originally from moscow, the daughter of a wealthy mafia family. she was a fixer/negotiator/enforcer for them for several years, turned traitor after her father had the woman she loved assassinated, spend some time working with various governments on dismanteling criminal empires because revenge, before ending up at aegis where her many and myriad connects and talent for coercion come in handy. personality wise she's friendly, glib, urbane but foul mouthed, devestatingly charming, cartoonightly materialistic (which is only half an act), eerily insightful but gives excellent advice, and is very good at talking people around to doing things they don't want to do without them realizing that's what she's doing; known for throwing big decadent parties.