapons

• Imperial Aegis — an Archlord level shield
• Quickriver — an Archlord level whip / sword

Tournament

Sophara competed in the 18th Uncrowned King Tournament and made it all the way to the final round, defeating Akura Mercy in the semi finals. Ultimately, despite all her elixirs, pills, tricks and cheats, she lost to Yerin Arelius. (Wintersteel)

Her Sins

Before the tournament began, she ambushed the cloudship that was conveying contenders from the Blackflame Empire / Akura to Ninecloud City, including Eithan Arelius, Naru Saeya, and Yerin Arelius. (Uncrowned)

During the tournament, she murdered her prisoner, Naian Blackflame

After the tournament ended, the Sage of Red Faith persuaded her to join in a murderous ambush against the Akura kids, Akura Mercy and Akura Pride. Monarch Reigan Shen wanted them dead as pay-back to their mother, Akura Malice (Wintersteel)

Her Death

She died. Lindon killed her, consuming her madra and stealing her void key house, the Dawn Sky Palace. (Wintersteel ch 27)