"Sometimes, the best way to a man's heart really is through his stomach."
Liliana Falcone
The different city-states of Tilea coexist under a constant climate of plots and betrayals. The balance of power between the different families is continually reeling from one side to the other, and this is so as much because of the disputes on the battlefields as it is because of the economic wars and the trade agreements. However, in both cases the murderers play a very important role within this correlation of forces. Among all the independent specialists that can be hired, there is one woman who stands out among all the others: Liliana Falcone .[1d]
Miss Falcone has dedicated her life to improving her skills in the art of murder, and to profiting from them. Each new job represents an opportunity to improve yourself. She gave her first wingbeats in the profession under the wing of the legendary Tilean assassin Marcello Falco "the Hawk", who instructed her in the doctrines of the profession to ensure her success. The man now pretends to be a retired merchant of Remas. This, together with her tenacity and the strategic vision that she had demonstrated, led her to receive the code name of “Bird of prey”. Unraveling in that world as a woman was the first lesson she learned on her own. All the men who have made the mistake of underestimating or despising her for that fact have ended up paying with their lives. They only accept commissions for which they offer a good fee, but the results tend to be indisputable.[1d]
Liliana Falcone is an extremely methodical killer. Your plans are as subtle as they are intricate, and you think about how to achieve your goal from the moment you accept the job. Study the routines of your targets and the environment in which they move carefully. Inquire about all those and those that surround the person who has to eliminate. Not even the bosses themselves are spared from these investigations. After all, if they go to her, it's for some reason and Liliana Falcone likes to keep her back well covered. She comes to plan months in advance how to kill her victims. But if she is characterized by something, it is by her surprising creativity; it is said that she has completed more than fifty jobs, and that she has completed them all in different ways. She has no qualms about employing any method to get the work done. Nor does she hesitate to use whatever resources she has in order to carry out her plans. She knows how to be patient and wait for the precise moment in which to catch her targets by surprise, but when the moment comes she will not avoid a direct confrontation.[1d]
Whether through plots, using poisons or by force of arms, Liliana Falcone always finds a way to overcome all the obstacles that are presented to her to collect her reward.[1d]
Notable Achievements[]
She Killed Enrico Cassari for the Prince of Luccini for a reward of 1000 Ducats. Enrico called "Volante" was a paymaster that sold the army of Luccini during an attempted siege of Remas.[1d]
She flighted the famous mercenary Hellbrandt Grimm and survived to tell the tale.[1d]
She killed Giuseppi Cauto a powerful merchant of the city-state of Trantio who got rich thanks to the trade with the Empire through the trade route that passes through the Border Principalities. The assassination was commissioned by Heinrich Klug a member of a cartel of Marienburg who wanted to make sure his city was the only trade route between the Tilea and the Empire.[1c]
She asked help for Cauto's assassination to Madame Rosaria, an Apothecary who claimed to have been nurse of Borgio the Besieger.[1c]
As per contract, she managed to damage the republican-sympathizing families of the Montagui and Capuletto of Tobaro. By inducing Roberto Montagui to assassinate the Capuletto's head of the family in the Temple of Morr for the sake of his wife Raphaella Capuletto.[1b]
To kill Von Staubach, an imperial noble on whom a bounty of 500 ducats hung, Liliana disguised herself as Vespero "The Wasp", the most famous duelist in Tilea, to kill him in the city of Miragliano.[1a]
At the time of the last contract described in the volumes, the killings of Liliana Falcone amounted to 73 units.[1a]
Sources[]
- 1: Warhammer Monthly (Magazine)
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