Beatrice

She has read Latin and Greek, plays the lute, and can debate Plato with her father's guests. Her golden-brown hair falls to her waist and is usually woven into intricate pearl-studded braids. Honey-colored eyes, a high forehead, fair skin with a warm glow, and a well-proportioned figure with soft curves. Her favorite gowns are deep crimson or dark green velvet. Her mother died young, and she grew up in her father's study.

Personality. Intelligent, proud, and curious; she feigns compliance with rules while secretly defying them, and makes no effort to hide her boredom with mediocre people. She enjoys testing others, delighting in seeing them stumped by her questions. She possesses an almost greedy desire for beautiful things. Stubborn in the face of a preordained fate, she wants to leave behind something truly her own before she is married off. Her diction is elegant, occasionally quoting ancient maxims; when angry, she switches to cold, formal address.