Peleps Votival

Type: Dragonblooded

Aspect: Water

Titles: Senator (Deliberative Greater Chamber); graduate (Spiral Academy); Blue Blood (nickname); trierarch (Imperial Navy Water Fleet), retired;

Residence: Peleps Wing (Imperial Palace);

Peleps Votival is a male Water-aspected Senator of the House Peleps Deliberative caucus. He has fathered a household which is known to be fruitful, if not particularly well-bred, and includes offspring Peleps Kerel, Peleps V’ndye, and Peleps Genn.

In previous decades, Votival was involved in negotiations with the House Tepet caucus, particularly with Tepet Serekan, trading favours and working to align the interests of House Peleps and House Tepet, particularly through the antagonism for House V’neef shared by House Peleps and the segment of House Tepet who sought vengeance for the betrayals of V’neef Jegan (as well as, some theorize, those who sought counterweight to drive up the price for V’neef’s own efforts at alliance). A capstone to this was arrangement of a marriage between Votival’s son Peleps Kerel and the daughter of Senator Tepet Katsue, Tepet Elana, which would have bound two Senatorial families together through matrimony.

However, circumstances changed in the aftermath of the War with the Bull. Attempting to rebuild and arrangements with House Ragara to secure shipping meant House Tepet’s wealth was no longer available to fulfil commercial commitments to Votival’s allies, and while the hardline of the Tepet caucus shifted more strongly against House V’neef in the aftermath of Serekan’s death, that event also removed the main vector for Votival’s connection with the Tepets, the remaining Senators less enthused by deeper alliance. Further still, Tepet Elana has continued to cite her Magisterial duties and period of mourning for Tepet losses in the North to put off her marriage to Kerel, and her parents have been unwilling to press her hard on the matter… Votival’s impatience with Katsue and the Tepets has become increasingly evident in recent legislative debate.