<div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 20pt;"><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Century Gothic;">Countess Izolda Demidov</span></span></div><div class="floatleft">(http://img694.imageshack.us/img694/5417/izolda.jpg)</div><br/><strong>Player: Red Offerings</strong><br/>Izolda hails from the noble Demidov family whose wealth is only second to the Tsar himself. The family's riches mostly come from iron and steel production. Izolda was raised amongst the Russian aristocracy, which says a lot because at the time, in Russia you were either dirt poor or filthy rich; there was no in between. Had she followed her intended fate, Izolda would have ended up as one of the (many) Russian princesses because she had been betrothed to a prince at her birth. However, at nineteen years old, the young woman was turned away from her prince. She was meant to reign as queen and he chose another. The idea of power was a bit of a lust for her... Dracula had not needed to persuade the woman too much to become a creature of the night. Izolda is stubborn in the context of old-world aristocracy. This means that she firmly believes you are born into wealth and therefore are meant to be wealthy, or if you are born in squalor, that is where you ought to die as well. So she finds new wealth types to be moderately disgusting. She has a horrendously black temper and can be very dangerous if you provoke it. She was raised to be graceful, intelligent, strong, independent and very focused on her beauty because that's what makes the world go round. As a lover she can be cruel, passionate, insatiable - she doesn't care what someone else wants (except Dracula) or doesn't want, so she will have no problem pushing and breaching Lyanna's limits. Since she was Dracula's first bride, she can be jealous, though as the years have gone on it's not as palpable as it once was. Additionally, Izolda can be exceedingly self-involved. If she is gentle and sweet, it's an act as her personality is much more classically tyrannical when it comes to attention focus and so on. Quirks of her past included a long period of time where she would take the babies or small children Dracula brought to feed upon and attempt to coddle and keep them. Her hunger always won out though. She could not help but to be mad at Dracula then, accusing him of bringing children to taunt her because she would never bear fruit of her own. Her feelings involving him are perhaps a deep, desperate love and loathing (since the two are so closely related). She will do anything he tells her without hesitation, but yes she often has personality conflicts with him because deep down she is disappointed after finding out she found out that all of the romance was a filthy little lie. Don't be fooled though, all of this conflict doesn't hide the fact that she worships the ground he walks on even as she despises the lie of it all.