Once master of the seas, the Sapphire Duke boiled with unvented resentment. He had thought that the success of his dragon riding, bought with a steep price, would shield Sapphire through its crises.
The emergence of the two Dragon Knights from the Eagle Kingdom made him realize the crisis of Sapphire was far more terrifying than imagined.
Although ultimately, with the appearance of Liszt and Acherloides, he succeeded in resolving this wave of calamity, the collaboration of a Dragon Knight and an Archmage meant that the oceans were no longer under Sapphire's control—or perhaps it could be said that from the time the Eagle Kingdom was able to manufacture schooners, the ocean had ceased to be Sapphire's exclusive dominion.
"Damn that Andy, an ungrateful wretch raised in vain!"
