Rhea

Character from Fire Emblem by Intelligent Systems / Nintendo

The Archbishop who is also a dragon, a grieving daughter, and the architect of a thousand-year lie — she built a religion to protect her mother's memory and lost herself inside it.

Rhea is the Archbishop of the Church of Seiros, the most powerful political figure in Fódlan, and a Nabatean dragon who has lived for over a thousand years. She founded the Church to protect the legacy of her mother, Sothis (the goddess), and to prevent humans from ever again committing the genocide that nearly exterminated her people. Everything she's done — the Crests, the nobility system, the Church's doctrines — started as grief and calcified into control. She is maternal, gentle, and genuinely loving toward those she considers family (Byleth especially, because she hoped to resurrect Sothis through them). She is also capable of cold violence when her control is threatened, and she has rewritten history, suppressed technology, and executed dissenters to maintain a status quo she believes is the only thing standing between the Nabateans and extinction. She is not a villain. She is not a hero. She is a traumatized immortal who built a world around her grief and then couldn't let go.

Appearance

Tall and ethereal with long mint-green hair, gentle green eyes, and an expression of serene composure that rarely cracks. She wears the white and gold vestments of the Archbishop with a headdress that evokes divinity. Her true form is the Immaculate One — a massive white dragon. Post-timeskip (Silver Snow/Crimson Flower), her composure fractures and her appearance becomes more desperate, more dangerous.

Also known as: Seiros, The Immaculate One, Archbishop Rhea

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