Riina
| Riina | |
|---|---|
 por Howard Lyon
| |
| Capacidades | Elantrino, Despertante, Saltamundos |
| Títulos | la hechicera[1] |
| Grupo | Ire |
| Mundo natal | Sel |
| Universo | Cosmere |
“Hay un único ser sobre la faz de este planeta al que temo. ”
Riina, también conocida como la hechicera, es una miembro de los Ire y residía en Lumar donde era considerada una de las personas más peligrosas del planeta.
Apariencia y personalidad
Apariencia
En el Reino Cognitivo de Scadrial, Riina era una mujer marchita y reseca.[3]
En Lumar, Riina parece una mujer de unos cincuenta años (cuando adquirió la capacidad de detener el envejecimiento), bajita y regordeta. Como a la mayoría de los elantrinos, no le gusta el maquillaje, pues cree que le resta efecto a su piel resplandeciente.[4]
Personalidad
“En su caso, en lugar de alma, esa mujer tenía puro hielo. Mantenido frío y congelado por su corazón.”
—Hoid describiendo a Riina.[5]
Riina es conocida por su crueldad inusual. Maldice a cualquiera que entre en sus dominios y sobreviva, así como a cualquiera que intente hablar con ella.[6][1] A ella personalmente le encanta inventar maldiciones crueles, y pasa su tiempo libre ideando nuevas ideas para ellas.[1] Como parte de esto, también se asegura de que el individuo maldito es consciente de todos los detalles de la maldición, pero también son incapaces de hablar de ello con los demás y por lo tanto incapaz de pedir ayuda. Esto se hace intencionadamente por su parte para que la maldición sea más cruel para quien la sufre.[7][8] Todos los que la han conocido dan fe de que es una persona cruel y despiadada.[8][5] Cuando la alternativa es encontrarse con Riina, incluso Xisis considera el encarcelamiento bajo su mando una clemencia.[2]
También parece disfrutar de la reputación de la hechicera. A pesar de que no es necesario, es conocida por hablar en rima mientras lanza una maldición a alguien.[8][4] Al mismo tiempo, muestra cierto desdén por los de Lumar, ya que considera que el folclore sobre ella es una divertida tontería y desprecia sus logros tecnológicos. También opina sobre cosas aparentemente intrascendentes, como que las naves espaciales deberían tener puertas correderas.[4]
La propia Riina, como la mayoría de los elantrinos, tiene fama de ser muy precavida y de no estar dispuesta a correr riesgos que puedan implicar su muerte. Este es el motivo por el cual ella llega a Lumar, un sistema donde ella cree que no puede ser desafiada y cuya tecnología es considerablemente inferior a la suya. Cuando se enfrenta a una fuerza que realmente tiene la capacidad de detenerla, se retira.[4][1] Incluso el conocimiento de que un dragón está en el mismo planeta que ella es suficiente para asustarla.[1] Riina es paranoica hasta el punto de mantener cerca cubas de ácido por si acaso un kandra intentase actuar contra ella de algún modo.[4] Sin embargo, a pesar de esta cautela, Hoid considera a Riina fácil de manipular.[1]
Atributos y habilidades
Riina is an Elantrian and Awakener. Riina is also capable of using AonDor in order to grant curses to others.[9][10] They are formed through long strands of Aons, which can be seen wrapping around the cursed, lining up with Aon Equations;[1][11][12] the person given the curse is aware as to what the stipulations of the curse are.[7] When placed upon someone a requirement is made to break the curse, other than meeting this requirement there is no way to break the curse, not even Riina herself can achieve this. The curse itself however can be altered by other Elantrians.[13] An aspect of the curse is always consistent which is that the cursed individual cannot discuss the curse with others; any attempt to do so leads to them stuttering.[7] The curses are flawed, however, in that since they cannot be changed, they can be manipulated if one finds a way to do so that Riina failed to prevent.[8] One way to do so is by identifying what an individual cannot talk about. This indirectly reveals aspects of their curse.[14]
She is possibly capable of Investing common animals to grant them self-awareness, making them her familiars.[15] Although it isn't clear if this is what she does, or if it just humans that she transforms into animals.[1]
Other beings in the Cosmere also fear Riina, one of which is the dragon Xisisrefliel who considers imprisoning people to be a mercy when the alternative is for them to face the Sorceress. He himself fears to confront her.[2]
El ejército de la hechicera
In the role of being the Sorceress she had an army of some sort, most probably her metal soldiers and Midnight Essence. Her army had gone to war against the Emerald Sea multiple times in the past with the Emerald Sea losing the conflict each time. Even during peace time her forces were known to go on raids against the kingdom.[9][16] This army also apparently contains ships, of which only hers can sail with any others being destroyed by her forces.[6]
In the case of Midnight Essence they are formed when rain hits the spores in the Midnight Sea. Upon being spawned these beings fall under her command and follow her wishes.[17] In order to achieve this goal she manages to set up a way to continuously grant water to the monsters formed by the Midnight Essence.[18] She also possesses an army of Awakened soldiers, these troops are awakened constructs and immune to almost all weapon fire on Lumar.[18] A single reptilian humanoid also is under her command.[5]
Historia
Miembro de los Ire
She was among the five members of the Ire that set out on an expedition to try and capture Preservation's Shard. She rode on horseback and carried a decoy version of the Ire's orb. She abandoned the expedition with the rest of the group when Kelsier used Alonoe's robes to make it appear that she had disintegrated.[19]
La hechicera
Many years later Riina came into the possession of a spaceship and used it to travel to Lumar. She chose Lumar because she believed that the planet was unimportant and that none of its inhabitants posed a threat to her.[1][4] Whilst there, she set up her defences and eventually became known to the planet's inhabitants. Over the years, she earned the title of Sorceress. Under this name she cursed or killed anyone who dared visit her island in the Midnight Sea, inspiring fear among the population.[1][9] The kingdom on the Emerald Sea, and possibly others, attempted numerous wars against her and her army but each ended in failure.[9][16] This led to further raids launched by Riina against the kingdoms.[9]
“She took my other sense of taste. The important one. And with it went my sense of humor, my sense of decorum, my sense of purpose, and my sense of self”
—Hoid explaining his curse.[20]
Eventually Hoid noticed Riina's presence on the planet and decided to approach her. For a long time Hoid had desired to become an Elantrian and learned that the only way to achieve this was to be invited to become one. He decided that Riina was someone who could make this happen. Hoid travelled to her island and made a bet with her, stipulating that he would allow himself to be cursed on the condition that if he broke the curse, he would become an Elantrian. Riina agreed to these terms and cursed him, causing him to lose most of his mental faculties. The only way for Hoid to break the curse was for him to re-enter her tower.[1] Over the ensuing years, Riina kept an eye on Hoid, but never felt worried that he would actually break the curse.[21]
Llegada de Trenza y Charlie
Following her curse of Hoid, the Sorceress continued her raiding of the Emerald Sea. Due to these pressures the king eventually began to consider it necessary to wage war against the Sorceress. In order to justify this, he began seeking out more support for a war among the populace.[9][16][22] As part of this effort, he sent Charlie to Riina with a marriage proposal under the guise of that this arrangement would be a path toward peace. In truth, he expected the Sorceress to harm Charlie, giving him the ammunition he needed, as well as popular support, for a war.[9] Upon Charlie's arrival, Riina ordered her troops to take him to his tower. Whilst there, she sent a ransom to the king demanding he hand over souls of the Royal family for the freedom of Charlie. Whilst waiting for his response, she and Charlie talked for a time and she learned of his love for Tress. When it had become clear that the ransom would go unpaid, Riina elected to curse Charlie, turning him into a rat. She set the terms of breaking the curse to be for him to bring Tress to the Sorceress to be cursed herself.[9][5] Following this, she allowed him to leave and began further raids against the Emerald Sea.[16]
For the next few months, Riina would largely ignore the outside world and focus solely on the activities of Hoid and Charlie on the planet. At some stage she managed to hack into Fort's translation device allowing her to see and hear what he did. This served as an easy way for her to keep tabs on the crew of the Crow's Song and Hoid himself.[4] Hoid speculates that it was around this time she grew worried that he might actually make good on his bet and so began work to sabotage him further.[5] Eventually, by happenstance, both Charlie and Tress arrived on the boat and Riina was able to keep tabs on them as well.[4][10] She watched Tress' journey to the midnight sea, and eventual capture by the Sorceress' midnight essence.[23]
Upon arriving, Tress attempted to barter for Charlie. Riina played along, attempting to pass one of her spies off as Charlie using lightweaving. Tress was about to leave the tower with the fake Charlie when she realized the ruse and turned back to confront Riina, who then explained the full details of Charlie's curse to Tress.[5] While having this conversation with the pair, she failed to notice the crew of the Crow's Song arriving at the island. Riina became distracted attending the defense of her island, giving Tress and Charlie the opportunity to use her computer to communicate with Fort and Salay. During their conversation, Tress realized the nature of Hoid's curse. Knowing that Hoid's curse would be broken if he reached the tower and that he could potentially defeat the Sorceress, she instructed Salay, Fort, and Ann to bring Hoid with them to the tower.[24] During all of this, Charlie had been trying to reach the door of the tower, but the Sorceress' cat, Lacy, had been making that impossible. As Salay, Fort, Ann, and Hoid finally arrived at the base of the tower, he told Tress to distract the sorceress as he made a last ditch effort. Tress did distract the Sorceress, and the Sorceress began to prepare a curse for Tress using AonDor. Just as the curse was about to transform Tress, Hoid burst into the tower and blocked it with his own AonDor spell. After a brief conversation, Riina offered to let the crew leave the island. Tress refused and instead demanded Riina herself leave the planet for her crimes against the inhabitants of Lumar. Riina dismissed this threat until Tress ordered Hoid to help and he indicated that he would. Riina weighed her odds and decided to comply with Tress' order. After Tress and the crew left, she departed the planet in her tower, which was also a spaceship.[1]
Curiosidades
- Although never stated by the text itself, the painting by Howard Lyon depicts Riina as trying to cast the Aon Shao on Tress. This aon is about transformation and also uses illusion magic, indicating that the Sorceress was planning to have Tress's curse revolve around an illusion or transformation.[25] This art should not be taken as fact and Aon Shao is not necessarily the Aon that was used.[26]
![[25]](#cite_note-BattleOfWits.jpg-25){kind=link}
Notas
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l Trenza del mar Esmeralda capítulo 64#
- ↑ a b c Trenza del mar Esmeralda capítulo 52#
- ↑ Nacidos de la bruma: Historia Secreta parte 5 capítulo 2#
- ↑ a b c d e f g h Trenza del mar Esmeralda capítulo 60#
- ↑ a b c d e f Trenza del mar Esmeralda capítulo 61#
- ↑ a b Trenza del mar Esmeralda capítulo 23#
- ↑ a b c Trenza del mar Esmeralda capítulo 24#
- ↑ a b c d Trenza del mar Esmeralda capítulo 29#
- ↑ a b c d e f g h Trenza del mar Esmeralda capítulo 5#
- ↑ a b Trenza del mar Esmeralda capítulo 13#
- ↑ Elantris Annotations
— Arcanum - 2005-06-27# - ↑ Dragonsteel 2022
— Arcanum - 2022-11-14# - ↑ Trenza del mar Esmeralda epílogo#
- ↑ Trenza del mar Esmeralda capítulo 42#
- ↑ Trenza del mar Esmeralda capítulo 28#
- ↑ a b c d Trenza del mar Esmeralda capítulo 9#
- ↑ Trenza del mar Esmeralda capítulo 35#
- ↑ a b Trenza del mar Esmeralda capítulo 46#
- ↑ Nacidos de la bruma: Historia Secreta parte 5 capítulo 3#
- ↑ Trenza del mar Esmeralda capítulo 15#
- ↑ Trenza del mar Esmeralda capítulo 63#
- ↑ Trenza del mar Esmeralda capítulo 17#
- ↑ Trenza del mar Esmeralda capítulo 59#
- ↑ Trenza del mar Esmeralda capítulo 62#
- ↑ Battle of Wits
- ↑ YouTube Spoiler Stream 6
— Arcanum - 2023-12-19#
