Sephira Sephirot

The most influential of the three Skylords during the Era of the Skylords. She was called The Sparrow.

History
Born to a royal family now long dead, she made her name by using the vestiges of her influence to marry herself to the owner of a factory that made specialty weapons. They had three children, all sons, before he died and left the business to her. Her eldest, Kuze Sephirot, became a sky pirate when he was fifteen. Sephira was heartbroken, at first, but then she began to hear of the money one could earn by pirating.

She began a small operation, but realized she had two problems. 1. Despite the competence of her two sons, they needed proper muscle to help them, and muscle willing to follow a middle-aged woman was hard to find. 2. They didn't have the contacts or the funds to properly move some of their goods to the right people.

She solved both problems at once, creating Taisen Industries. It was designed to be a one stop for all one's mercenary needs. She used the factory to process their stolen goods under the guise of buying out junkyards and the like. Taisen Industries also had a mercenary component. Once Sephira had enough, she earned their respect with what is now known as the Fifty Raids. She took control of forty-four pirate strongholds, destroying six others. The governments who know her methods have included them in training manuals, but do not point out which she used.

With an army of sky pirates under her command, she began expanding her influence to every nation, even Arcadia was not safe from her raids. It was about this time she