Alba Gretelsky is an exceptionally tall woman--just tall enough to make people feel a bit uneasy when they're standing next to her. She's pale, with tight-drawn features, and hair so light brunette it almost looks copper in a certain light, and her eyes--well, they're green, like snakes. Apart from that, she has the look of someone who's had to wear formal attire most of her childhood--Alba comes from money. Her family is career military--going back three generations. It's not her cup of tea, personally, so she uses her influence and inheritance to make herself known in as many social circles as she can in the world outside the service. If you ever watch local news, you've probably seen her. She organizes that Thanksgiving parade that happens every year downtown.

People love Alba. Or--they love to say they love her. She turns heads when she walks into a place, and actually nervousness is more often to blame for that than lust. She's not un-pretty, some would say, but her beauty is really held in the way she carries herself, her prestige, her dignity, legacy. She knows the world she lives in, and she knows that the world needs her to live in it. She keeps it together--she's a staple. A convention of East Coast philanthropists would probably get cancelled if she weren't there.

And-if you look closely, under all that poise and posturing, under all that convention and status, there's something wild there, too, and it belongs to some place exotic, some place most people she deals with will never get to visit, or know about. And they hate her for it.

Avatar: Has appeared to her as a green dragon.
Paradigm: Alba believes she bears the keys to a secret occult lineage whose origins have been lost to history. The last person in her family who is recorded as having any connection to the Arts was her Romanian great-grandmother, and Alba is convinced she inherited her powers from that ancestor.
Foci: A little black notebook used as a dream journal. A tiny silver revolver, used by her great-grandfather in World War I. She believes it allows her to contact him. A pack of tarot cards with very strange art that she has never found anywhere else. Her grandfather found it in Eastern Europe during WWII.