Maha

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Maha was born the sole heiress of a renowned trading company, which was usurped by her parents' right-hand man who betrayed them to seize control. After her parents were murdered and she sensed her life was in danger, she fled to Milteu. There, she gathered a small group of abandoned orphans and began giving tours to people so that she and her friends could earn a living honestly. This arrangement worked until a local noble placed a bounty on their heads, intending for them to be sold into slavery and prostitution. Lugh saved Maha and her friends when he was sent to Milteu for undercover work to train as a merchant under the alias Illig Balor, created by his father. Illig Balor bought her out of slavery and had her adopted by his merchant family, the Balors, to serve as his right-hand man and run both his cosmetic empire and his information network.
She spends a couple of years being trained as one of Lugh's assassin assistants and becomes extremely important to him. Over time, she falls in love with Lugh, saying, "At first we admired you as our great older brother. But as we got older how could we not fall in love with the best guy around." Lugh, not wanting to take advantage of her at first, turns her down.
Maha is smart and clever, but with Lugh's assassin training, she also becomes strong and agile, as well as an excellent acting director of Lugh's growing cosmetics and chocolate empire. She exposes this rule Lugh quietly set for himself about not taking advantage of her and Tarte, and reminds him that it is encouraged and normal for nobles to take on a couple of mistresses.