Elsia Sabaramond

Elsia Sabaramond is a Geldwood Saint who shadow-leads the Geldwood Church as the twentieth of its nineteen high priests. She is sister to Arius Sabaramond.

Appearance
Elsia is a woman who appears "no older than twenty" with "beautiful silver hair and an equally "beautiful" smile. She wears the standard white ceremonial rainments of the Geldwood Church, but possesses a "bewitchingly mysterious" countenance.

Chronology
As the person pulling the strings of the Geldwood Church's governing body, Elsia has a direct or implicit hand in having Head Priestess Recuria Lofilardo lead a mission to the dangerous Byandy peninsula, and in having Lord Domdaal and one hundred soldiers lead an ambush against the expeditioners. Among those soldiers are a number of Elsia's spies.

Both the energy signatures belonging to Domdaal and Elsia's spy team vanish once the ambush takes place, which Elsia either learns or confirms when she scries for information in the main cathedral's meeting room for the head priests. She speculates that someone interfered in the presumed fight between Recuria and Domdaal to "finish off" Domdaal and his men, but cannot satisfactorily guess 'who'—perhaps Wandering Balcony, or a dragon, or a sect of alchemy scholars, but, either way, an enemy. If Geldwood's enemies continue to rise, then Geldwood must raise the standards of its equipment.

She raises her head from her water-filled magical pan to look at the objects behind her: engines of all shapes and sizes, aircraft and carrier jet models, a projector, a Tesla coil, radio-communication equipment, and a stockpile of firearms and ammunition similar to those used in World War I. Each item, however, has been improved upon throughout the last century.

Elsia considers the difficulty she had in reproducing the Haber-Bosch process, the profitable rewards reaped via her success, and, presuming the responsible civilization has survived, what technological progress it has made in its own last century. With all this in mind, the prospect of opening a new 'door' to Terra Mater is increasingly tempting.