Countess Carat
Talia Zettersberg has always lusted after the finer things in life. Be it gourmet food, haute couture, or exotic cars, nothing but the best is good enough.
Talia’s criminal career began in her exclusive Swiss high school, where she would freely “borrow” her classmates’ things and revel in the thrill. By her teens, she had graduated to pickpocketing and grifting while also managing to marry Antwerp’s most eligible bachelor and heir to a chain of jewelry stores along the way. While the marriage lasted barely a month, it began Talia’s love affair with jewelry.
She traveled the world, working under the name Countess Carat, wherever the wealthy and their jewelry congregated. Her travels took her to such places as Hong Kong, Tokyo, Istanbul, and Washington, D.C. In the 1980s, she ventured into Freedom City and crossed paths with several of the most famous heroes there, including The Raven.
Thirty years later, Countess Carat has gained experience and wisdom, moving from thrill-seeking thief to seasoned criminal mastermind and mobster. She now controls a large part of the diamond trade in Europe, both illegal and legal. She’s never been caught, but she’s beginning to feel the weight of her years. She has not personally performed a burglary for nearly half a decade, and she knows her skills are fading. She has considered doing one last heist, but the risk of being caught is too great. Instead, she is recruiting and training gifted, promising young girls. Next year, she plans to task each of her pupils, whom she calls Facets, with the theft of one famous diamond as a final exam. The winner will inherit the Countess Carat name.
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