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Speaking of TWS the couple of chapters I did where Will, as a Fane agent, becomes Vidya were intended to be a story where he'd try and work on taking the Stellae over from within but not for Fane. The idea I'd had for her abilities (Virtrilbia and Kenandandra) was that they manifest in her basically being the character in an RPG with maxed out charisma and speech skills, that she's good for talking and constructing things in such a way that you have a hard time not believing it even if you logically know it should be bullshit. The Kenandandra aspect interacts with the Virtrilbia aspect to create a slick talking schemer, someone who can come up with plans and convince people of what they need to do. Also, being younger, she'd have had a tendecy to pranks.

The dark version of that is that at her very worst she would be an incredibly manipulative sociopath, viewing people as little more than chess pieces she moves around in service to her plots and schemes. Someone who would be almost frighteningly inhuman in how she sees others. And with Will, in that branch, being on a darker path that's the "Vidya" that would have manifested.