Ashani Talwar

Ashani Talwar is the of Palisade Bank Corporation. She founded the company with her husband, Masaaki Oshiro. Together they created the Palisade Blades that are used to securely store their clients' information. Due to her role in founding and running Palisade, she has gained international fame.Loading screen in System Rift
Talwar is the de facto antagonist of Breach mode alongside her husband.
==Biography==
Ashani Talwar was born an heir to the Talwar Banking empire.Palisade Bank Corporation: Founders When she was a teenager, she was kidnapped from a hotel where she stayed with her family, presumably for ransom. She later wrote a book about this experience titled The Moment to Fight Back. 
In , she was listed among the wealthiest people in the world under 30 years old, along with her future husband Masaaki Oshiro.
She and Oshiro met in 2014 after a chance meeting in Switzerland, fell deeply in love and quickly married each other in a private ceremony. Together they decided to combine their passions of business and data protection, and went on to found the Palisade Bank Corporation in the Czech Republic.
Ashani has an unrivaled mind for business which made her venture with Palisade such a success. Contrary to her public image, Talwar is in fact ruthless and manipulative. She attempts to gain as much power and wealth as she can attain. One way that she does so is by keeping private information from clients such as the Picus Group close at hand, in order to use it against them.Samizdat mission in Deus Ex: Mankind Divided She and her husband were involved in the cover up of Simona Saridakis' murder, who was close to having discovered that Talwar and Oshiro were using clients' information for a massive insider trading scheme. Talwar and Oshiro subsequently had Saridakis killed to avoid the information becoming public, and instead used her death to promote the reliability of Palisade's security features. Stanton Dowd figured out what was going on, and blackmailed them with that knowledge into making their clients' private information available to an external party, namely the Illuminati.System Rift
==Notes==
* She shares an office with her husband in the Palisade Property Bank, and has her own in Palisade Blade-01 in Prague.
==Trivia==
* Her name is Indian. "Ashani" means "thunder" or "lightning", and "talwar" in Hindi means a sword.
== See also ==
* Ashani Talwar's computers
==Gallery==
talvaroshiropicusnews.jpg|Ashani Talwar and Masaaki Oshiro on Picus Worldwide News
Palisade blade concept mood ceo-office.jpg|Concept art of Talwar in her office in Palisade Blade-01
==References==
ru:Ашани Талвар
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