Character from The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher
Red Court duchess who kidnapped Harry's daughter Maggie — a vampire noble who saw the child as leverage and learned too late that threatening a wizard's family is a terminal miscalculation.
Arianna operated with the cold calculus of old-world vampire nobility, viewing mortals as resources and other supernaturals as pieces on a board. She kidnapped Maggie Dresden as part of a complex ritual scheme involving the Red King, intending to use the child's blood connection to Harry — and through Harry to his grandfather Ebenezar — to power a bloodline curse that would wipe out their entire family. It was a plan of breathtaking cruelty and strategic ambition. She underestimated Harry's willingness to burn everything — including himself — to get his daughter back. Her death was part of the cascade that ended with the entire Red Court's extinction.
In her flesh mask, a regal woman of aristocratic bearing with sharp, imperious features and dark eyes that assessed everyone as either useful or beneath notice. Carried herself with the absolute certainty of someone who had been powerful for centuries. Her true Red Court form was the standard bat-like horror beneath the human disguise.
Also known as: Arianna, Arianna Ortega, Duchess Arianna, the Duchess