烈娜塔·戈拉斯克 Renata Glasc

炼金男爵 the Chem-Baroness

台词

“你不必与我为敌。我可以改变你的想法。”

“We don't have to be enemies. Let me change your mind.”

传记

烈娜塔•格拉斯克从童年家宅的灰烬中走出，仅凭自己的名字和父母的炼金术研究成果白手起家。在后来的几十年里，她成为了祖安炼金男爵中的首富，通过利益捆绑积累人脉。与她合作，就将获得难以计量的奖赏。与她作对，就将捶胸顿足悔不当初。但到最后，所有人都会成为她的附庸。

Renata Glasc rose from the ashes of her childhood home with nothing but her name and her parents’ alchemical research. In the decades since, she has become Zaun’s wealthiest chem-baron, a business magnate who built her power by tying everyone’s interests to her own. Work with her, and be rewarded beyond measure. Work against her, and live to regret it. But everyone comes to her side, eventually.

命运并非从来都对烈娜塔·戈拉斯克有所善待。

Life had not always been good to Renata Glasc.

她的父母曾经是杰出的炼金师，专精于医药方剂的创新。他们把所有心血都献给了自己的研究和祖安的街坊邻里，将药剂和关怀送给任何有需要的人……不管对方是否能付得起相应的费用。烈娜塔自幼便习惯了饿着肚子上床，对父母的执念满腹怨言，但又对自己的处境无能为力。她常常梦见皮尔特沃夫的日之门，还有从那道运河中驶过的船只，想象着自己掌舵，前往人生的新航向——目标就是世界各地的财富。

Her parents were brilliant alchemists, focused on innovations for the healing arts. Dedicated to their work and their community in Zaun, they gave their care and their cures to anyone in need... regardless of whether their patients could afford them. Renata grew up accustomed to going to bed hungry, resentful of her parents’ ideology, yet powerless to change her circumstances. She dreamed of the ships that sailed through Piltover’s Sun Gate canal, imagining herself taking the wheel and steering her life in a new direction—toward the riches of the world.

When she was old enough to join the family business, it was quickly discerned that Renata had no aptitude for alchemy. She did, however, have ideas about turning a profit. In her first sales pitch, Renata convinced her parents that they wouldn’t need to ask anything more than people could give, if they started treating wealthier Zaunites. With loyal patients extolling the Glascs’ talents to their betters, their charity work was soon paid for by the rates Renata set for the rich.

后来，等到烈娜塔长大到可以参与家族事业的年纪时，她在炼金术方面的平庸才能很快就暴露了出来。不过，她在盈利的手段上倒是有很多想法。烈娜塔人生中第一次推销，就成功说服了自己的父母。只要他们肯收治那些较为富裕的祖安人，他们就不再需要为患者付不起诊费而发愁。忠实的患者们纷纷向地位更高的人称赞戈拉斯克家的制剂，而烈娜塔面向富人制定的收费标准很快就足以贴补他们的慈善开支。

Instead of living comfortably, however, the Glascs spent that money developing a highly refined chemtech formula to extend the lives of their sickest patients. No matter what they did, the formula always had unwanted side effects—such as making their patients extremely suggestible, or extremely violent—so they continued to try and improve their work. Only Renata, bitter at what her parents chose to do with the money she had earned them, wondered if the formula could be useful as is.

Up in Piltover, the elite clan leaders who had been making money off of Zaunite medical stopgaps heard whispers of the Glasc family’s research. Not willing to let anything threaten their bottom line, they paid off a handful of enforcers to “take care of it.” Renata woke to the sound of her parents’ screams as her home burned down around them. She lost her arm trying—and failing—to save them.

可是，格拉斯克家并没有从此过上殷实的生活，而是把余裕的资金用来开发一种高度精纯的炼金科技秘药，给最危重的病人延长寿命。无论他们如何改良，这种秘药总是会出现不良的副作用——比如会让患者变得言听计从，或者变得狂躁暴戾，于是他们坚持不懈地改良配方。只不过烈娜塔另有所想，她不甘心看到自己出主意赚来的钱被父母这样使用，同时非常好奇这个配方如果不加改良，是不是也能派上用场。

With only her family name and the scraps of research that survived the fire, Renata swore to avoid her parents’ mistake of thankless altruism. Instead, she threw herself into building her meager inheritance into something bigger, something that could give her everything she’d never had, something that would give her money and power and control. An empire.

As the years passed, she became the brains behind several successful small-time operations while building relationships with unsavory, but influential, individuals throughout the city. She’d give people jobs, lend them money, and give them medicine for their sick children—but never for free. If they couldn’t pay in coin, she demanded their loyalty.

上面的皮尔特沃夫城中，有一些精英家族的族长们一直都靠着祖安城的医用廉价替代品攫取利益。他们听闻了格拉斯克家的研究，不能容忍自己的底线遭到威胁，于是就收买了几个打手去“收拾一下”。那一晚，烈娜塔在父母的惨叫声中惊醒，家中一片火海。她搭进去了一条胳膊，也没能成功救出父母。

Renata quickly realized that genius was the rarest and most lucrative commodity in Zaun and devised a plan to invest in destitute youths with a talent for innovation. She offered a space to work and stability for their families in exchange for their work in perpetuity. The poorest among them couldn’t afford to say no. Renata found herself with plentiful access to new and unique product designs, and novel uses for the chemtech formula that was her parents’ legacy. Profits soared. She then established Glasc Industries after purchasing the first of what would eventually be dozens of factories to manufacture her high-end chemtech products.

Glasc Industries quickly expanded across Zaun—from chemtech mining operations to dance halls to refineries—angering some barons who’d held monopolies over the ventures. But, one by one, Renata persuaded them all to go into business with her. And just like that, Renata quietly managed to become a chem-baron in her own right, and no one could push back for fear of upsetting their own cash flow. While Glasc Industries flourished, Renata herself remained in the shadows, waiting for the right time to make her next move.

留给烈娜塔的只有家族的名号和灰烬中残存的研究成果，她发誓不再重蹈父母的覆辙，绝不舍己为人。于是，她开始埋头苦干，要用这微薄的遗产造就一番大业，带给她从未拥有过的一切——金钱、权力和势力。她要缔造自己的帝国。

That time came after a chemical accident sent poisonous fumes sweeping through the streets of Zaun, leaving the city in its worst state in decades. Amidst the noxious gray clouds, Glasc Industries offered basic breathers and replacement filters to everyone in the city… for free. Now everyone in Zaun knew of Renata Glasc and her benevolence. She had earned Zaun’s loyalty.

Word of her generosity swept through Piltover, as well. For the first time, shopkeepers looked seriously at Renata’s elegant and ultra-refined chemtech designs and soon lined their shelves with her products.

随后几年间，她在幕后谋划了几场小规模行动，同时也经营着城中的人脉，拉拢了几个肮脏丑恶但却举足轻重的人物。她会帮人安排工作，会拿钱借他们救急，也会拿药给他们的孩子治病，但绝不是无偿的。如果他们无钱还债，那就要为她卖命做事。

Now, every fashionable Piltovan owns at least one Glasc Industries product, and the wealthiest among them vie to sit beside Renata at novelty galas and the opera house. But Renata’s plan was never to be a chem-baron in Zaun or the corporate darling of Piltover.

No, she aims to take Piltover’s source of financial power for herself—the Sun Gate she had dreamed of so often in her youth. For she who controls the Sun Gate, controls the flow of trade; and she who controls the trade, controls the world. With a secret cache of her parents’ chemtech formula embedded in every Glasc product in both Piltover and Zaun, ready to be released at her command—side effects and all—it’s only a matter of time before everyone works for Renata Glasc.

烈娜塔很快就意识到，天才的头脑是祖安城里最稀缺也是最暴利的商品，所以她想出了一个计划，她要投资那些穷困落魄的年轻人，挖掘他们的创新才干。她可以提供一个工作的空间和稳定的家庭居所，而作为回报，那些雇工必须永无止境地工作。困苦绝境会让人别无选择。烈娜塔就此掌握了大量创意来源，再也不缺新鲜独特的产品设计，以及她父母留下的炼金科技秘药的全新用途。她的利润一飞冲天。后来她收购了一家工厂，正式创立了戈拉斯克工业。再后来，陆陆续续有几十家工厂被她收购，全都用来生产她的高端炼金科技产品。

戈拉斯克工业在祖安城里迅速扩张，从炼金科技采矿作业，到舞厅，再到精炼厂等等。版图之大，自然惹怒了一些原本在行业中一家独大的男爵。不过，烈娜塔逐个说服了他们开展合作。就这样，烈娜塔可以说是全凭自身本事达到了与炼金男爵齐平的地位，没有谁能违逆她，因为所有人都怕自己的现金流受到影响。戈拉斯克工业蓬勃发展，烈娜塔本人则继续留在幕后，等待时机做出下一步决策。

一场炼金工厂事故带来了她渴盼的时机。剧毒的烟雾弥漫在祖安的大街小巷，让这座城市遭遇了数十年来最惨烈的灾难。在灰色的毒雾中，格拉斯克工业向城中的每个人提供了基础呼吸装置和替换用的滤芯……这一次是无偿的。这下，祖安全体居民都认识了烈娜塔•格拉斯克。她的慈爱名声也因此不胫而走。她赢得了全祖安的忠心。

她的慷慨义举也传遍了皮尔特沃夫。商铺店主们这才第一次认真审视烈娜塔优雅绝伦、精炼至极的炼金科技产品，不多久就将她的产品纷纷摆上货架。

如今，每个时髦的皮城人都会拥有至少一件戈拉斯克工业的产品。有些财大气粗的富人还会竞价角逐，只为能在各种新潮的庆典和剧场演出时与烈娜塔同席。不过烈娜塔的计划从来都不是成为祖安的炼金男爵，也不是成为皮尔特沃夫的商界宠儿。

她要把皮尔特沃夫的财力之源据为己有，她要的是儿时梦境中经常出现的——日之门。因为谁掌握了日之门，谁就掌握了贸易的流向；谁掌握了贸易，谁就掌握了世界。销往皮城和祖安的每一件戈拉斯克产品里，都藏有一个秘密夹层，内部封存着她父母的炼金科技秘药，只要她下达指令，随时都可以释放——副作用立刻生效。要不了多久，所有人都将听命于烈娜塔•戈拉斯克。