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Riina is known to be unusually cruel, she curses anyone who enters her domain and survives, as well as anyone who attempts to talk to her.{{book ref|tress|23}}{{book ref|tress|64}} She personally delights in coming up with cruel curses, spending her spare time coming up with new ideas for them.{{book ref|tress|64}} As part of this she also ensures that the cursed individual is aware of the full details of the curse, but also are incapable of talking about it with others and thus unable to ask for help, this is done intentionally on her part in order to make the curse crueller for the afflicted.{{book ref|tress|24}}{{book ref|tress|29}} All those who have met her attest to her being a cruel and heartless individual,{{book ref|tress|29}}{{book ref|tress|61}} even [[Xisis]] considers imprisonment under him to be a mercy when the alternative is meeting Riina.{{book ref|tress|52}}
 
She also seems to enjoy the reputation of the Sorceress, despite it being unneeded she is known to speak in rhyme whilst placing a curse on someone.{{book ref|tress|29}}{{book ref|tress|60}} Though at the same time she shows a certain level of disdain for those on Lumar, thinking anyone unable to get past her trials as being not worth her time.,{{book ref|tress|46}} considers folklore about her to be funny nonsense{{book ref|tress|60}} and dismisses their technological achievements.{{book ref|tress|60}}
 
Riina herself, like most elantrians, is known to be very cautious and not being willing to take any risks that may involve her dying. WhenThis was a motive for her arriving to Lumar, a system where she did not think she could be opposed and whose technology was vastly inferior to her own, when faced with a force that actually has a chance of stopping her she retreats.{{book ref|tress|60}}{{book ref|tress|64}} Even the knowledge that a [[Dragon (cosmere)|dragon]] is on the same planet as her is enough to spook her.{{book ref|tress|64}} Riina is paranoid to the extent that she keeps vats of acid near by on the of chance that a [[Kandra]] will try to act against her in some way.{{book ref|tress|60}}
 
== Attributes and Abilities ==
In the role of being the Sorceress she had an army of some sort, most probably her metal soldiers and midnight essense. 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.{{book ref|tress|5}}{{book ref|tress|9}} This army also apparently contains ships, of which only hers can sail with any others being destroyed by her forces.{{book ref|tress|23}}
 
In the case of midnight essence they are formed when rain hits the [[aether spores|spores]] in the Midnight Sea. Upon being spawned these beings fell under her command and followed her wishes.{{book ref|tress|35}} In order to achieve this goal she managed to set up a way to continuously grant water to the monsters formed by the midnight essense.{{book ref|tress|46}} She also possesses an army of awakened soldiers, these troops are awakened constructs and immune to almost all weapon fire on Lumar.{{book ref|tress|46}} A single reptilian humanoid also is under her command.{{book ref|tress|61}}
 
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