Bantu

Banutu is an elderly Manakete who took pity on the Divine Dragon Chiki, who is forced to constantly sleep otherwise she'd go insane, and decided to freeher and travels with her, keeping her sanity in tact. He was separated with her, and joins up with Marth to save her.

In the second book, he is once again separated with Chiki by Gato's orders and he eventually meet up with Marth to help him again.