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Many years later Riina came into the possession of a [[Sorceress's tower|spaceship]] and used it to travel to Lumar,. partShe ofchose her motive to do this wasLumar because ofshe herbelieved opinion ofthat the planet beingwas unimportant and thethat factnone thatof noits oneinhabitants onposed thea planetthreat could opposeto her in any meaningful way.{{book ref|Tress|64}}{{book ref|Tress|60}} Whilst there, she set up her defences and theeventually localsbecame noticedknown her presence onto the planet,'s overinhabitants. Over the years, she earned the title of ''Sorceress''. Under this name she wentcursed toor cursedkilled anyone who dared sovisit muchher asisland tryin tothe speakMidnight to herSea, 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 donelaunched by Riina against the kingdomkingdoms.{{book ref|Tress|5}}

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,. in order to achieve this heHe decided that Riina wouldwas besomeone thewho mostcould likelymake tothis do sohappen. Therefore Hoid arrivedtravelled onto her island and made a bet with her, stipulating that he would allow himself to be cursed on the condition that if he broke itthe curse, he would become an Elantrian. Riina agreed to these terms and cursed him, socausing ashim to lose most of his mental faculties. andThe only way for Hoid to setbreak the termcurse ofwas breakingfor ithim to be enteringre-enter her tower.{{book ref|tress|64}} FollowingOver thisthe ensuing years, Riina kept an eye on Hoid over the ensuing years, but never felt worried that he would actually break the curse.{{book ref|tress|63}}

Following her curse of Hoid, the Sorceress continued her raiding of the Emerald Sea,. dueDue to these pressures the king eventually began to consider it necessary to try and go attempt anotherwage war toagainst stopthe herSorceress. In order to attemptjustify 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 beingthis arrangement would be a path totoward peace,. inIn truth however, he merelyexpected neededthe a sacrificeSorceress to gainharm furtherCharlie, supportgiving andhim alsothe simplyammunition wantedhe toneeded, beas ridwell ofas himpopular support, for a war.{{book ref|Tress|5}} Upon hisCharlie's arrival, Riina ordered her troops to take him to his tower,. whilstWhilst 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]],. uponWhen it becominghad become clear that the ransom would go unpaid, Riina then elected to curse Charlie, turning him into a rat. andShe set the terms of breaking itthe curse to be for him to grabbring 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}}

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,. atAt 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 managedwas able to also keep tabs on herthem as well,.{{book ref|tress|60}}{{book ref|tress|13}} sheShe watched as Tress' inventedjourney her spore gun, became captain ofto the crewmidnight taking over from [[Crow]]sea, and aseventual theycapture plotted their way down towards the Midnight Sea. The pair managed to make their way toby the Sorceress's tower by being escorted by Riina's midnight essence.{{book ref|tress|59}}

Upon arriving, Tress barteringattempted to Barter for Charlie and Riina played along, attempting to pass one of her spies off as Charlie with the help of ausing [[lightweaving]]. ThisTress verywas nearlyabout workedto untilleave Tress realisedwith the truthfake justCharlie beforewhen leavingshe realized the ruse 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}}