Ristina Marmai
Ristina Marmai (born in Lake Camel, Utasia, in 1610, died in Haraldsborg in 1685) was an Elw noblewoman. Widow of Ander Avon-El and mother of Johan Anderion. Daughter of Lord Alezander Marmai (a businessman) and Lady Kolama Amareaae (a priestess in the Church of Elwynn) Despite her husband being elected Prince of Elwynn in 1672, she was known to oppose Elwynnese independence. She never applied for an Elwynnese passport, using instead her Shirerithian passport when travelling.
As a businesswoman in the trade of import and export and immigration services, she inherited her father's company upon his death from a skiing accident in 1628, the Marmai Trading Joint-Stock Company. She then headed this company until her resignation in 1677. She profited from the mass-immigration of Froyalaners during the 1630s and 1640s (capped at 1 million people per year according to official decree). Her company focused their attention on helping Froyalaners get accustomed to Elwynnese and Shirerithian society and law until the late 1630s when demand for those particular services were low, as by then, Elwynnese society was less strange and foreign but felt immediately like home for the Froyalanish immigrants. The company took a plunge in the 1650s after the Auspicious Occasion, but specialized instead in the trade of Froyalanish curiosa to interested buyers.
Considered an eccentric lady by those close to her, she was also seen as politically neutral. Not once did she utter any political statements in front of media, not even when her husband was elected Prince. She even refused to attend his inauguration, stating to the media this time however, that "my husband does not take me to my place of work, I shall not take him to his, we're both independent individuals".
In 1675, she retired from the Marmai Trading JSC to devote herself to her hobby, mountain walking and hiking. She disappeared a year later during one of her hiking trips with her son. Although declared legally dead in Elwynn in 1680, this was changed in 1682 as sightings of her in Haraldsborg and Port Chloe confirmed that she remained alive. She spends most of her time in Haraldsborg, running her own little court. She perished during the collapse of the Storish state in 1685. Her body was recovered by the Order of the Holy Lakes, and given a cremation on Lake Anset in accordance with the rites of the Church of Elwynn.
