Cathak Rufyus

Type: Dragonblooded

Aspect: Water

Titles: Senator (Deliberative Greater Chamber); Page to Senator Cathak Hasegawa (Deliberative Greater Chamber), former; Scalelord (1st Imperial Legion), retired; Badge of the Mandarin Duck (Ever-Flowing Office of Foreign Acquisitions), retired;

Name Variations: Rufyus, Rufius, Rufus.

Residence: Dome of Willows (Imperial City).

Cathak Rufyus is a young Senator of the House Cathak Deliberative caucus and a graduate of the Spiral Academy. Though many Dynasts seek adventure in the Threshold upon graduation, and House Cathak is well known for its military bent, Rufyus did not spend his time fighting Fair Folk and brigands, but rather as a roving inspector for the Ever-Flowing Office of Foreign Acquisitions in its oversight of the Scarlet Dynasty's Threshold properties and its competition with the Foreign Office. While the Satrapal offices stood as official advisors, Rufyus and Ever-Flowing Investigators like him served as 'mercenary bureaucrats', consulting with local rulers and factions on tax policies and economic initiatives.

Returning to the Blessed Isle, Rufyus took a largely ceremonial post in the 1st Legion, and was named page to senator Cathak Hasegawa, allowing him to bring his experience to bear in advising her and other Cathak senators. His own appointment to the Senate came as something of a surprise to many, but a few whisper that the Scarlet Empress had a plan: forced into the daily demands of debate, in which he had to take public stands, made serving an advisory role to the caucus far more difficult.

In voting record, Rufyus is certainly considered more 'progressive' than the conservative-militarist standard of the Cathak caucus. While he has supported several of House Cathak's normal lines, including funding and aggressive deployment of the Imperial Legions and economic restrictions to hobble The Guild on the Blessed Isle and Threshold satrapies. However, his calls for greater regulation and restriction on the collection of taxes and tributes from satrapies, and humouring of various economic subsidies during debate (such as the agricultural legislation pushed by senators V'neef Kenet & V'neef Tapan) are frowned on by many Cathak senators, as is his lack of real military service or heroic accomplishment.