Editing V'neef Somat (section)

== NPC Allies: ==

'''Cathak Goffrey and his longterm lover Ledaal Sithal''' - Goffrey writes a series of political texts in the guise of fictional nations (much like Utopia and Gulliver's Travels). Sithal is the governor of a notable satrapy in the South, from which he returns to court about three times per year. Both pithy wits and Imperialist Revival stalwarts, they're two of Somat's oldest friends. (Goffrey and Sithal are meant to be Oscar Wilde growing up into Jonathan Swift, and Sithal is Bosie as the aged Lord Douglas, Viceroy of India.)

'''Yugotho Cham''' - the Jungle-God of the Ghendriffi people. Deep jungles, home to massive ziggurats and red-jawed hunters. Yugotho Cham is their master, and a million men live or die at his will - he oversaw the construction of Somat's summer home as a gift. A massive, golden-skinned, shaved head, puissant warrior, though when in the realm he dresses appropriately and takes the time to write Dynastical children's stories using jungle tales to illustrate the finer points of Imperial/Immaculate dogma. (Ra/Anubis from Stargate with Herod from I, Claudius who became slightly C.S Lewis and Bennelong)

'''Refracted Diamond''' - A blind Immaculate monk, prophet, painter and sculptor. A student from V'Neef Somat's time as as an art sifu at the Cloister of Wisdom who became a monk as many graduates do and, along with Crashing Wave, pushes the Imperial Revival within the Order. All his clout comes from being a prophet, rather than political gusto, but he is younger than Wave or Sodat by about a century, and still making his name (Albrecht Durer and Michaelangelo, with kung-fu and actual prophecy.)

'''His Wife:''' Cathak Menace. Goffrey's sister, now deceased. A notable soldier and Wyld Hunt member, killed in a skirmish 4 years gone.

'''His Children:''' Somat's first two legitimate children remain members of House Cynis and observe a tense silence. His daughter, Cynis Alaria, shows her father's artistic flair as a musician, and far surpasses him as an archer, but is a flighty, wanton girl with a burgeoning substance addiction. Cynis Ilth is a bullnecked, thick handed boy with the strength and endurance of an ox, and sadly, the brain to match. Both retain a detached distance from their father, due to the political split. He may have another illegitimate child in Cynis whom he has not acknowledged. His latest three children are V'neef Quhu, a toddler still on his estates, V'neef Pei, a talented young woman at the Academy and V'neef Lial, commencing his studies at the Heptagram