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Lucrezia Zabini was a woman of power; an alchemist and potioneer; a widow of her own choosing. She had seen a lot in her years, travelling across the globe as she married and played out her experiments, finding a way that was much less demanding than others to achieve her goal.
She wanted to live forever.
But of course, a woman of her status and prowess would scoff at the idea of making Horcruxes. Lucrezia Zabini wasn't weak, and she certainly didn't care to go to all the effort of dividing her sole. Neither was she all that interested in slaying unicorns, or stealing Nicolas Flamel's stone - she owned far nicer jewellery of her own, and it was worthless to her.
Born to a wealthy Italian wizarding family during the early Renaissance, Lucrezia had always been surrounded by arts and research, and as she grew older, her interests in alchemy grew. Working alongside her friend Leonardo, Lucrezia discovered a secret - a well-kept secret that most likely wasn't supposed to be found.
A secret on how to live forever. A secret that questioned the core beliefs of the human race. A secret that could only be accessed and used by only those willing to go to great lengths to achieve their goals.
As an alchemist and a wizard, it allowed Lucrezia to manipulate life and death as she knew it, it allowed her to tie lives to her own - except not in the sense others expected. Instead, if she tied lives to her own and murdered them, the life force within them would entwine with hers and allow her to live on.
But it seemed, she would be embark on the journey alone, the secret so disagreeable that Leonardo refused to join her, and so, Lucrezia began her quest for immorality.
First, it began as something only for herself, never getting attached to any one of her friends as she outlived all of them, her family long forgotten. Then, as she lived her days out in Italy, moving from region to region before deciding to settle down in Naples.
See, 150 years into her life, Lucrezia had fallen in love. Rumours of her past followed her around, and to a gentleman named Giovanni she met on a night celebrating Santa Madonna of Piedigrotta, she became Guila, a beatiful young woman who spent her days working on her centuries-old family business - apothecary.
With the gentleman, Guilia kept her magic hidden and eventually married him, later giving birth to her first and only child - Girolama. As the days went on, Lucrezia came to a startling discovery - a singular, wiry grey hair in her curls of darkness, and she knew she had to act quick.
Girolama had delved into the studies of alchemy herself, and learned of her mother's past, although Guilia refused to tell her the secrets of her aging. And with her daughter's help, Guila discovered that there was a way she could help herself without directly killing them - and helping other women into becoming powerful in their marriages.
