Lydia

Lydia is the daughter of the former High Exchequer of the Empire. She inherited her father’s position at a young age and so was appointed Manager of Finances of one of the wealthiest houses in the Empire while still in her late teens. The wealth associated with Lydia’s position has afforded her ample opportunity to give into every vice associated with greed imaginable, and Lydia has continued to build the family’s fortunes by engaging in morally ambiguous or unethical trade untouched by the other houses, chief among them her enormous trade in orcish slaves, which has quickly made her family perhaps the wealthiest in all Aurelica. Of course, with great wealth comes great friendships. The few enemies who would dare oppose Lydia will be silenced if not by the promise of vast wealth, then at the bidding of one of thousands of assassins or disloyal subordinates willing to take her offer.

Lydia’s family has come to symbolize the concentration of Imperial wealth in the hands of a very small number of aristocratic houses, a trend that appears set to continue as Lydia turns her able money management skills and administrative eye to the acquisition of new races and new territories for the Empire to expand her family’s “business” to the farthest reaches of Aurelica.