Zofia Boguska

* Zofia
* As The High Priestess

Zofia is a Jewish immigrant who wants to take care of her family back home and is saving for that. Zofia is also a brilliant Forging expert, coming up with incredible tech to help the group. She is also slightly on the outside of the group as she has some trouble understating human emotions, innuendoes and jokes.

## History

Zofia was born and lived in Glowno, Poland before meeting the rest of L'Eden crew. She lived with her sister Hela, who worked as a governess. Zofia is Jewish and often faces Anti-Semitism which is also explored on-page.

According to the author, she is on the autism spectrum. She is, however, not referred as 'autistic' in the books, as the term wasn't in use in the 19th Century. She saves money to send back to her sister and family at home. Zofia is a brilliant Forging expert, coming up with incredible technology (including bombs, fireproof clothing, and other weapons) to help the crew.

She is on the outside of the group as she has trouble understating human emotions, innuendoes, and jokes.

## The Gilded Wolves Trilogy

### The Gilded Wolves

While Laila ensures that the courier of House Kore recieves an important invitation, Zofia arrives, only to steal some cookie dough and leave again. Laila then finds Tristan, the youngest of the group with powerful Forging abilities like Zofia. When Séverin and Enrique return, all five of them work together to figure out the puzzle in the compass. It reveals the symbol for a legendary artifact known as the Eye of Horus, rumored to show the legendary Babel Fragment to any who look for it. Unfortunately, a few weeks later, Séverin receives a letter from Hypnos who knows he stole the compass.

After Séverin meets Hypnos, Hypnos asks Séverin to help him obtain the Horus Eye from House Kore and, in return, Hypnos will readminister the inheritance test on Séverin, as the previous test’s results had been fabricated to keep Séverin from becoming the Patriarch of House Vanth as a child. Séverin reluctantly agrees and returns to the group. They all promise to help him and use a party at an opera house called the Palais de Reves to interrogate House Kore’s courier to learn where the Hours Eye is.

At L’Eden, Hypnos gives them all invitations for House Kore’s party, ensuring that each one of them will assume an identity that is entirely different than the person themselves. Séverin reminds Hypnos that he is not their friend, clearly hurting him.

After arriving at House Kore estate, everyone splits into their roles and begins working toward stealing the Horus Eye.

Laila retrieves the key from the matriarch’s office, and Zofia makes a fake one to get them inside. They all eventually meet in an underground atrium after Enrique, Zofia and Laila solve a puzzle to get themselves inside. There, they find hundreds of Horus Eyes and accidentally summon a soul-devouring monster, Ammit, when Laila finds the real one. She and Séverin work together to dispel it, and the group splits from Hypnos. However, when they reenter the greenhouse, they find that Tristan has been tortured by an item called the Phobus Helmet which makes one's' nightmares feel real.

A man named Roux-Joubert, who both Séverin and Zofia met unknowingly throughout the night, takes the Horus Eye and tells them they have three days to give him Hypnos’ Babel Ring before leaving with Tristan.

The group returns to L’Eden and eventually figures out that Roux-Joubert is somehow related to House Fallen, the fourth house that was stripped of its power after trying to use a Babel Fragment to become gods. The group figures out that Roux-Joubert is in the catacombs and wants to use the Exposition Universal to start a new revolution, though they are uncertain what that entails. Zofia learns that there is a secret entrance in the exhibit and works with a silver cloth that Séverin stole to create a barrier that will stop anyone from stepping through it. Séverin and Laila go to the catacombs as the others leave for the Exposition.

Zofia, Hypnos, and Enrique manage to get into the catacombs from the other side, while Roux-Joubert attempts to awaken the Babel Fragments. Zofia’s invention keeps the other members of the Fallen House from entering the catacombs until Roux-Joubert kills his companion and breaks open the doorway. A man in a bug mask, who Roux-Joubert calls the doctor, enters. They figure out that the Hypnos Eye needs to be placed in the center of a spiral pattern on the floor and, with Hypnos distracting the doctor, Laila is able to do it. This stops the fragment from rising as order guards, known as Sphinxes, arrive and record everything. The doctor and the surviving House Fallen members run while Roux-Joubert is left injured and furious. Hypnos promises that he will put in a good word for Séverin and the group celebrates their victory.

A week goes by and the entire group prepares for a full moon party. Only Zofia does not go, losing her nerve after she sees Enrique, who she likes, kissing Hypnos. At the party, Séverin sees Laila take the stage as her actress persona before reading a letter Tristan gave him earlier in the night. He realizes that Roux-Joubert has escaped, but is unable to stop the man as he charges into the party and throws the bladed hat. Séverin tackles Laila, not realizing that Tristan was the target.

Two months later, Séverin and Hypnos are planning on leave for a palace called the Winter Conclave, to which, Zofia agrees to accompany them.

## Physical Appearance

Zofia is Polish and Jewish. She is described as having light skin and white-blond hair. She has blue eyes "like the heart of a candle", as described by Enrique, and is described as looking the most natural in firelight.

She is often seen wearing her work outfit, a smock and cap.

## Personality

Zofia is known to be autistic and will walk away in the middle of a conversation. She is socially awkward but smart, with a sharp memory and a good sense of pattern recognition. Zofia loves mathematics, chemistry, and biology, having been well educated.

Despite her education, she has little regard for rules. She has been referred to as an arson-inclined autistic Polish Jew.

## Abilities

* **Forging:** Zofia has a flair for Forging and engineering. Her Forging affinity is for metals and fire. She is also shown to be smart, have a sharp memory and a good sense of pattern recognition, having been well-educated.

## Etymology

* **Zofia** is a Slavic given name of Old Greek origin, meaning wisdom.. It is a variant of Sofia.

## Trivia

* Zofia likes exactly three pale, round, sugar cookies
* Zofia is very good at braiding hair. She finds it extremely soothing.
* In *Aru Shah and the City of Gold*, Mini strongly implies that Enrique and Zofia are her great-great-great-grandparents when she mentions how the two of them worked together to break a safe.

## Gallery

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