Zafira Kerias

## Appearance

Zafira is surprisingly short. She has blonde hair, usually kept down, green eyes, and is pale. She is often found in dress pants, blouses, and heels. Or she’s in an Elder’s robe, depending on the situation. On her right pointer finger is her black Necromancy ring. She also wears a necklace with an emerald attached. She often is thought to have a stern look in her eyes.

## Personality

Zafira can come off as a very stern person. She isn’t the nicest of people when you aren’t someone she likes or has to pretend to be nice to. She has a very cunning and ambitious side to her, making her perfectly capable of doing something unorthodox to get what she wants. She can also be manipulative when she wants to be. She does have a kind side to her, reserved for close friends or family. Usually she puts on her nice person facade to anyone else.

## Backstory

Zafira lived on through life, residing in New York. She continued to harbor a nasty grudge against China Sorrows, and celebrated her death. She was thrilled someone took over from the tyrant, as she thought China to be one. Since just about everyone who blamed her for the events of the War of the Sanctuaries, were no longer around, she began to visit her daughter in Ireland more frequently. Often these visits were never made official due to safety and security purposes.

During the years that followed, Zafira worked on legislation to make things a little easier with the Church of the Faceless, at least not arresting them at every corner. She also worked on bringing forward ideas to create more schools similar to Corrival Academy, in other countries. Despite the good things she did, Zafira had bigger plans ahead of her. It would be only a matter of time before she could finally put them into motion.

### Post The Dying of the Light

Zafira managed to actually evade death. Unfortunately Darquesse merely assumed she killed Zafira, Darquesse was too preoccupied to notice that Necromancer actually tastes so foul, even a Gnarl wouldn’t eat one. Gnarls do have standards you know. Zafira’s own pet spat her back out and went into what experts can only describe as, a food coma. Several brave operatives and one terrified doctor managed to find their way into the enclosure and rescue their Grand Mage. It took several months, but Zafira did manage to recover from her brief encounter inside a Gnarl’s mouth. The scars she bears are mostly mental, and she refuses to ever play with magical creatures again. She remained Grand Mage and happily serves, with a new perspective on life.

## RP Plot

### Present Day

The night before Zafira officially was meant to arrive in Ireland for a meeting with Supreme Mage Sarah Sorrows, things took a turn. Unknown to any roleplayer (as of now), Zafira met with an assassin in East Side. This was the same one who took care of the American Grand Mage before her. She paid them off, from an account from who knows where, to kill the Supreme Mage. The assassin couldn’t even identify her as she took great lengths to make sure nothing, even the sound of her voice or appearance, could trace back to her. This was not her first time taking care of someone who was in her way.

Zafira officially arrived in Ireland the following day, to meet with a now very much dead Supreme Mage Sorrows. Upon arrival to the Irish Sanctuary she found it in such disarray, it was described as chaotic. She had even seen the body of Sorrows herself, when looking for someone who had a lick of intelligence. Later she would be part of the emergency committee to elect a new Irish Council.

## Relationships

### **Layla**

Layla is Zafira’s daughter. Their relationship was always a strong one. Zafira was careful to keep Layla out of the plot she was part of with Ravel. That was one of the good things Zafira did do for Layla. Throughout the years, the two were close. Zafira would do anything for Layla, and would probably kill anyone who harmed her. Zafira has only one child and Layla gets all of that love and will to protect.

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