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Replar Innate

Known facts

privately-corruptKeeps a private floor-safe in his saferoom containing his own personal annotated archive of political-favours-for-bribes — letters to and from house leaders across Elendel, coded with phrases like *certain courtesies will be extended*, dated, and matched in his own handwriting to the favours he delivered. By Marasi's reading against her own statistical records they are not yet a smoking gun but they are very close to one.MB2:SoS:Ch 18
killed-and-replaced-by-paalmHas been dead long enough for Paalm to have set the whole crisis up wearing his face — long enough that everyone, including his own staff, would have noticed if he had a single off day. Wax makes the connection in the governor's study from a stuck wad of Wayne's gum under the windowsill, and is rewarded with the impostor's pistol levelled at him: *just a few minutes more and I'd have had this. You see too far. You can always see a little too far.*MB2:SoS:Ch 22

MB2:SoS:Ch 6 Tall, salt-and-pepper, the first governor to wear spectacles in his official portrait — gives a speech that defends his brother and addresses everything but the crowd's actual grievances.
MB2:SoS:Ch 9 Holds court near the north windows, chuckles about the day's incompetent gunman, kisses Steris's hand, and — when Wax tells him today was a distraction and someone else will try again — promises a meeting tomorrow.
MB2:SoS:Ch 10 Watches Wax walk away mid-conversation with astonishment; later swallowed in a wedge of guards as the chase erupts and the kandra dives through the window.
MB2:SoS:Ch 12 Riding home in the curtained coach with Drim; submits, after Wax threatens to leave him to it, to passphrase protocol and to Wax reviewing his security — then learns of Father Bin's murder as the carriage stops.
MB2:SoS:Ch 16 Found by Wax in the saferoom kneeling over the dying Drim in his own blood-soaked shirt; passes the passphrase, then refuses to flee — *I'm the leader of this city; I'm not going to run away* — and goes back upstairs to call his cabinet and address the mob.
MB2:SoS:Ch 18 Runs the late-night cabinet meeting in his study, dismisses his bickering executive staff, hands Marasi the writ of martial law and appoints Aradel lord high constable, then leaves to deal with another summons before Marasi can finish briefing him on crowd management.

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