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Nyssa Raatko (Arabic: نيسا رعتكو‎) is a fictional character, an assassin and terrorist created by...

Nyssa Raatko (Arabic: نيسا رعتكو‎) is a fictional character, an assassin and terrorist created by Greg Rucka and Klaus Janson for the Batman series of comic books. In Batman: Death and the Maidens, it is revealed that Ra's al Ghul had a love child born during his travels in Russia in the 18th century named Nyssa. Enamored by the romantic stories that her mother told her about Ra's as a child, Nyssa sets out to find Ra's and eventually locates him at his headquarters in North Africa. Impressed by her beauty, her warrior skills, and the fact that she was able to locate him, she is promoted to a position similar to that later held by her half-sister, Talia. As a right hand associate, she accompanies him during his adventures. Ra's is so impressed with her abilities, he even allows Nyssa to use his Lazarus Pits. Like her sister Talia, Nyssa eventually becomes disenchanted with Ra's genocidal plans to "cleanse the Earth," and disassociates herself from her father sometime in the early 19th century. Ra's reluctantly approves this, believing that she will return to him and that she and/or her children will become his future heirs. To his disappointment, Nyssa refuses to give herself or