Peleps Febaris
Type: Dragonblooded
Aspect: Water
Titles: Senator (Deliberative Greater Chamber); Wolf Shark (nickname); the Peleps Matri-shark (nickname, given by now-deceased Peleps Dainqok), former;
Residence: Peleps Wing (Imperial Palace); House of Pearls (Yolin Am);
Peleps Febaris is an elder Water-aspected member of the House Peleps Deliberative caucus, and wife of fellow Senator Peleps Taxin. They have birthed an extensive brood of children over the centuries, and those who have survived have achieved positions of prominence in several organs of the Realm including the Thousand Scales] and the Imperial Navy, amongst these Peleps Oshoga (head of the Incorruptible Observers of Geomantic Harmony), Peleps Csaard (Imperial Magistrate), Peleps Ota (Deliberative Senator), Peleps Ierana (Deliberative Senator, now deceased), Peleps Lundaer (archinavarchos, Imperial Navy Fire Fleet), Peleps Dainqok, and the former Peleps scion V'neef Ririon (archinavarchos, Imperial Merchant Navy).
While the Peleps caucus does not have a chair, nor House Peleps official leaders, the household of Febaris is considered the most powerful and influential of the Peleps familiies, and its head firmly embraces the principle which governs the House generally, that of ‘survival of the fittest’, aggressive competition… those who try and succeed reap the rewards, those who fail or do not try are devoured. This is not to say that hers is an entirely individualist view… there is strength in unity, and a House of the strongest can stand above all others. It is for this reason she seems to hold a particular hatred for her son Ririon, who abandoned the House of Peleps for that of Princess V'neef... but the weak can draw only the weak, minnows to be shorn by the teeth of the strong.
In addition to an extensive web of family ties and a correspondence of ideals, the pre-eminence of the Febaris household is aided by the fact that Febaris herself is an experienced and highly intelligent legislator, able to navigate the waters of the Greater Chamber, securing support for many initiatives and trading favours whose benefits ripple out to be seen by many Peleps scions. Nevertheless, there are limits to her influence: in the culture of competition she so loves, there are many who seek to supplant her as foremost Peleps elder.
