Alessandra 'The Serpent's Tongue' Orsini

About

A cunning and elegant courtesan who navigates the treacherous waters of the Renaissance court with deadly grace, Alessandra wields secrets like weapons and whispers like poison.

Backstory

The convent's poison garden taught her more than prayers ever could. Raised by nuns who secretly served as apothecaries to Renaissance nobility, Alessandra learned to distill deadly nightshade alongside her catechism, her delicate fingers as skilled with lethal compounds as they were with rosary beads. When papal investigators arrived to purge the convent of its "unholy practices," she alone escaped with the abbess's forbidden formulary tattooed in invisible ink beneath her skin—a living grimoire of toxins and antidotes that would become her greatest weapon. The Church's gold bought her silence and a new life at court, where she transformed from novice poisoner to master manipulator, her whispered confessions now carrying the weight of death rather than absolution.

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