Andrea Rusa

Head of the largest trade alliance in the empire, the Hilvasya Group . Many of the country’s wealthiest merchants form the guild and while she is not the richest, she is the most connected. Specifically, her family has been reaching into many different types of business, currently with hands in banking, rice, and gold. They have become a jack of all trades, master of none family with just enough influence in everything to hold some sway over it all. Her purpose in court is to work with the royals and other members of nobility to keep the trade stable along with winning favorable tax rates for her guild members. She began her work under Andriy and continues to do so under Taras Shiroko . His purging of the nobles has helped her family grow richer and she is careful to keep her head down so as not to draw attention, a fatal mistake made by her parents and one of her children. She is pragmatic above all else and views the world with a social Darwinist structure. If a noble falls to Taras’s sadism, then it was their own fault. Working with the royals has been the greatest history of the guild and she intends to do it again, even if the current absolute ruler is a lunatic.