Lottelita/RikitsaDescription
Nellens Rikitsa's outward image is of a shrewd, tough-talking business magnate. She drew upon her Dynastic upbringing and inborn canniness to establish herself as the leading textiles and luxury-goods merchant in the northeast, but it's her reliability and unwillingness to compromise that have allowed her to maintain and develop her trading empire. Clients, employees, and competitors know that her handshake is an unbreakable promise, and that she meets betrayal and deceit with swift, unequivocal retribution.
What most people don't know is that Rikitsa's real business lies not in the buying and selling of silks and baubles, but in the information trade. Textiles and secrets merge together quite well: her network of merchants can collect local gossip across quite a wide range of marketplaces, and her seamstresses are often privy to the careless conversations of the wealthy and influential. She words assiduously, however, to keep her informants from communicating with each other, since her power comes from being the only one with all the pieces of the puzzle; she often doesn't even let her employees know that they are reporting on their colleagues and clients, letting them believe she is simply interested in goings-on.
Flatterers might call Rikitsa "handsoming" or "striking," but her strong features and big bones are far from beautiful. Her skin is quite pale and sometimes tinged bluish, her thick hair is silver-blonde, and her eyes glint blue in the sunlight and darket to grey in shadow. She contrasts the pallid uniformity of her face with ornate jewelry and intensely colored clothing of the richest fabrics she encounters; she favors blues, greens, and golds. The style of her dress, however, is always in slight disarray, edging into eccentricity, and when she ornaments her hair with combs and pins, it's only halfheartedly styled.
Rikitsa cares nothing for art, music, or literature, though she harbors a secret desire to write a book about contemporary culture and mores. She has never been married, and the lovers she does take from time to time are chosen not for their beauty but the strength of their personalities. She has only a passing interest in sex. While she is colloquial and boisterous in public, she spends her private time in quiet contemplation, idly smoking dark tobacco cigareetes and taking long walks.
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