Inquisitor Nagore Loyola of Ciudad Vatacinia, the Cardenal's shadow. Through an entire ball, an assassination attempt included, she did not leave his right hand. She refuses all drink: "I reserve my wine for Mass." She ate with the company afterward and revealed precisely nothing.
She is the only member of the Cardenal's circle based not in Castille but in the Church's own city. Whoever she reports to sits very high indeed. It is worth asking whether Verdugo is her master or her assignment.