Tiffany

Tiffany is a powerful necromancer, and the host of the party that forms the framework of Arc 10.

## Description

Leofric Theophania Highwater Illanya Orpheus Rennigold, or Tiffany, is a human-looking necromancer with darker tanned skin and hair that is braided along her scalp and then goes into a ponytail that reaches down to her waist.

Tiffany is a very powerful wizard living in Malum during Arc 10, in a big mansion with a tower. He is arguably the most powerful necromancer there, and the one most shrouded in mystery. She hosts the party for the centennial meeting of the Necromancer's Guild in Arc 10. Because he is a necromancer, a lot of people don't like Tiffany, but he is tolerated by the people of Malum. However, they claim that he sometimes steals things or does "weird things" with corpses, although he probably does not kill people.

Unbeknown to most, Tiffany is not just a wizard, but also a warlock to the Raven Queen, which is unusual as she generally is not in favour of necromancy.

When focusing on his work, he sometimes locks himself into the basement, and his butler Theodrink has to bring him food down. Still, she sometimes forget to eat during these spans of time. Usually then, she is working on an arcane engineering project; the mansion he lives in is covered in arcane glyphs that transmit power, allowing for things like constant *Light* spells.

Despite his reputation as a powerful necromancer, Tiffany is not trying to raise any undead armies or anything like that. He has a deep conviction of right or wrong, and while he tries to unlock the secrets of life, he also tries to minimise harm at any opportunity, and does not want to put the worth of knowledge over the worth of a life. They rarely voice these moral convictions, though, because it is just not as fun to talk about.

Tiffany is hubristic in the way of being certain that if anyone can rise to the challenge that is death, it is her. Connected to that, she keeps her projects close to her chest, and rarely involves other people in them.

He is in an "on-again off-again" relationship with Liyra. The two of them have shared custody over a phoenix, with which Tiffany has a one-sided rivalry, envying its superior relationship to life and death.

For the party, Tiffany appears wearing a robe with a V-neck that goes down to her belly button, a tight fitted waist, wizard sleeves, and an A-line skirt. It is embroidered with golden filigree that almost looks like floral scrollwork, and woven into the design are thin little gemstones as beadwork. Her three simulacra that work at the party wear more simple suits with jackets.

## Backstory

About 30 years before Arc 10, Tiffany is visited by Nea Veia and Edd Yaug. He uses Edd to test his plans on, but accidentally kills him in the process, and tells Theo to bury his body in the garden. Subsequently, that specific spot in the garden is more prolific than ever before. She never specifically mentions Edd in her diary, but expresses a deep sadness over a loss of life in the following months. Nea Veia stays with Tiffany and becomes part of his experiments. At least at the beginning, she actively wants to, and urges Tiffany to continue. From then on, a ghost that looks like Nea Veia starts wandering around the mansion, but hides from most people. In his diary, Tiffany mentions that he is worried for Nea Veia and wants to help her understand herself.

Maybe at that time, maybe at another point before Arc 10, Tiffany took (most likely stole) the Loom of Lives from Nea Veia. He hopes that it will fundamentally change the understanding of magic, time, and space. However, he is unable to use it properly, and so it collects dust in the game room of his mansion.

During the two decades leading up to Arc 10, Tiffany develops the arcane glyphs powering the magic of her mansion, which is a feat of arcane engineering unknown to Malum before. She still continues working on them.

Over the course of multiple decades, Tiffany collects vast amounts of spell components. To cover his tracks and not avoid suspicion, he does so from various people, in small amounts, and over a long amount of time. Even her record books are inconsistent, and partially encoded. She is collecting these materials for a bigger project. At the same time, however, he works on being able to cast spells without the need for material components, replacing them with blood magic, and gets better at this.

Additionally, Tiffany buys items that are specifically connected to different planes, and can be used like tuning forks for planeshifting.

At some point before Arc 10, Liyra gets pregnant from Tiffany. However, she also, in some way, betrays Tiffany's trust, although she does not seem to agree with that evaluation of the situation. Nonetheless, the two of them agree that Liyra stays ignorant of "information she does not want to be held liable for". She is thus not involved in any knowledge or participation of the project Tiffany has planned.

## Character Development

### Shortly before Arc 10

In the time leading up to the party, Tiffany locks himself into the basement more often, planning some sort of arcane ritual of his own design.

The morning of the party, Tiffany writes in her diary that the show and tell is her last and only chance, and that she hopes that it is enough to make up for what she has done.

### Arc 10

In addition to some guests Tiffany had to invite without wanting to, like Sharon, who she is scared of, there also appear guests to the meeting of the Necromancer's Guild Tiffany did not expect: While Marigold did receive an invitation, Tiffany did not send it, and Edd Yaug was invited, but Tiffany did not expect him to come, and is concerned by his appearance.

During the Show and Tell in the ballroom, Tiffany holds a speech, in which he claims that death is his greatest challenge, and now, his greatest victory. Then, he toasts to the room, pulls out two daggers, and stabs himself. Before she even hits the ground, all of the lights in the mansion go out. Later, there is no body found, only the daggers in a puddle of blood. As Ki Lon, unaware of their delicacy, stabs a simulacrum of Tiffany, it also collapses into a puddle of blood, which makes the other guests realise that the Tiffany they saw during the Show and Tell must have been one of the simulacra herself.

In his diary, Tiffany describes Theo as reliable, since he knows that he would put him before anything else. Incidentally, that is one of the things that convince Theo to change his approach to life, work, and his family, and prioritise his family more.

Later, they find Tiffany in the basement, concentrating on something, while Nea Veia is caught in a smokey sphere, and glowing threads go through and around both of them. Nea Veia asks the arriving Arc 10 party for help, and Luminessa, who is a good friend of hers, immediately casts Finger of Death. Through the usage of Chaos Dice, Tiffany does not safe, and the spell ignores her resistance to necrotic damage, so that she is immediately turned into a zombie under Luminessa's control.

Theo later finds the grieving Liyra next to zombified Tiffany, and finds out that Liyra is pregnant with their child. However, when Theo says that he thinks the child is better off with just Liyra as a parent, she says that Tiffany seemed to think so as well. Despite her grief, she decides that Tiffany stays where he is, revealing that his soul is inside a gem on a volcano.

### After Arc 10

At some point, Tiffany is able to inhabit a body again, and later goes on to become a lich. From Bombyx's description, he has a teacup dragon, gets stoned in both meanings of the word, lives in a volcano, and kills them three times before becoming friends. How much of that is truth is unknown.

## Trivia

* Tiffany envies Ki Lon's freedom, even though he knows it comes at a "most costly price": Ki Lon is unable to leave his ship for a longer time.
* She loves everything Thalia sells.
* In her diary, there are some disconcerting scribbles, words, and glyphs that, at least to Theodrink, make no sense and seem entirely removed from any usual understanding of how language works.
* Generally, Tiffany's diary is a place where he is emotionally vulnerable. It is not chronological, and a few spaces are left strategically blank.
* Tiffany would technically have a maximum HP amount of 110 during Arc 10. However, as she took damage during what she did beforehand, she enters the final battle with only 70 HP.