Virginia

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"Virginia is a deviless of particularly refined tastes, and particularly elaborate cunning."

Virginia is a fashionable, knowledgeable, and high-ranking deviless.

Infernal Archaeology

Virginia is known for her forays in archaeology, and trades in the souls of the learned and well-known. Virginia has a significant interest in the histories of the Fallen Cities and the language of the Correspondence, so she can often be found conducting research in the Forgotten Quarter. She also has an associate by the name of Dr Orthos, who is a well-read scholar and a fellow archaeologist. However, his indiscretions in the Parlour of Virtue may come to haunt him one day.

Virginia is a player of the Marvellous. She was a heroine of Hell's Season of Revolutions, as she helped to overthrow a Prince of Hell after having an affair with him. This one-time prince is actually still interested in her, and he's currently locked up as the sole prisoner of Corpsecage Island.

Infernal Elections

"Virginia's followers don't preach abstinence, nor even restraint. They advocate exercises, physical and spiritual, and spread the twin practices of penitence and callisthenics wherever they go."

Virginia successfully ran for Mayor of London in 1897, under the slogan Good for the Soul. Despite her being, well, a deviless, the Brass Embassy quickly disavowed any involvement related to her candidacy, saying that she "was [our] problem now". She's also London's first Lord Mayor, a position invented by the Jovial Contrarian as his last act in office.

Virginia's platform encouraged a 'Clean Bill of Health', which promised to improve the lives and health of London's soul as a whole. Virginia, along with Dr Orthos, promised to do this through modern medicine and by opening a public spa which will allow the "honing of the self, like a knife on a whetstone". Her motivations for her campaign were rather complicated; she and Orthos expressed disgust at the corruption and debauchery of London as a city, but Virginia also hinted that she may be interested in preparing London for a calamity that remains unspecified. Or maybe she's just doing it to further her studies.

Some of Virginia's more fervent supporters put up posters depicting as a new Queen Elizabeth, emblazoned with the caption "Rex Virginia". Said posters were quickly confiscated by the Ministry. Surprisingly, several of Virginia's supporters were actually Temperance campaigners, who were nervous about Virginia's strategies but supported her agenda.