Gloriosa

Elder Nyon (ニョン婆様) is the former Empress for the Kuja tribe before Hancock took over. She is knowledgeable enough to know what a man is, unlike her fellow Kuja and identified Luffy as a man.

When she was younger, during her period ruling as the Kuja empress, Nyon left Amazon Lily and went to sea. Her own people considered her a traitor for her action, but she learned many things about the outside world, including of the opposite sex. By the time she returned, she was given a pardon by the empress who took her place but was tainted by her abandonment. Nyon chose to live on the outskirts of the Kuja village where she would no longer bother in the affairs of the people she once ruled.

Hancock refers to her as the former-former-former empress Gloriosa (グロリオーサ).

Trivia

 * Her former name comes from the flower Gloriosa.