History

When he was a little boy, Sam Vimes had thought that the very rich ate off gold plates and lived in marble houses.

He’d learned something new: the very VERY rich could afford to be poor. Sybil Ramkin lived in the kind of poverty that was only available to the very rich, a poverty that was only available to the very rich, a poverty approached from the other side. Women who were merely well-off saved up and bought dresses made of silk edged with lace and pearls, but Lady Ramkin was so rich she could afford to stomp around the place in rubber boots and a tweed skirt that had belonged to her mother. She was so rich she could afford to live on biscuits and cheese sandwiches. She was so rich she lived in three rooms in a thirty-four-roomed mansion; the rest of them were full of very expensive and very old furniture, covered in dust sheets.

Later Years

The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. […] The mansion was was full of this big, solid furniture, bought by her ancestors. It never wore out. She had whole boxes full of jewellery which just seemed to have accumulated over the centuries. Vimes had seen a wine cellar that a regiment of speleologists could get so happily drunk in that they wouldn’t mind that they’d got lost without a trace.

Lady Sybil Ramkin lived quite comfortably from day to day by spending, Vimes estimated, about half as much as he did.

Trivia

• Her tears are acidic so do tread carefully when she's crying.
• She is still learning about what happened to Era 2 and 3 so still old fashioned.
• Steven calls her 'Aunty Sancy'
• She resides in a cave big enough for her where the wind and air pressure doesn't apply. Steven helped make it more comfy for her by growing soft moss.
• She tends to talk through her pearl if she can't leave her abode. Her pearl doesn't mind, much to Crystal Gem Pearl's dismay.
• Steven has found a therapist for her to talk about her woes. Don't worry that Therapist has been researching gems for a while.