Rysaran Ikessar

"Look at your daughter, he had told her once, during one of the many times she took the child to the palace to visit. ''See how her laughter makes you feel. If I could take that feeling and give it to people, I would not need a dragon, I think."

Jaeth's Eye
The only son of Dragonlord Reshiro Ikessar. His sisters were sent to their ancestral home in the mountains to be ordained as priestesses in order to protect them. Rysaran was proclaimed the heir, and later Dragonlord after his father's untimely death.

Known as Rysaran the Uncrowned, for his refusal to participate in an official crowning ceremony until he could find himself a dragon. His rule was marked by absence as he journeys around the continent in his search for a dragon. Jin-Sayeng was run by Regent Ryabei while he was gone. During his travels, he pays a visit to the islands of Gorent, where he forms a friendship with Enosh.

Later, he encounters Kefier as a prisoner. Seeking pity on him, he implores Enosh--who is using glamour and appears as an old man--to help Kefier.

Aina's Breath
He forms a friendship with Sume Kaggawa after learning she is the daughter of one of the Seven Shadows, a group of assassins his father Reshiro had formed.

His search for his dragon eventually causes him to stumble on rumours of a strange creature being kept by the company Yn Garr Industries. Learning that the creature is dangerous, he uses Warlord Yeshin of Oren-yaro's ambition to seize the dragon for him. Yeshin falls for the trap. When the dragon is released in Oren-yaro, it razes Yeshin's keep to the ground, killing his sons and many of his people.

Rysaran rides the dragon, which then attacks Shirrokaru before disappearing with him. He is presumed dead.

Sapphire's Flight
Rysaran stays with the dragon for three years. His survival is a mystery, but is later attributed to his peaceful temperament and rigorous Ikessar training. However, by the time his sister Ryia and Sume finds him, he is almost mad. It is decided that the kindest thing would be to put him out of his misery.

Sume Kaggawa kills him with a dagger through the heart.

“Wings and fire into the sky, Beloved Lord."

Legacy
Rysaran's attempt to tame Naijwa's Beast provides them with a means to destroy it--he leaves his sword into the dragon's body, which Sapphire later uses to amplify her spells to kill it.

Yeshin's War of the Wolves is attributed to his foolishness.