Lauretta Fiorensi

Lauretta Fiorensi is an important Lilin Tower Politician and Elder in modern nights. She is the bride of Rufio the Younger and served as his Seneschal-Consort for centuries. She was wed to him as a marriage alliance between her sire, the Prefect of Livogna, Ridolfo, and the Younger Rufio. She is a ***signature character*** of the Line of Lilith.

## Life

Born in Livogna, Anzenia, in 417 AU to a wealthy merchant family, Lauretta was raised among artisans and merchant elite. She was a painter from a young age and was exceptionally talented and respected. She began hosting art displays in his teenage year, impressing the other Merchant Princes a lot and even getting her father, Lombardo Fiorensi elected Doge of Livogna. Lauretta was around 18 at this point and her paintings and tapestries were hung up in the most rich Lords homes.It was her father that introduced her to the mysterious Ridolfo, an incredibly rich patron of the arts in Livogna. Ridolfo was a controversial figure, he had seemed to have been alive without aging for decades and some claimed he was an illegal Mage but Lauretta fell in love with him. She toured Anzenia with him and was fed his blood. She served as his Ghoul for a few years but their love grew deeper and while for Lauretta it was a blood bond for Ridolfo it was real.

## Unlife

Ridolfo embraced Lauretta in 530 AU and she was engaged to him. This didn't last long, touring the city of Anzenia in 531 AU Ridolfo found a new love, a girl named Margherita Viterbo and instead brought the beautiful Lauretta to the court of the Prefect of Anzenia, the powerful and famed Rufio the Younger. Fiorensi was enraged with Ridolfo but presented herself to Rufio and Rufio found her attractive but moreso intriguing, in conversation she was intelligent and politically savvy and Rufio wanted an alliance with the Prefect of Livogna so in 533 AU Lauretta Fiorensi was married to Rufio the Younger. The wedding was immensely grand.

## Consort of Anzenia

Lauretta served Rufio loyally as his wife and Consort for many years, gaining his respect as an advisor. The alliance between Anzenia and Livogna brought about by the marriage made the Tower dominant in the region, they pushed the Diabol out of Anzenia entirely by 600 AC. For most of her unlife after her marriage she remained in Anzenia as Rufio's left hand woman and Leader of the Local Lilins.

## Elder of the Lilins in Ulthima

In the late mid 700s Fiorensi was appointed as the Lilin Elder on the Ulthiman Council where she relocated. She remained in regular contact with her husband until his death in 868 despite her growing rivalry with the Ulthiman Radilus.

## Events of Ulthima by Night

Lauretta appears numerous times throughout the Council scenes; positioning herself as an Ally of The Tower, Kargul, and Polybius while clearly an enemy of Vanessa Delcroix and new Valdevichi Elder Velmira Torbica; she was also a rival of her predecessor; Ludovico Arcimboldo. She speaks to Herodotus multiple times at formal events and Court and it is implied that the Lilin Elder could tell Herodotus was a Violet.

In Chapter 6: Hearts of Darkness Lauretta Fiorensi meets Herodotus personally; after he sought her out on the advice of a Lilin Apparition in the Underworld, and she inducts him into the Rose Garden and sends him on various missions; paying him handsomely and granting him a Succubine Heart; a rare artifact of the Clan of the Rose. She also teaches him Rose Sorcery starting in Chapter 6 as well. She sends him on various missions for The Rose Garden and teaches Herodotus powerful abilities and even offers to let him diablierize his defeated Sire but Herodotus refuses.

She takes a liking to Herodotus and his natural abilities and actor-like charm over the subsequent chapters, even making him her "date" (accomplice) to the Tower's unveling party of Baron Scarlett and Elder Vejedor. She was outraged, and notably surprised by Juana's sudden but backed ascension to this role. Like Delcroix, Lauretta did not speak to Juana at the unveiling, ignoring soft tradition and unlike Kargul, Polybius, Quintus.