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Steris has blond hair,{{book ref|mb4|2}}, which is usually pulled up into a bun. She often wears a stern or cool expression. Steris carefully crafts her outfits so that she keeps up with the current fashions, neither ahead of or behind the curve.{{book ref|mb4|4}}.
As a result of her autism spectrum disorder (ASD), Steris often feels disconnected from those around her. She often describes herself as boring,{{book ref|mb6|12}}, and mentions several times that others find it difficult to spend much time with her.{{book ref|mb6|2}}. As a member of Wax’s close circle, Steris often feels as though she has nothing to contribute to their heroics. Near the end of Bands of Mourning, Steris gives herself a 7/100 usefulness rating.{{book ref|mb6|23}}.
 
Steris copes with her disconnection by being as prepared and thorough as humanly possible. She always carries at least one notebook, in which she keeps multiple lists. Steris has compiled lists of witty comments to use during conversation,{{book ref|mb5|9}}, unsavory people to invite to her wedding,{{book ref|mb5|2}}, and on one occasion a twenty-seven page list of things to bring on a spontaneous trip.{{book ref|mb6|5}}. Steris is known to prepare exhaustive plans and backup plans, and backup backup plans, and to pack in accordance with those plans, bringing extra steel or guns for Wax to use and on one occasion gouging a hiding place for a brass medallion out of her notebook.{{book ref|mb6|28}}.
 
Steris is very intelligent and dedicated to what she views as her duties. She puts an enormous amount of effort into learning everything she can about the players and moving parts of [[Elendel]] society{{book ref|mb5|9}}, and takes her responsibilities as a head of House Ladrian very seriously, even to the point of reviewing the house finances in an effort to recover three missing clips.{{book ref|mb6|5}}. Her dedication to and interest in what Wax views as meaningless and boring tasks inspires him to greater dedication to his own responsibilities as High Lord Ladrian.{{book ref|mb6|6}}.
 
Steris is given to moments of deep reflection and poetic expression, as well as moments of surprising honesty.{{book ref|mb5|8}}. She speaks formally most of the time, except with Wayne, whom she does not respect at all.
 
== History ==
===Early Life===
Steris was raised in Lord Harms household, with Lord and Lady Harms. Steris’s parents were not emotionally close. Lord Harms remarked that Steris is much like her mother.{{book ref|mb4|4}}. Steris was aware of Lord Harms’s extra-marital affairs and views them as normal, to the point where she wrote a clause for affairs into her original marriage contract.{{book ref|mb4|2}}.
 
===Alloy of Law===
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Steris is introduced early in Alloy of Law, when she makes a visit to the Ladrian mansion to discuss arranging an engagement between herself and Wax.{{book ref|mb4|2}}. This was the first time Steris and Wax had met in person, although they had been exchanging letters regarding a house union for several months. Steris presented Wax with a “thorough” document of at least 20 pages that outlined each stage of their courtship and engagement, as well as the terms of their eventual marriage, an arrangement that Wax agreed to. InIt thiswas scenehere that Steris also met [[Wayne]], in the guise of Wax’s fictional Uncle Maskil.
 
Steris and Wax attended the [[Yomen-Ostlin wedding dinner]] as a couple a few days after their first meeting, their first official appearance together.{{book ref|mb4|4}}. As they entered the party, Steris educated Wax on how Elendel society revolved around gatherings like it, and how invitations were used almost as weapons. Steris also informed Wax that she would no longer respond negatively to his “ignorant frontiersman” act. Despite this statement, she did become frustrated with his coarse table talk and leave their group for a moment. As a result, she was in the bathroom when the [[Vanishers]] attacked the party. Steris and Marasi were the kidnapping targets of the attack{{book ref|mb4|5}}, and while Wax was able to rescue Marasi, Steris was ultimately taken{{book ref|mb4|6}}. Lord Harms was devastated at the loss of his only (legitimate) daughter, and offered to bankroll Wax’s efforts to recover her{{book ref|mb4|7}}. The next day, Wax coaxs Marasi into revealing that she and Steris are actually half-sisters, rather than cousins as they were first introduced.
 
Wax felt intensely guilty about failing to save Steris, and thus undertook an intense investigation into the Vanishers and their mysterious financial backers. As he finally confronted [[Miles Hundredlives]], the leader of the Vanishers, Wax discovered Steris hidden a room of Miles’s lair{{book ref|mb4|19}}. He rescued her from the room and used his [[Feruchemical]] and [[Allomantic]] powers to collapse the building, an event which Steris appeared to find exhilarating. He then had Steris run from the scene to fetch the constables. After the fight was over and Miles was arrested Steris was interviewed about her experience by the constabulary, then offered Wax her thanks for his rescue{{book ref|mb4|20}}. She informed him that she “remained pure” after her captivity, and suggested that the pair advance the timeline for their relationship that had been laid out in her contract, an advance that would be facilitated by his dramatic rescue. Steris also informed Wax that she would no longer complain at his hobby of rushing around the city fighting crime, because they could each accept the other for who they were. For the first time, Steris shows a small amount of affection for Wax.
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