Description

High Magister Rashid Indo-Karr is a tall, lean man in his late forties, in his second year on the council. He dresses with calculated extravagance: Magister robes in expected slate-and-bronze, but the under-tunic is always something startling: cobalt silk one week, oxblood velvet the next, embroidered for him by a partner he is unmarried to and has been with for twenty-two years. Three rings, all old, none ostentatious.

His hair is shoulder-length and nearly black, threaded with the first silver. He is handsome in a way the city has stopped commenting on. His smile is professional, frequent, and entirely sincere about ten percent of the time.

Role

Indo-Karr came into the Senate from the trade and caravan corps — not as a caravaneer himself but as the merchant-house heir whose family bankrolls a quarter of the city's quiet luxury imports. His Magister portfolio is trade, diplomacy, and intelligence: caravan operations, oathband management, and the Senate's foreign-information pipeline.

He is the council member who knows the most about the world outside the dome and the one who most consistently argues that the city should be less hidden, not more. He has lost this argument every time he has made it.

Personality

Indo-Karr is charming, articulate, and difficult to read. He listens better than he speaks, which is unusual in a man with so many opinions. He is not corrupt, but he is commercial — he sees the city the way a long-running caravan-house sees a route: as something to be maintained for the next generation by people like him.

He does not, particularly, mind outsiders. He has met many, and most of them were less interesting than the locals.