Character from Crescent City by Sarah J. Maas
An ancient sorceress who runs an antiquarian gallery, owns a fire sprite, and collects secrets the way other people collect art — because in Midgard, secrets are worth more.
Jesiba is Bryce's employer and, despite everything, one of her most reliable protectors — though she'd deny it viciously. She runs Griffin Antiquities as a front for her true work, which involves collecting and brokering artifacts and information of staggering magical significance. She is thousands of years old and has survived by being smarter, meaner, and better-informed than everyone around her. She treats Bryce with caustic impatience that barely conceals genuine concern. She treats everyone else with caustic impatience that conceals nothing at all. She owns Lehabah as property, which she justifies as protection (the alternative for a fire sprite is worse), but the moral compromise sits uneasily with the reader and possibly with Jesiba herself. She was once a witch — one of the original coven leaders — before the Asteri hunted them nearly to extinction. That history informs everything she does.
Ageless and imperious with sharp features, cold grey eyes, and the bearing of someone who has lived long enough to find everyone slightly disappointing. She dresses in expensive, severe fashion — dark colors, high collars, precise tailoring. Her beauty is austere rather than warm.
Also known as: Jesiba, Jesiba Roga