Rania

Rania is one of the two beings that would eventually fuse to form Queen Sectonia, and one of the three main characters of Legends of Sky City: Rise of the Tyrant. She was the beloved ruler of the Floral Observatory and a member of the diplomacy party sent to improve relations with Sky City.

Appearance
Rania’s wings are small, dull gold in color, and somewhat frail-looking. As she cannot sustain full-on flight for extended periods of time, she often rests on the point of her abdomen and holds the rest of her body aloft with her wings. Her body is colored white and gold, and gold antennae rest atop her head. Her eyes are bright green in color. She is often depicted wearing a simple black cloak.

Abilities
Rania is a Nature elemental with the unique ability to draw energy from life around her, or, alternatively, to distribute energy to those around her. She is also able to manipulate the wildlife surrounding her. She is also one of the few capable of wielding the Crystal Artifacts, despite being an outsider to Sky City.

Backstory
Rania and a few other Vespine arrived in Sky City as a diplomatic party to strengthen the bonds between it and Floral Observatory. The Sky City Guard assigned its best two soldiers - the admittedly violent warrior Poetus and his twin, the pacifistic healer Erynx - to protect her during her tour of Zolara, and she quickly became good friends with the two.

Shortly after Rania’s arrival, the vengeful goddess of self, Sectoriel, attempted to improve her dwindling reputation among the mortals by using a mirror containing another world, Agriea, to unleash the inhabitants upon Zolara with the hopes that. She also gave it her blessing - a dark magic that made copies of Zolara’s greatest heroes to lead Agriea to victory.

With a bit of assistance from a masked hero going by the name Varent, Rania and the twins managed to push the army back far enough to take the fight to Sectoriel and the mirror. Depending on which of the twins arrives at the mirror first, it is either or, but either way they and Rania promptly embrace their final victory over Sectoriel.

Knowing that she was on the brink of defeat, Sectoriel offers Rania her power. Power enough to protect the people of Garden Observatory without needing any help. Believing Sectoriel will truly grant her this without consequence, the two fuse to form Sectonia. However, Sectoriel’s former position in Zolara turned into Sectonia’s obsession with her own beauty and her delusion of being a goddess. With Sky City no longer trusting her, she and the inhabitants of Floral Observatory who were loyal to her left their former neighbors behind to seek a new land to rule, leaving behind what would become the Garden in the Sky.

Personality
Despite all of the praise given to her beauty, Rania is actually surprisingly levelheaded. She tends to bottle up her emotion in an attempt to remain strong for the civilians that she endeavors to protect, but is never averse to showing kindness towards those who need her help. She will often dress simply and wander among her people in order to strengthen their ties and learn what troubles them. Though a seemingly perfect ruler, she has two fatal flaws - she is often too naive, and sees good in everyone even when it doesn’t exist; and she often doubts her own strength, and wishes she could protect her kingdom better despite her incredible devotion to guarding it.

Poteus
Rania respects Poteus’ abilities when it comes to war, though she may not agree with some of his tactics and bloodlusts. Poteus, likewise, respects Rania’s strong bond with those that serve her, though he thinks she could fight them a bit more. Upon becoming the god of war, Poteus often fought in memory of Rania and their time fighting together. He still keeps one of her rapiers in a place of honor in his armory.

Erynx
Rania often shares her troubling thoughts and her bottled-up emotions with Erynx when she needs to, as the Popopo has often provided some of the kindest and most helpful advice she’s ever received. Upon becoming the goddess of peace, Erynx styled her method of managing her realm of influence after Rania’s by putting herself on or below the level of mortals.