Player: Gareth J
Email: liss@djemity.chaosdeathfish.com
Caste: Polites
Liss Fra Drril was a rising star in the Polis of Jerad, and many were sure that he would become a Senator in short order. That was before he vanished three years ago. He reappeared under mysterious and embarassing circumstances some months before the first Council session, without his True and Secret Name. His family has managed to get him a position as a clerk working for the Bureaucracy; but without a Secret Name his future prospects seem limited. He is brother to Scholar Lan Yos Drril
Excerpts from the book, A Lifetime of Service by Scholar Cedric Fra Derin
Of course, in the days and months after the Economic crash, none worked more tirelessly than the Senate Leader to try to rebuild the shattered mess that was left in the wake of the disaster. But it is not for such efforts that Liss Fra Drril will be remembered, rather it is the reforms that he pushed through, limiting the power of those in authority to speak in the stead of those whose voices carry less…
… in particular, after the Galt Family made its power play against the Senate Leader, his popularity with the common Teklo Polités is what kept him in power and able to keep working towards his goal of a fairer and better society. It was in defence of The Proclamation of First Purity that The March of the Five Hundred Thousand began and the sweeping political changes that followed from…
…the Great Negotiation, in which the relationship between Wordshapers and the rest of the Divine Teklo was redefined remains one of the enduring features of the Drril Legacy, and one which some Scholars (especially see Rens Yos Dury) have suggested might even be the principle…
Gorin Yos Silke, Senior Aide to Senate Leader shortly after his disappearance, after neraly fifty years of service to the Senate
“I entered his quarters at five-thirty in the morning, already fearing something was wrong, for the Senate Leader was always awake and active by five-fifteen at the latest.
But inside I found nothing out of the ordinary; a half-empty bottle of fortified wine on the bedside table, an empty bed that had not been slept in. Well, I found one thing out of the ordinary I suppose.
A piece of blue paper, with dozens of fold marks in it and written upon it the words “Curiouser and curiouser”. I am convinced that it is some form of Origami and once it has been unimpounded, I mean to find out what shape it comes out to.
But I don't think the Senate Leader has been kidnapped. The rooms, they felt too, happy, too warm and contented, like some great burden had been lifted.”