Albina

The House of Spiders is described by Moses as an "alliance of sorts." The purpose of the alliance is to raise an individual to be a "blade that cuts through all." [1] Individuals are raised by five Nursefathers, one from each of the Five Fingers. Each Nursefather has an apprentice, though the involvement of the apprentices with the individual's raising is unknown.

The only known individual who was raised by the House of Spiders is Ryōshū [Sinner 4]

Hierarchies The Ring's hierarchy system features at least three major ranks, which do not appear to contain sub-ranks. The ranks are as follows:

Student: The common artist who both submits assignments to the Maestros for grading and grades the work of Ring-affiliated civilians. Docent: A mid-rank. Appears to be the rank in charge of hosting art galleries. Maestro: A high-ranking artist. Gives out assignments to the lower ranks and hosts Ring auctions. Overall, very little is known about the Ring's hierarchy and how it affects interaction between members.

Subsections In addition to member ranks, the Ring also contains at least three sub-sections known as "schools". The schools are as follows:

Fauvists: Those who tend to make use of primary colors and complex lines. Known to wear animal masks. Pointillists: Those who tend to make use of small strokes and dots to depict the flow of light. Known to wield paintbrush-like weapons. Cubists: Those who seek to incorporate abstract three-dimensionality and depth.[16] Corporists: Those who utilize the interaction between human bones and muscles, and the contraction and elongation thereof. Each school represents a unique approach to creating art. Members of different schools are not physically divided from one another, and assignments often require them to work together, leading to frequent squabbles over which method is best.

Like the other four Fingers, the Ring is a large Syndicate with a unique culture and creed that all members follow fervently. Its focus is on art. Members of the Ring are eccentric artisans enamored with art reflecting the human condition, which they pursue by causing and exhibiting human suffering. Their artwork takes a wide variety of forms, from sculptures made of corpses to massacres painted out of someone's mind. The Syndicate manages art galleries featuring their works, and will at times auction them off.

The Ring offers protection to residents of the Backstreets under their occupation, so long as the citizens are willing to create art to be evaluated by the Ring. These civilians periodically submit artwork to be graded at an exam site, where Ring members refer personal judgments on a letter scale. One failing grade results in a warning, two results in the loss of the Ring's protection, and three results in an on-site execution. Similarly, lower-ranking members of the Ring regularly complete 'assignments' issued by higher-ups within designated time periods to maintain membership.

The Ring has also been known to use the Corridor technology, which allows them to create an exit from anywhere. The created door will then lead into the Corridor, which takes the form of a physical hall connected to the Ring's bases, and can grow to contain hundreds of doors leading to hundreds of locations. While the Corridor technology is not exclusive to them, and even used with Mephistopheles' own backdoor, the Ring allows random citizens the chance to access their Corridor as a prize for winning an auction for a Maestro's art piece. The District 22 section of the Ring made use of their Corridor in order to access an N Corp. laboratory and conduct research on Identity technology.

Members of the Ring dress primarily in white, seeing the way it stains as a sign of the artistic process They wear at least one ring, starting on their left hand.

Albina is possibly named after the eponymous goddess from Anglo-Norman belief, who is sometimes regarded as the "The White Goddess", possibly referenced through the pale-white design of the apprentice. She is likewise associated with dawn, another notable trait of the goddess's mythos and visible in Albina's sun-shaped helm. Albina's greatsword, Fascia, is likely named after an anatomical term of the same name. Within the body, Fascia is a fibrous connective tissue that wraps around and supports various internal structures such as muscles, skeletal structures, nerves, and organs. Fascia's design references this, as the weapon appears to be made of flesh and bones that hold it together beneath the surface.

Albina (Hangul: 알비나 al-bi-na) is a member of the Ring and apprentice of the Ring's Nursefather. She is frequently obsessing over her pulsating blade that she calls Fascia. She is an antagonist introduced in Canto IX: The Unsevering.

Albina is calm and soft-spoken with an obsessive interest in the arts, common of her associated faction. In event of combat, she is shown to be typically quiet even when directly spoken to, seemingly focusing more on battle than otherwise. She appears very fond of her weapon, Fascia, speaking to it while also trying to meet its perceived need for a show. This fascination of her weapon goes so far that she becomes willing to break imposed rules in the event she is able to allow it further time to shine, even while others on her side attempt to reign her in.

I haven't seen Fascia tremble like so in a long while. Why don't you give her some time to chat?

Albina is a cold-looking woman made up of artistic white prosthetics. Her hair appears artificial, and is light gray in color with a smooth, straight cut done up in a high ponytail, resembling cables. Shapely lines run across each of her cheeks and several other places where human joints would lie. Her full-body prosthetic possesses gold highlights, and in other areas such as her thighs, neck, and chest, black machinery and wires are made visible, with both palms featuring a similar color. Her prosthetic body is humanoid, though is most unusual around the center, where the machinery is more akin to a human skeleton. Albina has heterochromia iridium, with her right eye being black and her left eye being white.

Her iron maiden armor is white with large amounts of bright yellow and select golden highlights, as well as a faint iridescence. It takes the form of a heavy-looking full-body suit in a long dress, with spikes protruding from the lower half and a golden spiked headband. Chains hang down from either side of her headband, as well as from thick white bands clinging to her elbows. Her mask has sharp golden eyes painted on and two white spikes on each side. The armor is overall somewhat knightly in appearance.

She carries with her a greatsword named Fascia, featuring the same white and yellow palette as her outfit. It has a removable white panel on its side, that, when removed, reveals a dark, skeletal frame with an interior made up of viscera and ribs. Said viscera is brighter in the area the panel typically covers.