Maestro Delphine Eraclea

From Last Exile

Delphine Eraclea is Dio Eraclea's older sister and head of the Guild. A run-in between her and Alex Row in the past has left her the sole target of his vengeance, and one of his only goals is to personally kill Delphine. The Maestro is portrayed as a decadent aristocrat, callous and ruthless in her ways.

Delphine possesses a veritable arsenal of psychological weapons she uses so very easily, which would explain why Dio is so very afraid of her. She is truly heartless when it comes to the guild, and takes great delight in the wastefulness that her people go through to attain and prepare meals, such as Kerasion moose, which is rarely harvested because the harvesters most likely froze to death, and catfish that took 100 gallons of First Water to remove the mud. During the Trial of Agoon, she demonstrated an ability to restore the dead to life; everyone who died in the Trial was seen scampering to her feet as she said "I have renewed your lives."

It is unknown whether she has any real combative power of her own. Due to her impossibly immense oppressive influence, she really only needs her truly loyal subordinates to do her work, namely Cicada and his attack force. She does possess golden rings that have the ability to turn people into golden shards or ashes. They seem to turn you into ash if you're a bad person and pretty shards if you're a good person.