Cygnus/NPC

Description
Cygnus is the empress over Maple World. She is the head of the Cygnus Knights and the Chief Knights.

Rise to Empress
Empress Aria, the aunt of Cygnus, was the Empress of the Maple World before Cygnus. However, she was later killed by a Commander of the Black Mage who was having a meeting with her in Ereve. Following her death, the throne was given up to her niece (as Aria had no children).

Cygnus Knights
Knowing that the Black Mage will be revived soon, Cygnus forms the Cygnus Knight to act as an opposing force to the Black Mage.

Maple World Alliance
Seeing that the Black Mage has finally been revived, Cygnus arranges for a meeting to take place in Ereve to create the Maple World Alliance.

Relations to Mercedes
She also lend few of her knights to Mercedes to protect Elluel in case of any incoming Black Wings attacks. In one of the occassion, her knights mistakenly handed an Elf kid to a Master of Disguise, thinking that it was Mercedes. He later apologise to her and gave her a DualBowgun. Empress Cygnus even personally apologised to Mercedes where Mercedes kindly accepted it. Cygnus also formed an alliance with Mercedes.

Questioned Authority
During a meeting in Ereve, Hilla, a Black Wings General, disguises herself as an Empress, hoping to fool everyone into thinking that she is the real Empress of the Maple World. Using a Skaia as proof, she nearly succeeds until Phantom shows up. He destroys the Skaia that Hilla has, saying that it was a fake because he had the real Skaia. Hilla flees, and the real Skaia returns to it's rightful owner, Cygnus.

Future Chaos
In the future, Empress Cygnus became interested in the World Tree, so eventually she and her knights went to search for this phenomenon. The Empress and her knights succeeded in searching for the World Tree, however, they fell into a trap by the Black Mage. He corrupted Cygnus and her knights; because of this curse by the Black Magician, the island of Ereve were no longer held up by the magic created by Cygnus, and descended to Victoria Island. There, Empress Cygnus and her knights started to attack Henesys, although what happened to the rest of the world is unknown.

Trivia
Future cygnus is the 2nd strongest boss in maplestory,only surpassed by Hilla