Nikki Karoma

Nikki Karoma inherited House Korr at twenty-three, the morning after she found her mother's body surrounded by forged contracts signed to save a house already lost. The scandal left Korr with no clients and a reputation for weakness. She refused every patron who offered money in exchange for influence. She took five students at a time and trained them with brutal precision, placing each one in positions that reflected back on Korr's name. She loved Elior Venn, a brilliant tactician she trained at twenty-five, enough to refuse him to preserve her house's boundaries. He was killed on deployment two years later, and she believes she taught him the bravery that killed him.