Ruth
Ruth was Élise de la Serre's nursemaid and servant of the de la Serre family.
Biography
Oblivious to the fact that the de la Serre family were Templars, she often wondered why young Élise preferred playing with the boys with their toy soldiers than the girls with their dolls. When Élise was six years old, Ruth and the de la Serres attended their neighbor's birthday party, where the young girl chose to play with boys rather than those of her gender. Ruth hastily dragged her away, aware of the other nursemaids dissaproving stares, and told her to play with dolls.
Concerned for her well-being, Ruth often fusses over Élise, which only resulted in irritating the child. She always hoped that Élise would settle down to girlhood and take interests in things appropriate for her gender. Unfortunately, her dreams were crushed with the arrival of Arno Dorian.
Ruth became Élise's confidant when Julie got ill; every morning, the young girl asks if her mother was "awake", meaning "alive". When Julie died, Ruth worried over Francois and Élise, and tried to ease the young girl's pain by embracing her and telling her to let it go, which Élise respectively refused.
When Élise left to study in the Maison Royale de Saint-Louis school at Saint-Cyr, Ruth remained at the de la Serre household and served as a maid.