Red Broker
Madame Soki Noles (a.k.a. The Red Broker)
"Access to Vassago—a finder of lost things and hidden truths—will cost you a decade of unbroken loyalty and a secret you’ve never spoken aloud. If you want the ear of Buer, a healer and sage, you’ll surrender the ability to lie—permanently. Glasya-Labolas, the patron of slaughter and whispers, deals in violence; the price is a name, one you’ll never say again because its owner won’t live long enough to hear it. And if you seek Astaroth, tread carefully—his favors are expensive, and his memory is long. But, of course, my services aren’t free either. Shall we discuss my fee?"
A Mask of Ice
To the uninitiated, Madame Soki Noles is an enigma—an unshakable pillar of logic and cold efficiency in a world driven by raw passion and calculated mistakes. In truth, she is the curated persona of Onoskelis, a mask worn with such meticulous care that even the most paranoid members of the Hellfire Cabal hesitate to question her authenticity. A consummate professional, she presents herself as a facilitator of transactions, immune to greed, lust, or any human weakness. Where others deal in promises and grand rhetoric, she speaks the language of logistics, contracts, and unassailable precision, ensuring that her clients—whether desperate seekers of forbidden knowledge or the ruthless elite of the Hellfire Cabal—never pause long enough to consider the true nature of the deals they are making.
A Financial Labyrinth, Complete With Minotaur
While many suspect that "Soki Noles" is a fabrication, none have ever uncovered a shred of tangible proof. Investigators who follow the financial trails leading to her find themselves tangled in a maze of shell corporations, collapsed offshore accounts, and digital ghosts that vanish before they can be traced. Even within the Hellfire Cabal, rumors abound that those who pry too deeply into her affairs meet abrupt and often spectacularly violent ends. Some say she has a network of assassins at her beck and call; others whisper that she needs no hired killers, that those who overstep simply disappear—consumed by something far worse than a professional hit. The truth is more insidious: Onoskelis ensures that anyone who threatens her anonymity is efficiently neutralized, not just physically, but financially, socially, and digitally, erased from existence before they ever realize they were in danger.
A Glacier
What makes Madame Soki Noles truly terrifying is her restraint. Unlike the Cabal’s zealots and sadists, she has no need for theatrics or intimidation. She doesn't manipulate with fear; she controls with inevitability. She offers opportunities that are simply too good to refuse, deals so carefully weighted that her clients walk willingly into their own undoing. She plays the long game, investing in individuals like assets, extracting their potential until they are dry, and discarding them without a trace. Yet, through it all, she remains the perfect professional—detached, methodical, and above all, reasonable. After all, there is no crime in making a deal. Only in failing to understand its cost.
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