Victoria manages the Victorian Agency, Sarnout’s most prestigious mercenary organisation. The Victorians have a reputation built on professionalism and a gentlemanly veneer intended to put rich clients at ease. The Agency is polite, well-dressed and efficient: the acceptable face of bounty hunting. But scratch the surface and underneath you’d find mercenary thugs like all the rest; proud members of the biggest gang in Sarnout.

Kornilin family

The Kornilin family belongs to the ancient psionic lineage that predates the formation of the Hadaganian Empire. Kornilins were loyal to Nezeb even before the schism and after the Exodus, faithfully serving as advisors and spies. Kornilins were the ones who persuaded the southern tribes of Khadagan Desert to join Nezeb in his great plans, and later, Kornilins were the one behind forming the notorious Nezeb Committee. To this day, Kornilins remain the wealthiest and most respectful of Hadaganian old families, owning a multitude of allods and important statuses in the Imperial government.

Victor Kornilin, current patriarch of the family and father of Victoria Kornilina, operates a private investigation bureau “Kornilin Investigations” and a couple of mana-production businesses.

Victoria Kornilina

Every member of the Kornilin family, including Victoria, undergoes extensive training in psionics and law, surrounded by butlers, personal tutors and nannies. The family rarely intrudes into these processes. Every Kornilin, and their close or distant relatives, have access to the highest echelons of Imperial society. One can say that they do not know another life.

But Victoria was different from the earliest years of her life. The loudest Kornilin the midwives had ever dealt with. And that’s Victoria in everything – the most. The most talented psionic since Vladlen Kornilin “the Abraxes”, the 7th patriarch of the familia; the most talented student among all her siblings and relatives; and the most unenthusiastic Kornilin that this family ever had. Every gift she had come naturally to her, she didn’t even need to try. And she did not ever want to be a part of what her father had already decided for her to be. She just wanted to climb trees, play tag with wildlife, roll around in the grass and, well, perform other hardly aristocratic and intelligent activities that promise asocial success.