Saphira of the Silver Eye

Exemplar of Foresight, Discernment, and the Judgment of Worth

Saphira was born blind in one eye but claimed from childhood that her "silver eye saw truths the flesh could not." A renowned merchant-matriarch in present-day Dracia, she presided over a powerful guild of gem appraisers and contract arbiters. It was said she could detect counterfeit coin by touch alone and discern a man's future reliability by the way he shook hands. Her legend began when she refused to validate the enormous trade deal between two arch-merchant houses despite immense pressure from both parties. Citing "unclean omens in the ink," she predicted the agreement would bring ruin to both. The houses ignored her counsel and signed it elsewhere. Within three months, one house collapsed under bad debt and the other fell to scandal over falsified weights. From that day on, Saphira's judgment was law in any market her name reached.

Saphira is depicted as a robed woman of advanced age with a silver scale in one hand and a gleaming false eye in the other. That eye, sometimes shown as floating or radiating, symbolizes her gift of seeing beyond greed, haste, or persuasion. She is the patron of appraisers, magistrates, auditors, and those who weigh the truth of men’s words and contracts. The “Silver Eye” medallion, modeled after her legendary prosthetic, is worn by merchant-judges and often displayed in the private sanctums of guild vaults and counting houses.