The Elder Wyrm

The Elder Wyrm was a Wyrm and the CEO of Talon. She was the biological mother of Ember and Dante Hill. Her role as Elder Wyrm allowed her to function as a kind of monarch for the Western dragons. Her children are likely the heirs to the Talon Empire. She is the main antagonist of the entire saga; serving as the main antagonist in Inferno, the main antagonist in Legion and Soldier (Book), and the overaching antagonist in Talon (Book) and Rogue (Book).

## Biography

### Early Days

Sometime in the 11th century, the Elder Wyrm created the magic that dragons use to shift into human beings in order for her and her fellow dragons to hide from the Order of Saint George. She taught her Fellow western dragons to masquerade as humans and work together to survive. The Talon trade company is formed after Elder Wyrm makes her alliance with her fellow western dragons.

In the 14th century she and her new organization Talon wage war against the Order of St. George. 100 years later, She moves most of her operations to the new world. In 1600, her empire becomes the third largest organization in the world.

### 20 years before the events of Talon

A few centuries later, she clones herself, two children. Ember and Dante, Her "heirs" to the Talon empire. But she actually intends to use Ember as a vessel for her so she can have endless life, and wants to use Dante, the perfect son, to help her accomplish this task.

In Legion, she tells Ember that there were other clone children. Ember and Dante were just the most successful and lived the longest.

## Present Day

### Talon

During Talon, she assigned Lilith to train her daughter and Mr. Smith to train her son. Ember was assigned to be trained as a Viper, and Dante a Chameleon. However, for her daughter, things don't go as planned and Ember ended up meeting Cobalt/Riley and going rogue when Ember learns that Talon is not what it seems. Ember escapes Talon with Cobalt while her twin, Dante stays loyal to her organization.

### Soldier

At the end of Soldier, Her son comes to meet her for the first time in 16 years. That's when she reveals to him that she is his mother. She then looks out the window in her office and tells her son that the Order of St. George was in chaos, giving Talon the perfect time to strike.

### Legion

In Legion, she captures Ember and attempts to wipe the latter's mind in order to become her vessel. However, Ember escapes with most her memories intact. When Talon fails to eliminate the Western Chapterhouse thanks to Ember and Cobalt's underground, The Elder Wyrm is more amused at her daughter's defiance than angry.

### Inferno

In Inferno, the Elder Wyrm is shot by Dante when she tries to kill Ember. She mercilessly kills her own son before escaping. She shifts into dragon form and tries to kill Cobalt's rogues and the remaining soldiers of St. George. However, this time she is shot twice by Tristan St. Anthony and *finally* dies.

## Personality

In contrast her daughter Ember, The Elder Wyrm was greedy, selfish, and malicious.

She cares little for human lives regardless of age or gender. However, she didn't think that she was evil believing that she was doing what is best for the organization. The Elder wyrms' personality was influenced by catastrophic events over the last 1,000 years. The Elder Wyrm witnessed empires rise and fall until she felt no emotion at all.

This is proven when she had no qualms allowing Dante to attack a human Hamlet with soulless vessels and going as far as creating her own vessel with personality & independent thought only to erase these qualities of her clone so she could insert her own memories and independent thoughts in order she could take over that hatchling's body. This vessel of Elder Wyrm's was Ember Hill. The Elder Wyrm revealed this to her daughter as if it was no big deal implying her to be crazy and insane.

Despite the Elder Wyrms cruelty, it can be assumed that long ago when she was a hatchling she was a lot like her daughter. Rebellious, free willed and quite stubborn before witnessing the fall of several human empires several catastrophic events throughout the ages.

Eventually, The Elder Wyrm is pure evil and has no remorse for her actions and has no redeeming qualities.

## Relationships

### Ember Hill

The Elder Wyrm's biological daughter. Despite this, she has very little attachment to her. She believes that Ember's only use is a vessel for her immortality, and does not care what happens to Ember in the process.

### Dante Hill

The Elder Wyrm's biological son. She is very manipulative towards Dante, and uses him to carry out her bidding, such as when he was in charge of retrieving Ember, or threatening the Eastern Dragons. She doesn't care about his well-being at all, sending him into dangerous situations. The Elder Wyrm only pretends to need Dante as an heir so that he will help her achieve immortality.
When the Elder Wyrm sends Dante to "propose" and by propose she means for Dante to coherence the Eastern Council into an alliance with a death threat. Unbeknown to the E.W. The council give Dante a message sent by Jade that reveals that Dante will never inherit Talon from his DNA donor since the Elder Wyrm intends to transfer her own conscious into Ember. Dante decides to take Jade's advice in conduction his own investigation in case Jade is lying. After Dante returns to the U.S. he contacts Dr. John Olsen, and convinces him to send him a copy of Project Nephilim. After reading the documents, Dante realizes that he's been duped but doesn't call out the Elder Wyrm in order to stay on her good side. When Ember and co. are captured in the Appalachian Mountains he pretends to be indifferent about the E.W. nefarious plans for Ember in order to shoot her off-guard with his pistol. Realizing that she'd been betrayed, the Elder Wyrm kills Dante before fleeing. Dante's death is subsequently avenge by Ember near the end of the final novel.

## Trivia

* Because her children are only 16 years old despite being an Elder, this proves that the Wyrms are still able to reproduce
	+ Though in the E.W.'s case she cloned herself to create Ember and Dante.
* She bears a striking resemblance to Ember
* She has green eyes which she passed down to her children
* The Elder Wyrm has a red coffee mug
* In human form, her nails are painted red
* She imprisoned the Archivist due to the fact that he was her greatest rival
* Although she doesn't appear in the first two books, she is mentioned
* The Elder Wyrm is ancient and jaded, with her emotions washed out over the centuries, making her a high-functioning psychopath who makes cruel decisions to further her goals without thinking twice.
* She is incredibly smart and talented, because she was the dragon that made the magic which allows dragons to shift, saving the dragon race from extinction in the 11th century.

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