The Riven Lands

A hauntingly beautiful Shadar-kai woman whose pale perfection is marred by deliberate scars that form artistic patterns across her hands and arms. Her silver hair is styled with bone ornaments carved from her victims' fingers, each piece a masterwork of miniature sculpture. Wears expensive clothing that conceals instruments of torture disguised as artistic tools, and her gray eyes hold the calculating appreciation of someone who sees people as raw materials for artistic expression through systematic suffering.

Seraphina maintains aristocratic elegance while orchestrating elaborate tortures, viewing kidnapping as performance art that reveals the true nature of her victims' souls. She takes genuine pride in both her legitimate craftsmanship and her criminal compositions, considering herself morally superior to crude kidnappers who lack artistic vision. Her charm and cultural sophistication make victims trust her completely, even as she binds them with ropes woven from their own family's hair and forces them to confess their sins before mirrors that reflect their true moral ugliness.

Born into minor nobility but trained as an artisan to escape her family's tradition of casual cruelty, Seraphina discovered that her artistic workshops became confessionals where wealthy clients revealed their darkest secrets while she worked. Her refined manner and social connections made her trusted by families who bragged about their atrocities while commissioning memorials to their virtue. When she realized her art was helping murderers whitewash their crimes, she began using her insider knowledge to orchestrate elaborate kidnapping schemes that turn victims into living sculptures of suffering before ransoming them back to their families.