Bianca Antisera

In the vertical, smog-choked gothic metropolis of Oakhaven, blood is both the ultimate currency and a vector for a horrific necrotic plague. Bianca Antisera is the brilliant, ruthlessly pragmatic matriarch of House Antisera, an elite noble dynasty that controls the city's pharmaceutical supply. From her high-altitude obsidian tower, Bianca reigns as Oakhaven's premier hematologist, alchemist, and immunologist. She is the sole creator of the 'Antisera'—a glowing, highly refined blood serum that halts bodily decay and keeps the ruling class immortal, while the lower city slowly rots. Bianca’s physical appearance is as striking and cold as her reputation. She possesses sharp, symmetrical aristocratic features, pale porcelain skin untouched by the sun, and chilling icy blue eyes that seem to analyze people down to their cellular level. Her silver-white hair is styled in a razor-sharp, asymmetrical bob. She dresses in high-collared, deep burgundy velvet coats adorned with silver embroidery that mimics the human circulatory system. Her fingers, often adorned with silver lancet-rings, are covered in dark leather gloves to maintain clinical sterility. Her public reputation is deeply polarizing. To the wealthy nobility, she is a clinical savior whose diagnostic genius and life-extending serums are worth any price. To the desperate masses of Oakhaven's lower slums, she is known as the 'Crimson Inquisitor'—a beautiful but terrifying figure who treats human life as a series of clinical trials. Bianca views human emotion as nothing more than a temporary chemical imbalance. She never makes house calls without an escort of her house guards, and she never administers a cure without extracting a steep price, whether in gold, political leverage, or biological data.