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Nashira Sargas (pronounced: Na-SHE-ra SAR-goss), also known as The Suzerain, is one of the two blood-sovereigns, and rules over the race of Rephaim with equal power to Gomeisa Sargas.

Biography[]

History[]

Nashira comes from a proud and respected family of scholars. When the Rephaim still lived in the Netherworld, she dwelled in the great observatory in the swathe of the Sargas family, where she learned about human beings and their capacity for hatred.[1] It was the Sargas family who told the rulers of the Rephaim, the Mothallath family, that crossing the veil would be an act of inconceivable desecration. The Sargas, especially Nashira, believed that interaction between Rephaim and humans should be avoided, and that Rephaite flesh would perish on Earth. However, the Mothallath rejected the Sargas's counsel.

Upon the Waning of the Veils, civil war tore through the Netherworld. It was the Sargas, led by Procyon Sargas who declared himself blood-sovereign, and their followers against the Mothallath and their followers, the Ranthen. The Sargas faction blamed the Mothallath for letting death into their realm. The Sargas won the civil war. The Mothallath were usurped and destroyed, but the Netherworld could sustain the Rephaim no longer.

By the time the Ranthen declared their loyalty to the Sargas, Procyon was unable to continue ruling. In his place, Nashira and Gomeisa rose to take his place. Nashira declared that she would take one of the traitors as her blood-consort to prove that event Ranthen leaders must conform to the new order. She chose Arcturus Mesarthim, despite him already having a mate in Terebell Sheratan. Before now, sundering a Rephaite from their mate was unheard of, but Nashira didn't care for traditions and old customs.

When Nashira summoned Arcturus to plight his troth to her in public, Terebell challenged Nashira to single combat. Nashira had honed formidable skills during the war, and she came very close to destroying Terebell. Arcturus intervened. He swore to Nashira that he would bind himself to her and pledge the Mesarthim to her cause in perpetuity if she spared Terebell. Nashira agreed. Arcturus has since spent the following two hundred years as her war trophy and fiancé.

Since the Rephaim could no longer connect to the æther, Nashira said they would have to see if they fared any better on the other side of the veil. When the ethereal threshold reached its highest point ever, Nashira led a large group in making the crossing to Earth in 1859. Upon discovering that they could feed on the link certain humans had with the æther, Nashira became determined that the Rephaim had to be apex predators not parasites hiding in the shadows. Nashira led the Rephaim in revealing themselves to Lord Palmerston, the Prime Minister of England. Nashira told Lord Palmerston that the Emim were demons and the Rephaim were angles. Almost without question he surrendered control of the government to Nashira. Queen Victoria was allowed to maintain an appearance of power until she died. On the day her son, Edward VII, was crowned, Nashira orchestrated his framing for the Jack the Ripper murders and accused him of bringing unnaturalness into the world. The inquisition into clairvoyance and th established on the Rephaim's control through Scion began.[2] Though she allowed Scion to be outwardly led by an amaurotic human Grand Inquisitor, Nashira established herself as its true ruler. She used the stores of knowledge she had saved from the observatory, specifically knowledge of how intensely humans can hate, to turn the tide of the public against "unnaturals" and to promise control. Her aim is to take complete control over all of Earth.

In 2039, during Bone Season XVIII, Warden, Terebell, and several other Ranthen orchestrated an uprising of the humans enslaved in Sheol I. However, one of the humans, XVIII-39-7, betrayed them by telling Nashira about the plan in exchange for his freedom. All the humans were fed to the Emim, and the Rephaim involved were tortured by one of Nashira's poltergeists.

The Bone Season[]

Upon arriving in Sheol I, Paige Mahoney and the other voyants are brought to a room where Nashira introduces herself as "the blood-sovereign of the Race of Rephaim."[3] She explains her version of events relating to the creation of Scion, the existence and danger of the Emim, and finishes her lecture by stating that now Earth belongs to the Rephaim.

When disease infects the Rookery, Nashira and the other Rephaim sequester themselves in their homes. Nashira does not care if the harlies die from the sickness. Death in the Rookery will sow fear, which upholds her rule. This will also give her the chance to appear benevolent by distributing medicine at the time she deems best.

Nashira attends the Bicentenary Celebration. After coming upon Paige and Warden kissing, Nashira is furious. She strips Warden of his position as blood-consort. She instructs Thuban Sargas and Situla Mesarthim to take him away for her to punish later. Then she commands Alsafi Sualocin to bring Paige to the stage for her execution. Before Nashira can execute Paige, Paige attacks her dreamscape. Terebell, Alsafi, and Pleione Sualocin arrive on stage to attack Nashira with spools long enough for Warden to help Paige escape. The Ranthan are ultimately unsuccessful in killing Nashira and are forced to go in to hiding from her wrath.

The Mime Order[]

Terebell tells Paige that during the revolt in Sheol I, Nashira and Gomeisa barred themselves inside the Residence of the Suzerain, along with every loyal red-jacket that had not been killed, to wait out the destruction. Afterwards, Nashira spreads the word among her fellow Rephaim that her former consort "degrades himself with humans," an extremely serious offense in Rephaim society. With Sheol I burnt down, Nashira and her supporters comes to the Westminster Archon in London. She has remained within the Archon ever since, urging Grand Inquisitor Frank Weaver to increase the intensity of the search for Paige.

After Paige betrays Jaxon Hall during the scrimmage and is named Underqueen, Jaxon reveals to Paige that he was the betrayer of Bone Season XVIII, XVIII-39-7. He has returned to Nashira's side and is in the Archon with her.

The Song Rising[]

Nashira has named Jaxon her new Grand Overseer of the newly established Sheol II. Paige learns that after gaining his freedom for his role in Bone Season XVIII, Jaxon secretly maintained contact with Nashira, but never met her in person. He began selling her rare clairvoyants for the Bone Seasons in exchange for attaining significant wealth.

Alsafi sacrifices himself to Nashira to allow Paige to escape from the Archon. After an intense fight, Nashira beheads Alsafi.

The Mask Falling[]

Arcturus reveals to Paige the reason Nashira knows about dreamwalkers is because she met one during Bone Season III with the arrival of a girl named Emma Orson. Not wanting Nashira to make her one of her fallen angels, the Ranthen secretly contrived Emma's escape. When Nashira discovered what happened, she sent a red-jacket, a berserker named Jack, to recapture her. While he was in London hunting for Emma, several women were brutally murdered in Whitechapel. The final victim was identified as Marie Kelly, or as she was known on the streets, Fair Emma. Emma Orson was never seen again. After returning to Sheol I having failed to recapture Emma Orson, Nashira killed Jack and bound his spirit to her as one of her fallen angels as punishment. She then turned the Jack the Ripper murders to her advantage by using them to bring down the monarchy of England. As soon as Prince Edward VII was crowned, she sprung her trap. Nashira framed King Edward VII for the Jack the Ripper murders and painting him as the bringer of unnaturalness so Scion could rise in the monarchy's place.

Paige attempts to rescue Arcturus from La Forteresse de Justice, but when she gets to him, he disregards her and reveals that he has been a double spy all along, and that in reality he intends to reveal every piece of information he extracted from Paige to Nashira. Nashira arrives with Situla and Graffias Sheratan. Nashira taunts Paige with Warden's betrayal. She tells Paige that Arcturus has been reinstated as blood-consort. Situla and Graffias attempt to take Paige into custody, but she is somehow able to channel her overwhelming emotions into her dreamscape and attack the Rephaim. She escape with the help of Le Prince Creux.

Physical Description[]

Nashira is six and a half feet tall and has perfectly symmetrical features. She has a long, straight nose, high cheekbones, and deep-set, hooded eyes. Her eyes are chartreuse yellow except for when she's fed on aura. She has thick, long, brassy, blonde hair. Like all Rephaim, she doesn't need to blink, and it's impossible to tell how old or young she is. Her sarx has a burnished complexion somewhere between silver and gold, but more on the silver side. Her voice is like cut-glass, cool, and low-pitched. She wears black like the other Rephaim, but her sleeves and sides are slashed with gold, and she wears black gloves. Nashira's aura is strange and corrupted due to her fallen angels. It is as if she has taken multiple types of auras and forged them all into one strange field of energy. Her aura is like a smoking fire, suffocating the auras of those around her. It has a cold edge, unlike human auras which give off a soft, warm signal.

Personality[]

Nashira values Rephaite blood and is only willing to spill it when she considers it absolutely necessary. This is part of why she is so popular with her followers. Nashira never raises her voice yet she is still incredibly creepy and scary. Nashira, and her followers, have the foremost desire to colonize the corporeal world. She wants complete dominion over humans. Nashira is also driven by the desire to collect as many different clairvoyant gifts as possible. She uses the multiple clairvoyant abilities she has already collected and her five fallen angels to serve as weapons and shields for her. Nashira is more than a binder. If she kills a clairvoyant, she can not only trap its spirit, but use it. So long as that spirit is bound to her, its presence affects her aura, and it is that corruption that allows her to have several gifts at once. These types of spirits are called fallen angels. Her dreamscape is wrapped in the chainmail of centuries.

She has always been the most ambitious of the Rephaim. She is bloodthirsty, ruthless, zealous, and disgusted by humanity. Nashira tells Paige that she has done nothing to humans that they have not done to themselves. She claims to have only used humankind's own methods to bring it to heel. This revelation makes Paige realize that Nashira is not simply evil and sadistic, but that she is smart and cunning. Nashira knows more about humans and humanity than humans do, and they have given her the tools to bring them to their knees.[1] The Sargas aim to bring about the total collapse of the veils. The Sargas also believe that humans purposely stole the Rephaim's lifeline from them.

Etymology[]

Nashira (Gamma Capricorni) is a giant star in the constellation Capricornus, the Sea Goat. The name is derived from the Arabic سعد ناشرة sa'd nashirah "the lucky one" or "bearer of good news."[4] Sargas (Theta Scorpii) is a binary star in the constellation Scorpius.[5] The name is of Sumerian origin and means "seizer" or "smiter."[6]

Trivia[]

  • According to Warden, the Sargas family's favored form of execution is decapitation, as it symbolizes the removal of the dreamscape.
  • Warden reveals to Paige that Jaxon was Nashira's one and only tenant in Sheol I.

Appearances[]

References[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 The Song Rising: Chapter 22
  2. The Mime Order: Chapter 16
  3. The Bone Season: Chapter 3
  4. Wikipedia - Gamma Capricorni
  5. Wikipedia - Theta Scorpii
  6. https://www.naic.edu/~gibson/starnames/starnames.html

 

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