Alua Leffear

"'One or the other is necessary to survive. And if you're blade is as dull as your tongue, than I fear for your life.'—Alua chiding Vret on his aspiration to be a shauk'ti."/wip/

Personality
Underneath her initial feminine grandeur and submissiveness, Alua is a crucially vain, impatient, intelligent, and conniving woman who has learned quick in life to cut out the weak before "they cost you more than they're truly worth". As a bright yet bored child toying with instruments and embroidery, she found more enjoyment educating herself by watching her strict father manage his shady merchant business and evolve it into the successful empire it is today. She is a talented mental health abuser and manipulator and learned from the best, even as she consistently fought her father who disapproved of her general aggressiveness as a groomed female object he planned to use for self-merit. Her personal guard is often deeply infatuated by her charisma. Appalled by her arranged marriage to Ifirit, Alua performs as the perfect doting wife to her husband and new family in public, but behind closed doors was a miserable creature to deal. She felt betrayed by her father, the only family she had despite his lack of affection since her childhood. Her silent prejudice was often overlooked due to the fact that Ashaena, just as manipulative and malicious, believed that their joined allegiance with the Asfours was a great political and financial investment. Alua was not afraid and above playing with her new family's fame, daily revenue, and fortunes as she pleased, just enough that any trouble could not be directly connected to her through her web. Despite her genuine dislike of the Leffears, there have been occasions she has haughtily aided the Leffears in wise economic judgments.

Appearance
Fashionable, voluptuous, perfect, Alua has been described as hauntingly beautiful, and the precise definition of what a Dashu'ban human woman should aspire to become. She has a warm caramel-like complexion, long dark red hair (actively dyed from her natural brown-black), and light brown eyes. Ifirit once noticed seven small lash scars across her back that clearly were not looked at by a healer to fade properly.

FACTS:

 * Daughter of an extravagant and rich merchant family, the Asfours.
 * Alua is not a Leffear by blood, but by marriage.
 * Ifirit's second wife.
 * Alua did not solely despise Ifirit; however, he was a focal point for a lot of her malice due to their marital status and social proximity. Although never revealed, Alua later sympathized with her husband's 'jailed ' existence by the Leffears draconian belief system.
 * Alua played a critical role in destroying Ifirit's livelihood and in the murder of Nevari and Teylin.