Overview
Nethira is a chronarc of Chronasis, a divine and temporal mage, and an elite official under Thalena in Stella Aeterna. Under Cassian, she handles palace administration, healer organization, essence core reserves, supply work, and practical city business.
Nethira is thirty-nine, with teal-streaked hair and amber-gold eyes. She keeps a polished, confident manner and often teases Cassian and Thalena while handling official work.
Magic and Work
Nethira blends temporal and divine magic in combat and training. During Jin's time with Thalena's elite chronarcs, she is a formidable strategist whose mixed magic keeps him constantly alert. Her divine healing uses golden light and golden threads to stabilize Thalena, restore injured legati, and fuse Astryx's splintered ribs and punctured chest after the timerift attack in Stella Aeterna.
Her administrative work includes healing, body diagnosis, healer management, and essence cores. Cassian consults her when he wants another healer to examine whether his body is fully human; his body has humanlike systems, exceptional endurance, and a slower heartbeat. She tracks core storehouses, organizes core distribution with Hadrian, Lunorax, and Aelius, sends for more healers from Terranova and Aetherion, and sorts Thalassai army preparations with Arinella.
History
Nethira serves Thalena before Cassian becomes archon of time. She trains with Jin, governs Chronasis through Stella Aeterna, and has enough authority that Thalena can leave the city in her care with Lunorax.
Under Cassian, Nethira becomes a regular aide and close friend. She handles chronarc appointments after Lunorax's absence, shares trade and transport work with Astryx, assists with Celestial Games preparations, and speaks for the chronarcs and Chronasis regional leaders when they endorse Cassian's rise to the seat of time.
After the timerift attack in Stella Aeterna, Nethira heals wounded legati, stays with Cassian on Thalena's orders after Pyrathalor's glaive nearly kills him, and serves in Chronasis's defense. She brings Cassian the black box left when Abraxas changes form, examines Abraxas afterward, comforts Jin after the losses in Xalmyrra and Cyndarel, and remains behind to lead Chronasis when Cassian moves toward the front.
Relationships
- Thalena: Nethira is a trusted chronarc under Thalena and is comfortable challenging her when Thalena isolates herself or loses perspective.
- Cassian: Nethira serves Cassian as a chronarc, healer, adviser, and friend. She teases him freely, stays with him after his near-death, and keeps Chronasis functioning under his rule.
- Arinella: Nethira and Arinella share administration, supplies, healer coordination, and military preparations.
- Astryx: Nethira and Astryx serve together as chronarcs and share administrative work around Chronasis trade, transport, and governance.
- Lunorax, Hadrian, and Aelius: Nethira shares essence-core, Chronasis-defense, and Thalassai-logistics work with them.