Ember Dragon

Ember Dragon, more commonly known simply as Ember, was the founder and first member of both SMP Proximity and the Shadowborn Empire, of which she is the unofficial leader. Out of everyone in the SMP, she is the oldest, the only female, and the only operator on the server.

Appearance
Ember is a Human with light skin, golden eyes, and purple hair. Though her skin does not include it, Ember has a pair of black horns and purple wings similar to that of the dragon in her profile picture and channel art.

Though her character has a variety of outfits out of the SMP, she has only worn the Shadowborn Empire uniform in the SMP. The inner layer of the uniform consists of a dark gray shirt with the Shadowborn Empire flag on the left sleeve, dark gray pants held up with a black belt, and black boots with silver trim. The outer layer of the uniform is a black coat with silver trim, the flag in the same location as the flag on the shirt, and silver shoulder pads. The uniform also includes a pair of black, fingerless gloves.

Personality
Ember tends to be a very patient, relaxed, and peaceful character who does what she can to contribute to the community, especially when it comes to the builds of the server. She is kind to the other members and is generally accepting of the decisions that they make, even when those decisions may make her somewhat upset, such as Brian's leaving the Shadowborn Empire and going off to make ZomBria. She has stated that, though she leads the Shadowborn Empire, she is supportive of other countries rising up so long as they remain peaceful. Despite this, she can get frustrated at times and snap at others, though this only seems to happen if she is having difficulty in the game or if others make what she is trying to do harder than it needs to be.

If Ember becomes upset, she keeps her peaceful demeanor, but she seems to struggle with herself intrinsically, such as when she casted self-doubt on her abilities as a leader after Brian left. During this time, she responds more strongly to the voices in her head (chat), mixing their voices with her own thoughts to create something that may be mistaken for insanity. During this time, she also seems to speak to Malraz, though who or what Malraz is is currently unknown. During one of these times, she has expressed a strong desire to make others happy so they would stay in her nation because she does not want to be alone.

Before SMP Proximity
Before SMP Proximity, Ember, Brian, and Nic all had a Minecraft SMP together, where she met the two boys, and she also supposedly did some combat training with Brian. Not much else is known about Ember's life before the events of SMP Proximity.

Rise of the Shadowborn Empire
Upon appearing in the SMP Proximity world, Ember and Brian quickly formed the Shadowborn Empire, of which she became the unofficial leader. When night fell on the first night, she built the Community House and lit up the area surrounding it in order to provide a safe haven from anybody who joined the server at night before they split off and made their own place to live. She didn't want the Community House to be part of the Shadowborn Empire, stating instead that she wished to build up the Empire in the nether and build a castle around a nether fortress. Ember openly invited any of the new members of the server to join the Shadowborn Empire, and soon, Caleb became the third member of the Shadowborn Empire.

When Caleb began having attachment to the bees, she and Caleb decided that the tree would be called the Sacred Bee Tree and that they would have a religion known as Beecracy in which they worshipped bees, making Caleb the Bee Priest. Though this religion appears to have been discontinued, the Sacred Bee Tree keeps its name and all bees have officially been made citizens of the Shadowborn Empire. However, the two original bees at the Sacred Bee Tree were killed when a cactus was placed in front of the entrance by either Caleb or Brian. The death of the bees traumatized Caleb, though Brian denied that he had done anything. Ember suspected then that Caleb had done it but was in denial and tried to comfort him.

Shortly after, Brian left the Shadowborn Empire, telling Ember that he saw fault in the nation. Though Ember let him go peacefully, forming an alliance with ZomBria, his leaving hurt her. She went mining, and she began having self-doubts as to whether she was even a good leader at all and wondering what she had done wrong to make Brian leave so soon. The voices in her head kept repeating the words bread, wheat, seeds, and soil, trying to convince her to join the Bread Cult (now Food Cult), which she refused to do, claiming that she couldn't join the bread cult because the bees were more important because the bees were what tied her to Caleb, even if bread was what kept her alive for a while within the caves. She began to believe that the bees were what kept Caleb in the Shadowborn Empire and that if the bees were gone, he would leave just like Brian did, and she didn't want to be alone. This was also the first time Ember mentioned Malraz. To try and calm herself down, she went to the nether with no plans of returning, making a small nether base and finding a nether fortress. Soon after that day, Brian rejoined the Shadowborn Empire, expressing that he had no memories of ever leaving it, and Ember seemed to recover. She also invited Tyyuiss, her brother, to the Shadowborn Empire and proceeded to build the pier by the Community House for fishing, on which she let Tyyuiss build his Potato Restaurant.

While she was building the pier and her voices were discussing the Bread Cult and the Cult of Noctus, Ember confirmed that the Bread God would, in fact, be canon, but denied that the Bread God was more powerful than the Demon King. She also stated that while she has not sold her soul to anyone, she does work for someone and seems to be secretive about who that someone is, as she had made sure that the other members of the SMP were out of earshot. The person she serves is likely Malraz, as she later made comments about how she would not seek power unless Malraz asked her to. It is also confirmed that Ember, the human seen in SMP Proximity, and the dragon depicted in her profile picture and channel art are two separate characters, though they are both canon and both played by her. This has lead a few fan theories to pop up.

Quotes
"It's Shadowborn Empire time!" - January 17th, 2021, after meeting up with Brian for the first time in SMP Proximity.

"Yeah! We're all crazy!" - January 17th, 2021, to Brian while they were speaking about having voices in their heads.

"Okay, let's not die today, chat. Let's not die today. Let's not die today, chat! Ah, oh fudge! No, no! This is a very bad way to not die!" - January 17th, 2021, while running from mobs and getting stuck in a hole.

"Well yeah, but you're mostly covered in iron. And therefore, you are completely and totally an iron golem." - January 17th, 2021, to Brian.

"I hear the rain! I hear the rain, Brian! I hear the rain! Brian, I hear- I hear the rain! I hear the rain, Brian!" - January 17th, 2021, after Ember's Minecraft sounds started working again.

Trivia

 * Ember is the oldest person on the SMP so far.
 * Ember was the first to find diamonds and to find the nether fortress.