Difference between revisions of "Straff Venture"

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'''Straff Venture''' is a [[noble]] on [[Scadrial]] during the [[Final Empire]]. He is the head of the [[House Venture]], the most powerful great house of the the high nobility. He is the father of [[Elend]] and [[Zane]].

Straff is a very skilled and experienced [[tin]] [[Misting]] (aka a [[Tineye]]), able to smell even an almost odorless poison in a aromatic tea. He wasis able to replicate [[Amaranta]]'s drug cocktail based on the smell of the ingredients. Unlike most other Allomancer'sAllomancers, Straff didn'tdoesn’t keep his abilities secret, in order to show off his superiority and fearlessness.{{book ref|mb1|19}}

Straff's proclivities regarding his mistresses are depraved, even for a Luthadel nobleman. He is fond of skaa brothels and goes to them regularly.{{book ref|mb2|26}} He describes [[Amaranta]], who is in her late twenties at the time, as having been quite attractive a decade before and says she is now too old to be attractive. He usually gets rid of his mistresses long before they reachedreach her age.{{book ref|mb2|18}} He parades a mistress who bears a resemblance to Vin, who is perhaps fifteen years old before Elend and Vin, in an effort to induce a reaction and intimidate them with this display of casual cruelty.{{book ref|mb2|27}}