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{{character
|image=Riina by Howard Lyon.jpg
|abilities={{tag+|Elantrian}}, {{tag+|Awakener}}, {{tag+|worldhopping}}
|titles=The Sorceress{{book ref|tress|64}}
|groups={{tag|Ire}}
|world=Sel
|universe=[[Cosmere]]
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}}
{{update|tress}}
==Appearance and Personality==
{{image|Riina by Marie Seeberger.jpg|side=left|width=200px}}
=== Appearance ===
In the [[Cognitive Realm]] of [[Scadrial]], Riina was a withered husk.{{msh ref|5|2}}
On [[Lumar]], Riina appears to be a woman in her fifties (when she gained the ability to stop aging) who is short and plump. Like most Elantrians, she dislikes makeup as she thinks it takes away from the effect of her glowing skin.{{book ref|tress|60}}
=== Personality ===
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|In her case, in lieu of a soul, the woman had pure ice. Kept cold and frozen by her heart.
|Hoid describing Riina.{{book ref|tress|61}}
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Riina
She also seems to enjoy the reputation of the Sorceress
Riina herself, like most Elantrians, is known to be
▲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}}
== Attributes and Abilities ==
Riina is an [[Elantrian]] and [[Awakener]]. Riina is also capable of using [[AonDor]] in order to grant '''curses''' to others.{{book ref|tress|5}}{{book ref|tress|13}}
She is possibly capable of
▲{{image|Midnight.jpg|side=left|width=250px|Midnight Essence under Riina's control}}
Other beings in the Cosmere also fear Riina, one of which is
▲Riina is an Elantrian and Awakener. Riina is also capable of using [[AonDor]] in order to grant '''curses''' to others.{{book ref|tress|5}}{{book ref|tress|13}} How exactly these curses are formed is unknown however the person given the curse is aware as to what the stipulations of the curse are.{{book ref|tress|24}} 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.{{book ref|tress|epilogue}} An aspect of the curse is always consistent which is that the cursed individual can not discuss the curse with others, any attempt to do so leads to them stuttering.{{book ref|tress|24}} The curses are flawed however in that since they can not be changed they can be manipulated if one finds a way to do so that Riina failed to prevent,{{book ref|tress|29}} one way to do so is by identifying what an individual can not talk about. This indirectly reveals aspects of their curse.{{book ref|tress|42}}
=== The Sorceress's Army ===▼
▲She is capable of investing common animals to grant them self-awareness, making them her familiars.{{book ref|tress|28}}
In the role of being the Sorceress she had an army of some sort, most probably her metal soldiers and
▲Other beings in the Cosmere also fear Riina, one of which is Xisis who considers imprisoning people to be a mercy when the alternative is for them to face the sorceress. He himself fears to confront her himself.{{book ref|tress|52}}
In the case of
▲=== The Sorceress' Army ===
▲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}}
== History ==
=== Member of the 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.{{msh ref|5|3}}
=== The Sorceress ===
Many years later Riina came into the possession of a [[Sorceress's tower|spaceship]] and used it to travel to Lumar, part of her motive to do this was because of her opinion of the planet being unimportant and the fact that no one on the planet could oppose her in any meaningful way.{{book ref|Tress|64}}{{book ref|Tress|60}} Whilst there she set up her defences and the locals noticed her presence on the planet, over the years she earned the title of ''Sorceress''. Under this name she went to cursed anyone who dared so much as try to speak to her, inspiring fear among the population.{{book ref|Tress|64}} As well as this she was also known to sometimes simply kill visitors.{{book ref|Tress|5}} The kingdom on the [[Emerald Sea]], and possibly others, attempted numerous wars against her and her army but each ended in failure.{{book ref|Tress|5}}{{book ref|Tress|9}} This led to further raids done by Riina against the kingdom.{{book ref|Tress|5}}▼
▲Many years later Riina came into the possession of a [[Sorceress's tower|spaceship]] and used it to travel to Lumar
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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
{{image|The Sorceress by ohnoesaxel.jpg|side=right|width=300px}}
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 try and go attempt another war to stop her. In order to attempt this he began seeking out for more support for a war among the populace.{{book ref|Tress|5}}{{book ref|Tress|9}}{{book ref|Tress|17}} As part of this effort he sent [[Charlie]] to Riina with a marriage proposal under the guise of that being a path to peace, in truth however he merely needed a sacrifice to gain further support and also simply wanted to be rid of him.{{book ref|Tress|5}} Upon his arrival Riina ordered her troops to take him to his tower, whilst there she sent out 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]], upon it becoming clear that the ransom would go unpaid Riina then elected to curse Charlie into a rat and set the terms of breaking it to be for him to grab Tress and bring her down to the Sorceress to be cursed herself.{{book ref|Tress|5}}{{book ref|Tress|61}} Following this she allowed him to leave and began further raids against the Emerald Sea.{{book ref|tress|9}}▼
==== Arrival of Tress and Charlie ====
▲Following her curse of Hoid, the Sorceress continued her raiding of the Emerald Sea
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.{{book ref|tress|60}} 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.{{book ref|tress|61}} Eventually, by happenstance, both Charlie and Tress arrived on the boat and Riina managed to also keep tabs on her as well,{{book ref|tress|60}}{{book ref|tress|13}} she watched as Tress invented her spore gun, became captain of the crew taking over from [[Crow]] and as they plotted their way down towards the Midnight Sea. The pair managed to make their way to the Sorceress's tower by being escorted by Riina's midnight essence.{{book ref|tress|59}}▼
▲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
Upon arriving Tress bartering for Charlie and Riina played along attempting to pass one of her spies off as Charlie with the help of a [[lightweaving]]. This very nearly worked until Tress realised the truth just before leaving and turned back to confront Riina with it, who then explained the full details of Charlie's curse to Tress.{{book ref|tress|61}} While having this conversation with the pair she failed to notice the crew of the Crow's Song breaching her defences and getting just outside of her tower. This caused Riina to panic and set up her defences on the island itself leading her to not notice Tress and Charlie using her own computer to communicate to Fort and [[Salay]] about a plan to get Hoid into the tower itself and break his curse.{{book ref|tress|62}} Watching her defences fail Riina still felt that Hoid would fail since there was no way for him to enter the tower, she was mistaken however as Hoid managed to sneak into the tower whilst she turned to try and curse Tress in retribution for ruining her day. This allowed Hoid to break his curse and block Riina's curse. Following this Riina offered to let the crew leave but Tress refused and instead demanded Riina herself leave the planet for her crimes against locals there, Riina dismissed this threat until Tress ordered Hoid to help and he indicated that he would. Whilst Riina reckoned that her chances of losing was only around one-in-five she decided this was a risk too much and agreed. She had Tress and her crew leave so that they could watch her ship leave the system from the distance.{{book ref|Tress|64}}▼
▲Upon arriving, Tress
== Trivia ==▼
▲== Trivia ==
* Although never stated by the text itself, the painting by [[Howard Lyon]]
== Notes ==
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