Utsebimn Aranata Otiolo

Aeta Prince-Chieftain and Captain of Its Scianda; Viudihom, Master-Keeper of its People; Servant to Its Slaves. The supreme ruler of the worldship Bahali imnal Akura and head of the Otiolo clan. Lord of the Seventeenth Branching of the Line of ZAHAKA. Slayer of and former vayadan to UMNA UTAIHARO. An opponent of DORAYAICA.

—His child, NOBUTA OTIOLO, presumptive heir to the clan.

—His retainers and slaves:

—OALICOMN, majordomo and coteliho (herald) of the Itani Otiolo.

—CASANTORA TANARAN IAKATO, baetan priest-historian of the scianda, a prisoner of the Sollan Empire and the Meidua Red Company in particular.

—ITANA UVANARI AYATOMN, ichakta captain of the starship Yad Ga Higatte and a proud military officer.

—Its property and slave-soldiers:

SVATAROM

ETANITARI

OANATORO

“Aranata Otiolo called itself the Lord of the Seventeenth Branching.”

...

“Betrayer!” it shouted. “Deceiver! Otiolo brought corrosion upon the blood-clans! It slew Utaiharo. It was vayadan and should have known its place!”

...

“The line of Utaiharo stretched back to before the time of Araxaika the Almost-Blessed,” ... “It was an old line, only seventeen times broken by violence since the days of Elu. Otiolo should have shown respect.”

“I don’t understand,” I said.

... “You are a student of your own history, are you not? Know you not that when dynasties fall, they fracture? Great empires becoming little kingdoms in the rubble, ruled by those lieutenants and heirs who survive the chaos? That chaos is uatanyr, is a branching.”

Kingdoms of Death, Chapter 35: The Broken Circle