Nina Kaina

Nina Kaina (Нина Каина) was the matriarch of the Kain family and ruler of the town. She was the Scarlet or Nocturnal Mistress, and stood in opposition to Victoria Olgimskaya.

Description
A radiantly beautiful woman with deep eyes the color of French plum. A dark chestnut with an intricate hairdo. She was very tall, and her waist was so thin that a man's hands could clasp it with his two hands. Her features were noble and elegant, and her deportment was imperial.

She gave the impression of self-control and absolute sanity, yet committed insane acts. Easily bored and seemly capable of fulfilling any of her whims. When she was alive, she was feared; and after her death, she is thought of almost as a goddess. There is no clear evidence of her performing magic or of having "special" abilities, but she was considered a powerful witch and Mistress, emanating a special sort of energy and radiating the faith in the limitless of human capacities.

Background
Nina was a bright, refined and devilish aristocrat from the Capital. Victor Kain became acquainted with her when he lived there at a young age and made connections in those circles. Eventually, Nina fell for Victor, and he brought her to the Steppe. Enjoying the freedom and power of the Kain family, and impressed by Georgiy and Simon, Nina harboured plans concerning the town and became ruler of the land.

As a Mistress
«The whole time that Nina was the Mistress of the Kain family, she held the town in fear. Paradoxical, but that was the cause for the increase of love towards the Kains, that took place lately—compared to Nina, all the other members of the family looked extremely humanist. Nina broke and crippled dozens of lives, families broke up because of her, and houses were taken down on her command. Any who she didn’t think to be her equal weren’t worthy of taking into consideration at all—people for her were some kind of ants. When Nina was bored—and that was quite a frequent event—she behaved as if she were Dracula, simply went around the city looking for situations that could interest her and solved different things according to her understanding of justice. She could easily take a child from a stupid mother, give him to the Master of the Abattoir for him to make a steppe scout out of the child. She could enter a house and order its inhabitants to show her the most precious thing they had and if the people tried to conceal the real item, she would order for the liars to be dealt with. No matter how strange, but the people were quite patient about this. Nina was taken for a beautiful and awe-inspiring protector of the town, who had to be propitiated by means of bloody sacrifice. When Nina died, the inhabitants took a deep, easy breath, but continued to treat her as before, in fact, even with more piety, because now she obtained another quality that was added to what she already had—she was dead.»