Character from The First Law by Joe Abercrombie
A Styrian Practical working for the Inquisition — a red-haired killer whose children are held hostage to ensure her loyalty, making every mission a calculation between duty and survival.
Vitari is competence wrapped in suspicion. She serves the Inquisition because her children are hostages — every order she follows is weighed against their safety. She's skilled, ruthless, and entirely transactional, which in the First Law world makes her one of the more honest characters. She survives the series through a combination of skill and self-interest, eventually returning to Styria where she continues being dangerous for different employers.
Red-haired, lean, and dangerous — attractive in the way a blade is attractive. Moves with a fighter's economy of motion. Her expression is permanently guarded — the face of someone who trusts nothing and no one.
Also known as: Vitari, Shylo Vitari