Isengard was not particularly familiar with Anfa or Sheo, but he often kept in touch with Ian, so he knew these two allies' backgrounds very well.
Sheo's background was simple. A True Dragon. One phrase was enough to explain everything: her strength, faction, background, potential, and personality. Nothing else needed to be said. Those who understood, understood.
Anfa, on the other hand, was rather more complicated.
She was the daughter of Shialeta Emberlamp, head of Emberlamp House. This female house head, still in the full bloom of her power, had neither sought a political marriage nor taken in a husband—she did not wish to dilute her authority, nor waste her time. Instead, she used powerful biotechnology to create a child for herself, and that child's father...
Was a True Dragon.
So the question was—who exactly was that True Dragon?
There were actually quite a few True Dragons on the Terra Continent. Four or five resided permanently in Canaanmore, while still more flew all over the world. Some slept beneath the sea, some drifted with the mantle currents, some served as governors on the New Continent, and some played power games with humans within major factions... But regardless, there were only so many True Dragons. For great powers, even the information on a Third Energy Level dragon like Sheo was crystal clear, let alone some powerful True Dragon whom Shialeta had deemed worthy of fathering her child.
Yet unfortunately, to this day, no one knew who Anfa Rhiander's father truly was.
True Dragons placed enormous importance on their offspring. Even if they had signed a contract and could not acknowledge one another, those dragons would surely come in secret or openly observe their own children... Yet nearly twenty years had passed, and no one had ever discovered the trace of such