Editing Lydia Maples, esq. (section)

===Contacts===
'''Lilith Desjardins''' - 2 ''mentor, informant (Family)''  Lilith is Lydia's progenitor; while many in House Báthory use 'Mother/Father' they both find that particular sort of closeness awkward.  It's not that they're estranged, their relationship is just too professional.  While her own ventures are above-board (mostly), she gets a lot of useful and interesting gossip from underworld (literally and figuratively) connections.

'''Alec Bartholomew Charles Morganstern-Brown, esq.''' - 1 ''influential (Role)''  Alec was Lydia's mentor at her first firm, the white-shoe Elicott, Chatham & Greene.  While the only way her hiring could have been more nepotism-driven was if she was ''actually'' related to a Partner instead of 'just' a Harvard legacy with a 'quality' background, she did impress him with her argumentation (if not legal scholarship, so much).  They maintain cordial ties, even if he thinks her current employer is a bit bleeding-heart.

'''Dr. Waite''' - 2 ''Archive, Supernatural (Lineage)'' A performatively mysterious and reclusive Ascetic known tongue-in-cheekly as the Hermit of Bell Hill.  If it's not in his library, he probably knows who to ask or kill for it.  Which, ''conveniently'', is also what he tends to ask for in exchange for his help.