Difference between revisions of "Straff Venture"
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|abilities={{tag+|Tineye}}
|died={{date|1023|fe}}
|family=[[House Venture
|spouse=[[Elend's mother|wife]]
|children=[[Elend]], [[Zane]]
|ethnicity=Noble
|residence=Urteau
He invited Elend over to his warcamp for a meeting, and the situation escalates until Straff sends his guards to kill Elend. However, Elend uses Vin to threaten Straff and manipulate Straff's emotions. Straff succumbs to his fear and lets Elend and Vin leave unharmed. After this encounter, Straff becomes terrified of Vin, commanding Zane to kill her.
One of his spurned mistress, [[Amaranta]], poisoned him with an addictive drug, [[Black Frayn]]. Working with Zane, she caused Straff to believe that Zane is poisoning him, while Amaranta "cures" him with the addictive drug. When Zane disappeared from Straff's camp, Amaranta attempted to kill Straff with a poison. Straff realizes her betrayal, and in a fit of rage, strangles Amaranta to death. Straff nearly died but survived with a random antidote he made himself.
He was killed by [[Vin]] after letting the [[koloss]] army attack Luthadel. Control of his army was given to [[Janarle]] who was forced to swear allegiance to Elend.
== Relationships
=== Elend ===
[[Elend]] is his only known legitimate child, but he has many mistresses and sires many illegitimate children in an attempt to acquire [[Allomancy|Mistborn]].{{book ref|mb2|49}}
Straff is constantly disappointed in Elend, who he belittles constantly. His abuse includes forcing Elend to sleep with a skaa prostitute when he was just thirteen, saying it was about time he 'became a man'.{{book ref|mb1|23}}
=== Zane ===
Straff's relationship with [[Zane]] is arguably even more strained, Straff eve attempts to bribe Zane with [[atium]] to keep him in line,{{book ref|mb2|18}}
=== Other children ===
Straff's proclivities regarding his mistresses are depraved, even for a Luthadel nobleman, describing one of his mistresses ([[Amaranta]]), who is 'creeping up on her late twenties' as having been 'quite attractive a decade before' but is now 'too old to be attractive' and states that he has usually 'got rid of most women long before they reached her age'.{{book ref|mb2|18}}
== Trivia ==
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