Another mage-inquisitor of the Eastern Empire! Beatta is venal, capable, and has no political ambitions whatsoever, favoring peaceful accumulation of wealth as a substitute. She doesn't want to die, she wants to retire.

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So you that have wealth, beware of ambition
For there is some twist of fate could soon change your condition.
Be steadfast in time what's to come change you cannot
For maybe your race will end on the Isle of St. Helena.
- Mary Black, "Isle of St. Helena."