Empress Despayre (Remnants of the Cold War)

Empress Silver 	Empress Silver
 	
Art By 	Starwatcher
Background Information	Background Information
Creator 	Starwatcher
Main Attribute 	Persistence
Elemental Attribute 	Ice
Theme Color 	Silver
Character Information 	Character Information
Age 	25 biologically, more than 5000 historically
Hatching Day 	Unknown
Gender 	Female
Orientation 	Pansexual
Occupation 	Empress of IceWings
Tribe 	IceWings
Goal 	Unite all dragon tribes and establish a Pyrrhian Empire to create a new age of peace
Nicknames 	Silver, Sil, Her Silverness
Residence 	Ice Kingdom - The Spire
Father 	Wind
Mother 	Crystal
Relatives 	Unknown brothers and sisters in the past. Frostbite, a descendant of her bloodline, unknown others.
Allies 	Aura, Krait, Granite, Frostbite
Enemies 	The New Crimson personally, Acadia and their aliies (until late 5026), and any form of scavengers
Abilities 	Limited animus powers, cold resistance, frost breath, serrated claws
Weapons 	Wrist blaster (some sort of gun), several bladed weapons, unknown magic weapons.
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Empress Despayre (or Silver) is an original character that belongs to NightWind the NightWing. This character used to be exclusively for Remnants of the Cold War, which is written by Eleven Fifty Two. But now she can be in other universes. Do not edit or use without my direct and written permission. Stealers will be punished with many possible or even impossible ways.
== Description ==
Despayre is an IceWing with unusually pure silver scales. Along her spines they are almost completely silver-grey, while her underbelly is close to white. These uncommon colors give evidence about her origins as one of the very ancient IceWing animus bloodline, which is almost completely gone after many centuries and uneasy times. Despayre is quite larger than most IceWings of her age. After resurrection her body was restored completely. Because of that, she looks untouched by any disasters and does not have any visible injuries. Despayre tries to always look strong and dignified, having practiced it for a long time, especially at the eyes of her enemies and potential allies. However, she can act more relaxed among dragons she considers as friends. Despayre looks more refined and graceful rather than strong, but still is very dangerous in close combat, thanks to her speed and agility.
The first thing that draws attention to dragons who see Despayre is her black armor. This equipment was created by Despayre herself with the assistance of an unknown blacksmith of the IceWings. It is not only decor or protection, as this armor made from very rare Meteorilium-64 metal. It has unknown mystical properties and can block her mind from reading. Despayre is accustomed to relying on her magic and enchanted items she always carries, as only she knows true purpose of them.
== Personality ==
While being very controversial and complicated, Despayre holds the typical IceWing arrogance, which is very common in her tribe. She also can be ferocious in a bad mood. Most dragons in Pyrrhia know Despayre as a ruthless ice blooded dictator who wants to take over other tribes and unite them under her rule. Even when the statistics are against the Empire and her, she does not give up and will look any possible or even impossible ways to achieve her goals. Overuse of animus magic slowly draws Despayre into madness, making her more ruthless and unpredictable, sometimes forcing her into making unrealistic and strange plans.  
To her enemies or even potential friends and allies, she is smart and manipulative, always trying to know anything about them and exploit it. Despayre loves to tempt other dragons, especially by offering them something they always wanted, from enchanted objects that could them, to entire conquered territories or positions of power. In more personal situations,she may like offering help, protection or even saving the lives of friends/relatives/loved ones. Despayre is really sure that magic can help her solve any problems despite its cost.
After experiencing her own death, Despayre developed an extremely strong willpower and is able to partially resist the curses of animus magic and its attempts to manipulate her. In spite that she cheated death a long time ago, Despayre suffers from several consequences, like the loss of most of her memories from her previous life. But eventually her memories will be restored completely, and it will expose the full image of the past events and knowledge about the many things she had did before. Who knows how these revelations can affect Despayre, because ancient legend about "Scourge from the Ice Kingdom" looks surprisingly similar to her own actions. Or she may realize her past mistakes and change her heart? 
Despayre is very interested in ancient and arcane knowledge, wanting to explore as many secrets of the universe as possible. She also has knowledge about some ancient and lost secrets of Pyrrhia, and sometimes travels to these locations in order to acquire more interesting artifacts within her possession. 
Although not a very talkative person to most dragons, Despayre can still talk for hours about ancient times, artifacts, magic, exotic tech and mysteries of the world. She values intellect and interesting dragons, and especially those who share her area of interests. She is very interested in all the animus dragons lived before her, from ancient legends to beings like Darkstalker. It is their experience that intrigues her.
Not many dragons know the different side of her personality. And there she gives a completely different impression. It is difficult to gain her trust, but Dragons who developed a closer friendship with her will know her mostly as Silver (her old name) and will share an opinion about her being a very kind, caring, and gentle dragon who will do anything to make her friends feel comfortable with her. Frequently she offers them anything they really want. Despayre does not have not many friends she trusts, but will do anything to protect them from any threats. And even while being a conqueror, she values the culture of all tribes and promises to not touch their culture too much, even if they become a part of her Empire. But she still considers herself as only person who can lead other dragons and fight off invaders from their planet, bringing peace and prosperity to the world of dragons.
Being killed by a dragon she loved was a very traumatic experience for Silver, and she still blames the Crimson of the past for everything she experienced. She truly wants to bring vengeance to him and his descendants, promising to tear him apart and put his head on the pike and show to all SkyWings. Thankfully, she failed to do that to the Crimson of the new age. He may even be the key to turning her heart away from all the bloodshed and violence.
Traits: She has a vexed personality, combining traits like being intelligent, caring and sometimes even being a kind dragoness. At the same time, she is arrogant, confident, ferocious, ruthless, unfriendly and has committed some questionable actions. This is especially apparent when at some moments she thought that there was no cost is too great when talking about her global plans. When Despayre sees anything that she wants in her talons, be it some ancient artifact, knowledge or something important for her plans, she can forgot anything at the moment, and become completely fixed towards the object of interest. She is also affected by the side-effects of her animus powers, slowly falling into madness, and being very unpredictable sometimes.
Skills: Being an animus, she is very experienced with using her powers and has found a way to overcome her curse. Despayre is a good leader and can effectively organize labor by inspiring other dragons to work harder. She also has good combat skills, being more skilled than an average soldier. These along with the enchanted objects she carries makes her a deadly opponent. Despayre also has some knowledge about ancient and modern tech, but offers more qualified dragons to work in those areas, concentrating mostly on her own points of interest. Furthermore, Despayre has a great knowledge about the ancient times, which she witnessed herself (as her memories restored, of course). Additionally, she collects any documents about those times along with other subjects. When she has free time, she will cannot resist reading something new to expand her knowledge.
== Life ==
Early years
Hatched at unknown point of time before Scorching, she was named Silver by her parents. Along with her, they had several other brothers and sisters. Silver's animus powers were discovered at a very early age and she spent most of her time learning how to use them correctly. That discovery also prompted her to further search for ancient knowledge on how to use her abilities more effectively and safely.
It will be important to mention that Pyrrhia in these dark years was a place of endless war between all the dragon tribes. Everyone was enemies with each other and alliances were impossible. At the same time, scavengers were still a powerful force that built empires and posed a serious threat to dragons with their large armies. Sometimes they would still have strange examples of "ancient tech." These conditions caused Silver to develop impressive fighting skills, which helped her survive in this dark age.
Crimson Dawn
Silver met Crimson when they were both young. Even being from different tribes, their families were forced to work together to fight an unknown enemy. That was the beginning of their friendship, which was one of an IceWing animus and a SkyWing with a mysterious destiny. Eventually they developed even closer relationship, but Silver never dared to admit her true feelings, even to herself.
After a series of traumatic events where Silver lost her parents, she along with Crimson began their own movement to unite all of Pyrrhia. She wanted to put an end to all the wars and fight against the hostile scavengers, who wanted all of the dragons to be dead. Silver and Crimson recruited almost all of the IceWings and SkyWings, uniting them together. Eventually their movement became powerful enough to successfully fight scavenger armies.
With a series of successful campaigns against oppression, many dragons from the other tribes started to join the movement. But past tensions still lasted, where several of the other dragons refused to see an IceWing and a SkyWing as their leader. As their movement became larger and more powerful, a final campaign was incredible successful, causing scavenger nations and entire empires to fall one after another. Final victory was close and only a matter of time.
Falling into darkness
All the war had slowly changed many of the dragons from the inside. Silver started to learn more about her animus powers and used them at every chance she had. Sometimes she even touched rare and very powerful forbidden knowledge, some of it by rumors could even allow one to cheat death. But as long as her campaign continued and overuse of animus magic corrupted Silver's soul, her methods become more and more brutal. It was extreme (sometimes even to other dragons) by the measures of their age. Soon she even took a different name, which was "Despayre."
The madness and destruction she caused even horrified many of her followers. This even lead to the fact several large groups of dragons even left continent to escape any possible dangers from Despayre and never seen again. This forced Crimson to intervene. He was horrified by seeing what his closest friend had become and tried to convince her to turn back. He wanted her to end all the madness and destruction, but he failed to change her mind. In her final days, they met at remote island located between the Ice and Sky Kingdoms, where Crimson tried to convince her one last time. But he had failed again, and had no other choice, but to kill her.
His attack totally took her by surprise, and Despayre was stopped. But killing someone he truly loved finally broke him. Crimson tried to forget about the traumatic experiences and horrible actions she had caused, by erasing history. He first erased mentions of Silver/Despayre from many chronicles. But that was not enough, so he burned entire libraries to quench his paranoia. Only a few copies of their history survived, saved by NightWings and some other individuals. Unfortunately, even that leftovers of that information did not completely pass to modern times.
Twilight of Pyrrhia.
After Despayre's death, the movement fell apart. Strangely though, Crimson with the remaining armies still managed to destroy all of  the scavenger civilizations on Pyrrhia. After his final victory was achieved, he gave up initial plan to unite all dragon tribes, focusing only on the Sky Kingdom. Because of that, all of Pyrrhia remained in state of constant warfare for centuries ahead.
Despayre's actions also lead SkyWings to become very paranoid about their own animi, which further resulted in bloodshed. They began to kill them right after their powers were discovered, so they could never become a threat. Despayre's dead body were buried at some unknown tomb somewhere in Ice Kingdom. Crimson was present at her burial, and after all dragons left, he said his last words of farewell. He expressed his hope that in next life she would live happily in peace. Then the tomb was fully sealed, not to be touched for thousands of years.
But she was not completely dead. Despayre was able to avoid truly dying with her animus powers. She had preserved her spirit and the initial plan was that her followers could perform the process of her resurrection. It was not very difficult and can be performed by anyone, even accidentally. But even her closest associates were so horrified, that not even a single soul came to revive her. Her surviving siblings went down different paths. One of them even married with the dragons who later began the IceWing royal bloodline. Others went across different ways, possibly vanishing never to be seen again.
Resurrection
Despayre and her legacy was ignored for nearly five thousand years, but her spirit could stay in slumber forever. That was, until a new extraterrestrial scavenger threat come to Pyrrhia. After years of conquest, the Ice Kingdom was within their hands. After beginning a civil war between the IceWings, the scavenger tribe known as the "Soviets" moved in. They hungered for power to defeat their rival tribe, which contested them with drones and stealth planes.
With their advanced tech they detected a mysterious energy source, including anomalies and a strange ancient structure under many meters of ice and rock. Their scientists started excavations here to reach Despayre's burial site. Even when they learned more about the mysterious structure, they continued. Their knowledge was not enough, as they wanted the power inside. Their actions caused the dark legend of the ancient ages before the Scorching to return. They awoke her her in such a different and unfamiliar world, especially since most of her memories had been lost to time.
Like many other mysteries of the world, animus powers was an object of great interest to the twisted scientists of the Soviet union, who wanted unlimited power. In spite of them having only explored the place for a few weeks without any of the necessary information, the scientists were able to start the resurrection process. But not all of them were optimistic about that idea, several even arguing against it in an attempt to stop before it was too late. This was because of all the knowledge they had recently acquired, about the powerful entity they could soon release. 
The leader of the research team did not listen to them though, for she was a power hungry party magnate. In justification, she said that she was not interested in the opinion of "several paranoid bookworms and their pointless fears." Then they continued in disgrace, being ordered to countiue by their superior. But they didn't know that the mind of their lead scientist was already poisoned by Despayre's dark thoughts and ideas. The two corrupted souls surprisingly found something similar in each other and established a deal. It was not a problem for Despayre's ghost to turn their leader into her own puppet. 
Even after some clumsy and inaccurate work the scientists succeeded in returning Despayre to life completely. She was finally free from the oblivion, but all she had now were only her powers and a small portion of her memories. Yet she remembered her two names, her mission, and the twisted and painful memories surrounding her last moments of life. Despayre was weakened and found herself in a unfamiliar new world. There were no friends or allies around, and she had yet to find out how much time had passed.
Nonetheless, Despayre was victorious. Her body had been completely restored, and she was pack in her prime, lacking any of the scars from the battles of her past. She was even greeted with the shine of her silver scales, a sure sign of youth. She was so familiar with the cold ice around her. Even the fires and the strange heat-generating machines the scavengers had brought with them could not quench that feeling, for it reminded her of her youth, bringing memories of dragons she had forgotten about.
But with all the dopamine and endorphins running through her, something still bothered Despayre. How much time had passed since her death? Is the Crimson who killed her still around? She recalled an old trick she had used past to see if Crimson was still alive. It was like a call, a feeling for his presence, and the world only answered with silence, for he was gone. She again felt satisfied, for her old enemy was gone along with his cursed bloodline.
All of a sudden she felt the presence of someone else, someone completely alien, yet at the same time familiar. It seemed like this dragon had attempted to hide themselves and their existence. But it felt like the same person had done it unintentionally through life, unknowingly hiding themselves from magic throughout their life. But when she attempted to reach out to him and touch, he vanished completely, hiding in the darkness. She hoped whoever it was hadn't felt her, but at the same time wondered who it was. It had been so familiar, but the connection was so far and weak she had been unable to find out. 
She was puzzled, mystified, and even bamboozled over what or who it really was. But Crimson was gone, so who could it be? Why would it be? Reality forced her back into the present. Her resurrection had weakened her. She could barely stand on her own without falling. None of her brethren were around. Only the scavengers were there. They watched her, some with admiration, some with fear and horror, and even some with curiosity. But the most disturbing looks were those that seemed to reek of ambition and a coldness that she had rarely found in even dragons. 
But now Despayre was too weakened to take any action. All she wanted was a little rest so she could regain her strength. But it was difficult with those nasty creatures around, who proved to be more of an adversary than she expected. Nevertheless, they did not wait for anything from her, and they took a weakened Despayre to a nearby bunker, which contained several other IceWing prisoners. There she finally lost consciousness and slept for a few days. Unfortunately she did not have the most pleasant dreams, for she only dreamt of a blurred vision of her past life. All these events seemed to have happened so recently, yet she only later realized how much time had passed since then. When she regained consciousness, Despayre was ready to talk to her brethren. 
The Awakening in New world
From the little knowledge she managed to scrap, she figured that nobody knew anything about her, nor her name. Five thousand years had passed and the only hints about her remained only in references of some legends. Still, she felt disturbed by the strange presence. But now she needed to think about her memories of the past life and further plans, including what she could do. And the head slipped an interesting idea, in this new life Despayre didn't have to be the person she was before. Instead of repeating the way before, the one which no dragon remembered, she could be like anyone and conduct any type of life she wanted.
With her powers Despayre could live forever and ensure herself a quiet life without wars around, far away from the hustle and bustle. It felt like the painful feeling inside of her that pushed her to do the most questionable things had been weakened, and it seemed possible that her soul would be able to heal from those wounds. She even had doubts for a while, as to whether she was completely right about everything in her time. But now she couldn't afford to rest. Despayre had to deal with the current situation and what was happening in the world. Especially in her home Kingdom, for what she heard brought a familiar anger.
The Ice Kingdom was going through difficult times. Most recently, it was under the control of the Queen Snowfall, who was considered as a weak, paranoid and ineffective leader. And now it broke out in revolution, led by some shady personalities who had teamed up with the scavenger tribe known as the Reds. Now the whole Ice Kingdom was under their control. Despayre couldn't leave her tribe in trouble after all that had happened. She was angry that the scavengers had become powerful again to pose a threat to the dragons, but she wondered how.
What would happen though? Who besides Despayre had the ability and will become the Savior of the world from this new threat? Despayre was sure she could do it, but she needed a plan. She had regained her powers, and although she was weak, she spoke openly about rebellion to the dragons around. But in answer she received only a cautious attitude, if not fear. She was unaware that the opinion about animus dragons in this millennium had significantly changed inside of the Ice Kingdom. In addition, it seemed that quite recently there were many unpleasant accidents regarding them.
The one who was most concerned was Polar, a fellow IceWing prison. He believed that such magic could only lead to evils if it was used actively. He told a story about Prince Arctic, an animus who had died not only from his own abuse of powers, but also his son's. It was a horrifying story, along with one that had caused the downfall of two tribes. Soon Despayre realized her task was not one of little challenge. And the whole time she was being recorded by the Soviets, who found great interest in all this small talk. 
New discoveries 
Soviet scientists were shocked and inspired by the fact that after so much time they were able to get a live animus.  And they had interest to this phenomenon for a long time. But all attempts to cooperate with animi were not sucessful, for most part because they are extremely rare, not willing to collaborate and often prefer to not attract too much attention. But Reds managed to study enchanted objects and find a way to detect them (and even possible wielders of such powers) with some of their strange machines. They gathered a lot of knowledge about some well known personalities like Darkstalker, who was active not so long time ago and just gone under strange circumstances. And same time Reds were really interested in animus gene and how to use it, so during Despayre's long sleep they were able to take all necessary genetic material from her. 
As soviets studied her, Despayre studied them and even were allowed to learn information about them from which she learned that they are not from this planet and in fact alien invaders to this world. And they also a smaller part of much bigger kingdom stretching through almost entire continent, possible even excelling in the territory all Pyrrhia. And their tribe have a long tumultuous history, but now they living under rule of mysterious formation known as "The Party" and persons who sometimes can have almost unlimited amount of power and authority, similiar to most powerful Queens of dragon tribes. But today they have lost all contacts with their actual government and homeworld. And strangely Despayre didn't find any knowledge about their current leader, only having hints and guesses that their tribe ruled by highest circles in their command hierarchy.
Another interesting information Despayre got, that tribe of Reds arrived not alone to this world and they fight against rivaling scavenger tribe known as Blues among dragons. Being physically identical to each other, two tribes have a different forms of government and everything looks like Blues were not as aggressive and expansionists as rivaling ribe, but their true intentions were even less clear than Reds. Despayre intuition tells her that they both cannot be trusted and nothing good for dragons hiding behind their promises of brighter future. But what she was really curious about, is their weapons. Something similar examples existed and in the past, but in extremely rare, isolated instances, which only miraculously managed to be saved from even more ancient times, that even during Despayre's past life were stuff of legends.
However, in addition to their research, later Soviets began to ask her not only about magic but also proposed collaboration. Often accompanied by their proposals demonstration of a new weapon. However, she was well aware that the best role that she can expect is to be the another puppet leader who will by all means be monitored. And although the Reds was sure that their victory was inevitable, and it was only a matter of time, after they occupied Pantala, making it their main stronghold and even establish loyal governments on Pyrrhia, Despayre was not one of individuals who were ready to join the "winning side" for their own benefit. Despayre couldn't just betray herself and dreams about better world for dragons free from opression.
Plans for "brighter future"
All this time Despayre was extremely angry at her current situation and her complete lack of freedom of action, being only a prisoner of some nasty creatures. And even her magic have not much use to break out of containment, because she do not have full information about their security systems, how it works and what surprises they prepared for dangerous animus. Despayre do not wanted to be blown to pieces because of single mistake. Same time she really wanted to see Pyrrhia, how it has changed after thousands of years of its absence, how dragons live now and eventually come up with a plan of action in this whole situation with the invaders. Despayre wanted to find new allies on her side, not those fearful idiots who were imprisoned in bunker with her. But not just allies, but a real friends and possible more than just friends, after all time she felt herself completely alone. Everyone she remember and loved is long gone, Crimson betrayed her. If she ever will find a real friends, they will have her protection and any form of help she can do. And she came to plan. First she needed to liberate her own tribe from influence of Reds and rearm their army with advanced weaponry. Dragons strength, claws and frost breath were deadly, but no match for those strange "crawlers", fast flying machines and even more horrifing weapons, when enemy can just push a button to reduce entire city to ashes. And Despayre come to idea how to help her tribe to gain power. It was time to turn their moment of weakness into their strength, by allowing soviets to bring even more of their infrastructure to Kingdom of Ice. They will not even realize that they help to build foundation of new dragon nation, never seen before. The Pyrrhian Empire. Despayre restored her strength after time of "rest" and ready to use her magic in some interesting ways, and it was time to remind one of her contacts among Reds about their old deal. And same time Despayre have a good feeling that all her current situation will not last too long, and everything will change, and soon.
Travel in dreamscape
But even before such decisions Despayre still used her magic powers sometimes for experiments. One of them to see even small parts of Pyrrhia through visions, even with all difficulties for her. Only partially she can see unknown areas of Pyrrhia as some towns in SandKingdom, palaces of SkyKingdom, village inhabited by NightWings, hidden in the jungle, or strange academy located in the mountains. At the same time, these visions were painful for her, as she could not personally visit all these places at this time. Later Despayre even able to search someone who can be interesting to her, but it was not easy, because she didn't know any familiar dragons in that point of time and can't find anything useful for her. But Despayre were curious about that misterious person she found soon after her ressurection, who it can be and why he is so familiar. Sometimes she was able to almost catch that feeling again, but it was so far and it was so difficult to reach so close as she did once. Only after long months of search around Despayre is able to find him in one of his dreams to her own surprise. This meeting was strange and both a dragon about minutes silently stared on each other, not saying any words, after what dream over and Despayre didn't see him again. But now she know how this mysterious person looks. There was something in him from the old Crimson, but he give a different impression. If this dragon is his descendant, it means that Crimsons cursed bloodline didn't died out and he can be dangerous to her. And possible this one didn't even know about anything and will not stand on her way. She decided to know more about him in forseeable future and try to find him again in dreamscape. But next events changed her plans, and she didn't have a time or waste her strength on looking for some mysterious person. Many other events required her full focus on them for her own good and future plans. 
Freedom and new fight 
Eventually during attack on IceKingdom by Crimson and several other dragons, Despayre was able to free herself from imprisonement in chaos, caused by attack. Other prisoners were able to escape, and she didn't see Polar, who just disappeared during fight. Despayre used her skills and powers to fight enemies she met, but at one location she was surrounded by IceWing conscripts. She tried to convince them, how once proud tribe become slaves of some scavengers and corrupted government. This worked and some of them lowered their weapons. Despayre going to kill others, but something happened. Several unknown dragons attacked IceWing conscripts and Crimson forces. She escaped and hide to observe what happened next. Despayre quickly recognized Crimson, it was really him, who she see in her visions. And those dragonets were against him. She decided that they would be valuable allies and potential friends. During skirmish, one of dragonets were injuried and looked like he will be dead soon. And after everything was finished, Despayre felt something within her heart, her good side, that she should help him. She revealed herself to dragonets and congratulates them with their victory, and then she used her powers to restore wounded SkyWing dragonet named Glide back to life and help others, by healing them. And then being nice as possible, Despayre offered them a cooperation, to work together and drive invaders off their planet and even make some gifts for them. Like amulet that caused Emberwings firescales to not cause any damage to other dragons. This caused some arguing between them, and Despayre decided to leave for some time. Some of dragonets trust Despayre, while others don't. But only Aura decided to follow her and help in future revolution, and others just went a separate ways. 
The Revolution 
This doesn't take long to gather followers for her plans. Many IceWings didn't like soviet influence, and there are already some underground movements. Despayre found them without problems, together with her new friend, and united them together, forming movement of Crystal Star. They fought soviets and their allies extremely effective. Despayre have accurate intel on invader activities. She knew where all of Soviet bases were, what their function was and how to best attack them. As her movement gains more and more popularity, Despayre successfully caused soviets to leave Ice Kingdom behind, even left some of their men, infractructure and even IceWing allies behind. After week of fight, Crystal Star successfully captured the capital, and punished everyone suspected as soviet collaborator. Despayre's forces quckly takes control over soviet infrastructure and equipment they left. What happened to communist scavengers, who were left ther trapped there is unknown, they never seen or heard again. IceWings didn't even tried to bargain scavenger prisoners for some terms or captured dragons. Only known that Despayre have some special plan for them. Former soviet collaborators were punished, only some lucky individuals escaped and their traces were lost, among others who is not loyal to new self-proclaimed Empress. 
Creation of the Empire 
After order was established and enemy activity diminished, Despayre gathered new government known as Inner Circle, and after some planning she created a new nation known as the Empire. Their main goal is to unite all dragon tribes of Pyrrhia into one Pyrrhian Empire. And same time Despayre promised to left them independence and allowed all tribes to preserve their original culture. Queens going to be replaced with other representatives loyal to Despayre, only those who going to be ally of the Empire will have their position unchanged. Other goal is build new utopian world for dragons, where they will not suffer from any opression or wars, Despayre promised that everyone will have a good life, and access to all goods and benefits of technologically advanced civilization. All education become totally free for everyone, and everyone have a rights to have any work they want as long as they proof themselves worthy. Also work itself planned such wat that it didn't take most of day, and every dragon have a time to rest or educate and develop skills even more. All army reorganized into Imperial Army with access to all new tech available. All infrastructure now belongs to the Empire and they started to develop new goods, new weapon, new tech. For first time IceWings rely on soviet blueprins, so their military tech have a great influence of soviet, but later they created their own aircraft and other weapons. To find a new allies Despayre sent a messengers to other kingdoms who tell her story and offered alliance and unite with her Empire. But because of being animus (and memories about Darkstalker is still fresh, many dragons see her as rencarnation of him or even being Darkstalker himself), questionable methods and gathering large army, many decided to wait and think about her offer. Same time Despayre found a powerful supporters not among Queens, but among other powerful dragons, like Krait, one of leaders of SandWing separatist factions, or even some other allies among SeaWings and MudWings. This was not enough but better than nothing. Despayre decided to gather a large army and do something with Crimson, who she suspected being American collaborator and traitor of dragonkind. This lead her to decision to build a large army to potential war in future. War for better utopian world for dragons, who will be happy under rule of their Empress. Now Despayre is known that she is not alone, she have Empire and IceWings will follow her. And she even have a new best friend, Aura, and even more than just friend. Someone who always will give her support and always help, one who really understand Despayre and who know her real name - Silver. 
Later story
To expand her Empire and do not let her enemies become to strong, she decided to attack them first. After short preparation and building their army, Empire started invasion to the Sand Kingdom which become weakened by increased activity of SandWing Separatist on nothern borders. First stage have a great success and Empire takes over several large cities. But Queen Thorn thanks to her best generals and newly introduced modern weapons stopped their forces, and war become a stale without much success from both sides. All Sand Kingdom become very similiar to WW1 or WW2 battlefield, littered with fragments of tech and aircraft from both sides. Also SandWings used their knowledge and being adapted to enviroment, while IceWings didn't have that opportunity and desert heat made them feel sick. And thanks to help from Acadia and other kingdoms they were able to hold entire Empire for years. But Empire tried to gain as much allies as possible, develop newest weapons, such as nuclear weapons program and even using some really powerful animus powered weapons to gain advantage, but Despayre wasn't all-powerful and all Pyrrhian Alliance united against her tyranny.
(there will be more information about ongoing war)
Final part
She eventually return to Kingdom of Ice, helping IceWing Underground and Crimson, who ironnicaly were her former enemies. She was forgiven for all what she have done and have agreement with Crimson to help other dragon tribes as much as she can. Former Empress become Queen Silver and ruled her kingdom, restoring to former state. During SRP invasion, many dragons blame her for war, even if she tried to correct everything she have done and helped restoring other kingdoms, ruined by her legions. After invastion was repelled, she spend decade, ruling her kingdom and doing some work, like restoring her and eventually left position. She give position of new Queen to some trusted person.
Being immune to aging Silver spent many years for research. Eventually she lived under different names and guise, and do not wanted to be remembered as Despayre. She lived among all tribes, to know more about them, and even looking like them. During her time with NightWings, she even married one of them, who she considered as kindred spirit to her, because they shared many common traits. Silver even had several dragonets, being happy in her life at last and even revealed who she really are to her soulmate, who accepted her as she is. But later Silver was forced to abandon her family to not put them into danger.
After years, she completely disappeared from sight of other dragons. Later she appeared again in 5900s gathering followers to do missions for her, to save world from new threat and find some solutions for her own problems. At this dark and hopeless time, Pyrrhia completely changed, transformed into polluted and urbanized place, and even animus magic completely disappeared, making Silver only known living animus. Silver also wanted to reshape world into better place and prepare for future war. And she used her new movement to make it possible. Her new enemy become a Morrowseeker, a NightWing with cybernetic augmentations who claims to be her descendant and supporter of old Despayre's ideas. But he actually didn't. With help of Crimson, Despayre defeated her enemy and later it was revealed that her true descendant is NightWing dragoness known as Darkmoon, who is one of best dragons in her movement. It was a real surprise to her. But Darkmoon being moonborn didn't have animus powers, and it become a reall dissapointment for Silver.
Interesting that in 5900s Silver lived at her castle, near Jade Mountain. It was also base of her operations.
Later she assisted her allies during anoter war against invaders and started to use animus magic again. But in much larger scale. Eventually she wanted to use magic to reshape Pyrrhia, all world and all dragons by her image of better world. But her allies didn't agree with that. Silver only revealed her plans, she will affect minds of dragons too, and telling them "Don't worry. It will be painless. And life will become much easier. I will defeat our enemies myself, and no longer need any of you." and later started a powerful spell that can make her intentions into reality. But suddenly Darkmoon felt "fire in her claws" and some unknown power. And it was revealed that something blocked animus magic in herself all this years. Young NightWings hesitated to do something against her loved ancestor who she considered close to her own mother, but seening what Silver could done and it will cost free will of all dragons in Pyrrhia (even if Silver consider it as act of good, for building a better utopian world). But there is no time to be lost, and Darkmoon used animus magic on her cristaline blade and strike with it Silver right into her heart before she finished her magic ritual, stopping it.
Former Empress was shocked by such act of betrayal (this act even shocked Crimson), and now she falls, right into her own blood. Her final words was: "Darkmoon. How could you... I wanted only good... For everyone..." and finally passed away in embrace of her descendant who was as her own daughter all that time. This affected Darkmoon deeply and she have a doubts, if she did right thing, stopping Silver from reshaping everything. Young NightWing didn't used animus powers again and looks like removed them from her, to not have temptation to use them again. Silver didn't cheated death again and now found a peace. Darkmoon surprisingly shared many treats with Silver, but choose a very different paths. Some expected that Silver could return again or even she managed to leave this plane of existence, but nobody ever see her again, and looks like she finally stopped, even if her planes weren't considered as something really evil and Silver really cared about her friends in this darkest years.
But everything is possible and Silver cheated the death again. Only time will tell...
== Relationships ==
* In the dark era of the Scorching, Despayre befriended a SkyWing named Crimson. They traveled together for a long time and then lead their own movement to fight the scavengers and other enemies. Eventually they developed an even closer relationship, one which she could never admit to herself. That possibility was left to the future, when the war would finally end. But further events ruined their relations completely. After being resurrected it is unknown if she will ever find someone, or even had interest such relations. Maybe she will look for a partner to have a heirs for her mighty Empire and animus powers. Or she could live forever, becoming immortal. There are only a few dragons she trusts and allows to know more about her true feelings, and Crimson was one of them.
* During her revolution and creation of the Empire, Despayre developed strong friendship with Ice/RainWing hybrid Aura. Possible only existing dragon who really understand Despayre, her feelings and what actually behind Despayre's actions and know almost anything about Empress of IceWings. Aura described Despayre as dragon living with open wound in her soul. Despayre often is very protective, nice and caring to her possible only true friend in new life.
== Notable injuries ==
*  During her early life Silver had several injuries because she frequently participated in battles. But the most notable was the one which caused her own death. She had her throat sliced by Crimson so the chaos and destruction she was causing would finally cease. After being resurrected, her body was restored completely to almost former and untouched state, so non of the injuries she inherited from the past life are present.
*  Now most of her wounds are mental. Going through your own death is not something any dragon would want to experience, especially if you remembered it in every detail. Along with that, she also suffers from nightmares of the past. These cause her to behave in strange ways. One is an issue with anger control and paranoid thoughts, while another is a burning hate for Crimson's ancestor and namesake, who lives in the same new age as her. 
*  She overuses her animus powers, so the animus curse slowly corrupts her soul. She can be sadistic and unpredictable, and can even loose contact with reality, despite her willpower. She also has a war within her own mind, between the polar opposites of her past personality and her current one. This causes her to make very strange decisions at times.
*  During her travel under guise of a SkyWing dragoness named Flare, she was shot. It was only her mask though, so Despayre's original look didn't have any traces of the wound.
== Trivia ==
* Despayre's scales have a rare pure silver tone.
* Silver is type of precious metal. Some believe that it had some magical properties. This metal is very valued among IceWings and is used as a currency in the past Ice Kingdom and the current Empire. Despayre also had a strange affection to that type of metal. Her enchanted jewelry and palace decorations are often made of silver.
* After her resurrection and creation of Empire, she traveled to many locations on Pyrrhia with unknown purposes. Possible she was looking for lost secrets of the past.
* Despite the traits she inherited from her tribe, Despayre has very little prejudice towards dragons from the other tribes, mostly due to the different social environment she used to live in. IceWings were very different back then.
* Many dragons suspect her being Darkstalker's reincarnation or Darkstalker himself. But there are no facts that clearly confirm such suspicions.
* Some of her siblings married dragons who have started IceWing royal bloodline. So, she is very distant relative to ex-prince Winter and Hailstom. They may not be pleased about this fact.
* There are still other descendants of her siblings living around. The most famous of them is commander Frostbite, who is a calm and stoic IceWing veteran. He was later killed by the Acadian "Delta Talon," which is cynically named in reference to another special forces group. A few others exist, who are still valued by Despayre.
* Despayre is the name of a legendary vengeful spirit from before the Scorching. It means despair in Russian, possibly hinting towards a past influence.
* Due to Despayre's actions, most of the documents about her were censored and erased. Nearly every trace is destroyed, although there are still myths of the famous General Crimson's IceWing companion.
* Nearly all of the chronicles about Despayre that the NightWings preserved are gone. Most of it was lost to time and calamities. War, Darkstalker, and even the NightWing Exodus affected this. Some may be in the talons of SandWing collectors, while a few others still remain intact.
== Quotes ==
"We're supposed to be on one side, you stupid fools! How low our once proud tribe fell, by allowing them to turn you into their slaves?!" - to IceWing conscripts, sided with soviets, who attempted to stop Despayre from escaping.
"Resistance... Rebellion... You will burn these ideas away." to Imperial Inner Circle about discussing future plans
"If you do not consider yourself as worthy ruler, then give your kingdom to me and I will lead it into golden age among others. Imagine how many lives of your fellow SkyWings you would save by doing so?" Despayre to Crimson during on of their conversations, before their peace meeting.
"I have return and I will not leave you again." Despayre talking to citizens of the Empire, shortly after nation was formed
"Let history judge us. From the historical chronicles that you should have studied more thoughtfully. You should have understand that the history is written by the winners. And I am going to win!" Despayre told that to Crimson, when they meet.
"Enough of that bickering! This getting us nowhere!" - ending some arguing between Krait and Granite during their conversation
"You bother about some stupid dragonets from old outdated prophecy? And you still do not realize that all was just a setup, made by those moonheaded idiots to somehow get out of the unenviable situation in which they found themselves? You disappoint me. Do not waste your time on them, and start doing something useful!" - to Granite about his strange plans
"We shall double our efforts." -to fellow IceWings about increasing production capabilities in the ongoing war
"There is no word exists to describe, how i am glad to see you, Crimson! Our long-awaited meeting finally happened." - her greeting words to Crimson during their peace meeting.
"You lost your kingdom and everything you had before. And it's entirely your fault. You have no rights here. My horizon grew, while yours has faded out!" - Empress Despayre to some surviving members of IceWing royalty about their situation.
"A noble attempt, but as you can see, absolutely meaningless." - Despayre to MorningStar after NightWing saved life of Nightfall from Despayre's attack.
== Gallery ==
IceWingEmpress-0.png|Despayre's portrait
Despayre_GN.png|Despayre in Graphic Novel style
DespayreBadMood1.png|Empress Despayre in rather bad mood
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