Nadia

Nadia was an iz’kal diplomat posted to Tiantang.
== Story ==
Nadia always wanted to be a singer, but it was decided that she was better suited to be a diplomat. She was trained from an early age and, when the time came, she was sent to Tiantang to aid the iz’kal ambassador. The relations between the Iz’kal and the Corvo have always been cold at best.
Nadia hated Tiantang, but she understood that her work was a necessity to her people back home. After all, the diplomatic games between the two peoples were only a gateway for espionage and counterespionage. Each species allowed an embassy in their capital in exchange for having their own in the other’s capital, and both hoped to best the other and to gain more information than they would lose.
She knew this better than anyone else. Nadia’s job was to stop any information from leaking at any cost. Corvo who learned too much, or iz’kal that deserted their people, would soon learn about Nadia’s lost love for singing, as she hummed her favourite piece before they died to her skilled hands. The song served as a reminder of her failed childhood dreams, and she sung it while dreaming about the different life she could have led, if only she had been a little less capable with a knife.
Nadia continues to play her part in the great schemes of her species. She is willing to do what needs to be done, whether it’s seducing and killing, or performing mindless paperwork. Her life is what it should be: nothing less, and nothing more.
== Source Material ==
This short story originally appeared in Rulebook v1.0.Category:Short Stories
Category:NPCs
Category:Story Seed