| Born | Meyersdag, 85 GME (age 56) |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Vuurstahlan |
| Affiliation | Harrison Armory |
| Known for | Leading the Earthforger family as the CEO of Harrison Armory |
| Held titles | Earthforger (current) |
| Family | Shieldbreaker Helena Ritter (daughter, thought to be deceased) Truthseeker Yorick Ritter (son) Scraptinker Stella Ritter(daughter) |
As the current head of the Earthforger family and CEO of Harrison Armory, Earthforger Soleil Ritter has experienced her family’s slow fall from grace firsthand, having lost some of the comforts she grew up enjoying as the Armory’s image was tarnished after the War of Fire. Perhaps as a result of this, she is one of the most active and aggressive Board members, often putting herself at the head of the pack on new GMS policies and projects in an effort to keep the Earthforger name relevant. As the head of the subsidiary closest to Vuurstahl's military forces, she also regularly exercises her authority over them in an attempt to keep the Empire's army at its best, ensuring they keep their place as the most powerful on Tempestas. This has won her no favors with her fellow Board members, many of whom see her strategy as a desperate bid for power from a woman whose mind is trapped in the past, but her efforts have paid off enough to keep the Armory at the top of the subsidiaries– something which many suspect to be the heart of her true goal. After all, should anything happen to the Gearwinder so long as his heir is out of the picture, the laws of inheritance put the Earthforgers as next in line to lead the Empire.
Unfortunately, her efforts have been stymied by her family’s ongoing inheritance problem; despite her best efforts, she has only one heir candidate left after her eldest daughter’s death and her son’s relinquishment of his inheritance rights. Only her youngest daughter, the Scraptinker, remains, and while Stella shows little sign of wanting to inherit the Earthforger title, Soleil is known to put pressure on her, as the only engineer of her children, to train properly as her successor.
Unknown to most of the public, the Earthforger family is a family of trained wizards, a secret tradition going back to the days before Vuurstahl was even an empire. This naturally extends to the current Earthforger, who ensured all of her children received the best magic education available to them– just another method of ensuring the Earthforger legacy lives on.