Maria Contenza Bilazno De Medici

== Appearance ==
* Fantasy race: Human
* Pronoun: She/Her
* Age (child/adult/elderly): Adult (Deceased)
* Voice accent: Spanish
* Height: 5 ft. 5 in.
* Weight: 130 lb.
* Hair color: Medium Brown
* Skin color: Light tan
* Eye color: Amber
* Example clothing outfit worn: Elegant dresses
== Personality ==
* Traits: Manipulative, narcissistic, and self seeking
* Goal: To become ever richer and more powerful
* Flaw: Money and power lure me more than anything
* Biggest fear: To be poor
* One thing they want more than anything else: The best of everything
* Pop culture influences: Claire Underwood (House of Cards) and Hela (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
* Tics / mannerisms to help GMs portray them consistently: Has a magnanimous exterior but completely cold when she has the upper hand
== Social Connections ==
* People known: 
** Husband: Arturo Contenza Bilazno De Medici
** Son: Armando Contenza Bilazno De Medici
** Maeve
** Bartholomew 
** Giosef Arturo Filosopheno - former employee, secretly Arturo's child. 
** Marcos Delgado - former employee's kid
** Dominica Delgado - former employee
** Antoinette Monteleone - Twin Sister
** Annabelle Monteleone - Sister
** Sebastian Glomgold - worked on her divorce
** Fosseal Fulez - ran against her husband 11 years ago.
** Oliver Mason - former employee
** Monteleone family - Maria was a Monteleone who hid her identity before getting married.
** Sadie Duca (possessed by Anne Jopling): investigated her murder in Old Cases New Faces. Sadie concluded that this is what happened. Enraged by learning that her son Armando's inheritance had been split to a small fraction of his father's estate by the out-of-wedlock children Arturo had put in his will, there was a confrontation in which Arturo killed his wife Maria. 
** Ozob Diputs - investigated Giosef while appearing as a police officer. Also had a physical relationship in the past
** Detective Inspector Deviteaux - investigated the murder of Arturo and Maria 12 years ago
** Ailbh Goldbeard: twelve years ago, Ailbh appeared as a police officer while investigating the murder of Arturo and Maria
** Nasty MacAntyre: twelve years ago, Nasty appeared as a police officer while investigating the murder of Arturo and Maria
* Social class (student/poor/wealthy): Wealthy
* Occupation: Fashion Icon and President and CEO of Club Couture, the leading fashion brand in Guaso
* Combat class: N/A
* Where they sleep at night: Estate in Elysian Fields
== Background / Personal history: ==
* Born in a home of wealth and privilege, Maria Kaldova was an only child that was afforded every opportunity to develop various skills due to her family's great wealth. As she grew into her teenage years, her desire to become a fashion model became an overwhelming obsession. She would intern with various fashion houses with her parent's blessing to learn the business, but they refused to allow her to model. As their disagreements over the topic became ever heated, Maria suddenly relented and agreed to abandon the pursuit, which caused her parents both relief and confusion. The next day, both of them were killed in what looked like a robbery gone wrong while taking a carriage to an out of town business meeting. With her parents dead and their estate in her hands, she used her cunning and colossal wealth to become the Guaso's top model. She used the same intrigue to launch her fashion label, Couture Club, and squeezed her competitors out though a combination of strong arm tactics and whisper campaigns. While hosting a "Who's Who" of Niqamui's powerful, she met Arturo Contenza Bilazno De Medici and recognized his astounding charm, sinister methods, and unyielding ambition. They married 4 months later.
* Maria is a power hungry woman with no moral qualms to interfere with pursuing what she wants. She has no close relationships and sees everyone as either 'useful' or 'obstacle'. It is only in meeting Arturo that she finds someone that truly understands her and has something close to love for him. Regarding her son, Armando, he is a prop to be used by her to benefit her pursuits. As Armando began to pursue a more altruistic path, she eschewed her son. She would withhold care and love for him and would make fun of the aspirations he had. Many times she would convince him that she cared and was safe for her son, only to let him down again and again and again.
* Death: A couple weeks after Armando moved out of their family estate, both Maria and her husband, Arturo, were assassinated in their beds while they slept. Years of evidence of his wrongdoing was left in a circle around the room where their lifeless bodies laid. When the authorities showed up some of the evidence was "lost" as it implicated a good amount of the existing governmental authorities. Their joint funeral was attended by some of the most powerful people in Guaso.
** Fox statue: a tiny platinum statuette in the image of a fox. It is said to imbue the owner with great cunning and ability to influence. Upon the assassination of Armando's parents, it was the only thing stolen from the estate.
** In the course of investigating her death, it was revealed that Maria had been part of the Monteleone family and has an identical twin sister and a younger sister.
== List of adventures: ==
* You Only Live Twice
* Gifts Of The Past: Appeared behind a memory door created by The Servant's Master on the day of her murder
* The Involuntary Time Detectives: her murder was investigated by the Firebreathing Kittens
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