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Junior Member
Name: Peleps Najalin Leiji
Concept: Cruel Naval Commander
Background: Born into the prestigious Najalin household within Great House Peleps, Leiji was groomed from an early age for a career in the Imperial Navy. Once she Exalted in the midst of her teenage years, however, her House began to groom her for the higher ranks, leading from a position of authority worthy of a Dynast. From her family elders and her teachers at the House of Bells, Leiji learned the importance of discipline and competition. Most of all, she developed an obsession with law and order, personified by her hero, the Scarlet Empress. She learned every rule, followed every procedure and never deviated from any assignment handed down to her. When she was assigned command of her own ship shortly after her graduation from the House of Bells, a trireme called the Scourge, she ran it as strictly as possible, making her crew go through countless drills.
Leiji and the Scourge were assigned to the Fire Fleet, based in Noble and responsible for patrolling the southern Inner Sea. While the sailors under her were hoping for warm waters and exotic ports, Leiji was consumed with tackling the drug trafficking problem in the area. With qat, opium and hashish so widespread in the South, it was only natural the even more potent (and more dangerous) drugs would be smuggled between satrapies and even to the Blessed Isle. Leiji spent the next several years doggedly chasing down and then brutally dealing with smugglers – massacring entire crews, dumping whole shipments overboard. Eventually, out of fear, the smugglers became less prevalent – which upset their financiers, including the Guild and House Cynis. Before long, House Peleps – eager to protect its good relations with its important friends – was putting heavy distance between itself and Leiji. Publically, they said she was fanatical and overly single-minded and had failed to learn lessons about restraint. Privately, they said she took her job too seriously, and worried that she might undermine the House’s less savory operations – like piracy.
Hoping to put her ruthless methodology and naval skills to good use, Leiji has been assigned to the special unit appointed to pacify the West and reopen commercial relations with the barbarian nations there. Leiji is less interested in the commercial aspect of it all and is more keen on asserting the Realm’s authority in the West and bringing under control areas where historically the Dragon-Blooded Host has been weak (notably, where the Lintha and the Neverborn hold sway).
Concept: Cruel Naval Commander
Background: Born into the prestigious Najalin household within Great House Peleps, Leiji was groomed from an early age for a career in the Imperial Navy. Once she Exalted in the midst of her teenage years, however, her House began to groom her for the higher ranks, leading from a position of authority worthy of a Dynast. From her family elders and her teachers at the House of Bells, Leiji learned the importance of discipline and competition. Most of all, she developed an obsession with law and order, personified by her hero, the Scarlet Empress. She learned every rule, followed every procedure and never deviated from any assignment handed down to her. When she was assigned command of her own ship shortly after her graduation from the House of Bells, a trireme called the Scourge, she ran it as strictly as possible, making her crew go through countless drills.
Leiji and the Scourge were assigned to the Fire Fleet, based in Noble and responsible for patrolling the southern Inner Sea. While the sailors under her were hoping for warm waters and exotic ports, Leiji was consumed with tackling the drug trafficking problem in the area. With qat, opium and hashish so widespread in the South, it was only natural the even more potent (and more dangerous) drugs would be smuggled between satrapies and even to the Blessed Isle. Leiji spent the next several years doggedly chasing down and then brutally dealing with smugglers – massacring entire crews, dumping whole shipments overboard. Eventually, out of fear, the smugglers became less prevalent – which upset their financiers, including the Guild and House Cynis. Before long, House Peleps – eager to protect its good relations with its important friends – was putting heavy distance between itself and Leiji. Publically, they said she was fanatical and overly single-minded and had failed to learn lessons about restraint. Privately, they said she took her job too seriously, and worried that she might undermine the House’s less savory operations – like piracy.
Hoping to put her ruthless methodology and naval skills to good use, Leiji has been assigned to the special unit appointed to pacify the West and reopen commercial relations with the barbarian nations there. Leiji is less interested in the commercial aspect of it all and is more keen on asserting the Realm’s authority in the West and bringing under control areas where historically the Dragon-Blooded Host has been weak (notably, where the Lintha and the Neverborn hold sway).
