Clementia

Empress of Thebes, Protector of the Shining Isles, Regent of Sophene, Supreme leader of ... look, she's in charge of the Theban Empire. That's all you really need to know.

Clementia appeared in Terra Nostra some thousand years ago, finding an isolated community threatened by attack from a fairly distant power. That power was called Karnak and the isolated community became the city of Thebes, in control of an empire that spanned the continent. What exactly placed Clementia in the leadership position she currently occupies is not clear. However, being what she is, she does have access to abilities and knowledge beyond most of her peers in Thebes, which must certainly account for a great deal.

Clementia is a dragon. Like most dragons, she has enormous physical and mystical power. In her natural form, she is some four hundred feet long with dark blue and purple scales. However, she is rarely seen in her natural form because she habitually spends most of her time running the Theban Empire.

In her affected human form, Clementia is short (just over five feet), rather petite, with short black hair. She is nonetheless an imposing presence. She displays a dry, ascerbic wit and makes a habit of saying as little as possible. She does as much of the "dirty work" of running the Empire herself as she is able to. This takes up virtually all of her waking hours, so for obvious reasons, she doesn't like to waste time. Nevertheless, she can't be everywhere at once, so she maintains a bureaucratic apparatus to supplement her own tireless efforts. (Conspiracy theorists maintain that this bureaucracy is merely a front for a 'secret society' of spies and assassins called the Clementides. There is no proof of this.) This bureaucracy is almost entirely located in a relatively small, eight-story red marble building in Thebes which is referred to as "the Palace". Clementia does not have a lavish residence of her own, and she spends most of her time here, hence the moniker. Considered a sort of semidivine figure in Thebes, Clementia has rarely been seen for the past century or so. (She made a sort of tradition out of a yearly address to the people at the Forum, but otherwise remained secluded.)

The Empress recently vanished from Thebes, shortly after the Red Dawn Offensive and she has not been seen since. Speculation abounds.